Wealthy Mind

Many Popular Financial Advisors Don’t Have Kids

February 4, 2010

I am curious if life is made up of Either / Or choices or if it is truly possible to have life full of ANDs. I’d like to believe it is possible to keep adding ANDs to your life, yet I know that at some point your plate gets full and you have to take things off.

So, what do I mean by and AND life versus and OR life?

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Visualize with Wordle

February 1, 2010

If you haven’t happened upon it, check out the site Wordle.net. Its a great tool for fun, or to use as part of your process to visualize your goals. Somehow making a nice picture out of words from what you are working on can really help you focus.

The one above is a tool that categorized weights not to TAGs like a TAG cloud does, but as a word cloud from the most frequently used words on my blog feed. Guess you can tell what I’ve been writing a lot about lately: GOALS.

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Confidence, Purpose and Marketing: Ingredients for Success

January 28, 2010

I had the privilege of listening to a thoughtful free webinar by “conscious” entrepreneur Max Simon in which he interviewed Vishen Lakhiani on the concepts of creating a wealthy mind. He also spoke about how to turn a business from performing so-so to really reaching a ‘turning point’.

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Review of GratitudeLog – “The Happiest Place on the Internet”

January 19, 2010

GratitudeLog.com is a fun social site that takes the basic concept of short updates from sites such as Twitter, and applies it to a specific concept, Gratitude.

You are able to mark someone’s comment as “Awesome!” or reply to it. You can follow people and they can follow you. Beyond that, you can send people “Appreciation” gifts (for free), which are simply little icons with a thoughtful note (like you can send on Facebook).

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Move Your Money Local Banking & Choosing to Spend Local

January 16, 2010

I’ve noticed a lot of blog posts and a growing movement on Twitter and the blogosphere about the topic: “move your money.” (See the site: MoveYourMoney.info). Full disclosure: I work for a local credit union in my area, and I prefer the credit union not-for-profit business model. I typically try to avoid any direct reference to where I work because that’s not what my journey is about, its about my personal finances. However, I wanted to take a moment to aknowledge the concept of “going local” with anything you buy, including where you choose to bank. To me, going local is an important part of making conscious decisions and choosing where and how to spend your money. Choosing to shop local has many benefits which I will explain in a moment.

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Does Opportunity Come to You or Do You Have to Create It?

January 12, 2010

In the past, I’ve often felt jealous or a bit resentful when I look at certain other people that seem to have everything in life fall into thier lap. I always thought that beauty, jobs, boyfriends, and the works seem to just naturally happen for some people more than others.

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Truly Free eBooks for Wealth, Inspiration and Education

January 10, 2010

It can be hard to find any summarized information online for personal finance education without having to give away your email address or buy something. Often times, ebooks offer a great compressed version of key information from people’s blogs or books.

Here are some great resources that I have found that offer truly free ebooks or PDFs of some very useful information and education on personal finance and a wealthy mindset. (Some of them do want to sell you something also, but you can still get these for free without purchasing anything).

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5 Steps to Happiness with a Personal Finance Twist

January 6, 2010

I came across five simple steps to be happy and appreciated the simplicity of them. Often times, greed and corruption overcome people’s desire to do good when they are on a quest toward financial freedom. If your moral and/or ethical compass is overlooked or compromised on your journey to earn more and save more, you risk the loss of balance in other areas of your life, such as happiness and fulfillment.

So, the following are my thoughts on how to combine your quest for financial fitness with your quest for happiness using these 5 simple steps.

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Definition of Financial Freedom

January 3, 2010

What Does it Mean to Be Financially Free?

I’ve been writing about my journey toward financial freedom through organizing my finances and learning for months now, but realized that I didn’t ever define what it was I want by saying I want to be financially free. What does it mean?

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Review of Conspiracy of the Rich Book by Robert Kiyosaki

January 1, 2010

I am reading a lot of financial books right now, and I plan to provide the key take aways that I get from the books, not necessarily a full review of each chapter. In fact, I’m not even going to outline the full “8 New Rules of Money” from Conspiracy of the Rich, instead, simply the main points that I found of value and how I’m going to apply them to my life. I have seen a lot of controversial blog post about whether Kiyosaki offers sound advice or just fluff, whether he has a legitimate story for his background or not, etc. My feeling is that he offers some good big picture suggestions that you then have to spend time researching on your own and deciding what will work for yourself.

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