How to Be on Top of Everything
Since January, I’ve been writing a series of essays in ETR intended to give you tools to help you “master plan” your life. As you put this master plan into action, you will find that you will be able to accomplish more than you ever have before. Much more.
READ MOREThe Perfect Gift for Your Graduate
When my little brother graduated from high school, I gave him a copy of Michael Masterson’s best-selling book Automatic Wealth for Grads… and Anyone Else Just Starting Out. It turned out to be a book he’s read a dozen times. One reason: It’s packed full of strategies for building wealth from the bottom up.
READ MORETaking All the Right Supplements, but Still in Pain
You may have heard that glucosamine HCL and chondroitin can help rebuild damaged cartilage in your joints. But what if you’re taking supplements to relieve your aching joints, and you just aren’t feeling better?
READ MORELower the Bar
To succeed in business and your personal life, you often hear that you need to be more competitive – that you need to keep “raising the bar.” But is that really necessary… or even a good idea?
READ MOREThe Best Bread for a Healthy Diet
When you’re trying to get healthy, fiber is a super-substance that you can’t get enough of. That’s why I try to include 100 grams or more of fiber in my daily diet.
READ MORE7 Sizzling Business “Discoveries” From Stanford’s Facebook Project
Combing back through the longstanding principles you’ve come to know and love by reading ETR and Michael Masterson’s new blockbuster book, Ready, Fire, Aim, I found at least seven “power principles” with fascinating parallels to the Stanford project.
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The Truth About the Vending Business
So one of the first “insider secrets” I learned about the vending business is that your written agreement with the distributor must describe the kind of locations you will be getting.
READ MORE2 Eggs or a Pop Tart?
An egg has approximately 200 mg of cholesterol, and frying or scrambling it can up the cholesterol to approximately 245 mg. According to Kellogg’s, a Blueberry Pop Tart contains no cholesterol, but it does have 39.8 g of carbohydrates – almost half of them from pure sugar. So which is a healthier breakfast – an egg or a Pop Tart?
READ MOREWhy Most Expensive Stocks Are Rip-Offs
Many investors swear by the “efficient market theory.” All it means is that through the magic of millions of investors buying and selling stock every day, you get what you pay for. If a company is cheap, it’s cheap for a reason. If it’s expensive, it’s expensive for a reason.
READ MOREA Lesson in Service From a Detroit Airport Waitress
Just anticipate what your customers want, and deliver.
READ MOREAnti-Aging Strategies From the Longest-Lived People in the World
Recently, I interviewed Dan Buettner, whose latest book, The Blue Zones, is a veritable treasure trove of tips for living longer. Buettner is an explorer whose work for National Geographic led to the book. He investigated four parts of the world where there are more healthy centenarians than anywhere else – Sardinia, Italy; Loma Linda, CA; Okinawa, Japan; and Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula. Here’s what we can learn from the folks who’ve done “anti-aging” better than anyone else on the planet.
READ MOREGetting Smarter
…even though the brain is an organ, in many ways it behaves like a muscle. What I mean is, your brain, unlike other physical organs, doesn’t wear out. In fact, the more you use your brain, and the more you challenge it, the stronger it gets.
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