resolutions

So how are you getting on with your New Year’s resolutions?  Yes that’s right, all those promises that you made to yourself back in January about doing more exercise, eating healthier food and cutting back on spending. We are now more than half-way through the year and for many, those good intentions are long forgotten [...]

On January 18th of this year, I finally decided I was ready to make some New Year’s resolutions. I’ve never really done the resolution thing in the past, and so I wasn’t compelled to do it come December 31 or January 1. But I recognize that goals are good — and so I came up [...]

Defining a good goal is hard enough in itself, but people still fail even with well thought out SMART goals. Why? The answer is simple: they fail to turn these goals into actions. Generally, a goal is broad and hard to identify practical ways to achieve it. To transform your goals into practical actions is [...]

It has been a while since I shout out to the personal finance blogging community.  First, I want to share a recent interview of me done by Jeff Rose at Good Financial Cents — thank you Jeff! I hope you can give him a visit and check out the interview. Now, here are a few [...]

It’s hard to believe how fast time flies, but here we are already in 2009. Before we look forward, let’s reflect back on 2008. In term of the economy, it wasn’t so great; but I hope each of you can find one good thing that happened to you last year — for me, it was [...]

New Year is coming and for better or worse; ’tis the season for making resolutions.  I’m not a huge fan of the tradition, because important goals should be a part of your daily life no matter what day it is.  But, since we don’t have time to be setting new goals every day, New Year’s [...]

Lynnae at Being Frugal recently reviewed her 2008 financial goals. She shared some successes and failures, and asked other personal finance bloggers to review theirs. In particular, she referenced my goal to reduce my household utility bill by 10% or $35 a month, and asked, “Did you reduce your bill in January?” Photo via moregueFile [...]

As many of you know, I started this blog on July 15, 2007. During this time, I shared several goals with you, and there are some that I haven’t shared (at least until now). In this post, I will review my goals, make some revisions, and set up new milestones for 2008. By the way, [...]

I thought it was a lot of work when I hosted the Carnival of Personal Finance (CoPF), so I was amazed when Patrick hosted the CoPF and launched the 1st edition of his own carnival in the very same week! If you want to get a sneak peek at personal finance bloggers’ 2008 goals, please [...]

Cash Money Life is running a contest Share Your 2008 Financial Resolution for a Chance to Win an iPod! that will end December 4th at 11:59 PM, Eastern Daylight Saving Time. I never own an iPod before, so I am going to give this a try. My best friend and his wife recently bought me [...]