Debt to Dreams

I have finally managed to resolve all three of the major personal finance mistakes I made shortly after school! Correcting these mistakes has definitely been critical in turning around my financial situation.
The biggest mistake took the longest to resolve but that is to be expected. Over the course of 2006 I had already [...]

I know this is supposed to be a personal finance blog but I reserve the right to move slightly off topic. In everything I do, from finance management to my career in medicine, a certain degree of motivation/inspiration has been needed for me to get off my tail and do the right thing.  One of the [...]

The third major personal finance mistake I made is one that is a lifetime struggle for most of us. It was simply not knowing where my money was going. Every finanical magazine/guru will tell you this is the first place to start when turning your finances around.
The cure always sounds a lot [...]

Earlier I stated that my first personal finance mistake was buying a brand new car. The second mistake I made was to have a preconcieved idea of what a young single professional’s lifestyle was like. As much as I like to believe that I am not influenced by media and my peers, [...]

This is just a small update for the begining of this blog.  This blog has been something I have wanted to start for quite some time but like most people never seemed to get around to starting.  Now that I have started, I have about a years worth of ideas and posts I would like to [...]

Here is the first of the 3 major personal finance mistakes I have made in the past 4 years. I feel that these few mistakes are at the core of my current fiscal difficulties. I have managed to correct two of these mistakes but I am still working on the third. I am dividing [...]

Here is the starting balance from which I will measure the rest of my improvements. I wanted to wait until January but I will have made a lot of changes by then and I wanted to have a true record of where I am starting from. As you can guess from the title [...]

This is my first post on what should be an exciting journey. Now 3 years removed from the educational establishment and armed with the finance management skills of a “typical American” I find myself with a fair amount of debt. I have decided to reform my ways and join what looks like [...]