Get Clear. Get Into Grad School. Get On With Your Life. by Dr. Khia on April 5, 2012
There’s this really cheesy R&B song from the early ’90s that goes “I wanna be rich, ba ba ba-ba-ba-da-ba.” It was a pretty big hit at the time. The melody and hook runs through my head every time I daydream about untold riches.
Tonight, I started reading Ramit Sethi’s book “I Will Teach You To Be Rich,” of which there is a highly successful blog that is its namesake. In the very first chapter, “Would You Rather Be Sexy or Rich,” he references the average college student’s dreams of being a millionaire by 40 years old. He doesn’t mention it explicitly but I imagine that for many of these college students, their imagined path to wealth involves a trek through grad school, which begs the question: [click to continue…]
Get Clear. Get Into Grad School. Get On With Your Life. by Dr. Khia on June 12, 2011
M.I.A.M.I. = Money is a major issue
I didn’t make this acronym up… I appropriated it from Cuban American rapper Pitbull. And now we’re about to remix this topic – hip hop style – and talk about how much of a major issue money is when it comes to grad school, career, your life, and beyond.
Make no mistake – in this society we live in – money is a major issue. How much of it do you want to amass to support the lifestyle you want to live?
The truth is… when it comes down to lifestyle design, the majority of us out here don’t have ambitions to have Bill Gates money. Well, we aren’t gonna turn it down if offered. Let me speak for myself – *I’m* not turning it down.
We all want to live comfortably. Part of the equation to happiness is to minimize financial stress. There are a ton of stresses looming in our daily life – mortgages, credit cards, student loans, car payments, insurance premiums, rising costs of gas just to get to work in the first place. Need I go on? [click to continue…]
