Brian Davis shares his journey about how he and his wife have beat the traditional job and have created financial freedom to pursue their dreams of traveling.
Category Archives: Wealth Building
Why Are You Building Wealth?
Why build wealth? Is it to gain more possessions and try to coast through life? Or is there more to it? Check out our family’s reasoning here.
What Personal Finance Advice Would You Give Yourself If You Were Just Starting Out
If you could go back in time and give yourself some personal finance advice, what would you tell yourself? Some bloggers weigh in here.
2017 Goals: 7 Areas I’m Getting Focused On This Year
2017 goals and resolutions can be tough. Make this year the year that you actually follow through on your goals. Check out these 7 areas to set goals in.
How An Attitude Of Gratitude Can Transform Your Finances
An attitude of gratitude can have a profound effect on your personal finances. Gratitude helps you in many ways financially. Check out these 5.
We Finally Closed Our Credit Card Accounts
So, Sunday morning I was hustling around and trying to get as much done before having to head out to church, taking advantage of my wife and kids being gone (they slept over at grandma’s house). It’s amazing the things you can get done when you are distraction free lol. Anyways, we have been going through Financial Peace University, and last week, we had the “Dumping Debt” lesson. Now, Jenni and I have been debt free, other than our house, since June 2013. But, for some reason, I couldn’t bring myself to actually close our two credit card accounts because […]
FPU Week 1: Super Saving
Jenni and I are working through Financial Peace University this fall and I thought I would do a companion series following the main principles and lessons from our classes. This particular article is based off of the lesson: Super Saving. If you haven’t taken Financial Peace University, I would highly recommend and encourage you check it out as it has completely changed how we handle our money and has allowed us to make a huge turn around in our finances as well as other parts of our marriage as well. What do you expect to be your greatest challenge as […]
The Power Of Dividends & Time
The other day I decided to check in on one of my favorite things, my Phillip Morris (Altria) stock (MO). When I was younger, I used to think that I would just invest all my money into dividend producing stocks and I would be rich. But, because of dumb financial mistakes and bills, I ended up cashing out almost all of my investments. I did, however, leave myself one share of one stock just to see what it would do over time though. And that one stock ended up being Phillip Morris (MO). I have held one share of MO […]
July 2015 – $69,108 – Net Worth Update (+$2,316.50)
An awesome month for sure as we grew our emergency fund savings a lot this month. See how we did it in this update.
The Many Customer Types You Meet In Retail
Working in a customer facing environment where you are taking people’s money while conversing with them, you get to meet all kinds of people. This past week has really opened my eyes to all the different people out there that are really having some struggles, whether self inflicted or just going through a rough patch, or just starting out.