168 Hours: Don’t Waste Yours
When it comes down to it, time is our most valuable currency. It’s limited and when it’s used, it’s gone forever. How do you want to spend your next 168 hours?
Marriage and Money: Do You Have a Plan?
‘He who fails to plan, plans to fail’, Proverb When you got married, did you and your spouse sit down and develop a plan for your family finances? I am a big believer that those who are proactive achieve the most success, and I have experienced this to be true in the area of money [...]
Working with Your Spouse
Editor’s Note: This is guest post from Julie Magro of Boardroom Couple. Do you work with your spouse? My husband and I happen to work during the day together, but I am not referring to that kind of work. I am asking if you and your spouse work together to achieve your dreams? What are [...]
Leave Your Work (Mostly) at Work
As technology brings us closer, it also makes it tough to maintain healthy boundaries with our time. For many of us, this is especially true when it comes to our work/family balance and our time spent online. Forty years ago, most careers allowed you to simply punch out on the time-clock, put your hard hat [...]
Why You Want a Debt-Free Marriage
When I wrote an article recently telling the story of how we paid off $54,500 in debt, the response was very positive, and I heard from a lot of people who were in the process of shedding their debt (or at least wanted to get started). However, the reasons that I heard for becoming debt-free [...]
Want to Improve Your Marriage? Build a Budget!
Budget. What comes to mind when you see and say that word? If you are like a lot of folks, it may sound like another word for constraint or a loss of independence. Maybe it brings on a sense of dread or an instant yawn. It may feel more like a four-letter exclamation than an [...]
6 Steps to a Simple and Successful Financial Life
I think we can all agree that finances play a key role in our married lives. It’s the need to provide a quality life for our family that drives most of us to work, and we know that the way we spend our resources directly affects our lifestyle now and down the road. Money stuff [...]
A Guide to Escaping Materialism and Finding Happiness
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post taken from Leo of Zen Habits. Money can’t buy you love. It can’t buy you happiness either. Today’s materialistic world often urges us to buy the coolest gadgets, the trendiest clothes, bigger and better things, but research shows that possessions and purchases don’t buy us happiness. According to [...]
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