Category: getting it

Step Outside the Mold for a High Paying Job

This post is part of the topic Increasing Income for Women’s Money Week. Want more money? Then step away from expectations about your behavior, what you should and shouldn’t do and what you can...

How Expectations Influence Your Money Mind

Apologies in advance to my male readers, you may find this post uncomfortable. Both sexes have societal, familial and peer expectations inflicted on us from birth. Humans are kid of hard wired by eons...

What Are Non Traditional Mutual Funds?

The latest issue of the Merrill Lynch ‘Advisor’ magazine (which I receive as a Merrill Wealth Management client) says: “If you’ve been curious about hedge funds but felt they weren’t quite right for you,...

Opportunity Cost

At what price do you do the things you do? Could you be engaged in something that is better paying, more fulfilling, or more rewarding?  What is your opportunity cost?

What are Personal Finance Standards?

Most of us in my generation weren’t exposed to personal finance classes in school. Parents were expected to handle that part of our education, just as they had to handle the sex education. It’s...

Single Minded Pursuit of Wealth

What is the difference between focusing on wealth creation and pursuing it single mindedly?  Is it the difference between having a life and missing out?  Is it the difference between success and failure?