Your Finish Rich Plan - A Personal Finance Blog

Welcome to the Rich Life Carnival, “Lucky Number Seven” Edition. I don’t know if it has to do with this being the 7th edition of the carnival, or if there’s some other reason, but I’ve really found myself delving into this week’s submissions and bookmarking most of them for future reference. I really want to take a while and thank all of the submitters, I’ve really been getting some quality posts.

Healthy Living

Linda Riley presents Diet Tips: Best Diet for Weight Loss? posted at Weight Loss Insider: Weight Loss Pills, Diets and Programs Reviewed. Four simple but powerful tips to help you put the odds on your side if you decide to start a weight loss diet.

Jonathan presents What is MonaVie? posted at Health And Wealth With Monavie. Well this one is self-explanatory. I would have preferred a longer, more elaborate post. Maybe next week, right Jonathan?

Kelly Sonora presents 50 Tips for Helping Your Overweight Child Stay Healthy | NOEDb posted at NOEDb: Nursing Online Education Database. This is a must-read if you have one or more of your children that’s overweight. My favorite tips are #10, 19, 43, and 49. You’ll have to go and see for yourself.

Pushpa Sathish presents 69 Natural Ways to Increase Your Energy Level posted at Organicasm. There’s much more you can do to increase your energy level than having a cup of coffee. This article is a collection of links to methods that will help you achieve that goal.

Health Blogger presents Healing My Chronic Shoulder and Neck Pain Through Diet and Exercise posted at Health and Fitness Blog. Raymond shares with us a more holistic solution to pain relief, that involves improving his sleep, diet, and exercise habits.

Personal Finance

Joe Manausa presents Housing Prices Decline Slightly - A Clear Picture Is Forming posted at Tallahassee Real Estate Blog, saying, “While there have been many articles written on the declining real estate market, most are filled with facts and figures that are difficult for the lay-person to follow. This article is filled with easy-to-understand graphs that demonstrate the modest decline in home prices.”

Amy S Quinn presents 50 Freegan Lifestyle Habits for the Jobless posted at JobProfiles.org - Job Descriptions and Online Schools to Start Your Career. When you’re laid off, fired, or just quit, one of the first things you worry about is money and how you’re going to manage to feed, clothe, and house yourself without regular income. In this respect, there’s a lot that the unemployed can learn from freegans, many of whom choose to be jobless because of the freedom their lifestyle affords.

Momaru presents Secrets of the lottery posted at Wealth Tips for Everyone, saying, “An article why one should use money meant for buying lottery to more useful uses.”

The Shark Investor presents Don’t Make Money Blogging posted at The Shark Investor. This one blew me away. Really. I’m gonna have to take a hard look at my blog. Actually I’ve already started, and have been posting A LOT less the past few weeks. This one is really an eye-opener though… I tip my hat off to the author!

Sean Lewis presents 25 Ways to be Tech-Savvy but Frugal posted at The Money Saving Blog, saying, “Here are twenty-five ways that you can stay on top of tech trends without needing a Steve Jobs salary.”

KCLau presents Average Monthly Household Income in 2007: Is it enough? posted at KCLau’s Money Tips, saying, “According to a survey done by the Statistic Department for the Economic Planning Unit, published in Personal Money Magazine June 2008 edition, a typical family in Malaysia earns only RM3686/month. How much this is worth and how much can be spent.”

Livingalmostlarge presents Family Financial History posted at LivingAlmostLarge, saying, “How did the past affect my financial future?”

Ben Dinsmore presents Should You Borrow Money From Your 401K? posted at Trees Full of Money, saying, “if you need cash and your financial situation leaves you no other alternatives, borrowing money from your 401k might help you get your financial life back on track.”

Card Blogger presents The Best Credit Cards posted at Credit Card Blog. This is a review of the top credit card reward programs according to Forbes Magazine.

Raymond presents How To Generate Valid Credit Card Numbers posted at Money Blue Book. How are credit card numbers generated? This article provides the answer.

Self Improvement

Mike King presents Better Communication: Listening for Improvement posted at Learn This, saying, “Improve your communication skills by better listening!”

Dereck presents A guide for increasing your creativity posted at I Will Not Die. Being creative in various aspects of our lives is indeed riskier than being a follower, but it’s also much more rewarding when said creative mindset generates an exceptionally good idea.

Louise Manning presents Learning from being a volunteer posted at The Human Imprint. There’s something about volunteer work that can make it very gratifying. Been there, done that.

KuleKat presents The Most Valuable Thing In The World posted at KuleKat . com. Here’s a hint: it’s not money!

Chris Edgar presents Dropping Your “Procrastination Persona” posted at Purpose Power Coaching, saying, “When we feel the need to adopt a contrived, artificial persona in our jobs — perhaps with the goal of looking tough, submissive, outgoing or something else — we create the kind of frustration that has us put off our work. Dispensing with our “work personality,” I suggest in this article, helps us avoid procrastination and improve our enjoyment of what we do.”

Nathalie Lussier presents Create a Mastermind Group to Skyrocket Your Success posted at Billionaire Woman.com, saying, “Choose the people in your life to help you on your way to success.”

Jacob Share presents Dr. Stewart Friedman: Finding a Good Job Doesn’t Need to Be So Frustrating posted at JobMob, saying, “In the book “Total Leadership” and in conversation with JobMob, Dr. Stewart Friedman explains what you can do to increase your chances of finding a good job.”

Stephanie Bryant presents Collecting in the Simple Life posted at U.S. Travel, saying, “In the quest for simple living, it’s hard to release the urge to collect, and hard to resist the advertisers’ call to do so. This post looks at ways to indulge the collector’s urge with some vintage (and entirely liberating) hobbies.”

axel presents Learning To Trust posted at axel g. Learn to meet life with trust and you’ll get paid back tenfold.

Tom Tessin presents Tips on Studying for Tests and Final Exams posted at FCC Student Blog, saying, “Great tips on how you can score a better score on your next exam.”

Technology

Barry Wright, III presents 5 Steps to Glorious Productivity with Firefox posted at fashionablemathematician - personal. I’m a big Firefox fan, so this article really struck a chord.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the eighth edition of rich life carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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