How to Make Goals and Achieve Financial Success: Part 3
Budgeting
Sarah Brumley

How to Make Goals and Achieve Financial Success: Part 3

Financial goals are created much the same as our personal goals, with one major difference – they involve our finances. Pretty self-explanatory? You’d think so, and yet a lot goes into making sure that your financial goals are not only specific enough that you can follow them, but […]

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How to Know When It's Time to Give Up
Family + Personal
Sarah Brumley

How to Know When It’s Time to Give Up

Our society spends a lot of time stressing the idea of not giving up, sticking with it until the very end, and “hanging in there”. I can’t say that I, too, haven’t been guilty of using it as a platitude when some is complaining about life getting tough. The truth

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2018 Resolution Reevaluation – June Edition
Financial Goals
Sarah Brumley

2018 Resolution Reevaluation – June Edition

It’s been a little over five months since we rang in the new year with confetti and champagne, and it’s time, once again, to discuss the resolutions we made at that time. How are your resolutions treating you? […]

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Four Opportunities to Consider When You Have No Money
Budgeting
Sarah Brumley

Four Opportunities to Consider When You Have No Money

It’s hard to think about budgeting when your income is consistently less than your expenses each month. You might check out Pinterest and have your feed flooded with all the sure-fire ways you can save $5,981 in six months, but you might be simply trying to figure out how you

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2018 Resolution Reevaluation - March Edition
Financial Goals
Sarah Brumley

2018 Resolution Reevaluation – March Edition

How are those New Year’s Resolutions coming along? I feel like we made it to March, over two months into new goals and aspirations that we hoped would place us in better situations, in our finances, health, and family, among other things, and it’s time for a little resolution reevaluation.

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New Year, New Beginning: Welcoming 2018
Family + Personal
Sarah Brumley

New Year, New Beginning: Welcoming 2018

Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful time celebrating the beginning of 2018. Things to Look Forward To This is the first year in a long time that I haven’t had strong feelings about leaving a year behind and starting a new one. In years past I normally find

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Making Goals (And Reaching Them...)
Budgeting
Sarah Brumley

Making Goals (And Reaching Them…)

What do you want to be when you grow up?    Kids get asked this question all of the time, from teachers, parents, and even strangers in the grocery store.  Some kids have big goals, like being an astronaut, or inventor, or doctor. Many of them actually accomplish those goals.  Some

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