David Shea’s The Printable CEO (or PCEO, for short) is probably one of the most revolutionary tools for productivity and organization a small business owner—anyone, really—can have in their toolbox. The PCEO is a collection of 5 printable worksheets for goal tracking, task tracking, daily planning, planned versus unplanned tracking, and individual task tracking. (More [...]
Rather than have a personal finance post this week, I would like to give some link love to one of my favorite blogs: The Simple Dollar. Trent has written an interesting post asking readers how they spend their time and how they spend their money. The point is that there are some areas, like gym [...]
I write a lot about how to do things, but so far, I have not really shared how successful I have been with the challenge I set forth for all of you. I realized this recently and decided to change it. What better way of doing this than to write a personal post about how [...]
Almost all people have to have jobs at some point in their lives. Similarly, almost all people working with others will face the occasional painful acquaintance: that person who thinks he’s hilarious, or pokes fun at others and causes emotional distress, or just cannot get things done. Coworkers can be some of the hardest people [...]
Setting goals is an effective way of getting many things accomplished. However, for personal finance and similar activities, there is an even more important task at hand: setting priorities. Prioritizing is a process similar to goal setting, but there are some subtle and conspicuous differences which are important to know and master.
There are few things in life that come for free and the vast majority of those that do are completely worthless. Whether something costs money, energy, or time does not matter, only that there is some marginal cost for a benefit. Such is the law of responsible consumerism: something should only be bought if its [...]
Google is famous as one of the best places to work in the technology industry. Stellar benefits, great pay, flextime, and many more qualities make Google home to some of the best and most coveted jobs in the world. One of the most well-known parts of working for Google is a sort of recreational free [...]
Personal finance advice often creates two camps: those who oppose credit cards and those who support their usage (with responsibility, of course). I fall into the proponent camp, because I think building good credit is a great way to finance a car or house without paying in cash, which is difficult for most to accomplish. [...]
Those of us who were not so fortunate as to be born into money have to work for a living. Sometimes, while working, we will be asked to do things we would rather not do, whether it be physical labor or an act with which we have moral dilemmas. Similarly, work is a place to [...]
There is a certain nuisance we have all experienced while being amused: advertisements. Blinking, yelling banners popping out of browser windows, movie previews for those completely irrelevant to our chosen film, and commercials for cars, fast food, and make-up regularly interrupt our entertainment time and disrupt enjoyment of our lives. From a business perspective, this [...]
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