• http://www.JugglingFrogs.com clkl

    Hey, no fair! You got six!

    This was a very nice list, nonetheless.

    All the best,
    CLKL

  • http://www.pickthebrain.com John Wesley

    Haha, thanks CLKL. 6 doesn’t count, it’s a bonus!

  • http://zenhabits.net Leo

    I love how you slipped that bonus in there. I feel like I got more for my money.

    It should be a new slogan for PTB: “Now with a bonus tip with every post!” :)

    Great list, John.

  • http://www.pickthebrain.com John Wesley

    Thanks, Leo.

  • http://www.learningnerd.com/ LearningNerd

    Great advice! I feel inspired already. :) And you aren’t the only one to have more than five things on your top five list! I saw some other posts with titles like “Top Five Whatevers (Plus Two!)”.

  • http://www.bsnl-help.blogspot.com Samip Shah

    Well done. I stumbled upon this post, and read so many others. Great site. Keep up the good work =)

  • http://ninjamonkeys.co.za Vaughn

    > if a person in their early 20’s invests 20% of their income in an S&P index fund,
    > the interest they earn will equal their current salary when they reach their early 40’s.

    So you’re saying if I earn 20k a month now, if I invest 4k of that each month now, then when I’m 40 I’ll be able to pull in 20k a month from the interest? I’m pretty sure inflation will have made that fairly worthless?

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  • http://benoliver999.blogspot.com Ben

    I agree completely! I’m unhappy ‘cos I’m fat!

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  • http://www.pickthebrain.com John Wesley

    Thanks a lot everybody, I’ve been enjoying the writing project too.

    @ Vaughan – What you said is exactly right. You should go back and read Trent’s post for the details. If you work an extra few years you can even give yourself a raise each year to compensate for interest.

  • http://turtlesatwork.blogspot.com Turtle King

    Very good advice! Choose your career wisely would be another point of advice. It kinda goes with your point on being passionate. If you are doing something that you hate to do, like your job, you cannot have a wonderful life. Everyday I report in to work and immediately feel the life being sucked out of me.

    I would also say have a lot of humor in your life, in case you do have a job that stinks, at least you can laugh about it! Thanks again for your blog post and good luck in the competition.

    Turtle King
    http://turtlesatwork.blogspot.com
    king.oftheturtles@gmail.com

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  • Satya

    Good ideas. And what you do today determines your future and waht you have done yesterday dictate your present.

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  • T.

    This is the sort of stuff we should be learning in school. Stuff math tests and algebra homework! The world would be a better place if we all got a framed copy of this list in kindergarten (and actually followed through with the recommendations).

  • http://jollygreengirl.org Susie

    Very nice. I needed to read something like this. Thanks.

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    Top 5 Ways to Build a Wonderful Life…

    Five great commonsense tips for living the best life possible….

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  • retardriot

    Wow, thrift and clean living. You really cracked the code here.

  • http://www.pickthebrain.com John Wesley

    Wow, sarcasm. I could say the same for you.

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  • http://journeyintolight.blogspot.com Andre L.

    I really, i mean *really* needed to read this right about now. I mean it’s not something that I don’t know already, but I’m a believer in the idea that the universe puts out what you ask for/need.

    Thank you.

  • http://www.pickthebrain.com John Wesley

    Andre L.,

    I’m glad it made a difference for you. Thanks for letting me know.

  • http://mylifechanges.typepad.com/less_stress_more_cool_/ Terry

    Great post. Don’t forget gratitude. I carry around a little gratitude rock in my pocket. Everytime I look at it I think about all the great things in my life.

  • http://www.pickthebrain.com John Wesley

    Terry, you’re right about gratitude. Thanks for the tip. :)

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    Great entry. Thanks.

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  • http://qreativ.com Gary

    Simple. Common sense. Indispensible.

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    On 2.
    Retirement is not all it’s made out to be.
    What, in fact, it really means is that you’ve moved that much closer to death.

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  • grayblur

    truely a perfect guide.
    I am really upset before I read the article. but now I find my way!
    thx

  • http://unblog.spreadhead.net rigor

    “No matter what your passion is, get out there and start doing something.”

    This should take the cake.

    hum.

  • http://www.yahoo.com asirifi ameyaw clarkson

    i love to read your wonderfil life story but they are too lenghty

  • hedonplay

    i get some motivation.

  • http://shaundicker.com/blog Shaun Dicker

    Fantastic! Simple, short and oh so spot on! Thanks for a great list.

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  • http://www.funchilde.com Funchilde

    these are so RIGHT ON! I am doing my best to do all of these. Getting back into shape is my current challenge, but one I am determined to enjoy. Great list!

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  • http://www.iwillchangeyourlife.com Peter S C

    I think you hit the nail on the head. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  • http://www.artmarketonline.co.za/makh makh

    Good stuff. You got me fired up

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  • http://burningones.com/ Timmy V.

    Great tips!

    I especially love the live below your means. In western culture it seems that people have gotten into the mindset that the only way to be happy is to attempt to live above your means, concretely cementing them into lives of abject misery.

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  • http://crabroom richard

    Logical common sense advice is usually the most real eh!.

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  • Rick Taylor

    I’m so god damned tired of the “fall in love” or “develop lasting relationships” garbage. That’s a throwaway item. What is so particularly valuable about either of those things? More importantly, what good do either of them do if you don’t have money and success to go along with them?

    It’s always poor people and those without ambition who placate themselves by convincing each other that true contentment is all that they need and that you don’t need money, achievement or success for that. No, your life can be better than any billionaire’s life as long as you have someone who is stupid enough to share your bed with you in a long term situation.

    Drink more kool-aid, fellows.

  • http://www.boinc-indians.net Ninad

    That is a great post – the first two principles are because of “compound interest” …the earliar u invest ..the better it is …but you also would want to enjoy a few things when you are young than you are old ..so its a tradeoff :-)

    the last three are

    1)Exercise your brain
    2)Exercise your heart
    3)Exercise your body

    very good list :D

  • http://www.boinc-indians.net Ninad

    Actually, I just realised that list is all about “you” …I think “giving” should also be one point on the list.

    Giving in the form of helping someone, giving something for the benefit of others, give to social causes …etc etc

    Ich bien – I serve !

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  • http://ministry-webs.com/ministry/utopians/index.html Lantaman

    Great list. Good to survive struggling in the low-plane capitalism. I followed this in the last 20 years preparing and propelling my life transcendentally going uppper-plane capitalism.

    There are T-sections in 2, 3, 4, 5 to make total differences paving the way out of low-plane suffering capitalism;-

    – 2. Put Your Money to Work

    I save 15-20 % of my earning monthly yearly earning in a co-innovative community’s mutual fund — to support inventors and new ventures. We start savings together with building a network of co-innovative inventors, partners, and successors.

    Well, there are surely risks involved. But, bein able to put your monthly saving eggs in unlimited buskets and growing along on communal capitalism backup mentoring education, and associating closely among managements, partners, overall outcome is far-cry greater than inflation.

    Now I live on passive income flows from 0ver 20 businesses co-innovated in the community — never invested in any public stock markets.

    – 3. Educate Yourself

    Self education needs to be mentored on communal co-innovative capitalism is total paradigm shift — to convert life from individual capitalist to communal capitalist — by practice living on the Spirt > Soul > Solar mind > Brain > Body > Communal hi-touch energy body’s pathway, flowing Trinity of Life (Life force, intuitive wisdom, Attractive hi-touch aura onto the surroundings in touch), in stead of acquring bits by bits new thoughts, ideas, concepts to blend them on our own old artifact thinking.

    – 4. Develop Lasting Personal Relationships

    Lasting relation ship is somehow illusive. It’s meaningful to life only when it surrounded with lasting spontaneous, simultaneous leverage, altruistic, co-innovative mentorship, partnership, and successorship.

    Man can reinvent his own world surrouded with lasting spontaneous, simultaneous leverage, altruistic, co-innovative mentorship, partnership, and successorship on a virtuos backup mentoring system.

    – 5. Work Towards a Dream You’re Passionate About

    Working towards a personal goal is strengthening egoism, individualism, and, eventually, separatism — opposite direction to “Developing Lasting Personal Relationships expectation”.

    Life (on energy body’s path of Spirit > Soul > Mind > Body > Surrounding touch) is predestined down to earth on communal life-ward mission. Mobilizing life on passion mode and goodness mode, man can reach materially high, but eventually falls.

    Because, he duplicates the walk way of taskmasters and Pharoahs — gradually developing narrow-mided and plutocratic thinking system, heading for personal economic growth ignoring ecological backup system’s wellness and happiness — pissing off 6-direction (upper, in front, left-right sides, in the back, and below) co-operations and supports.

    The more you invest, the more your economic grows, the more life is surrounded by dependants, and the more you’re struggling on the expenses of the individual life, family life, and others surrounding lives.
    ——————————-

    Most of studies and learnings these days are still focused on how to survive better as an economic slave, takmaster, or Pharaoh on low-plane suffering ways of old rut capitalism.

    What I’m suggesting is we should concentrate on study what Buddha called “The Way Beyond Suffering Ways”. I’ve been through this way of excellent mode of life, which is ignored by the majority, from 40 to 60.

  • http://www.armannd.com Armand

    “Live Below Your Means” ~ One cannot move forward while cutting back. In my life, I’ve never been able to advance by living below my means. When I stretch, new resources become available and what seemed to be a stretch isn’t a stretch any longer. The comfort zone is too dangerous…

    I’m not saying that people should be careless when it comes to spending money, but timidity doesn’t work in today’s economic world. Timidity doesn’t save money, it costs money! Don’t splurge, but don’t be shy either.

  • http://www.dougwoods.com Douglas Woods

    An excellent list of tips. The only thing I’d add is ‘Stay positive’, no matter how bad things seem to get, try to keep a positive attitude, it has been shown to lead to a longer life.
    The only part I’d question is tip #5. Being Passionate is not always a good thing as passion can take over your life and lead you to do things that could be detrimental or harmful or keep you doing things when they no longer have a benefit. Passion may seem great but remember that passion is the opposite of action and don’t let the passion become an obsession!
    Cheers for a greta list!

  • http://www.dougwoods.com Douglas Woods

    or even a great list (doh!)

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