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How to Achieve Your Financial New Year’s Resolutions

financial resolution, financial goals, financial advice

Chonce Maddox / December 30th, 2015 / 1 Comment

As the end of the year approaches, it’s time to start thinking about New Year’s resolutions and how you will improve your finances in 2016. Some people have problems with setting and keeping financial New Year’s resolutions and goals for the year. At the beginning of the year, everyone’s motivation is often high as they are fueling up to work toward their financial goals. Life happens though....

Posted in: Money, Philosophy Tagged with: financial goals, New Year's Resolutions

How to Be Happy on Any Income

being happy, being satisfied, on a budget

Chonce Maddox / November 12th, 2015 / No Comments

Whether money can actually buy happiness or not has been debated quite a bit. Money can certainly help you become financially stable and secure, which can contribute to happiness, but do you believe simply having money will make you a happier person long-term? I’d like to argue that you can feel happy on any income. You may not always feel content if you have a lower income, but you can always feel...

Posted in: Philosophy Tagged with: be happy on any income, find fulfillment, set goals

The Hidden Costs of Stress

CF / February 24th, 2014 / 5 Comments

Sooooo… After falling off the face of the Earth for about 8 weeks, I’m back! I think I could fill a book with everything that happened in those weeks. But suffice to say – it was a rough period of many personal changes for me. I spent the last 2 or 3 weeks catching up with my life and I’m only just getting back into the groove of things. I’m getting back to writing, and I realized quite...

Posted in: Philosophy Tagged with: $100 grocery budget, budget, forgetting to pay the bills, late fees, money

Living the Canadian Dream

Canadian Dream, living in Canada, American dream, goals in life

CF / November 6th, 2013 / 23 Comments

Tagging along with posts from Jordann and Michelle at Making Sense of Cents, I’d like to throw in my thoughts on the Canadian (or American) dream. Wikipedia has a good blurb on the “American Dream”, describing it as a “national ethos” that, while changing over time, includes personal components such as home ownership and upward social mobility. It epitomizes a sense...

Posted in: Philosophy Tagged with: american dream, buying a house, canadian dream, defining wants and needs, Grocery budget, working hard