All posts by David C Figueroa
Warning! Your Financial Advisor Is Not Your Friend!
How To Choose A Financial Advisor That Acts In YOUR Best Interests Often times, we will go to a financial advisor because they are the so called “experts” and we know for sure that they will have our interests at heart. Right? Well the truth is that they are likely to recommend actively managed mutual […]
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Warning! 5 Investment Landmines That Could Kill Your Nest Egg!
How to Avoid These 5 Mistakes That Could Potentially Destroy Your Financial Future When you are trying to build a nest-egg for your future, it is just as important to know what NOT to do with your investment strategies, as it is to know WHAT TO do. The financial world is riddled with pit-falls […]
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How To Make Sure You Don’t Outlive Your Money
3 Low-Risk Strategies For Creating Retirement Income Did you know that 40% of Baby Boomers have NO savings! 69% have NO retirement plan! This is a sad situation because that means that most retirees are suffering from the anxiety of not knowing whether they are going to have enough money to retire. They struggle with […]
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How To Have A High-Stakes Discussion When You Know It’s Gonna Suck!
How to Make It Safe to Talk About Almost Anything Without Committing Career or Relationship Suicide! You and the other managers have been called to a special meeting with the Chief Executive Officer. At this meeting the CEO announces that he has decided that one of the distribution centers in a certain location needs to […]
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Why Continuous Personal Development is Critical To Your Success
To Have More Than You’ve Got, Become More Than You Are! We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation. Well, the late Jim Rohn aimed for the inspiration, always emphasizing the importance of taking responsibility for self-improvement and showing people how to reach for bigger, better lives. Who inspired him? His […]
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How To Use LinkedIn to Generate High Quality Leads For Your Business Like A Pro
How To Unlock The LinkedIn Code To Attract More Business If you are not using LinkedIn as a marketing platform you are leaving money on the table! Here are some interesting facts about LinkedIn: It now has over 740 million global members. One out of every three professionals in the world is on LinkedIn. It […]
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How To Fail Your Way To Success
How Failure Is A Natural Part of Success “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”- Winston Churchill “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”- Henry Ford Most of the people whom we consider great successes have failed miserably! Failure is part of […]
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The Big Lie of “The Secret” And Why It’s Just Bunk!
The “Secret” Book didn’t tell you everything! That’s why you’re destined to fail unless you get the WHOLE story! In 2006, Rhonda Byrne wrote a book called “The Secret.” It went on to become a best-seller, selling over 19 million copies world-wide and was translated into 46 languages. There was also a film, and a […]
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The Most Effective Proven Way To Become Proficient At Anything!
“Smart Practice,” The Most Effective Way To Become “Proficient” One of my “bucket list” goals is to become a good dancer of Argentine Tango. After having traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, the birthplace of the tango, I fell in love with the dance! There were beautiful dancers on every corner of Calle Florida. The dancing […]
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Can Two Squishy Marshmallows Predict Your Success in Life?
What Everybody Should Know About the Secret of “Willpower!” Key Points: +The ability to delay gratification is a strong determinant of success +There are strategies to increase willpower in children and adults Why do some people seem to have it all. . . health, wealth, and overall success.? While others seem to be caught […]
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