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Course review: How to Win the Game of Advanced Personal Finance

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on January 27, 2020 | Featured

I review “How to Win the Game of Advanced Personal Finance”, an online course by Ramit Sethi (from I Will Teach You Be Rich). A while back, I talked about purchasing a personal finance course. In response to the obvious … Read More … Read More

Tags: courses, Ramit Sethi, wealth

How to determine if a purchase is worth deliberating over

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on January 20, 2020 | Featured

If you cut down on time spent making decisions on things that don’t matter, you will have more energy for the decisions that do. As you make more money, the way a certain amount of money will feel will change. … Read More … Read More

Tags: BBS, Better Off Dead, feelings, limits, spending

I am not me: Capital One and the failure of Know Your Customer

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on January 13, 2020 | Featured

A frustrating experience trying to login to an account leads to a rumination on how Know Your Customer (KYC) fails us and our humanity. In the financial services industry, you need to be familiar with a procedure called Know Your … Read More … Read More

Tags: Capital One, Capital One 360, customer service, ING Direct, Know Your Customer, KYC

Time to be intentional with your accounts

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on January 6, 2020 | Featured

Verifying your accounts will keep your funds all accounted for, and will help you to decide if it’s time to change servicers. It’s a new year, and with it the usual deluge of good intentions, lofty goals, and everything going … Read More … Read More

Tags: 401(k), access, accounts, new year

Reflect on how much progress you’ve made

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on December 30, 2019 | Featured

Why and how to reflect on how far you’ve come, not just how far you need to go, so you can be stay motivated to continue. I moved to New York City in 2003. Life in NYC was hard, and … Read More … Read More

Year in review 2019: Top 10 posts

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on December 23, 2019 | Featured

The top posts of the year on Empathic Finance, including both my favorites and the ones readers viewed most. At the beginning of this year, I made a big change to this site. After six years of blogging on a … Read More … Read More

Tags: best of, my favorites, reader favorites, top 10, top 5

Your income is not your value

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on December 16, 2019 | Featured

Our beliefs about income can be toxic. People who make more than you are not better than you, and they don’t have a higher value either. I’m a huge fan of older video games, the ones made before 1990. Some … Read More … Read More

Tags: beliefs, Cantor, income, value

How would your life be different if you weren’t concerned about money?

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on December 9, 2019 | Featured

Your life may look very different if you weren’t concerned with making money. You should learn this now to help you be more intentional later. Most of us have aligned our lives around the acquisition and protection of money in … Read More … Read More

Tags: concern, freedom, future

The ritual of the end-of-the-month budget freeze

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on December 2, 2019 | Featured

When your budget has you run low on money at the end of the month, the upside is that it feels all the better when the new month begins. Wow, this last month was tight. I pretty much spent all … Read More … Read More

Tags: budget, budgeting, ritual

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Course review: How to Win the Game of Advanced Personal Finance

How to determine if a purchase is worth deliberating over

I am not me: Capital One and the failure of Know Your Customer

Time to be intentional with your accounts

Reflect on how much progress you’ve made

Year in review 2019: Top 10 posts

Your income is not your value

How would your life be different if you weren’t concerned about money?

The ritual of the end-of-the-month budget freeze

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