Yes, that’s right. I just said that you can fund your child’s entire retirement for only thirty dollars a month. Notice I did not say that you can fund their education for only thirty dollars a month, I said you can fund their retirement. You are doubting me already, I [...]
When I graduated from Broadcasting School I had fifteen thousand dollars in debt hanging over my head. The primary debt was student loans, a car loan and a sprinkling of credit card debt for good measure. I carried that debt for a few months out of necessity before making a [...]
When you walk down the street and get stopped by a panhandler, what do you do? If you are like most people, you rush by as quickly as possible, avoiding eye contact. You don’t feel that person deserves any of your money, but you’re slightly embarrassed at your unwillingness to [...]
Look around you. Look at your friends, family, and even your co-workers. How many of them would you say love going to work every day? How many of them do you believe finish every day with a sense of satisfaction and a feeling of joy? Now ask yourself how many [...]
Picture your life as a movie. Your birth is the opening shot, which is followed by your childhood in which the opening credits introduce the people in your life. Your adulthood is the meat of the movie, and when you die, the credits roll. Now picture the world as an [...]
Chances are pretty good you have heard about the law of attraction by now. Perhaps you have seen The Secret, and if not, I highly suggest you do. If you haven’t read about it yourself, you may have heard a friend talking about it, or at the very least some [...]
The following quote is often inaccurately attributed to Goethe, but no matter who said it, the words still carry a powerful message. “Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which [...]
I know you have a dream. In fact, you probably have several dreams. Perhaps you dream of travelling to Spain, or owning a Lexus. Maybe you simply dream of having your own business. Perhaps you dream is to retire somewhere tropical and spend your days basking in the afternoon sun [...]
Everyone has the potential to be rich. Unless you were born into poverty in the third world, and even sometimes then, you have the power to rise up beyond your beginnings and become something much greater. The difference between poor people and rich people is in their minds and how [...]
Living paycheck to paycheck is no fun, but with the exception of a lucky few born into privilege we have all done it at some point, or several points in our lives. Unfortunately a lot of us get so used to living that way that we come to view it [...]
If you read my article on Eckhart Tolle and his book, The Power of Now, then you may have been left with the impression that I don’t value anything he has to say. The truth is however that despite my many misgivings about the book, I find his overall message [...]
I believe that the main reason people are not successful is because they do not believe they can be. Perhaps while they were growing up they witnessed parents who struggled to make ends meet, and began to view life as difficult. As a consequence, they came to believe that success [...]
This evening I was surfing around and came upon a blog known as The A-hole Blog. I must admit despite not being in total agreement with the guy, his blog is living up the the name. But the beauty of it is that even though he really is a real [...]
If you haven’t heard of The Power of Now before reading this article, chances are you would have eventually. It’s become a bit of a phenomenon you see, well beyond the level of your average “new age” book. This is due to author Eckhart Tolle’s apparent lack of religious affiliation, [...]
I cannot deny it: I have become somewhat of an incense fiend. I am completely addicted to the warm, sweet smelling odour that permeates my home and greets my senses when i walk in the door. It’s a cozy, homey smell that you can’t get from nauseating glade plug-ins, or, [...]
Twenty-three days ago I took a flying leap and made a snap decision to pack as much as a could into a big suitcase and move seven hundred kilometres away from my hometown to live in the little mountain town of Nelson. The reasons for my move are many, but [...]
I admit it, I am not really an Avril Lavigne fan. I don’t dislike her, but I am not exactly in her demographic. So you may wonder how it was that I ended up at the VIP meet and greet session in Kelowna. And the answer is simple. My girlfriend [...]
Starring: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Elijah Wood, Kirsten Dunst Written By: Charlie Kaufman Directed By: Michel Gondry I don’t remember who told me to see this movie, but I’ve been meaning to get around to it for a while. Now that I have seen it, I wish I had done [...]
Some people have an irrational fear of credit cards. They are firmly convinced that these little bits of plastic are somehow possessed by the devil himself. The reasoning is that because credit cards can lead people into trouble that the cards themselves are the problem. Obviously this is not true. [...]
In June 2007, exactly seven months ago, I was in debt to the tune of $15,000. That may not sound like much, but consider that my annual after tax income as a recent broadcasting school graduate, working in retail while looking for a “real” job, was a meagre $13,000. That [...]