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Money Motivation-Do You Really Need It?
Sometimes borrowing money is easy but think of the consequences. Interest payments, indebtedness, and loss of freedom. Before you borrow money ask yourself do you really need the product or service you’re borrowing money to buy or fund.
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Money Motivation-What’s Holding You Back?
Sometimes we’re our worst enemies. Thinking we’re not good enough when we are. Feeling like we don’t deserve to have money or run a successful business? Are you getting in your own way? If you are, what are you going to do to change your negative thinking?
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Money Motivation-Keep on Dreaming
You’ve achieved your goals, you’ve got financial freedom but don’t stop now, keep looking for ways to make money….you never know when you’ll lose the money you have.
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Money Motivation-Rich versus Having Money
What does being rich mean to you? You can have money and not be considered rich but still live a happy and fulfilled life and not want for a single thing.
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Money Motivation-Keeping Up With The Jones Family
This is one of my favorite all time quotes about money. Remember your wants versus needs and remember don’t buy things just to impress people or to keep up with trends because it’s the fastest way to get into debt.
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Money Motivation-How Do You Spend Your Time?
The one thing that makes both rich and poor equal is that both have the same 24 hours a day. Sometimes people get rich because they use those 24 hours more wisely. It could be researching a business idea, looking for ways to invest, etc. Your task this week is to track your time and what you do? Is any of it wasted like watching too much TV or spending time on social media sites? And how would that time be better spent?
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Frugal is Trendy
Frugal is the new in thing. We, budget smart girls have known that for a long time. Budget Smart Girl’s been around since 2005 and before that it was The Budget Smart Girl’s Guide to the Universe and Eating Well on a Budget. We’ve been through recessions and tough times before, we’ve weathered the storm and now once again frugal is trendy, it’s the in thing. Traffic to this site has picked up tremendously in the last month or so, which tells me that people are looking for ways to save money. As I work on the new Budget Smart course I thought it would be fun to share with…
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Money Motivation-Visit Your Library
Welcome to the new Monday Motivation which is now called Money Motivation. This year will focus on money tips to get you motivated for the week ahead. This first tip is about using your local library, it’s a great resource for not only books…yes, ones you can learn about money, but you can rent movies, CDs get advice about local resources and some even hold classes. If you haven’t already got one, your task this week is to go and get your library card.
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It’s Almost 2024
Tomorrow it’s the first day of winter…or summer depending on where you live. 2023 seems to have rushed by. I didn’t post as often as I’d planned or wished because I had a big project to work on. That’s behind me now so I can focus on this site and my other business ventures. One being the Budget Smart course…in fact, I already started on the outline. I’ll fill you in more about the project as it progresses. I hope to post more money saving and making making tips here, at least once, maybe twice a week. Outside of the site, I’ll be teaching 15 writing classes…e-mail me at writerslifeblog@gmail.com…
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Black Friday Sale
Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Now it’s time for the sales. Budget Smart Girl is having a sale from today through the end of Cyber Monday. 25% off everything in the store. You can pick up a budget planner, gardening planner, self care kit, vision planner…as much as you want. Use coupon code BSG23 on checkout. And if like me you’re an author, coach, self publisher you might be interested in the Super Author Bundle. To tell you the truth, I’m seeing one too many bundles and lots are full of low value stuff but this one caught my attention and I agreed to take part and contribute…