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7 Tips To Reduce Your College Costs
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How I Teach My Kids About Money and Life By Using Bricks
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JD at Get Rich Slowly posted that small changes are the building blocks of financial success. I couldn’t agree more. The little blocks that make up every decision we make are what constructs our lives, financial, spiritual, emotional, psychological, occupational, and every other “—tional” you can think of.
Just like a building is [...]
Turning Around Your Financial Life (Part 2 of the story)
Yesterday’s post, Bad Debt Leads to a Bad Job and a Rough Life, hit home with quite a few people. Today, the saga continues, but in a different direction…
“Pregnant? You mean–with a baby?” Chris felt lightheaded and like his legs were made of rubber. Still, he gathered himself enough to hug Lisa and pretend that [...]
7 Common Interview Questions For The New Graduate (or anyone else)
This is the second article in a series on Life Skills for the New Graduate by The Life Skills Network. All week we’ll be featuring tips for new grads. See the bottom of the article for details and a sneak peak at the coming lineup!
This post was graciously included as an EDITOR’S CHOICE in [...]
My Credit Card Is Dead! Long Live Freedom!
Today, my credit card died. But it was an untimely death, one that should have happened a long time ago. Today the old bat is pushing up daisies, with big X’s over its eyes.
The balance is ZERO! Woo Hoo! Let’s celebrate!
I haven’t been credit card debt free since 2002, and even then, I had been [...]
52 Tips to Make Your Home Irresistible to Buyers
Selling a home right now is proving to be difficult for many people, but if you follow these tips, you can remove any doubts that your home is in anything but tip top shape, and that’s what you’re hoping to create in your buyer’s mind. You have them IN YOUR HOME. Make them want to stay. Make them feel so comfortable and “at home” that they never want to leave. Set the hook and reel them in with your pristine home!
Looking for an Online Degree ? Use My Checklist
Getting my degree online was at once a liberating process and a very demanding one. Liberating because I could take pride in my accomplishment, but demanding in that I worked a full time job while doing it.
I assembled a checklist to use when you’re leaning toward getting or finishing a degree online. This list isn’t [...]
Things I DIDN’T Learn in College: Part 4 - How I Learned to Stop Fooling Myself
We have a tendency to overlook risks if those risks get in the way of what we want to do anyway. The conspiracy between these two components, our eyes and our brains, allows us to live on the fence between reality and illusion. Too many times we allow ourselves to fool ourselves, looking through life through those proverbial “rose colored glasses.”
Find a Job You Love?
There is a great deal of talk these days about the importance of finding a job you love. Seems like every blog I read, every personal development web site, every talk show is talking about pursuing your passion and making a living doing it. But CareerBuilder.com says that 84% of all workers are not [...]
How Do You Define Success? Six Factors to Consider
To many people think that success is wrapped up in things, but the truth is, success is wrapped up in how you see yourself and how you are able to enjoy your life. To have a completely successful life along these lines, you’ll need to consider these six components:
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