This week facebook allowed you to select a user name so people could find you more easily. You could select one name and it could not be transferred, edited or changed, so you were advised to select carefully! At 12:01 Saturday morning when it became legal to select your user name, people went online and…
I get a lot of email from people who have either lost their jobs or are losing their jobs. Their 401K is gone, their savings is zeroed out or maybe their unemployment checks have run out. This is becoming a common situation for a good part of our society as unemployment rises. Many people are…
I have a few issues with what has happened in the news today. These issues can be used to teach your children valuable lessons. I apologize to my more sensitive readers as this is rougher language than I normally use in my rants. If you are offended, sorry. But seriously, grow up! 1. LeBron James…
Why would I say you shouldn’t be an average American? Because the average American is fat, stupid and broke. Don’t believe me? * The average American is fat. 65% of all adults over the age of 20 are overweight and 31% are obese. *The average American owes $10,000 on their credit cards. *The average American…
People are scrambling to find some secret that will help them be more successful. There are thousands of books on the market claiming to have all of those secrets. In fact, the bestselling book on the planet for the past two years is a book called The Secret. Let me repeat my opening line when…
Let’s say you have a designated parking spot in a lot that you pay for and some guy rents the space right next to you where he parks his Ford F350 dually taking up his space and half of yours. You can’t get your doors open. Your car gets dinged every time he opens his…
One bite at a time! Old joke. Sage advice. And it applies to what most people are going through right now in terms of their lives, their health, their relationships and their money. People are looking for miracles of a large scale to fix their problems. That simply isn’t how it works. There are no…
Get Negative to Get Ahead You read it right: get negative! I am so tired of listening to the motivational idiots and the self-help bozos and all of metaphysical new-agers talk about the power of a positive attitude that I could puke! Just put on those rose-colored glasses, dust off the smiley-face button, plaster that…
Change bothers some folks. The very idea of changing their routines or habits makes their poor little hearts beat harder. Usually, it is because they are so comfortable in the rut they have dug, that even if they are headed down the wrong path, they will stay on it because it doesn’t involve any change.…
Nothing works. That’s right. Nothing. Let me explain. The economy doesn’t work. It never really did very well but it was growing so fast and there was so much money that we didn’t notice. We were ahead of the problem. Then our greed caught up with us and we hit a wall and we weren’t…