Being conscious about your finances and setting goals for your money can help you achieve your dreams at any stage in life. Here are some helpful tips to remember when you are making plans for your money and setting your financial priorities: Identify Your Goals Remember that you can do anything you want with your money, but you can’t do everything you want. You will never have the unlimited resources to achieve all of your goals, so focus on which goals are most important to you and concentrate your efforts on those. To accomplish these most important goals you will need to put some … [Read more...]
Want to Get Rich? Here’s Where You Can Learn the Secrets of Investing
If you have some money saved up and want to watch it grow, the world of investing can offer some excellent opportunities. However, it can also be very intimidating as it is very complicated and there is a lot to learn. If you are brand new to the investing scene, you should start off slow and learn as much as you can before you get started. Where can you learn about investing? One of the best ways to get stated is by consulting a trusted advisor that can help you understand the different areas that you can invest. You don't even have to be ready to plunk down a chunk of hard-earned change … [Read more...]
Smart Ways to Use Your Tax Refund
If you are expecting a large tax refund this year, what will you do with it? It might be tempting to spend this large windfall on shopping, eating out and other fun things. However, a tax refund is also an opportunity to gain some financial headway and set you up in a better situation for the future. Here are a few smart ways to use your tax refund this year: Create an Emergency Fund If you are currently living from paycheck to paycheck, you are treading water on the surface of your finances and any unexpected disaster can pull you under and cause you to start drowning in debt. If your car … [Read more...]
Finding Time to Accomplish Your Goals
Have you ever thought that you would love to write a novel, learn to speak French, or perfect your drawing technique? Do you have other unfinished goals that you are thinking of right now? It is interesting how we all have passions and desires that we would like to accomplish in our lives; a legacy that we would like to leave that impacts others in a positive way. If you are like a lot of people, every time you think about these goals you tell yourself that you just don’t have the time to accomplish them at this stage in your life. Guess what? If you don’t make time to focus … [Read more...]
Fear of Failure? Tips for Keeping Your New Years Resolutions
Have you made yourself a New Year’s resolution? The turning over of the calendar usually inspires us to resolve to make positive changes in our lives, but more often than not we fail to follow through on our promises to ourselves. If you struggle to keep your New Year’s resolutions, perhaps these tips will help you stay on track: Be more realistic. If you set goals for yourself that are completely unattainable, you will become discouraged and give up quickly. For example, if you want to start losing weight and gaining muscle, don’t expect to look like a body builder two … [Read more...]
