Category: Personal Development
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Coffee Talk – Gaining Time + Income
Tweet Today’s post is part of a blogging experiment asking people to figure out their plans to either increase time or increase income for 2011 and use 5 actions starting with the letter S to describe their plan of attack. Although I plan on doing a little bit of both (with another attic full of…
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New Years Goals for Anyone
Tweet The last week of the year is almost always a week of reflection due to the time I take off from work. I tend to get introspective and think about how I want the upcoming year to be different from the previous one. Despite my need to lose those last few pounds of baby…
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Your Life Doesn’t Have to Be Chaotic
Tweet I’ll admit it. I’m one of those nutty people who’s always over scheduled and tend to fill every waking moment with some activity or task. It seems like my MO is to teeter totter between being bored and being completely frazzled. What I do is this. I add things to my life one thing…
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Happiness is Independence
Tweet The other day, I was blogging about Babci’s Mottos to Live By and the last one just really stuck in my head. “Don’t Complain about not having something done if you can do it yourself.” If I think about the people in my life and the ones that are the happiest and the ones…
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Slow Food = Feeling like you Have More time?
Tweet One of the annual events that I started once Babci moved to my town is making red current jelly. It is truly a team effort and it reminds me of the old barn raising days where the community gets together to help each other. A Great Sense of Community Every year, my mom grows…
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Why Gorillas don’t have 401K plans
Tweet Today is the first post of a monkey carnival. The goal was to have several bloggers all tie a personal finance lesson to one of our favorite primates. I’m eager to read everyone’s stories. When I first concocted this topic, I really had no idea what I’d be writing about. Then, when I started…
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Settling Estate Disputes – Babci Style
Tweet My dad died when I was 14 and it wasn’t without it’s drama. You see, he had recurring chest pains and stopped working for good when I was about 9. When I was 12 and his health insurance ran out, he emptied our bank accounts and went back to Poland. He never liked America…
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Creative Inspiration – Left Brain vs Right Brain
Tweet Last night, I had 6 hour drive that got me home pretty late. The only positive thing that came out of it, was that I had the opportunity to listen to a great concert by Chip Taylor on NPR. If you don’t know who Chip Taylor is (I didn’t), he’s the guy who wrote…
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The $500 Cheese Wheel + Other Hobbies
Tweet My last post on Entrepreneurial Envy got me thinking about all the nutty hobbies I’ve tried over the years that could potentially generate money on the side if I ever chose to be the crafty type. Cheesemaking Farmhouse Cheddar Fresh Raw Milk Mozzarella My most recent splurge was taking a couple of…