Money is already a sensitive subject. So when people lose money gambling it can lead to feelings of shame or embarrassment. I'm not sure...

This is where personal finance gets personal. I said at the end of the last post that some of us are more susceptible to getting hooked...

We talked about how you can get hooked in the first post. You want to keep playing even if you're losing. It's way too easy to focus on...

I didn't know anything about gambling when I first started. I hadn't watched any videos about gambling or gambling addiction. I have...

December 2022. I was at work and got a gift bag with two holiday-themed lottery tickets. I had seen lottery tickets plenty of times, but...

After getting out of debt, this is the next step to solid personal finance. You can still read this post if you're not out of debt yet,...

This is a series about the basics of personal finance. In this post, we're talking about how and why to get out of debt and stay out of...

Last Christmas at my work, they gave out one dollar scratch off tickets. I won a dollar. Hardly that exciting, that ticket only broke...

First of all I want to say that I am not giving financial advice or investment advice. This is just my experience and impression so far,...

You need to have one thing in place before step 1 of paying off debt. You need to have income. If you're unemployed right now, you need...

I like keeping things simple. A lot of times people make things more complicated than they need to be. While looking around personal...

This is a real question I found on a personal finance forum. I give my own answers to questions and would guide people as best I can....

Reason 1: The Credit Score People act like the credit score is so important, like it's been around forever. The credit score has only...

First let's look at what an emergency fund is and when you need one. Before a full emergency fund, you want to pay off all of your debt...

Some people don't like the word budget. I'm not crazy about it either. The word budget sounds restrictive, it sounds limiting, it sounds...

Car loans, credit cards, personal loans - it's all debt and you should probably pay it off as quick as you can. But before you start...

We see ads and commercial about credit cards and the credit score. We hear about different ways to raise the credit score and how we need...

If you would prefer to watch a video, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiNe3mKB7Mc Here at Jake Shirley Coaching we talk about...

We have such bizarre ideas about money and about rich people. We get angry and upset at rich people, while at the same time wishing that...

The following story is taken from this webpage: http://www.gballard.net/lifes_lessons/girl_rattlesnake/ Girl and the Snake A young girl...