Category: Financial Freedom
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Emotions and Finances
The biggest, unexpected financial setbacks in my life have all been the result of letting my emotions get in the way while I took my eye off the financial ball. I think about that much more these days, now that I’m focused like a fiend on making sure I have enough for my retirement…even though…
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Financial Freedom and the Government Shutdown
Since my last post, I’ve been wickedly busy trying to finish up fiscal yearend duties, only to be furloughed 12 hours later. Like many Federal employees across the planet, I’ve been home, watching insanely conflicting news on TV, worrying about when I could go back to work, when will I get another paycheck, how to…
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Manifesting Money in the Bank: $100,000 … Sort of
Manifesting money in the bank is not as hard as you think, but sometimes the Law of Attraction does like to tease. My goals for the year It’s no secret that I started this year with two big financial goals: Doing either of these would be a somewhat hefty goal, but both are really tough,…
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DCPAS Offers Lame Financial Tips in the Furlough Special Edition and Here’s Why
This week, the Defense Civilian Personnel Advisory Service (DCPAS) sent out a BENEFACTS “Furlough Special Edition” newsletter to advise the approximately 800,000 Department of Defense employees about their benefits, plus offer a page of financial tips for “Financial Fitness.” Since guidance on how Federal employees are to take their furlough days, how benefits are affected,…
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Retail Therapy and Spirituality
This post on retail therapy is post #7 in my series on financial freedom and spirituality. I have a horrible financial confession to make. In month #4 of my focus on financial freedom and spirituality, I have gotten off course with my budget. No, I didn’t buy emergency-worker-yellow high heels to wear, but they did…