Posts made in February, 2008
How to Handle a Break Up
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An IM exchange last night reminded me about what I did when I reverted to singlehood for a period about 3 weeks.
Dr Helen Fisher, in her book Why We Love
I just felt like sharing with you what I did during my own lonely moments. In hindsight, I thought I handled it pretty well, erm, at least good enough to share this with you today. I truly hope that you might find the silver lining in between these lines.
Read More8 Ways to Beat Inflation
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This is a follow-up article from Why you should care about Inflation.
Over time, inflation will erode both your standard of living and your savings. I am a firm believer that life should improve constantly. Once I identified inflation as a threat to that, I started learning and trying out ways to beat it.
This post summarizes 8 ways that I’ve used to counter inflation.
Read More3 Ways to Stay Committed to Your Goals
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All promise outruns performance. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
We all know instinctively that small efforts, accumulated long enough, will produce great results.
Yet, one of the hardest things to do is to stay committed to a plan for a long period of time – be it going to the gym, sticking to a diet, spending quality time with family, quitting smoking, or separating your garbage.
Taken individually, each of these activities are a cinch. What seem to be missing is our daily resolve to go about doing them. The ‘pigs’ in our minds are consistently outsmarting our better judgement and winning the war.
In this post, I will list 3 online tools that I’ve used to turn the tables against this ‘pig’.
Read More5 Reasons for Keeping Your Day Job
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There’s a general sense of lost sweeping the society today. Somewhere along the way, the light at the end of the tunnel seem to have vanished.
I’m not talking about myself but rather, a logical conclusion of what I’ve been observing in the news and people around me.
I’m sure you can see the world turning for the worse: financial turmoil with sub-prime, SIVs, CDS and rogue traders, rising food and energy prices, increasing mentions of “recession” in the media, volatile stock market going nowhere, bleak government outlooks and uninspiring rescue plans.
It’s like being in bad company, “why try so hard when nobody else does?” When nobody is doing well, it’s easy to rationalize the decision to ‘take a step back and re-evaluate my options’, a.k.a. quitting your day job.
This post talks about why the times mandate that you re-evaluate your evaluation and that keeping your day job is perhaps the best decision in years to come.
Read MoreWhy you should care about Inflation
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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
~ Sam Ewing
We only have to go to a local grocery to know what inflation is all about – rising prices. The worry we have is that our income is not rising as fast and we don’t really know when it will get better.
I am going to put to you that inflation is here to stay and you cannot sit and wait long enough for it to go away. This article explains the cause of inflation and why you should care about it.
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