Financial Literacy Month 2025
The month of November is Financial Literacy Month! Come explore the various topics this year, such as conscious spending, the process of money management, and comparative finances.
Financial Balance
Financial literacy and personal financial balance are not fixed skills, but a continuous, adaptive practice that should evolve as your finances change, as the economic environment shifts, and as your needs and wants develop. Maintaining financial balance is a series of decision-making. Find out more about how to spend more mindfully in a world that is increasingly pushing us to spend impulsively.
Shopping for Financial Balance: The Art of Mindful Spending
Achieving and maintaining financial balance is increasingly challenging in a world saturated with media designed to influence constant spending. Media, and most especially social media,…
Money Management
Admittedly, starting a budget can be a bit daunting. It’s often perceived as boring, complex, restrictive, and can sometimes make us feel guilty. However, by trying out different methods of budgeting, we can start to personalize and evolve them to create our own financial system that best fits our individual goals, lifestyle, and spending habits.
Managing Your Money: Building Your Financial System
Everybody is different. Our needs, wants, and goals are all unique. There is rarely a one-size-fits-all solution to managing your money. This is why it’s…
The Trap of Comparing your Finances to Others
For a long time throughout history, our world was relatively small. Our world consisted of our neighbours, our family and friends, and who we saw at work. Nowadays, with social media, our world has grown exponentially. We no longer just see what our neighbours have – we see what everyone has. In a single doomscroll, we see people on vacations, people buying luxury goods, people going to beautiful restaurants, and that makes us feel like we’re missing out. This is also repeated over and over again as we scroll every day.
The Trap of Comparing your Finances to Others
The phrase ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ originated in England in 1879 and then was popularized by a comic strip that began in 1913[i] and…