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Success is all about creating success-creating habits. The better you are at creating habits that stick, the more successful you will be in all areas of life. If you had the habit of exercising every day, you'd be healthier, live longer, and probably be more trim. If...
The sad reality is that "going to bed" doesn't usually mean "going to sleep." Many people, perhaps most people these days, have trouble falling asleep once they hit the sheets. Here are four proven ways to fall asleep faster. 1. Don't look at any electronic devices at...
When you think of the phrase "time waster," you're probably picturing some lazy guy screwing around when he should be working. Certainly that guy is wasting time, but most people don't realize there are two other time wasters that are just as common. These two time...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KycVVoj6Yg Watch the above video. The reason we have massive income inquality is becaues goverment prints trillions of dollars, the super-rich benefit from this money first (before it devalues), get richer, and then the middle class and...
Well, it's finally happened. If adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP), China is now the world's largest economy, making the United States number two for the first time in 142 years. If you put the currency of both countries on level footing, China's economy is...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFVsVnczYqY You only need to watch the first 5 minutes of the above video to get the gist. A self-made billionaire making the exact same points I've been making about college for years. The cost of college has gone up ten times since...
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. ~Thomas J. Watson The greatest successes in the world, the people who make the most money, or accomplish the greatest things, are fantastic failers. They are good at failing. When they fail, it...
I have been neglecting the topic of books I've been reading on this blog and I'm going to rectify that immediately. As of now, I will be making regular blog posts about the fiction and non-fiction books I have been reading. Today I'm going to talk about the most...
Lets say you're a lower-income person and you own a crappy car worth $3000. Let's also say you still owe $6000 on its loan. Also, it needs about $2000 worth of repairs to make it decently driveable. This presents you with two bad choices: 1. Put $2K into a crappy car...
Only about 40% of the typical workday is actually work. The other 60% (at least!) is wasted time. Some of this wasted time is your fault, some is your work environment's fault, and some is your bosses' or management's fault. Examples of wasted time at work that is...
Here's one of the most counter-intuitive, though effective ways to boost your productivity at work. I learned this many years ago and it does work even though it may sound like it may harm your workflow. Ready? Every three months, FORCE yourself to take a three-day...
Whenever you feel like your personal productivity is slipping, you should conduct a time audit. I do these myself about twice a year, or whenever I feel like my consistency has taken a hit. Time audits are good to jolt you back into a productive mode if you've been...
Recently I had to borrow a friend's car. It was a hybrid. This was the first time I had ever driven one. Holy crap. What a weird car. Most of the time, especially when the car isn't moving, it's completely silent. You don't hear an engine. I've driven loud sports cars...
This is a very simple exercise you can follow if you really have no idea what your Mission or career should be. This exercise assumes that your current focus in life is business or career-related. If it isn't, you may have to modify the exercise just a little, but it...
A truly successful business requires success in six different areas. It's possible to be somewhat successful if your business does well in some of these areas and not others, but if it doesn't have these all six at decent levels, your business isn't doing as well as...
The term "bottom billion" was first coined in 2007 by economist Paul Collier. It refers to the poorest billion people in the world. Collier describes many reasons why most folks in the bottom billion stay there. Today I'm going to address the reason most applicable to...
I had a wonderfully happy experience last December. Every December, during the holiday week between Christmas and New Years, I grab all the paperwork and old business and financial files from more than seven years ago and take them down to an industrial shredding...
"Oh no, no no," the government keeps saying, "We're just collecting metadata. It's just a bunch of numbers, that's all. There's no actual private info we have on you. You're worried about nothing. Just shut up, let us protect you, and keep voting for us." From the...
We all know what corporate outsourcing is. It's when companies in first-world countries move their work to cheaper, third or second-world countries to save piles of cash. Countries all over the world have been doing this for a few decades now, and it's a good idea...
As the sidebar shows, I am always reading two books at all times. One fiction book (usually sword and sorcery fantasy), and one nonfiction book (usually business, finance, history, or self improvement). Lately I've been hunting for more good fiction books to read, and...
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