Articles Filed Under 'Plan Your Finances'

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Pay Yourself First

Cops and other law enforcement professionals should consider starting a money management plan as early into their careers as possible, and one major step would be setting money aside before you pay your bills. Paying yourself first is very common advice you may have heard from financial planners or read in personal finance books. [...]

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Successful Cop: Chuck Rylant

I recently had the opportunity to interview a police officer who really has planned for success in his life and his career.
Chuck Rylant began his law enforcement career in 1998 with the Lompoc Police Department in California. During those four years, he worked in a patrol car and later as a field training officer. [...]

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

When is Enough, Enough?

I can think of so my topics to write about using this title but in honor of George Carlin I’m going to write about “stuff”. Check out George’s thoughts on “Stuff”.

These thoughts struck me as we are thinking about moving into a new home and have way too much stuff, which is what I [...]

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

How’s Your Financial Health?

Everyone is talking these days about higher gasoline prices, higher food costs and generally higher costs for everything we enjoy. At the same time the financial markets of the world are struggling, record numbers of people are losing their homes and the misuse of credit has become a global problem.
As a cop, how’s your [...]

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

How to Boost Your Financial IQ

I think if you look at the economy of the United States right now you can see that many people are having financial difficulties but I’m not sure that’s restricted to just the United States. I would also suggest that if you look at cops as a population that we as a whole don’t [...]