Stereotypes: Toss the Rule Book & Write Your Own

You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.

~ Irene C. Kassorla

Update: This article was included in the Carnival of Money Stories: Spending Wisely Edition posted at Sweating the Big Stuff. Thank you!

Women aren’t very good with money. Men aren’t very good with children. Children aren’t ready to learn [...] Continue reading Stereotypes: Toss the Rule Book & Write Your Own





Have We Become a Society of Financial Adolescents?

Why do children want to grow up?  Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity.  But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do?  Not much:  they can “do” drugs, “have” sex, “make” babies, and “get” money (from their parents, crime, or [...] Continue reading Have We Become a Society of Financial Adolescents?





Silence Is Golden: How Quiet Can Be Profitable

. . . noise, in Western society, is considered a symptom of healthy economic activity. . . The opposite is the case. Noise kills, excessive input does real damage. Information overload clogs our ability to function effectively.

~ George Michelson Foy

Update: This article was featured in the Money Hackers Carnival – BBQ Edition posted at Saving Money Today.

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Friday Food for Thought: How to Cultivate a Better Life

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.

~ Prince Gautama Siddharta, founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.

For those who missed the first edition of Friday Food for Thought, this is a periodic series of posts in which I write about an article that I’ve recently read and found to be thought provoking. Today’s [...] Continue reading Friday Food for Thought: How to Cultivate a Better Life





Your Life Balance Sheet

Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well; . . . and not today’s pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man.

~ James H. West

Update: This article is featured in the Money Hacks Carnival #112 posted at Mrs. Nespy’s Frugal World. Thanks!

Is your life balanced? I happen to be someone [...] Continue reading Your Life Balance Sheet





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