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Budgeting

What Are Your Priorities?

If you want to be successful in life, both in your achievements and with your finances, it is important for you to define your specific priorities. It is very hard to achieve anything or to save money if you don’t know what your goals are.

Everyone has priorities, whether they are aware of them or not. If you had to tell me off the top of your head what your priorities are right now, would you be able to come up with a few right away? Some people’s priorities include providing for their children, saving for retirement, advancing their career, etc.

July 22, 2011

General

Are You Living For The Weekend?

Do you find yourself living for the weekend? Are you just going through the motions week by week and counting down the days and hours until the weekend? If so, you may need to consider looking at other employment options.

So many Canadians find themselves stuck in a rut where they simply look forward to Friday. Have you ever caught yourself on a Monday morning saying to a colleague: “Is it Friday yet?” If you have, then it might be the right time to do some serious thinking about what you are doing with your life. If you do not feel fulfilled with your current job situation, perhaps you need to do something new.

July 11, 2011

General

Our Grand Adventure – Taking Some Time Off Work

After planning for over a year, my husband and I have begun what he call our “Grand Adventure”. We have taken the plunge and both quit our day jobs. We sold our home and gave away the majority of our things. The rest are being stored with friends and family. We are free to do what we love, at least for a little while, and when we do go back to the norm again, we trust we will be refreshed and ready to take on new challenges.

May 16, 2011

Investing

How Many Hours Did You Work For Yourself Last Week?

I am reading through David Bach’s book entitled The Automatic Millionaire. It is a very straightforward, easy to read book about how to set yourself up for success financially no matter how much money you earn.

One of the neat things Bach brings up in the book is the question: “How many hours did you work for yourself last week?” If you look back to last week and discover that you didn’t save a penny of your earnings, then that means you didn’t actually work for yourself at all.

April 4, 2011

General

Tired Of The Status Quo? Consider Living On A Boat

We all have our own ideas about life and what it is supposed to be like. We often expect everyone’s life to be pretty much the same, following the status quo in a certain sequence – get an education, get a job, get married, have kids, and then eventually retire. But not everyone is satisfied with the status quo.

Take for instance, Captain Keith. He and his family decided that they wanted to live on a boat at sea rather than continue with their humdrum life. Although living in a boat is certainly not appropriate for every family, so far it seems to be working well for his. Apparently it is a really inexpensive lifestyle that gives you freedom you have never dreamed of.

December 19, 2010

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