Motivation is a major key to success. Whether trying to buy a new house, get a promotion at work, become balanced, or otherwise, being motivated to work toward your goals is an important requisite. My question for you today is that of where you find your motivation. How do you stay happy when things try [...]
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 [...]
“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb People regularly make excuses for why they cannot and will not do something that needs to be done. Crossing items off the to-do list becomes infinitely more complicated than it actually is when one simply [...]
Major Achievements Got straight As in the fall semester Defeated depression Opened and funded a high-yield savings account Made over $200 dollars by writing Minor Achievements In better shape now Maintained the One-Year Tightrope for a month and a half without missing an article Wrote in a journal every day for two months straight Made [...]
The first step to fixing any issue is to identify it. As I do not want to assume there is any issue, let’s say the problem which has led you to read this website is that your life is out of balance. Specifically, I will assume that your life is not balancing well with your [...]
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