Retirement Savings: Traditional IRA vs. Roth IRA
As I begin to write this piece from a tea shop located in an old Victorian-style house in Portland, Oregon, I find myself feeling grateful for the opportunity I have each summer to experiment in...
View ArticleRetirement Savings: SEP vs. Solo 401(k)
My partner and I just got back from our vacation out west and almost immediately hit our local farmer's market to restock our kitchen. The place was exploding with abundance! It was amazing. All of...
View ArticleRetirement Savings: Choosing a Path
I've recently returned to the city from a month away. Immediately, I hit the trails of Inwood Hill Park, a natural oasis that is virtually in my back yard, and rarely gets the praise it deserves. It...
View ArticlePreparing for Freedom
Sometimes life feels to be a bit of a maze with twists and turns; we run down one corridor only to find a wall standing between us and our intended destination. So we turn around and run in another...
View ArticleA Conduit for Abundance
One of my dearest friends flew into town for a convention this weekend. Since the convention was to start bright and early Sunday morning, he planned to arrive Saturday afternoon giving us plenty of...
View ArticleThe Power of Wiggle Room
Since Memorial Day weekend, I've been in the middle of a real estate transaction. Like everything else, living in New York City seems to add an additional difficulty factor, and everything is just...
View ArticleRoadmap to Freedom: Budgeting and Resistance
The budget is one of our most powerful tools in personal finance. It represents us taking control of our money, rather than having our money control us, and yet it is one of the tools that is met with...
View ArticleUncuffed: Belief and Abundance
There are moments in life where you glance around you and realize that everything you see in your life has been placed there by your own design. Everything that is there is a manifestation of your own...
View ArticleMoney After Moving
I've been on a temporary hiatus for about the past month or so. I've still been coaching clients, but my writing has been paused while my partner and I have been in the process of moving. Why did...
View ArticleThere's Always Going To Be Something
Have you ever noticed that just when life begins to appear to be smooth sailing that some ugly little something seems to stand up, walk across the room to you, and smack you in the face? In the Law of...
View ArticleShedding the Old Story (Part 2)
You know, I'm pretty much always reading something in the Law of Attraction space. Even just a few pages a day makes me feel like I'm dialing into my inner self and giving her just a few minutes to...
View ArticleScanning the Periphery
Recently there has been someone in my life that has been recovering from a series of medical issues. I make a point to ask this person daily how they are feeling because I know that our mindset and...
View ArticleSomething Sexy on the Sidelines
The egoic mind is a funny thing; something shiny in the background captures its attention and away we go. We find ourselves ruminating on this little side item until it makes its way center stage,...
View ArticleParalyzed by Choices
I remember being just seven years old and winning an elementary school spelling bee. I was beyond excited. I had never won anything before, and was exhilarated by experiencing an academic success;...
View ArticleFlow State, Resistance, and Accepting What Is
Sometimes words circle in my mind. They might be my own, or occasionally someone else's, but they always seem to come at precisely the right time. It's funny how universal wisdom can be whispered in...
View ArticleStaring At Your Shadow
As I write this February is fast approaching, and as it approaches, I often find myself thinking about the groundhog and whether or not he will be bringing us good news. This year seems different in...
View ArticleRunning on Empty
Taking a trip down memory lane, my mind landed on a rather inconvenient, but memorable occasion. I was in a vehicle that was in the middle of a bridge not moving because it had run out of gas. There...
View ArticleChoosing Love Over Fear
It's amazing how sometimes, the messages we need in life simply show up, and in unexpected places at that. This morning, I was reading Invested by Danielle Town (and Phil Town) when something she said...
View ArticleYour Dreams Are NOT Too Expensive!
When I was a little girl I desperately wanted a She-Ra doll. My best friend across the street had one and I remember absolutely longing for one of my very own. She always seemed to have the new toy...
View ArticleReevaluating Security
Sometimes the winds of change shift on us, blowing us in one direction or another. Perhaps our paths change altogether, or maybe they just become slightly bumpier in certain sections providing us the...
View ArticleContrast and How is Leads to a Budget Revision
Things have been super busy over the last few months. It's been tax season, and as a preparer with their own business, I've had my hands full. It's been a wonderful kind of busy though. I'm...
View ArticleWorthy of Taking the Leap
Our heart's desires are a funny thing. Sometimes they take us in directions we never would have imagined. You're on a safari, riding along, in your nice, well-equipt Jeep. Suddenly you realize what...
View ArticlePeriodic Payments and the Flow of Abundance
As many of you are aware, I just exited a rather busy season in life. I prepare taxes and have a few other things that tend to present themselves during that portion of the year. I always make it...
View ArticleMarie Kondo Your Life
We live our lives at a break-neck pace, zipping here and there, inhaling our food so that we barely taste it. We've crammed our existence into a series of obligations that neither uplift nor fulfill....
View ArticleProductivity Vs. Alignment
Productivity. I have mixed feelings about that word. As a Capricorn through and through, I really love checklists and planners. Seriously, I could write an entire post about the freakin' brilliant...
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