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This an awesome story of someone who was willing dig in for 90 days to change her finances. What changes are you willing to make for 90 days to turn your finances around? Let 2025 be the year where you make it happen!

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As we’re now past Christmas, the New Year is right around the corner. This can be a popular time to reflect on the past year and set some goals for 2025. Here are some tips to make sure you’re able to stick with those goals past January 10th:

1. Know your why
Sticking with a goal takes dedication and persistence. On the hard days, you’ll need to know why this goal is important to you to keep going.

2. Align with your Long-Term Goals
Do you have a vision of where you want to be in 5 or 10 years? Take the time to dream what that blocks like and then set your annual goals to be what’s needed to get you there.

3. Break it down to bite size
Focusing on a big goal can be intimidating. Try to break it down into more manageable steps that you can do each day.

4. Don’t Do it Alone
It’s a lot harder to make zero progress on a goal when you know someone else is going to ask you about it. If you’re married, you should be creating financial goals together with your spouse. If you’re single, find a friend or family member to help hold you accountable.

We all have holiday traditions. They can bring back nostalgic memories, but as time goes on, circumstances change. A tradition that once made sense may now not have the same role. Here are 3 signs it may be time to reevaluate a holiday tradition:

1) Change in Family
Whether it’s a loss in the family, a birth, or adding an in-law, changes in the family structure lead to changes in the family dynamic. It may be helpful to ask, “What works best for our family now?”

2) It Feels like an Obligation
Traditions can have their time and place, but if you’re finding yourself dreading a tradition more than you get excited about it, it may be time to reevaluate it. You and your family may come up with a new tradition that everyone can get excited about.


3) You can’t afford it
There are plenty of costs that add up during the holidays. If you have a tradition like a ski trip or a gift exchange that’s become outside of your budget due to a change in income or financial goals, it’s worth an honest conversation with your family. Chances are someone else may have the same concerns.
Traditions reflect a family’s values. Changing those traditions doesn’t mean the family’s values have changed. It may just mean a new tradition better embodies those values in the new season of life.

Whether you’re running short on time, getting a gift for that hard-to-shop-for person, or just looking for a gift for a work party, it’s nice to have some easy gift ideas to work with. We’ve got you covered. Below are some simple gift ideas that’ll help take the stress out of gift giving:

1. Gift Cards
A gift card can flex to your budget. It can also be specific to your loved one’s favorite restaurant or generic to popular store or restaurant for a coworker or your kid’s teacher.

2. Make a Certificate or Voucher
You can make a certificate for anything from a sporting event, to a night of camping in the backyard, to coupons for backrubs and extra chores around the house. These can be creative and fun ways to provide an experience and not just more stuff.

3. FOOD!
Food is always a great gift, unless it’s fruitcake. Unless your loved one is weirdly into fruitcake, then go right ahead. But usually some chocolates are a safe bet.

4. Amazon “Cool Last Minute Gifts”
When all else fails, you can always type in “Cool Last Minute Gifts” into Amazon for gift ideas with fast delivery to your door.

Chances are you’re probably in go mode trying to pick out gifts for your loved ones, but what should you get them? There’s a multitude of gifts that are used for the first week, but then begin to collect dust. Why not give the gift of an experience this year. Below are a few of the advantages to experiential gifts versus material:

1. It doesn’t clutter your house
Plenty of gifts end up just taking more space in your kids’ toy room, on your shelves, or in your garage. It’s one more thing to have to clean up. An experiential gift, doesn’t have to take up any more precious space in your home.

2. Gifts can adjust to your budget
Experiential gifts can range in price anywhere from concert tickets to some odds and end supplies for a snowman kit. Really, the gift can be whatever you want it to be and whatever price range you want it to be.

3. It can strengthen your relationship
A study by Wharton Behavioral Lab showed that experiential gifts led to a greater increase in relational strength between the recipient and giver than material gifts. The gift giver didn’t even need to be present at the experience.

4. It can invoke a greater emotional response
That same study also showed that experiential gifts also evokes more emotion than material gifts. When you give an experiential gift, your giving memories.

The holidays are a great time to enjoy with friends and family, but let’s be honest. They can get a little chaotic too. While you’re bouncing around between Christmas parties, family get-togethers, and shopping for gifts, you can be left asking, “what’s for dinner?” If you’re in a pinch and don’t want to hit up the drive thru, here are few easy meal options:

1) Quesadillas
2) Flat Bread Pizzas
3) Grilled Cheese and Soup
4) Pretty much anything in the slow cooker
5) Breakfast for Dinner!
6) Rotisserie Chicken

We live in a world that continues to sell us that we need more to be happy. We need a newer vehicle, a bigger house, a better job, and definitely the latest iPhone. This unneeded pressure can bring stress into our life leading to financial decisions that hurt us in the long run. But what if we were just content with what we had? Here are a few ways that contentment can help you win with money:

1) Prevents Overspending
When we’re content with what we have, it takes the pressure off of spending on things we don’t need. ThIS frees up money to go towards necessities, experiences, and building wealth.

2) Looks to Simplify
Being content with what you have can also cause you to reevaluate all of what you have. It might inspire you clear out clutter which give you back space in your house, wallet, and mind.

3) Become more intentional with spending
Contentment will not only help you evaluate what you have, it will also make you more intentional with what you purchase in the future, causing you to make better purchases.

4) Makes you more generous
When you no longer operate out of a scarcity mindset, and see you have enough, you begin to see the needs of others around you. Having this mindset allows you to help others and overall become a more attractive person to be around.

So today, take some time to take inventory of the things that you are grateful in your life.