Millennial Making Millions

I currently work at a civic innovation office. What that means is that we try to find innovative, smart, researched solutions to real problems in our community, and try to get government to do the same. I like the impossible tasks. I've been able to work with Utah State Legislators as well as city leaders in Utah. It has been an incredible experience and has helped me get into the best public affairs school in the nation. Hopefully it'll get me a lightsaber as well. A real one. For reals. How on earth does this relate? We want creativity and improvement in our future. We want cities and the life we see in movies like Star Wars or Star Trek. We wanted to start taking steps to making this actually happen.  How do we do that? We put together a writing contest for science fiction writers, to write about future cities, specifically a city that had solved accessibility issues for those with physical handicaps. OR they wrote about a city where it hadn't been

Guest Post by Josh Reif, Entrepreneur BEING AN ENTREPRENEUR SUCKS (but I love it anyway) Real talk right here. Most people are trying to sell you stuff. They paint a glorious picture of their lavish laptop lifestyle. They don't want you to see behind the curtain. All the times they failed. All the doubt and shame they felt. How hard it really is. Because it's tough to sell the blood, sweat, and tears. Selling the dream of quick money is a lot easier. You see these posts and it's demoralizing because you feel like you're the only one stuck, not succeeding, not making that easy million. So today, for me at least, I'm going to rip that curtain off. I am broke. This is embarrassing to admit, but it's the truth. The good news is, I won’t be broke for long. I’m hustling and I’ve finally found the right people to learn from. It's only a matter of time before I make it. I wanted to wait until I was successful so I could tell my "story" of how I "

There is no such thing as perfect conditions. Athletes dream about days when they feel 100%. I'm reminded of one beautiful day. I felt good. I was getting ready to run the 800, or half mile race. I felt strong and confident and I was actually excited about it. If conditions for running could be perfect, they were right before I ran, but life has a way of stomping on you when you things get going good. The race started and I had a great start. I was up with the leaders. I was on the outside which gave me freedom to move without being boxed in. I was able to get to where I wanted to be in the pack of runners, right behind the leaders, and I moved to the inside land and I waited till the time was right to make my move.  Half way through the first lap, during this race that was going perfectly, a runner came to pass me on the right. He cut it too close though and spiked me. Track spikes range from 1/4" to 3/8"  of solid steel, needle sharp spikes. I got 3 of them

Its kind of embarrassing, but my mommy filed my tax return for me last year. This year I procrastinated it a ton, but I am glad to say I've moved to the big kid table. I got some tax software and I did it myself. There are free options, and even free helps for students, but with only a couple days left, most of those helps were gone. I opted for the easiest software, according to most every review, and me, Turbo tax. I actually found an awesome Amazon deal for the good package, $35. Ironically, I'm the guy who teaches how to take advantage of savings, and I ended up paying $56 for it. Be smarter than me. Here's a link to Amazon if you've procrastinated like me. You've got 1 day left!   I'm no tax experts, but here are some tax things you need to know! #1. File for your return! Right now at my day job I make $12 an hour. It took me two hours to file, and I'll get about 1,300 back this year. 650 an hour sounds pretty good to me. Most guys my a

I remember the day that Facebook came to my mission. I got on and saw that an old girlfriend was married and had just had a baby. Ouch. This was one of many learning experiences on my mission. I learned a lot though about social media from this, and other experiences, that can apply to furthering absolutely anything on social media, from the gospel, to a business, to networking and building friendships. 1. Don't get sucked into scrolling. Have a goal It was hard seeing the girl on my news feed. It would have ruined my productivity for the day if I hadn't already had a plan for the day. I was getting rid of strange old photos that my highschool self thought were good to post. If I didn't have that plan I would have spent the rest of the day wallowing in self pity and scrolling for happiness and fulfillment. Hint: happiness, fulfillment, or success isn't found further down your news feed. 2. Friends/followers are the lifeblood of success Build your sphere o

I am a huge fan of digital movies. They're great. I have a digital movie library of almost 300 movies. I don't have to store them anywhere and I can access them on my laptop, on my X-Box, on my phone, on my wife's phone, and on any other device I have an internet connection on. I use Vudu, and these are the top 9 reasons why: 1. It's Free It doesn't cost any monthly fees to store your movies. Unfortunately, it's not Netflix where all the movies are provided to you. It is a free service, but you do have to buy movies for your library. There are different and cost effective ways to do that though, such as... 2. UV Spider:  My wife just had a birthday. I bought her a copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to find it the day after it came out on DVD and digital. I bought it LEGALLY, on digital for $6, and it has been one of the more expensive movies I've bought. UV Spider sounds like it would be a sketchy place. It isn't. It is a website that tracks multi

I remember the day my buddy tried to sell me women’s clothing. He was telling me all about how comfortable they were, how much I’d like them, how much my wife would like them, and how I should get them for her, but if I wanted some too he would be happy to sell to me. Hard pass. I watched my buddy Matt and his wife get into LuLaroe and have seen their experience up until now. This is their story. They got into the company because he and his wife wanted a business opportunity to do together. Money was a factor, but not the primary factor. They wanted to see if their ideas could blossom. It’s hard to imagine money not being the primary factor in business. Matt was initially horrified of Multi-level Marketing companies. He was worried about the price mark-ups that have to happen in these companies, and he was also worried about challenges in selling. I was shocked when Matt told me they were going to get started, and that they were going to take out a $7,000 loan to do so. I was worr