The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem.
The happiest moment of my life happens once a day.
It’s impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don’t know where you’re starting from.
Owning a home is a keystone of wealth – both financial affluence and emotional security.
But credit card debt is unsecured debt, which means if you get in trouble and cannot pay off your credit card, you can discharge it in bankruptcy. What are they going do to you? If you’re in a financial position to just methodically pay off both credit card and student loans, pay them all.
Live below your means but within your needs.
Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.
If there is anyone dependent on your income – parents, children, relatives – you need life insurance.
You can never solve a financial problem with money. The only way for you to have a larger net worth is for you to go within to see why you are going without.
No one’s ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that’s abandoned by February.
Just because you can afford it doesn’t mean you should buy it.
A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.
Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is your intent? What do you want the reader to get out of it? What do you want to get out of it. It’s also about making a serious time commitment and getting the project done.
Never invest emergency savings in the stock market.
Once you stop looking for a job, you are no longer considered part of the unemployment number.
In order to create lasting security you must learn to stand in your truth.
Never cosign a loan. Once you have cosigned, you cannot get out of it – even on your deathbed.
A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.
If you’re not staying on top of your money, you are putting your financial well-being at risk.
Absolutely pay off your credit card debt, because a child can always get a loan to go to school, possibly a scholarship, a grant.