Three Ways To Improve Your Money
A Better Money Plan Every Week
Money problems don’t arrive one at a time.
You can understand your spending patterns completely — and still feel stuck because your income hasn’t moved in three years. You can land a raise — and watch it disappear because nothing around your spending changed. You can cut your grocery bill — and still feel anxious about money because the deeper beliefs haven’t shifted.
This is the trap: making real progress in one area while quietly losing ground in another.
Starting today, Money Tips Money Hacks is changing to address all three at once.
Your finances have three problems
1. Think Better About Money
Better financial decisions begin with better thinking.
It’s not just about earning more, budgeting better, or finding the perfect investment. It’s about learning the ideas, habits, and principles that shape the way you approach money every day.
The way you think influences the way you spend, save, earn, negotiate, and plan for the future. Small shifts in perspective can lead to smarter choices, fewer costly mistakes, and greater financial confidence over time.
Each week, you’ll discover practical insights, timeless money lessons, financial habits, and overlooked patterns that help you make better decisions — not just today, but for years to come.
Lasting money change starts here.
2. Grow Your Money
Cutting expenses alone will never build wealth. At some point, you have to earn more.
That doesn’t mean launching a side hustle overnight. It means seeing the income opportunities already around you — negotiation, career positioning, small income streams — and learning how to move toward them with intention.
Most people leave real money on the table every year without realizing it. A raise they didn’t ask for. A skill they didn’t monetize. A conversation they avoided. Income growth is about making different decisions, repeatedly, over time.
3. Keep More of What You Already Earn
You’re already spending money at places like Amazon, Target, Walmart, Instacart, CVS, Safeway, Walgreens and Kroger. Every week. Without a second thought.
You may not realize that those same purchases — the ones you were going to make anyway — could cost meaningfully less with the right discount, promo code, or savings opportunity. That’s money that stays in your account without changing your lifestyle at all.
Savings don’t have to come from sacrifice. Sometimes they come from information.
What this looks like every week
This is a complete financial progress membership — built around the three areas where your money life actually moves.
Every week, paid members receive:
Monday: A think better issue to help you think differently about spending, saving, and building wealth
Wednesday: An income and financial growth issue focused on earning more and building long-term stability
Thursday: The Hidden Savings Report — discounts, promo codes, and savings opportunities from the retailers you already use
Think Better. Earn More. Save More. Every Week.
Because those are the three places your financial life either grows or leaks — and you're only tapping into one.
If you’ve been a free subscriber, this is a good week to upgrade. The membership exists to help you make real, compounding progress — not just feel better about money for a few hours after reading.
The goal is simple: smarter, more stable, more confident with money. That’s the whole thing.
This line feels important:
“You can understand your spending patterns completely — and still feel stuck.”
Yes.
That is such a real gap.
Because understanding a money pattern is not the same as resolving what is underneath it.
Sometimes the issue is not that someone lacks information.
They may know they need to ask for the raise.
Look at the numbers.
Charge more.
Stop emotional spending.
Save differently.
Make the call.
But in the actual moment, the body predicts danger.
Underneath the money pattern is often a nervous system imprint: the body has learned that asking, receiving, earning more, needing support, being visible, or having enough may cost safety, approval, belonging, identity, or love.
That nervous system imprint can resolve.
There is a simple and precise physiological mechanism to do so.
When the body is no longer carrying the old prediction, the same financial moment changes.
The number can become a number.
The conversation can become a conversation.
The decision can become a decision.
And money no longer has to carry the old alarm.
This completely highlights what it takes to build real wealth. You truly have to address all three: thinking better, earning more, and keeping what you make.
This aligns perfectly with my own journey.
I spent decades working two to three jobs and saving aggressively to drastically grow and keep my income. I used that hard-earned capital to buy my first rental property, and today, I let that cashflow automatically compound into covered call ETFs.
I keep a solid safety net of a few months' expenses so I never have to panic, which allows me to completely set and forget the rest. Putting in that grinding active work upfront was all about changing my financial thinking so I could build a simple, automated system that buys back my ultimate freedom.