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My Rich Life in Thailand: Street food, luxury, and $21 strawberries

Here are some photos from the final stop of my honeymoon, which we started in Italy, then Kenya, India, and now — Thailand! We wanted to create our Rich Life in every place, so we planned our dream trip: In the Italian part of our honeymoon, we shared a rare travel experience with our parents, as we took pasta-making classes together ...

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19% of resolution-setters don’t even know if they reached their goal last year

I don’t do New Year’s resolutions. When planning out goals, I focus on “themes” a lot more, since they let me look at the year ahead with a broad lens. Once I know what my theme is for the year, I can start thinking of creative and meaningful ways to drive toward that theme. Here’s an example ...

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3 powerful habits you need to jumpstart the new year

Imagine a dozen dominoes lined up in a row. Push the first domino and what happens? They all fall down. Now take that same dozen and double it. No, triple it. No, wait — add 15,000 dominoes, branching off into a bunch of crazy shapes and designs. Now, push the first domino and what happens? Here’s a video to ...

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My honeymoon in India

I always talk about living my version of a Rich Life, and I’m so excited that I get to share a small window into that with you in the form of my six-week honeymoon. There were multiple stops. My wife Cass and I got to share an experience of a lifetime with our parents in Rome, Italy. Then... We’...

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3 meaningful ways to use your holiday bonus

The holidays are here! That means quality family time, sumptuous dinners, and an endless stream of cheesy Hallmark movies. And if your boss decided to play Santa this year, it might mean a holiday bonus for you. That bonus is likely to be pretty hefty too. The average holiday bonus in 2017 was close to $1,800, according to a ...

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Money Dials: Why you spend the way you do

Do you ever wonder why people spend their money the way they do? Why take an expensive Uber when you can walk 20 minutes to get to the same place? Why pay for first-class tickets when we’re all going to the same place anyway? Growing up in Sacramento, I used to see guys who loved buying old cars and ...