Jon Heller shares his personal experiences on finance and investment matters in his blog
MoneyMythos.
Please tell our readers something about yourself?
- I work on the technology side of things for an investment advisory service. I have always had an interest in personal finance. At about ten years old I started keeping track of my spending on a legal pad, and have since then graduated to keeping detailed records in Quicken. My interest in stocks only began about one year ago, when I started working for this company. As I update their website, I am constantly reading all the news about the stock market, so I naturally wanted to learn more about it. I must have created a dozen blogs by now, but The Money Mythos has been my favorite to update.
Do you have any email id on which our readers can reach you?
- jon[at]moneymythos[dot]com
Since when are you Blogging?
- I have been blogging for about eight years now, but I started my financial blog in early 2007.
What is your motivation behind this blog?
- I would say my motivation is to share my personal experiences with finance in an entertaining manner. Having the blog as a journal of sorts is great, but there is nothing better than receiving positive comments from readers.
What topics do you explore in this blog?
- I mostly focus on personal finance issues, everything from buying a couch to financial software reviews to how to personal financial stories.
What are your future-plans with this blog?
- No major future plans besides trying to keep my blog update with interesting and useful content. To be honest, I am trying to stay away from turning the site into a commercial venture whose main purpose is to make money from advertisements. I feel as though there are some sites in the personal finance community that focus so much on optimizing their sites for search engines and Digg that their content suffers as a result.
What are the sites and blogs you browse often?
- Yahoo! Finance is a site I check countless times per day. Besides that, I have about 30 personal finance blogs in my Google Reader. You can see some of my favorites listed in the links at my site.
Would you please share something for people who are in debt?
- Personally, one of the best sources of motivation I have found is to set your goal, and create a graph in something like Excel or Google Spreadsheets which shows your progression towards that goal. I have been paying off a large loan to my father for college over the past few years, and seeing that amount slowly but surely get smaller on the graph is very satisfying.
Would you like to say something to our community members?
- I think that it's great what people are doing here. Personal finance used to be such a hush-hush subject, and the fact that people are now so open to discussing personal finance, whether it's problems with debt or celebrations about paying it off, is wonderful.
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