Carnival of Money, Growth & Happiness #10

Greetings! We are here with the 10th edition of the Carnival of Money, Growth & Happiness. Out of the 22 submissions, we have selected 16 posts for this edition. I am sure our readers will enjoy reading these. Here are the posts in the order they were received.

Johan Idstam presents Quitting the day job posted at Relay blogger. By being really persistent, it is possible to quit the day job and manage on blogging income, even in such an expensive country a Sweden. It is not happening without hard work though.

Raj Dash presents Worthwhile Free Applications For Bootstrapping Entrepreneurs posted at Bootstrapper. What could make an entrepreneur happier than not having to spend money on web software? Here’s a list of several useful, free web applications.

Steve Pavlina presents Making Time for the Important posted at Steve Pavlina’s Personal Development Blog. Too often our important-but-not-urgent tasks get put on the back burner… and never make it to the front burner. When you get busy with urgent tasks, you may feel pressured to finish those first before you can justify doing anything less urgent.

Surfer Sam presents >>>>>Opportunity Knocks with a Franchise Business posted at Surfer Sam and Friends. For some people, buying a business franchise is an ideal way to start a small business and become self-employed. Starting a new business on your own is often risky. On the other hand, owning a franchised business gives you a running start to success.

John presents The Law of Attraction should be renamed The Law of Distraction posted at Motivational Speaker - Craig Harper. I personally think the LOA should be re-named the Law of Distraction (as the title of my article suggests) as it (in my opinion) actually distracts people from change principles which actually work.

John Wesley presents How to Maximize Your Day Job While Creating a 4 Hour Work Week posted at Pick the Brain. Unfortunately, going from a steady office job to New Rich is easier said than done. Even when you understand the concepts of The 4-Hour work Week, there is still the practical business of developing an income stream, testing, automating, and scaling to the point where you can support your ideal lifestyle with room to spare.

BrandonL presents Popular amongst the retired crowd posted at FHA Day - Daily Recaps of FHA and HUD Home Loan News. Reverse mortgages are a great way to take advantage of your home equity without risking your credit or selling your home.

Warren Wong presents The Passage of Time posted at Warren Wong. The passage of time is not what it seems. Do you know why time passes faster sometimes and slower at other times?

Michelle Cramer presents Scheduling Time to Relax posted at GreatFX Business Cards. Relaxing is a crucial part to keeping our positive attitude and joy in life (not to mention our sanity). Here are some easy things to implement into your life in order to find some time to take a breather…

Mike presents Life is what you are doing right now. posted at Running Your Life. Living now is the answer to most of our problems.

Ted Reimers presents How to Prepare for College posted at College Advice. Here are steps all college freshman should take to prepare themselves for college.

Tushar presents How much should your Monthly Mortgage Payment be ? posted at Life of a Resident Alien…. An article on Yahoo has this interesting piece of information about how much should you spend monthly on your mortgage.

Shadox presents 401K - Moving to a Brand New Plan posted at Money and Such. This article describes some of the many problems my company had with our 401K and why we decided to launch a whole new program.

Leon Gettler presents Top 15 rules of investment posted at Sox First. Here are the top 15 rules for investing. And you can start off by checking the gray hairs on your financial advisor. If you see any, it means they’ve been around for a few cycles. Also, save your loyalty for your football team, not stocks.

Paula presents Are You Bankrupting Yourself and Your Children? posted at Queercents. There is nothing like the joy of parents being able to treat their kids to stuff they really want. With all this emotion flowing around it is easy to see how quickly and innocently parents can risk their financial future and bankrupt their children in the process.

Trent Hamm presents The Financial Cost Of Happiness: Discovering What’s Important And Discarding The Rest posted at “Define what makes you happy, and make those things the principles you live by.”

That concludes the 10th edition of the Carnival of Money, Growth & Happiness. Next edition of this carnivall will be hosted here on 18 July, 2007. You can submit your posts here.


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