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Applying the Lessons Learned
James Dicks explains how he turns the mistakes he makes into future positive actions.

Buy and Hold No More
James Dicks looks at the Buy and Hold strategy when investing and why it may not be such a good idea anymore.

Can't See the Forest for the Trees
James Dicks discusses the current state of business in light of the global economic slowdown
Chicken or the Egg Is it SAVE jobs or CREATE jobs
James Dicks examines the "supposed" effects of the Obama Administration's stimulus package
Communicate with the people you owe; it’s a win-win for everyone
James Dicks explains the benefits of being honest with your creditors, even when the answer is not what they want to hear.

Compartmentalize-How do you do it?
James Dicks explains how he handles all of his problems through compartmentalizing
Create a Personal Financial Survival Plan
James Dicks examines the need to prepare for financial hardships ahead of time.
Diversification is the Key
James Dicks explains the benefits of diversifying your personal financial investment portfolio.
Doing it Debt Free
James Dicks explains the importance of the US population paying off their personal debt as soon as possible.
Exceeding the Standards
James Dicks examines what it takes for business and individuals to make it in today's tough eocnomy
Facing Foreclosure? Listen Up!
James Dicks offers an eye opening account behind the reality of today's housing market as it pertains to foreclosures and banking.
Finances and the Year Ahead
James Dicks examines the methods of improving your personal financial situaiton in 2010.
Finding a Fresh Path for the New Year
James Dicks reexamines what is important in light of the holidays and this past year's recession.

Guarding Your Thoughts
James Dicks examines the importance of maintaining a positive attitude in today's tough economic times.
Holiday Shoppers and the Economy
James Dicks examines the outlook for retailers during the 2009 holiday shopping season.
I Made More Money with Bad Credit Paying 18 Percent and 5 Points
James Dicks shares his strategies and methods of making money in Real Estate.
Is 5 Years Long Enough To Get Rich Quick?
James Dicks discusses of getting "rich" in the short term and the methods that have worked in his own life
It's the Little Things that Create BIG Savings
Saving money in the family budget during tough economic times is possible. James Dicks examines methods that any family can incorporate into their monthly spending habits.
Let's Give It All We Got
James discusses volunteer service in the US
Looking For The Bottom
James Dicks examines the current global economic situaiton and speculates on when a bottom might be reached and improvement may begin.
Next Year I Will Save
James Dicks looks at how the American family is changing their habits to save money in their personal budgets.

Deducting Start-up Costs from Your Business or Personal Taxes
Starting a business can be expensive for new entrepreneurs. But, the good news is that these expenses both start up and organizations costs can be written off provided the business owners understands and follows the tax rules related to these costs.
Why Is Healthcare Insurance So Expensive
The main reasons why health insurance is has such high premiums now is that medical procedures cost a lot and are probably over used. Physicians now routinely perform many costly operations and procedures that were unheard of ten years ago. Our unhealthy lifestyles also impact our costs. We need medical care more and more
Your Company's Overlooked Representative
Most companies underestimate the role their documentation can play in their employee and customer relationships.
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
James Dicks examines the need to make some critical decisions that will affect your future financial life.
The Positive Leader, Put Your Mind To It
James Dicks examines the importance of positive leadership
Can You Make Your Hobby Into A Business
My client, Jenny, showed me a small selection of knitted wool hats that she had made. She said she had dozens of them in her house. She wondered about the possibility of going into business selling these hats. Up to now she had sold a few to friends without any effort. Wouldn’t it be nice to sell them to others! Maybe-on a website.

Strategic Foreclosure
James Dicks examines the current state of the U.S. housing market.
Know where to cut costs
The most obvious strategy for staying in the black during tough economic times is to control costs. But how do you know where to cut down without compromising on the quality of your products and the efficiency of your business?

Build a Financial Plan “as you see it”
My goal is to help you achieve that kind of discipline, so that you can move from where you are to where you want to be. That means slightly different things for different people-there's no "one size fits all"-but that is the fun and beauty of financial independence.

Using your dreams and goals to create wealth Part 1
I thought, you can go where you want to go and do what you want to do, when you want to do it. What I had to discover-and in fact didn't discover for many years-was that having the money wasn't as important as knowing what to do with the money once I got it. In reality, as it turned out, money was only a tool.

First Step-Using your dreams and goals to create wealth Part 2
To take your first step and set your mind on the course to financial success, you must begin to dream. You must begin to envision the kind of life you desire. For some of you, this will be easy, because you have dreamed all your life. For others, it will be more difficult. Why? Some people simply don't know how to dream-they've never tapped into their imagination deeply enough to let their thoughts run free.

Dreaming is fun, isn’t it? Part 3
Someone once said that what the mind can see, the body can achieve. I believe it. I go a step further. I believe that the mind must see it before the body is able to work for it. Look at another realm of human endeavor: sports. When Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile, he saw it long before he did it. Over and over in his mind, he later recalled, he visualized doing what had been deemed to be impossible. Interestingly enough, once Bannister did what no one else had ever done before, others quickly succeeded in doing it.

A millionaires dreams
Financial freedom is your dream. As long as you can dream, you can continue to succeed. Show me a person who has no dream, and I will show you someone who is poor. A millionaire dreams, and then sets out to make those dreams real. Once you stop dreaming, you stop the magic. That’s because you have created the world you wanted. You stop moving forward, because your dreams have ended. Either you are content to live with what you have or you are constantly frustrated because you don’t have enough-or you learn to dream again.
Principles of Wealth Creation
To accomplish your goal of becoming financially free, you will need to master specific principles of wealth creation. No, these aren’t some magical set of principles we found scratched in papyrus scrolls in the ruins of an ancient temple. They’re contemporary, commonsense principles. At the same time, though, they are magical, because they create the basis for a sound foundation of wealth creation.
Focus Your Dreams to Make Them Come Alive
What will you be interested in after you buy all of those lavish things you always thought you wanted? What’s beyond the bigger car, the faster boat, and the fancier house? Whatever they are, those are the really important things.
Diminished Value and Gap Insurance “Know your Rights”
Did you know that if you are in an accident that you can get a second check from the insurance company for diminished value on your automobile? There are numerous financial strategies that can and will assist you and your family achieves financial success.
Having Trouble Paying The Bills
In today’s world with the way the current economic climate is there are so many of us struggling to cope with debt whether it be struggling to pay the phone or electricity bill, getting those frightening letters from creditors or even worst having the debt collector banging at the door and all this leading you to worry whether or not you are going to lose your house or car.

General Ideas on Expense Management
Budgeting and managing expenses are easily overlooked in the heat of driving sales. Here are some ideas to manage costs and possibly avoid the slippery slope to insolvency.
Stop Living on the Breadcrumbs Leftover After Expenses
I used to accept the breadcrumbs. I thought that everyone else should get the money before I did if I were being a responsible business owner. Now I know better. Paying yourself last is just a practice (sometimes hard to break) that will never grow your business.

Other expenses Related Articles

What Your Ezine Will Cost
Asking you about how to handle TIP's unanticipated expenses made some of you wonder what costs to expect if they started their own email newsletter for clients, and prospects. Don't use TIP's expenses as a benchmark.

Breakeven Analysis
Breakeven analysis is a tool used to determine when a business will be able to cover all its expenses and begin to make a profit. For the startup business, it is extremely important to know your startup costs, which provide you with the information you need to generate enough sales revenue to pay the ongoing expenses related to running your business.
The Costs of Working from Home
Working from home is a tremendous opportunity to make an income but also to save on everyday expenses. You can save money on gas, clothes, lunches out, and childcare. But before you go ahead and think you can get rich working from home, be prepared for a few out of pocket expenses.
What Expenses Are Deductible?
What child care expenses are deductible expenses?

How to get real time job costing expenses and why
Have you considered tracking job cost expenses as your jobs are in progress? If your jobs have a short life cycle or are small you may not have the need to track job costing information. However, the more complicated your job processes and configurations and the longer the life cycle the more critical to track real time actual expenses and committed expenses while the job is in progress.
Credit Card Pitfalls For Business Owners
For business owners, a cancelled or expired credit card can be a very big deal. That's because business owners often set up recurring expenses to be billed to their credit cards. For small businesses, one of the most important recurring expenses is payment for the company's domain name(s). These are easy to forget about, and as a result, you may lose your domain name(s).

How much Home Office Tax Dedcution can I Take?
Home Office deduction can probably save you thousands in expenses as well as Taxes. As more and more professionals and small business owners recognize the need to cut down on office expenses and have a better work life balance and with the growing square footage of American Homes in the past decade, it makes sense to use part of your home as an office. Not only can you save thousands on office expenses, you may also be able to reduce your taxes. IRS code provides a special tax deduction for Business use of your Home. You can deduct insurance, utilities, rent or mortgage expense as part of the Home Office dedcution. However there are specific guidelines and limits to the extent of how much you can deduct.
Children's fitness tax credit
Federally, a non-refundable tax credit is available to parents who incur costs associated with registering their child in a prescribed program of physical activity. The child whom the parent claims this expense for must be under the age of 16 at the beginning of the year or if eligible for the disability credit, under the age of 18. A parent is allowed to claim up to $500 of expenses per year, per child. For 2009, the tax credit is equal to 15% of the expense claimed. For children eligible for the disability credit, an additional $500 in expenses can be claimed if the total expenses are at least $100. You should receive or ask for a receipt from the organization that provides the prescribed activity.

Tracking Job Cost with Peachtree or QuickBooks Software
Have you considered tracking job cost expenses as your jobs are in progress? If your jobs have a short life cycle or are small you may not have the need to track job costing information. However, the more complicated your job processes and configurations and the longer the life cycle the more critical to track real time actual expenses and committed expenses while the job is in progress.
Health Insurance Basics
All individuals become sick at some point throughout their lifetime. Some of us may fall victim to a major car crash. The costs for the medical expenses incurred due to these occurrences carry the possibility of causing a person to lose their house, and in some cases, pressing the individual to file for bankruptcy. Medical costs are on the rise, and these expenses show no signs of reversing the current trend. This is why it is so critical to carry health insurance.

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