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Do you practice what you preach?

Posted by: vikdulat on: November 14, 2008

There are a lot of people that tell you do this, do that but they don’t do it themselves.  For example, my friend (won’t mention his name) always tells me, you should work out.   However, he is 60 pounds overweight.  It makes no sense to me at all.  Another example would be telling your kids [...]

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Dress for Success

Posted by: vikdulat on: October 11, 2008

I was just reading Donald Trump’s Think Like a Billionaire book.  One of the things that I firmly believe in and which is mentioned in the book is that you should always dress for work for the job you want.  In other words, if you want to be a CPA like myself, you should always [...]

Crunch time

Posted by: vikdulat on: December 2, 2007

With only 16 days left until semester ends, it is crunch time. I have to finish up a lot of projects and study for finals. The last 2 weeks of any semester suck. However, this semester sucks particularly.
On the other hand, it has finally started snowing here in Michigan and the weather completely [...]

Increase your RSS Subscribers with rssHugger

Posted by: vikdulat on: November 24, 2007

To starts things off, rssHugger is a really cool name to have for a domain name. Having said, rssHugger is all about increasing your RSS subscribers by promoting your blog. I heard about rssHugger from John Chow’s review of it. When John Chow wrote about the review, there was a subscription of $20 [...]

Knowledge is power

Posted by: vikdulat on: November 19, 2007

Most people know this but don’t fully take advantage of it.  If everyone in the world, read at least one book a month, the world would be a better person.  The sad part is that nobody actually does that.  The ones that do read often are the ones that look at life in a different [...]

Benefits of being mentioned on JohnChow.com

Posted by: vikdulat on: November 13, 2007

John Chow wrote a post on how much would dinner cost at Benihanna. He also ran a contest by asking his readers how much the total bill was? I asked Zac Johnson how much the bill was and in the end I did not win but I did get mentioned as the evil award [...]

What motivates me part 2

Posted by: vikdulat on: November 8, 2007

I wrote earlier about what motivates me part 1. I am not sure how many parts this will have but here is number 2.
A lot of the times people act their shit when they have something and they brag about it and in the process, they somehow just piss me off and this is [...]

Setting realistic goals

Posted by: vikdulat on: November 5, 2007

There are a lot of people that would like to make the money that John Chow and Shoemoney make but in reality, John Chow and Shoemoney are the top 1 % earners in the blogging world. I would love to make what they make right now but in order for me to do that, [...]

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Michigan vs Michigan State

Posted by: vikdulat on: November 3, 2007

I am a huge sports fan especially college sports. Today, University of Michigan (U of M) is playing Michigan State at 3:30 pm est. I can’t wait for the game to start and see who comes on top. Michigan State has the home field advantage but I think in the end U [...]

What motivates me part 1

Posted by: vikdulat on: November 2, 2007

There are a lot of things that motivate me in life. I don’t know how many parts this series of post will be so this will be named part 1. The following are just some things that motivate me:
Haters
There are a lot of people that hate for no reason. When people say [...]


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