I’ve heard a lot of great things about the vending business. It’s a cash business. The profit margins can be unreal. I had read books on it several years ago and thought it would be a great business to get involved in, but at the time, my life took another direction.

Lately, I have been looking for a passive income or semi-passive income business to buy. First, I was looking at laundromats. Over the past 6 months, I have looked at a half a dozen laundromats. Laundromats are also a great business that I have researched a lot and read a lot about. I put this “book knowledge” to the test when I got out there and made offers to purchase and analyzed laundromats that I was looking at. The thing about any cash business is that the income is usually not reported but instead is spent or put under the mattress. People trying to sell laundromats apparently use this as an excuse to brag about all the unreported cash the business generates. Of course, there is usually no way of verifying this. Or is there? (more…)

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Are you totally stressed out? Or just a teeny bit stressed?
Why is that?
Is it possible to live with no negative stress at all? Would you want to?

I challenge you to think about the answers to these questions.

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I’ve seen several studies and a lot of research showing the correlation between high stress levels and health problems. It’s obvious that this thing we call stress is hazardous to our health, wealth, and our general well-being in life.

What is “stress”? We hear people complaining about it all the time, but what is it really? I’m referring to job and emotional stress affecting people (not the force exhibited on objects in physics experiments and not the accent on a syllable or musical note).

There are two types of stress. Distress (negative stress) and Eustress (positive stress). Eustress will be the topic of another post. For now, when I mention “stress” we are talking about distress.

I looked up “stress” on dictionary.com:

a specific response by the body to a stimulus, as fear or pain, that disturbs or interferes with the normal physiological equilibrium of an organism.

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Ah yes, how I sometimes long for the carefree days of my youth. Riding my BMX bike over jumps, having my Mom make me lunch, and of course LEGOS!

But the great thing about Legos is that I can still enjoy them! I recently rediscovered playing with Legos through building them with my cousins, and now my brother even went out and bought some legos and the two of us were building stuff the last time we visited my parents.

The best thing about playing with Legos is (more…)