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The Super Target Effect

November 19, 2010

We live two miles from a Super Target. Not just any Super Target, but one of the top 30 in the Nation. Needless to say, they opened their doors in the right place. Target spends hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on market research, so of course they knew they were in the right [...]

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70 Days and Counting

October 15, 2010

We haven’t even reached Halloween and stores are stocking up for Christmas. No, it’s not for your convenience while you’re picking out costumes or goodies for trick-or-treaters. It’s their way of getting you to spend your money, more of it than you may hope or plan for. It’s just become fall like here in North [...]

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Never Love Something That Can’t Love You Back

October 8, 2010

We all have “money messages” we take away from our childhood. Not necessarily lessons learned from a sit down conversation, but observations about how those who raised us viewed money. While some of my tendencies to be a saver are in my genes, I learned early on, never to love something that can’t love me [...]

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Are You A Sneetch?

October 1, 2010

A quick tour of my house and it’s no secret I’m a Dr. Seuss fan. I love his creativity and the life lessons he always manages to sneak into the story regardless of how zany the words and characters may be. One of my all time favorites is The Sneetches, a story about a group [...]

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Too Bad Teenagers Can’t Hang Out At Sky Mall

September 20, 2010

In the month of August I spent 26 hours in seven airplanes. And not one of those seven airplanes was absent a complimentary copy of Sky Mall, the shopping catalog so transcendent, so magnificent they can’t even keep it on earth. It can only be enjoyed at 32,000 feet. Have you ever found yourself wondering [...]

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121 Past Due – The Men & Women Behind The Curtain

September 1, 2010

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Past Due: Radio 121 Past Due – The Men & Women Behind The Curtain Right-click to download Send me your feedback or leave me a voice mail: (919) 374-0501. Leave a review on iTunes Did you ever hear that you are the sum total of all the decisions [...]

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How Many Hours Did That Cost?

August 31, 2010

Getting ready to shop the upcoming holiday weekend sales? Maybe you’ve already been busy with back to school shopping. Have you ever thought to calculate how many hours of work those dollars spent just cost you? It’s a powerful tool that might make you step back and reevaluate how you shop and what you buy. [...]

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You’ll Never Make Enough Money

June 3, 2010

When you first began working as an adult, how much money did you think would be “enough”? How about after you were five years in? Even I recall performance reviews from years past where I thought, “If I only made 10% more, it would be enough.” Enough for what? What do you work for? Do [...]

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