Taking Control of Your Money Isn’t Complicated
A large number of individuals and families don’t have budgets, and the reasons are understandable: They find tracking details of their spending complicated. It makes them feel guilty. It takes...
Category: tactics
How to Take Charge of Your Perfectionism with the 99% Rule
Is 99% good enough? If you make it through college with the equivalent of a 99% in GPA, then you’d easily make the Dean’s List. If your credit card is...
The Ultimate Guide to Recording Your Fleeting Thoughts
Ever find that you’ve got too much going on in your head? Ever have some unusual and creative idea pop up in your brain only to forget it hours later because...
If Staying Organized is a Headache, Try Evernote
When I started grad school back in 2005, I bought a file cabinet. I was pretty fed up figuring out how to organize the countless papers in my life so...
Tactics vs. Principles
There’s a ton of good advice out there on the web and published in books. (There’s also a ton of bad advice too but that’s a post for another day.)...
How a simple kitchen timer can beat your procrastination.
When I was in college, I had a particularly bad habit of procrastination. I would not complete most assignments or study for exams until the last minute, often resulting in...
