Tag Archives: Business
Your Skills Are Wanted More Than You Think
As I was browsing through the internet just a minute ago, I stumbled across a few freelance websites. I know there are quite a few around, some are better than others. However, I want to introduce 2 website which caught my attention. Firstly because of their professional set-up, but also due to the fact that around 50% of their members are full-time freelancers, making a professional living. Having browsed through the websites, I am astonished about some of the professional services some people offer. The first website is Elance.com. Elance offers a platform for employers and freelancers, >> Read More
Mind Your Own Business!!
I finished reading CASHFLOW Quadrant, by Robert T. Kiyosaki yesterday and I feel a bit obliged to write about it. On the one hand, because the book is partially filled with incomplete information, being too vague, and for some part promoting illegal practice (e.g trading stocks based on insider information), on the other hand because the book still does make some good points… and it’s a great motivational book by the way. I know, I know, when I read my first book of Robert Kiyosaki, I was quite positive about him, until I did some further research on the topic. The Cashflow >> Read More
The Top Reason Why You Should Stop Looking for a Better Job
Honestly, it costs me quite some effort and perhaps a bit of courage to write this article; finally, after having seen the book quite some times in my local bookstore but having ignored it due to its simple title, I decided to buy Rich Dad, Poor Dad - if it would have been called “an empiric study about the financial development of… ” I would have bought it sooner, in the end I currently live in Germany. I have still not read the entire book, and read through the first two chapters only yesterday. But still, I can say that those first two chapters have pretty much >> Read More
Laid off? Out of work? Life is all about creating yourself!
Author: Ev Nucci “Humankind cannot bear much reality.” T. S. Eliot No matter how bad things are, like millions before you, you can create a new future. I have, so I know what I’m talking about. You find out who people are in the bad times, not in the good. Re-writing your future is a state of mind You are never too old , it’s never too late to start anew. And if you think you can’t take steps backwards in order to take steps forward, think again. Danny Aiello began acting at 40, Rodney Dangerfield at 42, Gloria Stuart was 78 when she was nominated Best >> Read More
The Ever Changing Rules of Personal Growth
I am currently visiting my parents for Christmas in my home town in The Netherlands, where I occasionally meet up with old friends while I am here. Yesterday, I met up with a very good friend of mine, and we started discussing our intentions for 2010, as New Year’s Eve is approaching. Besides the well-known health issues, and our intentions to do more sports, we had a long discussion about money. My friend had recently read a number of books and articles on career making and growing wealth in general, and his idea was that we had simply learnt many wrong things from our parents and >> Read More
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