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I have been intrigued to find that some of my favorite famous, successful people that I follow via podcasts and social media have or have overcome crippling anxiety and fear of failure. It’s one of those things that as an average Jane, I feel like my problems or my fears must be so unheard of to those that are successful. What’s interesting though is the more I read and listen…
Do you know what the old saying “put your money where your mouth is” means? If you don’t, it essentially means that you should shut up about what you’re passionate about unless you’re willing to spend the money to support that passion, that dream. Or, put another way, that you should take action to practice what you preach with your pocketbook. Pay up or shut up. Dream Big! I want…
About a year after I began my post-marriage life as a single mom, I was in a financial Facebook group and the topic was life insurance: how much you should have, what kind you should have, and what kinds you should avoid. Mundane, pretty cut and dry stuff. Or so I thought. Boy was I wrong. The poster was a newly single mom who had never had to deal with…
Moola clams greenbacks Benjamins bills dough loot bacon stash bank smackaroos Hamiltons MONEYLet’s start talking about finances! No matter what you call it, there often seems to be not enough of it. And there seems to be a stigma that surrounds all aspects of it. In my family growing up, it was never spoken of except in terms of scarcity. You couldn’t have things because there wasn’t enough money and…
Today is my only day off this week, so I’m running errands. I’m listening to the second part of the podcast that I referenced in the previous “Happiest” post… So one of the things that she was also posing the question of is ‘how do you want to be remembered when you pass away? What do you want your obituary to say?’ Obviously she was not getting at just the essential…
Secret obsession I would venture to guess that most people have a secret (or perhaps not so secret) obsession with something that their friends perhaps don’t get. Perhaps you like to read all the juicy rag magazines, secretly wish you were a Kardashian, have a body full of tats underneath your clothes or dream you did, or spend $20 on scratchers every payday hoping that that will be the last…
