06 Jan
Posted by author as 401k, Financial Goals, Mutual Funds, Real Estate
MSN Money has this article about financial resolutions for 2009. We often overlook our finances when thinkng about resolutions. Many people want to lose weight, stop smoking, do more house projects, but often overilook making financial resolutions.
Here are the nine resolutions from the article:
I will accurately assess my financial [...]
30 Dec
Posted by author as Financial Goals, Uncategorized
Before we start looking ahead to the new year, reflection on the past year is always a good exercise when evaluating your financial goals for the coming new year. Don’t dwell on the past, rather reflect on your accomplishments and failures and learn from them. Here is a list of some of our [...]
10 Oct
Posted by author as Economy, Financial Goals, stock market
::sigh::
What can you say? The stock market had a horrible week, and it was one of the largest sell-offs in American history. Not to mention, the government is buying a percentage of a group of U.S. banks. This is the first time the government has done something like that since the great [...]
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A new study shows that people with high IQ’s tend to make more money, but they also spend their money more quickly and frivolously than those with lower IQ’s. Jay Zagorsky from Ohio State University looked at data from 7,400 Americans in their forties. It shows that every IQ point scored translated into [...]
On Monday, we focused on identifying your financial goals and breaking them down into short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals. Remember, making the goals attainable and properly categorizing them is the key to making financial goals that you can achieve. The next two steps are educating yourself about your goals and evaluating or tracking [...]
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07 Jan
Posted by author as Budget Tips, Financial Goals
The first step for setting your financial goals for this coming year is to formulate goals that you can envision yourself achieving with your current job and income. One of your goals may be to boost your income or change your career, but those are not financial goals, those are career goals. Let’s [...]
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