March 2011

How to Mentor

March 30, 2011

I wrote a while back about why you need a mentor, but it is also just as important to be a mentor. What I want to briefly discuss is how to mentor well. There will always be people that can benefit from learning about what you’ve been through, lessons you have discovered and mistakes you [...]

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Money is a Means, Not an End

March 28, 2011

Some people spend their whole life trying to be rich. They spend 80 hours a week working a job they hate just to get every promotion. They want to live a lavish lifestyle filled with multiple houses, cars and a yacht. They think they need millions of dollars to make themselves happy. Well, they’re wrong. [...]

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19 Non-Conformists Who Changed My Life

March 25, 2011

This week I will be writing about all of the people that have changed my life over the last three years. These posts will be long because there have been many people that have made a positive impact on my life. Today’s post describes the non-conformists that have made me look at my life differently [...]

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14 People That Helped Get Me a Better Job and Taught Me How to Make Money Online

March 23, 2011

This week I will be writing about all of the people that have influenced me to make huge changes in my life over the last three years. These posts will be long because there have been many people that have made a positive impact on my life. Today’s post describes the most influential career and [...]

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11 Influential Personal Finance Writers that Motivated Me to Pay Off $28,000 in Debt

March 21, 2011

This week I will be writing about all of the people that have influenced me to make huge changes in my life over the last three years. These posts will be long because there have been many people that have made a positive impact on my life. Today’s post describes the most influential personal finance [...]

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What March Madness Can Teach Us About Taking Chances & Learning From Failures

March 18, 2011

We’re right in the middle of every college basketball fan’s favorite time of the year: March Madness. Some people that don’t even follow sports regularly will make an exception to watch it, much like the Super Bowl, just to witness the drama unfold and experience the last second, game winning shots. But filling out a [...]

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Learn How to Say No

March 16, 2011

So often in our society we unwillingly accept more responsibility, more possessions and more obligations. At our jobs we continually volunteer for more responsibility in hopes that it will lead to more visibility or a faster promotion. We may feel that the more expensive things we accumulate the better we will look to others. To [...]

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Don’t Let Your Possessions Own You

March 14, 2011

The other day I was reading in my car while I waited to pick up a pizza I ordered. I was startled by a loud bang on the side of my car. Looking up I saw that someone had pulled up next to me and open their door right into the side of my car. [...]

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Why You Should Be Your Own Guru

March 11, 2011

Throughout my life I have searched for someone to emulate. In every book I’ve read, class I’ve sat in or job I’ve had I’ve observed everyone and tried to determine who my ideal role model is. I just assumed that people find what they want to do in life based on what somebody else is [...]

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Why a To Do List Should be One Task Long

March 9, 2011

Once I got into college I began making to do lists almost every day. At the beginning of each semester I created a list for each of my classes with due dates on them. I took the syllabus and wrote down in order everything that would be turned in throughout the semester. It felt great [...]

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