by Mary Waring | Jan 21, 2022 | Financial Planning
So often people have a New Year’s Resolution to lose weight and/or a New Year’s Resolution to manage their finances better. Now, at first thought, you might not think they have very much in common. But actually, there’s a lot of similarities between losing...
by Mary Waring | Jan 14, 2022 | Mindset
Do you treat your self-care as an important priority, or does it always fall further down the list of what’s important? It’s so common, especially during a busy time, for us to think we don’t have a minute to spare. Work, family, friends, home commitments...
by Mary Waring | Dec 29, 2021 | Real Stories
The little girl above, is me. She grew up in a totally dysfunctional family with an alcohol and abusive father and a neglectful, narcissistic mother. Luckily, she had a natural intelligence and soon realised that if she worked hard at school the...
by Mary Waring | Dec 16, 2021 | Divorce/separation
So often I talk to women going through divorce who haven’t dealt with finance during the marriage and instead have left managing finances to their partner. It’s quite common, at least with my clients. The wife looks after the house, children etc and the...
by Mary Waring | Dec 9, 2021 | Financial Planning, Real Stories
It’s easy to think that being a perfectionist is a good thing. Maybe we have the idea that being a perfectionist helps us to achieve what we want, either in work or in our home lives? It is easy to think so. But, there is a big difference between being a...