A while back, during a housing boom (remember those?), I watched a TV news segment about homeownership. The reporter was interviewing a young married couple shopping for a house and the wife said: “My parents told me to buy the biggest house you can afford, so that’s what we’re doing.” After all, her parents probably […]
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This One Mistake Could Delay Your Retirement by 10 Years
July 12th, 2014 
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No Comments »Wealth and Cash Flow Lessons from Donald Trump. Will You Be an Apprentice?
March 14th, 2014 admin For most people the name Donald Trump conjures up many images — the hair, the pout, the Tower, the casinos. And, of course, “The Apprentice.” He is certainly one of our culture’s most recognizable personalities, and since the 1970s he has accumulated enormous wealth But has that wealth made him financially independent? Not necessarily, at […]
Posted in Asset Accumulation, Assets, Cash Flow, Debt, Debt Reduction, financial behavior, Financial Independence, Investments, Liabilities, Net Worth, Wealth Tags: assets, cash flow, cashflownavigator, debt, donald trump, financial independence, Keith Whelan, liabilities, net worth, wealth No Comments »Use the “80/20 Rule” to Focus on Your Big Financial Opportunities
January 13th, 2014 admin This article, written by Keith Whelan, was recently posted on Wise Bread’s personal finance site. A number of years ago, when I was working for a big company, we had a team of people working on a project with a fairly simple goal: to keep our customers longer. I knew someone on the team and I […]
Posted in Assets, Cash Flow, Financial Independence, Financial Life Cycle, Financial Planning, Investments, Liabilities, Net Worth, Retirement, Wealth Tags: 80/20 Rule, cash flow, cashflownavigator, financial independence, financial life cycle, Keith Whelan, net worth, retirement, wealth No Comments »Cash Flow Management Advice from Ben Franklin: Prepare for the Worst
June 3rd, 2013 admin 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, […]
Posted in Assets, Cash Flow, Debt, Debt Accumulation, Debt Reduction, Financial Independence, Financial Life Cycle, Financial Planning, Investments, Liabilities, Net Worth, Retirement, Savings, Taxes, Wealth, Wealth Accumulation Tags: assets, cash flow, cash flow navigator, cashflownavigator, complete financial independence, daily living expenses, debt, financial independence, financial life cycle, financial management, financial planning, income, Keith Whelan, liabilities, Manage Your Finances, net worth, plan, retirement, Retirement Goal, wealth, wealth accumulation, Wealth and Cash Flow Millionaire Next Door, wealthy 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, […]
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