Leading with Their Wallets – Personal Finance Leaders

Lazy Man and Money listed his five favorite personal finance bloggers yesterday. I read all of the sites he listed regularly and pretty much concur with his assessment of each. As I thought about the commonalities among these sites I remembered a special report on leadership from October’s U.S. News & World Report that listed common traits of leaders:

The 5 Traits of Leadership
1) Pursing their vision with passion
2) Practicing solid values
3) Leading with their hearts as well as their heads
4) Establishing connected relationships
5) Demonstrating self-discipline

Thank You!
From what I’ve seen, or read, the people highlighted have become some of the leaders in the personal finance blogging arena by exhibiting these traits. In a world of consumers gone wild, it’s nice to see people setting good examples and offering little islands of sanity in a sea of debt and speculation. Thanks to these bloggers for a job well done Boston Gal, Flexo, J.D., Trent, and Jim.

FinanceSpiration
In honor of bloggers like these, and there are many more, I launched a contest a few days ago to encourage people to share which personal finance blogs gave them FinanceSpiration in 2006. The lucky winner gets a free financial consultation with a financial planner from Beacon Advisors.

There has been only one entry so far, the odds of winning look pretty good! Actually, Lazy Man’s post is a great example of an entry so Lazy Man, consider yourself entered.

If a personal finance blogger inspired you in 2006 let me know about it today via my contact form or write about it on your own site. Hurry, the contest ends on 1/22! To keep up to date on contest developments, subscribe to my feed.

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