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How Stock Investing is Like Gardening
Let’s help you wrap your head around the stock market and investing in stocks. If you’re having a hard time understanding a lot of the lingo, if all the charts and graphs go right over your head, you’re not alone. And there is nothing wrong with you. Let’s take a few steps back, right back to the ground level, maybe even get our hands a little dirty. 😉 A simple way to look at investing in stocks… Think of your stock portfolio as a garden. The plants are shares of companies (stocks). You design a garden that balances your needs and wants. Maybe a mix of flowers and bushes, vegetables…
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Make Money Online From Home – Amazon Associates Quick Guide
A lot of people have just lost their jobs. (We’re in the middle of social isolation because of COVID-19 right now.) And I’m aware the NOBODY is invulnerable. So I want to start doing what I should have done a LOOOONG time ago. I learned about affiliate marketing almost 7 years ago. Do you think I did anything about it then? NOPE. Shame on me. But here I am, finally getting some affiliate marketing going. Hopefully it’s not too late. Time will tell. So what is affiliate marketing? I market someone else’s product and collect a commission for it. There are a thousand ways to do this, but the easiest…
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When your property isn’t your own
In this video: How easements affect your property rights. Defining an encroachment. Ontario Real Estate Basics This stuff doesn’t come easy to most. Ownership structure, land rights, bylaws, financing, legal processes… there are a thousand details to keep track of in any real estate transaction. Unless you geek out over real estate. Then it’s just fun. I geek out over real estate. Granted there are definitely Ontario real estate laws and procedures that drive me up the wall, but mostly, it’s awesome! So I’m studying to license as an Ontario Realtor. It will be a dream come true to talk about real estate all day! 😊 But I figured, why…
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C. S. Lewis: Living In the Collision of Myth and Reason – Part One
Part One of a Four Part Review of C.S. Lewis: A Life by Alister McGrath Narnia was one of the only fantasy series I was allowed to read growing up. And as a kid, the BBC movies from the 80s were incredible. I saw them before reading the books. They inspired my imagination. I wanted to be Peter. There are four kids in my family, so drawing comparisons between each Pevensie child and each of us Arndt children (mostly because of our ages) was easy.
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Selling In Tough Times: The Sales Book that Makes Me Want to Sell
Take market share. Serve a specific need. Work hard to beat the competition. Nurture long term relationships. Understand your business cycle. Sell yourself out of a sales slump. I’m sold. As much as I hate being sold to, I love the idea of selling. There’s a frontier attraction to engaging people, fielding objections, turning their skepticism into enthusiasm, and striking up a win for both sides.
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Ready Player One: Proof of the Power of Nostalgia
SPOILERS ALERT Ready Player One is fun. I smiled a lot. There’s a strong nostalgic pull to it, which I think may be the leg it rests on. Because after that, it’s not really an outstanding story. If you’re looking for an easy read that gives you a safe ride down memory lane and through some genuinely enjoyable environments, then pick up a copy from the library and give it a week (if you’re the busy sort). I won’t worry about summarizing the plot here, because you can find that in a thousand places by googling “Ready Player One.” So if you haven’t read the book yet and intend to,…
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The Three Body Problem: Grand Sci-Fi. Intimate Story.
It’s violent, but not vulgar. It uses hard science and hard emotions. The Three Body Problem is a grand scifi that plunges into granular detail. Its range of scope is astounding when you look back at it. From the Cosmos, to the subatomic. From individuals to whole societies, cultures and civilizations. How Cixin Liu ushered the plot along with very little friction is worth more in-depth study. But for now, I want to gush on what hard working fun this story was.
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BOOK REVIEW: Kenobi
Star Wars is one of my favorite stories, from Episode 1 to Episode 8. The saga is only as good as it’s characters. Kenobi gives us a look at one of the coolest characters in the whole series, Obi Wan Kenobi.
