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Financial Independence

How Do You Spend Your Life Dollars?

by Stephen Mills July 9, 2010

experiences you didn’t enjoy. You don’t get to go back and do it over.

My attitude about how I spend has definitely changed. Realizing when you give someone a dollar you are giving them some of your life is a big step towards more awareness. It’s truly a different way to look at it. When you are young, it can seems like you have an eternity to figure things out and get it right. You don’t and it will go by faster than you would ever imagine. Spend wisely my friend and thanks for spending a small part of your life on my blog.

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Beware of the Golden Handcuffs

by Stephen Mills July 26, 2009
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The term “golden handcuffs” typically means some lucrative financial incentive to keep an executive or manager from leaving a company. Financial compensation is arranged in such a way to “handcuff” them to their particular job or company. I want to expand this idea to anyone who has a traditional job. Whether we like to admit it or not, most people in traditional jobs are also locked tight by the golden handcuffs. We have, by our own behavior, handcuffed ourselves to our jobs.

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Warning: This Board Game Could Get You Out of the Rat Race

by Stephen Mills March 7, 2009
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Note from Stephen:  This is a guest post by Marj over at the way of money.  I am a huge fan of Marj, Clément, and their blog.  Please go check it out and read the archives.  The content is excellent and very relevant to readers of The Rat Race Trap. by Marj Galangco of www.thewayofmoney.com [...]

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Think and Grow Rich Download

by Stephen Mills February 16, 2009

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill is one of the all time great self-help books.  It is a classic that I have never heard anyone who has read it say anything bad about.  It’s a wonderful book.  I’m providing a PDF copy here that you can download and read online or print off and [...]

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