Why you’ll probably fail your New Year’s resolution

September 6, 2010 · 26 comments

The most common New Year’s resolutions deal with health & fitness, money, career, relationships, and travel.

Sorry to be blunt, but if you’re not making steady progress at your top resolution right now — September 6th — you haven’t set up systems to maintain ongoing accountability, and chances are you’ll fail again in January.

On the other hand, if you’re systematically working towards a specific goal you set, the world is your oyster. What’s the next challenge I can set for myself? How can I top myself last time? Bring it on. These are the phrases of top performers I know.

The time to think about resolutions is not January 1st. It’s in the middle of the year, when nobody else is thinking about them.

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How many of you earn over $100,000 / year?

September 1, 2010 · 252 comments

How old are you?

What do you do for a living?

How did you feel once you earned $100k?

What, if anything, changed?

If your friends earn a lot less than you, does that ever present problems when hanging out?

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Get featured in the Wall Street Journal — today only

August 29, 2010

Every 2 weeks, I send out an email newsletter with material that you never see on the blog.
It’s over 45,000 members strong, and it’s filled with insider material that helps my readers get an edge in investments, negotiations, entrepreneurship, and psychology.
I’m sending out another newsletter today at noon. Today’s issue will contain:

An exclusive interview [...]

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Thank you to this month’s IWT sponsors

August 27, 2010

In the last few months, I’ve been restructuring a lot of my business behind the scenes to help me focus on writing and producing more stuff to help you guys — whether on this blog, my newsletter (which is dramatically improved…and still free), on TV, Earn1k, and more.
My team has been helping me handle things [...]

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Best backhanded compliment of the year

August 24, 2010

I have long been a deep admirer of backhanded compliments. The very best ones require a perfect combination of sarcasm, wit, bittersweet praise, and disdain. Women are especially good at them.

So when reader “FinanceDad” left this one, I was overjoyed:
“To think I was just going to call you a narcissist before reading this article”
Pure art. [...]

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How to go from $25/hour to $75/hour in 2 weeks

August 17, 2010

I’ve been helping a friend earn more money, and tonight was a breakthrough.
Here’s what happened…
My friend has a full-time job, but recently she’s been doing some freelance project management on the side for a small consulting firm, where she earns $25/hour.
After a while, she realized that $25/hour doesn’t really add up to much, [...]

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