I read an article, a very interesting article about reducing your card debt. The article said you should forget about it (pay the bare minimum on it), and focus your energies on earning more income. Forget your credit card debt…? Now, I am appalled and alarmed by that suggestion on a lot of levels. Because [...]

You have a private equity fund. And you say to yourself, I have arrived. But, have you? Because, in fact, it may take you longer to arrive. First things first. Let me explain what a private equity fund is (but please bear with me – we will be going a little technical here). It is typically a [...]

Sometimes, I embarrass my husband. I like getting my discounts and am shameless asking for it, while I see him at the corner of my eye, squirming in his seat, wanting to disappear. Like the time our engine light came on during our trip to Tagaytay and luscious Canyon Woods (while we were singing – [...]

I do not usually reprint what has been sent to me via press release, but when I saw the word “share” in this release from Andrea Woroch, I was suddenly reminded of the book Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.  What fragile memories we have, author  Robert Fulghum intimated, that we only [...]

  In making the ad that sells, it is not about you, or your product, or your company. Yes, branding is okay.  Being perceived as the expert, as trustworthy, is okay. Having a great product is okay – even great. But before all the smoke and mirrors, before the hype about your product and its [...]

Everyone is obsessed with time. It is both a cross and deliverance.  It flies and drags.  But like an illusion, it does not exist.  There is only now. But what do you do with your time? Like everyone else, you are probably not very good with it.  You probably spend at least 2 hours of [...]

    You have a mission. You look at your closet and then in it – really look – and you cannot fight the overwhelming feeling that there is just too much that you have allowed yourself to accumulate.  Yes, it is a testament to how much money you have had and spent, of the [...]

Opportunities appear not to those who wait, but to those who look. The problem is, not everyone looks.  Most sit on their divans and wait for the apple to fall, although there is no tree around.  Okay, sometimes there is – outside – but most of the time, the leaves are not even ruffled by [...]