An interesting thing occurred to me today. I'm here in Honolulu, Hawaii on vacation and I decided to Google the state manager of a major wealth management company one morning. As a personal finance blogger, working as a financial advisor for a wealth management firm is about as synergistic a offline/online combo as can be! Financial Advisers help clients in wealth … [Read more...]
A Healthy Amount Of Competition Will Do You Good
The other day I found out that three people in a new circle of friends I joined each have a twin! What are the odds of that?! That got me to start counting how many twins I actually know. One pair of twins from my elementary school days, five pairs from middle and high school, two in college, and now eight sets of twins in my adult life for a grand total of sixteen sets of … [Read more...]
Improving Efficiency: Finding The Time To Do It All
If you want something done, give it to the BUSIEST person in the room. Now how is that supposed to work?! Improving efficiency and finding the time to do it all is tough. But there’s a lot of truth in that saying about busy people being super efficient and boy do I know some insanely productive people who put my attempts at improving efficiency to shame. Some people are … [Read more...]
It’s OK To Admit You Were Laid Off: Just Get Motivated!
There's no coincidence that the lifestyle design movement took off just as the economic downturn started picking up steam in the sumer of 2008. Those were some of the scariest times I've ever experienced, apart from when two planes hit the Twin Towers in NYC. I vividly remember seeing the markets tumble by 5% a day on news that Lehman Brothers was not going to be rescued. I … [Read more...]
The Best Ski Resorts In North America To Escape the 9 to 5
We’ve talked about the best places for online lifestyle entrepreneurs and traditional entrepreneurs to live and work on Untemplater before. I've traveled to many countries and places all over the US, and have no doubt that living in San Francisco Bay Area is one of the best places out there. I feel really lucky to live here where the weather is mild, the air is clear, the food … [Read more...]