As you work your ass off to make good financial decisions, how can you tell whether you’re actually making progress? How do you know whether all that work is paying off? There’s one number that gives you a better answer than anything else, and in those post you’ll learn what it is, why it’s so important, and how to measure it yourself.Read more…

If you spend any time at all learning about personal finance, you’ll quickly hear the advice to focus on net worth instead of income. Net worth, we’re told, is the true indicator of wealth. I mean, hey, just last week I wrote about the importance of net worth in bringing you closer to what I consider to be the top… Read more

Ever since I started using mint.com to track my budget several years ago, I’ve been fascinated by its tool to track my net worth. It became a something of a game to me, trying to make sure that it was increasing every single month. It was motivating, and that motivation improved my financial situation. Now I keep my own spreadsheet… Read more