Some of you know, others are jealous, many wonder but yesterday, one person actually asked. You are making a living sharing what you do day to day and you seem to love it. I can only wish to make money doing what I love. What’s the secret? I was flattered by the question. It’s true […]
Imagine with me for a second that you took the advice to freeze your credit cards. You read the article, poured water into a container, dropped the plastic cards into it and then shoved the end product in the freezer. All is good. Months go by, your spending declines, your bank account balance rises and […]
We hear about all those people who are underwater on their mortgages, and we hear about the incredibly high amounts of distressed properties on the market today. Yet, many of us never really come across the foreclosure process. Is it really that bad? Is it really happening everywhere? As I write this, I’m on my […]
It could be argued that being lazy is built into us because we are just trying to do less. One way to look at it is that we are actually trying to be clever. However, if you believe that waiting until the last minute to do everything is smart, you are just dead wrong. My […]
Once in a while, stumbling onto a piece of history bring back a flood of memories. While I was going through those boxes in storage labeled “university” last week trying to find my degree for the insurance company, I started reading through some of the notes I took during those four unbelievable years. Education is […]
Many of us try to avoid confrontations like a plague. Especially in the Chinese culture, we were taught not to challenge our teachers. We were told not to question authority and we learned never to question our boss. Yesterday, I witnessed a reckless kid opening his SUV’s door and subsequently hitting my car’s side view […]
