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Sometimes in Hawaii, you feel like you just can’t get ahead. Everything is expensive, and jobs don’t pay as much. I’m not complaining, it’s the truth. Lately, I have not been able to put anything into my savings. Gas is at an all time high. Debt is the current way of life. This all needed to be changed. This week, I am trying a new things, which hopefully stick, to change my financial situation for the better.

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Note: Please do not find this as me being “A Happiness Guru”. What I am writing are things I have found out about myself and would like to share with others.

Circa 2004. That year was the start of the toughest years of my life. I had so many things to deal with and I didn’t know how to deal with them. There came a point in my life where I just didn’t care about anything…and it showed. I alienated my friends, my work suffered, and I was depressed. Many times, I looked at myself in the mirror and would try to convince myself to get out of this funk that surrounded me. It wasn’t bad enough that my life was in a funk, my co-workers told my boss that I started to smell funky at work. That’s how much I just didn’t care about myself. I was an unhappy person and it didn’t help that I was a smelly unhappy person.
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