your-money

This past year has been one of the busiest of my career. While the work has been rewarding, I’ve developed some bad habits. I routinely sit at my desk for up to 12 hours a day to finish a job and I work on weekends, leaving my husband with the kids while I toil away in our home office.

According to a new book by Laura Vanderkam, called What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, the first hours of the day are crucial to one's success in career and in life. She explains that the most successful people know how to leverage those early hours to accomplish more.

My son started preschool this year. He’s in a co-op program, so I get to volunteer one morning a month to help chase after the 13 kids in his class. I love being able to do this but it’s completely exhausting. And it gives me a huge appreciation of how much work his teachers do to make his school experience great.

I’ve been writing about money for over ten years — during that time I’ve written about everything from high finance to how to save money at the grocery store. But just because I write about money doesn’t mean I haven’t made my own mistakes over the years.

How much did it cost you to go to university? And did you go into debt to get your degree?