Another piece of advice from The Richest Man in Babylon is to discipline yourself when it comes to saving your money. They give the example of a man who decides that he is going to throw one pebble in the river each day. It would make sense if this person would miss a day that [...]
Back to the book “The Richest Man in Babylon”, here is another lesson that I feel is important to share. “Put in 10 pieces of copper into your purse but only take out 9”. When working for pieces of Copper keep 1/10th of what you earn and save it. That will start building your ultimate [...]
One of the most remarkable things about being a parent is how much I can learn from my children in any situation. Children are pure and don’t have any outside motivations or involvement in politics or anything else. That is why what you hear out a child’s mouth is often the truth. Unless they are [...]
Jerry Seinfeld has a routine about people always messing over their “future selves”. Be it “night me” vs. “morning me” or “present me” vs. “me in 12 months”, it’s all the same idea. He talks about staying up at night is great for “night me” but it will mess over “morning me”. He can party [...]
I started reading the book, The Richest Man in Babylon this morning on the subway on the way to work. I have read a few reviews on the book, added it to my amazon.com cart and it arrived this past week. I knew that it was a must read but I didn’t realize how useful [...]
I was driving down the highway last night on the way home from a conference and my mind started to wonder. All along the side of the highway I saw billboards for all kinds of different companies and services. What really caught my mind was a billboard advertising Diet Coke. I’m not sure why it [...]
One of the most important ways to get lucky is by developing lucky habits. Everyone in the world has habits, some are good, some are bad, and some don’t make a difference one way or another. The point is that everyone has them. Habits range from biting your nails to always asking 10 people for [...]
Over the last few months I have been doing some research for this blog. When I decided that I was going to start the blog I started looking into everything I needed to know to build the blog, set it up and post articles. I also researched how to increase traffic, how to advertise the [...]
I know this woman who always has an answer for everything. The answer is usually “I am this way because…” and then she ends off with either “that’s how I was raised”, “my parents abused me”, “my schooling screwed me over” or something else to that effect. The point is that nothing is ever her [...]
There are two different thoughts on building up social and professional networks. One is to invite and accept anybody and everybody and the other is only to accept friends and people you actually speak to. I use both of these with my social networking as well as a third. For certain networks such as Facebook, [...]