I’m trying out a new service by diigo (mentioned to me by another blogger who I will refrain from naming until I figure out that this service works) that allows you to create roundup posts like this one on the fly. Let me know how it worked. It’s pretty easy to use, so if you do link roundups it’s worth a shot. I actually like service – it’s basically Digg with more features.

Links

How Do You Plan To Get Ahead? Ways To Increase Your Income

• Once again I’m linking to a Digerati Life post – this time it’s a list of ideas about ways to increase your income – and everyone needs that, don’t they? While I’m not sure I agree 100% with all of these ideas, there’s a lot of food for thought here.

22 Money Maximizing Moves You Can Do Today | Moolanomy

• This is a great list. I think I do all of them – but seeing them put together in one place is a great idea. Checklists actually allow you to divert your attention to other things by making sure you haven’t forgotten the simple stuff.

Where Am I Going With All This? | How I Will Be Rich

• Matt at How I Will Be Rich has some thoughts similar to mine on the evolution from personal finance blogger to motivational blogging. I realized that it wasn’t exactly personal finance I was interested in, but the motivation behind seeking wealth. I am not really interested in money or wealth anymore, per se – I am interested in having the wealth to achieve freedom.
  

Tracking Dividend Hikes Is Not Easy But it Can Be Done

• I would actually like a site that provided a lot of information about dividends, since I think dividends are a great measure of a company’s worth in terms of investment. While basically arriving at the opinion that there aren’t any really good resources, the Dividend Guy has a few good suggestions on researching dividends.

Carnivals

Personal Development for The Next 45 Years: Personal Development & Happiness Carnival: Issue 17

My post on 67 ways to outlive 106 billion people was included at the Personal Development and Happiness Carnival, which is definitely worth checking out.

The Carnival of Personal Finance at Moolanomy

My post, nay, epiphany (I can’t believe I used that word) on High Quantity versus High Quality was included at the Carnival. Moolanomy is a great blog, and if you haven’t been reading it you should. There are a lot of great submissions here and although the carnival’s gotten intimidatingly large it’s worth browsing through!

Public Declarations

What’s your public declaration? – Smart Spending

• Smart Spending at MSN picked up on the public declaration meme. I was really thrilled to see the meme picked up by Smart Spending!

a public commitment : plonkee money

Plonkee has a great idea for a public commitment: she resolves to not buy another piece of un-fairly traded chocolate. I have to be honest, I didn’t even think about this, but now I have another thing to worry about… but it’s true that I don’t want to buy chocolate that’s hurting people while I enjoy it. This extends (for me) to tea and coffee. I struggle with coffee particularly because my favorite brand is exceptionally unfair-trade. Stupid corporations, eh?

LifeEdit also joined the meme by making a public declaration to eliminate her debt in one year’s time. I also really liked this post about 10 tips to improve your life in 5 minutes. Sometimes that’s all it takes…