Welcome to the first week of Lindsey’s Experiment with the Empire Building Kit. Last week, I introduced my intention to follow along with Chris Guillebeau’s Empire Building Kit and report on what I’ve learned and done to create my own business. Read last week’s From Underwear Gnomes to Empire Building for more on my first steps to starting a business. This first week, Chris starts
Year 2014, New Year’s Revolution!
It’s a New Year’s resolution revolution! Cheezy title? Completely. But it’s a year of new beginnings. And not just because it’s January. First, a little history: For the past year and half, we have been living with a very difficult family situation. It wasn’t the kind of thing we could solve, influence, avoid, or move along more quickly. It was large and in charge and
Financial Vertigo: Making Better Choices with Fewer Options
I woke up this morning dizzy. No big deal, I told myself, it’ll pass. Well, it didn’t. I wasn’t fainting or falling over but it was definitely presenting a problem. After a trip to the medical clinic, the good doctor did his thing and diagnosed me with vertigo. He explained it had something to do with crystals in my inner ear sending mixed up messages
Personal Finance Blogging: High Road or Low Road?
The other day, I was on a debt blog run by a husband and wife team and came across one of their posts. He had written about finding a career your passionate about and then pursuing that work in your life – it was a decent enough article. The interesting part came when I started reading the comments. There were a number of readers who
Q2 NY Resolutions Update, and Unicorns
Hi everyone! I can’t believe half the year has gone by already – it’s been busy here. I’ve been successful with 90% of my New Years resolutions over the past three months. Check out my resolutions below, I had everything from from making more time with friends and family; to developing better financial habits; to devising a plan to increase income: Resolution 1: I want to
Surviving June & Weekly Review: June 17 – 23
Weekly Review: Surviving Spending This week found me down visiting family and attending the crappy appointment that was making this month so awful. The silver lining is that the crappy stuff is now over and we can continue on with our regularly scheduled lives. Spending was a little more expensive this week in the ‘shopping category’ as I bought a few things for summer and
June Challenge & Goals
Good evening everyone! Looks like a lot of my fellow bloggers have many noble goals for the month of June and I thought I’d contribute with my own monthly challenge! In May, I had challenged myself to track my spending using Quicken. This has been a super-fabulous-success and I think it was reporting back to you, readers, every week that made this work! So thanks