Burton Kent

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Just saw the film Peaceful Warrior based on the book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior.
Wow.
What I’ve noticed is that every spiritual tradition (not every religious tradition) talks about living in the now.  Being fully present.  Do what you are [...]

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James Brausch wroteThe 400 Hour Work Week. Best post ever.
While I have no intention to ever stop “working” (I love what I do), I do want that option and that freedom.

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If you’re like me, you ignore politics and are only registered for the general election. That’s a mistake. It will be harder for Ron Paul to beat several candidates in the primaries, than to beat a single Democratic candidate in the national elections.
So please register Republican and help him win [...]

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A friend of mine asked me a question about investing. Here’s my answer.
Hey buddy,
You were asking me about “Your rate of return of investment in the foreign currency trade” and “How should I start?”
I’ll tell you what I think about investing in today’s market, and you can do what you want about it. [...]

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I was just reading Ron Paul’s weekly articles archive over at http://www.house.gov/paul/legis_tst.htm I couldn’t find a single thing to disagree with. What really hit me was this:
“…by digging our economy into a deeper hole, they would create a lot more demand for the social programs they propose.
Tax and spend [...]

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James Brausch is having an open question time for search engine rankings. As far as I can tell, most SEO “experts” use SWAGs (Scientific Wild-Assed Guesses). James actually used his background in reverse-engineering to discover how search engines really determine ranking.
My question is, have you found any evidence that sites that link to [...]

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I’ve ordered stuff for years and years online. It’s all too easy to forget what you ordered. This means if it doesn’t show at all, you don’t remember until it’s too late. So here’s my simple system for remembering.
I’ve got three folders:

Ordered
Received
Registration

Here’s how it works:
Ordered: Stuff that gets ordered goes in the Ordered folder [...]

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I’m a former magical email address customer of James Brausch.  I liked it, but thought he didn’t like me.  I didn’t really take it personally - and his post The Magical Email Address program is back! explains that it wasn’t personal.   
Would I do it again?  Yes.  He’s tough.  I’m guessing his coaching style came from his experiences [...]

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Just talked to a friend of mine who is poor because she joined a “vacation club”.  Basically it’s a timeshare where you get points and can “buy” or trade weeks of vacation all over the world.
I sat through one of the presentations in Cancun once.  The math was complete and total BS.  Everything sounds good, except [...]

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