Safiyyah Bazemore
Articles by Safiyyah Bazemore
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Infographic: Lifestyle creep and how to avoid it
Monday, August 05, 2019Getting a promotion or raise when you’ve been hard at work on your career is one of the most rewarding feelings. For all the potential good that comes with increased earnings, there’s also danger in upping your spending to match your additional income. This phenomenon, called lifestyle creep, begins to happen more and more until expenses that were once considered to be luxuries or splurges suddenly feel as if they’re necessary. To tell whether you’re in danger of lifestyle creep and to learn more about how to combat its negative effects, see this infographic.
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Infographic: How to make your life easier with automation
Thursday, May 23, 2019With limited time and a seemingly endless list of things to do, how can we hope to get everything done without losing our minds in the process? That’s where automation comes in. Automation, which allows you to "set and forget" a process or technology to get tasks done for you, can free up precious time by handling mundane activities that still have to get done. For example, you can automate your finances to pay down debt, make shopping a breeze by signing up for automatic grocery delivery, and set up auto-responders to keep your inbox free of clutter.