Minding My Own Business

Free Money Finance covers a wide variety of financial topics ranging from advice and tips to discussion of current financial news.  FMF was kind enough to lend me their audience and offered the opportunity to write a guest article for their site.

The post highlights the importance of making the transition from Money Handling to Money Managing.  In that discussion it identifies several steps you can take to lift yourself up out of the weeds of dealing with money transactions so you can begin to focus your time on the more important matters of determining your personal finance strategy, putting plans into place and monitoring your progress.

Businesses have people that work details and people that work vision and strategy.  Both are important, but your manpower resources are limited.  You can either divide your time, focus on one role at the expense of the other or leverage technology and automation to enable you to make best use of your time.

Head on over to FMF and participate in the discussion on this important step to Minding Your Own Business.

-Jeff

I’m Minding My Own Business, are you minding yours?

Forever!!!  At least that is what I tell my children.  They don’t need to be worrying at the tender ages of nine and seven about the life expectancy of their mom and dad.  I plan to continue this charade as they age so that I can make them nervous that I’ll be nagging and telling them what to do for just as long. 

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I recently discovered Blog Carnivals reading a post over at Free Money Finance.  These are not the carnivals we went to as a kids  You know the ones with the strong man, the bearded lady and where you secretly plotted running away to when your parents didn’t let you have your way.  Rather they are a summary of postings related to a specific topic and are contributed to by a wide sampling of bloggers.  The carnivals are hosted by different blogs each time so they also travel just like the real thing.

This week’s Carnival of Real Estate features a Minding My Own Business article about the recent changes to my real estate strategy. The carnival is being hosted by Searching Solutions (SS) which is an internet marketing firm that focuses on small to mid-size companies. In addition to being a business, SS has a great blog that identifies several ways to optimize your web site for search engines. I’ve found several of their tips beneficial and will be implementing them here at MMOB as I improve my efforts to become noticed in the blogosphere.

The Carnival of Real Estate showcases the best of recent bloggings about real estate and real estate investing. In addition to the MMOB contribution, there are several great articles in the carnival that I think MMOB readers might enjoy.

Head on over to Searching Solutions and check it out!

-Jeff
I’m Minding My Own Real Estate Investments, are you minding yours?

SquawkFox is hosting this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance.  SF has a fun approach to personal finance that I think you’ll find refreshing.  While you’re reviewing the carnival, be sure to spend some time in the sections that equate directly to minding your finances like a business.  The categories I enjoyed include:

Money Mangement - This is the leadership level.  Think Strategy and Plans for your business as your review these posts.

Frugality and Budgeting - These sections are about the details of running your business.  Its basic blocking and tackling stuff, but absolutely essential to the successfully putting your plans in action.

Investing and Real Estate - These sections are all about growing your business for the future.

Don’t forget to poke around SF’s site while you’re there.  I won’t get jealous, I promise.

-Jeff

I’m Minding My Own Business, are you minding yours?

Welcome to the readers of the 102nd Carnival of Real Estate | Farming For New Real Estate Blogger Talent graciously hosted by Searching Solutions. If you’re new to Minding My Own Business, I’d like to extend a hearty Welcome Aboard! I hope you enjoy your visit. You can find more real estate experiences here. And don’t forget, you can get regular updates by subscribing by RSS or email.

Recently I shared my impressions of some potential real estate investments located in Kansas City. That trip to KC made me realize that my REI goals were not necessarily in alignment with my financial standing and my idea of the types of property I desire to own. The result…revised goals and revised property criteria, but still a fighting chance to buy my first investment property before the end of 2008.  I can live with that.

Enter stage right… the US Navy and an unexpected career opportunity.  The result, another major modification to my REI strategy.

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