For the better part of a year I’ve been blogging about frugality and finances. As a side-benefit of blogging about money, we’ve ended up paying pretty close attention to our family budget. Because of our planning and attention to detail we’re doing pretty well now. But it hasn’t always been that way. A couple of […]
Devotional: Making Plans
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” – Jeremiah 29:11 As the new year begins, many people are making plans for the next twelve months. They make resolutions to lose weight or to […]
Motivate Yourself By Setting Goals And Rewarding Yourself When You Meet Them
My wife and I have been seriously paying attention to our finances since earlier this year when we took Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University. We’ve never been in bad financial shape, but we’d never really been getting ahead either. That all started to change when we realized that in order to get ahead, we had […]
Personal Finance And Momentum: Keep Moving Forward
The Ebb and Flow of Financial Life I’ve been thinking about my financial life a lot more these past few months, and one thing I’ve been noticing is that there is an ebb and flow when it comes to positive changes, and negative backsliding. Things go in spurts. For example, I recently read up on […]