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How to stop being lazy: 6 powerful strategies for 2020

Perhaps our generation’s greatest failing is how lazy we are. So many of my readers have sent me emails asking how to stop being lazy and take action... they say they want to improve their finances, make more money, or get healthier... or even READ my book (which is sitting under their bed)... but they simply can’t find ...

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My favorite checking, savings and credit card accounts

I'll make this quick. This is about my favorite credit card account. I was watching Oprah one day, because I am basically a middle-aged woman, and realized that she does something fascinating. She recommends SPECIFIC SOLUTIONS to her audience's problems. Compare this to most "experts," who hate naming specific products because they're afraid of being seen as biased. (Or, worse, ...

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Examples from the field: How to stand out

If you're looking on how to stand out in your job field, look no further, the article is for you. In the last 12 months, I’ve turned down around $200,000 of business from people I didn’t feel were right for my programs. I’ve also doubled the guarantee period of my Earn1k program for no good reason. ...

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How to get in to Stanford (Hint: Use the Failure Expectation)

A month ago I sent out a blockbuster 4,355-word email on tactics I've used to write a New York Times bestseller, get hundreds of thousands of readers, and get into Stanford. That email took me over 6 hours to write and, when I sent it out, I got thousands of emails back with questions and awesome feedback. People said ...

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How to work less and make more: Use the 80/20 rule to dominate

Below, you'll learn... How to work 2 fewer hours/dayHow to double your salary (at age 26)How to take a $12,000 around-the-world trip for $297How somebody named Jamie earned $11,000/month working 20 hours/week What do all of those have in common? The 80/20 rule. Most of us complain how busy we are, whether it's ...

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Finding the right money-making ideas (that anyone can do)

In our research of over 5,000 people, we found that the #1 barrier to making more money was, by a huge margin, finding the right idea. In this post, I’ll show you the first step of identifying, testing, iterating, and validating your ideas to virtually guarantee that you’ll make more money to live a richer life. This ...

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Automate your personal finances: a video with Ramit Sethi

How to Automate your Finances: Ramit’s 12 minute guide

This is an oldie but goodie, and one of the most important videos I've posted in my 100+ YouTube videos. In this 12-minute video, I show you how to set up your bulletproof personal-finance system to automate your accounts. [embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE1s4Eg6SCE[/embed] I cover the entire system in extreme detail in my personal finance ...

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Niche Skills: How to turn your unusual skills into a business

Today, a case study to show you how even the weirdest niche skills can be very, very profitable. This is one of my favorite case studies because you'll learn how to take your skills -- even if they're unusual or seemingly not in demand -- and turn them into significant income. Cassie Phillipps realized that she was working too hard ...

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The Freelance Diaries: The Caffeinated Project Manager

As part of the series on earning more money, today's Money Diaries -- actually, today's Freelance Diaries -- is from a project manager who left his fulltime job to work as a freelancer. Below, you'll notice: He now makes 3 times what he made at his fulltime job -- but he still nets less overall His tactics for managing his ...

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Credit hacks dissected: Do these really work?

My buddy Alan sent me an email with some interesting credit card hacks: "1) If you have a short credit history (like me), get your parents/grandparents to add you as a authorized user on their oldest credit card (you inherit their credit history length) 2) If you have any blemishes in the past (like a single missed payment when ...

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