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Best of the Web — Short Clips on Personal Finance and Negotiation
In: Uncategorized
31 Oct 2009Ramit Sethi of I Will Teach You to Be Rich is one of my favorite resources for advice on personal finance. His information is simple and powerful. Rather than stress on spending money on $4 lattes every week, he focuses on learning to negotiate big-ticket purchases like houses or renegotiating your salary, which can yield [...]
Defining Yourself — The Art of Creating an Effective Personal Mission Statement
In: Achieving Goals
29 Oct 2009When you get in your car and drive somewhere, odds are that you will have a well-defined destination in mind. Maybe it’s a particular restaurant, or maybe it’s your friend’s house. Taking this example a step further and applying to today’s topic, lets go on to say that you are in the driver’s seat of [...]
Whenever I find it appropriate, I intend to have a “Best Reading From Around the Web” feature. This isn’t out of laziness or inability to keep consistently creating new material, but rather I’ve come to acknowledge that there are many valuable topics and ideas out there that I simply could not do justice to if [...]
Why Self Motivation is Essential to Success
20 Oct 2009You may remember that the old tagline for this blog was “Self Improvement for Self Motivators.” Although I’ve chosen to go with a tagline that is more descriptive of the blog’s purpose, this old tagline still remains true. The majority of the content on this blog is targeted towards people who can dig deep and [...]
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You Create Your Own Reality: Here's How
The Top 5 Lessons I Wish I Knew as a Freshman in College
Shaping Your Life After Graduation: A Guide for College Students
On Optimizing Your Results From Personal Growth and Development Resources
On Maintaining Peak Performance During Times of High Stress
Why You Need to Fail to Succeed
- How to Gamify Your Life: An Experiment – Part 4
- How to Gamify Your Life: An Experiment – Part 3
- How to Gamify Your Life: An Experiment – Part 2
- How to Gamify Your Life: An Experiment – Part 1
- Using Expectations to Find Happiness: The Eight-Year Rule
- Networking Made Easy? How to Be the Student Everyone Wants to Hire
- Does Hypnosis Work? A Resounding Yes is in Order
- Goals, Sacrifices, and Expectations: How They Can Make You Happy (or Miserable)
- If Only…
- Why You Should Embrace Your Insecurities
