Link Roundup – Physical Fitness Edition

  Welcome to another Link Round-up edition.   This is the Physical Fitness edition in honor of the bloggers’ weightloss challenge being sponsored by Baker over at Man vs. Debt. While I’m a little behind on my personal objectives in this area, I’ve made some progress since the start of this event and I’ve enjoyed the team aspect of this competition.  Congratulations and...

Be in the Business of Being Yourself

  A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to see a successful college football coach speak to a local booster gathering in Atlanta. During his presentation he shared a philosophy he often preaches to his team regarding the need and process for making good decisions. “Be in the business of being yourself” A clever line, no doubt, but he backed it up with a compelling story. He once coached...

You Make the Call

Try as we may, we don’t always make the best decisions.  We may improve our odds by creating rules and other criteria to evaluate our options but even in the best of times these rules may develop bends in the direction of our wants. Sure, every rule has its exception, but likewise, the justification slope is a slippery beast. So with that backdrop, allow me to share a recent financial decision...

Think! It May Save Your Financial Life

  Everyone has a purpose, even if it is simply to serve as a bad example for others.  Sure, it’s a funny line but it also comes with a dark side – sometimes it’s just plain true. Take for example a couple that recently called into Dave Ramsey’s TV show on the Fox Business Network. “We’re calling because we took out some student loans.  Now they are coming due...

Six-Flags files for bankruptcy. GOOD!

  It is not with callousness or malice that I cheer the misfortune of Six Flags but rather with a satisfaction that sometimes people, or as in this case, corporations get what they deserve.  And Six Flags has run such a poor ship for so many years that their downfall, poor economy or not, is no surprise. Wretched customer service, inferior quality products, rampantly escalating prices, poor promotions,...

Mayor of the Mall

  Admittedly this content is dated.  Yet it is timeless as well. I was recently catching up on some downloads on my iPod and I stumbled upon Chicago Public Radio’s This American Life’s holiday broadcast.  But before you dismiss the rest of this post as dated venture, consider first the benefits of looking at something out of its original context and second the idea that this content...