Archive for June, 2007

Smart Goals for Your Success

June 28th, 2007 • • 8 comments • Related • Filed Under

Successful people know the importance of setting goals.  Goal setting is one of the most important habits that you should develop.  However, in order for goals to be effective, they need to be SMART.  Smart goals have the following characteristics:       Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant Time-bound   Specific A specific goal is one [...]

Stocks versus Real Estate Investments

June 24th, 2007 • • 15 comments • Related • Filed Under

When the stock market crashed in 2002 many people gave up on stocks and started putting their money in real estate.  At that time home prices were increasing at a fast rate and stocks seemed to have nowhere to go.  Five years later things look a lot different.  Stocks have been growing at a fast [...]

The Age-Wealth Gap

June 20th, 2007 • • 4 comments • Related • Filed Under

Since 1989 almost all the new wealth generated in the United States has gone to people 55 and older, according to Federal Reserve data, as reported by the USA Today.  In the meantime, people in their 20s, 30s and 40s have barely kept up with inflation, and some have actually fallen behind during this time [...]

Does Self-Confidence in Young People Lead to Success in Adulthood?

June 16th, 2007 • • 2 comments • Related • Filed Under

A study lead by Timothy Judge, a management professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville suggests that higher levels of self-confidence in young people lead to higher income later in life.  The study to be published in September in the Journal of Applied Psychology uses attitudinal data from 1979 to 1993 collected by the [...]

Face Your Fears for Success

June 12th, 2007 • • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

Many CEOs seek adventures outside of work that test their fears and their ability to take risk.  They try to get past what is called the freakout point.  The freakout point is when you are so filled with anxiety that you can hardly breathe.  For first-time parachuters that happens when the doors of the airplane [...]

I Love a Success Story – eMoms at Home

June 9th, 2007 • • 4 comments • Related • Filed Under

This is the beginning of a new series called I Love a Success Story.  The series will consist of posts relating success stories that are inspiring and that captures the essence of what success is all about.  The series will not be sequential.  Whenever we find a story that shows how someone persisted through difficult [...]

Success Advice for Recent Graduates

June 6th, 2007 • • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

As many young people graduated from college and high school in the last few weeks and started their journeys in the “real world”, this is the perfect time to talk about what these young people should do in order to achieve success.  The USA Today asked several CEOs, who are considered by many to be [...]

The Secret in Think and Grow Rich

June 2nd, 2007 • • 8 comments • Related • Filed Under

Napoleon Hill’s classic book Think and Grow Rich is one of the most popular personal development works ever written.  As mentioned in the book reviews page on this site, Think and Grow Rich has passed the test of time.  Even though the book was written in the early 1900’s during the great depression, all of [...]