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The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think – rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. ~ Bill Beattie Update #1: This post was included in the Carnival of Money Stories 2: Disaster Issue posted at True Adventures in Money Hacking. [...] Continue reading Financial Literacy Is Like Green Eggs and Ham Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith Update: This post is featured in the Carnival of Personal Finance – Women in History Edition posted at Simply Forties. Thanks! I mentioned at the end of my last post that I often struggle with the knowledge-action gap. I [...] Continue reading 5 Financial Toxins and Antidotes And then! Oh, the noise! Oh, the noise! Oh the noise! Noise! Noise! Noise! That’s one thing he hated! The NOISE! NOISE! NOISE! NOISE! ~ Dr. Seuss, from How the Grinch Stole Christmas How the Grinch Stole Christmas is one of my favourite holiday classics – both the book and the animated version. I know. Christmas is over. Still, I thought about the quote above because the [...] Continue reading How To Sample Wisely From the Noise Buffet I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, [...] Continue reading Christmas Conversion The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams. - Og Mandino So far in our Balance Basics series, we have covered 2 of the 3 shampoo [...] Continue reading 5 Goal Setting Guidelines |
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