Last week, I was fortunate enough to travel to Ireland for the very first time. And I loved it! The Emerald Isle is gorgeous, from its rolling green hills to its beautiful canals to the innumerable cows & sheep & horses to be seen from the motorways. The people are warm and friendly, cheerful and […]
I really hate delivering bad news, but there’s no way around this. You’re not getting any younger. Time is marching on. You can fight it all you want, but the time will pass anyway. The important thing to do is focus your time, attention and energy on answering the following question – are you doing […]
This most excellent advice came to me from a highly trusted source – my mother. While we were on our most recent vacation together, I asked her what she believed was the most important lesson to learn about money. In four words, she summed up the cornerstone of every personal finance blog I’ve ever come […]
Based on my own experience and decades of observation, I am convinced without a shadow of a doubt that priorities guide how we spend money. To paraphrase Paula Pant at www.affordanything.com, every spending decision you make is based on priorities because choosing to spend on one thing means that you’re not spending on something else. […]
I got my first part-time job in grade 11. Every two weeks, roughly $137 was plopped into my bank account via electronic deposit. And every two weeks, I would go to the bank machine and manually transfer $50 from my chequing account to my savings account without fail. It was simple and easy. When I […]