Category: Planning

  • What Does An Emergency Fund Buy You?

    This year has started with a bang.  Several of the folks I have spoken with over the last couple of weeks have shared this statement with me, ” we are so glad we had an emergency fund…”  You see, the unexpected happened to them, but instead of them standing there wondering what they will do…

  • Not Just Surviving, Lets Thrive!

    Many of you have decided that this is the year you are going to break away.  You have survived over the last couple of years when everyone was telling you that we were all on the verge of financial collapse.  This year you have decided to make a difference.  Can I suggest that you need…

  • 5 Tasks To Complete In 2010

    Many of you are spending the last few days and even hours before you hit time off for the holidays. Can you believe that this year is all but gone? Time sure flies! For a minute, think back to the goals that you had for this year. Have you achieved them? Some? Any? Next year…

  • 3 Steps To A Successful Christmas Season

    Three weeks from tomorrow is arguably the biggest and best holiday of the year. It is that one day that most of the world pauses to reflect a common holiday – the birth of Christ.  It is the season for friends and family to gather and renew relationships.  For many of you the days leading…

  • New Approach To Christmas Giving

    The holiday season is quickly approaching.  As I write this, we are exactly two months from Christmas.  Some of you have prepared, but most have not.  Many seem to forget each year that Chrstmas comes in December.  While they have all year long to save and prepare that big day always sneaks up on them…

  • Did You Leave Something Behind?

    Whether we left the company or the company decided we should leave, most of us have been affected by a job change.  It can be a dreadful time or it can be a welcome time of a new opportunity.  With all the activities areound the change, you may unintentionally leave something behind – your personal…