Guest Post On Get Rich Slowly
Big news everyone – I have a guest post today on Get Rich Slowly!! GRS is one of THE original and best blogs in the personal finance space, and J.D. Roth is on the proverbial Mount Rushmore of the community. ...
Category: psychology
Money Lessons From Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Day will be celebrated this coming Monday in America. It’s a federal government holiday, so I’ll be off. As a semi-retired and semi-quasi-professional blogger and graphic artist, I wasn’t planning on working anyway. Sadly, many companies in...
The Aggregation Of Marginal Conveniences
Ugh, out of ice cubes again. What a pain. I have to pour water from my water filter into my two ice cube trays and put them back in the freezer. Back in April my 25 year old refrigerator started...
How To Fight Imposter Syndrome
Something I often hear in the personal finance blogging community or the blogging community as a whole is the concept of imposter syndrome. Imposter Syndrome is: a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their accomplishments and has a persistent...
Persistence Will Get You Everywhere
BOOM! The crack of thunder shook the ground behind us and we started hiking faster back to our tents. At 11,700 feet in elevation, we were still above treeline, and during a lightening storm it’s a dangerous place to be. ...
Take Ownership, And Have Understanding
My Mom and Dad were in the front seat of the car, we were in a hospital parking lot. My mom was sobbing. They just found out my brother had diabetes, type-1. He was 3 years old. It’s my earliest...
Do You Have A Resilience Fund?
One of the core tenants of good personal finance is having an emergency fund. Basically an emergency fund is an account set aside to deal with unexpected expenses. It’s generally recommended that you keep an emergency fund in a very...
Sunken Costs And Stubbornness
We had just partied like it was 1999. I was coming up on 3 years into my investing career, and even though I mostly had mutual funds, I still liked the idea of researching and picking a winning stock. Having...
Choose Courage, Get Uncomfortable
“Turtles are slow.” I was staring at the sentence in fear. I tried to read it out loud but just couldn’t get the first word out. Sweat started forming on my forehead and I started to panic. “Just start reading...
How The Great Depression Still Affects Me Today
My Father was born on October 18th, 1929. Both of his parents died before I was born, so I can’t exactly picture what the scene might have looked like when, 6 days later on Oct. 24th the stock market crashed...
How Isaac Newton Is Linked To Your Finances
A body in motion stays in motion. A body at rest stays at rest. Newton’s first law of motion governs every object in the cosmos from a physical standpoint. Interestingly, it seems to be a good predictor of other things...
Starving Cows, Generosity, And Having Enough
The cows were standing in the middle of the road somberly staring at our car, famished, ribs protruding out, barely looking alive. They clearly weren’t going to budge, and by the looks of them they likely didn’t have the energy. ...
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