Month: July 2011

  • How Much Is Enough?

    After becoming debt free last fall and saving up a six-month emergency fund I began to save up for my next big goal, a house. I’ve been doing homework and it seems that the more I learn the more I realize how little I know about the process. With all of the reading I’ve been…

  • Jealousy vs. Greed

    Despite what many people may think, jealousy and greed are not the same thing. Jealousy essentially means “I want what someone else has.” While this may sound like a bad thing, I think that if you approach it in the right way, it can be a positive force. If you see that someone else is…

  • Time To Regroup

    I’m not sure what it was about the past week, but I was off. My healthy eating was a little less healthy, exercise more or less stopped and commitments just seemed to matter less. I was on autopilot. Somehow I completely missed a pretty important meeting because I managed to put it in my calendar…

  • Unconventional Techniques

    Have you ever been in a situation where you’ve heard that someone is doing something in a way that just isn’t the norm? When you hear about how they’re doing it, it just can’t be right, they couldn’t possibly succeed. Conventions are conventions because they work, for most people, but in just about every case,…

  • IRL

    Today I had the opportunity to try out the new “Hangouts” feature of Google+ with some local Twitter users. This new tool is just one more way that we’re able to communicate with people online versus in real life, or “IRL”. While tools like these are great for staying connected to people who distance would…