Is Your Money Affecting Your Relationships?: 3 Tips to Cultivate A Healthier Money Relationship
How we interact with our money can affect how we interact with others, and ourselves. So it's important to tend to our relationship with money, in order to keep things clear in our other relationships! Today, I'm talking about three different ways that money may be affecting your relationships, and how you can begin to cultivate a healthier relationships with [...]
Always Base your Financial Goals on Your Values: Here’s Why
I'm not a big fan of making money for no reason. When we have an abstract number in our head about how much we want to make, this can be distracting and counterproductive at best, and leave us feeling empty at worst. Financial goals shouldn't be based on round, nice-sounding numbers that carry an air of success. They should be [...]
How to Set Doable Financial Goals: 4 Tips
If you set financial goals that are way out of your reach, you're setting yourself up for defeat and disappointment. Rather than curtail your progress with emotional roadblocks, try simplifying your financial goal-setting for this year. These four strategies can help you create goals that are meaningful, motivating, and realistically achievable. Check in With Your Values Check in with your [...]
A 3-Step Reflection Process for Financial Goal-Setting
To see the best way forward, sometimes it's important to look backward. Reflecting on your financial history thus far can yield some interesting insights into how to set your financial goals for the year. Let's talk a little more about why this is an important practice, and then get into the process! Why Reflect? Reflecting on your financial journey throughout [...]
How to Use Your Profit First End-of-Year Profit Distributions
If you're a business owner who follows the Profit First system, then along with all the other financial matters this time of year brings, you have another to address. What are you going to do with your Profit Distribution? What's a Profit Distribution? In the second article in my series on money-mapping, I describe Profit Distributions this way: The [...]
3 Ways to Prep Your Finances for the Holidays
The holiday season is a time of meaning, gathering, and giving. There are a couple key money moves you can make early on to make sure that's the focus, instead of financial stress. Let's talk about a couple different financial situations many of us face at this time of year, and how to navigate them peacefully! What Do You Love [...]
How to Prep for the Holidays as a Service-Based Business
We tend to think of product-based businesses the most around the holidays, but services-based businesses can easily participate in the season too! You may feel your business isn't seasonally relevant, or that your offerings aren't well-suited as gifts. However, with a bit of creative thinking, you can find a way to position your offerings for the end of the year. [...]
How to Reduce Financial Anxiety by Observing Business Patterns
Every business experiences fluctuations in revenue. With good bookkeeping, you start to see the patterns and can begin to leverage them to your advantage. This is a key skill for small business owners. Learning to harness the power of observing business patterns can lead to greater financial security. Recently I was talking with someone who mentioned that she felt guilty [...]
Retirement Planning for Solopreneurs: How to Find a Trusted Financial Adviser
It’s very helpful to have a trusted adviser take a look at your financial situation. Particularly when you don’t have the support or typical options offered by a corporate job, it can be helpful to get outside recommendations. But how do you find the resources you need from someone who is trustworthy? What is Good Financial Advice? My Thoughts One [...]
Why Retirement Planning is Important for Solpreneurs
Solopreneurs and small business owners alike face a particular challenge when it comes to retirement planning: nobody else is planning it for you. While an employer is likely to offer retirement benefits, small business owners must go the DIY route. This is why retirement planning is so key for financial success! Let's talk more about why this is a crucial [...]
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