The phrase, “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps” means to get yourself out of a pickle, without outside help. It is often used in a semi-negative way, in the sense that a person is too prideful to ask for anyone’s help. However, when it applies to business, bootstrapping is often seen as a way of…
We all know that we SHOULD eat healthy. But the most common argument is that it is just too expensive. Instead, many people head to McDonald’s or some other fast food place, and they eat some of the worst “foods” on the planet (nutritionally speaking, I’m not saying that fries are not one of the…
There are two different ways of viewing the world. One could call it pessimism or optimism; glass-half-empty or half-full. Another way of looking at it is: are you an abundant thinker or a scarcity thinker? It is more than just looking at the positives and negatives of the situation; it is how you respond and…
Right around 50 years ago, wage disparity became illegal. As society moves forward in seeing that everyone is equal and that equal jobs should get equal pay, we should think that now, half a century later, we have come to that. The sad fact is that there is still a gender inequality in the workplace. …
Shortly after I was married in September of 2008, my wife asked if we could get a new washer and dryer set. And rightly so, the ones we were using weren’t even bought used, they were given to me. The set worked, but barely. Of course I wanted to do my research first, so I…
We have all heard of the oil boom in North Dakota. For the past few years, oil specialists have been utilizing a relatively new method of extracting oil from underground called fracking (which is short for hydraulic fracturing). Until recently there was no way to get at these vast quantities of oil deep beneath the…