$1million by 2012: dream it, plan it, live it October 13, 2007

So it’s time to take ownership & aim big.
I remember once being fearless in the face of challenges and dreams — going after them was the fun rush of life. Then on the financial front - I learned how much it costs to retire, to retire with decent health care [...]

beckoning budgets & cursing like a turk September 24, 2007

Yikes it was a tough call — listening to that inner budgetary voice vs the call to wander lust.
For a few weeks, I planned on going with Sean to Istanbul and producing a few live Web shows like Jonny Goldstein does each week.
Yet the truth is, we already savored Hawaii this summer - an opportunity [...]

negotiation tactics & feeling strange: haggling down your credit card rate September 18, 2007

I called two weeks ago to request our credit card rate be reduced; they complied with a one percentage point reduction.
I’m torn on this whole issue. Because for the sake of true blue ownership — I knew the terms of this card and used it anyway, fully aware. Yet at the [...]

new book … rich and thin: slim down, shrink debt, & turn calories into cash September 6, 2007

I’ve only read excerpts from this book, plus a book review by Michelle Singletary.
Singletary cites major statistics on obesity within the book’s context: better eating means good news for your health physically & financially.
It’s a familiar theory. But Singletary describes a financial tool from the book called the Money Calorie Counter. [...]

marital money mantra #3: giving gifts is not a license to be financially irresponsible August 30, 2007

Oh the irony of having vision with blurred discernment.
Mmmmmaybe that’s one of my top embarrassing fiscal decisions considering two things:
1) My ego thinks she’s fiscally disciplined;
2) In that same week I barked at my husband for over-spending.
Yup I’m rolling in imperfection! Dang if that mantra isn’t worth repeating and recycling over [...]

qotd: clint on confidence August 10, 2007

Without sounding like a pseudointellectual dipshit, it’s my responsibility to be true to myself. If it works for me, it’s right.
–clint eastwood

new videoblog, new reality: bringing business home August 9, 2007

After years in sales and managing teams, I hit ‘the wall’ — that black hole thick fatigue which demands a life change.
Change I say, change!

My husband happens to love his work and agreed his wife needed to change situations. So I resigned last year as sales manager for an HR firm, plunging into online [...]