There are endless people online working four hour workweeks, traveling the world and living the life of their dreams. Designing your ideal lifestyle and living an untemplated life is damn easy so you must be stupid for haven't mastering it yet. Right? If you are like most of the human race, you probably have obligations and responsibilities that are preventing you from … [Read more...]
8 Ways To Avoid Mediocrity
You're 22, just about to graduate in a few more months and you're thinking of what you should do after college. Your focus is to make some money, since you've been deprived of it for the last 4 years, and get started with "living life". You're open to whatever comes at you so long as the pay is decent. This is a template. And, by definition, this is mediocrity because this is … [Read more...]
5 Ways to Sink Your Date Before It’s Begun
First dates are already nerve racking enough…don’t sabotage the whole operation before it’s began. Of course every individual has their own pet peeves’ and you certainly can’t, nor should you try, to please everyone. But I thought I’d focus on some general pointers that if done…will pretty much guarantee a second date phone call will go straight to Voice Mail. Of course … [Read more...]
Personal Finance Really Isn’t That Complicated
If there's anything I've learned over the years, it's that people sure like to complicate things. They do it at their jobs, they do it at home, and they certainly do with with their finances. In fact, I've come to realize that there are 2 very different types of people out there - the ones looking for that magic bullet (a hot stock pick, the secrets to winning the lottery), … [Read more...]
Thinking Outside of the Resume
Your resume bores me. Nothing personal, its just resumes in general are boring. When have you ever said, “S*&#, I can’t wait to write up my CV”? Right, you haven’t, because they are boring. Do you think recruiter’s get excited to read 78 resumes for an open accounting position? Of course not, at least I never have in my recruiting adventures. Do not panic. Do not … [Read more...]