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Carnival of Debt Reduction #64
Welcome to the Carnival of Debt Reduction for December 4, 2006. Thanks for stopping by. I’m very pleased to be hosting the Carnival for the first time here at Necessary Virtues Personal Finance.
In reading this week’s submissions I found many to like, and two that really stood out. They are hereby awarded the Necessary Virtues [...]
Top 7 Reasons You Need a Budget
1. A budget is a roadmap. It is a useful tool and guide. It tells you whether you are headed in the direction you want to be headed in financially. It helps you to move from spending on a whim to saving and financial planning. If you don’t have a roadmap for reaching your goals [...]
Your Success Is All in Your Mind
by Steve Diamond
What is success?
The dictionary defines success as “the achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted.”
So you must decide for yourself what success is, depending on what you seek in your life, your relationships and your career. If you’re an athlete, success can mean obtaining that gold medal. If you identify yourself as a [...]
The Creative Power of Thought
By Charles Haanel
Excerpted from The Master Key System, by Charles Haanel.
Some men seem to attract success, power, wealth, attainment, with very little conscious effort; others conquer with great difficulty; still others fail altogether to reach their ambitions, desires and ideals. Why is this so? Why should some men realize their ambitions easily, others with difficulty, [...]
Your Six Most Dangerous Enemies
By Napoleon Hill
Edited and adapted by Steve Diamond from Hill’s masterwork, The Law of Success
Editor’s note: We will be publishing more excerpts from and material about Napoleon Hill’s The Law of Success in coming weeks. You can buy it directly from Amazon using the link in this paragraph, or you can wait for us to [...]
Removing Negative Thoughts
By Randy Gage
The question people often ask me is-when their self-development work and personal growth finally “takes,” is this when will they stop having negative thoughts-I wish I knew. Although I’m afraid the answer could be never.
I play CDs with positive subliminal messages while I sleep each night. I start each day by [...]
Mindfulness and Money: Monkeying Around
by Maya Talisman Frost
Kasia is a talented landscape designer who speaks several languages, and when she jokes about being a "Polish princess" it’s because she actually has the pedigree to support that claim.
That’s not why she’s amazing. What’s remarkable about Kasia is her ability to play with words in a creative way.
You don’t [...]
Mvelopes Personal
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Are you ready to shake yourself awake?
by Gary Vurnum
She sat there dumbstruck.
Here we go again, I thought.
Suddenly a high pitched cackle came from her mouth as the ride went sharply up…then back down again.
She was only four - and she loving every single minute of it. Where else could you pay only a dollar to get a reaction like that, I [...]