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Personal Finance 104: Understand Accounting to Achieve Financial Success

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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy. ~George Horace Lorimer Financial illiteracy is one major block on financial success of most people. It’s when you don't … [Read more...]

Measure of Wealth: How to Determine Your Net Worth?

Measure of Wealth

Most people measure their wealth or richness based on the assets they own, such as house, car, clothes, jewelry, watch, electronic gadget, etc. The more material things they acquire, the richer and wealthier they think they are. However, the true measure of wealth or richness doesn’t rest upon … [Read more...]

Work Smarter Not Harder

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We often hear this expression: "Work smarter not harder. The way to success is to work smarter, not harder." Such phrase is easy to say but it takes a lot of effort to apply. Either because you don't know what it means, or you find it hard to change the way you do things and adopt to this new … [Read more...]

How to Stop Spending Money (Too Much)?

How to Stop Spending Money Too Much?

"The problem is not that we don't know how to earn more; the problem is we don't know how to spend less." Have you noticed that the more you earn; the more things you want to have, and the higher you spend? Your desire to have more. It may come from a desire to look good for other people, or it's … [Read more...]

Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays

Book Gift Ideas

Books are highly precious things to possess yet it is undervalued by majority. People prefer watching TV, hanging out on social medias, chatting, playing games, malling, and partying rather than reading a book. "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read … [Read more...]

Bill Gates: Attitudes of Successful People

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"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction. ~ Bill Gates   In line with our blog article series entitled "Attitudes of Successful People", in this article, … [Read more...]

10 Benefits of Credit Card

Benefits of Credit Card

There are many articles and books published on how to get out of credit card debts, yet, here I am writing and explaining why credit card is actually good for important reasons. The truth is credit cards are not all evil, instead, how a person use it that makes it bad. Usually, credit cards becomes … [Read more...]

Personal Finance 103: Money Management Tips

Personal Finance Money Management Tips

Financial success requires a man to have a plan for savings, as well as for spending, enabling him to create a surplus that wisely employ to bring financial freedom for the future. – Solomon Commonly, our mindset of money is to spend it and then save what is left.  We follow budgeting … [Read more...]

Steve Jobs: Attitudes of Successful People

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Be a yardstick of quality.  Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. - Steve Jobs   Steve Jobs is this months featured personality in our blog series, "Attitudes of Successful People".   Steve Jobs is the co-founder and previous CEO of Apple, Inc., a … [Read more...]

Personal Finance 102: What is Money Management?

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    Never spend your money before you have it. – Thomas Jefferson   The ability to handle our personal finance and manage our money is probably one of the important skills that only few people possess.  Majority of working adults focuses their time on how to generate money, … [Read more...]