Deep Thoughts
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Thursday, May 25th, 2006I love that little green notebook, the center of my financial life! The beginning of order and clarity and understanding. The end of unlimited, unintentional spending. I achieve Zen when I log an entry. With that fine, pointed tip poking out from my mechanical pencil, I write clearly and delicately, journaling my financial life. If […]
Y.O.U.R. Approach to Financial Health
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006Be different. Buck the trend. In 2005, over 70% of Americans had a negative-savings rate. If you were among them revolutionize your life by getting out of debt, building an emergency fund, and opening a path to financial freedom with Y.O.U.R. Approach to building a financially healthy life. You may not become a millionaire in […]
Tired of Keeping Up With The Joneses
Saturday, May 20th, 2006I live in Los Angeles, right at the foot of the Hollywood Hills. A day doesn’t pass without looking towards those overbuilt hills and seeing houses and real estate that are worth tens of millions of dollars. I live in Los Angeles, the center of the film industry. I used to work in Hollywood and […]
Save Your Pennies. Don’t Pinch Them.
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006This is not a blog about being overly frugal. You won’t catch me posting ways to make your own household cleaners. I won’t talk about the great deals I got at this last weekend’s flea market over near the drive-in that’s next door to the interstate. And I’m not going to wax enthusiastically about what […]
Dr. Phil & Suze Orman Got Me Thinking. (No, really. They did.)
Sunday, May 14th, 2006Years ago, I caught an episode of Dr. Phil. On it, he was talking to an overweight woman who was talking about yet another diet that proved to be unsuccessful. She listed off all the healthy foods that she was eating and yet she fell off the diet because she gorged on some ice cream […]
From Fantasy to Dream
Sunday, April 30th, 2006We’re a celebrity driven culture. Americans live shackled to the fantasy of how we think our futures will unfold. But if we stepped away from this fantasy, we could be elevated by the wonderful reality of our lives as they could exist. The sooner we realize that we won’t have “Oprah Money” or that we […]
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