Here’s a quote from Ecclesiastes that’s got some major teeth:

“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.”

Can you imagine how fulfilled you would be if you really threw yourself into your work with a passion? (After all, isn’t passion what “all your might” is?)

And how money might be more likely to follow as a result of that? » Read more

Do you have something that you’re struggling with or that you keep beating yourself up over? Especially if it’s something that you don’t have a lot of experience with, or if you have never been taught much about, you may not realize that struggling is normal.

It might be time to put things in perspective. Bear with me for a moment and give this exercise a try. (Really do it, because it’ll take less than a minute.) » Read more

I remember the first time I quit my job to take advantage of an opportunity that really appealed to me.

It was scary. People told me it was a bad idea, that I was crazy, and that they could never do something like that.

(That last part was sometimes said a bit wistfully.)

Privately, I wondered if I was stupid and irresponsible. » Read more

While I like to joke about waiting for things to magically fix themselves, the truth is that it’s a rare problem that does solve itself — at least in any positive way.

In fact the opposite is usually true: that which we ignore gets worse.

So why is it that so many of us use the following “plan” when confronted with a financial issue? » Read more