Archive for March, 2007

Non financial goals - let’s run some races

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

One thing that Tom Wheelwright mentioned during his presentation that you must work non-financial goals into your financial goals.  He asked one of the people present for a non-financial goal.  One person said it that his goal was to run a sub 3 hour marathon within 5 years.  This was ...

Goal planning (step 1)

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

I'm new to this long term goal planning, but I have an idea of what I want in the future.  From the tag line of this blog, it's quite obvious that passive income is what I want.  So I'm going to begin my goal planning based on the amount of ...

New link-ins and comment authors

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

I thought I'd spend some time and thank my readers and comment authors for their time and effort.  I've also noticed a few new blogs linking in. So here's a thank you post, a PR4 link and a small kick in your Technorati stats while I'm at it. Wealth building lessons is a fairly new blog about creating ...

Wealth building pyramid

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

This pyramid was brought up by Tom Wheelwright during his presentation last weekend.  What this pyramid represents is the importance of the following components while investing.  I had never seen this before and found it very interesting. At the top of the pyramid is compounding interest.  Compounding interest is a very slow ...

Formulating a plan

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

If I got one thing out of the past weekend's event it is You Must Have a Plan.  I have always known this and have always thought that I had a plan. Looking back to 2004, I had a clear path of what I wanted.  When I moved to Arizona, I ...

Magic words in home selling

Monday, March 12th, 2007

According to an article on MSN, certain words help you sell a home faster and certain ones make it sell slower.  I think many of you will find this very interesting. "Listings with the words "beautiful" or "gorgeous" sold 15% faster. "Landscaping" in a listing hastened a sale by 20%. Describing ...

Rich Dad Meeting Weekend

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

This weekend was the Rich Dad Get Together in Scottsdale, Arizona.  This is an event that was planned by members of the Rich Dad Community Forums.  This was the second time that this event was held.  Last year I had a rather short conversation with Robert Kiyosaki.  The event started ...