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Five Things You Should Have In Your Emergency Cash Stash at Home

February 17, 2010 · 5 comments

in diversification, emergencies, emergency fund, emergency kits, financial planning, lifehack, money lessons, preparedness, savings, self-protection, survival, wealth protection

My wallet was stolen from me recently.  I was pickpocketed in the plain of day in the middle of crowds in an urban transit station.  I didn’t hear, feel or notice a thing.  Suffice it to say, this identity theft can obviously happen to anyone.
Luckily, I’d previously heeded the good advice of not keeping all [...]

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Cheap Meal Ideas for Single Graduate Students

January 19, 2010 · 7 comments

in financial fitness, food, grad school, health, lifehack, low-income, nutrition, students

This post is really directed to anyone studying full-time or living on their own and working so much that the mere thought of making healthy meals tires you out.  Grad students’ situations just exemplify the worst of it.
The great thing about being single is being able to cook all of your own food (to put [...]

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Survival Skills To Barter With In Case of Financial Ruin, Unemployment, or Economic Collapse

January 15, 2010 · 10 comments

in diversification, economy, education, emergencies, lifehack, market crash, risk, self-protection, survival, sustainability, unemployment, wealth protection, world order

Do your “transferable skills” include survival skills?  If you work in financial markets, accounting, tourism, real estate, university-level teaching (certain fields), administration, human resources, and a number of other fields whose central activities are not connected in any real way to the basic “stuff” of living, it is more likely that you are lacking in [...]

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The Closest We Can Come to Making Money Out of Thin Air: Think Your Way To Wealth by Leveraging Your Brain’s Consumption of Calories

July 3, 2009 · 0 comments

in health, humor, lifehack, nutrition, psychology, wealthbuilding, weight loss

While you’re crunching retirement or networth numbers, or doing serious soul-searching into your dream career or life purpose, your brain is hard at work turning glucose into calories for all those neurons.  You may just be sitting at your computer, but if you can feel the wheels of thought turning, chances are you’re burning calories [...]

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More Stress, Less Money? Ways That Stress Can Cause Your Spending to Increase

June 23, 2009 · 12 comments

in behavioral finance, financial education, lifehack, money decisions, money lessons, psychology

If you’re frequently stressed out, do you tend to make bad money decisions?  My answer is yes.  If you know you’re under stress, keep an eye on your bank account and your budget, if you have one.  And it’s not just financial stress that causes bad financial decisions.  Sometimes the necessary pursuit of money itself [...]

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10 Tips From Tim Ferriss, Guy Kawasaki and Keith Ferazzi on Lifeline Relationships and Mentoring

June 19, 2009 · 14 comments

in achievement, careers, entrepreneurship, leadership, lifehack, lifestyle design, networking, success

Yesterday I listened in on an “author teleseminar” featuring Tim Ferriss (Four Hour Work Week), Guy Kawasaki (How To Change The World) and Keith Ferazzi (author of Never Eat Alone and Who’s Got Your Back?).  The call lasted about an hour.  The topic was about creating “lifeline” relationships – a small, close circle of advisors [...]

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Automate Your Income Just Like You Would Automate Your Expenses

June 17, 2009 · 9 comments

in achievement, cashflow, debt, employment income, financial education, lifehack, lifestyle design, passive income, side income, wealthbuilding

If it simplifies your life to put your bills and savings on autopayment, wouldn’t it make your life even simpler if you could also put your income on autopayment?  I know you probably already receive your paycheck through direct deposit, and in that sense your pay is “automatic,” but what if you could also automate [...]

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