Several years ago, a friend who worked for a corporation mentioned pirating some new software. When I asked her if that wasn’t illegal, she shrugged and mumbled something about, “Everybody does it.”
Her response reminded me of an article I …
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. ~ Sarah Bernhardt
There are people who have money and people who are rich. ~ Coco Chanel
Money should be the …
It’s been hard for me to understand the popularity of TIm Ferris’ The 4-Hour Workweek. Take a closer look and you’ll see he’s advocating creating a money machine so you don’t have to work much at all and can …
Not long ago, I got an e-mail from a woman who had been in my Making a Living Without a Job seminar. She was nervous about exploring self-employment, she said, because she’d heard that 90% of all small businesses fail.
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NPR reported that traffic is a mess in Buenos Aires thanks to on-going protests that are clogging the streets. The cause of this civil unrest is a declining economy and various types of businesses are organizing to speak out,
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Last week my granddaughter called to show me her first lost tooth. After I had admired the cavity in her mouth, we had a little discussion about the afghan I’m crocheting for her. “You should make one for my
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My friend Chris and I loved an old cartoon in which Ziggy declared, “My idea of prosperity is a checking account with commas.” We promptly adopted this as our prosperity symbol.
Feeling prosperous is a highly individual thing and each …
In Making a Living Without a Job I tell the story about the day I received a cold call from a stockbroker saying he wanted to discuss my investments. When I told him that my business was my major …
On a visit to my daughter in California a few years ago, I saw a story on the local news about the hottest yoga classes in Los Angeles. It wasn’t because they were teaching a new form of yoga
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There was a popular bumper sticker I used to see that read, “I Owe, I Owe, So Off to Work I Go.” Amusing pun or self-fulfilling prophecy?
I thought of that dreadful affirmation when I was shopping for new …
