Category Archives: Learning New Things

5 Things I’ve Learned From My 5 Year Career

May 17, 2012 at 09:04

Kraig Mathias

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career plan, strategy and success

This month marks 5 years since I graduated college and started my first, and only so far, post college job. To some people, that doesn’t sound like much time at all. To us twenty-somethings, that is a pretty long time. I mean, it was the spring of 2007 and the economy had not yet crashed. [...]

5 Not-So-Fun Things About Living Below Your Means

May 5, 2012 at 17:45

Kraig Mathias

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livingbeneathyourmeans

There are a lot of awesome things about living below your means. I’ve written about many of them over the last few months and you’ll hear them all over the personal finance world as well. Now that I’ve been living below my means for 2 years, I’ve experienced both the fun things and the not-so-fun [...]

How to Handle Life When It Attempts to Drive You Nuts

April 29, 2012 at 16:58

Kraig Mathias

11

handlingstressunknownsandhardtimes

A few months ago, I wrote the post “On Handling Life’s Unknowns“. If you are new to this blog or just never got a chance to read that, I’d highly recommend it. It’s just the story of my life over the last year. See, this past year has been a rough one for my family [...]

Are You Personally Accountable?

March 26, 2012 at 22:30

Kraig Mathias

23

begingaccountable

About a month ago, I wrote a post on how I feel that passion is contagious. Since I started listening to Dave Ramsey, I’ve noticed that I’ve picked up an excitement for a lot of the same things he’s excited about. I don’t think it’s because he’s my idol (because he’s not), but I think [...]

The Three Biggest Financial Mistakes I’ve Made In My Twenties

March 16, 2012 at 07:00

Kraig Mathias

9

Right and wrong

  This is a guest post from Katie at Along for the Journey. Katie is a 25-year-old mother to two beautiful girls. She is currently pursuing her accounting degree and blogs at Along for the Journey about her financial mistakes and aspirations. I encourage you to check out her blog and read all the great things [...]

Strategy in Personal Finance and Life

February 26, 2012 at 13:41

Kraig Mathias

2

personalstrategy

In the past few years, I’ve thought a lot about strategy in my personal and professional life but have only wrote things down regarding it on 4 pieces of paper (not including the work I do at my job). I pulled them out this weekend because I’m fired up about the strategy, or lack there-of, [...]

Attitude – Does it Make a Difference?

February 21, 2012 at 21:17

Kraig Mathias

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attitude

It All Started with a 1.9 High School GPA I went through many years of my adolescent and early adult life with a poor attitude. I clearly remember sitting at my high school awards breakfast and graduation ceremony right where I was, in my chair, as most of the others got up to receive their [...]

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