3 Tax Tips to help Black Belt Your Financial Goals

Cartoon: "Don't bug me unless I can claim you as a deduction!"

Taxes can be difficult to figure out. Here are 3 tips for those looking to Black Belt their Finances with their taxes this year. These can help you meet your financial goals. First, there are plenty of FREE tax help places such as through your local library or, for older Americans, senior centers. These are…

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New Years Resolutions vs. Goals

New Year's Resolution

There are resolutions and there are goals. What’s the difference and how to achieve them? With the New Year, many make resolutions, go gung ho for a while then trail off and feel like failures and not achieve what they want. Others opt out of resolutions scoffing at the very concept. First, it’s never too…

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New Year’s Resolutions You’ll Enjoy and Achieve

New Year's Resolution: cat on exercise bike

At the closing of the old year and rising of the new, many of us think about what to resolve doing differently than we have been doing. January 1st, after the holiday excess, it’s natural to want to pour ourselves into a new you. Restarting our engines. So we set a high bar and make…

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Goals and Motivation Pinterest Boards

A list of hand-written goals

If you’re looking for goals, motivation, and general ways to black belt your life, peruse my new Pinterest boards and let me know what you found useful and what I should cull. https://in.pinterest.com/baur0944/ There are specifics that can inspire you in some of the general categories listed in the image below. I’d suggest picking three…

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Holiday Stress Busting

Red gift box with white bow

As the holidays gear up, it’s a time many people stress out trying to live up to the expectations. You deserve to enjoy the season, and those around you will enjoy it better if you do too. Here are 5 tips: Budget. Both your time and your money. Overspending now…pay for it later. Rethink your…

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Goals

Priority Matrix

Goals must be set if you’re to achieve the most. And they have to be the right goals to get you where you want to be. Preferably goals you care about. Right now I went through the my weekly sheet I create each Sunday night to see what I’ve been meeting. Since my work is…

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