Monday, July 2, 2012

Personal Finance Newsletter | Dave Ramsey's July 2012 CNL - daveramsey.com

Money Etiquette: 6 Mistakes to Avoid

Why are some people so clueless about money etiquette?

Really, you don't have to have a lot of money to understand basic, common courtesy when it comes to finances. This isn't difficult stuff.

So why do some people refuse to leave a decent tip, and why do other people feel like they must tell everyone in their church group how much they make?

These, dear readers, are financial faux pas—the worst of the worst etiquette mistakes people make with their money.

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Feel Your Way To Fulfillment!

When we break things down to the simplest of terms, what we really want most out of life is to feel good. We may have lofty goals and grand visions for our life and that’s definitely not a bad thing, but at the end of the day, it’s really all about how we want to FEEL.

I’ve been having a lot of conversations lately with people that are stuck in this vicious cycle of projecting their happiness onto the attainment of some achievement or the arrival at some future destination in their life. The common experience they describe is one of a perpetual sense that something is missing and an inability to put their finger on what it might be.