Anti-Budgeting: How to Outsmart Yourself Financially
You’ve probably heard that you should save a percentage of your income. Have you ever felt frustrated when it comes to finding that money? You’re not alone. Have you tried to budget your money only to fail? Me, too! Let me introduce you to the anti-budget. Here’s the good...
The Power of Getting Real with Yourself
Chances are that you’re reading this because you want to change something about yourself. Since this is Canoosa Finance, it’s probably the balance in your bank account that you want to increase. It could be your weight. Or maybe you want to get into (or out of!) a relationship....
How to Improve Your Financial Durability
Financial durability is the ability to financially overcome challenges that come your way. It means that you have resources available to you. These resources are a combination of money, skills, tools, and supplies. In this post you will learn how to improve your financial durability. There can be emergencies...
How To Thrive with Fewer Things
While visiting family in Colorado, my sister invited me to attend a meditation session at her Yoga studio Sunny Isle Yoga. During that session, it came up about letting go of things that we don’t need anymore. We all bring things into our lives for various reasons. Often these...
7 Methods to Increase Task Productivity
How can we increase task productivity in our lives? I know this isn’t directly about money, but both time and money are forms of wealth. My intention with this post is not to encourage you to take on more tasks. This is how to complete our current tasks in...
Your Habits Control Your Money & Your Life
We are a product of our habits. There are reasons why some people have accumulated wealth, and there are reasons why others are broke. People tend to be overweight or healthy because of their habits. Habits are like the individual strands that make up a mighty rope. On their...
Channeling Money for an Intentional Life
Water and money are two very powerful resources that have huge impacts on human life. When we learn to manage water and channel, or direct it, we can turn a desert into productive farmland. Channeling money can convert a life of living paycheck to paycheck into a life of...
Overcome Your Personal Kryptonite
As teenagers we have these thoughts and aspirations that we are going to go out into the world and conquer it! We want to become Superman or Super Girl. Sometime later we find out that we have our own Kryptonite in our lives. There are things in our lives...
Stay Stocked Up So You Don’t Panic Buy in A Crisis
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. (2 Timothy 1:7) It has been an interesting week here in British Columbia with all the panic buying! We live in the interior of the province, so we...
Are Coffee and Ketchup Making Us Broke and Fat?
A few years ago I came across an article that talked about how only a few extra calories consumed every day leads to the average adult gaining 30 pounds by the age of 50. In the Personal finance community online, there is a lot of talk about not drinking...