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Control your finances by being familiar with what’s coming in and what’s going out, so that both actions involve conscious decisions.

Budget Phobia: 5 Reasons Why Making Budgets Can Be Scary

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Sharon O'Day • 59 Comments

Budget phobia is what happens when someone is too terrified to even consider creating one. Yet it’s crazy. A budget is exactly what can save your finances. Continue Reading

Needs and Wants: Finding Our Compass Again

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Sharon O'Day • 23 Comments

Needs and wants: we’ve confused the heck out of the difference between the two. And that confusion keeps us from realizing our power over our own money. Continue Reading

Financial Control: Your First Steps Out of Paralysis

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Sharon O'Day • 47 Comments

Financial control isn’t hard to achieve, but it’s hard to get started. Yet once started, it takes on a life of its own. Here’s some help … Continue Reading

The Tax Man and Ms Entrepreneur: Getting It Just Right

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Sharon O'Day • 40 Comments

The tax man only becomes your enemy if you don’t do your homework. Before the year ends, here are three little tasks that should keep you out of trouble. Continue Reading

Killing the Joneses: Is It Time to Get Real?

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Sharon O'Day • 63 Comments

Killing the Joneses may be the best way to get back to financial sanity. Or else, far too many people will continue to lie to themselves about their money. Continue Reading

The Power of Money: Freedom of Choice

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Sharon O'Day • 40 Comments

The power of money gives you freedom in ways you cannot imagine. Some subtle, some major. For one, it validates lots of the decisions you make in your life. Continue Reading

Budget Busters: Four Times You Could Easily Lose Control

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Sharon O'Day • 34 Comments

Budget busters for one person may not be for another. Here are four classics. What would blow a hole in a budget for you? Continue Reading

Money Talk: How to Take It from Terrifying to Piece of Cake

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Sharon O'Day • 27 Comments

Money talk is probably way down there on your list of favorite things. But unless you can see money as just numbers, you will never have it under control. Continue Reading

Financial Whisperer: Everybody Needs One

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Sharon O'Day • 26 Comments

A financial whisperer does not do what Cesar Millan does for dogs. But she does offer permission, tools and encouragement. So maybe it’s not so different? Continue Reading

Mismanaging Money: Oprah and Daddyless Daughters

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Sharon O'Day • 54 Comments

Mismanaging money can result from so many things. And being a daddyless daughter is one of the things that can easily set us up for trouble. Continue Reading