Carnival of Money, Growth and Happiness #23

Happy Thanksgiving to all our readers! The 23rd edition of the Carnival of Money, Growth and Happiness is up. We have selected 37 posts for this edition. Here’s the huge list:

Editor’s Picks:

Lorraine Cohen presents Powerfull Living » Gratitude: Finding the Gifts In The Experience posted at Powerfull Living. Things don’t always turn out the way you expect or want. Approaching situations with an open heart and mind can bring wonderfull gifts and blessings when you are open to receive them.

Roshawn Watson presents The Wealthy Create Luck posted at Watson Inc. It is very convenient to say that the people who do well are lucky, but many wealthy and successful people CREATE their luck. Regardless of what you do or what you learn, without the right mindset coupled with the appropriate actions, luck alone will not get you there. Rather, it is those who excel in problem-solving who have the Midas touch.

Steve Faber presents - Kill the Pigs, or, How to Save Yourself Some Tax Dollars posted at Debt Free. Depending on your tax bracket, and the propensity of your state and locality to burden you with additional taxes, approximately 40% of your hard earned dollar is taken away before you even see it. Some of those uses are legit. I mean, we need roads, law enforcement, national defense and other niceties of modern society.

Everything Finance presents Why Passive Investing beats Active Investing posted at Everything Finance.

KCLau presents How to Minimize the Upfront Service Charge in Unit Trust Investment posted at KCLau’s Money Tips. Investment always requires transaction cost. The typical cost in unit trust investment is the upfront service charges (paid to the agent), management fees (paid to the fund managers), and trustee fees (paid to the trust corporation). These costs are inevitable. But when there is a problem, there is always a few strategies to minimize the damage.

Edith presents 7 Business Lessons Learned from Watching Warren Buffet posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act..

David B. Bohl presents Fulfillment: The Power of Volunteering posted at Slow Down Fast Today!. Recently, there has been an upsurge in volunteering in the U.S. There’s also been a lot of talk about volunteers and volunteering. People are spending more time doing volunteer activities and thinking about volunteering. Why would you want to spend your time doing things for someone else, when there are so many really good things you need to do for yourself and people you care about?

Other Posts:

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Me Gamble? No Dice! posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.

Jason Elder presents Bankruptcy Credit Report Repair Rip Off - Beware! posted at A Bankruptcy Lawyer’s Blog. The items that are filed with the bankruptcy ( the list of debts you are seeking protection from) CANNOT be listed as individual bad debts after the filing. They must be reported as part of a bankruptcy proceeding. For this article - we are concerned only with your credit report POST bankruptcy.

Sally presents Thoughts on Time posted at A Penny Saved.

Christine presents The Exchange Rate - The Euro vs The Dollar - The Declining Dollar posted at Me, My Kid and Life. Living in France off the steadily declining dollar. One woman’s experience with earning an income online via US dollars while living in France and paying in euros.

Thomas Humes presents Simple Habits That Lead To Wealth posted at

Dorian Wales presents Understanding the difference bewtween investing and gambling posted at Personal Financier. While this title sounds intuitive many so called investors are in fact gamblers. In order to substantiate the difference between the two we need to a closer look in to the basics of investing.

Carole Fogarty presents The Tao of a happy full wallet: posted at THE HEALTHY LIVING LOUNGE. Today is the day you improve your relationship with your wallet. Today is the day you clean out the cob webs, cleanse away the negative vibes and create the energetic space to welcome abundance back into your wallet.

Chris presents Here’s One Way To Eat Healthier Snacks posted at The Healthy Snacks Blog.

Kalyn presents Saving for Retirement When You’re Short on Cash posted at LifeEdit.net.

Bonnie Krueger presents Does Transferring Credit Card Balances Affect Your Credit Score? posted at Personal Loans And Credit Cards.

Tiffany presents Green Your Finances posted at Natural Family Living Blog.

David presents Gaizer.com Tips for Business Start-ups | Helping you Start your own business » Resources are Available for an Import/Export Company posted at Gaizer.com. US Business Advisor www.business.gov, this is the federal government’s guide to international trade for small businesses. In this website, businesses can find essential information on laws and regulations, finance, trade leads, and associations and agencies that promote international trade.

Mark Runta presents Open A Door posted at Smart Investing & Money Management. Get off the couch, switch off the TV and take a step.

Karyn Kudrna presents Loan and Debt Elimination Scams posted at Shop Smart Loans. There are many loan and debt elimination scams out there. This article outlines some of the details of the more common scams and highlights what the consumer should be aware of.

Kevin Fleming presents How to Get Satellite TV if You Have Bad Credit posted at Satellite TV Guru.

Ralph Jean-Paul presents Meet 7 People in 7 Days posted at Potential 2 Success. Looking for new clients and business contacts? There are 6.7 trillion people in the world. How many of them do you know? Meet a new person for business or social advancement each day this week.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents The Worst Mortgage In The World and A Look At Creative Mortage Loans posted at The Digerati Life. Check out the different creative mortgages available to homeowners today. And be careful what you sign up for!

Marco presents Network Marketing and Your Social Relationships posted at Network Marketing Concepts.

James presents Escape the Payday Loan Trap posted at Payday Loan Cheap Skate. Here are steps to take to eliminate and avoid the payday loan debt cycle.

Wanda Grindstaff presents Success Through Service, the Most Important Component! posted at Creating Abundant Lifestyles.

Robert D Flach presents IN NEVER NEVER LAND posted at ANYTHING BUT TAXES!.

The Skilled Investor presents Where?s Waldo? - The illusion of superior professional mutual fund manager performance. posted at THE SKILLED INVESTOR Blog. The effort to find those few supposedly superior money managers willing to sell their services sufficiently cheaply is a costly, time consuming, and futile, “Where’s Waldo?,” searching exercise for the individual investor.

Allen Taylor presents Business Investment Strategies That Work Every Time posted at Investing World Today. The secret to investment success is the consistent application of time-proven strategies, not the use of complex, hard-to-understand investment vehicles created by investment bankers out to take your money!

Todd presents How To Break Out Of Bad Habits Using Affirmations posted at We The Change. Great article on how to use affirmations to get what you want.

Matt Wolfe presents Thirty Days To Improve Your Life posted at How I Will Be Rich. A list of goals to set for yourself to vastly improve your life in thirty days.

FitBuff presents What Is Healthy? posted at FitBuff.com’s Total Mind and Body Fitness Blog. What is healthy? At first, this may seem like an easy question to answer. However, when you actually stop and think about it, it’s not easy at all…

Warren Wong presents How To Win Someone’s Heart posted at Personal Development. Do you want to win someone’s heart and gain their trust and loyalty? Here are some tips on how to go about doing it.

Gamy Rachel presents Self Improvement Starts With Making Decisions posted at Mind Think Success. To have a positive change in your life, you have to decide you want a positive change, and this in itself is making a decision.

Shaun Connell presents Contradictions and Continuity posted at Reason and Capitalism. Shaun Connell explains how understanding this basic logical idea is essential to maximizing both finances and happiness. Part of a series of essays on lifestyle capitalism.

Danogo.com presents The 2 Simple Ways to Get Your Website into Google Search Results posted at Danogo.com - Discover. Inspiring . Media. For businesses on a budget - the inexpensive way to promote your site is right in Google’s search results.

That concludes this edition. Next edition of this carnival will be hosted here on November 29, 2007. Submit your blog article using the Blog Carnival Submission Form.

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