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Financial Goals for the New Year

Get Out of Debt Resolution

It’s that time of year when everyone starts thinking about what their new year’s resolutions are going to be.  Every year, I set goals for all areas of my life, from financial, to career, to physical.  I typically write 1 year and 5 year goals. Do you know what your goals are for 2012?  If [...]

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Quick Tips to a Stress Free Holiday Season

Holiday Stress Survival Kit

 My Personal Holiday Stress Survival Kit It’s the Holiday’s a chill is in the air, decorations being hung, shopping to do, spending time with family and friends; so much is going on.  One thing to keep in mind in the middle of all the maelstrom of chaos is that the Holiday’s is also one of [...]

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A Very Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving

Here we are once again at the beginning of the holiday season and I think one of the greatest things about this time of year is how it makes us slow down a little bit and spend time with family and friends, remembering and counting our blessings. Thanksgiving provides us all with an opportunity to [...]

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Why Creating SMART Goals is Your Key to Success

Create SMART Goals

Developing SMARTER goals will lead to a happier, healthier and wealthier you. Whenever we start out with a new goal or a new project we are filled with enthusiasm and energy but why is it that so few people actually achieve and accomplish their goals? The answer has little to do with the people making [...]

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How To Deal With & Overcome Procrastination

Dealing With Procrastination

Does the constant battle of procrastination drive you crazy?  Do you find yourself getting completely excited about some idea only to find weeks go by before you do anything about it?  Maybe you even have the “tomorrow syndrome” where as each day passes you keep putting it off until “tomorrow”.  Why is it that tomorrow [...]

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Why Being An Investor Is So Important

Being an Investor

Investing is one of the best ways to create long term growth and increase wealth.  I’ve been investing since I turned 18 and I opened my first trading account and funded it with my tip money from delivering pizzas. I remember waking up every morning and checking my account and pouring over the Wall Street [...]

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How To Live A Happy Life

Happy Wealthy Life

5 Simple Steps For Living An Abundant Life What is Wealth? Many people equate Wealth with being rich and having a lot of money in the bank or being financially independent. I on the other hand have a very different interpretation of what wealth is; Wealth is not the man who has the most but rather [...]

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4 Steps To Better Focus

Mental Focus and Clarity

In todays fast pace world, one of the best things you can do for yourself is take 20 minutes out of the day to relax you brain and body to visualize exactly what you want in your life.  With new technology coming out almost daily and information coming at us from every angle at lightening [...]

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Why Not To Climb The Corporate Ladder

Climbing The Corporate Ladder

When I was a child, I would always hear my parents talking about climbing the corporate ladder.  At a very young age I already had a pretty good understanding of what this meant.  By about age 9 I already had it in my head to get my college degree, find a company to work for [...]

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Are You A SMART Planner

SMART_Goals

When you plan for the future or decide to create a goal; how does it work out? Have you ever created a goal only to have it fail, fizzle, and not work? Have you, like me, ever started something at a 100% energy and devotion and then without even realizing it lose track of what [...]

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Keeping your Marriage Together When Financial Stress Hits

Dealing With Finances In A Marriage

When you get married, you take a pledge to be with your spouse through the good times and bad. Sticking with this commitment is sometimes difficult, especially when money can easily divide couples. Fortunately, there are things you can do to make sure that you and your spouse can overcome any money problems that may [...]

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Can Drowning in Debt Make You Fat?

Can Debt Make You Fat

I came across a recent study conducted in Germany by the University of Mainz showing that “over-indebtedness” has a direct link to obesity.  To clarify over-indebtedness is defined as a scenario where a person’s debt becomes overwhelming and unmanageable. At first when I saw this report I was a bit skeptical and a bit in shock [...]

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Quality of Time vs The Quantity of Time

Quality of time vs the quantity of time

Don’t Count Your Time But Make Your Time Count I’ve been giving a lot of thought lately to the quality of time vs the quantity of time debate.  A while back our little puppy Mocha passed away from an auto-immune disease, she was around 14 months old.  She had lived with us for around a [...]

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Do Or Die

Leaps And Bounds

Have you ever been in a “do or die” situation where you need to take action in order to simply survive? Imagine you had just been laid off from your job after 7 years of service. In your family you have a two year old, a four year old, and a spouse who stays home [...]

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Are You Dealing With A Problem Or An Opportunity?

Problem or Opportunity

It wasn’t that long ago when I had a mountain of debt piling up on my kitchen counter, I had too much month at the end of the money! I was so far behind in debt and I just couldn’t seem to keep up with the bills on the income I was earning. My super [...]

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The Two Most Valuable Assets for Success in Life

The 2 Most Valuable Assets

Do you know what the two most important assets in your life are?  What is it that you value most?  Some people value money, cars, houses, relationships, and family.  Others value freedom, fulfillment, and financial independence.  Today I will identify the two most important assets in my life, and why they should be the most [...]

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Learning From Your Failures

Learning From Failure

I was thinking back on one of the first companies that we had built and I was remembering all the reasons why it didn’t become as successful as I thought it should have. At the time my business partner and I did a comprehensive evaluation and found several foundational flaws in our business model.  I [...]

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5 Simple, Easy and Quick Steps to Achieving Your Goals

Achieving Your Goals

Setting a goal is half the battle and achieving it is another!  How many times have you made goals like saving money, losing weight, etc. and were totally amped about it in the beginning and somehow ended up not reaching it, feeling like a failure?  I know what that feels like and it completely sucks [...]

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Feeding Your Finances – You Are What You Eat

Your Brain and Your Money

Did you know that your finances can be directly linked to what you have been eating?  The adage, “you are what you eat,” holds true when looking at how eating certain foods can affect our brain and the way we engage in our day-to-day activities.  We need to be aware of the types of food [...]

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2 Ways To Deal With Overwhelm

Handling Overwhelm

Don’t try to conquer the world over night!  This is my problem when it comes to doing anything; I want to be able to change everything in just one day.  I’m not sure whether it’s the entrepreneurial spirit in me, the perfectionist mindset or maybe both, but I want to go from idea to product [...]

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