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My Secret Weapon for Breaking Bad Habits - 15 Minute Audio Turn up your speakers and click the triangle in the blue rectangle above to play. You can also pause, stop, fast forward and reverse. Note: I made an error in the audio.

Break your Bad Habits Filed under: Advice, Familes, Misc, People Start breaking your bad habits It may seem kind of lame, but when breaking bad habits you have to really take it one day at a time. Don’t start never smoking again, simply decide to not smoke today.

When I first began to gain control of my finances, I meticulously tracked every single penny earned and penny spent. I didn't find any leaks in my spending that I didn't already know about, but I did learn to manage my cash flow.

My cell phone went completely haywire last night. The keypad was ignoring me, whenever the keypad would finally begin to respond - it would be interupted by an insistent prompt for me to speak a voicedial (I don't even use voice dial!). A creepy clickclickclickclick was coming from the speakers, punctuated by a prolonged beeeeeeeeeeeeep every minute or so.

Baby Titus… what am I going to do with him? I keep hearing how hard it is to break a child of sucking his thumb. And on top of that, he’s recently become particularly fond of this one blanket he so affectionately refers to as “Nigh(t) nigh(t)” (the t’s are silent).

Every month, after most of my bills are paid, the groceries are bought and the last thing that I must pay for before the month ends is a tank of gas, I start reviewing my income and spending. It seems that every month I manage to scrimp and save in one area while I spend more in another.

There are blogs and articles all over the internet that will tell you how to get started on fixing your credit report, but almost all of them focus on credit card debt. What about folks who've managed to muck up their report with unpaid items that AREN'T credit card debt?

As of this week, I've become a kaizen convert. I'd never heard of kaizen, since I'm clueless about Japanese businesss management practices. Then I read an article in the New York Times on improving our daily habits. It touched on kaizen, a Japanese technique for creating healthier habits based on tiny, continuous improvements.

In the great book, The Science of Getting Rich, Wallace Wattles talks about the RIGHT to be rich. He goes on to say that “the object of all life is development.” and further goes on to say… “Man’s right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be

One look at your daily routine and you're bound to find one or two things you habitually do that don't serve you. Do you check your emails before breakfast? Drink too much coffee? Sleep too little because you watch too much late-night TV?