October 2017
9 articles published this month.
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Miscellaneous Essays
A Monthly Budget That Will Help You Grow Rich
Most people don’t manage their income. They bank it and spend it. This is obviously crazy. Some people do try to manage their income by budgeting. This typically means that you look at what your income is…
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Miscellaneous Essays
Getting There the Hard Way: Breaking Through the Pain
I remember the day that my older boys and I had a breath-holding contest. It was my idea. I had just been trounced by the two of them in an underwater-propulsion contest. (Imagine human torpedoes bouncing off…
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Miscellaneous Briefs
How to Make Friends in High Places
“Shallow men believe in luck… Strong men believe in cause and effect.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life Today, I am going to open a little door into your future. First, answer this question: Who in…
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Miscellaneous Essays
Is Armageddon the New Normal?
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall – Think…
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Notes From My Journal
A Very Rich Entrepreneur You’ve Probably Never Heard About
There are many ways to get rich as an entrepreneur. One way is to create just the right product at just the right time. A second way is to identify, and then cater to, a neglected niche market. A third way is…
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Miscellaneous Essays
Asking for Help… Would You? Should You?
Let’s talk about one of my dumbest weaknesses: the fear of asking for help. It’s dumb but it’s also interesting because it has lots to do with power and politics. Let’s start with an obvious observation: This…
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Miscellaneous Essays
How to Knock Off Your Nasty Old Employer and Have Your Own Nice Little Business
My first real job was as “backseat wiper man” at the Rockville Center Car Wash on Long Island. I was 14 and happy with the $1.25 an hour they paid me. A couple of years later, when I had a summer job as a…
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Miscellaneous Briefs
How to Think “Outside the Box
Much has been made of the importance of thinking "outside the box." To solve difficult problems, it is said, you need the ability to do this. I agree. Completely. Because I've seen supposedly insurmountable…
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Miscellaneous Briefs
Thank God for Your Health
The first wealth is health. Ralph Waldo Emerson I woke up this morning with an urgent sense that I should tell you something that, in a fully awakened state, I realize you already know. But obvious things are…
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