Personal Finance and Lifestyle Guide
Tiffany Raiford is a lifelong Floridian, wife to my high school sweetheart and mother of four littles (two girls and boy/girl twins...no, they are not identical and yes, I'm sure). My kids love to whine, so I love to wine. My loves include nap time, bed time, date night, travel and evenings and weekends when my husband is home because he handles all diaper changes.
Cosmetic reasons might be the main influence behind your desire to lose weight, but vanity is not the only reason your excess poundage should be taken care of. Even a few excess pounds can cause health problems that might astonish you. From high blood pressure to obesity to diabetes to heart disease, extra weight is […] More
A positive thought, a positive word, and a positive mind are the best weapons against stress. We all feel it. It happens. We stress about our kids, our marriages, our homes, our life. We worry we aren’t good parents. We worry that we aren’t spending enough time focusing on our marriages. We worry that spending […] More
Bridezilla: The woman everyone loves to hate. She’s mean to her friends, she’s mean to her fiancé, and she’s means to just about everyone in between. Who wants to be that woman? Who wants to be the woman that everyone hates and whispers about behind her back. No one wants to be the woman who […] More
Bad eating habits cause weight gain, kill your health, and make you feel awful. For that reason, many of us employ good eating habits. Nothing is worse than feeling like you’re dragging because you didn’t eat very well one day. However, even the best of us have some bad eating habits that we cannot shake. […] More
Turning your dreams into reality isn’t as difficult as you actually think it is. Success is something everyone can accomplish with the right mindset and the right goals. Your dreams are yours and yours alone, but you can accomplish them if you know how to go about it. After all, dreams are nothing if not […] More
Being a good listener is an art that most people don’t seem to have mastered. Most people seem to appear to listen when, in fact, they are only waiting for your mouth to stop moving so they can form a response. Being a good listener is an art; you have to really make it a […] More
The feeling you get when someone asks you to do something you just don’t want to do is one you hate; but you just cannot say no. Saying no is, in fact, an art. For some reason, some of us really cannot say no without feeling guilty, feeling horrible, and eventually caving. We just cannot […] More
Summer is in full swing and the holidays are fast approaching, which means everyone has travel on the brain. In between dreaming of fabulous destinations and ensuring that your trip is perfect, you might have some pretty good questions about booking travel. Whether you book travel regularly or you are a first time traveler, knowing […] More
Your way of trying to relax could actually have the opposite effect on your body and mind. How sad is it to realize that all the things you do for your own peace of mind and sanity are actually worse for you than the things you are trying to relax after dealing with? Unfortunately, some […] More
Love your job or hate your job, being in the office can wreck your health. Between the germs your coworkers so kindly share when they come to work sick to the germs that strangers bring in when they visit the office, there’s a lot that can make you sick. That’s why it is so important […] More
No one wakes up in a good mood every single day. Everyone has a bad day. People are sick. They’re family members are sick. They are depressed, sad, worried, stressed, angry, annoyed; the list goes on and on. While you can do your best to be in a good mood most of the time, sometimes […] More
Dreaming of things you want is not the same thing as setting goals. At the same time, setting goals is not the same thing as pursuing and achieving goals. When you want something bad enough you will find a way to get it, but sitting around thinking about it is not the way to achieve […] More