Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Happiness on Feb 29th, 2008
At my old job I used to take a one-hour lunch break where I could run some errands, eat lunch, and surf the web. It wasn’t your average lunch break though: I usually sat outside (in the summer) or in a lounge area (during the winter) and read my book for around 40 minutes. This [...]
Posted in Happiness, Jobs, Motivation on Feb 28th, 2008
I’ve been thinking a lot about my new job this week and how it has improved my outlook on certain things. And now, whenever I read tips on getting a new job or sensible advice like taking classes in something useful like public speaking, I keep encountering the same thing: change is extremely hard.
It has [...]
You hear about it everywhere: make sure you love what you do because it’s not worth it to spend the majority of your life at something you detest. But I’ve usually seen that as one of those cheesy/cliché phrases that somehow don’t apply to me.
It didn’t help that I had no connection at all to [...]
Life can get pretty complex and pretty hard sometimes, so having something you are passionate about can really help keep you balanced and happy, while giving you an outlet to channel any stress or anxiety you may feel. For me, that’s playing baseball.
The winter is awful because there is no baseball for a very long [...]
Posted in Budgeting, Happiness, Money and Relationships on Feb 18th, 2008
M and I have gotten really good at planning our dinners for the week ahead of time and buying groceries on Sunday to have everything ready to make when we get home.
After work we get home, make dinner, clean up the dishes, and sit down to chill out/hang out. The problem is, some nights we [...]
Posted in Happiness, Money and Relationships on Feb 14th, 2008
I’ve done them both and this year I’m aiming for something in between as M and I celebrate our third V-day together.
V-Day #1: Is it the good one or the bad one?
It was our first one together and we had sort of decided that we weren’t going to do a big to do for it—I [...]
Posted in Happiness on Feb 12th, 2008
A recent study shows that people are willing to spend more on a given product when they are sad and focused on themselves. From the study:
Sadness leads people to become more focused on themselves, causing the person to feel that they and their possessions are worth little. That feeling increases willingness to pay more—presumably to [...]
Posted in Blogging, Happiness, Jobs, Motivation on Jan 23rd, 2008
Last week I wrote about the five ways blogging about personal finance has helped me, and it got me thinking about why I blog. Is it because I may make some money out of it? Get a job out of it?
Sure, all of those are reasons that have kept me motivated to keep working on [...]
In case you didn’t know, I have been looking for a new job for a while and yesterday it finally happened. I got the offer and I’m taking it.
It’s a very exciting time even though with change comes a little anxiety and nervousness: What will my new coworkers be like? What’s the day-to-day going to [...]
I’m getting married next year. Actually, that’s this year . . . in May.
I’ve been talking about this with other guys (and girls) and there is an interesting link between the decision to marry and our (as men) finances. Which I fully understand because I was once there too. As a man, sometimes it isn’t [...]
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