Archive for December, 2008
Financial Retrospective 2008
The end of the year is the perfect time to reflect upon the challenges and successes of the year just past. As 2008 comes to an end, many of us are thinking that the end of this challenging year could not have come any sooner. What a challenging year it was! 2008 will likely go [...]
Knowledge Fuels Success
Now more than ever knowledge is a determining factor in one’s success. We live in the information age. This is an exciting era where intellectual property is often more valuable than physical assets; an epoch where the wages of well educated individuals are multiple times higher than those of manual laborers; a time when the most [...]
Introducing Self Improvement Magazine
We are pleased to introduce you to Self Improvement Magazine, a print magazine 100% dedicated to total life success. Self Improvement Magazine debuted in October with its premiere issue featuring some of the most well-recognized personal development experts in the world, including celebrity experts John Assaraf, author of the highly acclaimed book The Answer: Grow [...]
Childhood Poverty Impacts Future Success
It is a commonly held belief that wealthy children have an advantage over children that come from a poor background. A combination of social and environmental factors are believed to contribute to the future success of wealthy children, from better schools, to a support system that encourages achievement, to connections with people of high influence. [...]
Beware of Debt Reduction Advice
In a recessionary period like the one we are experiencing today there is a natural increase in personal financial turmoil. One of the most common troubles in personal finance today is a high rate of debt and the costs associated with servicing such debt at very high interest rates, in particular credit card debt. People [...]
Will Stocks Rebound Soon?
This week the National Bureau of Economic Research stated that the current recession began in December of 2007, which means we are entering the 12th month of the recession. Wall Street did not like the news that the recession is now official, resulting in a sharp drop in stock prices last Monday. However, there may [...]
The Story of Success
The very successful writer Malcolm Gladwell has written two best-sellers: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference , and Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking . What is Gladwell’s success secret? According to him a lot of it has to do with the fact that he put in 10,000 hours [...]

