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Identify Your Money Motivations

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Instead, it’s important to figure out your money motivations. Looking at your motivations helps you figure out how to address the problem, and to make long-term changes to your spending behaviors. Consider your money motivations, and then look at whether your spending plan matches your priorities. You can either write.

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What Buddhism Teaches Us About Personal Finance

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The Buddhist lifestyle is one of self discipline, self improvement, motivation, self empowerment and mindfulness. All of these principles can also be applied to our own situations, even when it comes to managing our personal finances. Today I want to explore what Buddhism teaches us about personal finance. Life is suffering.

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Q&A | focus, blogging for money, and prepping for a split

The Frugal Girl

Few of us humans are motivated by shame, and that includes shame we heap on ourselves. If you do that, you might find that you have more little sparks of motivation than you think you do! I always knew exactly what was going on with the finances. Again, this kind of comes back to asking yourself what you can do.

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Carnival of Personal Finance #316- Family Edition

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Hello and welcome to the 316th Carnival of Personal Finance- Family Edition. Big Cajun Man from THE Canadian Personal Finance Site asks What is Your Financial Plan B? Ken from Spruce Up Your Finances asks Need A Down Payment For Your House? Bob from Christian Finances asks Is it time to go on a cash diet?

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5 Essential Money Tips for Newlyweds

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Being a newlywed means you have a few things to get used to, and that includes the way you handle your finances. As you begin to navigate the waters of newlywed finances, here are 5 money tips that can help you out: 1. Get to the Bottom of Your Money Motivations. Decide on Separate vs. Joint Spending. Set Goals Together.

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Family Budgeters Unite!

Family Balance Sheet

I envision the group to be a place to find and share tips, motivation, encouragement, and inspiration about family finances and budgeting. On Facebook? I started a closed Facebook group, Family Budgeters Unite! We’ll talk about what works for us and doesn’t work for us when it comes to saving and budgeting our money.

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Meet Amanda & Daniel. They Paid Off $68,000 in Debt in 8 Months.

Family Balance Sheet

We have led 7 sessions of Financial Peace University mostly to keep ourselves motivated. Finances have definitely been the biggest strain in our 11 years of marriage. Who handles the day-to-day finances in your home or do you work on it equally? How often do you and your spouse discuss your finances/budget/spending?

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