10 Ways to Improve Your Finances with Social Media
msn money UP YOUR SOCIAL GAME Twitter can make it easier to lodge a customer service complaint, and LinkedIn can help you land a new job. Facebook friends can offer encouragement when you share progress toward goals, and you can collect inspiring images of what you’re saving for on Pinterest.…
12 Great Things About Retirement
msn money 1. I’M FREE OF THE DRUG OF AMBITION Suddenly you don’t care whether or not you get promoted, and the jockeying for a better title or an office with a window seems so petty. A weight is lifted from your shoulders when you quit the rat race. Despite…
Billion-Dollar Bloodlines: America’s Richest Families 2015
msn money Great fortunes don’t always last. New technology trumps the old, trends wane, management stumbles. Yet a few of the families who made FORBES second annual ranking of America’s Richest Families –we capped the list at 200 members this year — have withstood such challenges. Some, like the Huber…
24 Ways Your Office Job is Literally Killing You
msn money The stress, long hours, and sedentary nature of your modern office job are sucking the life out of you — literally. And it’s not just the tight deadlines, stress-eaten bagels, and sneezing coworkers that are doing you in. Even your keyboard can be out to get you. From…
How to do it right your FIRST time
Oh man, this guy makes me shake my head and roll my eyes. Good thing he’s one of my BEST friends. But he, Bedros, can be super-cheesy as you’ll see with one of his one-liners in this email about our new coaching program. By the way, here’s the thing about…
24 Successful People Who Wake Up Really (Really) Early
msn money THEY SAY THE EARLY BIRD CATCHES THE WORM, AND RESEARCH SUGGESTS THERE MIGHT BE SOME TRUTH TO THE OLD ADAGE. Waking up with (or before) the sun allows executives like AOL’s Tim Armstrong and Pepsi’s Indra Nooyi to get a head start on the day, knocking out tasks…
3 Easy Ways to Save More for Retirement
Investing for retirement is difficult… Keeping a constant eye on the markets, studying economics, staying on top of every trend without a misstep… that’s time-consuming and confusing. Worse, the 401(k) system is broken: Lack of guidance, poor websites, and limited investment options make most individuals’ first foray into investing confusing.…
The Biggest Secret of Investing
Today’s investment advice is deceptively simple. You will want to ignore it, but I assure you, this is well worth your time. I’m about to give you the biggest secret of investing. It’s the one thing I wished I understood better when I started investing 20 years ago. At a…
Putting Purpose in Your Life
For most of my working life, this was how I imagined my retirement would be: 7:00 a.m. – Wake up slowly to birds chirping (no alarm clock). 8:00 a.m. – Meander around the garden, exercise a bit, read the papers. Noon – Lunch at the golf course with three golf…
How to Think to Grow Rich
Recently I spent a night in New York City I was surrounded by 250 superstars, from TV show hosts to NY Times Best Selling authors (Tim Ferriss and Roman), and dozens and dozens of the world’s top fitness experts (like Jason Ferruggia and Isabel De Los Rios). It was such…
How to Use the “EDGE” to Succeed
My good friend Bedros Keuilian is a proud American. He came to the USA from Armenia as a five-year old in 1980. His family was broke. They foraged for foods in dumpsters, decades before dumpster diving became a popular hipster pastime. Bedros loves America, and he loves his independence. He…
3 Things Every Investor Needs to Know
Let’s start here… in the desert… Imagine you had to walk across the Rub’ al Khali – “the Empty Quarter” – of the Arabian Peninsula. This 250,000-square-mile desert is the largest sand desert in the world. Sand dunes there reach as high as 800 feet. It rains less than two…