When I got on board with The Total Money Makeover and saw how greatly it changed my life I wanted to share it with anyone and everyone. It was so revolutionary to me, yet so simple, I thought that everyone could and should be doing it. I even got a copy of the book specifically for…

In my previous post I mentioned that having measurable goals was really motivating. You may be wondering how I went about setting those goals. I hate not being able to cite a source, but in the past few years I jotted the following tips down and can’t remember where I originally heard them. These are…

Three years ago I was having a conversation with my friend Mark about how even though I had a good job it seemed like I just wasn’t able to get ahead financially. I wasn’t living an extravagant lifestyle. Sure I had car payments, student loan payments and a few credit cards, but that’s what everyone…

This morning I tweeted to my friend Silagh that I was having a difficult time coming up with my second “90 in 90” post topic because I have a hard time talking about myself. In a stroke of genius she suggested I talk about that very thing. “Great,” I thought, “now how do I go…

Peer pressure is a strange thing. Often it’s heard in a negative context but hopefully this time around it will be positive. I’ve tried my hand at blogging in the past and it’s come in fits and starts, usually ending because I got bored with it. I wasn’t getting any feedback, but I also wasn’t…