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		<title>Tools for Tracking Your Finances</title>
		<link>http://www.rationalwealth.net/blog/2008/06/09/tools-for-tracking-your-finances/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my Keep Score by Tracking Your Net Worth blog post, I talked about the benefits of keeping score if you want to improve in a specific area of your life. Tracking your results, especially in numerical terms, focuses your attention on the impact that your actions are having in objective terms. In the area [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Millionaire Next Door</title>
		<link>http://www.rationalwealth.net/blog/2008/06/03/book-review-the-millionaire-next-door/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first read The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealth by Thomas Stanley and William Danko many years ago, it forever changed my beliefs about what it takes to be wealthy. I used to think that I was going to have to work my butt off by either starting my own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money doesn’t buy happiness. Or does it?</title>
		<link>http://www.rationalwealth.net/blog/2008/06/02/money-doesnt-buy-happiness-or-does-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[// --&#62; One of the most common clichés that we hear is that money doesn’t buy happiness, but have you ever noticed that many people who say they believe that money doesn’t buy happiness live inconsistently with this belief? There are many different reactions when people find out that I have a strong desire to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Brain-Dead Simple Strategy for Becoming Wealthy</title>
		<link>http://www.rationalwealth.net/blog/2008/05/29/the-brain-dead-simple-strategy-for-becoming-wealthy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rationalwealth.net/blog/2008/05/29/the-brain-dead-simple-strategy-for-becoming-wealthy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 10:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humans seem to have a need to make things overly complicated. I’m not surprised by this tendency, because if we don’t understand something, it is easy to assume that it must be complicated. It sometimes takes a great mind to reduce the complexity of reality to simple concepts. The problem is that it is all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Rich Dad, Poor Dad</title>
		<link>http://www.rationalwealth.net/blog/2008/05/27/book-review-rich-dad-poor-dad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rationalwealth.net/blog/2008/05/27/book-review-rich-dad-poor-dad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 10:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I read Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money – That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! by Robert Kiyosaki, I was pretty skeptical. I had seen Kiyosaki briefly on TV, and I was somewhat turned off. However, Rich Dad, Poor Dad was such a high-selling book for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increase Your Wealth and Happiness by Using Debt Wisely</title>
		<link>http://www.rationalwealth.net/blog/2008/05/26/increase-your-wealth-and-happiness-by-using-debt-wisely/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rationalwealth.net/blog/2008/05/26/increase-your-wealth-and-happiness-by-using-debt-wisely/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 10:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here in the United States, we get bombarded with news stories about consumer debt, mortgage debt, business debt, and government debt. Unfortunately, these stories are always negative. We hear about record numbers of bankruptcies, foreclosures, destroyed lives, divorces, and on and on. In a country as wealthy as the United States, it is such an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How a $40,000 Car Can Cost You Millions of Dollars</title>
		<link>http://www.rationalwealth.net/blog/2008/05/19/how-a-40000-car-can-cost-you-millions-of-dollars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rationalwealth.net/blog/2008/05/19/how-a-40000-car-can-cost-you-millions-of-dollars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 10:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An important part of building wealth is controlling your spending, but this is sometimes easier said than done. We have all had the experience of buying things that we probably shouldn’t have purchased. We have a moment of weakness, make the purchase, and then feel guilty about it. Sometimes keeping our spending low is like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Start Now! Don&#8217;t Let Procrastination Cost You a Fortune!</title>
		<link>http://www.rationalwealth.net/blog/2008/05/14/start-now-dont-let-procrastination-cost-you-a-fortune/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rationalwealth.net/blog/2008/05/14/start-now-dont-let-procrastination-cost-you-a-fortune/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 10:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been said that the three most important factors in real estate are location, location, location. Well, the three most important factors in investing are start now, start now, start now! The Power of Compounding Albert Einstein reportedly said that compounding is the most powerful force in the world. I don’t know if he really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Your Money or Your Life</title>
		<link>http://www.rationalwealth.net/blog/2008/05/13/book-review-your-money-or-your-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rationalwealth.net/blog/2008/05/13/book-review-your-money-or-your-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 10:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are relatively few books that have had a significant impact on the way I think, but Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin was one of those books. When I first read this book, one thing that struck me was that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Score by Tracking Your Net Worth</title>
		<link>http://www.rationalwealth.net/blog/2008/05/07/keep-score-by-tracking-your-net-worth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rationalwealth.net/blog/2008/05/07/keep-score-by-tracking-your-net-worth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 10:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Net Worth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you feel that you need to improve in a particular area of your life, one strategy that is virtually guaranteed to help you improve if you apply it consistently is to keep score. Think of a metric that you think would be appropriate in measuring the results that you are looking for. Make it [...]]]></description>
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