Work at Home Medical Transcription Editor for Acusis

 

Acusis is seeking a medical transcription editor with at least three years experience as a transcriptionist.  This is a full-time employee, work-from-home position.  You must be proficient in Microsoft Word and experienced in acute care transcription.  You must be accustomed to working with dialects and be motivated and self-disciplined.

This job comes with a great benefits package, including Blue Cross/Blue Shield health/prescription/dental/vision.  In addition, there is an EAP (employee assistance plan), 401K with up to 3% company match, direct deposit, bonus referral program, CMT tuition assistance, and PTO (paid time off).

You  must have a PC with a minimum of Word and Windows 2000.  You must have a WAV pedal and high-speed Internet.  For more information and to apply, submit your resume to: usrecruiter@acusis.com

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Daily Blog Tips: Best of 2008

This yeas was very productive for Daily Blog Tips. We grew the number of RSS subscribers from 7,500 to almost 16,000, and the traffic increase followed on the same pace. I am also sure that the main ingredient for that healthy growth was the unique and (I hope) useful content that I publish.

Below you will find a recap with the most popular posts in 2008 (in a random order), enjoy.

• 10 Simple Productivity Tips for Bloggers: Productivity itself is pretty unimportant. It’s what productivity allows us to do that matters. A productive blogging habit means more posts and more quality, and we all know what that means: more links and more traffic.
• 3 Must Apply Security Tips for WordPress: Today I was reading through my RSS feeds and I came across a very interesting post from Matt Cutts. Basically he was describing 3 (plus a bonus) tips to secure your WordPress install. I was already using two of them, but the first one was new to me, and looks like it is the most effective one as well.
• How to Write Scannable Content: A 6-Step Approach: Despite what some people might think, the Internet is no big book. This means one thing: if you write in large, monotonous blocks of text, people will just ignore you and your message.
• 10 Things That Bloggers Tend to Forget, But Shouldn’t!: I must admit that I tend to forget some of these myself, so hopefully this post will also serve as a checklist to go through once in a while. What about you, do you forget them?
• Open Discussion: What is Your Favorite Web Hosting?: Like it or not, web hosting is a vital part of any website. Reliable and fast hosting will give your readers a much better user experience, and they will be more likely to return in the future. Slow hosting with frequent downtimes, on the other hand, will not only annoy your visitors, but it might also harm your search engine rankings over the long term.
• 28 Ways to Make Money with Your Website: There are several lists with “ways to make money with a website” on the Internet, but none of them seem to be complete. That is why I decided to create this one. If you know a method that is not listed below, just let us know and we’ll update it.
• Extending Your Reach from Blogger to Influencer: 12 Practical Tips: Many top bloggers are not just seen as bloggers. Some have been able to transcend the role of blogger and have become icons of their industries that have significant impact and influence on others. A successful blogger may be able to attract readers and make money through their blog in one way or another, but an influencer’s reach will extend well beyond their own blog into the niche as a whole.
• The Dynamics of the Subscriber Impulse: When Do People Decide To Grab Your RSS Feed?: This is a question that has been on my mind for some time already. When I started getting a good response from readers on my first blogs, I thought to myself: “Cool, they like the content. Now it is just a matter of getting mentioned on a blog with thousands of subscribers and these people will want to grab my RSS feed as well.”
• Hold Tight, It Will Only Get Easier: Most bloggers that get discouraged and decide to abandon their blogs tend to do so on the first three to six months. Sometimes the traffic is not growing as fast as they would like. Other times they are not happy with the money that they are making. Personally I think that quitting after such a short period is a mistake.
• Become a Blogging Wizard - 6 Lessons from Harry Potter: Humble beginnings, a long arduous struggle, and ultimate triumph… The story of a young wizard? Or the story of a beginning blogger? How about both? Here are six lessons from Harry Potter on how to become a blogging wizard.
• The Ultimate WordPress Contact Form Plugin: cforms II: Recently I was creating a small static website, and I needed to insert a custom contact form there. I use WordPress as a CMS even for static websites, so I tried a couple of contact form plugins. None of them was customizable enough, though, so I went to ask a couple of programmers if they were interested in creating a custom contact form for me.
• 50 Thoughful, Funny and Polemic Blogging Quotes: I love quotes, what can I say. Below you will find some that I gathered recently. Some of them are thoughtful, others funny, others yet polemic. All of them should be worth a reading though. If you have one to add, just let me know.
• 5 Steps to Write Effective Articles in Less Time: Do you sit in front of computer for a long time to create a single blog post or article? Does it take too much thinking for you to come up with an effective article? If your answer was ‘yes’ to any of these questions, you should continue to read the post. Whether you are a blogger or a freelance writer or an article marketer, you need to write effective articles quickly. If you are doing one of those as a full time job, you must really use your time properly and try to write more articles in less time. Here are few things you should do when you sit to write an article or blog post.
• Is It Just Me or Most Web 2.0 Domain Names Suck?: A couple of weeks ago I was browsing around TechCrunch when I came across some articles that were listing web startups that would be participating on a Demo event. The idea about getting startups grouped together to demonstrate what they products or services can do is pretty interesting, but that was not what caught my attention. Instead, I could not help but think about how bad some of these domain names were. Here are a few examples:
• 10 Signs That Your Blog Is On The Right Track: Starting a new blog or growing an existing one can certainly be frustrating, as it may seem like you are not on pace to achieve your goals. Like anything worthwhile, building a solid and effective blog will take some time and hard work. As Daniel wrote recently, it gets easier with time if you can stick with it.
• Do You Really Need to go to the University?: If you want to work on the Internet or to be an entrepreneur, I really don’t think you need to. I always tell my friends that if I had the mind that I have today (in terms of knowing what I want to do, and what knowledge and tools I need to do that) five years ago, I would not have enrolled myself in the university.
• Let’s Follow Each Other on Twitter, Shall We?: After reading about it virtually on every single website on the web, a couple of weeks ago I decided to give Twitter a try. I must say that, contrary to what many people claim to, I did not get addicted to it.
• Embracing the Status of Part-Time Blogger: 5 Practical Tips: I’m sure you read a lot about pro blogging and what it takes to earn a full-time income from your blog. This is a common topic among active bloggers and there are plenty of great articles that cover various aspects of the subject. With the huge amount of focus that is given to becoming a pro blogger, I think that becoming a successful and profitable part-time blogger is often overlooked. Earning a reasonable amount of money on a part-time basis is actually more desirable than most people realize.
• May 1st RSS Awareness Day: Get Involved: What is the takeaway message? Only a very small percentage of the Internet population is aware of the RSS format and its benefits.
• Killer Domains: My First eBook is Available Now: If you tried to find some good domain names lately you know how disappointing the experience can be. It feels like all the marketable domains are already gone. And the problem is that the success of your website starts with the domain name.
• 7 Reasons Why You Might Never Be Productive: Are you disappointed with the fact that, no matter how hard you try, you can never seem to get things done in a productive manner? If so, then acting now is the way to go because you can rest assured that things will not exactly get better if you just stand there and wait for a miracle. As a blogger, being productive is definitely a must if you are serious about long-term success and living in denial is simply not an option.
• Open Discussion: What Do You Think of Internet Marketers? (aka the long sales page gurus): The same cannot be said about people that resort to the long sales pages, though. If you navigate around the web you will notice that there is a great deal of controversy around these practices.
• The Best Sources of Content for WordPress Users: If you’re looking for technical documentation or support, the codex and forums are usually the first place to look. However, I would like to share some blogs and websites that provide a good amount of WP-related content that I think you will appreciate. Whether you are a theme designer/developer or a blogger who is looking to get more out of WordPress, visit some of these sites and see for yourself.
• Website Traffic Series Part 3: Leave Comments on Other Blogs: On the first part of this series we talked about how you can generate traffic to your website by getting it featured on Web Design and CSS galleries. On the second part we talked about Blog Carnivals. Today we will cover another basic yet effective strategy: leaving comments on other blogs.
• Make Sure Your WordPress is Not Hacked: Lately there there seems to be a hacking spree around old versions of WordPress. Most of the times the hacker will edit your theme files to insert spam links. One of my older and non-active blogs got that problem, and I had several friends complaining to me about it as well when chatting over IM.
• Why You Must be the First, in Google’s Search Results at Least!: People always say that you need to be in the first page of results in Google if you want to receive clicks, right? Well, this will hurt, but the reality is that merely being in the first page is not enough.
• Are You Familiar with HTML and CSS? Six Reasons Why You Should Invest the Time to Learn: I had been involved with web design for a few years before I ever started blogging. In my opinion, being able to work with the code of a blog is a huge advantage that many bloggers choose not to pursue.
• Video Blog Review 1 - FavBrowser.com: On this first blog review I will cover the design and layout aspects of FavBrowser.com, a blog coming from one of our readers (I asked his permission to review it).
• Google Indexing Scrapers First?: This made me curious and went to check for myself. The first thing I wanted to know was if my post was indexed already by Google or not. I copied one sentence from the post and search it in Google, with quotation marks to find only exact matches.
• Poll: What is Your Favorite Browser?: Anyway all this browser thinking got me curious about what browser you guys use. I know that many of you will need to use more than for work purposes (cross browser testing, Internet Explorer applications, etc), but what is your favorite browser for surfing the web, blogging and similar?
• Website Traffic Series Part 6: Using Forum Signatures: Time to analyze another traffic generation strategy: using forum signatures. At the bottom of this post you will find links to all the previous parts on the series, and stay tuned for future ones, we are going to cover literally all of them!
• Star Trek Blogging: The Klingon Way: In the world of Star Trek, Klingons are known as a warrior people, formidable in battle, fierce in their passions, and concerned with honor above all. But the life of a Klingon has lessons for humans, even for that sedentary class known as bloggers. Here are three proverbs that can help you learn to blog the Klingon way.
• DarkZen WordPress Theme Released: Most of our previous WordPress themes used light or vivid colors, so I thought that a darker design was needed on the portfolio. DarkZen comes with a dark header and a gray background, packed on a clean and minimalist design.
• The Pros and Cons of Working from Home on the Internet: Almost two years passed since I quit my job inside a multinational company to work from home on the Internet. For me it was pretty a straight forward move. One year inside a corporation was enough to clarify what I wanted to do professionally, and working for someone else was definitely not part of it.
• Did You Buy YourName.com Already?: All right let’s put this straight: if you read Daily Blog Tips regularly, there are good chances that one day you will become a web celebrity. If that is the case, you should register YourName.com before someone else does.
• My Top Commentators WordPress Plugin: I am glad to release the third WordPress plugin by Daily Blog Tips. My Top Commentators is a plugin that allows a blogger to discover who are the most active commentators on his blog (via the WordPress Dashboard, so other people will not see this information).
• 3 Simple Secrets to Reducing Your Blogging Stress: Thoughts, creativity, and writing should flow freely and without tension. As I was writing an article a few months ago I noticed the strain in my stomach, neck, and jaw. I was straining to get the thoughts out. As if tensing my muscles would actually help me focus or even create something helpful to my readers.
• The Bloggers Union (or Association): Should we create a bloggers union? This idea was floating on my head, so I decided to share with everyone.
• The Bloggers Glossary: If you think there is a term missing just let me know and I will update the glossary.
• Take One Day Off Every Week: Yesterday I took the whole day off line (we had a guest post indeed). Now that I think about it, it was the first one in a really long time. Sure I don’t work full time on weekends, but I was getting used to working half a day on Saturdays and Sundays.
• Blogging Idol Is Live!: Show time! All the competitors have until the July 31 (midnight) to prove their blogging skills and to improve their RSS subscriber base.
• Open Discussion: Does a Degree Improve Your Chances of Succeeding Online?: Let’s kick start this week with an open discussion. Do you think that a college degree will improve the chances of someone succeeding online?
• Forget Winzip. Try 7-Zip: This one month traveling, where I was forced to use my Windows laptop, allowed me to discover many new useful and interesting software for the paid operating system.
• Are Social Networks Like the Fashion Industry?: Fashion lovers pardon me, but I am very skeptical regarding the usefulness of this industry.
• BlueSensation WordPress Theme Released: Last month we missed the free WordPress theme release, but the one for July is available now. BlueSensation is a clean theme with a traditional look: large content column on the left and a single sidebar, ready to display 125×125 ads.
• Behind The Scenes: Check Out The Desktop of 30 Bloggers: The result was pretty good though. Last week I asked for the DBT readers to share their desktop, and 30 of you stepped forward (if I missed anyone just let me know).
• PageRank Update Coming in 2-3 Days: Hey I am not the one saying it, the word is coming from Mr. Matt Cutts (head of Google’s web spam team).
• Is Google Crossing the Line with Knol?: Now while I am willing to sing them praises when deserved, I also think that we should be vocal when they cross the line. If you paid attention to the launch of their expertise sharing website Knol, you probably saw a great deal of controversy coming together.
• Alexa is Becoming Completely Worthless: Alexa is becoming a joke lately. Some people claim that over the previous two years it was already losing reliability, but lately it went completely nuts. Whatever they did on the last algorithm update, it messed up their rankings badly.
• What Is A Blog?: It is 2008; do we still need to ask ourselves what a blog is? I think so, and for two reasons. First of all we still have many misconceptions about blogging floating around the web. Pretty much every week I get at least one email from someone asking if I believe blogging has a future. My answer is always “as long as the Internet has a future, blogs do too.” You will see why I answer that below.
• The Art of Writing Catchy Articles: 11 Simple Tips: If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them - George Orwell
• Interview with Timothy Sykes (The Guy Makes $50,000 Monthly From His Blog): A couple of weeks ago a reader emailed me to ask if I knew anything about a guy named Timothy Sykes, who is supposedly making some killer money with his blog.
• On Domain Names, Size and Quality DOES Matter!: What kind of impact will a domain name have on the success of the website hosted there? There are basically two schools of thought around the web.
• On Linkbaits, Socialbaits and Viral Content: If you have been involved with online marketing, web publishing or blogging for a while, I am sure that you have come across the terms linkbait, socialbait and viral content at least once.
• 50 Simple Ways to Gain RSS Subscribers: Most bloggers love their RSS readers. Not only that, but they also love to gain new RSS readers. It is such a joy when you wake up one day and see that your Feedburner count jumped by 200 or 300, right?

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Google Just Updated the Nominal PageRank

I was expecting it to happen early in January 2009, but the Mountain View folks were faster. The nominal PageRanks started changing yesterday, and by today you should already be seeing the updated values.

I am pretty happy with the new numbers. Daily Blog Tips remained a PR6, while Daily Writing Tips went up from PR5 to PR6, and TechCult went up to PR5.

How about you, did your PageRank increase?

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New Year’s Resolutions for Home Business Entrepreneur
Hope everyone is having a great holiday season, even if the economy is sagging and business owners like you and me are feeling the pinch.

It’s almost end of the year, and it’s time again to draw up our New Year’s resolutions for our businesses. Preparing resolutions for the next year is my sort of strategic planning session where I go through the exercise of thinking what happened this year, and what needs to be improved or tried differently next year.

George Rodriguez wrote a good list of tips for a better New Year in the article “8 Tips for a Successful New Year:”

• Assess the past year
• Look at everything with a fresh new perspective.
• Set your goals.
• Create your calendar of activities.
• Do the work!
• Pump up your networking.
• Try to learn something new this year.
• Keep your momentum going.

In addition to George’s list, my main goal for next year is to work doubly hard to market our websites and increase traffic. It is important during times of recession to pump up your marketing efforts. Also this year, I will engage more in social marketing and understand how to use the best social networking sites to reach our target audience.

For more inspiration on how to plan your business for 2009, read the article “Top New Year Resolutions You can Make for Your Business” by Jan B. King that New York Times mentioned in a piece today.

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Freelancers: Design and Send Professional Invoices for Free

 

Wow!  Just came across a great new FREE tool for freelancers.  It’s Blinksale. With it, you can create invoices (even design them), either send them to your clients by email or print them, and keep track of the invoices you have sent and whether or not they’ve been paid.

You can use Blinksale’s professionally designed templates or create your own.  Your data is completely safe and housed in a state-of-the-art facility in Dallas, Texas.  It’s got a clean simple interface and is user friendly.  If you haven’t heard about this tool, go check it out.  It’s a great free solution for freelancers. 

*This is not a paid post.  I have no affiliation with Blinksale.  Just thought it was cool and, best of all, FREE - my favorite word.

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3 weeks to go before my marriage!

Hi guys. Thanks for giving me your blessings in my blog and my twitter.

Just wish to show my appreciation to all of your blessings:

Azmi Jahan: He’s Sunny I met at desinotes.com.  A real sincere guy I have met so far in blogosphere who was willing to sell his money-making blog at a very low price just because he wished to concentrate in his studies.  I have not regretted to have met him when I first started my own blog here.  Thanks for being my blog friend!

He was asking me what my ethnicity and religion is.  Ok, I am Chinese, and my dialect is Teochew.  My family religion is Taoism (sometimes mixed with Buddhism too). but I have converted to Christian quite a few years ago.

My marriage will be following my family religion due to filial piety, and also because my wife-to-be is a Buddhist.

Requested from Sunny, I will try to work out something on my blog, my flickr, my twitter, my YouTube and my qik to show all of you how weddings are held in Singapore.

Used Trucks: I have not met this person before.  But he has contributed a fair bit of comments in my blog.  Thanks so much!  Most noticeably, thanks for giving me your blessings.

@MikeChoy: Another guy I have just met on Twitter who gave me his blessings.  According to his profile, he’s an expert in nutrition and weight loss from Kuala Lumpur  Thanks so much for your blessings!

@markdavidson: This guy is awesome!  I can always find him to chat on twitter whenever we bump on each other!  I think his free Twitter secrets has gotten him more than 5900 followers!  Thanks so much for your blessings!

My wedding preparation

There are a lot to prepare!  I am tidying up my room to welcome a new person.  My room will now accomodate two persons’ things!  Because of that, I have to sacrifice one bookshelf!  I have two with me.

This is one bookcase I have just cleared.  See that cable in between?  That’s my laptop cable.  Please ignore that! :)  This bookcase will be thrown out!

Oh no! Where should I keep the books on the floor?

This is my 2nd bookshelf which I have packed with my books.  I am STILL CONSIDERING whether I should throw away this bookshelf also or not.

Next, I had also printed 150 pieces of wedding cards.  I have always wanted to print directly on the cards when people kept telling me that it is impossible.  Here it is!

This is the front cover.

This is the invitation message which is printed directly on the card!

Next, last Saturday, I have also ordered 42 boxes of wedding cakes to be given with the wedding cards.  I ordered online from www.kyo.com.sg.  They have quite a good range of traditional cakes.  But the funny thing is that their online ordering system don’t work for me!  After ordering, there’s no fulfillment.  I guess Singapore is still trying to do online business.  It’s a good initiative!  Anyway, I called to fulfill my order and found my order to be lost!  Ok, I guess this phone call I have made should do a better job.  The person has lost my number after my order!  In the end, I went down to the shop directly just in case.  And the hilarious part is that the shop doesn’t know about my order!  Anyway, today she called back and told me that she found my number and called me to check if I have ordered anything from her!  hahaha! Good try!  But I believe they can do better next time…

I have bought a wardrobe from Ikea, and was quite astonished by the fact that the removal of old Ikea wardrobe was not free when I saw them stating that the first 2 Ikea furniture are free.  At Ikea, they did told me that it’s free but the delivery man at my house told me that there are fine prints that I have to take note of.  In the end, I paid over $40 to ask them to help me throw away.  My sis feedbacked this to Ikea and we are compensated with free Ikea meal.  I felt really good about it!

Now, I am going to settle my queen-size bed with my wife-to-be.  I tell you, I must get my own table and probably try to retain my bookshelves!

Status of internet review

I am now working on a new internet branding of myself as an internet reviewer.  I have done up a new website with the help of my web designer.  It has a pretty clean look.  And I will want to focus on my internet reviews over at that page and blog more about my thoughts about business, life, marketing and such.  Stay tuned!  But wait till my wedding is over.  It’s just the beginning.

Happy new year to all of you!

Thanks for reading this blog post.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I am blogging about it.  Keep posting your blessings to me in this blog.  I will announce my next wedding update till then!  Happy new year!

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Work at Home: 1-800-Flowers Hiring Customer Service Agents

 

1-800-Flowers is hiring again in the following states: Arizona, Delaware, Florida, New Hampshire New Mexico, Montana, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Virginia.  You must be computer literate with your own PC and a reliable high-speed Internet connection.  

You must be able to type at least 35 wpm, and you must be a high school graduate or have your GED.  You must possess fundamental math, verbal, and written communication skills.  


The company is primarily seeking temp people who can work fulltime from January 19 through February 19.  I am told that it is easier to get on as a permanent employee if you have worked holidays for them.  For more information and to apply, visit the 1-800-Flowers employment page.  Good luck!


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Q&A: Should I Interlink My Own Blogs and Sites?

Ron Merters asked:

I have several sites. They are “somewhat” related - they are all related to technology, but different technology. (like one is cars, the other is washing machines, let’s say - related, but not really).

I have added a footer on each site with links to the others on my network. Is that wise? Will I get punished by google who might consider this a link exchange?

Interesting question, especially because I have to deal with it with my own blogs and websites, too.

First of all let’s check what Google itself says about interlinking and link exchanges.

Your site’s ranking in Google search results is partly based on analysis of those sites that link to you. The quantity, quality, and relevance of links count towards your rating. The sites that link to you can provide context about the subject matter of your site, and can indicate its quality and popularity. However, some webmasters engage in link exchange schemes and build partner pages exclusively for the sake of cross-linking, disregarding the quality of the links, the sources, and the long-term impact it will have on their sites. This is in violation of Google’s webmaster guidelines and can negatively impact your site’s ranking in search results. Examples of link schemes can include:

• Links intended to manipulate PageRank
• Links to web spammers or bad neighborhoods on the web
• Excessive reciprocal links or excessive link exchanging (”Link to me and I’ll link to you.”)
• Buying or selling links that pass PageRank

As you can see, Google does not mention interlinking between websites that have the same owner or that belong to a network. The problem is when you “build partner pages exclusively for the sake of cross-linking, disregarding the quality of the links, the sources, and the long-term impact it will have on their sites.”

In my opinion, therefore, cross linking your own sites is OK as long as those links are placed for the purpose of helping your readers to find more content that they might like, and not exclusively to increase the overall PageRank of your online properties.

That being said, I would add an extra layer of caution on the interlinking process, even if done with legitimate purposes in mind. Why? Because often times it will be a computer and not a person judging if your interlinking is legitimate or not. That is, it will be a Google bot taking a look at your sites and determining if the cross linking is suspicious or not. If for some reason the computer finds that your links are suspicious, you might get a search filter penalty without knowing it.

So what is this extra layer of caution? Using the nofollow attribute on the links that connect your own sites. If you are interlinking them for the purpose of letting your readers know about your other properties, after all, nofollowed links should get the job done anyway. The only difference is that they won’t pass link juice.

That is what I use on my “Daily” network on all my sites that are interlinked. Most large blog networks are also nofollowing their network links these days, too.

So my answer is: In theory it is OK to interlink your sites and blogs as long as you are doing it with the purpose of adding value to your users and readers (by letting them know about your other content that they could also be interested in). If you want to be 100% safe, however, it would be a good idea to add a nofollow attribute to your cross links.

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I Am Looking for a Podcaster

One of my upcoming projects will have a great deal of audio content, and I am looking for someone interested in producing that for me. The scripts will be provided by me, so you would just need to record them and send me the MP3 files back.

My budget for the project is over $1,000, so if you are interested just send me a message via the contact form. It would be nice if you have samples of your voice work to show.

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Do You Plan for Your Wants?

 

When it comes to buying “wants,” it seems to me there are three types of people: the ones who buy everything they want, the very minute they think of it, those that never buy anything they want, and those who plan for things they want and work towards being able to afford them.

I would say in the past seven or eight years, I’ve definitely been one of those who never buys anything that I want (or very rarely).  But I’ve decided that’s not healthy either.  Rather, I’d like to be someone who plans for my wants and, when I reach my monetary goal, buys them. 

So I’ve started making a list of my wants.  Some of them are also needs.  And as I work hard to pay bills, put food on the table, and save money, I’ll also, on a regular basis, take some of my money and put it towards the things on my “wants” list.  I work hard.  I deserve it.  Philip Brewer of Wise Bread has written a great article on this subject.  It’s Plan for Your Wants.  Check it out! 

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