Your Budget: 5 Factors That Will Determine What It Looks Like

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm .

~ Winston Churchill

There is no single right way to make a budget. Like most other aspects of personal finance and life we just need to figure out how to make the one that works best for us. Usually, this will mean trying a bunch of different things before arriving at the one that [...] Continue reading Your Budget: 5 Factors That Will Determine What It Looks Like





Evaluating Your Balance Sheet

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

Having answered the “where are you” question by drawing up your balance sheet, it’s time to ask yourself the next question:  Are you happy with where you are? For some of you, the answer will be a proud yes. For [...] Continue reading Evaluating Your Balance Sheet





Research Yourself

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

- Lao-tzu

This post begins a series on Balance Basics that will provide some tips to start improving your balance sheet.  If balance is a journey, you need a map.  We’ll construct our map using the Shampoo Cycle as a guide, so the first task is to answer the question “Where are you?”.  This isn’t as [...] Continue reading Research Yourself





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