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Overcome Financial Stress – 6 Surprising Tips for Managing Money Problems

If you’re dealing with debt or a financial crisis, you need to reduce your stress level before you can effectively manage your money problems. These are effective, expert-endorsed tips for lowering your financial stress level – which will help you solve your money woes!
Before the tips, a quip:
“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been [...]

Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen | February 26th, 2010 | Continued

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How to Set New Goals When Your Old Goals Aren’t Working

Deciding to set new goals when you can’t or don’t want to achieve your old goals can be surprisingly difficult! These tips for setting new personal or career goals focuses on how to let go of your old goals without guilt, shame, or embarrassment.
First, here’s one of my favorite quips about setting goals:
“If at first [...]

Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen | February 22nd, 2010 | Continued

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5 Financial Goals Couples Should Never Set

If you want to achieve your financial goals as a couple, you need to set the right goals for spending and saving money! These tips are from “The Money Couple”, who describe what spouses should not do when they’re thinking about creating wealth for the future.
Before the tips, a quip:
“I have enough money to last me the rest of my [...]

Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen | January 5th, 2010 | Continued

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How Your Personality Affects Saving and Spending Habits

Your personality affects how you think about money — especially your saving and spending habits! These money tips go beyond being a “saver” or a “spender” – it’s about knowing how your personality and childhood affects your ability to invest money, save money, spend money, and create financial abundance.
Below are are a few questions to get you thinking about your money [...]

Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen | January 1st, 2010 | Continued

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Getting Started on Your Taxes – 9 Ways to Pay Less Income Tax

It’s never too early to get started on your income taxes and find ways to pay less tax on the money you earned last year. To make tax filing in April easier, don’t ignore your income taxes now (especially if you’re self-employed – use income tax software to make filing easier). Here’s how to get started [...]

Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen | September 9th, 2009 | Continued

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How to Find a Great Real Estate Agent to Help You Buy a New Home

To find the real estate agent who is helping us buy a new home, I followed specific steps that worked like a dream! If you’re in the market for a new home, these tips for picking a great realtor will help you find someone who will not only work hard for you, but who you’ll love working with…

Before the tips, a quip from our real estate agent:

“Even if you had millions of dollars to spend on a new house, you’d probably still have to compromise on something,” said Cyndee Konoff, of Angell & Hasman Associates in West Vancouver, BC.

This was one of many helpful tips she gave us about buying a new home, and it helped me realize that having more money won’t make the decision easier, and we don’t necessarily need to scour the earth for the exact perfect house. All homes have pros and cons…the trick is knowing which pros and cons you can live with. If you’re in the market for a new home and need a mortgage, read Mortgage Ripoffs and Money Savers: An Industry Insider Explains How to Save Thousands on Your Mortgage or Re-Finance – it’ll help you get the best rates. And, here are a few tips for finding the best realtor to represent you…

How to Repair a Bad Credit Rating After Paying Credit Card Debt

If you’re debt free thanks to good financial planning (such as debt consolidation), you may now wonder how to repair your credit report. These tips for repairing a bad credit rating are based on a question from a reader who worked with a credit counseling service to pay off her debt…

“Four years ago I turned all of our credit card debt over to a credit counseling service, and I have been making payments ever since,” says Toni on Easy Ways to Get Out of Debt and Solve Money Problems. “In two months we will be credit card debt free! My questions are ‘What does this do for my credit rating which isn’t so great at the moment?’ and ‘How can I repair my rating?’”

Below are several tips for rebuilding credit after financial bankruptcy or debt consolidation. To learn more about managing your money – and creating financial abundance! – after a financial crisis, read How to Repair Your Credit Score Now: Simple No Cost Methods You Can Put to Use Today (pictured).

When Your Wife Has Breast Cancer – How Husbands Can Help Sick Wives

If your wife has been diagnosed with breast cancer, you may feel helpless as a husband. Have no fear, as there are ways husbands can help sick wives. These caregiving tips are from two men whose wives coped with breast cancer. Both men wrote books about their experience, and both offer valuable tips for being a good husband when your wife is ill.

“Men have an irresistible urge to ‘fix things,’” says Marc Silver, author of Breast Cancer Husband: How to Help Your Wife (and Yourself) during Diagnosis, Treatment and Beyond. “But as a caregiver you can’t ‘fix’ cancer or other diseases. Nor can you ‘fix’ other problems caused by aging.”

How can men – especially “fix it” guys and problem solvers – help their wives with breast cancer, dementia, or other illnesses? First, by reading all they can about cancer treatments, helping sick wives, and getting help with caregiving. Here, two husbands share their experience of taking care of their wives with breast cancer – and offer ways husbands can help wives cope…

Can’t Pay the Bills? How to Combine All Debt Into One Monthly Payment

“Debt consolidation” is just a fancy way of saying “combine all your debts into one big debt or monthly payment.” If you can’t pay your bills, consolidating your debt may be the easiest way out from under that stack of credit card bills, medical care costs, mortgage payments, and so on.

“Debt is a serious problem that can sneak up on you,” say the financial experts at Bills.com. “The first step toward controlling your debt is being aware of it. Once you’ve established that you need to consolidate and pay down your debt, the following ten tips for combining your debt may be helpful.”

If the debt management information below isn’t helpful, read Negotiate and Settle Your Debts – A Debt Settlement Strategy — it’s a fantastic resource for achieving your money goals and attracting financial abundance!

9 Steps to Achieving Your Dreams and Moving Forward in Life

Remember the dreams you had when you were a kid? These tips for moving forward in life and achieving your dreams will revive those dusty goals! Here, keynote speaker and workshop leader Gregory Lay helps you grab your goals and shake ‘em to life…

Before the tips, a quip:

“One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.”  ~ Sidney Howard.

To make your dreams come true, you gotta give something up – whether that’s time, energy, recreation, sleep, or socializing with friends. If you need a unique way to get motivated to achieve your goals, read The Oracle’s Secret: An Inspiring Fable About Achieving Your Dreams. And, here are Lay’s tips for moving forward in life…

How to Lend Your Adult Children Money – 6 Money Tips for Parents

Does your adult child need to borrow money? These six money tips will help parents decide if and how to lend money to grown kids, what to expect in terms of repayment, and how to avoid financial miscommunications and conflict.

”Every parent knows that our care and concern for our children doesn’t stop when they hit adulthood,” says “The Money Couple” Scott and Bethany Palmer, authors of First Comes Love, Then Comes Money: A Couple’s Guide to Financial Communication. “But most of us are a little unclear on how that care should play out financially. Trying to figure out when and how to help adult children with money problems can lead parents into all kinds of financial miscommunication and conflict.”

Here, The Money Couple offers six tips for lending money to grown children. To learn more about parenting adult kids — going above and beyond financial loans and repayments – read Parenting Your Adult Child: How You Can Help Them Achieve Their Full Potential.

6 Ways to Increase Your Money IQ and Attract Financial Abundance

The more you know about personal finance (your money IQ), the greater your chances of attracting financial abundance into your life! Here are six practical ways to learn more about money so you can create wealth in your life…

“Women will always be dependant until she holds a purse of her own.” ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Whether you’re a man or a woman, you need to hold your own purse – and that means taking charge of your money! Personal finance can be rewarding and liberating…unless you don’t have a clue about personal finance. If that’s you, have no fear — because these six tips for increasing your financial IQ will help you learn more about money, which will help you attract wealth into your life. To learn more about earning money beyond your wildest dreams, read The One Minute Millionaire: The Enlightened Way to Wealth.

Different Types of Pet Memorials – Help Grieving Cat or Dog Loss

Many pet owners find it helpful to grieve the loss of a dog or cat with a pet memorial. Here, six pet owners describe how they immortalized their beloved animals. These six different types of pet memorials range from urns of cat ashes to dog toy inventions.

“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” ~ Vicki Harrison.

And sometimes, swimming through grief involves life rafts or life jackets — which a pet memorial can be. A personalized pet memorial stone that sits on your desk or bookcase might be a lovely way to remember your dog or cat. Click the image for details, and read on for six different types of pet memorials from pet owners…

Overcome Financial Stress – 6 Surprising Tips for Managing Money Problems

If you’re dealing with debt or a financial crisis, you need to reduce your stress level before you can effectively manage your money problems. These are effective, expert-endorsed tips for lowering your financial stress level – which will help you solve your money woes!

Before the tips, a quip:

“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.” ~ Cree Indian Proverb

Before you can create financial abundance, you need to take care of the basics: oxygen, water, and food. That’s what these tips for overcoming financial stress are all about! For more practical money advice, read The Cure for Money Madness: Break Your Bad Money Habits, Live Without Financial Stress–and Make More Money! . And, here are six surprising ways to cope with a financial crisis…

How to Set New Goals When Your Old Goals Aren’t Working

Deciding to set new goals when you can’t or don’t want to achieve your old goals can be surprisingly difficult! These tips for setting new personal or career goals focuses on how to let go of your old goals without guilt, shame, or embarrassment.

First, here’s one of my favorite quips about setting goals:

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.” ~ W. C. Fields.

I’m all for striving to achieve your goals…but I also think it’s important to know when to give up on goals that just aren’t working for you. If you want to set new intentions for your life, you might find The Magic Lamp: Goal Setting for People Who Hate Setting Goals helpful. And, here are three tips for setting new goals and letting go of old ones…