Week 2 Money Native 101, looking for places to grow

Oct 30, 2012 | Articles

When Liz told me she wanted me to write twenty-one stories, I panicked a bit .  . .before I even got started. Then I looked at the sample stories Liz shared with me, and looked at the story prompts she provided and I realized, to my relief, I was in somewhat familiar...

Buy a rental property?

Jun 19, 2012 | Articles, News

A friend asked me the other day if I thought it was a good idea for her to buy a rental property. And as always my answer was, “It depends. What are you trying to do?” She had some cash she wanted to invest and she thought that it might be a good idea to buy a rental...

We are one

May 23, 2012 | Articles

Growing up in New Jersey, I often heard about our nation “United we stand, divided we fall” and even on the back of United States coins it is still marked E plurbas unum – out of many one.  But I haven’t heard these phrases used in a long time,...

Do it do it do it

May 18, 2012 | Articles

Why is it so hard to deal with so many choices, so much information and our goals or projects in life and then take action on them?  I don’t really know why. I’m tired of asking myself why so I’ve reframed the question to be – “How can I do it? How can I plan to...

Your vision on paper

May 9, 2012 | Articles

Simply put –writing down and using a personal vision statement gives all of us perspective on who we are,where we’re going, and where we want to invest our time, talent and money .  It is the first step to truly committing to live the life that we choose to lead....

Your story matters

Apr 26, 2012 | Articles

Whether you believe it or not, your story is important, even in the context of making money. By writing our stories down (not making them up but getting them down) we can get to know ourselves better and then create a meaningful life that we want to live. And I do not...