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Top 10 Financial New Year’s Resolutions

Have you set your New Year’s resolutions yet? According to a recent study, 31 percent of them are money-related. The top financial resolution was to save more money (39 percent), followed by paying down debt (24.6 percent), improving spending habits (15.1 percent), investing more (11.6 percent) and getting a raise (11.3 percent). Interestingly, men were […]
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Best Things You Can Buy, For Yourself or Others!

People often ask me for either the entrepreneur in themselves or others, what are the best things you can buy? First, I am not into buying things, but investing in them. If the item you buy returns many-fold back to you either through knowledge, productivity, or simply making you more effective and efficient, then it […]
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20 Awesome Facts About Christmas You Didn’t Know

Christmas is my favorite time of the year. I love the music, the lights, the Christmas spirit, and the time with friends and family. Given that this time of year is particularly busy, it’s important that we all take time to sit back and relax. Below are some fascinating facts about Christmas! Until 1836, Christmas was illegal in […]
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Slim Wallet

The Most Practical Slim Wallet You Will Ever Need

The SMART Picks team writes about things we think you’ll like. The Art of Thinking SMART has affiliate partnerships, so we may get a share of the revenue from your purchase. Fashion experts have always said a guy’s wallet will tell you a lot about him (not necessarily how much is in it!). I have […]
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True Story of Thanksgiving!

What is the True Story of Thanksgiving?

Many equate Thanksgiving to shopping, football, traveling with family, and eating exorbitant amounts of food! But the true of story of Thanksgiving is fascinating. It shows us where our country came from, our heritage, and what it means to us today!  Religious Freedom In the early 1600s, a group of people believing in the freedom […]
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How Fantasy Football is Like Investing

I am a big fan of fantasy football. Fantasy football is a $1 billion-plus annual business with almost 60 million Americans playing every year! After you join a league, you draft real NFL players for your team to compete online against the other folks in your league. Each week you pick your line-up and score […]
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What’s Your Social Style?

Why is it so hard to work well with some people? Why is it that some people are so defensive or too aggressive? In People Styles at Work by Robert Bolton and Dorothy Grover Bolton they found four unique behavioral patterns and created the Social Style Model. Being aware of your own social style helps a person better understand […]
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14-Day SMART Plan To Improve Your Finances

The 14-Day SMART Plan to Improve Your Finances

According to recent data, 61% of Americans don’t keep track of their money. Even for those that do, many feel overwhelmed. I have designed for anyone who wants to improve how they manage their money, the 14-Day SMART Plan to Improve Your Finances! This simple self-improvement plan features one task to focus on per day. Based on […]
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Why Benjamin Franklin Would be Wrong Today

The famous phrase “A penny saved is a penny earned” is attributed to Benjamin Franklin. A version of it does appear in his 1737 book Poor Richard’s Almanack, but it actually first appeared about 100 years earlier in a book called Outlandish Proverbs by George Herbert. Regardless of who said it first, wise people have […]
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