Fear and guilt are powerful emotions to help you succeed. In fact, I think is the #1 ingredient that has enabled me to achieve financial independence at 34 in 2012. On Sunday, January 16th Yakezie.com received around 6,300 visitors thanks to Little House’s (Yakezie Scholarship Committee Member) efforts to reach out to other organizations online. […]
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Ever hoped for something to break in order to buy a new car? Well I am! I want to buy a new car. Then again, only the rich or fools are able to afford new car prices today. I have to admit, I’m having withdrawals from not driving a different car for over 3 years
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If you hate working out, hire a personal trainer to get you motivated. A personal trainer will help kick your ass when you don’t want to do anything. Working out sucks. I hate it with a passion because I find it so wasteful to expend energy on doing nothing. I would rather use the energy to build
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Are you wondering: should I have closed my credit cards? By closing your credit cards, you may negatively affect your credit score. Let’s discuss more in this post I wrote after I closed my credit cards. I did some spring cleaning the other day and found two credit cards in my drawer which I totally
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Nature vs. nurture is an ancient debate about determining a child’s future success. Success is often defined in terms of money, career, and status. Personally, I think there is an unhealthy desire for prestige and money that is ruining many people’s lives. I think it’s much better to get rich and then get off the
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You might have heard recently that an unemployed architect by the name of Mark Epple found a whopping 12 carat, yellow diamond ring when he and his family was skiing in Vail. The first thing that came to mind was who wears a 12 carat diamond ring? That must be so gaudy! My second thought
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Are you looking for a weight loss tip? Well, here’s a weight loss tip I’ve to keep me in a fairly narrow weight band for the past 25 years. With parties and business meals galore, it’s so easy to pack on some weight and transform your once slender figure into a mound of dough. The
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Happy New Year! Let me present to you my predictions for 2011. 2011 will be solid because the world continues to recover from the economic violence experienced just two years ago. Confidence builds as people are no longer afraid of a double dip recession. As a result, people start taking risks and magic happens. Making
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You guys have really rocked the discussions with multiple 100+ comment posts this year! You’d think this was a big blog or something. I can’t begin to thank you enough for your contributions and what I’ve learned from you. A post recap of 2010 is a good exercise to not only discover what worked best
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There seems to be a camp that believes that New Year’s resolutions are a waste of time. Are you kidding me? If you have no resolutions for the next year, you’re going to have a very unfocused way of making progress in whatever you want to do. There’s another camp that says you should have very
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