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location: canada/usa
works: business consultant
net worth: ~$155,000 as of Dec 2011
eats: sashimi, tartiflette, pho
drinks: earl grey cream tea
gadgets: macbook pro 17", ipod touch (pda)
beauty: fb's list of toiletries/makeup
wants: roland rd700-gx piano
reads: ayn rand, tom stanley, sophie kinsella
watches: bones, mentalist, castle, top chef
wears: wrap dresses & necklaces
loves: minimalism, $$ management, traveling
hates: wearing shorts & being late for anything
Time Archive
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Spend your money where you spend most of your time
Posted on January 28, 2013 | 1 CommentWhen should you splurge and when should you save? For me, it’s always where I spend most of my time. In sales? On the road a lot? Buy a nice, comfortable car. Splurge, so that you’re COMFORTABLE in the car when you are driving like... -
Payoffs versus Tradeoffs
Posted on May 28, 2012 | 1 CommentWhen deciding if someone should stay home or go to work, there are a couple of questions that go through someone’s mind, namely: What if… He/She loses her job? He/She is the sole breadwinner? He/She won’t be home often enough? He/She won’t make enough money... -
Would you rather have more time or more money?
Posted on December 23, 2011 | 11 CommentsI’m sure we’d all scream: BOTH! BOTH! like kids in a candy store, but if you had to choose one over the other what would it be? When I was in debt, I wanted more money. I didn’t care about hours, burn out, being frustrated,... -
My Goal: What I am really Working and Saving Towards
Posted on August 3, 2011 | 8 CommentsSometimes I ask myself why working all the time to make all this money. What is my purpose? I don’t really care about reaching a million Yes, I put it as my goal to reach financial milestones, but I couldn’t care less about the actual... -
How much time do you spend on budgeting or thinking about your money?
Posted on June 22, 2011 | 13 CommentsEvery week, I spend about 3 hours a week going through my budget, checking my expenses, my balances, my transactions and thinking about the next steps for my money. (That doesn’t include taxes, by the way. That’s a whole other set of time, set aside,... -
Saying “No”, even to yourself
Posted on June 3, 2011 | 4 CommentsAs with everything in life, there are limits. Bank accounts have a limit of how much you can withdraw based on how much you actually have. Credit cards and lines of credit have limits on how much you can borrow. Your time is no different,... -
The 15-Minute Meeting Proposal
Posted on August 11, 2010 | 8 CommentsI once was on a project where we had an hour and a half meeting EVERY SINGLE DAY to update everyone on how the rest of the team was doing. Nice thought, but pretty f*cking stupid, because I’d get out of there and my brain... -
Don’t waste your time stressing about making more money
Posted on July 5, 2010 | 6 Comments“Time is money“…. right? But when you take it too far, you end up hearing conversations like: “I hate it when people are late even 5 minutes, because they’re wasting 5 minutes of my life, in which I could have been making X amount per... -
It’s TCB time! (Taking care of business)
Posted on March 9, 2009 | 7 CommentsI hear from a lot of people that they don’t have time. They’re always running out with friends, going over to family homes for dinner, or doing work things. They’re totally excited to do everything, but underlying all of that, I always hear the inevitable:... -
Make a List Book
Posted on January 27, 2009 | 13 CommentsThis is really simple, but incredibly useful. Get a book or a journal, and make it into your “List Book”. It’s a book where you just make lists. Lists of what you have to get done for today, tomorrow, this week, whatever! If you aren’t...