Weekly Interesting Reads – The Merry Christmas Edition
Hi, welcome to my blog, Journey to Financial Freedom, a blog that about financial literacy you will need to financial success. This is another weekly updates from me about the sites that I stumble and also great carnivals that my blog participated last week.
Tomorrow is Christmas and I would like to take this chance and say “Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday” to you.
Reminder:
The purpose I make this post because I want to share with you some of the greatest sites that I came across that might help you and me to achieve our goals. If like my blog, you can subscribe my blog through RSS feed or email updates by filling up your email address at the right hand side of this page.
Sites that I added to StumbleUpon Last Week
First of all, let see what sites I have added to StumbleUpon:
- Hey Google, I’m over Here! – This is an article from SEOMoz.org and I like it very much because it shows us that with the proper 301 redirection strategy, we still can get back the PR ranking and Keywords ranking after changing our domain.
- Discover Hundreds of Post ideas for your blog with Mind Mapping – Implement the theory of mind mapping in blogging.
- 8 Things we learned about Google PageRank– Another great article that talks about how PR is not everything in online business. In fact, PR has no effects on our earning potential if we can provide the true value to our advertisers.
- Planning blog Posts topics – I read this article for many times for the last few days because I’m in the process of blog planning for year 2008. I wish that I can manage my blog better in 2008.
- The secret of Massive Digg/StumbleUpon Traffic without Spamming – A nice article about how to say “Thank you” to our fans who stumbleupon and digg our sites.
PS : I always StumbleUpon sites that about how to make money, business, personal finance, online business and etc. If you have a stumbleupon account, please feel free to add me as your friend there. Through this way, we can exchange our favorites reading from time to time. 
Carnival that my Blog participated last week
My blog participated in a few blog carnivals last week:
- 131th Carnival of Personal Finance at Get Rich Slowly with my post The Ways to Be Rich and Happy
- 118th Carnival of Debt Reduction at Me VS Debt with my post Reasons Why People Dream Living Debt Free But Still Living in Debt
That’s all for this post. Do you love what I’m sharing here?
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MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY HOLIDAY!!
How to Deal with Your Spouse and Get Out of Debt
Money is a family matter and should be opened to all the members in your family. However, in reality, many people keep it as a secret. There are many people keep their financial problems in secret and trying not to let their spouse knowing it. They just want to keep it in secret and then solve the problem quietly. However, this is not the best way to solve the problem and in most cases, you will fail eventually.
Money is a family matter and everyone in your family has the responsibilities to take care of it. By the way, everyone in your families is spending the money and it is useless if you are the only one who try to solve the problem while others just keep digging more. Your spouse is the most important person in this issue. You need the supports, encouragements and cooperation from your spouse to win the war of financial problems. So if you really want to get out of debt and live in a life of debt free, then you must open this issue and discuss with your spouse for a solution. Don’t you think that multiple brains are better than 1 in solving problem?
How to Deal with Your Spouse in Personal Finance
It is not really easy to open up the financial issue to your spouse. You need some special approach for this. So below are some of the steps that I believe you can take to approach your spouse for the discussion.
The 7 Steps of Selling Successfully from Anthony Robbins
This is another post about what I have learnt lately. I’m following the advice from Dr. Steven Covey where we can remember, apply and learn well if we share our new knowledge with others after learning it.
In fact, this is a continuous post for my previous article about The Selling Theories that I learn from Anthony Robbins. It was talking about how we can leverage on the theory of pain and pleasure and attack the “wants” of our customers and make sales. It is more about the theory. Now, in this article, I’m going to share with you the 7 steps of selling that Anthony Robbins teaches us in his tape, The Power to Influence.
7 Steps to Sell Successfully
Step 1: Set a state for your mind
Before you meet your customers, 3 things you must clear with: Clear with what this about for you, what you want to accomplish in this appointment and who is your target. First you must know what this appointment is about. Maybe it is just a relationship building with your customers or maybe it is an appointment that will show your expertise and help customers to solve problem. You must set a goal for your meeting and focus on it. I think the most important thing is your target. You must clear who is your target or someone who can make decision to say “I buy this”. It is sad and tired spending the whole day talking to the wrong person who cannot make decision to buy.
