9 Books That Defined The Savvy Life
I think of my life as before becoming Savvy (BS) and after (AS). But, there was a two year time in between when I started to craft the idea of what living a Savvy Life was all about.
Making 2020 Winter Holidays Special
Like so many things in 2020, when it comes to celebrating winter holidays like Hanukah, Christmas, and the New Year, we're going to have to get creative! We reached out on social media asking to hear your plans and ideas for how to celebrate in this very bizarre year. Here are the results.
Money Coach or Financial Advisor?
Do you need a Money Coach or Financial Advisor? Just figuring out what type of expert you need can be challenging.
Financial advisors work with you to create a holistic financial plan to grow and protect your money now and in the future. Typically, they provide clients with financial services, planning or advice related to investing, retirement, insurance, mortgages, college savings, estate planning, taxes and more.
Types of Money Coaches
Dining Out – Let’s Not Take It for Granted
One of the early casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic was eating out. As restaurants and bars closed across the country, many of us became adept at finding new recipes on line, cooking at home, starting vegetable gardens and learning how to bake bread (I remember how frustrating it was for me to find flour back in April!). As communities slowly eased their restrictions, take-out became an option. Then outdoor dining and, finally, in some places, limited indoor eating.
Halloween Is Not Cancelled
Like so many things this year, when it comes to celebrating Halloween, we're going to have to get creative.
We reached out on social media asking to hear your plans and ideas for how to celebrate Halloween in this very bizarre year. Here are the results.
3 Strategies for Staying Motivated
We live in an achiever culture. Unfortunately, that culture can subconsciously prevent us from staying successful.
It can be so much more interesting to strive toward something new than to continue the tasks to maintain a goal-focused habit. Even if something is working, we can easily stray just for the stimulus of doing something new.
Using COVID as a Motive to Improve Your Finances
As we enter our 8th month of dealing with this crisis, many of us have accepted that this is a long-term situation. As such, we can look at how we can make some meaningful changes to improve our long-term personal financial health.
Saving Money During COVID
“Who can think about saving money during a pandemic?” We all can. Many of us are living a different lifestyle now than what we have been used to. If this lifestyle uses less discretionary spending, capture that balance in savings. Carrying these savings habits forward will hold you in good stead in the future and keep you on the path to saving for your goals, both short- and long-term.
Habits - The Good & The Bad (part 2)
In our previous article, I talked about why cultivating good habits is so important. They make mundane or repetitive tasks rote so you can devote more of your brain power to the more novel or important things in your life. I also gave the example of how to make tracking your spending a habit.
In this article, I want to focus on two other critical aspects: the importance of breaking bad habits and making continuous improvement a habit.
Habits - The Good & The Bad (part 1)
You want to do right by your future self while conducting your daily life. But sometimes the constant bombardment of information and onslaught of decisions we’re faced with can be overwhelming. Imagine if you also had to remember to take a breath every 15 seconds, or had to really think about how to move your leg muscles with every step you took.