Archive for April, 2009

Sustainable Success Requires Uncompromised Integrity

April 30th, 2009 • • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

In a world where immediate gratification drives many people’s decisions, it is easy to lose focus on the long-term ramifications of short-term thinking.  In this environment, you should be particularly careful about not being tempted to make decisions that may give you a false sense of achievement, when in reality you may be destroying you [...]

The Lost Decade Opens Doors to Financial Success

April 25th, 2009 • • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

The start of the twenty first century has been absolutely devastating to investors, particularly those invested heavily in stocks.  Even if the market produces good returns in 2009 – and it certainly has not had a good start – the decade ending this coming December will likely go down in history as the worst decade [...]

Learning Your Way to Success

April 20th, 2009 • • 2 comments • Related • Filed Under

It is well understood that in order to achieve success in any field of endeavor you need to be open to learning and to grow beyond you current comfort zone.  In the article Success Insights from a World Champion, we shared with our readers some important concepts that were outlined by the Josh Waitzkin in [...]

The Anti-Success Tax System

April 15th, 2009 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

April 15 is the dreaded tax day in the United States.  Let’s face it, although most people recognize that paying taxes is a civil duty, when it comes time to pay taxes no one is exactly thrilled.  But the pain becomes even more accentuated when you realize that the entire tax system is broken.  What [...]

Last 4 Weeks were Stocks’ Best Since the Great Depression. Now What?

April 10th, 2009 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

The stock market is an unpredictable beast.  No one can foretell precisely what will happen to stocks in the short-term.  The pendulum tends to overshoot both on the upside as well as on the downside.  But in the long-term, stock performance tends to move towards its historical mean, that is, about a 10% annual return. [...]

Weight Loss on a Dime

April 5th, 2009 • • 5 comments • Related • Filed Under

As spring approaches the desire to lose weight tends to increase and the motivation to take another shot at losing that extra weight that accumulated over the winter becomes more pronounced.  But many people are struggling with the ability to get on an effective weight loss program in light of the current economic conditions. First [...]