One Year Memorial

One Year Ago It was a year ago that I was going through life and wandering a little aimlessly as I worked and was beginning to start life with my family. It was also a year ago that life changed drastically for me and my family. I haven’t talked much about what happened a year [...]

Email Inbox Management – Step 4 Short Responses

If you’re just joining this conversation, this is a series of posts on how to get control of your inbox.  Once published, you can find the links to all the posts in the series after each post. At this point, you’ve probably already cut down your inbox time roughly 75%.  Lets shave another little bit [...]

Finding Happiness – Beat life with a stick

In life we find ourselves always saying tomorrow this will happen. Honestly who cares what happens tomorrow, it’s all about today. Today you can make things happen. Today you can be happy. Today you can improve your life. Life is happening today, don’t let it pass you. Life is too short to not do what [...]

Just Because

I have to say I hate it when people get the attitude of feeling like just because they did something they are entitled to get something else. It’s one of the worst mistakes we make in life I think. It also sets us up for the biggest disappointment. Stop saying “IF I just do this [...]

Controlling Emotions through the Mental Filter

Yesterday I talked about learning to control your emotions so that you can better learn to do certain things, like gain more self-confidence, overcome anger and depression feelings. Well I’m going to continue that article today. We got a little better response yesterday, but let’s keep those comments coming eh? So yesterday I started off [...]

20 things I learned before turning 25

A quarter century.  Twenty Five years old.  That’s what I’m turning today.  It feels a little weird.  How am I supposed to feel at 25?  I don’t know.  I just got here!  Each year around new years and my birthday I like to think back on little gems throughout my life that I’ve picked up [...]

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Stop Wishing and Start Doing

I’m sick of hearing people say, “I wish I was …” (fill in the blank).  I’m sure you have heard some of these: I wish I was rich. I wish I was good at … like … I wish I was like … I wish I was more spiritual. I wish I was happier. I [...]

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Digital Spring Cleaning

We haven’t posted here at Young and Prosperous in a long time as we’ve been working on Biz Ingenuity, so please forgive us!  BUT, that doesn’t mean that we have abandoned it! I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how much time I spend on a computer and how clutter tends to pile up over [...]

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Being busy is not being productive

Why does being busy mean that you’re being productive in our world?  The manager who runs around all day talking on the phone, shuffling papers, assigning tasks, and generally “moving” is considered busy and thus productive and successful. Have you talked with a friend or co-worker who, when asked how they’re doing, always says something [...]

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52 Weeks 52 Pounds Update 1

First, I have to apologize to anyone that checks in today and doesn’t see the continuation of the mental filter series I’ve been doing. I was going to post it today, but I only have a quick second and can’t finish it the way I’d like to. So instead I thought I would update everyone [...]

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Stop Wishing and Start Doing

I’m sick of hearing people say, “I wish I was …” (fill in the blank).  I’m sure you have heard [...]

One Year Memorial

One Year Ago It was a year ago that I was going through life and wandering a little aimlessly as [...]

Digital Spring Cleaning

We haven’t posted here at Young and Prosperous in a long time as we’ve been working on Biz Ingenuity, so [...]

Being busy is not being productive

Why does being busy mean that you’re being productive in our world?  The manager who runs around all day talking [...]

Email Inbox Management – Step 4 Short Responses

If you’re just joining this conversation, this is a series of posts on how to get control of your inbox. [...]

Finding Happiness – Beat life with a stick

In life we find ourselves always saying tomorrow this will happen. Honestly who cares what happens tomorrow, it’s all about [...]