Growing Income by Building Marketable Skills
How to grow your income and become a more valuable employee by gaining more marketable skills and building a talent stack.
Category: General Finance
The Crux of the Climb
Discussing conquering the most difficult part of your personal finance journey, leading to success. Paying off debt, investing, budgeting, and more.
Widening the Moat
Wisdom from Warren Buffett about widening the moat of your finances, building up defense against emergencies and hard times.
9 Steps to Crush Debt & Reach Debt Freedom
9 steps that we used to crush $55,000 of consumer debt on the road to debt freedom. Through cutting expenses and increasing your income, you can do it too!
How to Board Your Pets for Cheap
A review of Rover, an Airbnb type app for pets, that we use to find dog sitters for when we go out of town. Benefits include cost, the attention your pets receive, familiarity, among others.
Full Debt Freedom – Our Car Loan is Paid Off
Discussing our journey to finally reaching debt freedom, paying off our car loan. Plus the thought process behind why we got a car loan in the first place.
Debt Freedom, Goal Setting & Blogging – Momentum Series Interview
Check out my Momentum Series interview guest post, covering my debt freedom journey, goal setting, and blogging.
Pursuing What You Love: My Experience Working in Minor League Sports
It’s no secret that trying to break into the world of working in sports is a long and difficult road. The long hours, low wages, and fierce competition are well documented. This is my story of pursuing my passion in sports, and the current balance I've found.
You Don’t Have to Be Perfect to Reach Financial Freedom
Focus your efforts on optimizing one area of your finances at a time. You don't have to be perfect, it's not too late in your journey.
My Favorite Way to Buy Affordable Sports & Concert Tickets
My favorite way to buy sports tickets and concert tickets is through SeatGeek. Read about why and how I use them to find affordable seats to events.
Now is the Time to Start Making Progress on Your Goals
Now is the time to start making progress on your financial goals. Don't wait for the perfect time, when you have everything figured out. Start today with small, consistent steps.
5 Steps for Turning Your Finances Around
5 simple steps to take when you're just starting out. These tactics will help get your finances more organized so that you can focus on achieving your longterm goals.
Life After Student Loans – What’s Next?
Our student loans are paid off, now what? Discussing our next set of goals under the umbrella of pursuing financial independence in the long-term.
Have a Plan to Maximize Your Next Financial Windfall
Make a plan for how to utilize a financial windfall before receiving it. Think through your goals and values for what you're working towards and allocate your windfall.
Obstacles We Encountered on Our Debt Payoff Journey
Recapping the various obstacles during our debt repayment journey of $40,000 of student loans in four years. These include a job layoff, unexpected bills, and low wages.
Ask the Readers – What Would You Do?
What would you do with a small windfall of stock shares? Hold the shares or sell them? Discussing the various options between holding, selling, diversifying, and paying off debt.
3 Lessons from Steve Jobs on Loving What You Do
Key lessons from Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford commencement speech, including loving what you do, following your dreams, and living life to the fullest.
We Need to Be Better Than Normal
We need to strive to be better than normal. Normal is broke, stressed, and unhappy. By improving ourselves in various areas we can avoid settling for normal.
Build Good Habits, Don’t Rely on Willpower
Focus on building good habits rather than relying on willpower to achieve your goals. Break goals down into actionable steps, set up systems, and practice consistency.
End of Year Review & 2018 Goals
Recapping my achievements in 2017 and laying out my goals for 2018 in personal finance, travel, blogging, and daily habits.
