While December hasn't officially yet ended, I feel it's close enough to the end of the year now for me to do a follow up on my 2019 goals. (ha, just kidding, it's very much January now). I started really laying out annual goals for myself last year, in 2018, and I find that I…
I did this blog year in reflection for the first time last year, and it was a lot of fun to look back and see what my top posts were over that time. I've decided to keep an annual tradition of it going so I can look back at the end of the each calendar…
It's hard to believe we are already almost at the end of the third quarter of 2019. Didn't we just go to Hawaii? Apparently not, considering that was almost eight months ago now. That said, we have definitely packed quite a bit into the first nine months of the year. Most of it has been…
Two years ago, I started this blog of mine. Technically, July 10th was my second blogiversary, but as that day landed on a Wednesday this year, I published my normal Wednesday roundup post and waited to share this post until today. It's still my blog's "birthday week," I suppose, and clearly I prefer to stick…
Apparently we are halfway through the year already, so it's time for another quarterly goal check in already. I only set one main goal last year (and promptly forgot about the others I had set previously). This year, I decided to be intentional with my goals like I have with the rest of mine life.…
I've been blogging for just shy of two years now, and I've never completed a blogging course. I've dabbled in a few through email sign ups, but as this blog has been a hobby for me and not a business, I've never had the focus or desire to spend a lot of time learning how…
Last year, I had my goals in place and written out by January 1st. This year has been different though, and I just haven't felt up to the task. The biggest reason for this has been the life changing cancer diagnosis a personal finance blogger and friend is going through with her son who is…
The 76k Project posted her top twelve posts for 2018 just before Christmas, and I had such a fun time reading through them to see which were her most popular (and to go back and read the ones I hadn't yet) that I decided I wanted to do a similar post myself. Going back to…
As I've mentioned a couple of times in the last few months, this past weekend I was in Denver as I attended the inaugural Cents Positive retreat, and the first time I was away from my son for more than one consecutive night since he was born almost four years ago, plus the first time…
The online personal finance community, and especially the financial independence subset, seems to be filled with people who make some seriously above average incomes. While I will begrudge no one for earning that high salary, it can be more than a bit discouraging when you realize the timelines many of them talk about could never…