How to Buy Happiness
Many times, the things/experiences that give us the greatest joy are free. But oftentimes, money is involved. And when that’s the case, we have to weigh the cost of the thing/experience against the pleasure we will get from it. One example: owning a home… In my book Automatic Wealth, I…
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How to Be as Happy as God’s Right Hand Man
On my last day in Rome, I woke up early in pursuit of a religious experience. I finished my morning readings and set out on a rare run across the Eternal City. My plan was to arrive at the Vatican steps at the same moment as the sunrise, hoping for…
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How to Read a Book Per Week
Yep, I finally did it. I read over a book a week all of the past year. More than that– I never fell behind or stopped. I was always ahead of schedule for the entire year. So now, this coming year, guess what? I’d like you to do the same.…
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#1 Most Influential Book in My Life
Big dreams. Goals. Resolutions. Even the most cynical amongst us sets one or two in the back of our mind at this time of year. I don’t blame you. Each year I would sit down and create a laundry list of goals and milestones that I wanted to achieve in…
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My Wild and Crazy Belief About Saturday Mornings
When I was twenty-five I often spent Saturday mornings lying in bed until ten or eleven o’clock. If my girlfriend had the day off, we would head out for brunch – making bad food choices that sadly left us taking a nap an hour later. On weekends when she was working, I would wander aimlessly around the city, feeling lost. Not physically, but…
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Time Saving Secrets for Busy People
Your lives are always busy, I’m sure, between taking the kids to school, working, cooking dinner, picking the kids up from school, working out, grocery shopping, taking the kids to dance and hockey practice, snow shoveling (unless you live on Guam like I do), paying the bills, and all the rest.…
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The Best Advice of the Year
It was my golden age of television. When I was thirteen years old, I’d race home from my Sunday morning hockey game, rewind the tape in the VCR, lie on the family room floor out at the old farmhouse, and watch a recording of the latest episode of Saturday Night…
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The Power and Importance of a Weekly Review
Sunday night. You enjoy a great dinner, get the kids to bed, pour a nice little Scotch, and do this one big thing. It’s time for the single-most important thing I do all week to keep myself focused and productive: The weekly review. My process is based on the more extensive Weekly Review in…
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Self-Delusion, The Great Disorder: Words of Wisdom from Adam Smith & Russ Roberts
“Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.” – Russ Roberts It’s his “other classic”… the one that few in our modern times have ever read, or even heard of. After all, how could Adam Smith, the “Patron Saint of Capitalism” have written a book dealing not with…
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Spend More Time with This Destructive Person
Time for a damaging admission… Most people don’t know this, but I harbor a deep, dark secret desire. My clandestine yearning is to get a mind-numbing factory job where I work only 35 hours a week, allowing me to go home at 3 o’clock each day. I’d then play golf and return…
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The Big Bang Will Transform Your Life
The time has come to shed some old, outdated beliefs. If 2015 is going to be the year you make big things happen, then now’s the time to throw away that flawed belief that growth is only a marginal and incremental process. Most people operate within a mindset that success…
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