Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others.

You're financially independent if you have $15,000 coming in and $14,900 going out.

If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you.

Creativity goes beyond what you already know. What you know is just knowledge.

Spiritual leaders say that as a matter of course prosperity will come when you are pursuing the right things with your life. To feel truly prosperous, you may have to leave the corporate world for good simply because prosperity and freedom go hand in hand. For some people this means having to give up a substantial amount of their income, at least for a certain period of time.

It's interesting and somewhat dismaying how many people will look up to anyone who wins a multimillion-dollar lottery - but will deride anyone who has worked either hard or smart to attain prosperity and real success.

Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose as a career. Trust what inspires you. From this decision alone will come over a third of your satisfaction or misery in your life.