For months I had been seeing questions about getting a college degree come up on this and other blogs. College for working adults and finishing your degree were becoming hot topics. It was becoming apparent that people wanted to finish their degree but didn’t have the time or money to do it the traditional way.
About the same time my wife had friends ask us how our son (16 years old), and how he was already well on his way to earning his college degree. We thought it was common knowledge, but then one of her friends asked
“Can you teach us how?”
This one question got us thinking…why is no one doing this? It is so much quicker and easier than traditional school. It also costs far less.
In the end we wrote an ebook, ad...
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A couple weeks back I wrote about the need to take responsibility for your life. Though it is a simple concept it has a profound effect on y0u life. In fact, you could say it is the foundation for all personal development.
What I didn’t go into was how it applies to business. Everyone is hit with the same problems, losing a top customer, having your best salesman quit to work for a competitor, watching bad economic conditions hurt our business. What differentiates the top performers is how they respond to stimuli and events.
Why some companies win while others lose
80% of companies refuse to take responsibility for the situation. They tell the board of directors that the economy is hitting everyone just as hard, it isn’t their f...
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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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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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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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Or how to stop sounding like a pompous ass I had to shake my head. Apropos, paradigm, myopic, maligned, rapier like,fondled,terminological exactitude. What was he thinking? It would have been bad enough if he was speaking to a panel of executives. In this case the words were inappropriate. After all, he was an announcer calling ...
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We should have known better. We hired a friend to do some administrative tasks at Wealth and Wisdom (and a couple of our other businesses). On the surface it seemed like a great idea. Ed was more than qualified to do the work. While I’m pretty good at spreadsheets and databases he made me look ...
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Today I had an article published on GetEntrepreneurial. For those of you who don’t know about GetEntrepreneurial, it is a great blog offering advice to small businesses. I highly recommend it to any entrepreneur. Visitors from GetEntrepreneurial Welcome to Wealth and Wisdom! I’ve listed a few of my articles below that you might enjoy. Feel ...
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This review is about a year overdue. Last year I made some major changes to our blog and website. While our blog is on the WordPress platform all of our websites were created using a tool called XSitePro. I had just upgraded to their latest version – entirely rebuilt – and had just started playing ...
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Time management is the central skill of success. Your ability to manage your time, to focus and channel your energies on your highest value tasks, will determine your rewards and your level of accomplishment in life more than any other factor. Save Hundreds of Hours and Thousands of Dollars in Personal Advancement Your mind is ...
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