Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Jobs, Motivation on Apr 24th, 2008
Trent over at The Simple Dollar has a great exercise in one of his posts for everyone out there that has a traditional job. He puts his readers in a hypothetical situation: pretend you will be fired on Friday (it came out on Saturday so you’d have the whole week to think about it). What […]
Posted in Blogging, Happiness, Motivation, Writing on Apr 23rd, 2008
On Monday I admitted to the world that I’m a really nostalgic person and began a brief (or maybe not so brief since this is part 2) look back at how far I’ve come over the past few years. I left off in October 2006 after having worked out every for a month and then […]
Posted in Happiness, Jobs, Motivation on Apr 18th, 2008
I was reading something over on Get Rich Slowly (I just can’t remember which article it was, I visit the site every day) that basically asked readers what their dream job was. Dream job was defined as the job you would do if you weren’t getting paid. It reminded me of my series of posts […]
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 […]
Posted in Motivation on Jan 23rd, 2008
One of my favorite novels of all time is Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides. He also wrote The Virgin Suicides, which I have not read but have been meaning to since I first read Middlesex.
Well today I was running a Google News search for “Foster Wallace,” as I tend to do about twice a week (he’s […]
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 […]
Posted in Jobs, Motivation on Jan 3rd, 2008
M and I get to spend a lot of time together right now. Not sure if it’s because our job hours aren’t that significant or if it’s where we are in life (no kids? I don’t know). But we both feel really lucky that we get to see each other every day and spend a […]
Posted in Advertising, Motivation, Traveling on Dec 10th, 2007
So I was off work for several days, didn’t check my email for over a week, ate at nice restaurants every day, and stayed at incredibly peaceful, charming hotels.
Of course I feel great.
The unplugging was great, but there was also an added bonus: one of the friends I went with that I spent a lot […]
Posted in Blogging, Creativity, Motivation on Nov 30th, 2007
One pleasant part of blogging has been getting comments on the things I’ve written. But the comments I really enjoy are the ones on the Ads I’ve done.
This one in particular got me thinking about how much better my ads can be if I heed the advice of those who are more experienced than I […]
Posted in Happiness, Motivation on Nov 15th, 2007
I believe that your outlook and mentality in life play a strong role in life. I think that, especially in specific situations, it’s easier to see this play out.
Last weekend there were a few things I didn’t want to do that I ended up doing.
1) Going shoe shopping with M: Yes, the stereotype is true. […]
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