As I noted in a recent post about Tough Mudder events, I have run one marathon, a team marathon, a handful of half-marathons, and lots of 10k and 5k runs. Often the wife and I will travel outside of our local area to participate in such events. The marathon I ran was in San Francisco, the team …
Cream City Hustle. A Personal Finance Thriller. Available at Amazon A listing of released installments can be found at the end of each installment Arriving at Corrine’s, a podiatrist over at the Aurora Sinai Medical Center, he tapped on the door. She answered the door almost immediately. He dropped the two baggies on the table in …
Soul Over Matter provides a non-traditional approach to traveling the road to financial freedom. Authors Adam Markel, attorney and CEO of New Peaks – a personal and business development company – and ‘soul healer’ Dr. & Master Zhi Gang Sha, combine ancient Eastern and modern Western wisdom; and focus on the role of soul in creating abundance. In …
Keeping finances organized seems like the most challenging job to do as business owner. Paying people to keep track of your budget and spending is tough, not to mention expensive. It has become increasingly more difficult for business owners to find reliable accounts and financial consultants. You just don’t know who you can trust anymore. …
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Amazon has announced the details for this year’s ‘Prime Day’ sale which will take place on Tuesday, July 12. What is Prime Day? It’s a one-day only global shopping event exclusively for Amazon’s Prime members. It’s a 24-hour Black Friday-like sales event where prices are slashed on hundreds of thousands of products. Prime Day Sale Members in …
We’re all familiar with the idea of escaping the rat race; that endless, self-defeating pursuit. You work more hours, to buy more stuff, to bring you greater joy … . But of course, because you’re working more hours, you don’t have time to enjoy the stuff that more money made available. The key, of course, is …
Documentary: Food Chain$ (2014). There is more interest in food these days than ever. Regular readers of this blog know that I often speak of physical fitness being a strong, and necessary complement to, fiscal fitness. That is a significant reason why I have morphed this space into a personal finance and lifestyle blog. It isn’t enough to be fiscally …
The following is a guest post, courtesy of Jordan Niefeld, CPA, CFP® Before you decide how much money you need to begin investing, first start by having an honest conversation with yourself and see what exactly you are trying to achieve. Ask yourself questions like: What specific financial goals are most important to you? Do you …
Unfortunately, practicing frugality is too often translated as buying the least expensive products or services. Particularly in difficult economic times, there may be a tendency to make every effort to spend less no matter what. Blindly spending less is not frugal…it’s cheap. Being frugal means spending money wisely in an attempt to get as much …
Ideally, people investing for retirement always should have been able to feel confident that their financial advisors were giving them unbiased advice and recommending what was best for them. That wasn’t necessarily the case, though, which prompted the Department of Labor to issue new fiduciary rules in April designed to ensure that financial professionals put …
