I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again… Success is not some mysterious force. Success doesn’t care about your race, your creed, or your background. Nor is success reserved for the rich and affluent. I think Tony Robbins said it best when he said, “Success leaves clues.“ Having read over 200 books on self-development, […]
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My son turns five in just a little over a month. A few years ago, he could barely walk and now he’s challenging my authority. How times have changed. Soon, as he begins to better understand numbers and, more importantly, money, his real education will begin. As he’ll attend a Japanese elementary school, his English
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The year – 1991. The city – Bangkok. At the time, few musicians had Thailand on their tour schedule, so when my friends and I heard that Europe was coming to perform we jumped at the chance to see a real-life rock band. Little did I know that rocking out at a concert would end
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When life gives you lemons, make lemonade… Great advice, but as most wise expressions go, they’re easy to say…not quite as easy to live. And unfortunately, there’s just no way of getting around the lemons of life. Even the luckiest of us run into trouble every now and then. Problems are unavoidable, but what we
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Helping people isn’t easy… I’m amazed at how often people ignore good advice. Movies, gadgets, restaurants, relationship advice, or investments…people seem to have a built-in force field that prevents them from listening to good suggestions. Just the other day as I jumped on the train, I happened to notice the young lady next to me
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A lot can happen in two weeks… Two weeks ago few people outside of Europe had ever heard of the small island of Cyprus. Today, it has taken center stage of the financial world. A population of roughly a million people and a bailout of what is considered pocket change (10 billion euros) in today’s
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David Bach, author of the Automatic Millionaire, coined the term “the latte factor” in his book Finish Rich. It’s a devilishly simple idea. It basically states that the small, trivial things we spend money on everyday add up to an extremely large amount over time. He uses lattes to illustrate how something we have gotten
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Friends… Those wonderful people who know everything about us…and still like us. Friends are those people we call when we need a shoulder to cry on. Friends are there to help us out of a jam. They pick us up when we are down and the people we share our victories with. Friends may not
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Differentiation… That’s what I hear all the time in everything I study. It’s what’s called in the marketing business as a USP, a unique selling proposition, and it’s what every business needs to have to set itself apart from its competition. Most people think that McDonald’s consistent taste was its key to success, but if
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Like it or not, there’s no denying the fact that Facebook is here to stay… A few short years ago FB was just a blip on the screen while MySpace was the big bad monster. But a few years is a lifetime when talking about technology. Today FB is one of the four big tech
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