Helping Military Members Achieve a Better Financial Future
Today let’s talk about goal setting, or setting an objective in military terms. Financial goal setting and planning could be likened to planning an operation. The targets are of course different, but some of the processes are shared. You need to see where you’re at now, gather intelligence, develop the plan and then execute it. … Read more Goal Setting
OK, let’s get the negatives out of the way first. Making a budget is not what most would call fun, and it may seem like you are placing restrictions on yourself or your family. I don’t have any good tips on making a budget fun. Truthfully I don’t find them very fun myself, but as … Read more How to Create a Budget
If your finances are like the bin at Walmart you may have a problem. An important part of step 1 in the 7 Steps to Financial Freedom is organizing your finances. It is important to organize your finances so you know what is going on and when it is happening. It is bad to be … Read more Organizing Your Finances
One of the first steps on the road to financial strength and security is to analyze where you are now and then decide where you want to go. Net worth is a grading scale you can use your entire life and it can be used to see your progress over time. Net worth is a … Read more Net Worth
In today’s post I will go over the basic steps to financial freedom. This process is universal and applies whether you stay in the military or not. I am sure some of you have heard this “X steps to financial freedom” speech before, but bear with me. Even though it is basic and mostly common … Read more 7 Steps to Financial Freedom
As an engineer I like data and like to deal with facts, numbers and figures. This post is about facts that will hopefully get your attention and illustrate why financial education (along with applying that knowledge) is critical for financial strength and security. As you read some of the statistics below think about if they … Read more Finance Statistics for Thought
Learning through firsthand experience is nearly always a good thing, but learning secondhand can occasionally be even better. Such is the case with this post; if you can learn a little through me you can save yourself money and headache. Throughout this site I will use my own personal experiences as often as possible, so … Read more My Financial Choices: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Welcome to personal finance, military edition. I bet some you are sitting there wondering if this blog is worthy of your time, and rightly so. With so much information available on the web these days it can be overwhelming choosing what to spend time on, but given a chance I will convince you this … Read more A Little About Me – Who I Am and Why I Started This Blog
I don’t want this site to appear as badly organized as the road sign above. This site is set up with the idea that many readers will be finance beginners or novices, and that those visitors will want to start with the basics first. The posts will begin in the order below: Introduction to me … Read more Site Oganization