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		<title>Control What You Can To Improve Your Life</title>
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I have been to my local gym to exercise, swim and use their public steam bath many times. One of my favorite things about this experience is to enjoy ten minutes of sitting in the steam bath. The heat and moisture make me feel good and more energetic during the rest of my day.
One of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expect the Unexpected With Internet Startups</title>
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Great Expectations
I have cut, sliced and diced hundreds of onions. So many that when I cut this onion open and saw these funny faces smiling back at me, I had to laugh. I was amazed at how perfect these images seemed. To refresh my memory of what onions normally look like, I cut into another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organize Your Financial Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Keeping your financial life in order is one way to get yourself on the pathway to being wealthy. When you have a pile of  bills and paper work cluttering up your office, it is likely that you don&#8217;t know what is coming in and going out. You have relinquished control when you are in that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banking with an FDIC-Insured Bank</title>
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Image via Wikipedia FDIC eagle seal in the main lobby of the headquarters building by the White House



It is hard to trust anyone these days especially when it comes to money. Money talk is always serious talk which means that people are very stringent when it comes to where they will be putting their money. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coolchecks.net/blog/managing-money/checks/banking-with-an-fdic-insured-bank.html</link>
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		<title>Unbalanced Financial Responsibility Sinks Couple</title>
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  Image by QuiteLucid via Flickr 

This is a story about a relationship between two people and some money.

Part 1

Boy meets girl. Boy moves in with girl. Household expenses are split and all seems well. Years pass. Boy wants to change cities for professional reasons. Girl wants to finish grad school. They make a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pursuit of Happiness Through Difficult Financial Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the pursuit of happiness, many of us believe that having lots of money will make us happy. According to Jean Chatzky, the author of the book “The Difference,” this is not always true because once you have money, more money won’t buy more happiness. The happier you are, the more money will come in.
Some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Finance Give Up-Itis</title>
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Personal Finance Plans
Have you given up trying to succeed with your financial plan? Have you gone through personal finance disasters? Do you suffer from give up-itis?
You may be wondering what give up-itis is. To explain that, let me share with you a story from Donald O. Clifton’s book, “How Full Is Your Bucket?”
U.S. Army chief [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coolchecks.net/blog/attitudes/personal-finance-plans.html</link>
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		<title>Smashing Barriers To Saving Money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saving money is not easy when you don&#8217;t have enough money coming in every month to cover your bills, so you might need to look at ways to increase your income. There are many ways that you can increase your income. Years ago, it may have been harder.
Increase Your Income
The Internet has opened up many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coolchecks.net/blog/managing-money/saving-money/smashing-barriers-to-saving-money.html</link>
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		<title>Learn the lessons that your money can teach you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you struggling to make ends meet? Is the personal financial advice that you hear from experts making you depressed?
Suze Orman has a television show that offers you personal finance advice. People are invited to call in and ask her the proverbial question, &#8220;Can I afford to buy this item?&#8221;
Some things that people want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wrestle Your Money To the Floor And Make It Behave</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you have trouble managing money and making it do what you want it to do? Learn how to wrestle your money to the floor and make it work for you.
LendingTree.com conducted a nationwide poll that measured attitudes about consumer loans, credit card debt, credit scores, savings and financial plans.  It was alarming that 48% [...]]]></description>
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