Because Money Podcast Episode 6 | Return of the Small Business Owner Resource List

"Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps." -Peter Abrahams 31% of entrepreneurs should never have started their companies. Impatience, misinformation, and delusion overcame these founders and convinced them to run full steam ahead with a bad idea.

The point: have a plan for the money you earn within your business, and be ruthless about it. Otherwise, you'll only succeed through sheer luck. A short meditation, today. Losing power for forty-one hours during the busiest week I've had in my practice has set me back a little, but I had to share this with all of the new and hopeful entrepreneurs out there.

Borrowing can be a good financial strategy if it helps you acquire something - like a house or education - that could add to your net worth. It can also help you acquire things like a car that you can't easily save for in a timely way, but consider the interest and only borrow what you can afford.

The Ontario Self-Employment Benefit provides unemployed people who are or have recently been eligible for Employment Insurance with income and entrepreneurial support while they develop and start their business.

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Colleen Schmidt, CTV Calgary A Calgary man has won a $40M lottery jackpot and says he's going to give it all away. Tom Crist claimed his big prize from the May 3rd LOTTO MAX draw and says he'd rather do something good with the money.

A sleigh full of holiday cheer was brought to a West Coast pancake house this month. The well-aged regulars were treated to flapjacks by an anonymous benefactor who picked up the tab. He had the staff wish them a merry Christmas and asked if they could pay it forward.

There might be more than a few of us hanging our heads as we skulk past the Salvation Army kettles, hands in our pockets and eyes averted, after a survey this week pointed out that we are donating not only fewer dollars but also a declining percentage of our income to charity than in prior years.