Trust your timing. Not anyone else’s. Especially with money. 3 years ago, we bought our first house. I was 46 and my husband was 43. And, yep: we watched most of our peers (and people younger than us) buy homes long, long before us. We could’ve compared ourselves to them. Asked what was wrong with us, for still renting in our 40’s. (And, OK, on a few rough days, we may have.) But you know what? The timing wasn’t right…
Guest Post By Angela Raines You can’t get away with being Bari Tessler’s co-writer for eight years without getting a serious education about money. Boy, howdy: immersing myself in this world has taken me to some steep growing edges. I’ve had to face inner demons I didn’t know I had. I’ve taken practical steps and broken through money ceilings. And I’ve made friends with money in a way I never dreamed I could. (It’s a work in progress. But there’s…
So there you are, trucking along with your new, un-shaming, conscious and compassionate money practice, when — bam! — you hit a big, nasty snag. (Or maybe it feels like a bog of muddy confusion, to you. Or an impossible riddle, which you have to solve before you can move forward — except you can’t solve it.) To hire a bookkeeper … or not to hire a bookkeeper? It might sound like a detail, but let me tell you: this…