My Favorite ‘StumbleUpon’ Articles of the Week
By CHM on Mar 8, 2008 in Blogroll
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My college Alma mater, Manhattan College, is about to take the court in the quarterfinals of the MAAC Conference Basketball Tournament. They’re a big under dog, playing against the #1 seed Siena, but I’m excited for an upset. I can hear it now… Let’s Go Jaspers!
I would like to extend a hearty welcome to David from The Good Human, the newest member of The Life Skills Network! And congratulations to Mrs. Micah one of the nicest people in the personal finance blogosphere, she launched The Finwikian and became the newest member of the M - Network.
Without further ado, here are my favorite StumbleUpon articles from the past week:
Financial Planning
Predicting Retirement: Dynamic Behavior Analysis - Adding dynamic behavior analysis to retirement planning makes for more realistic lifestyle and investment projections. I’m going to have to call Art and find out what software he is talking about…
The Early Retirement Path - Want to retire by age 45? Read how one man and his family plan to do it. I’ve often talked in the past about the negative connotation most people associate with the word ‘frugal.’ Well this man shows how living frugally will (possibly) move his retirement date forward by 25 years…
A Visual Guide to Saving 15% for Retirement in a Roth 401(k) - I especially like the fact that his employer matches his 401k contribution and offers the Roth 401K contribution too. It automates the decision to tax diversify. Your Roth 401K contribution comes first, and since employee match is made in the form of a traditional 401k contribution, you’re in good shape. This to me is the best possible scenario…
Identifying Your Risk Tolerance - Many risk tolerance profiling tools are flawed. As sad as it sounds, you need to trick people into not gaming the profile questionnaire, that way you have a better chance of discovering their real attitudes toward risk…
Personal Finance
5 Massive Money Mistakes - Some great advice and a very candid look at one man’s money mistakes. Everyone can take something from this post…
Buying a Car? Skip the Negotiations - If you’re in the market for a new car, want a great deal, but don’t like the idea of having to negotiate (or haggle), then this is article is for you…
Peer to peer (p2p) lending is bad - This article is sure to create a firestorm! I know a lot of bloggers that promote P2P lending and GLBL makes some very good points and presents a strong argument about why P2P makes you an enabler to people already burdened with credit problems. He also questions the motives of the bloggers that promote P2P. Wow, this could get good…
Self Improvement
Things I Learned Living on a Budget - Jeff shares some of the ways budgeting can make you appreciate the simple things in your life that most non-budgeters take for granted…
1 marshmellow or 2? A study on the benefits of delayed gratification - I think this is such a great article on delayed gratification and the effects it can have on your life. The article looks at a study performed on children and follows the progress of the children that gave into instant gratification and those that didn’t. The author (also quite candidly) talks about his own experience with this…
Investing
Robert Kiyosaki Recommending Silver Coins In The Face Of Economic Troubles - Interesting opinion on the end of the US as the dominant country on the global stage, and if you follow his recommendation to buy Silver, I like the ETF approach to it…
Will Brett Favre’s retirement make the stock market take a dive - Moments in Brett Favre’s football life linked to stock market performance, pretty clever…
Internet
So You Want to be a Blogger? - I whole heartedly agree with FD on a lot of this. Being a blogger takes a lot of hard work and commitment and it’s easy to burn out. For me, and I’m not as talented as others, a blog post every other day is the right schedule. Most importantly, it allows you to live a life outside and keep the content level on your blog high…
Video
Tim Ferriss, the author of the 4 Hour Workweek
Photo
Cool photo of a beautiful woman
Not looking good for Manhattan College. Down 10 points with 13 minutes to play… Come on, Let’s Go Jaspers!
- Updated - 7:12 pm EST - Jaspers lose… there’s always next year:(
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Glblguy | Mar 8, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for including my articles!
Jeff@My Super-Charged Life | Mar 8, 2008 | Reply
Ciaran - Thanks for the link! Also, thanks for the review of this article on StumbleUpon this week. It gave me a nice little bump in traffic. I appreciate your support and keep it coming!
Mrs. Micah | Mar 9, 2008 | Reply
Huzzah for David joining y’all. I’m sure his blog will be another good addition. It’s a creative mix you’ve got going.
And thanks for mentioning the Finwikian. It’s been an exciting week for me too.
CHM | Mar 9, 2008 | Reply
GLBL - your welcome!
Jeff - glad to help you a bit with SU, but it only takes off if the content is good, that’s all you.
MM - I’m glad you’re excited about everything, you deserve it.
Ron@TheWisdomJournal | Mar 9, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for the mention Ciaran. I hope some people can learn from these mistakes, most of which were simply wrong attitudes toward money.
And that IS a cool photo….:D
CHM | Mar 9, 2008 | Reply
Hey Ron - I’m sure many will learn from that post. Thanks, fyi…’Jasper’ was the name of one of the DeLasalle brothers that founded the school.