One of the main reasons I have a blog is to be part of the resistance. To take a stand. To fight back. You see, there’s a war going on. Not a war with guns, tanks and bombs. This war is fought on the battle ground of your mind. And whether you know it or […]

Whenever someone asks me for financial advice, I invariably get around to asking them an important question. It’s this…when was the last time you calculated your net worth and how often do you calculate it? Normally, I get something of a roundabout, politician type of answer back. Something like, “I know how much I’m worth. […]

Tired of being jolted awake at 5:30am by an alarm clock, fighting traffic for over an hour, just to get to a job that you hate and then spend your days making someone else rich? Sick of having to face Draconian corporate world crap such as layoffs, silly popularity contests, musical chairs, insane office politics […]

Everyone takes a different road to financial success. Some come to wealth via entrepreneurship. Others get there from investing in real estate or in stocks. Regardless of the different paths taken to wealth, once people achieve financial success they mostly follow the same pattern. Nearly everyone who becomes wealthy takes the same very next step… […]

Charles Earl Boles, also known as Black Bart, was an English-born outlaw noted for the poetic messages he left behind after a couple of his robberies. Often called “Charley” by his friends, he was considered a “gentleman bandit”, with a reputation for style and sophistication. He was one of the most notorious stagecoach robbers to […]

Pop quiz: What’s the opposite of success? Did you guess failure? Good guess but that’s not correct. The opposite of success if apathy – just not giving a damn. Which is very odd if you pause and think about it. So many want the sweet fruit of success. I’ve never met anyone who didn’t. Yet, […]

How do you get to be different financially? It begins with thinking different. “Well, yeah!”, some of you may be saying right about now. But here’s the question… If thinking different can make such a positive impact, why don’t more people spend more time doing it? Researchers at Harvard Medical School offer one compelling answer. […]

Got a hypothetical question for you today. Let’s say that you live in proximity to an active volcano. Hey, maybe it’s on a cool island! The problem with island life is that the darn volcano erupts…with all too regularity. Mount Spewsonus rains ash and pours lava about once every 10 years.  You and your neighbors […]

Everyone makes mistakes. I’ve certainly made a few doozies and I’m sure you have as well. Which brings up a question… Wouldn’t it be great to know when you’re most likely to make a mistake? When you’re about to make a big financial oops? Commit a flub? A bad decision that will take you off […]

If you’re not familiar with value investing, it’s the bottoms-up style of investing used by many of the world’s greatest investors and the very investing method used by the greatest investor of all time – Warren Buffett. In short, the value investor looks to buy shares in quality companies that are selling below their intrinsic […]

That great philosopher Woody Allen famously (and hilariously) said, “For a man to be truly happy all he needs is the love of a good woman…or the love of a bad woman, depending on how much happiness he can withstand.” From my observation, there are a lot of people who cannot withstand happiness. They cannot […]