It is not new news that exercise is an important factor of a healthy lifestyle. If you’re in some sort of physical practice, be it CrossFit, yoga, or endurance training, and are looking to upgrade your performance, enhance your longevity, and get in touch with the physical, it could be helpful to ask what type […]
Monthly Archives: May 2015
Be Proud of Your Side Hustle to Be More Productive
By being open about your side gig, you make scheduling a social life or family events a lot easier. When everyone knows you have another job or jobs you’re committed to, they’re often more understanding of your schedule. Keep in mind that your employer may not allow or be pleased to find out that you […]
Money is a Means, not an End – Life In Charge
But because we spend our time thinking about it so often, we forget that money is just the tool to help us reach our vision. Money is a means that allows us to reach our end goals. The reason you hear people say that money can’t buy happiness is because those people whose ideal was […]
How Every Small Change You Make Pays Compound Interest | Blonde on a Budget
… Compound interest happens when you earn interest off of the interest you’ve already earned. So in financial terms, if you invest $100 and make 10% on it each year, you’d have $110. The compounding part comes in when the interest is calculated based on that new total. Instead of making 10% on $100 the […]
Finance Goals For Your 20s | The Art of Manliness
You’ll sometimes hear these days that 30 is the new 20, and the importance of moving towards career, relationship, and finance goals in your twenties gets overlooked. When it comes to the latter category, it may seem like getting your financial house in order is something you can work on once you settle down and […]
A Life Worth Waking Up For
You see, and I stand as proof of this, the more we experience joy in life, the more we can’t wait to get up and start living it. On a very small scale, compare the worker who hates his job and the one who loves it. The man or woman who hates his work scowls […]
How to Build an Emergency Budget (and Why You Need One)
Basically, you’ll have to decide whether to: Stay on track with your goals and replenish your emergency fund later, or ; Reduce your savings/debt goals or put them on hold until your income picks back up. If you choose Option 1, you’ll simply stick to your goals and add them to your emergency budget. If […]
How A Year Of Extreme Frugality Changed Us – Frugalwoods
Our dominant culture is geared almost entirely towards creating a life centered on spending money. Advertisers have engineered their reach such that we’re endlessly inundated with ads prompting us to buy. And many of those ads are intended to play upon our most base human emotions: fear, survival, and pleasure. We’re told we must have a […]
The Early Retiree’s Weekly Schedule | Root of Good
I thought it would be fun to look at a typical week for me because it might help others figure out how they can fill their free time. The schedule also shows the diversity of daily and weekly activities for me. No two days are alike, and each day typically has a mix of a lot of fun, a […]
The Secret to Having a Simplified Schedule
No matter how many commitments we take on, no matter how long the to-do list, we never get more than twenty-four hours in a day. The way we spend those hours should reflect our values and priorities. To use our time well, we need to get rid of all those tasks that creep into our […]