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Entries for September, 2007

Trump Wealth Seminar – Just Missed It

Today I received a special invitation to The Trump Way to Wealth Introductory Seminar. I thought to myself, “Hey! Great! I’d like to check out a seminar and it’s free!”. I’ve been thinking lately that maybe a seminar or two would be good to get me inspired to move forward. Unfortunately, the seminar was [...]

The Value of an Hour

Yesterday, as I was taking my daughter to a birthday party, I started thinking about the value of an hour. What is an hour of your time worth? When I was younger, I considered my time to be worth $25/hr. Eventually, I started making more than that at my day job so I bumped it [...]

Home Schooling

I’ve been thinking about home schooling my children lately. This is an option I’ve always considered possible because I have a fairly low opinion of the public school system. I will admit that the public school system has exceeded my expectations but that’s not saying much because my expectations are so low. This belief was [...]

Feeling Violated

Sometime last night, after 2:30am, somebody went on a crime spree down our back lane. They smashed at least three car windows and tossed a fourth car. They rummaged through all the compartments in our car, but, since this isn’t the first time, we keep nothing of any real value in the car. Therefore, nothing [...]

What Is Wealth?

After stating that I want to be wealthy, I thought it would be a good idea to define what exactly I mean by “wealth”. Well, I’ve been mulling this over in my head for quite some time but I haven’t been able to put it into words in a succinct manner. Lo and behold, Meg [...]

Free Shirt

Here’s a pic of me in the Evil Mastermind shirt from Eric Sink of SourceGear. The deal here is that he sent me a free shirt and in return, I post a pic of me wearing the shirt and allow him to use it. Not only is that a great marketing idea, but its fun [...]

Building Wealth

Somewhere along the way I decided that I want to be wealthy. I get paid decently by my employer but, in reading various personal finance books, I realized that its going to take me a long time to get wealthy if I rely solely on my employment income. In the books I’ve read, there seems [...]