http://netspirationz.com/moneyblog Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:15:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's a challenge to combine idealism and money in the same blog - or even in the same life - but I'm stubborn enough to try. I get some strange reactions from different idealists, that sound a little like this: "How can you be so callous and judgmental?" "Don't you know there's more ... http://netspirationz.com/moneyblog/2010/01/the-evils-of-money/ How can an Idealist with Dyslexia and ADHD build a small shop to a $2-billion-dollar corporation? Paul Orfalea, founder of Kinko's, did that, and writes about it in his book, Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic who Turned a Bright Idea Into One of America's Best Companies. Here's one ... http://netspirationz.com/moneyblog/2008/08/idealist-with-dyslexia-and-adhd-makes-money/ I don't mean to imply that idealists have ADHD, or that all those with ADHD are idealists, because that simply wouldn't be true. But sometimes ADDers have sensible ideas for managing personal finances, and their ideas actually work. In "Six Overlooked Reasons why you are struggling with your finances: Reason #6 - ... http://netspirationz.com/moneyblog/2008/07/paying-bills-with-the-right-brain/ Warren Buffet, in an interview by Kenneth Whyte for McCleans.com, offers straight talk about making lots of money: ...I've been ungodly blessed, you know, I just happened to be born at the right time in the right place. I tell people if I'd been born a few thousand years ago I ... http://netspirationz.com/moneyblog/2007/10/deserve-to-be-rich/ Is making money selfish? According to Steve Pavlina, in his blog post entitled How Selfish Are You? - yes and no. He defines two concepts: STO - Service to OthersSTS - Service to Self Says Pavlina:STS and STO must remain in balance. It isn’t a matter of choosing one path over the other. You ... http://netspirationz.com/moneyblog/2007/05/selfishness-vs-selflessness/ Is Wall Street still a man's territory? According to Cari Lynn, journalist and author of Leg the Spread: A Woman's Adventure Inside the Trillion-Dollar Boys' Club of Commodities Trading, it is. Lynn spent a year on the "floor," learning the ropes, and researching her book. She was interviewed by Stocks & ... http://netspirationz.com/moneyblog/2007/05/women-on-wall-street/ At cgjungpage.org, Jan Bauer, a Montreal Jungian analyst, speaks about “The Mysteries of Money.” In Part 2 of the audio, she observes that if someone is strong in relationships, they tend to be weak in money, and if they are strong in money, they tend to be weak in relationships. To ... http://netspirationz.com/moneyblog/2007/05/money-mysteries-shadow/ Delicate. Complex. Fleetingly real. Reach for it, and it slips through your fingers. Open up to the possibilities, and it lands on your hand. Or it may not. Do what you love and money will follow. Or it may not. That’s what money is like to an idealist! After a long ... http://netspirationz.com/moneyblog/2007/03/money-the-idealist/ "...money is intrinsically a principle of reconciliation, of the harmonization of disparate elements. No wonder that in ancient Greece, Hermes was both the god of commerce and the god of communication between man and the immortals, the god of the borders, the god of exchanges."- Money and the Meaning of ... http://netspirationz.com/moneyblog/2007/02/money-and-the-gods/