If you want to get ahead, always be the underdog. You will be much happier if you do. If you are the underdog, nobody expects you to win. But if you do, you will gain a tremendous amount of satisfaction. Deru kugi wa utareru is a Japanese proverb that means, “The nail that sticks out […]
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Happy 2019 everyone! This is the Financial Samurai 2019 economic outlook and personal goals. With my 2018 finishing with 3.8 4.0 out of 5.0 stars, I’ve thought long and hard about how I can make 2019 better. I’ve found a solution. My 2019 theme is: live the good life. If you live the good life, how can
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Although 2018 ended on a down note with the stock market selling off, I feel good about how things unfolded. I’ll take the ratio of three good quarters to one bad quarter any year. Here is my Financial Samurai 2018 year in review. Believe it or not, my theme for 2018 was: back to early
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As we come to the end of the year, I want to highlight the top posts published in 2018. This year I spent more time than normal writing cautionary articles partly because I felt the good times were going away. It was important to share my growing concerns about the economy in order to better prepare the FS community. My first
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Don’t be your worst enemy. A self-inflicted wound is so sad. Unlike financial blindspots, where you can plead ignorance for your actions, a self-inflicted wound is a willful and always a harmful action that puts you in a worse off situation than before. As the markets tumble, it’s worth highlighting some self-inflicted wounds that could have prevented this fall. We’ll also learn about
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Win the small to conquer the big is a strategy to help you succeed at bigger things in life. By winning the small stuff, you will naturally develop more confidence and more skills to tackle new challenges. I recently experienced one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. I’d rank the feeling right up there with getting into
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Since it’s a quiet week with nobody around, I thought I’d do some more mid-year reflecting. This is the Financial Samurai mid-year 2018 personal goals checkup. To hold my feet to the fire, I’ve been setting public goals for a while now. But I’ve mostly just checked in at year-end, leaving me no opportunity to course correct during the year in
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Don’t let people walk all over you. Have the confidence to stand up yourself and fight for what you believe in! One of the surprising responses from How To Improve The Value Of Your Home With One Phone Call is people basically saying it’s not worth the hassle to call the property assessor’s office to make
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Do you want to live a happier life? If so, you must learn how to forecast your misery. If you learn how to forecast your misery, you’ll be better prepared when that inevitable time period comes that tries to mess up your life. Whenever I meet a fresh college graduate at a random mixer, I’m
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Age discrimination in the workplace is all too common. This article discusses why we need to eradicate age discrimination, especially when there is a need to accumulate a larger net worth and work longer now that times are so uncertain. Every large corporation has some type of annual “Diversity Training” course where we learn not
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