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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008I realize that this stuff isn’t personal finance-related but it is one of the ways that I can honor my dad.
My dad’s been gone over two months now. I don’t think a day has gone by that I haven’t thought about him. Most of the time it’s just me thinking to myself that […]
The ABCs of Selling (from Harvey Mackay)
Thursday, May 1st, 2008I’m on Harvay Mackay’s email list, which means each week I get one of Harvey’s articles sent to me. Last week’s article was pretty good and I thought I would share it with you.
The ABCs of Selling
Not long ago, I was listening as one of my grandchildren practiced his ABCs. He had a […]
Will More Money Really Improve Your Life?
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008Last week I received this email from Joan Sotkin, author of “Build Your Money Muscles.” I thought it was worth sharing with you.
Will More $$ Really Improve Your Life?
I often hear people say, “If only I had more money, I could be happy/comfortable/satisfied (you fill in the feeling).” But the fact is, money […]
13 Laws of a Successful Life
Monday, April 7th, 2008The following thirteen laws were listed in the first step of the The Templeton Plan (Affiliate Link). The book calls them simply the “laws of life.” I like to think of them as the 13 laws to a successful life. Here are the 13 laws along with my thoughts on each one.
Truthfulness […]
Think Before You Speak
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Wednesday nights are AWANAs nights at our church. I volunteered to help with the games portion of the night. It’s a fairly easy way to serve in that all I have to do is help another guy administer the games. AWANAs runs an hour and a half, and each group of kids […]
Three Ways to Practice ThanksLIVING
Friday, March 28th, 2008The passing of my dad has forced me to take a look at my life and the way I’m living it. In my mind my dad died much too soon (he was only 61) and I’m not too eager to follow the same path. None of this would bother me so much […]
How to Become the Kind of Person People Like
Friday, March 21st, 2008This is some great advice I found in Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking and The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking (Affiliate Link).
How to Become the Kind of Person People Like (from Norman Vincent Peale):
1. Start now to like other people. You do this by becoming a positive thinker. Once […]
Money Can Buy Happiness As Long As You Spend it on Someone Else
Friday, March 21st, 2008I think this something most of us probably already knew, but I thought I’d mention it anyway. I found this article on Reuters about research that has been done that shows that money buys happiness but only when it’s spent on other people. From the article:
“We wanted to test our theory […]
Ten Tips For First-Time Employees
Friday, February 15th, 2008I have been wanting to write a post like this for quite awhile but only got around to putting it together last night. These tips were inspired by my years in the grocery business back when I was in high school and college. You may not agree with all of them. If […]
Ralph Waldo Emerson Had a Way With Words
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008I was reading Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self Reliance” earlier tonight. For some reason the second paragraph of his essay stood out to me:
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as […]