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Highest-Paid Baseball Player in 2022 – A Closer Look At The Contracts, Salary, and Net Worth

Have you ever wondered how lucrative baseball playing is? While NBA players may be the top-earning athletes in the world, how does baseball compare? If you are curious about the highest-paid baseball player in the world, you've come to the right place. 

In recent years, MLB salaries have reached new heights, with the average player earning over $4 million per year. That's a considerable increase from the early days of baseball when players typically earned less than $1,000 per season. 

Today, ML...

5 Reasons Not to Give Your Kids an Allowance

Don't give your kids an allowance just because you received one. You might not want to give them one at all.

I received an allowance as a kid. I can't remember how much it was and can't say that it created any great financial habits.

I got an allowance mostly because my parents got allowances when they were kids.

But is tradition a good reason to give your kids money? There might be some good reasons for NOT giving your kids an allowance.

I've been discussing the poin...

How to Write a Novel for November’s National Novel Writing Month

National Novel Writing Month (“NaNoWriMo”) is just around the corner, so what better time to learn how to write a novel? NaNoWriMo is held in November and invites writers from around the world to come together to write 50,000 words in just 30 days (from November 1st to 30th). It's a great way to get your creative juices flowing and get going on that novel you've always wanted to write.

The key to writing a novel during NaNoWriMo is to write, write, write — and not worry too much about editing o...

32 Stay-At-Home Jobs For Moms

Raising children presents a unique new set of challenges, none of which come with a playbook or a paycheck. 

Parenthood is rewarding, but not always on a daily basis. The burden of caring for children and elderly parents often falls on mothers, and many leave their jobs, which stalls their careers and hits their retirement savings. They love their children, but women also want an independent sense of purpose beyond parenting, which often requires them to carry the heavier burden.

Since the pan...

How to Self-Publish a Book on Amazon [5 Fast Hacks to Start Today]

How many times have you had an idea for a book?… Now, how many times have you finished that book and gotten it published?

In this video, I will show you the five hurdles that will stop you from finishing your book and reveal the five hacks that will help you overcome them. I've used these same tricks to self-publish 12 books on Amazon,n and I know they will work for you!

We’re building a huge community on YouTube to beat your debt, make more money and start making money work for you...

Options Trading for Beginners: 8 Strategies Plus Advice from Financial Experts

Options trading for beginners might seem confusing, but it can be a money-making strategy to add to your investing toolkit if you’re an experienced trader.

You might have heard about people making money by trading options and want to give it a shot but don’t know exactly what it is. Here’s an overview of what options trading is, what the opportunities and risks are, as well as critical advice to keep in mind if you're going to get started.

What Are Options?

“First, it is imp...

Experts Explain Hyperinflation and 8 Ways to Prepare and Protect Your Money

Imagine a world where money is worth practically nothing, and the costs of goods increase rapidly, doubling and tripling day after day. This situation might sound like a fictitious movie plot, but it has happened many times before in our world. It's called hyperinflation, and it can wreak economic devastation on people. 

Right now, the increasing prices of goods and services across the board have already stretched people's budgets. That's just called inflation. But during hyperinflation, things...

Ways to Make Extra Cash: All the Rest

There are a million ways to make extra cash online, some legit and some just plain weird. Check out the five-week series for all your options to make extra money.

This is the final post in our 5-week series on ways to make extra money online. The prior four posts, linked below, are all ways I've used to make a little extra cash. None of them are easy, despite what you may hear from a million people trying to sell you their “ money making system,” but they are all legitimate ways to make money. P...

The Perfect Sleep at Night Investing Strategy

A core-satellite investing strategy reduces your investing risk but leaves room for gains

Many investors spend most of their time worried about picking individual stocks that will beat the market. While you might be able to pick a few winners every once in a while you’d have to be some kind of Wall Street prodigy to do it regularly.

In fact, research shows that even mutual fund managers have had a tough time consistently picking individual stocks to beat their peers. Just 39% of professional fun...

How to Make Money Freelancing and 9 Websites to Do It

Making money freelancing online is about finding something you can do that you’re either an expert in or that someone else just doesn’t want to do. Simple as that…almost.

This post is the third of our five-week series on how to make money through different resources online. There are enough scams and wastes of time in internet side-gigs so I thought I would put together a series of legitimate ways to make extra money online.

Check out the other four posts in the series to make money freelancing ...