Getting Your Financial House in Order
Welcome to February! I know I’m a little late here, but events have delayed me a bit. Each month in 2018 we’re going to be diving into a different area of life. I’ll be exploring topics that will help...
View ArticleWhere Do You Want to Go With Your Money?
Welcome back to Personal Finance Basics month at Optimize Your Life! We’re spending February learning how best to get our financial house in order and take control of our money situation. In January,...
View ArticleMaking a Plan for Your Money
Now that we know where we are with our money and where we want to go, it’s time to make a plan to get there. That plan is your budget. Wait! Don’t leave! It’s really not that bad! While budgets get a...
View ArticleMoney for Couples
The topic of how couples should handle money is full of land mines. There are a lot of people with a lot of very strong feelings about the “right” way to handle money as a couple. Some people say that...
View ArticleBig Money Changes
While making plans for our finances, we need to keep big changes in mind. Everyone encounters big changes (and big expenses) at different points in their lives. Sometimes these big changes are planned!...
View ArticleFinancial Independence is Simple and Necessary
For 2018 I am spending each month working on improving a different area of my life and discussing it with all of you. January was life planning month and we’ve spent February exploring the basics of...
View ArticleMaster Time
This year is a year of improvement. In each month of 2018 we are exploring a different area of life and figuring out the best ways to improve it. In January, we looked at life planning and how best to...
View ArticleControl Your Time
When we looked at personal finance basics last month, we explored how our budget should reflect our values. We should be spending money on the things that are important to us. In the day-to-day grind,...
View ArticleSchedule Unscheduled Time
We all want to do more with our time. There are all sorts of books, blogs, podcasts, and seminars about how to be more productive. We are constantly inundated with productivity hacks and listicles. We...
View ArticleSleep Your Way to the Top
During this year of improvement, we are taking the month of March to explore time management. Once you’ve tracked your time, set your priorities, and scheduled a bit of unscheduled time, then it is on...
View ArticleHow You’re Killing Your Own Productivity
We’re spending the month of March exploring time management and how to optimize it. On Tuesday, we looked at sleep. Cutting back on sleep seems intuitively like a good way to increase productivity, but...
View ArticleGet More Done by Working in Blocks
Hi, friends! Before we start – the voting is open for the Elite 8 in the Rockstar Finance contest to find the best personal finance article of 2017! I would greatly appreciate your vote. My article is...
View ArticleWhat Are Your Time Vices?
March is time management month around here, and we’ve already explored a lot of different topics. We’ve learned how to track our time and how to plan what we want to do with our time. We’ve explored...
View ArticleWhen is Good Enough Good Enough?
Welcome back to time management month at Optimize Your Life. I hope that what we’ve covered so far has been helpful, but maybe you’re already maximizing your efficiency. Maybe you’ve already tracked...
View ArticleBetter Life – First Quarter Update
I’ve dubbed 2018 the year of improvement. Each month we are exploring a different area of life and figuring out how to be better. In January we explored life planning. February was for personal finance...
View ArticleThe Point of It All
We’ve covered a lot of big topics so far this year in our quest for a better life. We spent January figuring out how to plan and strive for our ideal life. How to make changes big and small to achieve...
View ArticleCould You Be Happier?
Alright, so we all want to be happier. We make, save, and spend money to increase our happiness. We increase our productivity to achieve more success in order to be happier. We manage our time better...
View ArticleWhy You Aren’t Getting Any Happier
Generally when we think about what will make us happy, we think of situational things. If we could get that promotion, lose a few pounds, make more money, or have whiter teeth, then we’d be happy. As...
View ArticleThe Shortest Path to Happiness
Here at Optimize Your Life we are spending the month of April exploring the science behind happiness. We’ve already explored how much of happiness is in our control and last week we learned how hedonic...
View ArticleHow Work Makes Us Happier (Seriously!)
When we look at ways to be happier, we usually don’t look to work. Instead, we tend to see work as a necessary source of unhappiness. We work because we need money. One of the premises of the financial...
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