Way back in the ‘60s the TV show “Bewitched” was mandatory viewing for baby boomers like me. After all, how could you resist a series that regularly showcased the latest model sports cars (Chevrolet sponsored the show), driven by two completely different looking husbands with the same name, while also featuring guest appearances by Napoleon, […]
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Cash Flow Management Advice from Ben Franklin: Prepare for the Worst
June 3rd, 2013 
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1 Comment »Avoid “Penalty Fee Grief” with Skillful Use of Bill Payment Tools
February 15th, 2013 admin Swiss American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross discovered that we all tend to go through five stages of grieving: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. These stages were originally associated with people who are suffering from terminal illness, but since then they’ve been found to apply more broadly to other types of loss, including financial loss. And […]
Posted in Asset Accumulation, Assets, Cash Flow, Debt, Debt Reduction, Financial Independence, Financial Life Cycle, Financial Planning, Liabilities, Net Worth, Savings, Wealth, Wealth Accumulation Tags: bill pay, bounced check fees, budget management, cash flow navigator, cashflownavigator, checking account, credit line, daily living expenses, financial independence, financial life cycle, float, Keith Whelan, online checking, overdraft, penalty fees, variable living expenses No Comments »The Secret to Winning at Monopoly™
January 9th, 2013 admin The Famous Board Game Offers Lessons on Real Estate’s Rewards – and Risks Monopoly is one of the most popular board games of the past century. And why not? It gives you the opportunity to acquire wealth in form of real estate AND to generate cash flow not just from the properties but by also […]
Posted in Asset Accumulation, Assets, Cash Flow, Debt, Debt Accumulation, Debt Reduction, Financial Independence, Financial Life Cycle, Financial Planning, Investments, Liabilities, Net Worth, Savings, Wealth, Wealth Accumulation Tags: cash flow, cash flow navigator, cashflownavigator, debt, financial independence, financial life cycle, income, investment, Keith Whelan, leverage, Monopoly, wealth No Comments »Wealth and Cash Flow Lessons from The Millionaire Next Door
December 13th, 2012 admin Attitudes and Behaviors of the Affluent – How do you Compare? Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko have met with and conducted research among wealthy Americans since the early 1970s. As the title of their first book The Millionaire Next Door suggests, the profile of a typical millionaire might surprise you. For example, most […]
Posted in Asset Accumulation, Assets, Cash Flow, Debt, Debt Reduction, Financial Independence, Financial Life Cycle, Financial Planning, Liabilities, Net Worth, Retirement, Savings, Uncategorized, Wealth, Wealth Accumulation Tags: cash flow, cash flow navigator, cashflownavigator, financial independence, financial life cycle, income, investments, Keith Whelan, millionaire, rich, wealth, Wealth and Cash Flow Millionaire Next Door, wealthy No Comments »The Impact of our Federal Debt on Your Household’s Net Worth and Cash Flow
November 20th, 2012 admin The Bad News: The Average U.S. Household is Now Bankrupt (Really) As I write this, our federal debt – the sum of many years of annual budget deficits – stands at $16.1 trillion, or about $135,000 per household*. (No, that is not a typo.) As noted in our e-booklet, Wealth is Good, Cash Flow is Better, […]
Posted in Assets, Cash Flow, Debt, Debt Reduction, Liabilities, Net Worth, Retirement, Wealth, Wealth Accumulation Tags: bankrupt, cash flow, cash flow navigator, cashflownavigator, credit card, debt, deficit, financial independence, financial life cycle, interest, Keith Whelan, monthly payments, net worth, payment, principal, wealth No Comments »Spotlight On…The Navigator Tracking Tool
July 26th, 2012 admin A runner-up choice for our tagline was “Financial Independence, One Goal at a Time.” That’s actually a description of just one part – the last part – of the Cashflownavigator system: using the Navigator Tracking Tool. Setting a goal, and using the Navigator Tracking Tool to achieve it, completes a Cashflownavigator cycle. The cycle begins […]
Getting Ahead Early, Part 3: Moving Forward in the Financial Life Cycle with the Help of Rental Income
June 29th, 2012 admin Creating a Cash Flow Source in Your 20s or 30s OK, so let’s say you’re in your 20s and with the help of a family savings and investment account (see Part 2 of this series) you have little or no debt and $20-25,000 in liquid accounts (savings, stock). What can you do to build on […]
Cash Flow is Better, But Wealth is Still Good
May 31st, 2012 admin You Need Both to Complete the Picture You might have noticed that we devote much of our time and attention to the topic of cash flow. It’s the lead subject of our e-booklet, a key component of our measurement tool, and is regularly featured in our blog articles. We do this in large part because […]
Posted in Cash Flow, Financial Independence, Financial Life Cycle, Net Worth, Wealth Accumulation Tags: annuity, assets, cash flow, cash flow navigator, cashflownavigator, CDs, dividends, financial independence, financial life cycle, income streams, Keith Whelan, liabilities, net worth, retirement, wealth No Comments »Unsure About Retirement Account Contributions? Consider Einstein’s Theory.
May 31st, 2012 admin Compounding Compound Interest I’ve always admired Albert Einstein. After all, he was a fairly intelligent fellow. In science, he changed our understanding of light and of gravity, helped prove the existence of molecules, and explained the nature of space and time. In politics, he was influential as a promoter of peace and freedom. All in […]
The Money Pit, part 2: Beware a House That’s Too Small!
January 20th, 2012 admin I think we can call this “The Goldilocks principle of housing”. A few articles back, I wrote about misadventures during an earlier housing bubble, when we bought a house much larger than our family needed. With a super-sized mortgage, high property taxes and maintenance costs, it put a real strain on our monthly cash flow. […]
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