The post-Christmas holiday blues
Christmas is over for another year. If you are like me, you are probably slumped on the couch, taking a few deep breaths and wondering if the dishes can wait until tomorrow, as I’d much rather take Jett out for a…
Goal Setting: The secret to turning ideas into achievements
Here we go again, it’s nearly the end of the year, and everyone is on about setting goals. I haven’t even had my Xmas dinner yet! If you just don’t have the energy to think about 2025, I completely get…
Look backwards before you start planning to move forwards
I don’t know about you, but I’m running out of steam. I’m counting down the number of sleeps until we close for the Christmas break, then it’s just a few days before family arrive and it’s full on with the…
Difficult holiday conversations
It’s that time of year where the new batch of Christmas movies are released. I can’t help it, I have to watch a couple of them, and somehow, I always seem to end up watching the super cheesy ones, where…
How was your Black Friday?
After talking about needs and wants last week, the Black Friday sales were a great way for you to test out what you had learned and think about how you meet your needs. How did you go? Did you manage…
How do we know what we ‘need’?
Power prices are due to go up again next year, so Pulse Energy did a bit of research, and from those they talked to it seems most of us aren’t willing to give up our Netflix subscription to save power…
The small town appeal
It has been eight months since I made the move from Auckland to Motueka, so when I saw an article about finding your perfect small town, I felt compelled to read on to see if my reality of moving to…
Money behaviours are often not about money
“Money behaviour and financial decisions are sometimes - rarely - about money” (David Krueger, A New Money Story). I am very fortunate to have been trained by David Krueger, and he is also my mentor, so please indulge me this week,…
Are you running your business or is it running you?
A couple of weeks ago, I shared the story of my kettlebell, and how my good intentions to use it weren’t going so well. I have a happy ending to that story, the kettlebell has a new role, no, I still…
The Sandwich Generation
I was attending a networking event and as often happens when I am asked what I do, and I explain one of my hats is a money mentor who helps couples with their relationship with money (and each other), invariably…