A Personal finance blog for saving money and earning more and thus having a better life
Securing your financial future is something you should consider regardless of age or status. With some planning and a little foresight, you could be well on your way to carving out a future free of debt and worry.
Being financially comfortable when you get older will not only make it easier to live life to the full but could provide you with choices you wouldn’t otherwise have. Here are 4 ways to secure your financial future.
Money often makes the world go around – whether we like it or not. Though having a lot of cash in your bank account might not be able to make you happy, it does make it a lot easier to avoid stress, anxiety, and other common problems. Fortunately, you don’t have to be a millionaire in the making to live a comfortable life.
Sometimes, all you need to do to gain financial independence and stop stressing over your cash is to improve the relationship that you have with the money that you do have.
The New Year is a perfect time to look back on your life and decide what things you’d like to change and where you’d like to find improvements. It’s always difficult to make resolutions, but under the right circumstances and with the proper motivation, it can be done.
This year, why not make it a resolution to fix your personal finances and get yourself out of debt? Besides signing up for a debt consolidation program, here are five money management tips that will help you achieve your goals.
With the economy roaring back to new levels of stability, the time to save money for the future is now. Interest rates continue to grow, which means your money could work harder for you now so you have a nice nest egg on which to rely in the future.
Before you decide to open a retirement, checking, or savings account, you might want to know which banks have the best interest rates right now. You can easily find this information by doing a quick search online.
I am sure you’re anxiously seeing the stock indices volatility and gross downturn past few weeks. Is it abnormal? Naturally, stocks do vary. For example, there are dividend stocks or defensive stocks. A good beginning stock is dividend stocks which give buyers a long-term return. A defensive stock is a good beginning stock for a long-term investment like water, electrical, or utility stocks.
I am not panicking with the recent market downturn. Neither should be you. We need to understand how these markets work. The loss you are seeing now re all paper loss, you don’t make a loss till you sell your positions. I am holding tights on to my stocks and funds.
Do you tend to spend more than you earn? Do you procrastinate paying your bills on time? Well, not everybody is good at managing their finances. While some find it difficult to maintain the minimum balance in their account, others shop using their credit cards and tend to spend more than their budget.
If you don’t know how to manage your finances when you earn, thinking of saving for retirement would seem like a Herculean task. Many people, especially middle-income earners find it difficult to save money for their future.
Keeping your personal finance in order is vital to avoid debt and afford certain things like a car or, your home at a lower interest rate. Getting your money in order helps avoid the stress and disarray caused by mounting debt.
The good news is, a financial situation can be improved, mainly through self-discipline. Following are 4 major tips for financial quick fixes that you can try when going gets tough. Not in particular order, all of these need to be taken care off at the same time.
We have some beliefs around money, which we cultivate since our childhood. Sometimes they are the beliefs shared to us by our parents. Sometimes we assume on our own. Do you have some time to think about those beliefs? You should take some time out and relfect on those beliefs.
You never know how many of money concepts we have are actually not true. Some beliefs are limiting, some are no longer valid in our generation. Some are partially applicable to our lives. Let’s discuss 10 most prominent money beliefs that you should avoid, as those might hinder not only your financial life but your life in general
Personal finance can be seen as personal or it can be treated as a small business, whatever works for you to give it your first priority. I see it as a set of personal goals. At the same time, I do tend to think sometimes that as I am the only bread earner, I am the CEO of this company and my wife and son are the employees.
Which means our little family is a small business and I got to take care of the business and my employees.
The sole purpose of drawing similarity between a personal finance and small business is that for some of you who would love to work with this imaginary scenario in order to succeed.
Let’s admit it, for most of us managing finances effectively is a tough task. I said most, and by this I meant – probably 90% of us, who do struggle to get finances in order. There are some bitter truth about personal finances that will come across as challenges. But, barring few wealthy people, most of us will struggle to keep up to those. Today let me tell you these bitter and tough facts about personal finance.
Your parents did their best to prepare you for the real world. Your schools taught you to tackle any situation. Unfortunately, their lessons in money management may have been slightly off. We were not taught to cope up with these financial bitter facts that’d surely come and bite us.
