Freestyle Archives - Traveling Wallet

01Feb 2016 by The Roamer 4 Comments

Trust the system

Continuous improvement, Debt Destruction, Freestyle

Systems What does that mean anyway? It means a set path. Following steps. That if you do A it will lead to B and then C. But I am having trouble with this one. See I'm taking an online course. Or should I say retaking it because last time I got stuck... Lost momentum and then stopped. Trust the system I said to myself after watching the video. What the heck does that mean anyways? (more…)

31Jul 2015 by The Roamer 4 Comments

A Loan on Life: Helping someone out

Counter Culture, Finance, Freestyle

How helping someone can go completely against good financial advice. And how it can change lives. I had messed up. I hadn't done my best. I hadn't tried my hardest. Maybe I hadn't taken it seriously from the get go. But there I was needing to take more classes and having just lost a big financial aid scholarship. $12,600 if I remember correctly. The scholarship was only good for the standard time to complete the degree. Me, I had just failed to do that. Why did I even go to college? You see my parents didn't go to college right after high school in fact my dad never even graduated. My mom finish high school and was shipped off to American from her central American home. My dad dropped out…

24Jul 2015 by The Roamer 2 Comments

Money Cycle: Spend, Worry, Earn

Freestyle, Saving

Spending money before its in your pocket. You know this is a frequent topic when it comes to money and often its used to illustrate poor financial habits. Some guy buying a big screen TV in anticipation of a big bonus. Or some girl eyeing some strappy sandals and a nice paring bag. Because she deserves it. Honestly I've never suffered from wanting to buy stuff before even having the money in my hand. Actually I'm a really bad shopper period. Even when I see something I want and think about it I regularly convince myself out of the purchase. And even to this day there are things I still want after years and years of thinking about it. (Like the signature little black dress, and a nice blazer). Have…

21Jun 2015 by The Roamer 5 Comments

When Life happens TO You

Counter Culture, Freestyle

You know when life happens to you.... When you wake up one morning and you can't believe you are in a certain situation... How did this happen?... How is it that I am still stuck in this dead end job. Or what happen to my dream of roughing it abroad... Life happens when you let go of the wheel .... When you stop being intentional and just go with the flow.. Going with the flow can be fine if that's truly who you are . but if you wake up one day and you don't know how you got to that point, then it means you flowed to much off track... I keep hearing this term thrown around and with out any follow up research I can say I'm probably…

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