Always Looking Rich

Marvel’s Phase One Box Set is heeeeere! Click that link if you wanna check it out in all it’s glory on Amazon. Personally, I’m gonna be watching it on my new PlayStation 3 through this beauty. But I’ll stop showing off my toys and get to the meat.

I am not a geek, by any means. But OH MY GOD have I been excited for this! (Seriously, I don’t think you can stuff any more excitement in me, it’s almost gushing out my eyes in the video.)

A little background: I pre-ordered this set BACK IN SEPTEMBER! I was given a free copy of The Avengers on bluray because of the original snafu involving this set’s release. And I STILL bought a second copy. (3D and Digital Copy, yo!)

Anyways, the real goodies involve looking at this set in the video, so I won’t keep you from it. But one thing: the card that I looked at that I couldn’t understand what it was for? Go to BattleOfNewYork.net and put in your code to see some AWESOME FOOTAGE! Including some clips of the Ant-Man footage. Which–honestly–looks crazy awesome! And I am not one who thinks Ant-Man will be an easy movie to conquer.

Click the here to get an email when it is available. I’m already on their list. Very exciting!

THE DETAILS

Cost of phone: $99.99 upfront, $20 payments for 24 months. (total cost of phone: $579.99 – $70 less than an unlocked iPhone 5 and even less compared to other big companies).

Cost of NO CONTRACT plan: $70 a month for unlimited EVERYTHING 4G. $60 a month for unlimited EVERYTHING with 2GB of 4G data. $50 a month for unlimited EVERYTHING with 500 MB of 4G data.

^^ As a T-Mobile customer in a 2 year contract, I contacted T-Mobile and they assured me that when I get my iPhone 5, I will be free of my contract. (Hallelujah. I LOVE T-Mobile — I once used 30 gigs of 4G in a month on my Nexus with them — but being in a contract has never been my style.)

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

In my last How To Think Rich post, I gave you one resource that has helped countless people improve both how they present themselves and how they act around their friends and relationships. This post continues those two lines of thought separately.

The clothes don’t make the man.

The above quote is obviously not the most truthful quote. If you saw a fat, sweaty man wearing leather shoes and a 3-piece suit then obviously this person obviously had enough for at least that outfit. But the fact would remain: he was a FAT, SWEATY man wearing those shoes and 3-piece suit. And that would be cause for you to get a kernel of a doubt in the back of your mind. Maybe this guy isn’t what his clothes are trying to say he is.

If you are rich, you have the bankroll for the personal trainers. The dietitians. The liposuction. Hell, at the most basic level if you care about yourself then you care about your body. No man or woman with true power over others would sacrifice his body to the power of crappy food. And make no mistake: power is more valuable than money. Often, it is power alone that brings a person vast amounts of money.

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