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Appreciating Other People’s Time And Money

I was watching that Kitchen nightmare show yesterday and there was an interesting theme that talked about how the general manager of the restaurant was ineffective in his role. The interesting comment was how he was being labeled as a person who was scamming and taking advantage of the owner of the restaurant by pretending

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Financial Management

Save Your Dollar or Invest Your Dollar

One thing that I think is kind of interesting is what people do with a small amount of money. For some, having say one dollar is too little to do anything in their minds and so they simply throw it in a jar or something along that line. For others, they keep trying to think

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Sharpening Your Axe

Today I was talking to a person who brought up a point on how sometimes you have to step back and sharpen yourself up before moving forward again. That then reminded me of this little story I was told about sharpening one’s axe to be more effective. Apparently this story can be told in different

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Financial Management

Aesthetic Based Spending

I was talking to an individual today about a person who was generating well over five figures a month in revenue for his business. The interesting thing is that at the end of the month he would often be in the red or basically just squeak by after operating expenses. This wasn’t exactly a low

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Financial Management

Do You Spend Less By Looking At How Much You Spent?

I just saw this little segment on TV that dealt with food and how people consume too much junk in their lives. The one part that was interesting was how they did a test to see whether or not people eat less if they see a visual pile of how much they ate. Sure enough,

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Business

Cross Border Shopping

The Canadian dollar still seems to be a hot topic here and it looks like people are simply flocking south of the border to take advantage of it. For myself, the benefit I have seen is that I use certain vendors that are US based for particular services and now that the dollar is on

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