Archive for December, 2008
Friday, December 5th, 2008
About That Second Money Path
Get Rich Slick is about two paths: Get Rich Slow + Get Rich Quick. I don’t write too much about the Get Rich Slow path because it’s fairly basic and straightforward. The components to my get rich slow plan involve maxing out 401k each year, deferring compensation, minimizing tax liability, and saving. This may come [...]
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
How Secret Millionaire Destroys Lives
Did you watch that show “Secret Millionaire” last night? The millionaires had great intent but all I could keep thinking throughout the show was the effect of unintended consequences. The shows premise is millionaires leave their millionaire lives behind and live amongst common poor people and try to find people worthy of their money. The [...]
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Challenging Your Personal Finance Status Quo
“You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” -Epicurus Over the last two decades I have mentored (or tried to mentor) about 40 people, a large percentage of these people have been staff employees who frequently come to me to ask for [...]
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Planning For New Year Resolutions
“We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.” -Chuang Tzu As we approach the end of another calendar year, it is time to begin thinking about all those new year resolutions, the current state of [...]
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
You Can’t Step Onto The Same River Twice
Heraclitus posited that man cannot step onto the same river twice much less two or more people step onto the same piece of water (river) twice. So Heraclitus’ philosophy states that the world is in constant flux and no two people can really follow the exact same path and this is my thesis for personal [...]