My eighth-grade teacher was a tyrant. Seventh-graders shook in their proverbial boots knowing that they were about to face MISS ZIMMER...
My eighth-grade teacher was a tyrant. Seventh-graders shook in their proverbial boots knowing that they were about to face MISS ZIMMER...
When my children were young, we lived walking distance from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. And we often wandered over to spend an hour or so....
I’ve been editing Early to Rise since the day it began - about eight years ago - when Michael Masterson decided the Internet was the perfect vehicle for him to share his thoughts on how to achieve success. Given his personal experience as a wealth builder, business builder, and marketing expert, he had plenty to write about.
Study after study has indicated that taller people are more successful in life. But before you use your lower-than-average height as an excuse for not becoming a superstar, consider this…
You've got a great idea for a new product. And you've been reading ETR long enough to know that before you can even consider using that product to launch a business, you have to find out if people will buy it. One of our recommendations has been to try it out at a street fair.
"Urge surfing" is a technique developed by psychologist Alan Marlatt to prevent recovering addicts from relapsing. It's based on the idea that cravings come in waves, growing stronger and more powerful before cresting and then disappearing. Patients are taught to ride out the wave with a combination of meditation and focused breathing.
You build a pile of rocks, and it collapses because it was a bit unbalanced. The way the rocks end up on the ground may appear to be random. But a mathematician would tell you there's an underlying natural order at work here - something that can be replicated, and explained, by "chaos theory."
I recently watched a disturbingly warm and fuzzy Oprah show. One of Oprah's cohorts, Nate Berkus, had been directed to take a schlocky tract house in Seattle and turn it into a "dream home" for an admittedly lovely family. Were they deserving of such largess? I don't know. I'm guessing Habitat for Humanity chooses the recipients of their good works without so much concern about how camera-friendly they might be.
Airport security wasn't always as tight as it is today - and that extended to the airlines' VIP lounges. When I was a senior in high school, a small group of us discovered Delta's Crown Room at O'Hare Airport. And every now and then, we would smile our way in to enjoy a free night out. Comfy chairs. Snacks and drinks. A big-screen (for the time) TV. And excellent people-watching opportunities.
Being totally self-reliant, able to fend for yourself - it's an appealing idea, one that's been romanticized in literature and the movies.
Can you afford to give away something for nothing to attract new customers? Not only can you... you should.
Turn yourself into an outstanding employee - and your boss's number one protege - by following this advice from Automatic Wealth for Grads... and Anyone Else Just Starting Out:
Growing up in Chicago, there was no need for me to drive at all. Buses and subways were convenient and cheap. But then I moved to Idaho, where public transportation was nonexistent and nothing was in walking distance. So I had to learn. And the person who volunteered to teach me had a VW bug with a manual transmission.
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and... speak a few reasonable words."
"Don't re-invent the wheel," we've cautioned you in ETR. No matter what major or minor problem you're facing, someone has already faced - and solved - it.