Posts Tagged Simple Living

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Well, the unofficial start of summer, anyway.  Hope everyone had a nice holiday.  The weather in my neck of the woods was great.  They sure messed up the forecast.  Here are some of the best posts that I read this past week:

Brett at The Art of Manliness highlighted some motivational posters featuring Theodore Roosevelt;

WC Porter at Wise Bread asks: Are you a hammer or a Swiss Army Knife?;

Brad Isaac at Persistence Unlimited gives us lifestyle changes that stick;

Kevin at No Debt Plan created a stop doing list;

Pat at Smart Passive Income wants us to try virtual assistants;

Scott H. Young tells us not to burn our ships;

Steve at Brip Blap bids farewell to New Jersey;

Congratulations to David as The Good Human turned 3 years old last week;

David also tells us how he lives simply at his other blog, Simple.Organized.Life;

Mr. TML at Tough Money Love warns us not to let this financial crisis go to waste;

Five Cent Nickel tells us that stocks are for losers;

Blunt Money tells us that the universe will conspire to achieve what we want;

Jacob at Early Retirement Extreme tells us that the wealthy shall inherit the Earth;

Free Money Finance says that the poor economy is having little impact on him;

Mark Shead at Productivity 501 shows us that doing something new raises your IQ.

Well, this week in the States, Tuesday is like Monday, so if you’re an optimist, it’s a short work week.  Or, if you’re a pessimist, you have 20% less time to get your work done.  If you’re a realist like me, just hang in there,  Friday’s coming.

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• Brett Favre: But With a Whimper Paul O'Neill hit 21 homers.  Tiki Barber rushed for over 1,600 yards.  Jim Brown scored 17 touchdowns in his last year.  These athletes walked away while they were still at the top of their games.  But this week we saw another example of a person taking one curtain call......
• Corporate Barbarian Links: Another Day Closer to Death Edition Photo by h.koppdelaney I received some sad news this past week - one of my former coworkers died suddenly on his long commute home from work.  Thank God he pulled over to the side of the road, or he probably would have taken some other poor slobs with him......
• Corporate Barbarian Links: Sports Physical Edition My son had his sports physical this week.  Two doctors had to accommodate hundreds of high school athletes.  Needless to say, the wait was a long one.  I waited in the car, and a baseball game on the car radio would have passed the time, but the Yankees were......

• I made money doing nothing! That's what I say to myself every time I get my interest statement or see that the balance in my investment accounts has gone up. I don't know, I guess I'm easily amused. Doesn't that sound so much more appealing than "save your money" though? But saving/investing your money IS......
• Do Something You Love, Before You Have To Do Something For Money This was my recent advice to a family member who still has his entire adult life ahead of him. Thankfully, he’s still debt free, which means he has plenty of options. He can choose to spend his income, pile up debts, and eliminate these options, or remain free. It really......
• Who Wants To Earn Money Doing Nothing I suppose everybody ask how to make money by doing nothing , isn't it? Well there are some certain ways for that, to earn money doing nothing You need think out of the box. I will try to give You my way to make money from home, doing nothing, with......