What Sacrifices Are You Willing To Make?

Generally I pass along my personal significant learning points in sporadic posts titled Lean-Life- Learn. When you are poking around the internet, reading papers and always with a non-fiction book in hand, it is hard not to be enlightened periodically.

On occasion however, I run into something that introduces me to new [...]

Financial Intervention With Aging Parents

As parents, adults so often discuss what is wrong with kids these days. The younger generations are too wrapped up in video games and Facebook, they have little work ethic, or they are disconnected with politics.

Sure we can complain about all kinds of things that we think our children are doing [...]

Lean - Life - Learn

Want to talk about waste, sit down at a computer and start surfing the web. You may find a few minutes of laughter, pick up a nugget or two, but the vast majority of your time will likely be spent looking at information you already know or waiting for sites to load.

I’m no [...]

Combat the Closing Techniques - The Make It Affordable Close

Combating the Closing Techniques, a series, explores the tactics companies and salespeople use to separate us from our cash. For background, you may want to read the post that originated this concept, Marketing or Manipulation, featured on Financial Samurai.

While most sales staff and customers think that decisions to purchase are [...]

Ten Motivational Tips To Achieve Your Personal Finance Objectives

Today I present a guest post from The Rat (@EndingRatRace), fellow Yakezie member and author of Ending the Rat Race.This is someone to listen to, because he has done it. The Rat retired in his early 30′s after a successful business career and intelligently investing.  This is the first in a series of [...]