Carnival of Money, Growth & Happiness #6

Welcome to the sixth edition of the Carnival of Money, Growth & Happiness. We have received 45 posts for this edition, which is a huge number. I am sure that our readers will enjoy reading all the posts. Here are the posts in the order they were received.

Shamelle presents Top 5 Ways To Make Your Week-End Last Longer posted at Enhance Life. Most often, we wait until the week-end to ‘organize’ the week-end! What would happen if you plan it prier to the week-end? This will leave you with just waking up and executing the ‘list’ as opposed to wondering what to do!

Wenchypoo presents The Dark Side of Fuel Efficiency posted at Wisdom From Wenchypoo’s Mental Wastebasket. With all the hoopla about global warming (even though it’s all unwarranted) and all the panic about the possibilities of $4.00/gallon gasoline and $120/barrel crude oil, everyone in any official capacity is screaming about improving the CAFÉ standards for vehicle gas mileage—the rest of the nervous Nellies are screaming about hybrid cars.

John Wesley presents Top 5 Ways to Build a Wonderful Life posted at Pick the Brain. There will always be temptation to forsake the future for immediate gratification. We all want to buy that new piece of technology, treat ourselves to an expensive night on the town, or take out a loan for the flashy car we can’t afford. It might feel great at the time but rash spending hurts a lot later on.

Kennubo presents Setting your price high posted at kennubo.blogspot.com. Making money by using the 80/20 principle.

Vince Cordic presents Why Do 97% of People Fail to Make Money Online posted at Vince Cordic’s Internet Marketing Tactics. It’s a sad fact that most people who set out to make a living online fail miserably. They might make a hundred dollars a month, or even more, but nowhere near enough to say goodbye to the 9-5 job. So why is this? There must be some reason that some people succeed and others fail. There is a reason, in fact there’s more then one reason.

Robinson Go of Good Blog Advice presents 8 Shrewd Ways to Optimize Google AdSense posted at Rob’s Blog: Advice for Bloggers. Very effective tips on making money online.

Jeremy Reeves presents The Power of Your Self-Image posted at The Road To A Perfect Life. The images you hold of yourself inside your head dictate what you do in life. Learn how to put your success on auto-pilot!

Albert Foong presents Aristotle vs. Urban Monk Round 1: Finding Bliss. Success. Love. posted at Urban Monk. The Highest Human Good - Aristotle’s work on success and happiness, given the usual Urban Monk emphasis on readability and practicality - how you can apply his works to your life right now.

Andy Schmitt presents The Art of Allowing - Let Go of Your Ego posted at TheDailyPositive.com. When the ego controls your thoughts, feelings, and emotions it is impossible to manifest on a spiritual level.

Wanda Grindstaff presents It’s All About Having FUN - Living with Intent posted at Creating Abundant Lifestyles. Just have fun to boost your life and your lifestyle.

John Wesley presents Continuously Increase Productivity by Embracing the Optimization Mentality posted at Pick the Brain. Experts aren’t more productive because they’re more talented or because they work harder. The difference between the experts and everyone else is the optimization mentality: constantly striving for improvement.

Jeremy Reeves presents The Simplest Rule Of Success posted at The Road To A Perfect Life. You must learn the rule of progression and use the velocity of money if you ever plan on accumulating wealth.

George Courtney jr presents Learn How To Be Happy And How To Live Your Life posted at The Authentic Bartender Blog. If you are un-happy and miserable, it is likely because you are not out enjoying all that life has to offer. Rather you are likely locked in a job somewhere wishing you were out living your life.

Almomento presents 10 Steps to Better Efficiency in Your Day to Day Life posted at BurstCreativity. Ability to be creative in all of the aspects of our life can enhance it beyond belief. Since creativity enhances with practice, we have to put ourselves through an intense emergence into the world of creativity, to make a profound change in how we approach life.

Cade Krueger presents Find People Who Are Looking To Help Financially posted at Make Money Business Opportunity @ Write To Right. So many entrepreneurs look to raise money to start a business. You want to find LLC Investors that will save your business.

ISPF presents Weekends: Pursue Money Making Projects or Spend on Something More Satisfying? posted at Grad Money Matters. ISPF asks, “Should I continue to pursue something which I think I will enjoy doing and will be very satisfying, or should I drop this and look for other ideas that have the possibility of making good money?”

David presents How To Help Your Family In The Event Of An Emergency. | My Two Dollars posted at My Two Dollars. Although we often think that we are invincible and that bad stuff only happens to other people, the fact remains that it can happen to anyone at any time.

Kevin presents Kids And Money - Have Your Child Earn It posted at More4kids Parenting. Here are a few benefits from having to earn their own money and meet the requirements of a work commitment or a job:

Brandon Peele presents An Open Letter to My Parents posted at GT. This universe is governed by happiness. Or rather an incomplete definition of it.

Tracy Coenen presents Have you heard of “synthetic identity fraud”? posted at Sequence Inc. FRAUDfiles. Why is synthetic identity fraud a problem? Because your social security number could be used on a credit application and you might never know about it.

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Man Can’t Live By Bread Alone … Or Can He? posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog. Short humor (limerick) about frugality.

Ruby presents 10 Things You shouldn?t do in the name of frugality posted at Frugal Aussie. It’s good to be frugal, but there are some things you shouldn’t do in the name of frugality. This is a list of those things!

Alex Z presents Investing In Mutual Funds: The Advantages posted at Funds Zine. Mutual funds as any other means of making money have their advantages and disadvantages.

Kennubo presents Ken Nubo — Your daily source of knowledge and unconventional thinking: Is a college degree worth it? A different look. posted at Ken Nubo — Your daily source of knowledge and unconventional thinking. College degrees help getting much higher paying jobs, but that doesn’t mean that it requires less effort to land a job than not having a degree.

R.Pettinger presents Mortgage News: Improving your credit rating - Top Ten Tips posted at Mortgage News. Top 10 Tips to improve Credit rating. Includes looking at credit history and how to ask bank to not include penalties for late payment.

Tyler presents All Drugged Up posted at Dividend Money. Trying to tackle the law-suit machine that is the pharma industry is a daunting task for many investors. However, with our aging population, a prudent investor simply can’t ignore the upside potential that these companies have going forward.

Alex Blackwell presents 14 Ways to Learn the Secret to Happiness posted at The Next 45 Years. Too often we measure ourselves from where we think we should be to where we actually are right now. This will always result in a negative number.

Tushar presents Move your checking account to Bank of America and get $75 posted at Life of a Resident Alien…. Make the move to better banking and you can receive $75. Just open a new, personal checking account, and you’ll enjoy access to your money on the nation’s largest network of bank-owned ATMs.

Christine Kane presents Write it Down & Make It Happen, or How to Make Millions in the Stock Market posted at Christine Kane’s Blog. Nothing speaks louder than a personal story. So, here’s a success story about written goals and taking action.

WBL presents Bullish on the US Dollar? posted at Wealth Building Lessons. Why the dollar might strengthen and how to profit from it.

Adventures in Money Making presents Beware The Chinese Stock Market posted at Adventures in Money Making. Maybe its time to adjust your investments and reduce your exposure to Chinese stocks.

David Richeson presents How to Overcome Negative Emotions posted at 360 Degree Success. For the Law of Attraction to create positive results, it is necessary to learn how to maintain a positive mindset. Learn how to overcome negative emotions in this article.

Phil presents The Size of Money « Phil for Humanity posted at Phil for Humanity. Since each denomination of U.S. Dollars are of the same size, texture, and mostly color, the seeing impaired and blind have difficulty handling bills from the United States.

Albert Foong presents Stepping into greatness and out of unhappiness with dynamic goals - Aristotle and Ego Series. posted at The Urban Monk. You probably suffer because of what you want and how you go about achieving. The best secret to productivity, success, and happiness lies in switching how you approach your goals.

David presents Why Savings Bonds Are A Great Gift Idea For Newborns And Children. posted at My Two Dollars. David says, “As a kid I never thought it was very cool when I received savings bonds as gifts on birthdays and holidays.”

Debra Moorhead presents Want to Manifest More Money? Forget About It! posted at Debra Moorhead.com. One of the most popular reasons people get hooked on the law of attraction is the desire to attract more money into their life experience. Does holding on to the thought of money all the time actually work?

Anmol Mehta presents Money Money Money Mantra and the Path to Enlightenment posted at Mastery of Meditation, Enlightenment & Kundalini Yoga. What role does money play in the path to enlightenment? Is it important? Does it help? This article explores these and other related questions.

Craig Harper presents The Personal Development Zombie posted at Motivational Speaker. A person seemingly incapable of independent thought. Takes on the beliefs, philosophies, ideologies and identity of other higher profile and allegedly(?) more enlightened individuals.

John Wesley presents The Amazing Effects of a Weekend Without Televsion posted at Pick the Brain. Johns shares his experience without a TV in the weekend.

Patrick Daly presents How Much Should a Web Freelancer Charge Clients? posted at Develop Daly. You are a freelancer with no backup support, sick day pay, benefits, etc. So you can charge more than you might think.

Edithyeung presents Buffet of Life - Strategy of Focusing posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act.. Life is not only like a box of chocolate. It is like a buffet.

Henry Bagdasarian presents Avoid Verbal Lower Interest Rate Deals posted at Free Identity Theft Prevention, Detection and Fraud Solutions. Close you credit card immediately if you are not satisfied with the terms and conditions that were initially offered to you.

Michelle Cramer presents Retirement for the Sole-Proprietor posted at GreatFX Business Cards. Information on a new and improved way for the sole-proprietor business owner to save for retirement.

Josh presents Technical Analysis posted at The Mad Money Analyst. The complete guide to technical analysis…

Kevin Kinchen presents Creative Power of Thought » Hidden Riches posted at Creative Power of Thought: Thoughts Become Things. In order to become rich, all that you have to do is give a gift to humanity that is priceless.

That concludes the sixth edition of the Carnival of Money, Growth & Happiness. Keep submitting your posts to the future editions of this carnival. Thank you for your participation.


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