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Financial Willpower is a Muscle
Here's what most financial advice gets wrong: it assumes you have unlimited willpower to resist temptation, stick to your budget, and make the "right" choice every single time. Spoiler alert, you don't. None of us do. And that's not a personal failing; it's just how humans work. Financial willpower operates much like a physical muscle. It can be strengthened with practice, but it also gets tired when you use it too much. Understanding this simple truth can completely transfor
Jen Scharien
Oct 293 min read
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When Data Goes Feral: Knowing Which Numbers to Track (and Which to Ignore)
Does your financial data make you feel like this inside? I learned something important about data during my last half-marathon training....
Jen Scharien
Sep 223 min read
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Grow your Mindset Grow your Money
Your relationship with money starts in your mind. Just as Carol Dweck's groundbreaking research showed us that our beliefs about our...
Jen Scharien
Sep 173 min read
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Mindfulness IS Money Management
Transform your relationship with money through the art of mindful awareness
Jen Scharien
Aug 204 min read
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Hindsight is 20/20, Foresight is legally blind
Get a high-five from your future self. As humans are great at looking back and seeing what we should have done, and lamenting on missed...
Jen Scharien
Jul 84 min read
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Impulse Spending & How to Beat It
With unlimited ways to use our money, we want to ensure our spending reflects our intentions rather than our impulses. Impulse spending...
Jen Scharien
Jun 175 min read
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Money Action = Climate Action
Financial Wellness helps us do our part to fight climate change. Climate change is big and scary, like a monster under the bed – except...
Jen Scharien
Jun 106 min read
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Is your money boring? FANTASTIC!
Tune out the headlines—financial peace comes from steady habits, not breaking news. The boring stuff in our lives doesn't get as much...
Jen Scharien
May 193 min read
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Unlocking Your Financial Emotional Intelligence (FEQ): The Key to Better Money Decisions
Financial decisions might look like numbers on a spreadsheet—but inside, it's a full-blown color bomb of emotions. Okay, real talk: Have...
Jen Scharien
May 164 min read
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The Locker Room Paradox
The most physically exposed space can often become the most emotionally safe. In my previous role, I worked in a beautiful downtown...
Jen Scharien
May 123 min read
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Good friends talk about money
A little over a decade ago I was chatting with my friend and we got on the topic of ways to manage money in a relationship. We were both...
Jen Scharien
Jun 13, 20212 min read
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It only matters if you don't want to work for the rest of your life.
Honestly this is what it all boils down to. Do you want to work for the rest of your life? No? then live within your means and invest....
Jen Scharien
Jun 13, 20212 min read
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