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Weekly Wisdom: Happy Thinks-Giving

November 22nd, 2009

This week, a lot of this blog’s American friends will be racing around the country, heading back to old hometowns and stuffing themselves silly with calories and carbohydrates. Maybe, somewhere between fighting traffic and contemplating the utter weirdness of humanity while waiting at the airport, they’ll take stock of how lucky they are.

But before you go, though, here’s some food for thought from a flock of blogs. It’s a mash of the best ideas on personal finance and personal improvement that I could find. There are also some suggestions on how to better handle the upcoming holiday season.

Hopefully, it’ll add some gravy to your 2010.

Since I’m out of bad puns, I’ll just pass over the links.

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Weekly Wisdom: The Cutting Edge Of Making Money

November 15th, 2009

Futurists say that humanity is on the cusp of scientific and technological discoveries that will change it for ever. Energy, medicine, manufacturing, communication, and investing, just to name a few will alter the way we live.

And it will change the way you make money.

We call it this new economic period the Wealth Singularity. It’s our mission to create the technology and write the guides to help people navigate this new era. But, actually the new future of money is already happening–whether you’re ready or not.

In this edition of Weekly Wisdom, we’ll reveal that people are already embracing this and that new ways to make (and spend) money are being created.

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Why People Get Fat On Diets And Get Poor On Budgets

August 1st, 2009
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A friend of mine, who told me recently that he was budgeting his money, said he just went crazy.

Standing in a sea of new boxes from QVC, he told me that he made it through the month tightly following a money plan and then–with two days remaining in his monthly plan–called the home shopping station and, from the looks of things, emptied their warehouse.

And now the guilt settled in.

Budgets, for many people, work well. But, these are folks who have a budget mentality. In a Catch 22, they’re people who can probably live without these spending plans. They’re naturals.

Those who disparately need to control their spending are a lot like dieters who look at their menus as salvation from their eating patterns. This phenomena leaves dieters fat, and spenders poor. Here are a few reasons why:

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