The 5 Ways We All Sabotage Our Own Good Financial Intentions

The 5 Ways We All Sabotage Our Own Good Financial Intentions

by Lori Atwood | May 5, 2022 | Financial Fitness, Saving: Retirement & Other, Teaching Children about Personal Finance

We all want to do the right thing. We all want to save appropriately, spend less, and have money for important or emergency expenses, but we don’t. We have all the right intentions, and many of us know what the right strategy is and yet we get tripped up. Sometimes...
3 Pieces of Great Advice That Can Ruin Your Finances

3 Pieces of Great Advice That Can Ruin Your Finances

by Lori Atwood | Feb 12, 2022 | Financial Fitness, Saving: Retirement & Other

For my last post before summer break (I will be back posting in September, as usual), I want to talk about the saying, “no good deed goes unpunished.” That old saw holds up in personal finance, too, in that there is a lot of great advice out there, but...
“Why Can’t I have it? I Work Hard.” – Entitlement, it’s the New Black

“Why Can’t I have it? I Work Hard.” – Entitlement, it’s the New Black

by Lori Atwood | Jan 7, 2015 | Financial Fitness, Saving: Retirement & Other

In this season of new year’s resolutions, why can’t people stick to their great intentions for the year? Well, one answer might be that these intentions require commitment and discipline. Those are hard. People feel entitled to a little bit of easy fun;...
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