The Santa Claus Syndrome: Where DO those presents come from?

If you’re a parent with little ones, you are in one of two main boats: • You LOVE the holidays, giving gifts, watching your children’s eyes pop as they open them, and basically just enjoy the whole process. Or… • You’re already dreading the...

Financial Tidbits

One step at a time… One bite at a time… One word at a time… One page at a time… One dollar at a time… Quite often we want it all RIGHT NOW! Then we get frustrated, overwhelmed, angry, sad or pissy because we just don’t have what we...

Financial “Pace” of Mind

On my beach walk this morning, I stopped thinking for a few minutes and started watching the different speeds by which people used to move about the planet. Some people had a slow, sauntering pace while others zoomed by as if they had many a place to go before noon....

Saturday QuickNote: Excited or Anxious

As I get up to start my day, I notice I have these feelings in my body about working today. Should I? Shouldn’t I? If I do, what do I work on? Stuff like that. What I began to notice, however, was whether or not the ‘need’ to work was excitement...

Checking Your Money Thoughts To Make Your Checking Account Grow

We’ve all heard, over and over again, that “our thoughts are the key to creating the lives we want.” Financial translation… “Our thoughts about money and wealth-creation are the key to creating the financial lives we want.” Since it takes...