Archive for the ‘Getting Real’ Category

Managing Debt by Eliminating Store Credit Cards

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

If the current economic crisis has taught Americans anything it should be that there are pitfalls associated with debt. In my previous post titled 1 Proven Strategy to Ensure You'll Never Be Rich, I mentioned that failure to manage your personal debt will virtually ensure your inability to manage debt in your self employed ...

The American Wealth Gap

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Part of the initiative behind firing my boss, becoming self employed and eventually building a business that continues to generate income whether I show up or not was addressed in my very first self-titled post, Self Employed or Bust. It centers around the disparity between an employee's earnings and the earnings ...

Self Employed and Joining Forces

Monday, July 21st, 2008

I'll be the first to acknowledge that two heads can be better than one. When it comes to being self employed, joining forces with a partner or partners can result in distribution of workload, addition of skill sets, diversity of ideas and approach, mutual motivation and division of assumed risk. ...

Why fear and impatience doom the self employed

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

In The pros and cons of being self employed I took an honest look at the idea of self employment and decided that, despite some notable downsides, the concept still works for me. I want to reiterate something I've stated before and that's the simple fact that far too much ...