“15 pounds in 12 weeks. That’s 1.25 pounds per week.”
The words leapt from the computer screen. Personal finance blogger, Shawanda Green, had just written an article titled: Menu Plan Monday: I’m Getting Fat Edition. For some reason, it resonated with me. It seemed like a good idea—and doable.
15 pounds in 12 weeks.
That’s the challenge. Are [...]
When I turned 30 years old, I decided that I had all the friends that I would ever need.
I wasn’t interested in making any new friends. New friends were only trouble. Old friends? They were perfect. They knew your quirks, your bad habits, your secrets—what made you smile. And then, one day in the hallway [...]
I tell my friends this all the time when I’m giving them advice: I say most things so that I will hear them first. Me…first. Now that the disclaimer is out of the way, I can get on with this post. There are three reasons that you’re not doing exactly what it is you want [...]
Since I was a young girl, I’ve been trying to fit into someone else’s mold. I’ve always been looking over at the cool kids table and wanting to be them. I desperately wanted to fit into someone else’s suit: mine was just too damn itchy and uncomfortable. I hated my hair. I hated my teeth. [...]
It’s funny how I find things on the web. It’s rather like the way that I think in general. I have one thought, which leads to something totally unrelated, which leads to something else. You might call this ADHD; I call it a serendipitous way to gather and organize information—by association.
But I digress.
This afternoon, I [...]
People…don’t…change.
If I’ve heard that once, I’ve heard that a million times. People are who they are, who they are. I remember my mother telling me that when I was little. Then, as I got older and started to have my own relationships, I remember her telling me that people won’t change for you.
Boy, was [...]
Today, I sat at my desk trying to find an excuse, any excuse not to go meet with my financial planner about my 401k rollover. I say that as though I have been meeting with her for a long time. Quite the contrary, this was only my second meeting.
I had my grumpy pants on. I [...]
The Myth of the Marketing
When I first started out as a Marketing Manager for a 500 person organization, I realized something very, very early: everyone’s a gosh darn marketer.
Okay, that’s the PG version of EAGDM; I’ll let you use your imagination to figure out what I really call it. But whatever we call it, one [...]
The following is a guest post from Rob Kuban who writes at DollarsAndDoctrine.com for Christian Personal Finance and used with permission from Christian Personal Finance. I believe that this post falls in line with our “gratitude” challenge this week!
“There’s nothing to eat,” I murmured to myself as I stood staring endlessly into my kitchen [...]
It’s “Technology Tuesday” here at helpyourselfblog.com – the day that I give whatever help that I can on all things technological. Today, I’ll be discussing the top three reasons that I use Twitter and a little background on the application. Despite its popularity, I have found that many people still don’t really understand Twitter or [...]