Can you be free of financial stress while in debt? Not if you believe the media today. Let’s face it…just about everything you read from personal finance books and blogs (including this one) might convince you that you can’t in fact be happy until you get rid of financial stress. Everywhere you turn, you get […]
Use Your Definition of Success to Succeed
For some reason, we often forget that we already meet our own definition of success. I don’t know why that is…but as a result, we tend to beat ourselves up for absolutely no good reason. If we fall into this trap, it can be expensive. Here’s an example of someone who forgot what his […]
Tiger Woods Divorce: Lessons in Saving Your Money and Marriage
Here’s a Tiger Woods divorce update you weren’t expecting: his damage control skills offer you many important lessons in how to manage your money and marriage problems. Of course the obvious lesson is to be faithful, honest and true. Those are the easy ones. But consider the idea of “damage control.” For a moment, put […]
Should You Be Worried about the Economy
The higher deficit, debt and interest rates don’t have to make you worried about the economy. Pilgrim Don in Arizona sent me an article published in the Wall Street Journal that outlines what they think the climate is going to look like for investors in the coming years. It reports that this year’s deficit […]
Never Buy An Income Annuity – Here’s Why
You might be very tempted to buy an income annuity right now, but if you do, you’ll regret it. Income annuity is just another name for an immediate annuity. First, what is an income or immediate annuity? You make a “deposit” with an insurance company and they immediately start sending you a monthly check. That’s […]
Financial Aid Forms – Best Way to Increase College Aid for Free?
You can take steps now so that when you complete the college financial aid forms, you’ll get more money. I read an article in Investor’s Business Daily over the weekend that explained a neat little trick that will help that was far more powerful than using college tuition tax credits. I’m going to explain it […]