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Establishing a Small Emergency Fund: How to Save $1,000 Quickly
One of the best things you can do for your finances and for your sanity, is to establish an emergency fund. This is an amount of money set aside somewhere safe from you and the ups and downs of risky investments. So how can you start saving today?
Understanding Your Personal Financial Philosophy
Finance is a highly personal matter, how you feel about your finances and how you ideally choose to tackle them is important to making your plan to financial security. Take our quiz to identify your Personal Financial Philosophy...
Budgeting Basics to Get You Started
Budgeting may be one of the most crucial exercises you can complete on a road to a healthy financial life, but that doesn’t mean it’s an easy or intuitive process. Budgeting is work, and unfortunately there is no way around it, but there are a few options for how to approach it...
The Best Finance Move You Can Make to Build Wealth
Finances can be tricky to manage, and overwhelming due to the sheer amount of information and advice that is floating around in cyberspace. Often it’s hard to know where to start or how to prioritize, but there’s one finance move you can make that will pay dividends for decades (sometimes literally).
Calculating Your Net Worth: Where are You Today?
Before we can do anything to help our finances, we have to understand our starting point and how to marry that with the goals we’ve set. I call this part taking inventory… It’s where we list out everything that we own or owe so we can see exactly what our true financial picture at this point in time looks like.
Setting Goals: Where Would You Like to be Financially?
Unless you’re one of those rare people that gets a natural high off of the act of saving for nothing in particular, chances are you’re going to need some motivation to get you started on your financial journey. This is where goals come in...