August 18th, 2010
This past weekend, I had an hourlong interview on the syndicated Your Money Matters radio show, hosted by Marc Pearlman. You can listen to it on his site or listen to it in iTunes.
Also, I’ve recently written a few articles for OPEN Forum that you may want to read that focus on frugality and small businesses.
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July 25th, 2010

Every Sunday morning for the next few months, I’m going to “riff” on a chapter from my book, The Simple Dollar: How One Man Wiped Out His Debts and Achieved the Life of His Dreams by reflecting on particular pieces of it that I’ve had further reflections on or particularly excite me, including some elements that were removed from the ...
July 7th, 2010

My new book, The Simple Dollar: How One Man Wiped Out His Debts and Achieved the Life of His Dreams, is now available in bookstores (I just saw it at a Barnes and Noble in the Des Moines, Iowa area and at the Borders in Ames, Iowa)! You can also buy it right now at Amazon.com or order it ...
July 3rd, 2010

As the closing of my home loan draws nearer, I have been diligent about making sure my personal finances have stayed in order. While it has been a long process, it has gone relatively smoothly. We are set to close in just two weeks. Unknowingly, we could have delayed our closing by doing a number of pretty common things over the ...
June 18th, 2010

As many of you know, my new book, The Simple Dollar: How One Man Wiped Out His Debts and Achieved the Life of His Dreams is due to be released at the end of this month and should be available in bookstores all over the United States in early July. If you’d like, you can preorder the book at ...
May 10th, 2010

Link:
http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/money/article/read-your-financial-state…
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May 6th, 2010
Today, Seth Godin (one of my favorite bloggers who usually talks about marketing) posted a great piece about consumer debt. Two great excerpts:
Here’s a simple MBA lesson: borrow money to buy things that go up in value. Borrow money if it improves your productivity and makes you more money. Leverage multiplies the power of your business because with leverage, ...
April 21st, 2010
Your Money: The Missing Manual by J.D. Roth.
Books about managing your money succeed or fail at the point when the author chooses what to present as unbreakable rules versus what to present ...
April 15th, 2010

As many of you know, over the last year, I’ve been writing a book outlining the specific details of how exactly I went from being tens of thousands of dollars in debt and working at a job that caused me to miss my family and made me long for the career I wanted to doing exactly what I wanted to ...
March 20th, 2010
If you’re unhappy with some significant portion of your life, at some point you have to wake up in the morning and simply say that you’ve had enough.
That key decision often leads to some further difficult ones. It will probably lead to some personal challenges. It will require you to make some changes in your life.
On ...