Comments on: Coping with Financial Stress

By: Carolyn Sexton

Carolyn Sexton — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:20:43 +0000

A career in financial planning is still lucrative despite the worldwide financial crunch. As long as money is used in our economy financial planners will be needed. You have to pay your dues to become a financial planner but once you pass the test and prove your mettle, you can expect a handsome return for your efforts.

By: shonna

shonna — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:58:17 +0000

What a great blog post on how to deal with the stress! I absolutely love it. I would hope that everyone would try these very useful tactics!

By: Russell

Russell — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:39:55 +0000

I worked as a free debt adviser for over 10 years here in the UK. Official statistics showed that over 25% of debt clients suffered mental illness. Of the people I helped every working day, I would say the figure was closer to 60%.

All the best.

By: Claire in CA, USA

Claire in CA, USA — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:09:08 +0000

When we took Dave Ramsey’s class, he said that his wife requires that they have an emergency fund, and a back-up emergency fund, and a back-up to the back-up emergency fund because of their past financial disasters. I can’t wait to just have our debt paid off. That will lessen the stress considerably.

By: Colleen in MA

Colleen in MA — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:42:13 +0000

Great link – thanks! I would also add reviewing financials for a set period of time. I can get myself into a zone reviewing credit card rates, checkbook balances, past budgets, etc etc. Sometimes I have to force myself to put it away and do something fun. But I remind myself that after my planning it all needs a chance to work – away from me.

By: Tricia

Tricia — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:34:34 +0000

Our bedroom is for two things…sleeping and my home office. At first it was difficult to keep the two separate, but now I can usually go in my room at night and not even notice my desk. Out of necessity it the room has double function. In our future home, we will probably keep the master bedroom multifunctional to maximize space. But we will have it partitioned or have the home office hidden or something.

By: the weakonomist

the weakonomist — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:24:47 +0000

The rule about the bedroom being for sleeping only is crucial.

My fiance sends way too much time in her room. She watches TV, plans her wedding, works on the computer etc…

She rarely gets a good night’s sleep because of all the stress she puts herself under.

I spend a decent amount of time in my room, but I don’t ever do anything stressful. Coming into my room is like a zen closet of tranquility.