A man who retired at age 30 shares the most important habit that helped him get there

(Jeremy Vohwinkle/flickr) Mr. Money Mustache, shown here, saved two-thirds of his take home pay to retire at age 30.
Peter Adeney, better known as "Mr. Money Mustache" turned quite a few heads when he announced his retirement at age 30 back in 2005. 

He wasn't inheriting a fortune, nor was he coming off a ridiculously high salary — rather, he'd been working as an engineer for 10 years, averaging a $67,000 annual salary.

He accumulated enough money to retire comfortably in Colorado with his wife and son, and even has enough savings to indulge in his guilty pleasure: "The tiny little kinds of imported cheese from that special area in the gourmet grocery store," he told Farnoosh Torabi on episode 38 of her podcast, "So Money."

He did it by cutting back on expenses and saving a lot: two-thirds of his and his wife's take-home pay, he explained to Torabi.

She asked Mr. Money Mustache — who has since built a cult following for his blog that teaches others to live a frugal, yet meaningful, life of leisure — to share his most important financial habit that helps keep his money safe and growing.

The 30-something retiree's secret boils down to the habit of thinking about money as something to invest rather than something to spend. 

"The growing part of my money is pretty simple," he told Torabi. "I just like the idea of keeping all money invested. So if I run into a surplus sometime, I don't think of something to buy with it, I think, 'OK, I better get rid of this money and put it to work again.' So, I sweep it out of the bank account and into regular index funds."

While a raise, generous birthday gift, or lucky lottery winnings may trigger a shopping spree for most of us, Mr. Money Mustache's instinct is to invest surplus money, which in part eliminates any spending temptation that may arise.

So far, it's working for him.

Support Unity For Project Management (Part 1)

Project Management 

 "Operations keeps the lights on, strategy provides a light at the end of the tunnel, but project management is the train engine that moves the organization forward."

Includes Processes that Encompass Following Steps:

• Requirements definition
• Task definition
• Staffing and resource allocation
• Material selection and equipment specification
• Equipment staging and shipment
• Design
• Development
• Site preparation and compliance with any regulatory or environmental requirements
• Customer support
• On-going maintenance

Requirement Definition:

In product development and process optimization, a requirement is a singular documented physical and functional need that a particular design, product or process must be able to perform. It is most commonly used in a formal sense in systems engineering, software engineering, or enterprise engineering. It is a statement that identifies a necessary attribute, capability, characteristic, or quality of a system for it to have value and utility to a customer, organisation, internal user, or other stakeholder.

Task definition:

Task is an activity that needs to be accomplished within a defined period of time or by a deadline to work towards work-related goals. A task can be broken down into assignments which should also have a defined start and end date or a deadline for completion. One or more assignments on a task puts the task under execution. Completion of all assignments on a specific task normally renders the task completed. Tasks can be linked together to create dependencies.

Tasks completion generally requires the coordination of others. Coordinated human interaction takes on the role of combining the integration of time, energy, effort, ability, and resources of multiple individuals to meet a common goal. Coordination can also be thought of as the critical mechanism that links or ties together the efforts on the singular level to that of the larger task being completed by multiple members. Coordination allows for the successful completion of the otherwise larger tasks that one might encounter.

Staffing And Resource Allocation

"In both organizations, the primary management issue revolved around resources. The portfolio management was overwhelmed issues concerning prioritization of projects and, distribution of personnel from one project to another, and the search for slack resources. However, there were no resources available. Furthermore, when resources were redistributed it often produced negative effects on other projects of the portfolio. This forced the management to continuous fire fighting, resulting in reactive behavior and short-term problem solving. However, the primary lever for portfolio management to affect an ongoing project in trouble was resource re-allocation"

In many organizations, employee workloads consist of a mix of project and operational assignments.  Due to endemic shortfalls in staffing, such folks – particularly those who have key skills and knowledge – generally have little or no spare capacity to take on more work.   However, soon comes along another “important” project in urgent need of staffing and the rest, as they say, is tragedy:  folks who are up to their necks in work are assigned to work on the new project. 

Watch out for the concluding part soon.

Early Age Computer Education: Preparatory Class Tools Needed

Improving Classroom Learning

In the book Curriculum 21: "Essential Education for a Changing World", Bill Sheskey, a former classroom teacher, technology specialist, athletic coach, and now a teacher-educator, writes, “Educators in the 21st century realize that students entering the classroom today are much different from those who have come before. Today’s students
are demanding a change in the classroom because of their ability to gather information faster than any other generation.”  

Improving Classroom Learning

Took an online class (high school) Desire online learning in ultimate high school Work at my own pace be in control of my learning.  Get extra help in a subject that is hard for me. Easier to review class materials many times. More comfortable asking teacher questions. Receive more attention from my teachers(s). 

• Students are interacting with content differently when they can access it as many times as they need and see multiple representations of concepts.

• Discussion boards have the power to extend the class period. Teachers post discussion prompts and we’ve seen that when student work is published and available in a more public
forum, they are more careful with their representation.

Classroom Learning Transformed

When teachers can use these same tools to personalize instruction, and assess student performance more rapidly and strategically, instruction improves and students achieve more. And when these resources are used to enhance teacher learning, competence with technology, and subject-area expertise, their professional experiences improve and that also supports better learning opportunities for their students.

You can read more on how to increases a child exposure on the usage of computer: help them to get acquainted with the relevant information needed for their age circle.  

 Increasing Child Exposure on IT (Part 1)

Website Solutions: General Overview Maintenance

Maintaining a website can be most challenging especially with the parallel changes that is continually rising and emerging everyday from different web-contents developers, web-apps. developers and other resources that makes the website pages become interactive and interesting to website visitors. 

"Website maintenance service is necessary to keep a website running smoothly, which may be done on regular or scheduled basis. Maintenance is an important part of a website."

Website Maintenance is a package allows you to adjust and update your Web site periodically, which is essential to keeping an audience interested in returning to your site. With a maintenance package, you can change or edit text, images and other items when you have promotions, specials, and advertisements on your site.

Social Media and Web Usage

Social media and web interactions are now standard procedures for customer-engaged companies and their employees. Blogs, website comments, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ are several examples of sites and services which businesses rely on in order to share public information, build customer relationships and obtain relevant feedback. 

The nature of open participation within these mediums allows for ongoing dialogue with customers in a mutually beneficial exchange of ideas. These resources are frequently used by company employees both inside and outside of the scope of their duties and at times the lines of interaction with internal and external individuals can become blurred.

Maintenance Overview

Website maintenance is the most important aspect of building a successful destination. Many factors affect the amount and type of updating carried out on the website.

Maintenance Plan Template For Websites

Below is an example of a completed maintenance plan.  Fill in the template with the editorial and technical tasks you would like to complete on your website in these time frames.

CONTENT-BASED TASKS	WHO PERFORMS		TECHNICAL TASKS	WHO PERFORMS
TASKS TO BE PERFORMED
1. Update news and events Addfeatures 2. Add new publications 3. Update contacts and organization information 4. Update other content as directed by site owner 5. Update the site soft for latest apps compatibility. 6. Integrating with Social Media Sites like:    a. Pinterest etc ·        Update online store ·        Monthly SMS ·        Week/Monthly/ Monthly Newsletter. ·        Advert placement Corner for other sites. ·        Checkmate the Mailing traffic.		Editor	·  Coding as needed ·     Integrating Kontzeng with social media: (Review the links to other sites, such interchanging/ rotating the quick content).	Web Developer
TASKS TO BE COMPLETED THE FIRST WEEK OF EVERY MONTH:
Each month the following tasks will be performed on the each pages on the site, such that each page on the site is maintained 4 times a year: (this approach is used for a larger site with many pages to maintain.) ·  Review spelling on technical terms ·  Review, update, and optimize old content ·  Add new content (and optimize) ·  Edit content ·  Check contacts listed on site (incl. Webmaster) to be sure they are still correct. ·  Review		Editor	Each month the following tasks will be performed on 1/6th of the pages on the site, such that each page on the site is maintained 2 times a year: ·  Spell check (refer technical terms to editor) ·  Fix HTML syntax & Section 508 issues; be sure standards are followed ·  Be sure special elements (scripts, multimedia, forms, etc.) work ·  Ask search engine specialist to reindex any major new sections of content	Web Developer
TASKS TO BE COMPLETED EVERY MONTHLY
·        Create a quick content editing section for short new update. ·        Mentoring/protect site Security Bridge.			·  Creating and updating security codes. ·  Review the technical security settings	Web Developer
TASKS TO BE COMPLETED EVERY QUARTER:
·  Update broken links (consider link fixes more often for sites with many links) ·  Review statistics to learn what pages are popular; update home page or features as needed, based on this info ·		Editor	·  Run broken link report ·  Review statistics for technical problems ·  Review and fix the appropriate settings.	Web Developer
TASKS TO BE COMPLETED EVERY 12 MONTHS:
·  Review content on every Web page ·  Schedule reviews for technical content ·  Review special elements to decide if they are still necessary ·  Review major content sections to decide which are still necessary; decide if need new content sections ·  Collect end-of-the-year website data, such as statistics or data from user-centered design projects. ·  Review the impact of other social media sites to Kontzeng.		Editor	·  Decide if redesign is necessary (from a technical standpoint) ·  Clean up directory (remove orphan files, etc.) ·  Update date stamp after content review ·  Reposition content and Layout arrangement.	Web Developer
·        Feedback review				Developer

Other Parameter To Consider

Feedback plays an important role in this equation, the website have to eye a position on searches for information similar to what the site contains, solicit comments from users of other types of computers and browsers, make sure the links on Kontz site aren't sending visitors to old content, obsolete URL's, and study the statistics it receive from server statistics and listings of referrers that it can get from other sources.

Getting Indexed

One of the biggest races on the web, is the desire to get indexed, or listed in the results pages of website search engines at or near the top of the results pages for particular search requests. The most vociferous battles rage over popular search items like the words mp3, sex and so on. Needless to say, the search engines have noticed the battle and become rather annoyed at the tricks used by webmasters to get their sites listed higher than others.

Even if your site is not a common sort, you are likely to be affected by the measures search engines have taken to eliminate 'spam' from their indexes of webpage content. The open text indexing process is really a simple one, and here is how it should work:

1. Submit your main, front page URL by visiting the AddURL page at the SE.
2. Engine checks if the page exists and schedules it for indexing.
3. Indexing program called a 'robot', 'bot' or 'spider' visits the site.
4. Bot reads robots.txt file on your server to see what it may be forbidden to index.
5. Bot loads the first document it was sent for and notes it's title.
6. Bot may check for document language and/or character set, last modified and expiry meta information.
7. Bot checks for controls, keywords and (maybe) descriptions in the meta tags.
8. Bot may read all text or just the first few paragraphs of text instead, to summarize or store the 'content'.
9. Bot may also check any other allowed documents that appear as local links from the first and succeeding pages, called 'spidering'.
10. Bot saves information (nouns, word or phrase list) for entry into the search engine database (indexing).
11. Database indexer catalogs words and rates site based on relevancy of the frequency, positions and words recorded, and it's content rating.
12. Relevancy may also be affected by website name, path names and the filename of the document.
13. Site appears somewhere in search results listings for relevant words and phrases.
14. Bot may schedule a revisit if instructions are given in meta tags, or not, as it pleases.

Other Template Features Available

Feature	Standard Maintenance	Webmaster
When Service Begins	After Web site is Complete	After Web site is Complete
Phone Consultation	Yes, but consumes maintenance time	Yes, but consumes maintenance time
Priority Response Service	Standard Wait Times (1 Bus Day)	Head of Queue Priority (4 Hours)
Text Editing	Yes	Yes
Broken Link Repair	Yes	Yes
Image Editing	No	Yes
Database Diagnostic & Repair	No	Yes, capped at 2 hours
New Web Based Page Install	Yes	Yes
Script Install / Dev / Fix	No	Yes, capped at 2 hours
Navigation Changes	No	Yes, capped at 2 Hours
Maintain Online Store	No	Yes
Product Change	Yes (Customer-provided images)	Yes (Customer-provided images)
Form Dev / Install / Fix	Fix only	Yes (within available maintenance time)
Structural Changes	Quote Only	Quote Only
eCommerce Troubleshooting	No	Yes
Training	Yes	Yes
Training	Yes	Yes