by OmniSwami on February 19, 2012
I’ve been looking for an Andriod-based personal finance app that suits me, but alas, EasyMoney is still not it. Don’t get me wrong, the app is good, better than most even… The layout and user-interface is clean and relatively easy to use, but my gripe is with the budgeting portion of the app.
EasyMoney budgeting leaves something to be desired for me. I do not like the fact that the budget total on the budgeting screen does not seem to properly take income into account. The budget values for expenses and incomes simply get added together. For example, if I have $100 in expenses and bring in $100 in income, I would expect that my available budget total would now be $0. However, in EasyMoney, the two values (income and expense) get added together, so my total budget amount is now $200; that doesn’t seem like the right way of doing things by me.
The app has some great reports, options, and features, but I really don’t see myself spending the $9.99 on a mobile personal finance app that doesn’t really do what I want it to.
Read more about EasyMoney: EasyMoney for Andriod Smartphones
by OmniSwami on July 19, 2010
No normal person wants to be disliked by someone else. However, I’ve known many people in my life, myself included, who have compromised themselves just to be looked upon favorably by others.
I’ve come to believe that a man with no enemies is a spineless man plagued with low self-esteem, a man who bends (and eventually breaks). Believing in ourselves and what we value may not always be congruent with the values of others; people are going to disagree with us in life. People may even get miffed, or dislike us for what we believe, but that is okay.
Compromising who we are, our individual beliefs and values, is a long-term debt that our self-esteem will have to pay eventually. What we believe in our core, is a part of who we are. You cannot go against what you believe in your heart and maintain the same level of self-respect you had before doing so. Each line in the sand that is kicked away and re-drawn, brings us closer to losing who we know ourselves to be. How many politicians start-out with the best of intentions, only to compromise their values and pander to their constituents to win votes?
Our values and beliefs are the cornerstones of who we are. They support us, helping us to maintain a stable self-image of ourselves. You can only chisel-away at these cornerstones for so long before the entire structure collapses. Without our values and beliefs firmly in place, immovable, we begin to lose sight of who we are.
Yes, it is necessary to compromise or reevaluate maintaining values and beliefs that do not serve us well. However, what we believe and value at our core, what we know to be right, should never be compromised, not for money, not for politics, not for social acceptance, and not for love.
