by Lori Atwood | May 13, 2015 | Financial Fitness, Saving: Retirement & Other
People hate BUDGETS. I hate budgets. I do not even like the word budget. I rarely use it in my financial planning practice because it conjures up feelings of scarcity, pain, and memories of parents fighting. Whatever it conjures up for you, I’m sure it’s not good....
by Lori Atwood | May 5, 2015 | Financial Fitness
When couples come to me because they are feeling financial stress or finances are stressing their relationship, I generally can put their tensions into one of 3 categories: Lifestyle: taste, upbringing, values: “you spend too much,” “you do not save enough” Worth: “I...
by Lori Atwood | Apr 14, 2015 | Financial Fitness, Saving: Retirement & Other
We’ve all seen that handsome guy on the sailboat, salt and pepper hair, confident look and black turtleneck with a caption that talks about investing. It’s conjuring up the good life, wealth, power and of course, self-esteem. It’s aspirational. It speaks to us. We can...
by Lori Atwood | Apr 1, 2015 | Financial Fitness, Teaching Children about Personal Finance
“Can we afford another child?” My answer is different than certain celebrity money people. Here it is: Money is not a contraceptive device. Do not try to use it as such. Having a child (or another child) is an emotional decision only. The rest are details to be...
by Lori Atwood | Oct 22, 2014 | Financial Fitness, Saving: Retirement & Other
If you’ve ever had the feeling that you live ‘check to check’ or that you seem to be running on a financial treadmill and never get ahead, you understand what financial people call a ‘cash flow’ problem. By the way, people who make $30,000/year or $300,000/year can...