Author: Ian

Introduction: The First Step Toward True Financial Freedom Before you invest, before you pay down debt aggressively, before you chase financial independence—you need one thing…

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Introduction — Poverty Isn’t Always About Income Most people aren’t poor because they never had enough money — they’re poor because they never learned what…

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Your credit history is the story of your financial life — a record of how you’ve handled borrowed money over time. It tells lenders, landlords,…

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There are a lot of so-called personal finance gurus running around writing books, and getting rich, all while teaching about the evils of credit. Don’t…

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The only way for you to truly understand Tai Chi Chuan is to understand its history and its development through the generations. Each style, and…

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The Kung Fu salute or bow is known in Chinese as wushu baoquan li 武术抱拳礼 which roughly translates to the “Kungfu courtesy of covering one’s…

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I am a video game junkie. Going all the way back to my first console as a kid, an Atari 2600, I’ve played hundreds of…

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Founder of Shotokan Karate-Do Gichin Funakoshi was born in Shuri, Okinawa, in 1868. As a boy, he was trained by two famous masters. Each trained…

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