If you’ve been a part of Academy Success for any decent amount of time, you’ll know that I tend to think a little bit differently than the masses. Ultimately, the masses are largely ordinary, and if you wanted to be ordinary, you wouldn’t be reading this right now. So today, as part of our goal…
I could easily pull a page out of every other financial blog out there, and toss you up a big list of 72 ways to make yourself rich, but while those articles get a lot of buzz, they’re just too complicated and shallow, and rarely help you think differently about the way you live your…
If you’ve been following the financial blogosphere lately, you may have heard about a savings trend that a lot of people are jumping on called “The 52 Week Money Challenge.” This has been featured on sites as popular as Lifehacker, as well as several other smaller financial blogs around the web But with as much…
If I told you that you could spend a few hundred bucks now, and save $500 a year on your utility bills for the rest of your life, would you do it? I hope so. That’s exactly what this post will help you do. If you haven’t noticed by now, I’m all about some efficiency….
I’ve always thought that doing things because “that’s what you’re supposed to do” is a really dumb reason to do anything, and that plays a big part in what this lesson explores. Nearly every post on this blog shows you how to find a better way to do something in your life, and this may…
If you’re going into the 9-5 world, which the vast majority of people are, getting a college degree is essentially a must if you want to risk up the ranks past an entry level position. And graduate degrees are becoming more and more common these days as well. Many professionals are obtaining graduate degrees to…
There’s a new wave of business sweeping the world in the last few years. With the online boom, and the lowering of many barriers to start a business, there are literally tens of thousands of one person micro-businesses who have secured some form of small business funding that are providing their owners with a significant…
With home buying season looming upon us, a lot of folks are digging into their credit score and history to try to make some last minute adjustments. Truthfully, you should always be focusing on building your credit, but hey, sometimes life gets in the way. There are a lot of credit score myths floating around…
For the sake of this post, let’s assume you’ve already optimized your spending habits, and found any leaks in your income stream. That’ll allow us to focus solely on ways to increase your income. A lot of people, when faced with the need to make extra money, take the advice of so-called financial experts, and…
A lot of people have this idea in their heads that to save money, you should do things like take your lunch to work, stop buying magazines, and stop eating out so much. While I can’t argue that those things will save you money if you do them, they’re simply not sustainable. The problem is,…