The Sweetness of Doing Nothing

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryanrobinson/2024/12/27/6-reasons-the-sweetness-of-doing-nothing-builds-your-career-in-2025/

when people are talking about money, they're almost always talking about something else, and it's not usually what you associate with money

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/03/1216842307/5-ways-to-cut-back-your-spending

People who create wealth from nothing share these five success habits.

https://www.newtraderu.com/2024/12/03/people-who-create-wealth-from-nothing-share-these-5-success-habits/

Money is like a toddler...

"I saw a great quote about how you have to be comfortable with the opposite feeling of what you want. You think making a budget makes you feel poor, but it’s the only way to feel rich. I am starting to think of money like a toddler, either you set the tone and make the decisions or you spend your days reacting to your toddler."

—whatsmypassword73

Warren Buffett: Invest in Yourself

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/it-s-not-taxed-at-all-warren-buffett-shared-the-best-investment-you-can-make-to-fight-inflation-how-to-put-his-advice-into-action/ar-AA1v1CJ3

How to Conquer a Money Bias That Could Be Holding You Back

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/27/how-to-conquer-a-money-bias-that-could-be-holding-you-back.html

Banking Checklist: Maximizing Your Money

https://www.aol.com/finance/banking-mistakes-to-avoid-122709294.html

Eight Steps to Start Embracing Minimalism

https://www.aol.com/8-steps-first-want-start-160105813.html

Compound Interest! Here's How to Find Accounts Offering It

https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/banking/this-shockingly-simple-trick-doubled-my-savings-in-one-year/

How to Invest and Grow $50,000

https://www.aol.com/finance/50000-in-savings-123104811.html

Twelve Habits of the Rich Versus the Poor

Financial Literacy 101

Oy...

How to Suppress Google's AI Search Results

This is funny. Blogger/Blogspot won't accept this link.

How to Disable Google’s AI Search Results https://lifehacker.com/tech/this-hack-forces-google-to-give-you-web-results

Three Tips for Writing an Effective Resume Summary

Three Tips

Leave out your age, be brilliant, make sure doing a summary is your industry standard.

To Find Financial Success, Stop Trying to Spend Less (GREAT Forbes Article!)

Finally, This Makes Sense

Someone's saying what needs to be said and not repeating old articles (and blaming the reader).

Retiring Abroad: Steps to Take

France and Italy

It's looking promising!

Wait... this is money advice I can live with and that makes sense.

HuffPost's 7 Rules about Money You May Not Know

Great article on women, exercise, and why we're not small men.

Women and Fitness Training

Ask those questions, and don't let them wave you away!

BAT Method to Master Finances and Life

BAT Method to Master Finances and Life

Sounds like Eben.

Vomitbooks: A notebook method.

My thanks go out to Warren Ellis once again for getting another brilliant idea to us, his readers.

Ganzeer's Vomitbooks

The idea is that you put everything in them without worrying about whether it's Art.

Five Money Moves to Become a Millionaire

Five Money Moves to Become a Millionaire

Taken from a survey of 10,000 millionaires.

Actually useful information about building passive income.

Three Myths About Side Hustles

Now these make sense.

Four Personality Types by Gretchen Rubin (link for future reference)

Four Personality Types: Upholder, Questioner, Rebel, Obliger

Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project put this idea together. I think it's got some legs insofar as any of these things do.

Five signs you will become rich one day...

Five Signs You Will Become Rich One Day

I've got three of the five! Now to develop the other two.

Ten Ways to Get Luckier Through Planning

Ten Ways to Get Luckier Through Planning

Southern Gothic and Rural Noir Novels of Late

Southern Gothic and Rural Noir

Five Steps to Becoming a Millionaire (they're non-ridiculous)

Five Steps to Becoming a Millionaire

I'm adding this because my first reaction to reading the headline was to dismiss it for someone like myself.

But why dismiss it? Why not read it instead?

Five Steps to Start Creating Wealth

Five Steps to Start Creating Wealth

Eight Habits to Adopt to Join the Rich Class

Elevate Your Finances

These are pretty high-level habits.

Ten Skills You Must Perfect to Be Rich

I'm listening and learning, I promise! 

Ten Skills

How to Think Like a Millionaire

Ten Simple Steps to Success

Simple, but not easy 

What an idea: Single Source of Truth document.

Single Source of Truth

Single Source

Five ChatGPT Prompts to Achieve Your Unique Version of Success

Five ChatGPT Prompts to Achieve Your Unique Version of Success

These are complex, but they look like they'd generate terrific responses.

Best Comics by Alan Moore, Ranked

Best Comics, Ranked

Time for some nerd material.

Twelve Proven Tips on How to Make Money with ChatGPT

Twelve Proven Tips on How to Make Money with ChatGPT

Free courses on AI

AI courses for free: Become an AI expert

These all sound worthwhile.

Ten Financial Habits Keeping You Poor (repeat?)

Ten Financial Habits Keeping You Poor

Is this a repeat?

Résumés and how to make them valuable reading

Restructuring my resume.

This is for employers, but read it in reverse.

Five Financial Red Flags in a Relationship

Five Financial Red Flags in a Relationship

Things to do, be, know.

The Key to Personal Financial Planning: Being Lazy

The Key to Personal Financial Planning: Being Lazy

Great chart with rules of thumb in the article.

How to Craft a Better Resume

How to Craft a Better Resume

Somehow, this article is clearer and less filled with business-ese.

Best Probiotics: Forbes

Best Probiotics

Well-documented and well-researched article. Scroll to the end for the recommendations ranked by number of stars plus Amazon links.

Nine Healthy Alternatives to Escapism

Nine Healthy Alternatives to Escapism

I hadn't even thought of it as escapism, but that's definitely what I do for stress relief! I'd thought of it as visualizing what I want. I see now that I'd gone beyond and into escapism.

Nine Steps to Building a Morning Routine That Will Transform Your Day

Nine Steps to Building a Morning Routine That Will Transform Your Day

Just like Eben Pagan's Wake Up Productive, again...

Mediterranean Diet Guidelines -- Easy to Parse.

Mediterranean Diet Guidelines That Makes Sense

Finally.

Eleven Morning Rituals of People Who Are Healthy and Fit.

Eleven Morning Rituals of People Who Are Healthy and Fit

As with other items I've found, all of this is in Eben Pagan's course Wake Up Productive.

The #1 Mistake to Avoid on Your Resume: Not Quantifying Your Experience

The #1 Mistake Made on Resumes

Not quantifying your experience. Open the story to see what that means.

Dell Dock for Laptop.

Dell Dock for Laptop.

Check this out for Dell equipment. I'd need HP, but it's good information.

ETF Investments for Beginners from The Motley Fool.

ETF Primer from The Motley Fool

$200 per month over time is the way to start.

Treasury Bonds.

Treasury Bonds for Passive Income

Nine Habits to Be in the Top 1%

Nine Habits to Be in the Top 1%

All these can be found in Eben Pagan's course Wake Up Productive. Highly recommend that.

Nine Practical Steps to Build Wealth.

Nine Practical Steps to Build Wealth

This comes after I finish doing the emotional self-examination.

Guilty as charged: Nine Normal Money Habits Keeping You Poor

Nine Normal Money Habits Keeping You Poor

I've got almost all of these. Yikes.

How to Use the 1-3-5 Rule for To-Dos

Make a Better To-Do List

One big

Three medium

Five small things to do.

That sounds more like it.

Aspirations and Habits, Not Goals.

Ditch Your 2024 Goals and Focus on Your Aspirations and Habits

This ... This makes sense to me.

Six-to-One Grocery Shopping Strategy

My first time hearing of this:

Six-to-One Shopping Strategy

I'm going to give a gut microbiome diet upgrade a try soon, and this will be a good way to get into it.

Nine Best Ways to Build Wealth When You're 10 Years from Retirement

Nine Best Ways to Build Wealth When You're 10 Years from Retirement

Welp, here I am.

The Seven Coolest Homebrew D&D Rule Supplements

The Seven Coolest Homebrew D&D Rule Supplements

A couple of these are must-haves.

Four Ways to Build Your Wealth in 2024.

Four Ways to Build Your Wealth in 2024

Do I believe any of these are capable of being in my head...?

Five Mind Shifts to Become a Money-Making Machine

Three Ingredients for Fun: NPR Interview

"true fun," as I call it — is the combination of three states: playfulness, connection and flow. And when those three states are together, like the center of the Venn diagram, that is the feeling of fun.

Three Ingredients for Fun

One growth stock to buy now.

Investing Advice: Nvidia

The Motley Fool article on a growth stock to buy this year.

Five ChatGPT Prompts to Negotiate Your Next Pay Raise

Five ChatGPT Prompts to Negotiate Your Next Pay Raise

The most important first step toward achieving financial freedom.

The Most Important First Step Toward Achieving Financial Freedom

Time to do this.

John Waters's Favourite DVDs!

John Waters's Favourite DVDs!

Watch list!

Five Money Resolutions for 2024

Five Money Resolutions for 2024

Coffee Shop Sign: Fear Is the Mind Killer.

Coffee Shop Sign: Fear Is the Mind Killer.

Putting this here to either find a real version or print one for myself.

How to *Actually* Reinvent Yourself in 2024.

How to *Actually* Reinvent Yourself in 2024

By Jillz Guerin, who I adore.

How to Build Good Money Habits in 2024.

How to Build Good Money Habits in 2024

Month by month advice! This is one thing I needed badly.

The Eight Best Vintage Furniture Stores.

The Eight Best Vintage Furniture Stores

I can't wait to check out these online catalogues!

New year, old me, and that's a good thing.

35 Things to Do in January to Begin a New Lifestyle

What caught my eye about this article was the paragraph that said, "There's nothing wrong with the old you."