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Money Remains a Top Stressor for U.S. Adults—Here Are Some Tips to Better Manage Stress (and Finances)

Success

Since 2007 the American Psychological Association has conducted an annual survey called “ Stress in America.” They serve as a gaggle of bad influencers egging us on to turn to purchases for happiness: You know you want it! Many purchases are wants, not needs. Money and Stress in America. Beatty is hardly alone. You deserve it!

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The One Thing You Never Hear About Becoming Wealthy

Success

The starter home we purchased in 2007 lost over half of its market value less than a year after we bought it. Eventually we renovated and converted that home into a rental property until finally selling in 2018 at a sale price 60% higher than our original purchase price.

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SUCCESS Celebrates 125 Years of Progress, Positive Thinking and Personal Growth

Success

Then, following an ownership change in 2007, SUCCESS named another woman to the post of chief editor: Deborah Heisz. “I In 2007 SUCCESS was acquired by VideoPlus (eventually renamed SUCCESS Partners), an educational and marketing tools company based in Dallas. It’s changing, and I think the audience is requiring it to change.

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A Look at How Brad D. Smith Motivated and Inspired Intuit Employees

Success

Now, a customer shopping for groceries could input the bill into Quicken, and a business owner could pick up the purchase and instantly add the expenditure into their record-keeping system via a mobile version of QuickBooks. The customers themselves also helped to institute some software changes.

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The Rise of Coworking and the Variable Cost Economy

Small Business Labs

A key reason we started following coworking back in 2007 was it provided a flexible alternative to the traditional long term commercial office lease. Coworking turned a fixed cost (long term lease) into a variable cost (month to month membership).    Consumers are also avoiding fixed costs. 

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Ecommerce Driving Steep Declines in Retail Foot Traffic

Small Business Labs

They're also increasingly browsing online and then going to stores to make purchases. As the article points out, this also reduces the amount of time they spend shopping in the physical world: "While shoppers visited an average five stores per mall trip in 2007, today they only visit three, ShopperTrak's data shows."

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Digital nomads are starting to price out local communities around the world

Workplace Insight

In his 2007 bestseller, The Four-Hour Workweek, author and podcast host Tim Ferris coined the term “geo-arbitrage” to describe the phenomenon of people from higher-income countries – the US, Europe, South Korea – wielding their wages in lower-cost countries. Only to find, on arrival, a large sign in the lobby stating, “No short-term lets”.

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