Freedomizing

So often you get held up on the concept of remodeling your home to add value to it. Let me help you; YOU DO NOT ADD VALUE TO YOUR HOME! EVER!!!! Your home can appreciate, which is a beautiful thing, but it's even said that high-end kitchen remodels, for instance, add 90% of what you put into them.   " According to Remodeling Magazine (http://www.remodeling.hw.net/) you're less likely to recoup your investment in a major kitchen or bathroom remodel than you are to get back what you spend on basic home maintenance such as new siding. Siding replacement recouped 92.8 percent of its cost, according to the study. The only home improvement likely to return more at resale was a minor (roughly $15,000) kitchen remodel, which returned 92.9 percent. Replacing roofs and windows were also high on the list, returning 80 percent or more at resale." From HGTV Let us look at those numbers; you LOSE 10% by "investing" in a kitchen remodel. Would you "invest"...

A friend of mine and also a client, we will call her Sara. Sara, when I met her, was 28, in an administrative position as an assistant. A very positive person, fun to be around and terribly underemployed. She struggled to keep positive, and told me she had the opinion of her job at the time "take it or leave it." She began biking to and from work, not a long bike ride but enough to get her blood running in the morning and wake her up. From there she began taking jogs in the woods, having always been a hiker she thought maybe she could accomplish more by jogging the hiking trails. I noticed that she was happier at work over the next six months to a year, then out of nowhere she signs up for one of the most difficult trail run marathons in the country! I pulled her aside and asked if I could use her as a case study at that time. This blog was still a thought; I hadn't even conceptualized the idea of financial freedom through physical achievements. Keep in mind I had thi...