Author: Joel Zaslofsky

Joel Zaslofsky is offering instant access to download the free tools that he and countless others use to simplify, organize, and be money wise. When he's not helping people Experience Curating, enjoying nature, podcasting, or chasing his sons around the house, he's cranking out useful stuff at Value of Simple. Join Joel on Twitter @joelzaslofsky, check him out on Google+, and see him on Facebook at ValueOfSimple.

Daily Money Management | Digital Info and Data | Joel and Guests | Personal Finance | Podcast Episodes | Relationships with Money

SASM 002 – Super Skills for Rocking Daily Money Management with Carole Evenchik
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2012-08-062020-10-24

This edition of the Smart and Simple Matters show features a professional Daily Money Manager, Carole Evenchik. We talk about why money works for some people and against others, the story of joy and loss behind a $185,000.00 life insurance check, being empowered up to your capacity…and beyond, as well as other great topics.

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Clutter | Digital Info and Data | Organizing

How Simple Heroes Ditch Clutter and Master Chaos…AND How to Become One
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2012-07-302020-10-24

We’re obsessed with clutter but we should be focusing on chaos instead. Grasping why you should ditch clutter and master chaos will also help you learn how to sell, communicate, and apply better labels to what you believe in.

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Announcements | Podcast Episodes

Lighting the Fuse – SASM 001
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2012-07-152020-10-24

This is the first of many Smart and Simple Matters podcast episodes. Find out more about the definition of simple, what it means, and how you can use it. You’ll also get my secret for consuming podcasts and videos in half the time and a sneak peek of the benefits for “putting it in a spreadsheet.”

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Finding Your Why | Organizing | Simplifying

9 Principles to Ignite and Fast Track Your Personal Renaissance
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2012-07-122020-10-24

Life looks very different when you know what’s possible. Use these nine principles as a catalyst for your own personal renaissance and to experience an existence of full engagement and potential.

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Finding Your Why | Organizing | Personal Finance | Self-Improvement | Simplifying

27 Simple Sages Reveal How They Organize and Simplify Their Amazing Lives
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2012-07-092020-10-24

This is unleashing the wisdom granted by 27 Simple Sages about how to simplify, organize, and be money wise for an amazing life.

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Announcements | Finding Your Why | Organizing | Personal Finance | Simplifying

Welcome to the Official Launch of Value of Simple!
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2012-07-042020-10-24

Welcome to the official launch of Value of Simple! What was formerly Enlightened Resource Management is now your new home for simplifying and organizing the important things in life.

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Resources

I Don’t Know How to Say Good-bye
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2012-06-292020-08-03

This was the last post of Enlightened Resource Management before it was rebranded to Value of Simple. I said good-bye in my own way, with my first (and probably) last flirtation with poetry.

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Experiments

Help Day Recap (and the Answer to Whether the World Wants Help)
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2012-05-152020-10-24

Help Day #1 was a mixed bag of painful awkwardness, reward, unpredictability, and revealing personal stories. The biggest takeaway wasn’t earth shattering but the experiment and experience was eye opening. You can learn a lot about what not to do when trying to help people through this Help Day experiment.

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Experiments

Help Day: The Customized Way to Help Others YOU Find Most Rewarding
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2012-05-092020-08-03

In this installment of experiments we bring you “Help Day”. Customize the way to help others that you find most rewarding and let yourself define the guidelines for the greatest impact.

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Blogging Related | Pulse Check

Pulse Check: The Past, Current and Future of This Website (and What It Means for You)
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2012-04-272020-10-24

The first of an ongoing series of check-ins on the health and direction (past, current and future) of this website. Chalked full of stats, lessons learned and behind-the-scenes information…it’s a bonanza of goodies for everyone.

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Challenges | Experiments

The 72 Hour Continuous Creation Challenge Recap (With a Special Announcement)
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2012-04-062020-08-03

An insider’s look into the predictable, unexpected and stats of the 72 hour continuous creation challenge. This is the recap of what kind and how much can be created when consumption is just about eliminated. And don’t miss the special announcement of the future of this website at the end.

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Challenges | Experiments

The 72 Hour Continuous Creation Challenge (No Consumption Allowed)
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2012-03-302020-08-03

Find out what 72 hours of continuous creation can produce. All this while completely eliminating consumption of food, reading, music, videos, social media and much more. It’s a challenge to me, to you, and to the status quo in general.

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Finding Your Why | MPP | Organizing | Resources | Self-Improvement | Simplifying

The Personal User Guide: Your Most Essential Instruction Manual
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2012-03-192020-08-03

The Personal User Guide helps countless people understand what makes them tick. Give yourself this gift and gain the insight of your own instruction manual.

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Productivity | Simplifying

The Relentless March of Speech Recognition: Will You Ever Have Silence Again?
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2012-03-092020-10-24

Speech recognition has delivered us a gift. But is this the end of silence and whispering as we know it?

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Finding Your Why

Thank You for Helping Me Become an Entrepreneur
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2012-03-022020-10-24

It’s payback time, and this time it’s personal. Payback for all the times people helped me on my path to becoming an entrepreneur and public thanks to friends, family, former co-workers, and people who don’t even know I exist.

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Daily Money Management | Resources

Could You Be Like 2.7 Billion People and Live on Two Dollars a Day?
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2012-02-292020-10-24

If you were given $730.00 USD to live on for the next year how would you do it? Portfolios of the Poor is here to help answer these questions.

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Finding Your Why | Resources | Self-Improvement | Simplifying

A Statement to Reframe Everything? The Defining Factor is Never Resources, It’s Resourcefulness
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2012-02-222020-08-03

Which is more important to you, resources or resourcefulness? This is all about TED, their ideas worth sharing, and my way of sharing epic ideas with you.

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Finding Your Why | Self-Improvement | Simplifying

The Day After: What Passion Filled Risk and Wild Uncertainty Feels Like
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2012-02-182020-10-24

Would there be regret, panic or fear the day after resigning from a job pushing into the six figures? Would the relentless passion and uncertainly of the day before overpower all the other emotions? This is part 2 of my story of resigning from my corporate job to pursue a very different kind of work mission.

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Announcements | Finding Your Why | Simplifying

Giving Up the “Good Life” for a Great Life
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2012-02-162020-08-03

This is the story of why I gave up a corporate job with total compensation pushing into the six figures so I could pursue my passions. It’s raw, it’s unfiltered, and details the glorious risk and uncertainty that comes with doing something you absolutely need to do (with a lot of help along the way).

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Finding Your Why | Reducing Stress | Simplifying

Rat Race Escape: When Should You Get Off the Hamster Wheel?
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2012-01-102020-08-03

It’s a question that never has a good answer. Well here is an answer for you, complete with specific steps you can take to help yourself get off the hamster wheel and leave the rat race.

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Blogging Related

10+ Valuable Lessons You’ll Learn from My First Year of Blogging
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2011-12-202020-08-03

Celebrating the monumentally uneventful 1st year of blogging by Joel Zaslofsky (and a few things you can learn from it).

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Challenges | Resources

How You Leverage Your Annoyances to Make the World Awesome
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2011-10-232020-08-03

Introducing: The Annoyance Challenge. Please don’t use excessive paper towels and your sprinkler system the day after it rained all night!

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Uncategorized

Essential Life Lessons from 80s TV Commercials and 90s Cartoon Theme Songs
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2011-10-172020-08-03

What do 80s TV commercials and 90s cartoon theme songs have to do with powerful learning and memory tools? Repeat after me: everything.

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Finding Your Why | Self-Improvement

The Biggest Risk I Ever Took (and Why I’m Better Off for Being Terrible)
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2011-07-022020-08-03

This is the raw confessional of the biggest risk I ever took and why I’m a better man for being a terrible person.

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Food | Resources

The War on Food: Self Inflicted Casualties
ByJoel Zaslofsky 2011-06-282020-10-24

The world is at war with food. At every step in the chain where food in planted, grown, harvested, stored, transported, purchased and eaten, we waste HUGE amounts of it. We can do better and we need to do better.

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