A few weeks ago I had a bucks day/bachelor party, the Friday before my wedding. Don’t worry, nothing crazy happened. However, a question was asked of the guys who were there celebrating with me, the question was this: if you could go back in time and tell yourself one thing, what would it be? honestly, […]
Read MoreWisdom Wednesday: investing 15% of your income into retirement accounts
After you’ve paid off all of your debts and have a fully funded emergency fund, it’s time to start planning for retirement! Woo hoo! When you think of retirement what comes to mind? Traveling the world? Moving to a lake house or vacation house? Spending lots of time with kids and and grand kids? The […]
Read MoreBaby Step 3: Fully Funded Emergency Fund
After paying off all of your debt using the debt snowball you want to build up and fully fund your emergency fund. A fully funded emergency fund is 3-6 months of expenses just sitting in the bank. A way to make this really easy is your budget, because with your budget you are keeping track […]
Read MoreMotivation Monday: Baby Step 2- the debt snowball
Are you tired of having debt? I want to encourage and motivate you to get rid of your debt, pay it off as fast as you can, and never look back! To start working the debt snowball you list out all of your debts from smallest to largest, excluding your mortgage. You start out making […]
Read MoreSurvey Sunday: Creating a budget, and baby step 1
Creating a budget- a budget is a tool used to tell your money where to go instead of wondering where it went. To start off, I would look back through your past couple of months expenses and income to get an idea of how much you take in and how much you have outgoing. […]
Read MorePassover
Tonight is a very solemn night. Tonight is Passover, the night that Christ was betrayed and given to the pharisees, scribes, and Sadducee’s. The days leading up to tonight I’ve been doing my best to self examine myself. My room mates and I have been deleavening the house and our cars. taking the leaven […]
Read MoreBe The Hero
We have so much time on our hands right now because some of us are furloughed or laid off right now because of the Corona Virus. Even though we are not working right now does not mean that our world has to stand still. Since we have so much free time right now we need […]
Read MoreThe Imaginary Hacker
I have spent the last week feverishly trying everything I can think of, and several things I cannot think of, trying to un-hack a website that I moderate. It is for a charity organization that has been around for a while, and I brought it into the modern era with a slick website built on […]
Read MoreJoshua 1:9
Its been way too long since there has been a new blog on here, and I sincerely apologize for that! Life has been crazy busy, and sometimes I just feel afraid that I’m not doing anything that really helps people. Right now I have a lot of free time, for those who don’t know […]
Read MoreYour mind’s not sterile
“The mind is a womb of ideas. Most childless minds are not sterile, but rather the victims of contraception” – Kenneth W. Royce. Which one is easier, watching TV or reading a book? Often we choose the path of least resistance despite negative consequences. Maybe we think of ourselves as unintelligent or someone who lacks […]
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