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Is Your Side Gig Bringing In Enough Money To Be Worth The Effort?
There are lots of reasons to take on a side gig, not all of them financial. If you’ve been looking for side gig ideas or dabbling with...
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Maybe You're Thinking About Retirement Wrong (& Why 'Mini-Retirement' Is Worth Considering)
What is a mini-retirement and how to take one.
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Weirdly Effective Ways To Use Peer Pressure To Get Richer
It’s pretty well documented that our social network can affect our choices and behavior. Can it also affect your finances?
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Laid Off? How to Network Your Way to a New Job
October 5, 2001 will always be a red letter day for me. It was the day I was called into HR at my very first professional job after only...
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Surprising Things That Are Holding You Back From Optimizing Your Finances
Whether it's saving for retirement, rolling over that 401k or other steps toward optimizing your finances, here's what's holding you back.
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5 Common Money Fears & How to Get Over Them
I’m talking about the this-is-keeping-me-from-investing money fears. Or I-have-$47,000-in-a-checking-account-for-no-good-reason money fears.
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The Money-Mindset Journaling Prompt That Changed My Life
I certainly never expected that a money mindset journaling prompt would be the thing that truly changed my financial journey.
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Yes, There Is Such a Thing as Saving Too Much
Photo by CoWomen on Unsplash There’s no shortage of headlines in the personal finance world telling us how poor Americans are at saving...
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How My Money Attitude Was Keeping Me Poor No Matter How Much I Made
My annual income had more than doubled over the first ten years of my career and I was still living the same paycheck-to-paycheck lifestyle.
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