Yakezie Weekly Round-up: Round Two!
Although it’s technically Saturday here, that’s close enough to my Friday Night Fights (where blogs battle for my attention). Check out the hand-selected articles below. If they were worth my time reading, they’re at least worth a click.
Some separate site news. Sort of quiet this week, I’ve been working behind the scenes. Wrote an interesting guest post for Sweating The Big Stuff, which will appear Monday, and have been drafting questions for a VERY exciting interview with a writer at CBS Marketwatch.
Stay tuned… and while you’re waiting – check out the links below!
Here’s a few interesting articles for your weekend pleasure:
Selfish Promotion: FiLife Article
With all this “selfless promotion” through the Yakezie Challenge, haven’t had the time to promote much of my own works!
A while back my first contribution to FiLife was posted, entitled: “Ignore Social Norms and Save More”.
Of course, I can’t delve too much from the challenge of promoting others.
PF Ninja wrote a very similar topic and provided some GREAT graphics in his post, “Lifestyle Inflation: Why your savings is not growing as fast as your income”.
First In, Last Out: Yakezie Weekly Round-up
The newer members are putting me to shame! Here they are, promoting Yakezie left and right. Engineer Your Finances has been mentioned in a few round-ups, and figured it was finally time to return the favor.
Here’s a few interesting articles for your weekend pleasure:
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3-Month Performance Review
I’ve kept away from delving too much personal information, and have tried to keep the blog topics objective and informative. Sure, plenty of people find me interesting, but my goal here is to educate, not toot my own horn. But today is a special day…
This morning, I ran an 8k race in just over 36 minutes, around 7:15/mile – placing in the top 20% of my age division and top 15% of all men. Needless to say,
I’m pretty pumped.
Within the past year, my life has been jam-packed. I moved to be near my fiance and assist with the wedding planning, began volunteering with a community outreach program, decided to run a 10-miler in spring, started researching graduate programs (again), began preparing for a cost engineering exam, and…oh yeah, started this blog! 
