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If you want to be happy and rich, don’t marry someone based on pretty looks, charming words, and fuzzy feelings of love. Instead, marry someone who has the same goals, dreams, and shares the same decision-making logic as you. If you can do this when choosing a partner, you’ll find you’ll be happier, less-frustrated, andRead more

Success is a process of change.  It’s a process of growing up from the person you used to be, and transforming into the person you’re meant to be.   Successful human beings remind me of monarch butterflies.  When human beings are born, they’re not much more than little caterpillars.  They crawl across the ground, andRead more

I realize “How Attending Church helped Me Become Rich,” is a click-baity title. But it’s true…   Building most of my social life around friends I made at church helped us become rich. This is how two normally un-connected activities, like attending church and becoming rich, became the same thing for us.     LastRead more

Hi!  I was asked to give a presentation on how I’ve been successful in sales last week, and it went so well I decided to put a shortened version of my talk here on our website. It’s great advice for anyone who wants to learn how to sell and start their own business.  Remember, aRead more

This week I’m publishing my podcast and guest post with Jonathan and Brad at ChooseFI.  ChooseFI is one of the top podcasts in the Financial Independence subculture.  Their facebook group is an amazing resource for just about every money topic you could imagine.  You can listen to our podcast and start reading my guest post below:Read more

I had an epiphany this week:  Our financial present and futures are created from all of the micro-and-macro financial decisions in our pasts.   From a personal perspective, as I look back on my life, it wasn’t one lucky break or genius skill that sent us skyrocketing toward being rich.  It was a routine setRead more

We’re in a bit of a depressed stock market right now.  What are you doing?   Panicking, grabbing all assets, and jumping ship like you’re a passenger on the Titanic and your entire world is going down?  Or are you leisurely glancing at the stock market, shrugging, putting some groovy music on the stereo, and thinkingRead more

Interest rates are rising.  The financial landscape is changing.  It’s becoming easier to make money from our cash.  These changes in interest-rates have inspired me to update my emergency-fund strategy.  Here is my mission statement:   My goal is to transform my emergency-fund from a liability of $20,000 cash that is losing value to inflationRead more

Last week, I had a reporter from WCCO, a major news station in the Twin Cities contact me about a potential interview.  The reporter’s name was Cristiane Cordero, and she wanted to interview me about the strategies I’ve used to save around $300,000 in six years.    Cristiane – a millenial herself – felt buggedRead more

I finally did it!  I posted a net-worth update!!!!  I hope to post these updates quarterly so you can follow along and grow your own net-worth with me.  So here’s my very first net-worth update for December 2018: I’ve wanted to publish a net-worth update for a long time, but I avoided writing one outRead more