Getting rich is about willpower. Without willpower, you will likely never get ahead of the masses. In the 1960s, Columbia University psychologist Walter Mischel conducted an experiment on children that is now often referred to as The Marshmallow Test. Walter invited various aged children into a room individually and asked them to sit down in […]
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If you improve productivity it generally means more profit and less time spent working. However, some people take improving productivity too far and end up working all day every day. Since making investment returns might be getting more difficult, it’s good if everybody figures out how to improve productivity. During a downturn, corporations try to squeeze
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The 401k investment vehicle is woefully inadequate for retirement. With the government capping our pre-tax contributions at $19,000 for 2010, maxing out our 401K is the very minimum we can do. Fidelity reported the median account balance in the U.S. was only around $110,000 after reviewing their 12+ million accounts. This is after a seven year
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The marriage penalty tax is discrimination. But given the marriage penalty tax doesn’t hit everybody, there hasn’t been enough uproar to make it go away. Thankfully, the marriage penalty tax has been abolished for 98% of households. In the past, I used to wonder why two individuals with high incomes or two individuals with a
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I’m always looking for new investment ideas due to excess cash flow. All of you who spend less than you make should have the same problem. But given we are near all-time highs in the stock market, good ideas are harder to come by. I’m also always being asked by folks who discover my background whether
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Are you wondering how much does it cost to buy your kid’s way into the best private universities? After privately speaking to some of the richest people in America, I have the answer! As a pro public school guy, my ears always perk up every time friends talk about choosing private high schools and colleges for
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Do you have a complicated net worth like me? If so, it may be a good idea to look at a simple net worth. The more complicated your net worth, the more you need to stay on top of it with a free tool like Empower. A blogging buddy of mine named J from Budgets
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I’d like to share with you the best financial move I ever made to help me get to financial independence at 34 in 2012. I started Financial Samurai in 2009 and started writing about achieving FIRE (financial independence retire early) on a regularly basis. Today, the FIRE movement has grown to be a worldwide phenomena
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Congratulations for receiving or negotiating a severance package or financial windfall! Severances are not mandatory in many countries, therefore anything you get beyond $0 is a bonus. Hopefully you’ve used the strategies I’ve outlined in my book to get the best severance package possible. It’s not just the financial windfall that’s so great, it’s the
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Before you read my investment outlook for 2018, you must first understand my financial situation and my biases. Our biases often warp our reality by anchoring us to past situations. Permanently left work in 2012 at the age of 34 Net worth got crushed by ~35% in 2008-2009 Small business owner who will benefit from
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