I just published a new article over on BiggerPockets titled A Beginner’s Guide to Finding a Real Estate Mentor. In that article, I walk through the following: What is a Mentor? How Do I Find a Mentor? What Qualities Should a Mentor Have? Should You Pay For a Mentor? This is probably one of my favorite …
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I just published a new article over on BiggerPockets called “Quit Making New Year’s Resolutions“. In the article I describe why you should not focus on New Year’s Resolutions, but instead on ongoing goals. It’s that time of year when people make resolutions, only to break them a few months later. Learn how to make …
I recently finished reading The 4-Hour Workweek (full review here). Among many things, it reminded me that I should not be checking my email constantly. I had heard this message several times in the past, but realized that I could improve my email habits. Before reading the book, my email habits were as follows: Good …
For most job seekers, it is the same old story. They create a resume and search all over the place for a job: local newspaper, craigslist, Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com, etc. After sending out tens if not hundreds of resumes, they may or may not get any qualified leads on jobs. I’d like to suggest an alternate …
When I was in my senior year of college, a friend let me borrow The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich. The book really introduced me into the world of personal finance. One I understood some of the basic concepts (such as the power of starting to invest when young and …
My wife was always big on “todo lists”. She had lots of them and swore by them. So when I first arrived at the point when I could no longer track everything that I needed to do in my head, I started using post it notes for my todo lists. It was not long …
There are a lot of things in life that people need to know. How much an hour of a person’s time is worth is one of the most important ones, but the vast majority of people could not answer this question off the top of their head if they were asked. Do you know your …
“Cord Cutters”, as we have come to be known to the public, are simply people who no longer feel the need to pay for expensive cable or satellite video content and use cheaper and more user friendly alternatives. Many are not only frustrated with the cost and excessive fees, but also with the inability for …
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Richard Dawkins has popularized the spectrum of theistic probability, which is a way to categorize one’s belief in the existence of a god. Below, I show the various stages of my life and where I fell on the scale during each phase. Ages: 0 – 4 When I was born, my only concerns were to that …
First off, I apologize to all of my college professors. I have spent 7+ years taking college classes at 3 different colleges and I have enjoyed every minute of it. In fact, I plan to take more classes in the future and wish I could constantly take classes. Unfortunate I am currently short on both …