Archive for the ‘Money’ Category

7 Actions That Can Help Your Wallet in a Troubled Economy

While the economic sky is falling, it’s still possible to make sure that your financial status is steady. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been even more focused on the steps I’m taking to improve my personal finances. I’ve found a few actions that probably won’t make you a millionaire — but they will ensure that a rocky economy doesn’t have too much of an effect on your… » Continue

October 2 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: debt, personal finance, resumer | 20 comments»

Your Camera: An Easy Way to Save Money

Many of us have a digital camera with us at all times these days, just by virtue of carrying around a cell phone. It’s an unbelievably useful tool: I feel like I find a new use for mine every day. I’ve put just a few of the ways I’ve used my camera to save myself a few bucks, and I hope you’ll add yours in the comments.
1. Protect Your… » Continue

September 23 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: camera, Money, photo | 16 comments»

Beware of Scams, Especially When Traveling

I think everyone I know has a trip planned for the next few weeks, trying to get in just a few more days of summer fun before fall really sets in. But as all the travelers come out, so do scammers ready to take advantage of people who aren’t exactly following their normal routines.

Scams can be found anywhere: I visited Petra, where a local man tried to sell me… » Continue

August 21 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: scam, travel | 5 comments»

7 Things I’m Doing Right Now To Improve My Financial Situation

Just like most folks, I don’t consider my financial situation perfect. I have some debt that I need to pay off and some goals I want to achieve. Moving forward on financial matters can seem so difficult. Saying that ‘I want to get out of debt’ is general — there’s no clear starting point. And that’s just the minor stuff: figuring out taxes can make you wish we all… » Continue

August 7 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: personal finance | 18 comments»

10 Productivity Myths That Hold You Back

What are the myths and mistaken beliefs that are preventing you from being more productive in both your work life and your personal life? How are you actively undermining your efforts to pull it all together?

Yeah, I mean you.

The sad fact is that the beliefs that we hold about productivity and organization often prevent us from doing and being everything we want to do and be in our lives. While… » Continue

July 28 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: failure, gtd, myth, Productivity, success, system | 31 comments»

How to Ask for (and Get) a Raise

Asking for a raise can be a fearsome experience. If you’re like most people, you worry that asking for more will make you appear uncommitted. Or that you’ll be talked into settling for what you’ve already got. Or even that you’ll be seen as greedy if you ask to be rewarded well for work you do well.

“The first thing that people associate negotiation with is buying a car,” says career… » Continue

July 23 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: career, finance, job, Money, raise, work | 9 comments»

Back to Basics: Your Task List

Everyone makes a task list (or “todo list”) at least now and again. Usually, we wait until we’re overwhelmed with stuff to do, and then we’ll sit down and list everything we need to get done in the next day or two. Then, one by one, we go through the items on our list, do them, and cross them off.

We do this because it feels better when we do. One… » Continue

July 18 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: back-to-basics, gtd, list, task, todo | 32 comments»

16 Great Personal Finance Resources & Blogs

It’s one of the most common reasons for arguments and divorce in marriages. It can keep us from achieving our dreams, or it can enable us. It can cultivate the worst in people, and it can cultivate the best. Money is one the most fundamental, crude, material parts of our existence, yet we look at it like some kind of metaphysical, unknowable force.

If this describes your relationship with money, it… » Continue

July 9 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: frugal, investing, personal finance | 22 comments»

Trustworthy Sites Are Worth A Mint

The internet is full of lies. Without plenty of effort, you can’t even prove my name is Thursday Bram. So why should you hand over your bank account numbers, passwords and other financial data to me?

That’s essentially what Mint and other money management sites are asking you to do. These companies have many benefits for those of us focused on productivity and, for some of us, those benefits… » Continue

June 10 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: mint, money management, trust | 3 comments»

211 Shopping Days Until Christmas: Are You Ready?

We haven’t even crossed the six month mark for Christmas this year, but here I am, talking about gift-giving. I haven’t lost it, though: along with Christmas, I’ve already got my gift giving for Father’s Day, various birthdays and a few weddings planned for. How many hours each year do you spend shuffling around for birthday presents or holiday gifts? What about cards? Or even trying to remember to… » Continue

May 29 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: budget, gift, present, time | 5 comments»

5 Questions That Will Save You Time And Money

When you’re thinking about productivity, one of the most important questions you should ask yourself is just how much your time is worth. There is no question that there are some tasks you should pay other people to do, but it can be hard to decide just which ones to hand over to trained professional — especially if you are trying to save money.

Beyond that one crucial question, though, there… » Continue

May 27 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: budget, personal finance, time | 3 comments»

Tracking My Mileage Without Losing My Mind

I learned to track mileage from my mother, who, to this day, writes down her mileage and location every time she parks the car on the back of her most recent gas receipt. It gets the job done, but it seems like she has to devote a lot of time to the process, from the actual time spent writing down information to processing it later on. » Continue

May 1 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: expense, mileage, tax deduction, travel | 6 comments»

Invoicing Web 2.0 Style: A Quick Guide to Your Options

Invoicing is a part of every self-employed or freelancing individual’s life. Many of us are still using clunky old Word templates and those strange antiques known as printers—but why go to all the hassle, when there are so many web applications that offer reliable and efficient alternatives?

Digital invoices eliminate so much time and hassle that it’s unbelievable. Eliminating the need to go to the post box and send off an… » Continue

April 30 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: freelancing, invoicing, Money, organization, Productivity | 22 comments»

The Other Epidemic Of Obesity

It’s high time business slimmed down and stopped fooling itself with crash ‘diets’ of job cuts and outsourcing

The media are happy to keep reminding us that people in the developed world, especially the United States, are growing ever fatter; that obesity starts in childhood and continues thereafter to pump itself up on a diet of junk food, sodas, and ’super-sized’ portions.

Yet what we almost never hear about is… » Continue

April 23 2008 | By Adrian | Tagged: business, career, success, waste | 5 comments»

Show Me the Money - Or Maybe Not!

Like it or loath it, we all have a relationship with money. We don’t really have a choice; it’s somewhat of a necessity. Unless of course you’re a skilled hunter, gatherer, farmer, living entirely off the land in your own hand-built hut, wearing animal skins and residing in some remote, exotic location. Who happens to have Internet access. Of course.

Part of the human experience

Money means different things… » Continue

April 20 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: Money, personal-development, self-improvement | 11 comments»

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