If you won the lottery and got $10 million, what would you do with it? Well, I guess technically, the first question would be, do you take the lump sum or do you take the …

February is rapidly approaching. Know how many of my 2009 resolutions I’ve accomplished so far? None. Nada. Zip. Statistically speaking I should have accomplished nearly 4 of my 42 goals so far, but I can …

Mark Twain once said: ‘If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.’
How right he was.
When we, …

Everywhere I go on the blogsphere I seem to run into comments people have made about debit cards. “Debit cards don’t have the same protection as credit cards.” “Debit cards can lose you money.” And …

Hello everyone! Hope you’ve all enjoyed your weekend and are looking forward to the new week ahead. I always like the beginning of a new week. It just feels like a clean slate in so …

I’ve been talking a lot lately about setting goals and keeping them, as well as, things you’ll face as you try to achieve your goals. Anytime we set goals there are usually setbacks that accompany …

So, I had a situation today that quite literally almost had me loose my cool. A gentleman (not really, but I’ll be nice) of a certain age came into the credit union today and wanted …

I was having an interesting discussion at work the other day, followed by reading a similar topic on a fellow pf blog, and felt like discussing it here to see what you guys think.
One of …

Here’s the final part to the 7 Habits series. I hope you’ve enjoyed it thus far, and have found these habits useful to you as you seek out your financial goals.
Habit # 7 – Sharpen …

We’ve covered quite a bit over the last five posts. Hopefully you can see how incorporating some of these habits can be beneficial to your finances, at the very least, how they can be beneficial …

I know it’s been awhile since we’ve done a round-up at MYC and I’m sorry about that guys! Jonathan and I are still reading all the great articles out there, we’ve both just been swamped …

In this section I need to back up a little. Something we learned in the 7 Habits seminar was that private victory must come before public victory, which actually comes between parts 3 and 4, …

If you’re just joining us in this series, I attended Franklin Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and I’m in the process of translating that as it applies to finances. If you’ve missed any …

If you’ve been following along in this series of posts, you know that I took the Franklin Covey class, “7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” and I’m currently in the process of explaining how these …