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Improving Your Local Quality of Life
Sometimes just opening the dialogue will get the ball rolling on finding a solution. At least, that’s my hope, because in a lengthy discussion with my partner about how to improve local quality of life, we were only able to pinpoint one possible solution that could be effective. I’ll get to that proposed solution shortly.…
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How Investing Changes Your View Of The World
Last week, I wrote about why investing knowledge should be a part of everyone’s basic education for purely practical reasons. But there’s another benefit to being an investor – how it teaches you about the world. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about. In his article “The United States of Toyota”, Peter M. De…
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Financially Organized: Getting Caught Up
The end of the 3rd quarter of this year is over. The calendar shows it yet I’m in disbelief. Halloween is Wednesday and that means October 31st! Scary thought, isn’t it! Many of us just filed our 2006 tax returns two weeks ago. Now another year has almost passed and many of us have disorganized…
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Spend or Save? Live in Comfort with Fewer Wants
There was a good article a while back from bankrate.com called Waste not, spend not or spend a lot that has some good thought- provoking points. I will highlight a few, but read the whole article for more detail. ‘œHas ours become a throwaway society? Maybe we should be conserving our resources. On the other…
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Maybe it Pays to be Married
I spent a good part of the day yesterday chewing on a WTF? moment after I finished reading a post Nina sent me from the Time Work in Progress blog. The post called, ‘œGay men earn less, but not lesbians,’ discussed findings from a study by the University of New Hampshire Whittemore School of Business…
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Job Hunting and Scams
My partner Kim is out hunting for a job while I am building my business post-layoff. So, needless to say there is a lot a focus in my household right now on finding and attracting employment and business opportunities. While she is still employed, she knows she has stayed way too long in a job…
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Ten Money Questions for Jai Rodriguez
Jai Rodriguez is best known for his role as the ‘œCulture Vulture‘ on Bravo’s hit show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Now in its fifth and final season, we bid a heartfelt goodbye to the Fab Five and learn here what’s in store for Jai. Read on as Jai gets upclose and personal with…
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Sleeping With Money: What Does Money MEAN to You?
I’ve been reading the book “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind” by T. Harv Eker recently and as I stumbled across one section I thought — now THAT is a Sleeping with Money topic! You see, as a coach I often work with people around changing their relationship with money. After all changing our beliefs, thoughts,…
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How Professionally Productive Is Voice Mail?
As few as 3-4 years ago the question would have been “what makes a productive voice mail?” (Seriously check the date on that one). Today’s question does not pre-suppose the premise that voice mail is productive. Email’s productivity has also long been questioned for its productivity. In my work life and in the lives of…
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Femme Economics*: The Cost of Child-birth
Homebirthing is popular these days, but for lesbian and transgendered couples who are likely to be less financially solvent and less likely to have great family medical insurance, this is an even greater trend. Add to the mix the fact that midwives are much more used to serving same-sex couples than the staff at a…
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