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This week was a good week for technology that helps you get your finances under control. Several services announced their launch, the biggest among them in my opinion being Google Wallet, BankSimple, and Personal Capital. Not all of them are widely available as of right now, but will be in the near future and all of them have the potential to make a big splash in personal finance pond. In this post, we’ll take a quick look at all three and how they plan to help you with your finances.
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With all the distractions in today’s constantly-connected world, one of the things young people have trouble with when it comes to planning their financial future is sitting down, focusing, and figuring out where they want to go in life. Maybe it’s because it’s intimidating to think about the future. Maybe it’s because it’s easier not to make goals for yourself so that you don’t have anything you can fail at. Maybe you feel like you don’t know the first thing about your finances so you choose to do nothing instead of learning. You live for today and hope that tomorrow you’ll wake up and find yourself in a better situation all of a sudden. If you truly want to be successful financially, you’re going to have to put in a lot of hard work. As we go through life, we see the results of hard work all around us, but we rarely see the actual work that went into achieving all this that occurs behind the scenes. Ask anyone that is self-made wealthy how hard they had to work to achieve the level of financial success they’ve achieved. I think their answer will surprise you. Read More > |
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Does it seem like every time you go to the grocery store, you end up spending more than you thought you would? If you were in a financial pinch, would you be able to cut back on your food expenses in order to stay afloat? Wouldn’t it be great to save money effortlessly on your purchases instead of having to go through the trouble of clipping or printing coupons? If you want to be equipped with the knowledge to save some money on food and other purchases, then this week’s post is definitely one to read. Topics included in this post: Read More > |
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When it comes to information about issues that affect your finances, there’s so much out there on the internet that it quickly becomes overwhelming for most people. What are you supposed to know when? What’s going on this week? What are the financial issues people are talking about and what are they saying? This week, I’m going to experiment with something a little different here on the Finavigation Blog. I’m a huge personal finance nerd, and I’m constantly reading articles and blog posts about money and things that affect money. I’m going to take the best of what I’ve read this week (and hopefully in the coming weeks) and share it with you. Most interesting things for this week: |
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Well, it finally happened. After almost 3 years of designing, developing, planning, and testing; Finavigation’s personal finance software has launched in beta. There were times I honestly thought the day would never come. There were times I doubted myself – that I would be able to pull something like this off and actually bring a product to market. There were times when I wondered if all the hard work I was doing was all for nothing. Today, I’m glad we’ve launched and I’m very much looking forward to helping people solve some of their financial issues with Finavigation. While far from perfect (we’re constantly working to make it better), I think the software is useful enough right now to really help people get their finances in order, do the work that’s required to improve their situation, and build a solid financial foundation for themselves. Here’s a summary of what you can expect from the software and what it helps you do.
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If you take a look around these days, there seems to be a tendency toward making people do less work for everything. People like this. Why wouldn’t they? It’s easier to do less than to do more. For some things, less work is definitely better. We have search engines that make finding what we’re looking for easier, social media that makes meeting new people and staying on top of what’s going on with all our friends easier, among countless other examples of wonderful ways to do what you need done with less work. For certain things, however, doing what’s easy ends up doing more harm than good in the long run. Certain things you simply have to be there for. There’s value in showing up and doing the work. It makes you understand what you’re doing on a level that you just can’t if you’re not putting forth the effort. I think personal finance is one of those things.
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This is the third and final post about the lessons I learned from the book Do the Work by Steven Pressfield that helped me to have the most productive few weeks of my life. In case you missed them, in my last two posts I wrote about fighting a force called resistance that is constantly trying to hold us back and about acting and then reflecting later to see if what you did was right as opposed to over-analyzing what you need to do before doing it. The third lesson I learned, however, is the one I’m having the most trouble implementing.
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In my last post, I wrote about how the first lesson I took away from the book Do the Work by Steven Pressfield had helped me have the most productive couple weeks of my life. The productivity continues, and in this post, I’ll go over another lesson I learned from the book that helped contribute to my recent spurt of productivity.
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I have a philosophy around which I’m building Finavigation’s personal finance software that in order to make something better, you need to put in the effort and do the work required to improve. At the same time, trying to build a business can be extremely challenging at times, as some of you know. There are times when things seem to come easy and there are times when it seems like you need to move the entire world to make even an inch of forward progress. I was feeling like the latter a few weeks ago, when I happened to come across a book that helped motivate me to have what has probably been the most productive 2 weeks of my life so far.
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In case you missed it, the first lesson was that you need to hustle to perform well. I certainly had to do that working the broiler during rush hour, and I’m willing to bet some of you have also had similar experiences having to work quickly and make split-second decisions under pressure in order to perform well. But that wasn’t all I learned. Here are a few other lessons.
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