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Friday Round-Up: MoneyWatch edition
My 168 Hours blog from BNET migrated over to CBS MoneyWatch a few months ago. Unfortunately, much of the traffic did not automatically migrate with it. I have this fantasy that my 70,000-plus missing readers are wandering around, feeling vaguely bereft though, alas, they are probably over it by this point.
However, if you’ve been thinking “wo… read more »
Slow progress toward big goals
As I wrote in my “fat pants” post a few weeks ago, I am deep into the project of trying to lose the last 10 lbs of baby weight. At least it is no longer the last 15 lbs of baby weight. I am making progress. But it is slow progress. The thing about losing 0.5-1 lb per week is that the scale can refuse to budge for days. And if it budges, it can go up, since a person… read more »
What is your morning ritual?
I am starting work on an e-book that will be called “What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast” (riffing off my old BNET post on that title which has now had something like 250,000 views… crazy). I am fascinated by the topic of morning rituals. How we start our day affects everything else. I had some people tell me on my “Get O… read more »
What I am thankful for
Holidays are always a great time for reflection. This morning, I read through my Thanksgiving post from last year to remember what was on my mind this week. I had just run the Philadelphia half-marathon. We had visited the house of a friend who lived on the Main Line and had been contemplating going abroad for a year, to see if we wanted to rent the place. They ulti… read more »
Spending for the life you have
Over at Get Rich Slowly, writer April Dykman recently wrote a post called “Spend on the Things You Do Every Day.” The gist was that people tend to waste a lot of money buying things for the life they hope they will have: lots of “going out” outfits when they don’t go out, lots of fancy cookware when they don’t cook, etc. Mea… read more »
