My biggest weakness is being unable to generate enough organic motivation to keep on hustling. I used to get up by 5am every weekday to work for 2-3 hours before work. Then I’d get home by 8pm and work another 1-2 hours on my side hustles. There was this massive internal drive to go all out […]
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Love your colleagues. If you love your colleagues, you will get paid and promote faster. Everyday, we are inundated with e-mails. I personally get over 300 a day, and other colleagues I’ve heard get 500. Â Despite many of the e-mails being largely irrelevant, or impersonal given the blast distribution trend, it’s worth responding every once
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Are you wondering how to make people happy all of the time? I’m not sure that’s a wise endeavor, but let’s see if we can try. When I was ruminating on whether or not to go back to work after two years of absolute freedom, my friends all thought I was crazy. “What if your
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When you’re interviewing for a job, first impressions are everything. To start, wearing the appropriate interview attire is key. Over at “Laid Off And Looking”, one of the bloggers posts about the “Perils of Interview Attire.” He received positive feedback about his skills, but a middle manager told him after his second round that he
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EQ (emotional intelligence) is more important than IQ. I don’t care how smart you are, if you are a weird selfish prick, you won’t get as far as someone who is less smart, but gets along with everybody. In a previous post, I discussed how I was able to stay at a $2,000/night hotel for a
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The more productive you are, generally, the richer and happier you will be. Let’s discuss how we can all improve productivity quite easily with an extra seven hours a week. I’ve been a little more active on Twitter recently and I noticed something quite interesting. Starting at around 10pm PST, the chatter goes silent. I tend
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Every week I spend time reviewing older posts to ensure they are updated with the most pertinent information possible. Keeping posts fresh and useful is one of the many duties of a professional blogger. Posts that I wrote five years ago are still getting tens of thousands of visitors a month because like a bonzai tree, they are carefully maintained. There’s always a
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If you go close to the edge, you’ll realize what’s possible. In my quest to make my life worse, to ultimately make life more enjoyable, I’ve continued to look for full-time work to test my resolve. Every time I step into an interview room, I change my mindset from a guy with financial freedom, to a
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Gen Y Millennials are a curious bunch. They are now in their prime family formation and home buying age. However, back in 2014, when I first wrote this post, I began to wonder whether Gen Y Millennials were screwing themselves on purpose. Let me explain. The Plight Of Gen Y Millennials A 25 year old
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Dear Readers, Welcome to The Financial Samurai Podcast! It is the best personal finance podcast today. I decided to start a podcast to try and connect with readers in a new way. I’ve been writing online since 2009 and I feel very comfortable whipping out any sort of writing fairly easily. I thought it would
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