The Burleson Business Builders Resource Page

Thanks for sitting through 15 (or so) minutes of me trying to talk as quickly as I can to impart as much information as I could without actually running over time. I appreciate your patience and attention!

There’s no way I can adequately cover everything about personal finance in 15 minutes, so, since you were interested enough to come to this page, I’m giving you some more resources you can look at.

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Here’s the presentation I handed out at the meeting.

The first place to look is my Ultimate Guide to Managing Your Day-to-Day Finances. It has tons of resources for the day-to-day affairs of you and your money.

Personal Finances Topics

Debt Sucks. It Must Die.

• There is No Such Thing As Good Debt
• Why Should I Pay Off My Credit Cards Each Month When I Can Just Pay the Minimum?
• Credit Card Debt and Drug Addiction – Are They Related?
• How Can I Get My Debt Under Control?
• Credit Cards Stopped Me From Working for the WWE
• My Most Mortifying Money Moment

Spend Less, Save More

• What Are Your Priorities in Life?
• Don’t Wait Until the End of the Month to Save
• Six Reasons Not to Keep Up With the Joneses
• Why Drive a Beater? (come on…how many of you wonder why a financial planner drives a hoopty?)
• Get Off Your Hedonic Treadmill
• Spend Your Bonus Before You Receive It
• Reasons to Keep More Than a Six Month Emergency Fund in Cash
• Why Can’t I Ever Seem to Save Any Money?
• How Do I Budget for One-Time Expenses?
• How Long Did You Have to Work to Buy That?
• Saving Versus Spending: Why Are We Lying to Ourselves?
• How Ego Depletion Allows Monkey Brain to Buy Junk
• The Zeigarnik Effect and Your Money
• Create More Paydays to Curb Your Spending

Investing, Saving, Financial Planning, and Retirement

• There Are No Financial Secrets
• Why is Fiduciary Responsibility Paramount?
• Chart Porn and Personal Finance
• The Cost of Fees in Your Investments
• The Shower and the Shovel: How to Make Personal Finance Stick
• Retire TO Something
• Value Cost Averaging or Dollar Cost Averaging?
• Commit Your Future Self to Saving
• Why Past Performance Indicates Your Future Investing Actions
• How Much Do You Have to Save to Have One Less Year of Work?
• Your Limbic System Can Hurt Your Investments (it was originally titled “How Monkey Brain Hurts Your Investments,” but apparently, U.S. News & World Report hasn’t bought in to the Monkey Brain concept yet)
• 3 Investing Resolutions for 2013…and How to Make Them Stick
• The Middle Class Retirement: Delusion By the Numbers (This article is where I got several of the statistics from my presentation)
• Herd Behavior Hurts Fund Investors
• Don’t Make These 3 Retirement Mistakes
• Maybe You Don’t Need Bonds in Retirement

My Thoughts on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

• Entrepreneurs and Attorneys
• Sometimes Your Startup Fails
• The Secrets of the Inc. 500
• Don’t Get Sales “Buck Scent”
• An Alternative for Your 5% At Risk Capital
• Do Startup Owners Ever Truly Take a Break?
• If You Are Starting a Small Business, Do Not Expect to Get Paid
• Side Gigs and Real Options
• Should Your Small Business Use Crowdsourcing?

The Neal Special

• The Endowment Effect: Why You Should Buy a Foreclosure and Never Sell to an Investor
• Why Do You Think Your Wealth is In Your Home?
• This is NOT a Responsible Homeowner
• Should You Include Your Home in Your Net Worth?