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30 New Year’s Resolution Ideas to Make 2024 Healthier, Happier & More Secure

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Empower yourself to live debt-free by paying down high-interest debts such as credit cards. Improve your credit score. Doing small things like paying bills on time and making multiple credit card payments each month (if you’re able) can boost your credit score and improve future financial benefits.

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Lessons From Past Recessions

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How much debt do I have (credit cards, student loans, car loans, mortgages, etc.)? What are my basic monthly living expenses (including food, shelter, health insurance, utilities, phone, transportation and childcare)? Many wait until after a job loss to sharpen their existing skills or reach out to their network.

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These Are Nicole Lapin’s 6 Money Tips for Living Your Richest Life

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Throughout the book, she shares personal anecdotes and examples, such as how she painlessly eliminated a $5,000 credit-card balance. Negotiate your bills and purchases, and find extra money by making your social network work for you. Lapin makes it a habit to negotiate with cable and phone companies.

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You Will Survive: 8 Strategies to Overcome New Entrepreneur Anxiety

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There is an escape from the Money Panic, and it doesn’t involve selling off retirement investments or increasing your credit card limit. Humans evolved to need the tribe to thrive, and when you leave the traditional work world, you are cut off from this social network. Secure a “consulting” gig.

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Simple Cybersecurity Rules Everyone Should Follow

Jen Lawrence

You fill out interest forms or cart check-out fields and you’re being asked for your phone number, birthday, and blood type. One big no-no I see most often is small businesses collecting and saving credit card information. Don’t use open or public wifi networks. This is particularly pervasive in businesses.

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44 Ways to Kick-Start Your New Year

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Call one of your children on the phone. Refresh your network. Pull up those numbers and refresh your network! Now is the perfect time to check in and keep your network working for you. Cut up credit cards. Susan RoAne , networking expert, speaker and author of the bestselling How to Work a Room.

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10 Apps for the Entrepreneur 2011

Eco-Office Gals

The software allows you to speak into the phone and then it writes the words into a text file of some type. From there, you can text, tweet or write memos without needing to find a computer or laboriously typing it out on the tiny keyboard of a mobile phone. It is ideal for the entrepreneur whose phone might have client data as well.

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