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My Dad and father-in-law were at both ends of the spectrum when it came to managing their checking accounts. Dad would spend hours, sometimes days, tracking down a two cent error in his chequebook register. It drove him bonkers when his chequebook didn’t balance to the penny with the account statement. My father-in-law, on the […]

Return on Investment – better known as ROI – is a critical business indicator. Businesses live or die based on their ROI. Business investors rightfully demand to know the projected ROI of every investment in order to decide whether to put their money on the table. At best, ROI is always an estimate of some […]

Finding work-life balance in today’s fast-paced world is not a simple task. Spending more time at work than at home means you miss out on a rewarding personal life. Then again, if you’re facing challenges in your personal life, then concentrating on your job can be difficult. Whether the problem is too much or too […]

The recent events in the stock and bond markets drew everyone’s attention. No doubt you took a look at your investments and, perhaps, worried about one or two. Maybe, you made some changes to your portfolio. Let’s take a look at your experience and see if there are some lessons to be learned. Did you […]

You would think everyone would want to be rich, if they could be. After talking to quite a lot of people, I’ve found that there are a significant number who do not want to be rich. Why? Here are my ten reasons why I think people are not interested in being rich. They are contented. […]

Even with an established business, owners must constantly set goals in order to elevate their overall productivity and profit. As the end of the year nears and everyone is settling in for the freshness of the New Year, business owners will greatly benefit when they set goals for their company during this time. Below you […]

Mutual funds are extremely popular. There must be a reason, right? But, like any other form of investment, mutual fund investing requires some information and resources. Easy access to investing information and the availability of online trading has made life easier for do-it-yourself investors. The Internet has brought the “trading” desk to millions of households […]

There is a certain pattern that self-made millionaires exhibited that others don’t have that gives them an unfair advantage over others. Some self-made millionaires are not even aware of this pattern which is deeply ingrained in them. This pattern separates the successful from the unsuccessful. I coined it as ‘The Pattern Of Self-Made Millionaires’. What […]

Mention has been made of the money making secret which has made fortunes for more than a million exceedingly wealthy men and women who have applied these principles. Millions more have followed, to more modest accomplishments. The secret works as well today as it did in the past, for the simple reason it deals with […]

I don’t like the word discipline. I’ll tell you why in a few moments. Discipline denotes that some behaviour or action is unacceptable either in the work place or in your life. Left unchecked, the unacceptable behaviour or action can escalate and cause very serious damage to relationships. Ignoring the disruption only makes the situation […]