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As an individual we are like a company. That’s one reason why I love to read business books: there are a lot of business ideas that can be applied at individual level. But seeing ourselves as a company is not…
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Like it or not, your life is filled with decision-making. From the moment you wake up until the time you sleep, you have to make decisions. That’s why it’s important that you improve your decision-making skills. Doing so will improve…
Continue readingIn the post Making Money with a Purpose, I wrote that having the ability to make money is more important than having money. Now I’d like to discuss how to increase your ability to make money and therefore make more…
Continue readingI’m currently reading Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0 by Thomas Friedman. The book mainly discusses the ecological crisis we are facing, but the first three chapters also discusses the 2008 financial crisis. Ecological crisis and financial crisis may seem unrelated…
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Whether you like it or not, the fact is that there will be difficult times in life. So the best thing you can do is to prepare yourself before they come. If you do, you will survive or even thrive….
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I recently came across an interesting quote by Laurence Lee: “The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows.” This quote, I believe, contains a profound lesson….
Continue readingA few months ago I wrote a post on personal analytics. There I discussed how more and more people make their life decisions based on numbers. They don’t make their decisions based on what they feel but based on facts….
Continue readingNote: This is a guest post from John Suter of Money Saving Challenge Every now and again the media goes crazy when a new fad diet arrives onto the scene and regardless of whether it is the Atkins Diet, the…
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As I wrote in a recent post, money plays an important role in our lives. For that reason, it’s essential that we know how to deal with money. There are many aspects of personal finance, so I’d like to focus…
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There is a new word that I learned recently: tsundoku. It’s a Japanese word that means “buying reading materials without reading them.” When I first learned about the word, it struck me because it describes me well 🙂 Okay, I…
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