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		<title>How to Have a Financial Date® To Get on the Same Page With Your Partner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I developed and trademarked the unique process of Financial Dating shortly after my husband and I were married.  Over a period of three years we had charged over $43,930 on our credit cards.  We had different spending styles, no health insurance, no retirement and no clue how much money we spent each month and where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Essential Principles to Building True Wealth Through Changing Your Money Paradigm</title>
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We’ve been taught that creating wealth requires years of personal sacrifice:  to work long hours and not have time for ourselves, our relationships, and the things that matter most.  This paradigm, or map of reality, focuses on the end result at the expense of our quality of life. Wealth is separate from our selves, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Budgeting &#8211; How to Make it Work for YOU!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Personal Budgeting – Budgeting Tips So Your Budget Works For YOU!
 
Spending Plans are more effective than budgets in that they allow us to balance our desire to save more for the future (by investing in a secure retirement plan, an emergency savings fund, a down payment for a home and/or funds for a much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Budgeting Tips &#8211; The Simple Basics You Need to Know to Create a Budget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of us internally cringe or feel rebellious when we think about setting parameters on our spending.  Images flash in our minds of having to pinch pennies for the rest of our lives and do without things that bring us joy–like nice dinners out, new clothes or fun, exotic vacations.  We react this way because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage and Money Problems: What to Do When You Have Money Conflicts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“I can’t begin to tell you how frustrating it’s been having a partner who says, ‘yes, yes, yes’ and then doesn’t come through!  My husband just won’t do his financial homework.  I’ve loved and encouraged him when he chooses positive financial behaviors but somehow it&#8217;s still too scary or hard for him to own his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.financialdating.com/marriage-and-money-problems-what-to-do-when-you-have-money-conflicts/</link>
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		<title>Financial Success And Prosperity is an Inside Job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s amazing to reflect back on how life was for me many years ago:  I was newly married, I quit a secure job and took an adventurous two-month honeymoon in New Zealand and came back to a beautiful new home in a gorgeous part of Montana with thousands upon thousands of dollars of credit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our 2009 Year End Retreat For Setting Goals and New Years Resolutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My husband and I escaped on our week-long Year End Retreat at the beautiful Lochsa Lodge in Idaho this year. We stayed in a cute cabin that had beautiful forest views from the windows and a cozy wood-burning stove. I just love the feeling of arriving some place and knowing that you don’t have any obligations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Create Intentional Resolutions for the New Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the number one New Year&#8217;s resolutions that people made this year was to improve their finances.&#160;It&#8217;s one thing to have a goal to improve your finances but it&#8217;s another thing to actually make it happen.
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Be honest, do you know how you&#8217;re going to clearly and effectively achieve your financial goals?&#160;Unfortunately most people fail [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.financialdating.com/how-to-create-intentional-resolutions-for-the-new-year/</link>
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		<title>How To Budget: Give Yourself Some Fun Money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Give yourself some fun money in your personal budgeting. When you&#8217;re trying to figure out how to budget for the family it is important to keep in mind that every couple should have their own “fun spending money” that they choose to track how they spend or not—the choice is up to you.  Of all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.financialdating.com/tips-on-how-to-make-a-budget-solution-3-give-yourself-some-fun-money/</link>
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		<title>How to Budget: Set Up a Fixed and Variable Checking Account</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I actually learned this approach from one of my students shortly after I began teaching classes on money management for couples.  This is an approach that my husband and I use and it has been incredibly effective for us.]]></description>
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