Category: Financial Freedom
Posts on building real financial freedom — not the get-rich-quick kind, but the slower work of right relationship with money, abundance, and the lived practice of having enough.
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Payback Time?
What I really want to ask my mother is this: exactly how many people still owe you money and will you honestly tell me? Just because Daddy’s dead now does not absolve the moral obligation to pay it back to her, and she could use the money. She did tell me of at…
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Christmas Oopsie
I took my mom for a little drive around town so she could see the Christmas lights. Things had changed a bit since she was last able to be gone from home (and from Daddy’s bedside) long enough to see the lights, and we got a little lost on the roads she remembered and I…
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Insight and Answers: Just a Little Yule Gift for Me
Occasionally, the Universe gives me these little presents of insight. They normally hit me like the proverbial anvil on the head. And they almost always come after a big breakthrough of some sort. I’ve had that breakthrough in the past couple of days, though I’m still so raw from recent events that I’m having a…
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How To Tell a Bad Life Coach
I’d don’t believe you need a gazillion credentials to be good at the job you do, though if you’ve been recommended to me for brain surgery, I’m probably a little more concerned about your skills than your bedside manner. However, I do understand the importance of proper training, especially when you’re mucking around in people’s…
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The Real Secret of the Law of Attraction
I’ve heard about the Law of Attraction for decades and for at least the last five or six years, as part of my spiritual study, I’ve understood it and tried to follow it. Like many (most?) who are attracted to the Law of Attraction for whatever reason, I attracted the wrong things. Not always. But…
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Powerful Intentions for a New Year
It hit me on my way home from work. I already know what my intentions (not resolutions) will be for 2007, and I’m going to get a head start on them. As of tonight. Last year, the phrase I lived by was: risk everything! That was hard. I’ve been doing that one for 3 years…
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The Middle Age, at Last, and How I Knew
When I took a look at Aislinn’s 14th birthday pictures, taken at my mom’s kitchen table, I understood at last that I am now in the Middle Age. It’s not a year or span of years or any way society or a medical record might define it. It’s my own definition. From the Bookshelf Unapologetically…
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Loving Our Abusers to Death
I am holding my breath. It could be tonight or it could be next week or it could be next year. But I know it will come. It comes for all of us, but it feels especially close for him. For Daddy. He’s 80 now, and his illness is terminal. Mama was upset that…
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Nothing In Life Is Certain Except….
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Curves. It’s said that nothing in life is certain except for death and taxes. Let’s add rising insurance costs to that. Yes, I just got my projected property insurance bill for the house (not including on my car plus whatever clunker Shannon gets). The news has…
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High Maintenance Homes and Girls
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Crimes to the Third Degree. It’s strange where a woman on her own will focus her financial priorities. With the real estate market stale here since Hurricane Katrina—as in no one wants to live near the coast anymore—I’ve seen my assets decrease substantially in the past year, especially…
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Money Le$$on$
“Is there anything in particular I should be looking at between now and the end of the year?” I asked my new “coach,” a professional advisor-slash-counselor I’ve retained to help me look at specific life issues objectively and keep me on track in my busy life. “Yes! Between now and the end of the year,…
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Teaching Children and Teens about the Law of Attraction…or Vice Versa
In Esther and Jerry Hicks’ The Teachings of Abraham DVD IX of the Law of Attraction in Action series, Telling a New Story!, Abraham says that the best way we can teach our children to become “aligned” is by the example of our own alignment. That may be true, but with my own kids, I…
