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Need To Lose Some Weight? Put Some Money On It!

Posted 5 weeks 8 hours ago by Xin Lu

Personal Finance, Productivity, Lifestyle, Health and Beauty

Recently I wrote about the incentive my husband gave me to lose some weight . Basically he is willing to forgo half of his entertainment budget if I lose the fat I gained post college. A commenter pointed me at a website called stickK.com which lets you put money on your goals, and I thought it was a pretty interesting concept.

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What would you do with the F.U. money?

Posted 22 weeks 4 days ago by Paul Michael

Personal Finance, Entrepreneurship, Consumer Affairs

Money

One of my close friends at work can often be heard saying “man, if only I had the F.U. money.” By that, of course, he means that if he had enough money to not care about losing his job, he could say what was really on his mind and do what he wanted to do.

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25 Things I Don't Want to Regret Once I Retire...

Posted 24 weeks 1 day ago by Anthony Marrone

Personal Finance

I met with an elderly couple today in their home to execute some planning documents. While neither of them ever had jobs as professionals and neither inherited any money from family members, they have amassed quite a respectable sum of money as they continue to progress through the Golden Years. The lesson that they passed on to me today in our short meeting was that you have to proceed through life without regret, and live each moment so that you will not later look back with regret.After meeting with the couple, I returned to my office and put together a list of 25 ideas, goals, etc. that I want to look back on when I reach retirement age, and say that I fully accomplished or successfully practiced each of these 25 goals. So without further ado, here is part one of my list, with part two coming tomorrow night when I return home from class (feel free to add to my list or share your thoughts in the comments):

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A Journey to Vocational Freedom: Focusing your Dreams with Goals

Posted 1 year ago by Sarah Winfrey

Filed Under: Career Building

Crossing the finish line

Instead of a how-to article, or even a "Top 10" list, I want to tell you part of my own story. I've tried to put this into a list, tried to make it into something else, and I just keep coming back to the story. There's something about this story that is true: far more true than any list or set of steps. So this is for all of you out there who (like me!) learn better through stories than anything else.

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10 important signs that your job sucks

Posted 1 year ago by Troy Hadley

Filed Under: Career and Income

I appreciated Sarah's post today about determining the positive aspects of a work environment. You should read that post before you read this one.

As someone who has had to make the decision to leave more than one lousy job, here's my counterpoint top 10: how to know when to leave. I don't take the decision to quit lightly, and I don't think anyone should. See if the problems can be fixed first.

Some of my advice here involves big ideas (Ask for a raise!) that should not be undertaken lightly. Research tactics first before acting.

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Look where you want to go

Posted 1 year ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Life Hacks

Yesterday, as I teetered precariously on my motorcycle at the top of a steep hill, riding home from the repair shop and thus marking my first time on a motorcycle that wasn't in a flat, closed course, I was repeating one of the standard Motorcycling Mantras: Look where you wanna go. Look where you wanna go. Look where you wanna go.

I was also repeating the Greenhorn Mantra: I don't wanna die. I don't wanna die.

The funny thing about motorcycling is that you can find all kinds of life metaphors in the sport. Take the "look where you wanna go" thing.

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Setting Great Goals...and Achieving Them

Posted 1 year ago by Sarah Winfrey

Filed Under: Life Hacks

Goals?

My life has always been pretty good. Bad things have happened, tragedies even, but even those things haven't stopped me from being able to do what I've wanted to do and try what I've wanted to try. I've never had to push hard or dig deep to fulfill a wish or a dream. In spite of all of this, I realized recently that the things I want out of life aren't going to happen if I don't go after them. Since then, I've started to explore setting goals to chase down some of these dreams. I wrote a little about that process here. Now, I want to offer some things about goal-setting that I learned in the process.

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