Are You Doing Your Life’s Work, or Are You An Employee of The Market?

June 29, 2009

Here’s a brief rundown of some of the (very broad) possibilities for making a living (please fill me in if I’ve overlooked one - I’m sure I have):

you work for someone else, but you love your job or feel fulfilled
you work for someone else, it’s ok, but you can’t complain
you work for someone else and [...]

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Michael Jackson Money Management - Just Budget!

June 26, 2009

They Told Me Don’t You Ever Come Around Here
Don’t Wanna Pay It Back, You Better Disappear
The Numbers’ In The Red And You Owe More Than You Earn
So Budget, Just Budget
[2nd Verse]
You Better Sing, You Better Do What You Can
Don’t Wanna See No Shrink, Don’t Meet the Repo Man
You Wanna Be Young, Better Save What You [...]

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Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life - by Neil Strauss (Review)

June 25, 2009

This book might indeed save your life.
Survival schools.  Second passports.  Urban Escape and Evasion courses.  CERT training.  Bugging out.  How to escape from attack dogs.  Offshore asset protection.  Perpetual traveling.  Using one’s credit card as a knife.  Killing and skinning your own goat.  These are just some of the survivalist, “how-to-be-prepared-for-anything” topics covered in Neil [...]

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

June 23, 2009

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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Save Tons of Money By Eating Super Foods - The Minimal Amount of Food Necessary

June 22, 2009

This is a fun problem I’ve thought about in the past, though never specifically with regard to money.  With the recent personal finance bloggers’ weight loss challenge I’m participating in, though, I thought it made sense to try to integrate it with money management.
I once went on a very strict no-sugar diet (no sweeteners, no [...]

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

June 19, 2009

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

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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