I’ve got some terrific news: My new niche website (NS2) is currently ranking on the first page of Google at #4 for my main target keyword! Believe it or not, this comes as a great accomplishment to me because it means that all the tricks and things I learned through the first niche site do in fact work! This is also very exciting news to me because if I consider how much my first niche site (NS1) makes in terms of a modest residual income every month from the advertising, I now just DOUBLED my income potential! Can you imagine how much money I could be making after experiencing success with perhaps 5 of these types of sites? The possibilities are endless! … [Read more...] about Niche Website Update 8 – NS2 on the First Page Search Results Already!
Motivation In the Workplace and My Thoughts on Mind Control
If we were men in some great battle, our pain would be physical. The greatest warrior would be our leader; our general. He would wield a sword and you would respect his command for two reasons: 1) Because he is great and 2) because you fear him. But these days the wrath of our general is delivered in a conference room rather than on the battlefield. The sword has been replaced by a Smartphone. Bows and arrows have been substituted by stern emails and carefully selected recipients in the CC and BCC fields (don’t you love it when someone CC’s your boss for no reason?) Our armor is who we know and how well they like us. Motivation in the workplace has gone from the desire to do your best into a simple will of survival. And worst of … [Read more...] about Motivation In the Workplace and My Thoughts on Mind Control
The Conventional Home Loan – Don’t Mess It Up This Time Around
Another one bites the dust …. It’s getting to be a sad site walking around our little neighborhood. All around us there are houses that have slipped into foreclosure. It’s obvious when it happens. First the house gets really quiet. Then the yard starts turning brown and overgrown. And then it becomes official - the bank comes along and posts a legal notice in the window letting everyone know that the people who used to live their let their conventional home loan slip into default. … [Read more...] about The Conventional Home Loan – Don’t Mess It Up This Time Around
It’s Time to Get Real About Our Household Expenses
Stop lying to yourself. … About your expenses that is. If you are constantly finding yourself short on funds every other month, or if you have to keep dipping into your life savings just to keep the checkbook healthy, then something is wrong. That was a harsh realization I had recently. Even after all the budgets and spreadsheets I’ve made, we were forecasting a huge deficit for the year. The only solution? It was time to get real about our household expenses. … [Read more...] about It’s Time to Get Real About Our Household Expenses
The Value of Time and Money
I’ve often made reference on My Money Design that time is the only true currency. Even when we think of money as a currency, really all we’re doing with it is buying the convenience of goods and services that we would otherwise have to use our time to obtain. And while as deep or philosophical as I think I’m being, I was pleasantly surprised to come across a movie a movie with a subtle plot that made me think about how our society looks at the value of time and money. … [Read more...] about The Value of Time and Money
Niche Website Update 7 – Site Number 2 Launched!
If you’ve noticed a slow down on the posting frequency here at My Money Design, first let me apologize. I don’t value my readers any less. No, instead something big has been happening behind the scenes. I gave myself a deadline of the end of June to launch my next niche website. And you know what? I did it! … [Read more...] about Niche Website Update 7 – Site Number 2 Launched!
How the Lower Taxes From a Long Term Capital Gain Can Work Into Your Early Retirement Plan
You know what I love about blogging? It’s that you learn about important things that you probably weren’t going to go searching for on your own. That’s exactly what Matt from Mom and Dad Money did for me when he wrote an epic guest post for My Money Design about two weeks ago. Even though there were a lot of great points buried within the text, one of the things I took away from it personally was the mention about how a long term capital gain (much like your dividend income) is taxed at a lower and more favorable rate than your ordinary income. Taxes? Time to Stop Reading This Post … Wait! Don’t leave. I promise not to bore you too much with a bunch of technical jargon. … [Read more...] about How the Lower Taxes From a Long Term Capital Gain Can Work Into Your Early Retirement Plan
Want Some Financial Motivation? Get Off Your Computer and Go Outside!
Stop reading this. In fact don’t read anything else. Reading these blog posts won’t give you financial motivation. You know what will? Going outside. The Simple Things Will Provide True Financial Motivation: Today is going to be a beautiful day outside. The sun will be out, the temperature will be right, and there will be a beautiful stillness just over the trees in the distance. Just for a little while forget about your problems, forget about work, and forget about making more money. Dwelling on those things isn’t what’s going to motivate you. Dwell on them for too long and they will simply control you. Instead, go outside and connect with the rest of the world. Laugh and have some fun. Take your kids to the park, go for a … [Read more...] about Want Some Financial Motivation? Get Off Your Computer and Go Outside!
