Articles in category 'Finance'

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , October 6, 2009

What is your favorite way to make money? Obviously, there are many ways to make money. You can work for a company or have your own business. You can earn money from salary, dividend, commission, bonus, and many others.

My favorite way is to earn passive income. I’m sure this is not new to you. I’ve [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , May 29, 2009

One of the ideas I learn from I Will Teach You To Be Rich (my review) is the importance of focusing on the big wins. Focusing on the big wins means focusing on things that make the most difference. Instead of spreading your effort on many different things, you should focus only on things that [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , May 25, 2009

Optimizing your personal finance is one of the most important things to do. The reason is that your financial situation affects other parts of your life. If you had financial problems then it would be difficult for you to live life to the fullest.
That’s why I was glad to receive a review copy of I [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , May 14, 2009

In the post Making Money with a Purpose, I wrote that having the ability to make money is more important than having money. Now I’d like to discuss how to increase your ability to make money and therefore make more money.
Let’s start from the beginning by answering a basic question: what is money? Steve Pavlina [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , December 1, 2008

In the post How to Save Time in the Long Term, I wrote that we need to minimize our potential regret to save a lot of time in the future. The reason is that we lose more time not by how we do things but by what we don’t do. So I made a list [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , November 6, 2008

Making money is a significant part of our life. People spend 40 hours or more of their time a week to make money. For that reason, it’s essential to have the right perspective when it comes to making money. Otherwise we may focus on the wrong things and end up at the wrong place.
I’ve been [...]