Archive for the ‘Goals’ Category

Book Review: Now, Discover Your Strengths

Friday, January 1st, 2010

If you are looking to learn a little more about yourself, I highly recommend the book Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton. The authors are researchers for the Gallup Organization (the folks that are famous for polling the general public), and their company has ...

Do You Prefer Borrowing Money To Saving It?

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

I was reading Master Your Money by Ron Blue again (I like this book), and I picked up on something interesting. Ron uses two personal financial ratios when working with clients. The first he calls the "propensity to borrow", and it's calculated by dividing your assets by your liabilities. For example, ...

Bucketized Living

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

I tend to lead what I call a bucketized life – meaning a life made up of a few of different buckets. I try to lead a balanced life, but inevitably I tend to view the different parts of my life as separate buckets. You can even hear it in ...

Tax Day Resolutions

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

New Year's resolutions on average last about 1.5 weeks based on my own personal survey. :-)  Perhaps people don't know how to set and effectively achieve goals. Or maybe they need more than a drinking binge to bring about effective change in their lives. So how did your tax preparations go ...