How I Will Be Rich

I came down with a cold out of nowhere on Christmas Eve. I’ve been spending the last couple days laying down and taking lots of cold medicine. This is literally one of the worst colds I’ve ever had.  I have a snowboarding trip planned for tomorrow and it’s still up in the air whether or not I’m going to go. I don’t think I will know until tomorrow morning to be honest. We are also planning on going to Las Vegas for New Years per tradition. I really hope I get over this quick.

I’ve been taking Zicam cold remedy, eating lots of chicken soup and drinking echinacea tea. I’m starting to feel a little better now. I can finally breathe out of my nose.

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and if I’m not around for a few days, I wish everyone a Happy New Years!

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It’s Christmas Eve for me and I wanted to take this opportunity to wish everyone a happy holidays. I’m a little bummed out at the moment because I ordered some Christmas gifts off of Amazon over two weeks ago and was informed today that they were lost in the mail. It’s too late to do anything about it now but I’m not going to let it ruin my Christmas. Instead, I just printed up pictures of all the gifts that I purchased and then wrapped the pictures in various sized boxes. When they open them tomorrow I’ll just have to let them know that they are on the way.

I’m happy to let everyone know that I stayed well within my Christmas budget. I will be taking the day off from blogging tomorrow but If anyone is interested, I will give a rundown of what my Christmas shopping consisted of.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone.

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As you’ve probably noticed, my posts have been sort of random lately. I’ve discussed going back to school and what’s going on at work and in my personal life. Life gets hectic around the holidays and I’ve sort of been using the blog to blow off some steam and get things off my chest. I’m really hoping that people don’t mind if I do that every once in a while. It may give you some insight in to where I am going with some of my future posts and some of the things I’ve gone through in life. I’m hoping that one day, a couple years down the road, I’ll look back through my archives and really see the progress that my life has made.

This blog is now about six months old. It literally feels like I’ve been doing this for just a few weeks. I wanted to take an opportunity to link to some of the posts I’ve written in the past that I feel are pretty strong posts. A lot of these, people have never read because they are getting old and buried in my archives.

• No Reason Not To Have A Roth IRA (August ‘07)
  
• The New or Used Car Decision (August ‘07)
• ETFs Vs Mutual Funds (August ‘07)
• Buying a Home Vs. Renting (August ‘07)
• Stress is Never Worth It (September ‘07)
• My 8 Step Process To Being Rich (September ‘07)
• 78 Blogs to Make You Healthy, Wealthy and Happy (September ‘07)
• Starting a Business - All You Need is Momentum (September ‘07)
• How and Why to Write a Business Plan (September ‘07)
• A Business Introduction Letter (October ‘07)
• Enthusiasm is the Way to Success (October ‘07)
• When Should I Start Saving For Retirement? (October ‘07)
• Make Money and Save the Environment (October ‘07)
• The One Investment You Absolutely Must Make (October ‘07)
• Make People Feel Important (October ‘07)
• How To Get Insider Pricing (November ‘07)
• My Thoughts on Robert Kiyosaki (November ‘07)
• Make More Money at Your Day Job (November ‘07)
• Writer’s Block - My Solution (November ‘07)
• How to Make Up For the Rising Price of Gas (November ‘07)
• Promote Frugality Through Gift Giving (November ‘07)
• An Alternative to Gift Cards for Christmas (November ‘07)

Digging through the archives, those are some of the posts that I found to be some of my favorites and some of my early reader’s favorites. If you especially enjoy the few posts written by Joe Fier, check out our other site, Be Healthy and Relax. Joe primarily writes over there now.

Check out some of those older posts and feel free to leave comments and continue old discussions. I love any and all feedback.

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Hell week is almost over for me. Tomorrow is my last chance to get all the jobs done that people demanded were done before Christmas. Today we had a little fire in the factory. Somebody decided to put their coffee in the microwave for twenty minutes and, pretty literally, blew up the microwave. Not to mention one of my key factory guys decided not to show up today and set us back a little on our production priorities. It’s been a rough week and, by the end of the day tomorrow, I am going to be so relieved. We’re actually throwing a Christmas party for the factory and we are BBQing carne asada. I’m looking forward to that.

I have about twelve days off after tomorrow. I won’t be going back to work until January 2nd, 2008. I’m really going to spend a lot of time focusing on this blog during that time. I want to apologize for the random, off-topic and short posts that I’ve been coming up with lately. My brain hasn’t had the chance to relax in the past week. This vacation will be much needed for my sanity and for the blog.

My girlfriend is throwing a formal Christmas party tomorrow night. I’ve got to get back to Ironing out all my dress clothes. In the mean time, go check out our sister site, Be Healthy and Relax. It has really been blowing up lately. The site has been really well received and has just been bombarded with traffic out of nowhere. It’s really amazing. I’d recommend it for people who are fans of Zen Habits, anyone wanting to learn how to relax or anyone wanting some good health advice.

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I had a meeting with my school counselor earlier today. It’s official; I’m starting back to school on January 7th.

A little background on me.
There are a lot of people that read my blog that know me personally but there’s a whole lot more who have no clue who I am or what I do. In 2001, I graduated from high school and moved on to college. While I was in high school and college, I worked in the office of the family shutter company. I took night classes and, over the next few years, I finished an Associates degree in Business Management. Shortly after finishing my Associates degree, my family had a falling out with our general manager. They asked me if I felt like I could handle the position. I was confident and I accepted the position.

The new job consumed me. I was working seven days a week and putting in seventy to eighty hours. As you could imagine, it became a little too overwhelming to run the company and continue with my schooling. I decided, along with my parents, that it would be a good idea to take some time off from school.

Since taking my break from school, I’ve hired some help and really got the hang of managing the company. I feel like I’m finally ready to give school another go. I’ll be taking night classes and online classes and will have class sessions every single night of the week. It is going to be intense. I’m not really looking forward to the added workload but I am looking forward to learning more about finance and investing.

I’m hoping this move will be good for the blog. I will explore avenues that I’ve yet to venture down. It’s exciting and scary but I think I’m ready.

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