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Back to Basics: Achieve Your Goals With These Calculators
Sure, we'd all love to snap our fingers and achieve our financial goals. But successfully paying down credit card debt and saving money can only happen if you go in with a plan, and a realistic one at that.
Want to be debt free?
Have You Ever Defied Expectations?
In the latest issue of GQ, the seriously sexy January Jones opens up about how she overcame the low expectations of an ex-boyfriend. Instead of believing in her, the ex (rumored to be Ashton Kutcher) told her that she might not be cut out for acting. January recounts:
"The guy I was dating when I first got to LA was not supportive of my acting.
Back to Basics: Achieve Your Goals With These Calculators
Sure, we'd all love to snap our fingers and achieve our financial goals. But successfully paying down credit card debt and saving money can only happen if you go in with a plan, and a realistic one at that.
Want to be debt free?
11 Golden Rules to Live By
Working hard and being smart with your money aren't things you just should do because they seem virtuous; these behaviors ultimately allow you to get more enjoyment out of life. You'll have no regrets when you're able to accomplish what's important to you because of your savvy ways. These are 11 golden rules that I try to live by; click through and then make a list of your own.
Does Vocalizing Goals Up Your Chances of Following Through?
There are few qualities that bother me more than people who are all talk. But according to a study from New York University (and reported in the September issue of Shape), it could be the talking that's preventing those people from accomplishing the goals they gab about. It says that people who talk about an ambition may be less likely to follow-through with it.
How-To: Set and Achieve Financial Goals
There's no time like the present to figure out your finances. It's easy to put your money goals on a back-burner during the lazy days of Summer, so here are some helpful reminders about how to establish and achieve a better financial life.
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If You Want to Follow Through on a Project — Don't Tell Anyone
This happens to me all the time. I announce that I'm going to do something — take more photographs, write an essay, take guitar lessons — and after telling a million people I'm going to do it, I let it fizzle.
What gives?
I'm Asking: What's Your Next Big Move?
It's an uncertain time everywhere. While February brought the first new-home sales upkick since July we're still experiencing sinking home values, layoffs, and a messy market.
One benefit of the turmoil — in my humble opinion — is that most of us are talking about our long term career goals and the steps we need to take to remain financially secure and confident.
10 Tips For Balancing Love and Money
It's a sad, but common tune: Debt threatens to divide or break up an otherwise strong couple that hadn't set up any financial ground rules. Love and money don't always go hand in hand, which means it's crucial to consider the long term repercussions of sharing your life and bank account with another person. There's no magical credit card or anti-debt potion, but here are some tips for keeping the communication lines open, piggy bank full and both of you crazy in love.
Group Therapy: I Don't Want a "Real" Job Anymore
I've been out of college for four years. I have a bachelor's degree in marketing, and have been employed at a well-known advertising firm ever since I graduated. I have an amazing salary, great benefits, and a prestigious job title, but the problem is I'm not happy with what I'm doing.
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