Alright, now that you’re all grown up (right?), you’ve got an education, and you’re on your way to a building a budding career, it’s time to get on your feet financially. There are a few key goals you can begin to achieve right now that will set you up for financial success in life. By…
Getting out of debt doesn’t have to be complicated. It doesn’t require any super special tricks, complex consolidation practices, confusing spreadsheets, or anything else that might make you want to pull your hair out. If you want to crush your debt, it just comes down to a few key principles that I want to go…
Here we are – right in the thick of tax season in the United States. What to do with your tax refund is likely one of the biggest questions on your mind, and the dangerous temptations to make bad decisions are coming from everywhere. Banks are offering you crazy amounts of cash for new accounts…
Before you dig into this training, if you’re looking for a simple “top 10 tips to avoid impulse buying” article for your financial entertainment, I’m sorry to tell you that this isn’t it. 🙂 But if you’re looking for something to really help you change your spending patterns and financial behavior, you’ve got it right…
If you’ve been a part of Academy Success for any decent amount of time, you’ll know that I tend to think a little bit differently than the masses. Ultimately, the masses are largely ordinary, and if you wanted to be ordinary, you wouldn’t be reading this right now. So today, as part of our goal…
I could easily pull a page out of every other financial blog out there, and toss you up a big list of 72 ways to make yourself rich, but while those articles get a lot of buzz, they’re just too complicated and shallow, and rarely help you think differently about the way you live your…
If I told you that you could spend a few hundred bucks now, and save $500 a year on your utility bills for the rest of your life, would you do it? I hope so. That’s exactly what this post will help you do. If you haven’t noticed by now, I’m all about some efficiency….
As I write this post, I just turned 30 years old last week, which naturally made me reflect on the last 30 years of my life as anyone who has just turned 30 does – well actually the last 25, because who remembers stuff until they’re 5 anyway, right? Either way, I got to thinking…
I’ve always thought that doing things because “that’s what you’re supposed to do” is a really dumb reason to do anything, and that plays a big part in what this lesson explores. Nearly every post on this blog shows you how to find a better way to do something in your life, and this may…
If you’re going into the 9-5 world, which the vast majority of people are, getting a college degree is essentially a must if you want to risk up the ranks past an entry level position. And graduate degrees are becoming more and more common these days as well. Many professionals are obtaining graduate degrees to…