4 Reasons Your Job Doesn’t Pay Well
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Aside from obvious job related performance issues and aside from a lack of job experience, [...]
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 [...]
5 Keys to Networking Success
For all the importance that we place on the ability to network, rarely are the intricacies of networking discussed outright or taught in colleges or schools. Getting your name into the front of someone’s brain by successful networking is sometimes accomplished by luck, but more often than not, it’s either a conscious or subconscious effort. [...]
Have You Ever Been Interrupted?
How well do you listen to others? How well do others listen to you? This past New Year’s Eve I was at a party hosted by some friends. The food was fabulous. The music was great. And I decided to try an experiment. I decided to test how well other people listened and I was [...]
Things I DIDN’T Learn in College: Part 7 - How I Experienced the Double Edged Sword of Credit
My first experience with credit was during the Christmas season of my freshman year in college. I went to a local department store and bought some gifts for my mom, dad, and little brother. Though I was fully prepared to pay cash, I was offered an ‘in store” credit card on the spot. The clerk told me that I had a $100 limit and that my payments would be around $10. I remember thinking, “Are you kidding me? This is great!” I reasoned that $10 was nothing and by doing this, I would save some cash for going out to eat. Besides, it was cool to flip out the plastic.
Things I DIDN’T Learn in College: Part 6 - Steps I Use to Cope With Stress
All stress is not bad. The human mind needs to experience some stress just to stay focused and sharp. I’ve read recently where some university studies have shown that the only completely stress free people in the world are dead. Wonder how much that study cost?
Things I DIDN’T Learn in College: Part 5 - How I Manage Multiple Priorities
Are you overwhelmed with trying to manage multiple “top” priorities? Do you feel you’ve overextended yourself? Is the pressure more than you can stand? If you can fog a mirror these days, you probably answered yes to at least one of those questions.
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