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How to Get Your Life Together – Financially Speaking

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Unfortunately, in current the culture, it can be easy to mistake that success in life is as simple as following the wisdom of a few memes. As if the only thing standing between you and learning how to get your life together is believing in yourself and the application of a Dale Carnegie quote.

With no disrespect to Buzzfeed and their 27 simple ways to get your life together, memes are not going to pay the bills. While I’m at it, the real world doesn’t care how special your mom thinks you are or that you have a fancy business school degree. If the economy heads into a recession or the market takes a nosedive, you may go from being a valued “family member” at work to an expendable line item.

New Years’ resolution time is just around the corner, and every year millions of American pledge to save more or get out of debt. Unfortunately, most fall short of their resolutions, so here is the ultimate guide to how to get your life together (financially).

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Liquid Net Worth: What it is and How to Calculate Yours

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Everyone seems to love the gossip surrounding the net worth of celebrities, business people, and athletes. Though, there is a difference between regular net worth and the lesser-known liquid net worth, which is what we’ll get into today.

Jeff Bezos is worth about $116 billion right now in terms of net worth, but does that mean he could go out and purchase 116 billion dollars worth of mansions, yachts, jets, and whatever else rich people buy?

No.

While his net worth is $116 billion, his liquid net worth is a much smaller number.

Calculating liquid net worth is complicated for Jeff because of the huge amount of Amazon stock in his portfolio. This stock gives him a high net worth, but since it is challenging to sell such a large chunk of stock at one time, his liquid net worth suffers (poor Jeff…).

For the rest of us non-billionaires, it’s a little more straightforward, and a very important personal finance metric to understand.

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Garage Sale Tips: How to Increase Your Sales

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Having a garage sale is simple. You open your garage, throw some signs up, and wait for people to come and give you money for your stuff. Like most things in life, though, if you put a little effort into your garage sale, you will get rid of your items quicker and make more money. Stay tuned to get the best garage sale tips to help you increase your sales!

If you’re going through the trouble of having a garage sale, you might as well do the necessary things to ensure it’s a success. With a few tips, you can go above and beyond an average garage sale and make it one to remember!

But first, you should ask yourself if you should even have a garage sale.

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Morning Brew Review: The Modern Newspaper

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What if instead of receiving spam emails and lame 25% off deals in your inbox every morning, you received relevant (and entertaining) news that made you smarter in 5 minutes? That’s what Morning Brew is striving to do, and we’ve got a comprehensive review of their free service below.

I’m not the first to say this, but to me, Morning Brew is a modern newspaper. Morning Brew delivers informative, extremely efficient, and entertaining information to you every morning in the form of an email newsletter.

If you want to sign up now and check it out, you can do so here (it’s free!).

The company was founded by Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief (both members of Forbes 30 under 30 class of 2019) in 2015 with the insight that people just didn’t have enough time to read a newspaper anymore.

Today, they have well over a million subscribers dedicated to getting the latest news and interesting stories.

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High Earner Not Rich Yet – How to Avoid Becoming a HENRY

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I recently heard a term pop up in a podcast ad, “High Earner Not Rich Yet,” or, HENRY for short.

The term caught my attention and I was curious to learn more about these mysterious HENRYs, so I did some research.

I was interested to learn more about various HENRY situations, and how to get out of them.

Turns out, living paycheck to paycheck is not just a problem for the middle class and lower class in America. It can be a problem for people who earn high incomes, which prevents them from accumulating net worth and makes them feel broke.

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