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[3 Feb 2010 | No Comment | 236 views]
Learning How To Prosper

Author: David Beairsto
Becoming Healthy, Wealthy and Wise
Change is essential for anyone wanting to make a difference in this world. Knowing how to prosper, like knowing any process, starts by embracing change as a way of lfie.
Moving from one fixed point to a desired conclusion requires action. Action by definition is the opposite of being fixed or permanent. While our current state and our desired conclusion may be inactive reference points, the process of moving from the beginning to the end is fraught with activity.
You Can’t Win Unless You Finish The …

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[16 Dec 2009 | No Comment | 215 views]
Why Do We Take Financial Decisions, That Are Bad For Us?

We continuously hear about how people make unwise financial decisions, and how we rely too much on our emotions. We tend to think “this will not happen to me, I am a smart and educated person”. A documentary I saw yesterday demonstrated the exact opposite. Below, I would like to take the opportunity to recap two scenarios of yesterday’s documentary, and the results.
5 Euros now, or 40 Euros in six weeks
Different random people on the streets were offered a 5 Euro bill on the spot, or they had the option …

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[7 Dec 2009 | No Comment | 107 views]

I stumbled upon an article the other day, unfortunately I only quickly browsed the site and completely failed to write down the URL. Nevertheless, the article was an interesting one; it described how a woman from Latin America paid back her 25,000 USD loan within a couple of years, by taking on two jobs, letting her children live with her parents, and moving into a 100 USD per month apartment.
Although when I read the article, I felt great empathy and respect for the woman paying off a huge debt within …

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[18 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 151 views]

In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell takes a closer look at what makes people so successful, and why. In an entertaining and well written way, Outliers explains the relationships between hard work, ambition, passion, and pure luck, using many real-life examples, such as that of Bill Gates. All examples and theories described in the book are the result of extensive research.

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[18 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 121 views]

“In a world of more than six billion people, there are only 587 billionaires” are the first words the book starts with. But what does it take to belong to that so much desired exclusive club?
In his book Think Like a Billionaire – Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life, Donals Trump litterally takes the reader inside the mind of one of world’s most famous billionaires: himself. With his colloquial writing style, Donals quickly fascinates the reader and introduces him/her into the world of real estate, attorneys, marriage, …