Personal Development
How I Teach My Kids About Money and Life By Using Bricks
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The Secret To Being Rich
Contentment makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
—Benjamin Franklin
Again, wise words from a wise man.
Is there an easy path to riches? No. But there is an easy path to wealth. Contentment. Real wealth is not wrapped up in things, rather it’s wrapped up in how you view yourself and your situation.
A [...]
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 [...]
10 Steps to Becoming a Results-Based Leader
These 10 strategies are adapted from Results-Based Leadership(Harvard Business School Press, Boston, www.hbsp.harvard.edu). Honestly, I’ve read more than my share of books on leadership, but this book crystallizes the characteristics of a leader who is driven by results. I believe that all people who lead others in any way or in any organization should read [...]
Advance Your Career With These Two Words
Drum roll please . . .
Thank you.
Those are the two words. Thank you. From the end of your first interview to the conclusion of your retirement party, those two words can do more to advance your career and endear you to the hearts of your bosses, co-workers, and subordinates than many others. Saying them isn’t [...]
4 Reasons Your Job Doesn’t Pay Well
Aside from obvious job related performance issues and aside from a lack of job experience, there are 4 reasons your job may not pay well. These reasons are standard regardless of job and they hold true in virtually all economic situations.
People complain about a certain “important” job paying less than an “unimportant” job. They complain [...]
5 Reasons I Decided to Cut My Everyday Expenses
Cutting expenses isn’t too hard if I’m doing it for the right reasons. Having the right reasons keeps me on track and makes me keep my eyes on the long term goal rather than focus on the short term deprivation I feel at the time. Having a deliberate approach to spending will (I hope) pave [...]
The Key to Financial Success
Note: This article was included in The Carnival of Personal Finance #145 - Online Broker Tips Edition at Stock Trading To go.
Who do you know that is a financial success? Everyone knows or has read about someone who has had his or her share of financial successes. What made them different? What drove them to [...]
Free Books!
I’ve got quite a list of various gently used books that I’m planning to give away for FREE. If you’d like to be on the receiving end of these, send me an email using the code at the bottom of my RSS feed from your reader and I’ll include you in the drawing. I’ll give [...]
Successful People Are Usually FAT
According to my new blogging schedule, today is Personal Development Day. So I thought I’d throw a curve ball and show you how successful people are FAT, really, really FAT! Yeah, you read that right FAT, but it all depends on your definition of FAT. I’m thinking in terms of an acronym and here’s what [...]
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