Have you heard the story of Willow Tufano? She planted a Money Tree and is watching it grow into an orchard.

Check out this video of Willow’s chat with Ellen Degeneres:

So, she bought a house for $12,000. It’s now worth $80,000.  But, rather than sell it, she decided to rent it out and let it provide an income while the market continued to improve. But with no mortgage payments, that’s straight income. Soon after, she purchased a second home for $17,500. That’s like planting ...

Did you know that the odds of winning big with the lottery are something like 1 in 260 million?

It’s scary to realize that you are WAY more likely to get struck by lighting (1 in 10,000 chance of that!), be attacked by a shark OR die in a plane crash (both around a 1 in 11 million chance), or to be crushed to death by a vending machine (1 in 112 million chance.)

Yet hopefuls slap their cash down on convenience store counters each week, clinging to the dream that it will change their liv...

What is retirement?

Retirement is generally accepted as being the period of life when a person is eligible for retirement benefits and, therefore, able to leave the workforce.

In the United States, the Social Security Act established by President Roosevelt allowed for people to receive Social Security benefits at 65, thereby setting the retirement age as such. It’s not a law that people retire at 65, but more of an ideological expectation. After all, why would a person not want to reti...

Our society is plagued with the misunderstanding that the acquisition of something more or better will impart happiness or a sense of success. Do you ever tell yourself the following:

• I’ll be happy when I’m retired.
• I’ll be happy when I pay off my house.
• I’ll be happy when I finally get the right job.
• I’ll be happy when I can afford vacations.
• I’ll be happy when I get that raise, new job...