Work + Money

Aries (March 21 - April 19) It's a day when everything feels all wrong. It's not, though, so be sure to give yourself a reality check early and often. Adding up the numbers is a good way to make sure you're dealing with the real bottom line rather than the one in your head. Today's Aries Reading: Free Sample Chakra Reading

Taurus (April 20 - May 20) Money brings out some pretty deep emotions in everyone today, but especially you. It might not be all bad, though -- you are as likely to feel passionately about succeeding as you are to feel jealous or possessive. Today's Taurus Reading: Free Sample Harmony Reading

Gemini (May 21 - June 21) You can calculate and recalculate, but there will always be some unknowns in your equation. No one can pre

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Before you even had money, your parents determined how you'd handle it with their comments about finances. Decode your "money script" and rewrite it here. By Sandy M. Fernandez, REDBOOK.

I've always remembered the advice my father gave me when I was a bookish middle schooler, considering writing as a career. "Do what you love," he would tell me. "The money will follow." This was remarkably generous: My family had recently arrived from Central America, cash was tight, and my dad was, of all things, an economist. He didn't take money matters lightly, and while his words were meant to be freeing, they came with a tricky subtext: If money simply "followed," then I really didn't need to worry about it. That message became part of my "money script"--a term financial therapists use for phrases that reveal our core beliefs about earning, saving, and spending. "Your money personality can be directly related to the things your parents said," says New York-based psychotherapist Kachina Myers, w

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By Nici Perreault, GalTime.com

College students often find themselves limited by budget, even for the essentials such as clothes, food and technology. Working within that budget is not always an easy task and many college students risk spending over their limit. Luckily for students, and yes, parents of students, many major retailers offer college discounts to take make those necessary purchases a little more reasonable.

Some discounts are readily advertised and college students are aware of their opportunity to take advantage of them, while others are not as well-known and may come as a rather pleasant surprise. Retailers offering this discounts range from technology and software companies torestaurants, everything to satisfy a college student's needs. Below are 20 nationwide retailers that offer student discounts that could change your way of shopping!

1. Apple - Apple offers special pricing for accepted college students and their parents. For the 2012 school year you

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Product Launch Formula by jeff walker is probably one of the most foundational courses you could ever get. Many of the other products you've heard about were launched using the strategies in PLF.

Jeff Walker entered the online marketing arena in the summer of 1996. At that time he was publishing a newsletter geared towards stock market trading and investing. By the end of that year he had over 1,000 subscribers, and so he decided to create a paid version of the same newsletter. He realized that he would need to offer something exceptional in order to inspire people into paying for the newsletter. He recognized quickly that there would need to be a sequence of communications that would gently lead them away from the idea of getting his newsletter for free to actually wanting to pay him.

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He developed a modest launch that brought in $1,550.00, but that small victory opened him up to realizing that if done right, immense profits co

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A student asked me to review her resume. She had just failed my business development class because she turned in no work.

I always worry about the effect on someone's career, student visa, chances of getting into another graduate program, and just their general state of mind when I have to turn in a failing grade to the university.

While students clearly know they aren't turning in assignments during the semester, I try to remind them before the course ends, so there's no question when the grade arrives. In her case, the week before the class ended I confirmed with her that she was failing. When she arrived in our last class she announced to me that she was "good with failing."

It gets weirder. Because the holiday took a day out of our course schedule, I offered a one-on-one half-hour to the students in class, for career coaching or my insight into a business development issue.

So, Ms I-Fail-And-Feel-Good-About-It scheduled her half-hour. Then, she emailed her resume to

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