Chester’s Tips for Success

Friday was my last day at work. I am now officially unemployed.
There is something that is at once both freeing and frightening about my new found place in society. On my way home, one thought kept running through my mind, “How am I going to support myself?” Though I don’t [...]

Living a successfully is one of my goals in life. Though sometimes I don’t like to use the word because, for many people, it conjures up images of books with emphatic titles littered with cheap words written by authors sporting unnaturally wide smiles beaming unnaturally white teeth.
There is no three step method to success [...]

I finally had a chance to pick up the book The Millionaire Next Door from the library this week. The book was reviewed on a number of finance related blogs that I read regularly including Get Rich Slowly a great blog on personal finance, the title says it all.
Although [...]

Originally I thought about entitling the post, “Choosing the Right Path to Achieving Your Dreams,” until I realized that there is no “right” path. Life is a tricky game in which we are offered many options and paths to take but aren’t told which ones will lead us where we want to go.
While there may [...]

I have this habit of asking lots of people for advice when I am trying to make a decision in my own life. I think this has to do with my own fear of failure, of making an irrevocable mistake that will cause my whole life to come crashing down before my eyes.
Sounds a [...]

In Part I of this series we discussed the difference between a Smart Stock Investor and a speculator as well as first steps for a newbie investor interested in learning more about the stock market.
In this article I will explain how Smart Stock Investing can lead to a substantial increase of your annual income [...]

Part I - An Introduction to Smart Stock Investing And First Steps For the Newbie Investor
I started investing in stocks over a year and a half ago just when the market was beginning to come down and a few months before the whole sub prime mortgage crisis reared its gruesome head.
At the time I knew [...]

Today I completed my first Toastmaster’s speech in my new club. I thought about writing a whole new speech with a similar theme, but a different angle; however, as time crept up, I realized that I had too much on my hands to write up a completely new speech.
According to Google Analytics, it seems [...]

This week I told the people at work that I planned to quit by the end of next week. They were shocked, but understood and respected my decision.
For the last few months I have been working as a reporter for a Japanese news wire. I took the job because I was curious [...]

Even if you’ve taken an economics course in high school or college before, I doubt you’ve ever heard of the phrase Emotional Economics. I was thinking about how to best phrase this post when the catchy phrase came to mind.
What is Emotional Economics?
Economics is a pretty broad term that gets used in business, [...]