by Julia Chung | Apr 23, 2018 | CPP, Monthly Spring Update, Personal Finance, Personal Financial Planning, Small Business
Have you ever felt like everyone is working with the same set of information that you are – and therefore, sharing it would not be valuable? It’s a cognitive bias called “false-consensus,” which leads people to believe that their own values and ideas are...
by Julia Chung | Apr 23, 2018 | Accountability, Budgets, Cash Flow, Credit Cards, Debt Management, Personal Finance
In the world of financial planning, there are different kinds of planning, with different areas of focus and levels of complexity. At Spring, we divide that complexity up into Cash Flow, Comprehensive, and Advanced planning. But here’s a secret: It always comes down...
by Sandi Martin | Apr 17, 2018 | Week in the Life
Monday, March 26 5:00AM My alarm goes off, and I head downstairs for the best part of the day (the quiet part with hot coffee and no random Marvel movie questions because my son — and everyone else — is still asleep). I don’t often get up this early...
by Sandi Martin | Apr 10, 2018 | Canadian Personal Finance News
I have a short reading list for you this month, since most of us are either rushing to file our taxes or rushing to get outside after a long, cold winter. Notable articles that didn’t quite make the top three include this one from Andray Domise on how – if 40%...
by Sandi Martin | Apr 3, 2018 | Book Review, Budgets, Goal Planning, Personal Finance
Worry Free Money: The Guilt-Free Approach to Managing Your Money and Your Life by Shannon Lee Simmons isn’t making empty promises in the title. There’s literally no guilt in it. None. The revolutionary thing about Worry Free Money is that it doesn’t start with...