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How to paint your kitchen cabinets without sanding

How to paint your kitchen cabinets without sanding

My kitchen was a bit dated. The honey colored cabinets weren’t cutting it any more. But the biggest hindrance to the kitchen was the granite color. We are considering this Phase 1 of our kitchen remodel and won’t be replacing the counter this year. So instead we added an island with a marble slab (that I got for free on… Read More

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How to set up your Vanguard Brokerage Account: Investing For Beginners

How to set up your Vanguard Brokerage Account: Investing For Beginners

So you’re ready to invest using Vanguard? Congrats on taking the first step and learning about how to get started! Before you choose stocks, bonds, index funds, or ETFs, you first need to set up your Vanguard brokerage account. What’s a Brokerage Account? A brokerage account is a way for your (as an individual) to buy, sell, and trade lots… Read More

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5 Steps To Take If You Are Experiencing an Income Drop

5 Steps To Take If You Are Experiencing an Income Drop

It’s a scary world we are living in right now. It feels like everything is crazy, layoffs are increasing, and it feels a bit like Hunger Games. Today, we’re talking all about what to do if your income drops. Remember, hard times don’t last forever, even though it can feel that way in the, in the moment, but I just… Read More

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Tips for learning to love your life

Tips for learning to love your life

I remember when I first bought my house.  I was freaking stoked!  It had light carpet, standard features, and had that brand new smell. I loved it. Then after a few years, I started to look around and complain about the stock cabinets, beige interior and lack of upgrades.  I’d look outside at my yard and get frustrated that the… Read More

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The best investing tips for beginners

The best investing tips for beginners

Have you been watching the stock market these days? It’s a freaking roller coaster! And with that comes a lot of skepticism and uncertainty with “should I invest now or wait?” Here are some of the best investing tips for beginners. 1) Invest for the long term, not short term. I am strictly a long-term investor. This means I have… Read More

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How to Organize a Tech Drawer

How to Organize a Tech Drawer

Everyone has a drawer in their home they are less than proud of. For me, that’s my tech drawer in the office. It’s a bit on the crazy side and didn’t really have a sense of where things belong. So I turned to one of my favorite bloggers and podcast guest on The Money Nerds, Mika Perry for inspiration. Here’s… Read More

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My $450 Living Room Makeover Using Second Hand Furniture

My $450 Living Room Makeover Using Second Hand Furniture

Recently I’ve been a lot more interested in the eco-friendly ways to furnish my home on a budget. Maybe it started from my furniture flipping side hustle, but I started to see how many great pieces get donated, sold, and trashed when we change our style. So when I was ready to retire my old white sectional, with a tear… Read More

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Working From Home? These 5 Tips Will Help.

Working From Home? These 5 Tips Will Help.

Working from home definitely takes some getting used to. I’ve been working from home for 2 years now and have learned all kinds of tips that help you stay productive and get into a routine. These are some of my favorites! Tip 1: Establish a work routine Routines are so so important when working from home. I see a lot… Read More

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My Favorite Amazon Products For Business and Life

My Favorite Amazon Products For Business and Life

I love Amazon! It’s convenient, efficient, and you can find some really great deals on there. I’m constantly finding good deals of products and wanted to share with you my favorites for business and life. Running My Business Podcast Microphone– this is the exact podcast mic I use for my business. It plugs into my USB and is easy to… Read More

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Automate your savings. I know, I know, broken rec Automate your savings.

I know, I know, broken record status.

But it’s crazy how many people don’t actually implement this tip.

Login your bank account or use your favorite savings app and make this happen (automatically of course).

Once you have that set up, come back here and comment that you did it so I can cheer you on!
Paying off debt is an awesome thing to do... And Paying off debt is an awesome thing to do...

And you can go at whatever pace works for your life.

There’s a huge misconception that you have to go “balls to the wall”, work every extra shift you can, AND do it all while never complaining.

That’s one way to do it. It’s not THE way.

In actuality, personality types and self-awareness is a huge factor when setting your level of aggressiveness.

✨For me personally- I function very well on short timelines where I can hustle my heart out and accomplish it quickly (so I don’t have to worry about it again). My debt payoff plan was very aggressive to pay off $30k in 10 months.

✨For some of my coaching clients- that doesn’t resonate with them. They want to make progress towards their debt and still buy some of the nonessentials even if that means keeping debt around for a couple extra years.

✖️Neither strategy is wrong.✖️

Approach debt payoff (and all financial goals) with a loooot of self-awareness. 

Being honest with your personality type and how you function best is a great way to not get burned out in the process.
The book I, by far, recommend most is The Power of The book I, by far, recommend most is The Power of Habit.

It’s one of those books that helped me improve my finances, relationships and coaching business.

No surprise, we all have habit loops that help us or hurt us.

#REALTALK:
When I was working a normal 9-5, I noticed I was spending a LOT more 💸 buying coffee.

When I analyzed my habit loop, I started to see what was actually happening.

✨CUE: get to work, open my email, get overwhelmed. Tell myself I need coffee.

✨ROUTINE: Walk to the coffee shop and spend $3-$5 per day

✨REWARD: Warm cup of coffee. Didn’t have to dive into email... yet. 😆

What I wanted was not coffee. It was avoiding checking my email. So instead, I was able to take a short gratitude walk in the morning instead of buying coffee.

It worked like a champ!

Look through your life. What is one habit loop you’re actively improving?

Use this strategy and watch your life change. 💕
My goal is to invest more money in my brokerage ac My goal is to invest more money in my brokerage account. 

So I created a fun Investing Challenge for myself.

💸I set up a $5,000 goal for investing
💸Made it fun through gamification and automation
💸Will transfer all of my saving each month and put it into my brokerage account
💸Invest it all in index funds

Small steps every week lead to great results.

Excited to see build more wealth! 

Comment below if you want to join me in investing more this year!
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