Everything is connected. Your relationship with money impacts both your inner world and your external world. In your outer world, outside of you, your feelings about money can impact how you see the world, how you act in the world, and how you interpret experiences in the world. In your inner world, your relationship with money can impact how you feel. You cannot wholly compartmentalize your financial life; as much as you may have convinced yourself you can. How you feel about your financial life and your relationship with money, impacts how you feel about yourself. How you think about yourself affects the choices you make. And all the choices you make, create who you are, what you're able to do, and who you will allow yourself to be.
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Understanding Your Mindset Around Money /
I really enjoy being married to an interior designer. There are a lot of perks: We spend a lot of our time engaging with the culture in whatever city we find ourselves in. Nearly every industry party is impeccably designed with delicious food. The bins and bins of fabric samples mean I have access to thousands of potential pocket squares. Since so much of my wife's work relies on being inspired, weโre constantly looking for beauty in the world.
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How to Be Financially Responsible | The Basics of Financial Responsibility
One of the most frequent financial struggles that people talk to me or email me about is having trouble being "fiscally responsible".
When it comes to doing the things one ought to do with their money, according to what I've learned from the industry and society at large, we fall short in a few common ways. Most people have trouble saving when you know you should save, curbing spending on bull shit that you don't need and understanding how the financial markets and economics. I get it. I make weird choices too. A lot of us do it because we're emotional creatures that act on our feelings.
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Finance + Feels: Get to Know Yourself /
You want to get your financial shit together and you donโt know where to start.
There is an endless amount of contradictory advice available to you in the depths of the internet. Most of it is mindless, thoughtless bullshit about your 401(k) and it overwhelms you.
There are so many different moving parts. And each part feels like something you should do, but you donโt understand why or how it relates specifically to your human life.
So before we ugly cry about how weโre failing at our money stuff, letโs tackle the only subject that might be more terrifying than our money: the inner terrain of ourselves. Ah, yes.
Inner inquiry and self reflection is where the ignorant go to become wise. So once you learn how to do this heavy lifting, the math part and the part about learning the rules some dudes made up about IRAs and brokerage accounts and taxes, all of that wonโt seem so frightening.
Read MoreThe Minimalist Guide To Finances: The Anti-Budget /
Most of American society has had a pendulum swing from rampant consumption to mindful curation. The reasons are likely both by design and by default (The Great Recession). If you're like me, you've at least haphazardly implemented the KonMari method in your home. You've thrown out all your 8-year-old underwear and dusty text books. Now it's time to overlay this philosophy in your financial house.
Read MoreClarity in the New Year. /
The start of a New Year is a beautiful time. It's full of potential; a natural inflection point; a pause. Whether it's true or not, it feels like everyone is focused on reflection and intention. We're all making space for ourselves and with that comes giving space to others. And that space allows us clarity, if we choose to seek it.
Read MoreThe Importance of Knowing Yourself /
A lot of smart people before us have stressed the importance of knowing one's self. Ancient civilizations of our world, thought leaders and philosophers have touted the virtue of this. This still persists today. Depending on who you ask and what school of belief you subscribe to, knowing yourself has been framed as the literal meaning of life.
Self examination plays a huge role in your personal economics. Knowing who what you value and what has influenced impact your decisions and your goals
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