Life

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    Is Your LinkedIn Profile Powerful or Puny?

    ByMichael

    Are you looking for a job, or trying to grow your business network?

    Do you have a Powerful LinkedIn Profile?

    Are you and I connected on LinkedIn?

    A no answer to any of these might be a hurdle that you want to overcome in working towards your personal business and financial success.

    The latest survey data says a full 94% of potential clients’ today use social media in their evaluation of prospective business. And yet people are puzzled, or at least, skeptical as to why tools like LinkedIn are such a game changer.

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    Budgets SUCK

    ByMichael

    Budgets SUCK!

    Yes, I think that budgets are the most ill-conceived idea of how to plan for your money on the personal level.

    Why? Very simply – Life Happens

    It is those fortunate or unfortunate turns in life that make budgets incredibly useless. I remember as a child my parents working to have a budget. The idea in the 1960’s called the Envelope System was to cash your paycheck and put the cash into different envelopes for each expense. It still exists today, and just like then it only works if and when you have the self-discipline to not reach into the other envelope and borrow from groceries to pay for entertainment.

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    THE FINANCIAL OLYMPIAN™ CREED

    ByMichael

    Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in service of the United States of America. Pause and take a moment, remember those men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice for us so that we can live and make the choices given to us by our freedom.

    The Army, National Guard, Air Force, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, and Navy all have creeds. A creed is an oath or saying that provides a value structure by which to live or work by. Creeds then set the tone of life in each service. If you join one of these branches, you will need to learn its creed.

    These military creeds are learned in basic training. The creeds are learned and lived until the daily activity and actions of a United States soldier or cadet are ruled and governed by their creed. The discipline demonstrated by these women and men is worth learning for our life.

    How can you apply this?

    Be a Financial Olympian™ and live the Financial Olympian™ Creed:

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    Why 1% makes a difference

    ByMichael

    In our life, we spend a lot of time thinking about problems. What if we say a magic word and make them all go away? Maybe we can.

    The words aren’t like Dorothy clicking her red heels together and saying “There’s no place like home”. You don’t need Greek phrases or a special diet/pill you saw on the shopping channel to make it work, either.

    Surprise is it not a four letter word, it is worse, it’s a simple six-letter word: growth.

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    The Great Eggscape

    ByMichael

    Is there a missing egg? Have you ever had the pleasure of coloring hard boiled eggs with your children or grand-children and then have the “Easter Bunny” (aka Mom and Dad) hide them for finding on Easter morning? This was an Easter tradition for our family and it made Easter morning a quick fun filled…