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Category Archives: Building Wealth
What do you do after you are debt free?
Congratulations! After months and months or even years of sacrificing your student loans are gone, you dumped your credit cards, and paid off the car note. You are debt free! The cycle of debt that you have lived before is … Continue reading
Posted in Building Wealth, Saving Money, Uncategorized
Tagged Beating Debt, debt free living, emergency fund, giving, savings
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Winning With Money Part 5: Plan for the Future
I know we’ve already talked about being proactive with your money, but this takes it to a new level. Part of your long-term plan needs to cover things like future education, home maintenance, vehicle replacement, retirement, income replacement, funeral plans, and long-term medical care, among other things. Continue reading
Why you Shouldn’t Listen to Economists’ Predictions When Investing
Many of you know I’m back in school studying for an M.B.A. One of the core classes for the degree is economics, which I’m taking right now. I learned something the other day in economics class about some common fallacies … Continue reading
Posted in Building Wealth, Personal finance, The Economy
Tagged economist, economy, forecast, future, Investing, politics, prediction
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How to Unlock your Wealth Building Potential
It’s not about the interest rate There are so many articles and blog posts out there that talk about how to get the best return for your money. They talk about this investment and that investment, tax-deferred investments like 401(k)’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Building Wealth, Financial Excellence, financial freedom, Investing, Retirement, Success, wealth
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Financial Literacy Month Question of the Day: April 20, 2011
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Josh Levitt from LevittCoaching.com wants to know what you think: What is the best way to start investing for retirement? A) Invest in a Roth IRA B) Invest in a 401K up to your employer’s match C) Buy a house … Continue reading
Posted in Building Wealth, Personal finance, Retirement
Tagged 401(k), financial literacy, Retirement, Roth IRA
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How much will you need to retire?
Join the forum discussion on this postWe focus a lot of time in our financial coaching and our podcast episodes to getting out of debt. It’s not very often that we actually talk about what to do after this point. … Continue reading
The Best Hedge Against Inflation is Living Debt Free
Easier to manage cost increases when you don’t have debt I can’t turn on the tv without an ad that talks about how massive inflation is coming and how I need to buy gold (at record high prices) to hold … Continue reading
Posted in Beating Debt, Building Wealth, Personal finance, Saving Money
Tagged food, gas, inflation, rising prices
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7 Money Skills Wealthy & Successful People Commonly Possess
It’s my habit to read non-fiction books that help me grow personally and professionally. Several months ago I read The One Minute Millionaire by Mark Victor Hansen & Robert G. Allen. I did a book review on the writing as … Continue reading
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Tagged money skills, rich, successful, wealthy
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Money Myths: The Truth About the Cost of Retirement
Myth: My expenses will go down when I retire so I don’t need to save as much for retirement. Truth: With inflation, taxes and medical bills, your expenses will go up when you retire so you need to be prepared! … Continue reading
Posted in Building Wealth, Money Myths, Myths vs. Truths, Retirement
Tagged Investing, Retirement, retirement costs, retirement planning
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Paying Yourself First: How to Make it Work Part 2
In part one of this two part article I talked about the theoretical part of paying yourself first. Planning our the month’s income and expenses to spend every dollar on paper before the month begins, making sure you allocate the … Continue reading
