A few months ago, I spent some time in Cancun on a family vacation but decided to blend some work with pleasure. I wasn’t quite sure how that would work, but I decided it was well worth a try. I learned five important things while I was away.

1.    The world is small.
The world is ever-shrinking. With the proliferation of email, text messages, social media, and picture sharing sites, not to mention Skype, it’s requires little effort to work remotely. In the past, if you wanted to go vacatio...
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Have you heard the story of Willow Tufano? She planted a Money Tree and is watching it grow into an orchard.

Check out this video of Willow’s chat with Ellen Degeneres:

So, she bought a house for $12,000. It’s now worth $80,000.  But, rather than sell it, she decided to rent it out and let it provide an income while the market continued to improve. But with no mortgage payments, that’s straight income. Soon after, she purchased a second home for $17,500. That’s like planting ...

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It’s scary to realize that you are WAY more likely to get struck by lighting (1 in 10,000 chance of that!), be attacked by a shark OR die in a plane crash (both around a 1 in 11 million chance), or to be crushed to death by a vending machine (1 in 112 million chance.)

Yet hopefuls slap their cash down on convenience store counters each week, clinging to the dream that it will change their liv...

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