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Marie Burns, a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®), advocates for women’s financial health. She is an author of a financial checklist book series, speaker, podcast host and partners with clients to offer friendly financial advice in her independent practice www.FocusPointPlanning.com. Visit her at Marie@MindMoneyMotion.com or https://www.facebook.com/MindMoneyMotion/

Latest Posts By Marie Burns

12 months ago

Is It Okay to Live in Our Own Little Bubble?

Does this sound like you? I like my life right where I am. I know there is a lot going on in the world. I keep abreast of it but can’t do much about it all. Inflation has sky-rocketed prices. So I’ve adjusted my spending. Geopolitical and market headlines…

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1 year ago

Unraveling Your Money Mindset: The Knowledge Gap

In the United States, since the late 1990s, financial experts and educators identified a significant gap in financial knowledge among young people. An effort began to designate a special day of the year to educate youth about essential money management skills…

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1 year ago

Are You Buried or Planted?

Although I am not familiar with Christine Caine, an author and speaker focused on empowering women globally, I recently encountered a quote of hers that resonated with me deeply: “Sometimes when you’re in a dark place, you think you’ve been buried. But you’ve actually been planted.”

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1 year ago

A Few Insights from a Clutter Buster

Does your stuff – and the things around you – represent who you are today, or who you were in the past? This is one of several thought-provoking questions in my friend Kim Kubsch’s new book, Joy of Downsizing. Kim is what I would describe as a professional organizer…

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1 year ago

Are You a Good Page Turner?

I just finished, and thoroughly enjoyed, a class called Next Chapter which was based on Harvard’s research on happiness. Researcher Dr. Robert Waldinger also wrote a book about this decades long study called The Good Life and has a popular TED Talk that summarizes his findings…

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1 year ago

The One Trick to Overcoming Financial Procrastination

Jokingly, we have all heard, and then chuckled, the phrase, “Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow?” We call that procrastination. Wikipedia’s definition of procrastination is the act of unnecessarily postponing something despite knowing that there…

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1 year ago

Get Your Docs in a Row: Make this the Year You Get Your House in Order

I love New Year’s Resolution time of year not because of the goal setting but because it gets us thinking about the results we seek. Once you know your desired outcome, your best success is focusing on the small, actionable steps that ultimately…

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1 year ago

If I’m Not Working, Am I Really Worth Anything?

I actually heard a woman say this on a podcast I was listening to. “If I’m not working, am I really worth anything?” My reaction? Out loud, I immediately said, “Oh dear!” Without even thinking, it just came out of my mouth. I still pray that her thought is rare…

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1 year ago

The NOT Bucket List: Do You Have One?

Don’t look now, but the year is about to end, and we will be in New Year’s Resolution time again before you know it. That means it will be time to pull out your Bucket List, Goal List, etc., to review and revamp… again. Have you ever felt like your Bucket List is on pause?

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1 year ago

Alone But Not Lonely, Why It’s So Important

I need to get better at writing down the sources of my favorite phrases and sayings (I have a notebook for those). Recently, I read (and did not write down the source) that a low level of social interaction can be just as unhealthy as smoking, obesity…

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