I am reading (for the third time) Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez. Every time I read it something different jumps out and changes my life in a new way.
Today it was the chapter on the past and our past money mistakes. It asks the reader to calculate his or her lifetime earnings. [...]
http://www.titheyourlife.com/day-75-1-saved/
F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” To which Ernest Hemmingway retorted, “Yes, they have more money.”
Lately I have been asking myself what it takes to go from lower middle class to upper middle class like my parents did. They taught me [...]
http://www.titheyourlife.com/the-wealthy-are-much-different/
Seth Godin wrote yesterday about building in deniability to our projects:
How much of the time you invest in a project is spent preparing excuses, creating insurance, seeking deniability and covering your ass just in case things go poorly in the end?
At some point, that effort becomes so great you never actually ship anything, which of [...]
http://www.titheyourlife.com/deniability-response/
“Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.” ~Alexandre Dumas
Let me get this out there; my view of money is this: money is an analogue for things. That is, $20 is ten pounds of ground beef. That is, $10,000 is a [...]
http://www.titheyourlife.com/buying-the-best-as-frugality/
Frugal Dad had an article yesterday about how coupons make you poorer, not richer. There are reasons to agree with the article, but a few reasons to continue couponing as well as ways to make sure you do it right.
Here is how I make coupons work for me instead of the other way around.
Reasons to [...]
http://www.titheyourlife.com/your-coupons-are-making-you-poor-a-response/
“Spend time with people you want to be like.” – Matt Hambrick [me]
Seth Godin’s blog post today was entitled Expose Yourself [link].
Here is the text:
With so many options in media, interaction and venues, you now get to choose what you expose yourself to.
Expose yourself to art, and you’ll come to appreciate it and aspire to [...]
http://www.titheyourlife.com/expose-yourself-response/
Day 102: Annual Budget Meeting
Christina and I just finished our annual budget meeting. We are now working off of a July to June fiscal year budget as opposed to a January to December.
Our agenda looked like this:
Financial goals for the year
Expected maintenance
Major purchases
Future planning
Career development
Our daughter
Each of these had sub-topics, but one could get the gist from the above.
We [...]
http://www.titheyourlife.com/day-102-annual-budget-meeting/