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The Closest We Can Come to Making Money Out of Thin Air: Think Your Way To Wealth by Leveraging Your Brain’s Consumption of Calories

July 3, 2009 · 0 comments

in health , humor , lifehack , nutrition , psychology , wealthbuilding , weight loss

While you’re crunching retirement or networth numbers, or doing serious soul-searching into your dream career or life purpose, your brain is hard at work turning glucose into calories for all those neurons.  You may just be sitting at your computer, but if you can feel the wheels of thought turning, chances are you’re burning calories [...]

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More Stress, Less Money? Ways That Stress Can Cause Your Spending to Increase

June 23, 2009 · 11 comments

in behavioral finance , financial education , lifehack , money decisions , money lessons , psychology

If you’re frequently stressed out, do you tend to make bad money decisions?  My answer is yes.  If you know you’re under stress, keep an eye on your bank account and your budget, if you have one.  And it’s not just financial stress that causes bad financial decisions.  Sometimes the necessary pursuit of money itself [...]

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10 Tips From Tim Ferriss, Guy Kawasaki and Keith Ferazzi on Lifeline Relationships and Mentoring

June 19, 2009 · 13 comments

in achievement , careers , entrepreneurship , leadership , lifehack , lifestyle design , networking , success

Yesterday I listened in on an “author teleseminar” featuring Tim Ferriss (Four Hour Work Week), Guy Kawasaki (How To Change The World) and Keith Ferazzi (author of Never Eat Alone and Who’s Got Your Back?).  The call lasted about an hour.  The topic was about creating “lifeline” relationships - a small, close circle of advisors [...]

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Automate Your Income Just Like You Would Automate Your Expenses

June 17, 2009 · 9 comments

in achievement , cashflow , debt , employment income , financial education , lifehack , lifestyle design , passive income , side income , wealthbuilding

If it simplifies your life to put your bills and savings on autopayment, wouldn’t it make your life even simpler if you could also put your income on autopayment?  I know you probably already receive your paycheck through direct deposit, and in that sense your pay is “automatic,” but what if you could also automate [...]

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Everything Wants Your Attention, But Where You Direct It Is One Of The Few Things You Can Control

June 3, 2009 · 10 comments

in achievement , lifehack , lifestyle design , psychology , success

It was bad enough when all we had to worry about tuning out were traffic jams, television sets, commercials, ringing telephones and doorbells.  Sometime over the last ten years, though, gradually, we gained an additional set of layers of “noise” to deal with: the public cellphone conversation, the instant message, flashing ads in our elevators [...]

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Career Renegade by Jonathan Fields - Book Review (Part 2)

May 28, 2009 · 3 comments

in achievement , books , careers , lifehack , self-employed

May 26th, 2009: I couldn’t get to sleep last night because of this book.  (read part 1 of the review here) It just had me completely wound up in all the possibilities that exist for us to really take control of our lives.  The world is changing.  The old models of education, learning, teaching, publishing, [...]

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Success Summary and Lifehack Links

May 16, 2009 · 2 comments

in lifehack , success

The past two weeks have been more active around here, especially with all the goings-on on Twitter.  It’s so great to continually meet such motivated and inspiring people and their “liberation stories.”  Just by way of a bit of a round up here, I want to mention a few updates to the site and say [...]

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