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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Photo credit As I mentioned in the previous post, working at Burger King as a teenager taught me a decent amount about what it takes to be successful. 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 [...]