Many individuals and families find setting a budget to be a daunting task and can’t seem to keep a budget intact for very long. The key to not feeling trapped and bossed around by a spreadsheet is to consider it a ‘spending plan’. YOU get to determine where your money goes! Spend your money by [...]

Today’s blog is a reflective exercise to acknowledge what is going well and not so well with your finances. If you’re not in a place where you can write your answers now, please consider your answers to these questions until you can complete the exercise fully.To get started on your debt-free journey, it’s really important [...]

The majority of clients I coach are in debt largely due to their relationship with money. Your attitude toward money and managing it directly affects how good or bad your financial reality is. Not only do I coach clients on how to utilize the tools and set action steps toward getting out of debt, but [...]

Changing your life and eliminating your debt is 20% know-how and 80% focus and positive beliefs in your ability to do it! So often we don’t realize how our attitude can affect our relationships. Just like in human relationships, our relationship with money is seriously affected by our attitude towards it. Is money a tool [...]

Beginning October 20, I will be personally conducting a new 4-week coaching group or teleclass focused on Financial Beliefs. In my work helping clients climb their way out of debt toward financial success, I have learned, over and over again, that most individuals find themselves in this situation due to their financial beliefs. So often, [...]

Coach Melissa will be personally leading a 4-week financial belief coaching group beginning on Thursday night, October 20th at 7 p.m. Pacific time. The group will be conducted by teleconference. For more details, please email inquiry (at) coachmelissa (dot) net.

You are a master at whipping a low-performing space into a highly functional home or business, and you don’t take no for an answer when a “hoarder” of any sorts wants to keep everything. So how does your bank account look? Is your personal financial situation as in control as your junk drawer? Use financial [...]

Recently, I found myself thinking about money beliefs, the sorts of things that hold us back from success. Beliefs about money Sometimes, any of our belief sets can be completely off-kilter, including money beliefs, relationship beliefs, work ethic beliefs, etc. Lots of people I meet (who are often like you or anyone you know), never [...]

We all have certain quirks about us. The way we naturally respond to any given situation is a culmination of our total experiences of our entire life, and this includes struggling with money. As we grow older we continue to strengthen those automatic responses like habits, whether good or bad. When your boss says, “We [...]