Archive for January, 2011
Post #3 – The 2nd and 3rd Most Important Rules of Personal Finance
In my last blog post, “LBYM” The First Rule of Personal Finance, I emphasized the importance of people adopting good financial behavior of “Living Below Your Means” to form the foundation of wealth accumulation. If you do not LBYMs and free up cash for retirement savings or, for that matter, any other financial goal, all […]
Post #2 – “LBYM” – The First Rule of Personal Finance
The financial advisory guru, Dave Ramsey, www.daveramsey.com, once wrote that wealth accumulation is 90% behavior and 10% knowledge, and I could not agree with him more. The ability to retire someday is mostly about a person practicing good financial behavior, week after week, year after year… The more education you acquire about personal finance and […]
Post #1 – The Necessity of Retirement Planning
With the decline of old fashioned company defined pensions, an insolvent social security system, and the recent decline of housing values, it is important for everyone to pay more attention to their retirement and investment planning. That is, if you plan on ever retiring from your full time work. In fact, it is imperative that you do proper retirement planning even if you do not […]
