A year and a half ago I was shopping for my first car ever. I never needed one until then because I live in New York City and parking is impossible and public transportation is faster and more convenient than driving. For the few times I needed to drive somewhere, I would rent a [...]
Second opinions are more than just for doctors or auto mechanics. You can ask a second opinion from any company or organization in almost any situation. When calling an airline, cable or phone company or any other company, many times you are treated based on the mood the representative that you are talking to is [...]
READ THIS: To reach a greater audience and help more people all over the world get lucky, I am starting the first Blog Carnival on Luck and Getting Lucky. This carnival will be open for submissions from anyone who would like to write an article about luck. I hope to have this carnival on a [...]
A big part of the American dream is to own a nice house to live in and raise your family. I remember learning in college how the United States made home ownership possible for the average American by building a circle of money changing hands from the Federal Reserve to banks to people back to [...]
When starting a business, most people think that they need to think of an idea that has never been done before and will blow the world out of the water. They think that unless you have something that has never been done before you will not be successful. I am telling you that this is [...]
Last week I was riding the Long Island Rail Road on the way to a meeting and I noticed a great ad for CareerBuilder.com. It said “Dreaming has a low ROI” (Return On Investment) . I thought this was genius since that is what most people do. Dreaming is great and is exceptionally easy to [...]
Being that it is St. Patrick’s day today, I decided to look into a little bit of the origins of the day. Since this blog is all about luck and getting lucky, I decided to focus on the well known phrase “the luck of the Irish”. The most common picture that comes to mind when [...]
I love Dilbert Comics… Unfortunately, Tech Support like this is way too common. This morning I got an email telling me that my office’s server for our email and website was at 90% capacity and that it will stop working when it reaches 100%. I didn’t think that the server would fill up in [...]
I have always been somewhat conscious of my weight. I remember when I was 80 lbs. and I would hold down on the counter while weighing myself to add on some weight and make me feel a little bigger. It wasn’t long after that when I hit 100 lbs. I gained a lot of [...]
Everyone has heard the saying, “a penny saved, is a penny earned”. I know I grew up hearing it. I always took it too literally and thought of it as just being pennies. I often thought to myself, who cares about a few pennies, they are all over the place and pretty much worthless. There [...]