We all want to know the same thing on Aridni… how can we go beyond fulfilling the American Dream without getting broke in the end? The most effective business leaders anticipate change in the stock market and variations in consumer trends before they happen. Sucessful businesspeople hold the ability to think unconventionally.

Take the infamous Joseph P. Kennedy for example. Why is it that despite his crude business dealings, Kennedy was so successful in the liquor business and remained a billionaire during the Great Depression while the rest of America starved? As a third generation Irish American, Kennedy’s mother raised him to believe that he was destined to be a success and that anything less than fame and fortune would bring shame to his family name.

With that mentality, Kennedy grew up to be ambassador to Great Britain and the father of the thirty fifth president of the United States. In fact, it was mostly his father’s money that brought John F. Kennedy to the Oval Office. The elder Kennedy made his money through bootlegging, not a means most of us would consider particularly moral. Yet, somehow he managed to get away with it when many people worked hard for much less. By the time his son’s name was on the ballet in 1960, Joseph P. Kennedy was the fourth richest man in America. What was his secret? Part of it lay in the fact that Kennedy was foresighted enough to pull out of the stock market before Black Tuesday in 1929.

Freedom of wealth was not an option in Kennedy’s mind. It was a destiny. He was willing to do whatever it took to achieve wealth. Kennedy arranged the family trust so that each generation was guaranteed to be wealthier than the one preceding it. His paradigm was “success with absolution regardless of the means.”

I’m not saying to go out there and make money any way you can. Yet Kennedy presents an impressive challenge to his family that we could adapt:

Know you ARE destined for success.

Todd is on the road, letting his mind craft up some ingenious $$ strategies, and Katie works hours on end, it seems, to land herself a real estate license.

The question is: what are you doing toward the growth of wealth?

For the next month, we’ll be featuring YOUR ideas. Every Saturday, we’ll be featuring a guest writer’s article in our new section, “SATURDAY STRATEGIES”. Yeah– you could be published on Aridni. We’re interested in the things you do/dream of doing, things you’ve seen your mother’s uncle’s best friend do toward success (and the things he wish he did), and other cashing-in thoughts. We’re all over the board at Aridni. Why not join us? We won’t add to your wealth, yet you may discover something new. Seems to us we learn more writing and researching for you than we ever did as readers.

To do:
Click the contact button on the left and express your interest in writing. Let us know if you have a particular topic or we can help you out. Sometimes picking up the pencil can be the hardest part. Todd will send you an okay and pencil in a publishing date as soon as he gets his computer plugged in at his destination of Buffalo, NY. Then Katie will help you as much as you need with the actually writing of your future post.

So what do you say? Ready to show everyone some ideas on MAD MONEY? We can’t wait to hear from you (especially Katie, who is dying to take a break from real estate studies!).

We just went through the largest one day drop in three years. Everybody is worried that the Fed is going to go berserk and raise rates nonstop for months on end. All kinds of traders and analysts are driving stock prices down like there’s no tomorrow.

Me on the other hand, I don’t listen to these ‘doomsday’ predictions. Something everyone knows is that the stock market is constantly going up and down. So you’ve got two basic choices when your stock is down in the dumps.

First, you could stress out about all the money you have lost. The next step involved in this train of thought is to sell your stock as it gets towards the bottom. If you do this, you’re breaking the only rule of investing. You’re losing money.

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The carnival is coming! The carnival is coming!

Actually make that two carnivals and one festival. In a little while we will be hosting the “Carnival of Debt Reduction,” “The Festival of Frugality,” and lastly “Carnival of Personal Finance”

In case you aren’t familiar with these carnivals, they collect the best articles from the internet for the week and compile links to them all together.

This week Aridni is featured in “The Carnival of Debt Reduction,” “The Carnival of Personal Finance,” “The Carnival of Investing,” and tomorrow will bring the “Festival of Frugality.” (updated to include link)

We will be hosting The Carnival of Debt Reduction on Monday, June 12.

The next day on the 13th we will be running The Festival of Frugality.

A while down the road we will be hosting The Carnival of Personal Finance on Sept 5.

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