Part 3 Plan the Life You Want: Getting Started by Setting Financial Goals How to lead the life you want to have. It only takes a bit of financial planning to shape things so that our life is lived proactively and we can have more of the things we want. We all get thrown a […]
Organization
Organize Your Financial Life Part 2 — I.C.E.
Whenever we travel by car, Wheels adds a pair of rubber boots to the cargo. Weather insurance, he says. If he has them along, it won’t rain. You have to know their twisted sense of humor to get the laugh out of that statement that he and Bytes do – but it has worked! […]
Organizing Your Financial Papers – Part 1 Preparing for tax time
Part 1 – Preparing for tax time Running a family is very much like running a business. We make projections, purchases, plans and provisions for the future. In order to do those things, we need basic financial information. Without it, we are operating in the dark, missing who knows what opportunities. Every family needs […]
Solving the wrong problem
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago . . . . Whenever I wanted to hang some pictures or fasten down a piece of renegade trim it took forever! Rummaging around in the garage for nails, tape measure, hammer. Shoving stuff around on a crowded shelf, unseen little boxes of little nails would […]
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