In How to Manage Your Career to Make Millions More I listed seven steps to making the most of your career. Today we will be going into details of the second step: be likeable. So that everyone is up-to-speed, recall that we've already covered step 1: 7 Steps to Millions More: Over-Perform. Being likeable is not something that most people generally think of as a path to … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2016
What I Did Well and Not-So-Well in Real Estate Investing
Now that I've posted on the Financial Details of My Real Estate Investments, I wanted to share what I felt I did well in this effort and where I could have improved. I'm hopeful that my learnings can be helpful to others who are interested in real estate investing. What Went Well Here are the things I think that went well: Got knowledge from someone who knew what … [Read more...]
Wow, It’s Hard to Get a Mortgage These Days!
Now that everyone is up to speed on the fact that we've moved recently, let me share the saga of buying a house in the new city and selling one in the old. Before I get into the details, let me start with how naive I was about the mortgage process these days. It had been a long time since I had a mortgage (almost two decades) and there was a major real estate meltdown and … [Read more...]
How to Buy a House and Pay Off the Mortgage in Less Than 10 Years
Buying a home is the biggest purchase most Americans will ever make, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in one chunk. In addition, there are a whole host of associated costs -- insurance, maintenance, taxes, furnishings, and on and on that make this a gigantic financial issue for all but the wealthiest of us. The impact buying a home can have on a family's finances is … [Read more...]
7 Steps to Millions More: Over-Perform
In How to Manage Your Career to Make Millions More I listed seven steps to making the most of your career. Today we will be going into details of the first step: over-perform. This is the first thing that pops into the minds of most people when they think of succeeding at work: performing well. It is an important part of making the most of your career for sure, but it's not … [Read more...]
How to Save a Fortune When Buying a Car
I have purchased three new cars in the past 10 years. Yes, I like buying new cars and driving them forever and sometime in the future we can debate whether that's a better "deal" than buying used. If nothing else, give me some slack and allow that it's one area where I treat myself. :) Anyway, on each of those three car purchases I have saved THOUSANDS of dollars by using … [Read more...]
What to Include in a Disaster File
When I listed my 2016 financial resolutions I noted that one of my resolutions as follows: Complete death file -- I know, it's a morbid name. But it's basically a file that lists where all our finances, records, etc. are located. It's for my wife in case something would happen to me. One reader responded: A better term of death file that I like would be disaster file. If you … [Read more...]
The Best Personal Finance Books of All Time: The Richest Man in Babylon
I have read hundreds of books on all sorts of financial topics -- general money management, investing, retirement, and on and on. Unfortunately the vast majority of them aren't worth the paper they are printed on. They are poorly written and contain little valuable information. That said, there are many books that stand out for one reason or another -- and I mean this in a … [Read more...]
