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A Perfect Drive Home After the Financial Conference

I hate to drive long distances, at least without having a good audio book in the CD player. When I started my drive home, about 100 miles in from the start of my journey, I got pulled over by the police.  I was pissed because I knew I wasn’t speeding, and I couldn’t figure outContinue Reading

Is Clutter Keeping You From Being More Successful?

In an earlier articles called “Getting Wealthy By Swimming to Shore“, I compare the process of getting out of debt and becoming rich to swimming to the ocean shore.  Becoming “Financial Independent” would be accomplished once you first touch the shoreline.  While it’s still possible to make the swim with clutter, I would think thatContinue Reading

Sometimes It Takes More Than One To Believe

I’m watching the movie *Cyrus as I type this post, and there is this scene where the main character is at a party (he’s a bit tipsy), and he starts singing a song that’s on the radio.  He jumping and dancing with enthusiasm and vigor, singing the song and displaying an almost teenage level ofContinue Reading

Are We All COGs in the Machine Of Life?

Are we GOGS in the machine of life, destine to play the small and trite role that we are instructed to play by others who are willing to treat us as such?  Spinning in a continuous circle, never really going anywhere… until we wear out and need to be replaced by a newer, shinier model?Continue Reading

Are We Too Proud To Become Rich?

Why Aren’t We Wealthier? I think part of the reason is because we are too proud to do work that we consider beneath us or we are trained to believe that we aren’t able t0!  This is especially true of kids from the working and middle classes. Coming from a middle class background, even going to McDonald’s was aContinue Reading