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One of our Core Values is Financial Security. We feel this is crucial for all of us. For entrepreneurs such as ourselves, we have also learned to value Quality Time and the Energy that life’s passion brings. For those reasons, you will find that most of our “Busyness” blog posts focus on the essentials of Time, Energy, and Money!
We are now about 50 days into the new year! If you have decided that one of your resolutions for 2025 is to update your daily routines to feel more productive, then you have discovered by now that you need to pick your morning routine wisely, as it sets the pace for the rest of…
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It’s a new year! Have you created a new budget that aligns with your goals for the year? Or are you still trying to catch up; paying for overspending on all of those Christmas gifts? As we help our daughter work through a new budget that more closely matches her income for 2025 and add…
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Do you ever get to the end of a day and feel totally exhausted, just from making decisions all day? From the endless number of choices in front of you at every turn? Maybe it is which phone call to return first, how much is realistic to spend on a car repair, how many different…
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I was recently thinking about the way I organize my time. This is crucial when you are running a business, writing articles for publication, developing regular blogs, recording a couple of videos each month and completing occasional speaking engagements…
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Have you been through this life
stage with parents?
“Focus is often a matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do.” John Carmack I know I have written about focus before, so why keep dwelling on it? Because distractions are constant and never ending! Our phones give constant alerts, emails, text messages. Someone has a question, interrupts a conversation, walks in on…
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Do you feel as though you have too many things to remember? We are inundated with so much information each and every day, aren’t we? Some days, it’s hard to keep track of all of it! I have always been a “list maker,” and a recent event reinforced the value of making lists to…
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“the clutter in our home may be having more of a negative impact on our family’s health…”
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Declutter is one of my new favorite words.
At the mention of this word, though, it makes some of my friends and family cringe!
The more items we have, the more time it takes to care for them.
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“If you measure something, you can understand it. If you understand it, you can control it, and if you can control it, you can improve it.” The same holds true in your monthly budgeting.
The reality is that it is nearly impossible to complete & follow a monthly budget without improving your overall financial position. There are several reasons for this, so I would challenge you to do this.
First, just developing a budget for yourself will raise your awareness of what you have for revenue or income sources and then also boost your cognizance of how much you are spending each month. Next, you will come to grips with the reality of one of three facts. Either you need to boost your income sources, reduce your outgoing expenditures or, thank goodness, if you have more income than expenses, you can then save some money. Of course, this is fantastic! You just need to determine where you will store or invest those extra funds each month…
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