Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Financial Wellness

Falling Apart vs Drifting Apart

Posted on by Marie Burns
Drifting
01
Jun

I read a recent headline: Marriages don’t fall apart, they drift apart. I am not a marriage counselor but I serve as a money counselor so my brain immediately went to the fact that the same can be said of our money life. Our finances rarely fall apart overnight, it is usually a gradual drifting…

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Financial Advocate, Financial Planning, Financial Wellness, Financially Organized

Embracing Less Worry to Enjoy More Life!

Posted on by Marie Burns
Less worry more life
20
Apr

An Overdue Requirement Good news! We are getting close to half of our states here in the US that will begin to require a personal finance course in order to graduate from high school. Yeah! At the same time, I’m also wondering why we haven’t done this long ago? Making Financial Decisions Who can you…

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Financial Wellness, Financially Organized

NEXT! The Perfect Four-Letter Word for Your Life

Posted on by Marie Burns
Next blog
06
Apr

I don’t know about you, but lately I find myself frustrated with technology to the point of finally laughing out loud and throwing up my hands saying “What’s next!?!” It’s been a slew of things lately: my phone has been saying for weeks that it will be doing an update overnight only to tell me…

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Mindset

Turning Positive Thoughts into Sticky Sound Bites

Posted on by Marie Burns
sticky sound bites
07
Mar

One of the most fascinating analogies I read in the past few years that truly helped me to understand the importance of something is that sleep is like a dishwasher cycle in our brain. The Dishwasher Cycle If we interrupt it or cut it short or stop and start it, we can end up with…

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Uncategorized

What is Your Life “Litmus Test”? Make Sure You Ask Yourself These Three Questions.

Posted on by Marie Burns
litmus test
28
Jan

A definite way of deciding something. Chemistry class is where I first heard the term “litmus test” used where it is literally a test (usually a paper strip) that determines if a solution is acidic. In politics, a litmus test is a question asked of candidates to determine if their nomination proceeded. A litmus test…

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Financial Planning, Gift Giving

Gift Ideas From Grandparents: What’s a Mimi to Do?

Posted on by Marie Burns
gift giving for grandparents
21
Dec

I have evolved over the years in my thinking around gift-giving to children as well as grandchildren. Perhaps you have, too? It’s a blessing that in many situations our grandchildren don’t “need” anything that their parents can’t already provide for them. Our children are often better off than we were at their age, right? For which…

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Financial Wellness, Mindset

Have You Swallowed a Poison Pill in Your Relationships?

Posted on by Marie Burns
Black Woman looking out window
28
Nov

Have you ever been so angry or upset with someone and then realized that they either had no idea what upset you OR they acted like they either didn’t care or didn’t notice that you were upset? Holding onto that extreme negativity and resentment and feeling like your blood is just boiling triggers cortisol, the…

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Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Financially Organized

The Terror of Inheriting a Mess Part 3: Your Scary Stories Continued

Posted on by Marie Burns
Mature woman frustrated
14
Nov

After sharing Part 1 and Part 2 of the Inheriting a Mess and scary stories series, and since I keep receiving comments, emails, and shared stories from readers and other women I have talked with recently, I thought it only fitting to finish with one more blog on the scariest day of the year (Happy Halloween!). I hope that…

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Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Financially Organized

The Terror of Inheriting a Mess: Part 2

Posted on by Marie Burns
mature woman confused
31
Oct

What better time to complete this topic series – Terror of Inheriting a Mess – than October, National Estate Planning Awareness Month!?! Based on your feedback and sharing from Part 1, this blog shares stories, tips and encouragement for those who have experienced inheriting a mess. Your Stories One Sixty and Me reader forewarned that you often can’t…

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