Your attitude is the inner architect building resilience in your mindset, you can choose to be happy or choose to be miserable and whichever seeds you decide to nurture will bear the fruits of your future. What's at stake? Your outlook involves your perception of success (or failure) and has a big impact on the viability of your career. The great thing is, setting your attitude is your choice. See all the ways below that you can positively enhance your attitude: 1. Find your

Six Attitudes That Breed Financial Failure Financial success or failure is often the results of attitudes, both conscious and unconscious, that affect our behavior. No amount of budgeting and self-control can help us when we’re up against ingrained ideas about money management, spending, and debt. If you’re having a tough time shifting your financial behavior, maybe it’s time to change your mind about money. Here are six common attitudes that work against us financially. 1. S

It’s More Important To Be Happy Than To Be Rich By This article is the final installment of a 14-part series that explored the core tenets of Get Rich Slowly. Here’s the opening paragraph from my forthcoming book, Financial Fertility: Your Missing Money Link. It’s the sum of everything I’ve learned during my five year journey to get rich slowly. You don’t want to be rich; you want what you believe the money will buy you to make you happy. Many people mistakenly believe that t

Action Beats Inaction This article is the 13th of a 14-part series that explores the core tenets of Get Rich Slowly. Three years ago, I was a different woman. I was recently divorced, I had no savings, retirement or otherwise. I was starting over from zero because of my impotent goals coupled with the fact that I had just gone through a divorce. I was over $185,000 in debt. I just began speaking again and writing books. I spent my free time on my bicycle to free my mind, find

Nobody Cares More About Your Money Than You Do This article is the 12th of a 14-part series that explores the core tenets of Get Rich Slowly. I’ve read a lot of stuff lately about how scammers take advantage of other people. (Example, here is a brief summary of seven psychological tricks con artist use.) (Excerpt from Lloyd Morgan) Seven Psychological Principles Con Artists Exploit Inherent human vulnerabilities need to be taken into account when designing security systems/pr

Financial Balance Lets You Enjoy Tomorrow and Today This article is the 11th of a 14-part series that explores the core tenets of Get Rich Slowly. It originally appeared at Soul Shelter in a slightly different form. For more than a decade, I was buried in debt. My relationship with money was a one sided love affair because I had zero respect for money. I earned a decent income, better than most and somehow I still couldn’t seem to get ahead. I lived paycheck-to-paycheck on a

Failure is Okay This article is the 10th of a 14-part series that explores the core tenets of Get Rich Slowly. The ability to keep going in the face of failure is critical to success when learning any new skill to include learning to manage your money. Nobody’s perfect. We all make mistakes with money every day. I’ve made tons in the past, and I continue to make them. Here are just a few examples: I managed to take on over $185,000 in consumer debt before turning things aroun

The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good This article is the ninth of a fourteen-part series that explores the core tenets of Get Rich Slowly. You want the best for yourself, for your spouse, for your family. You want the best car, the best house and mortgage, the best job, the best mutual funds, and the best savings account. You want things to be perfect. We all do. Perfection does comes with a price and is the lowest standard you can set for yourself because the only perfection

Slow and Steady Wins the Race This article is the eighth of a fourteen-part series that explores the core tenets of Get Rich Slowly. One reason I got into financial trouble during my early twenties was that I wanted everything right now. I looked at what my parents had, and it occurred to me that they’d been working their entire lives to get to financially nowhere because they had the attitude that “you can’t take it with you” resulting them in spending whatever little money

Do What Works for You This article is the seventh of a fourteen-part series that explores the core tenets of Get Rich Slowly. I struggled with debt for over a decade. I made several attempts to tackle the trouble, but nothing seemed to work. Compulsive spending was part of the problem, I bought anything I wanted, even if I couldn’t afford it, and there was another factor, too. Everything I’d read gave the same advice for debt reduction: Start by paying off your highest-intere