Are You Living an Optimized Life or Just Skating By?

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For most of my life I've just muddled along, not really giving much care to my health, because I've always considered myself to be healthy.  By that I mean I'm not sick often, and rarely have to take sick time off from work.  I don't have a huge laundry list of complaints… sure I had gained weight in my thirties and forties, and I wasn't too happy about it, but I knew diets didn't work and I didn't think there… Read the rest

Get All Three Credit Scores With Go Free Credit

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// Dave Ramsey says “…your credit score is not an indicator of winning financially. All it tells you is whether you are good at borrowing money and paying it back. That’s it.” He says you can still get a mortgage without a FICO score by jumping through a few hoops, but guess what? He says your old credit records are there for the world to see and that counts, too. When I think of someone without a FICO score, I… Read the rest
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My 15 Year Old Pathfinder Caught On Fire!

automobiles
Okay, there weren't actually flames, but there was a ton of smoke!   And you know usually where there's smoke, there's fire.  I started out last Tuesday morning, I was leaving home at 7am instead of my usual time of 5am because I had to go shopping for my employer for an upcoming event.  As I turned the corner about one mile from home I flipped on the air conditioner and whoosh!  Stinking plastic burning white smoke billowed from the air… Read the rest

15 Stupid Ways to Run Your Business

Maybe I Made This Up
These are the top fifteen stupid business practices that I've seen in my lifetime.  I know you've probably seen some of these and more, please take a minute and let me know in the comments the stupid ones you've seen. Go without adequate sleep for months on end. This used to be called “burning the candle at two ends”.  What would happen if you burned a candle at two ends at once?  Well, it would burn itself out, wouldn't it? … Read the rest