To get what you want it’s important to feel that feeling… the thankful feeling you will have once you receive it… BEFORE you get it. You attract the feelings you generate. You know…like when someone gives you the come hither look you get all “come hithery”.Or when someone comes home all doom and gloom,, Read More

Picture yourself in the future. You go into a store and you buy whatever you want. You go home at the end of your day and relax into your favorite chair with a nice drink. You don’t think about money because money is not an issue to you. You go to work every day, Read More

Most people have a plan A.That’s when you are making the money you want to make, you have everything you need, and the money for more than what you need. Sweeeeet! Things are going as planned. You may have a plan B.You have a savings account and some retirement savings.You have that collection of, Read More

It’s the cross stitch pictured above. “A wife can throw out more with a teaspoon than a husband can bring home with a wheelbarrow.” It’s true. That’s what makes it so insidious. But just because it’s true doesn’t mean it’s the slogan I should use to lead my life. Just because my parents believed, Read More

My furnace broke. My car broke and the repair was more than the value of the car. The tree in the backyard needed to come down or risk killing my family. (To the tune of $8,000.) My daughter needed a specialist at $10,000. (Not covered by insurance, of course.) My property tax was set, Read More

If the answer is no, then something you are doing, thinking, or feeling is in opposition to creating the wealth you want in your life. Don’t fall into the trap of gauging your own worth by the money you have. But numbers do track your intentions. If you set financial goals and create a, Read More

I have a friend who is deciding where to work…where to create her income. She decided to do a pro and con list for each place she is considering. Here is the problem I have with a list of pros and cons: Once you get to the point where you are writing the list, you, Read More

The first step to change your money situation is to reveal your own money story. Yes, I know you think you don’t have a story about money… money is just money. But we all have a story just by being alive and living around other people. It’s the rules we have in our head, Read More

This summer my sister, Gayle, and I helped my mother move into a continuing care community. We then tackled the task of finding homes for all the rest of her worldly belongings. Most of it went to Goodwill and Salvation Army as well as friends and needy friends of friends. Some of it… the, Read More

Our brains think that we are going to progress. We are going to make more money than our parents. We are going to be able to help our kids monetarily. If we work hard enough we will accumulate all the things… the cars and house and clothes and toys. We think that ten years, Read More