One of the toughest balances to strike in life is the one that exists between work and home. Many of us need to go to work in order to earn money for the necessities of life. However, it’s easy to get swallowed up in work, neglecting what goes on at home, and finding it difficult… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Life Balance
Finding Financial Balance
Finding financial balance in life is never easy. I’ve been talking to a lot of individuals lately in my financial education workshops and I recently sat down with Jake who is 23 years of age and trying to do the best with the money he makes. In fact, he makes pretty good money working up… Continue Reading
Setting priorities when you are too busy
My wife and I were just talking about how we have been too busy. I’m not really complaining. In fact, I think everyone is busy and just because we have 4 kids does not make us busier. Every single one of us has the same hours in the day to accomplish what we need to accomplish. … Continue Reading
Finding Balance with productivity and organization
I’m not a big fan of New Year Resolutions for myself because I set goals quite regularly throughout the year. That being said, I support others that do use new years resolutions as a means for changing habits and trying to get on track. Over at Retire Happy Blog, I have written about some ideas… Continue Reading
Psychology plays a big role when it comes to saving money
I’ve often said that achieving personal financial success is 80 per cent psychology and 20 per cent math. Every financial decision you make involves both emotion and logic. It’s been said that when emotion and logic come into conflict, emotion usually wins. One example of this is why we tend to chase performance in investing. … Continue Reading
The balance between work and play
I just read an interesting article by Joe at Retire by 40 on work hard, play hard. In the article Joe gives his personal definition of what it means to work hard, play hard and what the phrase means to him. Although I may have different illusions of what the term means to me, Joe… Continue Reading
8 Lessons Learned from Summer Bike Rides
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. ~Steven Wright I used to ride my bike almost every day in the summer when I was a kid. Once I got my driver’s license I rode a lot less. When adulthood hit in earnest with all of the responsibilities of marriage and children, I… Continue Reading
Waiting for an Epiphany
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn’t waste time waiting for inspiration.… Continue Reading