by Michelle Manuel | Oct 31, 2019 | FINANCIAL MINDSET
You have tried, you have sacrificed and hung in there but you are beginning to lose faith in ever achieving your financial goals and it seems you aren’t getting anywhere. You want to quit. This is the messy middle of getting to your goals. It is the dark valley...
by Michelle Manuel | Oct 25, 2019 | FINANCIAL MINDSET, FINANCIAL TALK, FINANCIAL TIPS
Our overconsumption is literally costing us the earth. It not only detracts from our ability to save and build a financially solid future for ourselves, it is also quite literally diminishing the sustainability of this planet. When we think about how we are impacting...
by Michelle Manuel | Oct 12, 2019 | FINANCIAL MINDSET, FINANCIAL TALK
I have always believed whether we do or don’t have piles of money our core values remain unchanged. In my mind, money is not the catalyst for bringing out the philanthropist or scrooge in us or the key to our dark and untrustworthy side. To my surprise, a number of...
by Michelle Manuel | Oct 5, 2019 | FINANCIAL MINDSET, FINANCIAL TALK
And newsflash no matter what our internal voice is telling us we are all smart. It’s just as factual that we all make bad money choices at one time or another. This is not because we are bad with numbers or stupid, it is simply our prehistoric protective brain...
by Michelle Manuel | Sep 27, 2019 | FINANCIAL MINDSET, FINANCIAL TALK
We often look outside ourselves and blame our financial situation on the economy, politics or some other external force. While these may be totally valid speed bumps to building wealth our focus on them diverts our attention from our internal, more deeply ingrained,...
by Michelle Manuel | Aug 30, 2019 | FINANCIAL MINDSET
I hate clutter. It makes me feel suffocated and trapped and yet I still find myself surrounded by the evidence of my over spending and materialistic consumer mentality. So I became intrigued when I heard about the new minimalist movement and their philosophy of living...
