Financial freedom

Financial Literacy: The Missing Pieces

January 5, 2012

A Financially Literate Society – The Five Critical Missing Pieces If it’s one thing most of us adults are painfully aware of, it’s that we weren’t taught how to manage or invest our money when we were young so that we could live independent, financially free lives as adults. We went to school ‘assuming’ we [...]

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Burning financial question: how to save (pay yourself first) when it seems you have nothing to save?

December 14, 2011

Somewhere on our website or in an email of ours we have the question, “What is the single biggest question when it comes to creating financial freedom for yourself or teaching your kids about money?” And on occasion, someone sends us their question. This one was so basically wonderful, I had to post our short answers [...]

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Financial Complications – Choose them wisely.

December 8, 2011

What I have noticed most in the past ten years of being entrenched in this financial literacy business (and it is a business even though there there’s more passion than profit in it…more on that later), is that human beings tend to make their lives complicated. Most of these ‘complications’ take money and I have [...]

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Burning Financial Education Question

September 21, 2011

We frequently get questions from our websites from visitors. Here are a few I answered in very unconventional ways. Here is his email to me… My single biggest question(s) when it comes to creating financial freedom for myself or teaching my kids about money is(are)… 1. What world currency is the most stable/reliable jurisdiction to sustain [...]

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Financial Freedom: Moving From ‘Have To’ to ‘Want To’!

August 25, 2011

Up until now, the majority of children in this country, and perhaps the world, have been raised with the belief that the way they will be financially successful in life is by getting a good education which will then (hopefully) lead to getting a good job where they can then save and invest enough of [...]

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Financial Freedom – What you are doing, and NOT doing, to create it.

July 22, 2011

I once heard Harv Eker, the author of Secrets of The Millionaire Mind, say during his Millionaire Mind Intensive… “We have two kinds of habits…habits we DO and habits we DON’T do.” Simply said, you’re either in the habit of doing something or in the habit of NOT doing something. This is important to contemplate [...]

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The Joys of Just Enough – Financial Freedom 101

May 26, 2011

Too much stuff Why does it seem that the older I get, the more simple I want my life? And why has it taken me years to figure that out? I think the answer lies in the fact that I’ve been teaching financial education for so many years, and had the privilege to talk to [...]

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Where’s the Fire and What’s the Rush?

August 26, 2010

Let’s say that you’re reading a book one day and you begin to deeply ponder the information presented in that book. Let’s say THAT book leads you to ANOTHER book on the same subject and pretty soon, your entire life is surrounded by books on that particular subject, all you notice around you is people [...]

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The Truth is in the Consequence

August 19, 2010

Yesterday, I had lunch with my BFF, Peggy, at our favorite little hole-in-the-wall Mexican food joint that we’ve frequented for decades (literally) and I made a choice that affected the remaining part of my day and virtually the entire night. The choice? Having a diet Coke with lunch. You see…we both LOVE diet coke with [...]

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Financial Surrender…Breathing Deeply Into What Is

August 3, 2010

Inquiry of Stuff I know, I know. The idea of surrendering to life for a lot of people puts them in a state of fear, or panic, or worse. However, the idea, and practice, of surrendering to ‘what is’ can be quite freeing, especially when it comes to money and the stuff money buys. After [...]

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