Getting Out and Connecting
Top of the mornin' to ya. This is Brian at LifeChampion.coach. I'm at the airport this morning getting out and meeting people not at the airport so to speak, I'm on my way to a conference with the mastermind group that I'm a participant in. It's kind of a special...
We Don’t Need an Eclipse to Celebrate
Hey this is Brian at LifeChampion.coach and something happened yesterday and it was pretty amazing across this country. People were pulling together and having a good time coming together for celebration, for awesomeness of God and His creation, coming together for...
Doing the Right Things, the Best Things and Avoiding the Mediocre
I get distracted and I'm always looking to improve my ability to avoid distraction. For me it boils down to good and OK things pushing things of excellence out of the way. When I'm doing something good, I find myself content and my analytical circuits let down their...
Paying Off Your House and Living with no Mortgage (Baby Step 6)
What does it feel like to live without a mortgage? I don’t know yet but We’ve dreamed of it. What we could do with $1,300 back from our mortgage interest and principal! How we could give and build a legacy for our children.
Budgeting Time With Importance and Mindfulness
Are you budgeting your time? What are you doing right now? No, I don’t mean reading this. I mean, what were you doing just before reading this? Was it something urgent and demanding your attention? Were you absently going through your email for the fiftieth time today? Or, was it something important? I’m reading the book Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World now and it started me thinking about a book I read years ago: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (both affiliate links) multiple times. How am I spending my time? Is it on important things or just urgent ones?
College Funding for Your Kids
Parents have many desires. One of the top desires in our family has been helping our children with college funding. My parents, as I said in Millionaire Mind handled their money well. They saved for each of us and helped with a majority of our college funding. Thanks Mom & Dad. Every family is different and approach a college education in different ways.
Use the Power of “No” to Magnify Your “Yes”
Sitting here because I failed to apply this blog post’s title to my week. I said “yes” to to many things: Facebook, personal financing, child requests. Taking some time out to do something completely different that I enjoy is the one thing I did right this week that was a yes. In fact, writing that sentence, I thought of another thing I needed to do and I almost said yes. Instead, I put it on my task list.
Millionaire Mind
I didn’t know I needed a millionaire mind. My parents may be millionaire’s, I don’t know. Our money was one thing we didn’t talk about at home. Sure we got the basics: give a tithe, save for college and then for retirement. I didn’t know what we needed or used to live. I do remember one point after I went to college and the rest of the family was going to Mexico. Shortly after that, mom said something about maybe having been “too frugal”. The thing I do know is my parents have the millionaire mind.
Book Notes: The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind
I can't believe I'm doing this. It gives me flashbacks to the dreaded book report from middle or elementary school. I never wanted to write anything until my college composition course. Finally, I was guided to write about stuff I was interested in and how to write...
Insurance For Debt Freedom
Who wants insurance? In fact, there were periods of my life where I had only auto insurance, no health, no life, no renters etc. That’s not a good plan but the Lord brought me through those days without significant harm.