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Quantifying your dreams to make them happen

2022-11-162022-11-16 Ms. Mod1 Comment

Oftentimes, people skip over a very important step in achieving their goals: that of quantifying your dreams to make them happen. They may start first with the tough work of listing out their vision but stop themselves when it comes to adding the details necessary to clarify it further in a measurable way. If we… Continue reading Quantifying your dreams to make them happen

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A Simple Bare-Bones Budget

2020-07-292020-07-29 Ms. ModLeave a comment

In the uncertainty of the current times, I’ve been so grateful that we have been tracking our expenses so diligently since at least 2014. Thanks to this habit, we have a pretty good idea of a simple bare-bones budget that we could implement by reducing certain expenses that we consider as discretionary expenses should we… Continue reading A Simple Bare-Bones Budget

Lifestyle

Gifting myself a break

2019-12-192019-12-16 Ms. Mod3 Comments

The holiday stress is real! No matter how much thought I put in being mindful about celebrating Christmas and the new year, and how much I plan to have done things in advance and not rush, the week before the holidays always brings a lot of stress for me. As such, I decided that this… Continue reading Gifting myself a break

Objectives

Mindful Holiday Spending

2019-10-102020-02-11 Ms. Mod2 Comments

With one kid’s birthday just around the corner, then followed by Halloween, it sounds like this is the perfect time to reflect on ways to plan more mindful holiday spending.  This was one of our spending objectives for 2019 and as we enter the 4th quarter of the year, time to plan ahead to reach… Continue reading Mindful Holiday Spending

Lifestyle

Money Anxiety Ladder

2019-07-042020-05-10 Ms. Mod6 Comments

Anxiety about money should be pretty low at the point where we are on our journey, however I continue to encounter it in different circumstances. The amazing Kara owner of Bravely Go and co-host of the wonderful Fairer Cents podcast has a great description of financial anxiety in her article entitled : I’m a Finance… Continue reading Money Anxiety Ladder

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