Category: Financial Freedom
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Emotions and Finances
The biggest, unexpected financial setbacks in my life have all been the result of letting my emotions get in the way while I took my eye off the financial ball. I think about that much more these days, now that I’m focused like a fiend on making sure I have enough for my retirement…even though…
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Financial Freedom and the Government Shutdown
Since my last post, I’ve been wickedly busy trying to finish up fiscal yearend duties, only to be furloughed 12 hours later. Like many Federal employees across the planet, I’ve been home, watching insanely conflicting news on TV, worrying about when I could go back to work, when will I get another paycheck, how to…
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Manifesting Money in the Bank: $100,000 … Sort of
Manifesting money in the bank is not as hard as you think, but sometimes the Law of Attraction does like to tease. My goals for the year It’s no secret that I started this year with two big financial goals: 1. Increase my savings/investments/retirement accounts by $100,000 total; and 2. Decrease my house debt to…
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DCPAS Offers Lame Financial Tips in the Furlough Special Edition and Here’s Why
This week, the Defense Civilian Personnel Advisory Service (DCPAS) sent out a BENEFACTS “Furlough Special Edition” newsletter to advise the approximately 800,000 Department of Defense employees about their benefits, plus offer a page of financial tips for “Financial Fitness.” Since guidance on how Federal employees are to take their furlough days, how benefits are affected,…
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Retail Therapy and Spirituality
This post on retail therapy is post #7 in my series on financial freedom and spirituality. I have a horrible financial confession to make. In month #4 of my focus on financial freedom and spirituality, I have gotten off course with my budget. No, I didn’t buy emergency-worker-yellow high heels to wear, but they did…
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Financial Lessons: Paying Off Debt Will Lower Your FICO Score
This post on being penalized with a lower FICO score for paying off debt early is post #6 in my series on financial freedom and spirituality. Once upon a time, I had a FICO score of 900. Okay, okay, not really. It was actually something like 842. I had lots of credit card debt I…
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Keeping Savings Accounts vs Paying Off Debt
This post on savings accounts vs paying down debt is post #4 in my series on financial freedom and spirituality. This post on savings accounts vs paying down debt is post #4 in my series on financial freedom and spirituality. Once I had paid off my monthly bills and the ones due in the next…
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Trading Credit Cards with Rewards Programs for Cash-Flowing Bills
This post on cash-flowing vs credit cards is post #3 in my series on financial freedom and spirituality. When I decided to pay off the car, then the house, I sat down and came up with a plan…naturally…and found a few chinks in the plan right away. First of all, I didn’t have extra cash…
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Finding Money: On a Roll with the Law of Attraction
This post on finding money is post #2 in my series on financial freedom and spirituality. Before I walk you through all the steps I’m taking and have taken to become free of my debt both financially and spiritually, I want to share with you something bizarre that happened in the month after I decided…
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Emotional and Financial Freedom: Debt-Free and Spirituality in 2013
Yes, I’m still alive! Really. Busy, busy! For those of you who were worried about my absence, thanks for asking. It wasn’t that anything was wrong–too many things were right all at the same time. For most of the last 3 months, I’ve been working 10-12 hours a day on a high-viz project, then coming…