Living Rich: How to Find Great “Dive” Restaurants
There are all kinds of benefits in finding great little “dive” restaurants in your neck of the woods…
READ MORETraveling Together? Make Sure You Have This Code
Buying two round-the-world tickets is easy enough when you’re paying for them with a single credit card. But when I booked the round-the-world tickets for our honeymoon, I wanted to buy one ticket with my card and pay for the second one with air miles.
READ MOREIs It Time to Rethink Your Career?
The very worst use of time is to stay at a job for months and years for which you are completely unsuited.
READ MORESomething Useful Suzanne Taught Me
When Suzanne Richardson took over as Managing Editor of ETR, I was pleased. I had recommended her – so her promotion was a feather in my cap as well as hers. I expected to teach her a lot about writing and editing. But on that first day of her new…
READ MOREAustralia: Where the Beer Is Great and the Bonds Are Better
Australian government bonds have never looked better than they do right now. And this is the perfect time to jump into them…
READ MORELiving Rich: Contemporary “Classics”
One of the best and least expensive (even free!) ways to live a rich and full life is to immerse yourself in good books. Of course, with around 300,000 books published each year in the U.S. alone, it can be next to impossible to know what’s worth reading and what isn’t.
READ MOREWhatever Business You’re In…
If we had such a thing, this would surely be one of ETR’s 10 Commandment’s of Start-Up Businesses: Make sure your product will sell before you do anything else! But when I recently caught a few moments of Tori Spelling’s “Watch me start a new business every week” reality show,…
READ MOREWalk a Mile in a Jerk’s Shoes
Without the insights of good pop psychology, I cannot fathom how my neighbor isn’t wracked with shame every second of his miserable life. Because he truly is a Grade A a-hole. It’s not just me. Six other neighbors, on all sides, hate this guy’s guts with varying degrees of passion…
READ MOREThe Right Way to Take a Working Vacation
You can do it too – enjoy a working vacation of half-days. The idea is that instead of taking a two- or three-week vacation without work, take a four- to six-week vacation working just four hours a day.
READ MOREMake Sure You Sell Yourself at Work
Marketing isn’t just for making sales. You need to learn how to market your most important asset – yourself – if you hope to get ahead.
READ MOREAre You Better Off than Your Parents Were? Really?
Normally I pay no attention to political speeches, but this caught my attention. Less social mobility. That means a statistically lower chance for people to better themselves financially. Fifty years? Where’s the progress?
READ MORELiving Rich: Music to Move Your Mind and Body
One of the best ways to live like a billionaire for a fraction of the cost is by exposing yourself to the best music from around the globe. Music has the potential to transport you to another time and place, whether you’re a working class hero or a billionaire.
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