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 [...]
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Thus once said French novelist Jean Giraudoux. Think about this for a moment. At first it looks like it’s a statement about “the mediocre” – you know, lots of other people — slackers — but not yourself, right? But then you think about it some more and the meaning shifts a bit.
You’re not a “mediocre” [...]
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The past two weeks have been more active around here, especially with all the goings-on on Twitter. It’s so great to continually meet such motivated and inspiring people and their “liberation stories.” Just by way of a bit of a round up here, I want to mention a few updates to the site and say [...]
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This post is inspired by a tweet that @libertygirl3 made last night on Twitter. She said “If you want to feel rich, count the things you have that money can’t buy.”
Immediately I was struck by the simple truth of this statement. This time, it didn’t hit me as a cliche or adage at all. This [...]
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