Pay Yourself First

A part of all I earn is mine to keep.

(and)

It should be not less than a tenth no matter how little you earn

from The Richest Man in Babylon
We see this advice time and again throughout all personal finance and wealth building books. Too many people unfortunately brush it off with annoyance because it’s [...]

Years ago I wrote an article about how important it is to re-read certain books on a regular basis. I’ve lost track of that article, but the essential message was this: Things change as time goes on. You change. And what you get from a fantastic book this year may be different than what you [...]

The first chapter of “The Power of Focus“–Your Habits Will Determine Your Future–is important enough to spend a lot of time and attention on. It’s so powerful in fact, that I could study it weekly for an entire year and still have progress left to make.
This chapter is all about habits, and how everything we [...]

“Getting Things Done” is a book that teaches you how to do just that: get things done. If you’re like most people today, you’re busy trying to juggle business, family and personal items all at once, and sometimes a ball (or two) gets dropped.
In this book, David Allen provides a complete system to help. The [...]

I’ve been re-reading “The Power of Focus” and just picked up “The Success Principles” by Jack Canfield, plus I decided to revisit Steve Pavlina’s site to read some of my favorites there today to help motivate and re-center myself.
About 5 or 6 years ago I started losing focus in my business. I’ve been a freelance [...]