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Four Things To Focus On In Your Financial Life

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After talking to some friends, we realizes that life and finances can be hard to come to grips with for many people. Trying to decide what the most important things to concentrate on above everything else can be daunting, especially in today’s economy. Thus, here are our top 4 things, in order, that everyone should concentrate on before moving onto other things.

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1. Income.

It doesn’t matter if you’re single or have a family, live in a house or a trailer, need food or live paycheck to paycheck, the most important thing overall is income, aka making a living. Whereas there are those who will tell you that money isn’t everything, without money there’s no way you can live life the way you want to live it, or even to live life independently.
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Tracking Your Spending For Your Financial Health

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How well do you track your spending habits?

We ask that question because a great number of people have absolutely no idea how or where they spend their money. This ends up with folks looking at their bank statements wondering where their money went, and sometimes leads them to either overdraw on their bank accounts or go over the limit on their credit cards.

Why is this important? Because while the Justice Department shows that the number of bankruptcies decreased 5 years in a row between 2010 and 2015, Nerd Wallet shows that overall personal debt has increased over at least 12 years.
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16 Tips To Relieve Finance Stress

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Let’s face the fact that the thing we stress over more than anything else relates to money. It’s always about money; do we have enough, too much (okay, I don’t know anyone who stresses over having too much), bills, savings, investing, being robbed, taxes… ugh.

05/2008: 7 cents for a nickel

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You know what? Turns out that rich people don’t worry about money. They do think about finances and ways to grow their wealth, but overwhelmingly they think more about lifestyle than the money.
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5 Things You Need To Know About Debt

The topic of debt is one that a lot of people want to run away from. The problem with debt is that you can’t hide from it. You can let it bring you down or you can address it.

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We believe in addressing debt and fear of debt. We also believe there’s a large range of issues concerning debt that most people never think about. With that said, here are XX things you need to know about debt.
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