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Financial Planning for the Financially Inept: Choosing the Right Advisor

4 Comments / Personal Finance / By jeremy

*This is a guest post by Alex Fayle of Someday Syndrome. After reading Jeremy’s post on being your own financial advisor (http://www.insightwriter.com/2008/12/10/why-best-investment-advisor/), I had to laugh. I might have been good at mathematics in high school, but I sucked at applying it. There’s no way I could ever be my own financial advisor. Not only …

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What Does 200 Calories Look Like?

1 Comment / Diet & Exercise, Personal Health / By jeremy

I just found a great little link that shows you what 200 Calories looks like in pictures… It has about 50 different pictures of various foods and how much you would need to eat of them to get 200 calories… I imagine it would be an eye-opener for most people… What Does 200 Calories Look …

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On Community, Groups, & Vulnerability

6 Comments / Interesting Things, Personal Development, Top Content / By jeremy

I recently wrote on the importance of being part of group and had some mixed reactions. My main point at the end was that groups are natural to humans. We thrive in groups and it is natural to form them for many different reasons. I said that we should join a group to learn and …

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New Year, New Start!

12 Comments / Blogging, Saturday Rap / By jeremy

Hi Everyone! Right off the bat I want to thank everyone who is reading this for sticking with me (or finding this site for the first time). As most of you know I was a fairly prolific writer until this past summer. Then I let things slide until I was hardly posting at all. A …

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On Taking Vitamins (The Problems With Pill Popping)

1 Comment / Diet & Exercise, Personal Health / By jeremy

As the title suggests, there may be a downside to taking all those vitamins you are taking. Recent studies are now showing that taking too many vitamins may actually increase your risk of certain diseases including cancer. Forbes actually did a article talking about this recent study and what it means for us called “A …

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Progression Requires Being Debt Free

2 Comments / Economics, Personal Finance / By jeremy

I would say that the #1 thing holding people back from the living the life they have always dreamed is themselves… The #2 thing that holds them back is almost certainly their DEBT! Last week I talked about how progression requires a certain letting go of the past… This week it is all about letting …

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Personal Finance Challenge #14: Reap The Rewards

4 Comments / Personal Finance / By jeremy

Most of the time we humans tend to focus on what there is to lose more than we focus on what there is to gain. This concept has been proven multiple times in psychological studies. However, if you know this bit of information, doesn’t it seem like you can overcome it? Becoming a master of …

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Eat This Way

6 Comments / Diet & Exercise, Personal Health / By jeremy

There is no one way to eat. Each of us has different genetics, different environments, and different demands we put on our body everyday. People survive on almost 100% meat (the Intuits), and people survive on 100% vegetable products (Vegans), and of course everything else in between. When we decide what we are going to …

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Make time for what is important to you…

7 Comments / Education, Personal Development, Simplicity & Minimalism / By jeremy

Values, Priorities, Passion…. We talk about them, but do we do them? Maybe you are like me and you like to concentrate on the big ways in which we can follow our values, priorities, and passions. You like to knock’em dead in one fell swoop. Unfortunately, things don’t always work that way. As cliche as …

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How Much is One Man Worth?

1 Comment / Interesting Things, Personal Finance / By jeremy

Nearly 10 years after the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. has destroyed the ghost that has haunted it for a long time. That ghost is Osama bin Laden, the supposed mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks through his Al Queda network. In talking about how we manage our own finances, we have to consider how the U.S. …

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