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How to Choose? Pay Off Debt, Save, Invest or Build a Business

February 23, 2010

In my pursuit towards financial freedom, I have been able to narrow down my goals and realize key elements that I want to focus on for my career and life style.

I have now managed to categorize and budget my expenses, long term and short term savings accounts, and I have begun to understand tax rules and how they affect investment accounts and options.

Nonetheless, I still find it difficult to determine the order and priority to assign to saving, paying off debts, investing, and business start ups.

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Launch of my New Business, OnTimelines.com

February 17, 2010

Since I began this blog I have been interested in starting businesses that are product rather than service based. I have taken that leap with my new, still working out the kinks website; ontimelines.com.

Based on the wonderful feedback from this website, I have realized an area that I really want to focus on further and offer help to others: Planning and organizing.

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Recovering PC User Tells All: Why I Obsessively Love my Mac

February 11, 2010

Alright, this post is just a shameless plug for my iMac. But really, this computer has allowed me to use so many organizing and helpful tools so that I can expand both my business and improve my use of time. I know this is a bit off topic, but I just have to share some of the reasons why my Mac has made it possible for me to progress my quest for organizing, budgeting, and overall happiness since I have owned it.

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Many Popular Financial Advisors Don’t Have Kids

February 4, 2010

I am curious if life is made up of Either / Or choices or if it is truly possible to have life full of ANDs. I’d like to believe it is possible to keep adding ANDs to your life, yet I know that at some point your plate gets full and you have to take things off.

So, what do I mean by and AND life versus and OR life?

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Having a Clear Life Vision

January 29, 2010

A recurring theme that I have heard and read from ALMOST ALL of the books on wealth and prosperity involve one consistent thought: Documenting and staying focused on your vision. This is taught in many ways. Some people prefer to clip pictures together from magazines, etc to have a visual representation of their future desires. [...]

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Confidence, Purpose and Marketing: Ingredients for Success

January 28, 2010

I had the privilege of listening to a thoughtful free webinar by “conscious” entrepreneur Max Simon in which he interviewed Vishen Lakhiani on the concepts of creating a wealthy mind. He also spoke about how to turn a business from performing so-so to really reaching a ‘turning point’.

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Best Online Goal Tracking Tools for 2010

January 24, 2010

There are many online tools available for keeping track of and measuring progress on your goals. Many corporations have started to incorporate goal systems (Success Factors is one example) and S.M.A.R.T. goals. Not all goal systems utilize this method, however, it is widely accepted as an excellent way to achieve results with your goals. The following is a look at how to measure your personal goals and a review of some of the best online tools for measuring your goals.

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My Greatest Financial Fears Explained

January 21, 2010

One of the things that many of the financial gurus tell you is necessary to reach financial freedom is to be able to free your mind from the fear and worry you feel about the future. It would be nice if we control our future, but its very difficult to do because of all of the unknowns and external factors. Without control, comes uncertainty. With uncertainty, often comes fear and worry.

The realities of adult life have left me with more responsibilities than I originally knew I signed up for, and it makes it rather difficult to find peace. Nonetheless, I am finding inspiration and making much more conscious decisions with my money and choices since I started this blog. In order to confront my largest fears, and give myself a chance to push past them, I’m documenting them below.

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Review of GratitudeLog – “The Happiest Place on the Internet”

January 19, 2010

GratitudeLog.com is a fun social site that takes the basic concept of short updates from sites such as Twitter, and applies it to a specific concept, Gratitude.

You are able to mark someone’s comment as “Awesome!” or reply to it. You can follow people and they can follow you. Beyond that, you can send people “Appreciation” gifts (for free), which are simply little icons with a thoughtful note (like you can send on Facebook).

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