Someone once said that wealth is what you’ve got left even after you’ve lost all your money.
In today’s business terms, wealth is goodwill; the invaluable resource that remains on the books despite what the rest of the balance sheets say. In social media, it is your reputation – or even the “personal brand equity” [...]
Here’s a brief rundown of some of the (very broad) possibilities for making a living (please fill me in if I’ve overlooked one – I’m sure I have):
you work for someone else, but you love your job or feel fulfilled
you work for someone else, it’s ok, but you can’t complain
you work for someone else and [...]
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 [...]
It’s one of the last weeks of an academic term, and I’ve got three two large papers still left to process. A total of about 65-80 pages (plus footnotes and bibliographies) that need to be written (not counting the pages of research that need to be read). Deadlines are looming like a gun to my [...]
It was bad enough when all we had to worry about tuning out were traffic jams, television sets, commercials, ringing telephones and doorbells. Sometime over the last ten years, though, gradually, we gained an additional set of layers of “noise” to deal with: the public cellphone conversation, the instant message, flashing ads in our elevators [...]
I’ve been very fortunate to meet and be able to speak with author and founder of the Wealth Pilgrim, Neal Frankle, CFP — someone with a truly amazing and inspiring story. Not only is Neal a Certified Financial Planner, he is also a great motivational writer, blogger and speaker. He has appeared on radio and [...]
In the world of finance, leverage can either refer to (1) the use of a small portion of your own money to achieve bigger gains (with less of your own money at risk) or (2) the use of other people’s (borrowed) money for the same reasons. Either way, I kind of see it in terms [...]