personal finance - when money talks smart women listen

Wanted - Mature Women Seeking Financial Freedom. In this priceless part of the multipurpose-Woman website we will explore, investigate, and ingest all kinds of money related issues.

We will ...

• read financial self help books and review them
• Conduct Job Satisfaction Research
• investigate companies we buy from and tell them how we feel about their products, services, and ways of operating in the world
• We’ll become money magnets, and financial forces.

Our happiness is tied to how we feel about making money so we’ll increase our joy as we become wealthy. Money talks so we'll learn its language.

Can We Have Happiness & Be Wealthy?

Do you work hard? I know I do. Yet, personal finance is a challenge. Managing household finances is a burden that I put off and ignored for years. Instead of balancing my checkbook, I made art, tried to write a novel, knitted a sweater, taught workshops, read a lot of good books. When money came in, I spent it. When money was short I waited.

Money talks. Learn to listen.

Luckily some of the books I read provided me with insights into why I was sabotaging my financial happiness and how I could retrain my mind and align my actions with my goals. Lois Frankel’s Nice Girls Don't Get Rich: 75 Avoidable Mistakes Women Make with Money uncovered many of my mistakes. The top ones being …

• striving for survival, not wealth
• operating without financial goals
• not trusting my intuition

Waiting is not the Way to Financial Freedom

A little voice started whispering to me, “Do you long to live free of money worries?” I do. I do, I assured the voice. I’d spout the Army’s “hope is not a method” catchphrase and I thought just wanting would be enough. But it’s not. Barbara Stanny’s Secrets of Six-Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to Up Your Earnings and Change Your Life opened my eyes to the fact that to make money you have to have the intention to make money. That’s wealthy strategy #1: The declaration of intention.

The affirmation – “I deal with and defeat my financial challenges” has helped me stop ignoring money issues. What's at the top of your money to-do list? Take the poll in the right sidebar.

Financial Freedom is Priceless

You must become conscious of personal finance fundamentals. Did you get out of school and grow up without knowing a lot about money and how it works. I did. How did this happen to us? (That’s another issue.) Here we'll join forces and learn together. We’ll brainstorm about money making ideas. We’ll warn people about scams and money pitfalls and we’ll share what’s worked for us personally.

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