Posted on June 24th, 2009 by
Brandt Smith in
Life balance
Ok, maybe the title was a bit over the top. That doesn’t detract from the truth, it doesn’t make it less valid, and it doesn’t lessen the importance of this basic personal development truth:
You need to take responsibility for your life.
Everything that happens to you, good and bad, can be traced back to your choices.
Sometimes this is obvious. My boss says something I don’t like so I punch him in the face. The result…I get fired (and maybe spend some quality time in the county lockup).
Other times it is more subtle. For example, you have a coworker that is usually late in turning in their part of a project. Do you confront them? Do you (professionally) say anything to them at the beginning of the project? Most...
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Posted on June 11th, 2009 by
L Smith in
Entrepreneurship
At Wealth and Wisdom we are always on the lookout for topics that interest our readers. This week we have a book review. The book is called Bailout Riches written by Bill Bartmann.
Bailout Riches is a how to guide for making money with the new government bailouts such as the Tarp or RTC. Mr. Bartmann starts out by explaining how he went from deeply in debt to becoming a billionaire by buying bad loans for pennies on the dollar. He would buy the bad debt for say 2 cents on the dollar and work to recover 6 cents on the dollar. In the book he lays out the entire plan from obtaining the bad debt to the collection process. This is not a get rich quick book! The process he explains will take a good deal of time and effort but it made him a billio...
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Posted on June 3rd, 2009 by
Brandt Smith in
Entrepreneurship
Bear with my. My title will make sense as you read the post! Lately I’ve been working on Wealth and Wisdom a lot. Some of it was to improve our interface. A lot of it is to grow our subscriber base. One area we have been working on is Search Engine Optimization (SEO). As I’ve ...
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