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2023 Financial Forecast: How to Prepare for the Year Ahead

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And with a new year approaching quickly, it can be a good opportunity to take stock of what’s happened in the past year—in your personal life, career and with your finances—and think about what changes you’d like to make in the year ahead. As you think about your personal finances heading into 2023, credit card debt should be top of mind.

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What Is Zero-Based Budgeting?

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If you’re like most Americans, your top financial priority for 2022 is to save more money. This sum-total approach to personal finances boasts major savings, but not for free. When you assume full responsibility for your finances, a funny thing starts to happen. As an idea, zero-based budgeting is simple.

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Tori Dunlap, Founder of Her First 100K is on a Mission to Close the Gender Pay Gap

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Although everyone’s personal finance journey is exactly that, there are certain steps we all can take as we pursue financial feminism and literacy. Get familiar with your finances. Knowledge is power, and knowledge of our own finances is especially powerful. It is no secret that the gender wage gap continues to persist in 2022.

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A Single Mother Struggling to Budget Weighs the Balance Between Just Surviving and Really Living

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Even more confident. Right after the workshop, I purchased Egyptian cotton sheets and a duvet cover. And fantasy, I’ve learned, is important, especially when your default setting is a fiscally stressful reality and “hobbies” that include devouring articles on finance, budgeting, inflation and retirement.

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How My Experience as a Black Entrepreneur Shaped My Views on Building Financial Freedom

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Having allies at work isn’t just about having a confidant or an enforcer of policies. In an effort to soothe these discomforts at the office, I would decompress at happy hours, hire personal trainers and purchase loose-fitting clothes—all of which impacted my ability to save and invest. The impact of toxic work environments.

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41 Ways to Improve Yourself in Just 10 Minutes

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Put them on your mirror to boost your confidence on days you find yourself struggling with negative self-image. We start tracking every purchase to try to stay accountable. But don’t get so caught up in tracking finances that you forget to live a little. Combat emotional enemies to improve yourself. But that can be overwhelming.

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Experts Weigh in on 17 Investments for a Rich Life

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We polled a handful of experts, in fields ranging from food to finance, and asked them to talk about ways you can spend your hard-earned money to achieve prosperity —not just the cash-in-your-pocket kind that comes from a profitable business, but also the kind of abundance that enriches your life and feeds your soul. Know your numbers.

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