Preparing For Difficult Times: When The Money Manager Is Unable To Perform Responsibilities

December 2, 2009
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As the family money manager, I have an important responsibility which I never considered before last week.   It’s a responsibility to insure my wife knows how to get access to all of our financial information and important documents immediately, if something ever happened to me. This is a serious topic many people don’t want to [...]

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Set Your Course For Next Year Now! Setting Values Oriented Goals

November 26, 2009
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With all the focus on Thanksgiving, Black Friday shopping and Christmas time, you may have not yet thought about planning goals for next year.  Is it too early and are you too busy to think about the subject of goal setting right now?  Or perhaps you’ve never really invested much time in goal setting. Either [...]

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Overcoming Money Issues In Marriage

November 18, 2009
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Recently, my pastor gave a message about the leading causes of money issues in marriage.  He referred to them as “money minefields” that if not dealt with (or defused) lead to problems in marriage and much of the time divorce. After listening to the message the second time this past weekend, I think it is one [...]

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20 Tips To Press Onward Towards Your Financial Goals

November 11, 2009
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Are you in a financial rut?  Do you need some motivation to get you back on your feet and move forward?  Perhaps you’ve been trying to build and emergency fund this year and emergencies pop up as quickly as you deposit money into your savings account.  Or, perhaps you’ve paid off all your debt and [...]

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How Do You Plan To Manage Your Million Dollars?

November 4, 2009
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This post is about gaining perspective on money management and financial stewardship.  I enjoy finding new ways to gain a wise financial steward’s perspective on money.  I hope this particular one will encourage the new financial steward, perhaps be a wake up call for some and a reminder for the more seasoned stewards among us. [...]

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What The Movie Wall Street Can Teach Us About Greed

October 27, 2009
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One of my all-time favorite movies is Wall Street.  It is directed by Oliver Stone and stars Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas. If you’ve never seen the movie, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), has a short synopsis of the movie. Bud Fox is a Wall Street stockbroker in early 1980′s New York with a strong desire [...]

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Avoid The Pressure To Spend

October 21, 2009
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Have you ever felt like you were pressured into spending money?  Deep down you really knew you didn’t have the money to spend, but because of the situation, people around you or other factors, you ended up spending anyway. For those who are conscious spenders you know when one of these occasions is about to [...]

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What You Need to Know About Cash Flow Management

October 15, 2009
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Cash flow management, managing what’s coming in and what’s going out, is critical to maintaining control of your spending and staying in financial balance. Some people manage it to extreme detail and others manage it up to the high level. Either way, its cash flow management and it’s our jobs as wise money managers to [...]

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