Ecclesiastes 5:19 – To enjoy your work and to accept your lot in life – that is indeed a gift from God.

Another wonderful week has gone by. It has been extremely busy at work lately, but I cannot complain too much. I have a good job, doing what I am trained to do and I get to come home everyday at lunch to see my wife and son. Sometimes I have to work late, but that just comes with the territory. As such, I have not had the opportunity to post much this week.

I did publish my passive income results for February 2009 over on my other blog – Experimental Blogging. In February, I managed to break the $200 mark for the first time. Not too shabby for two or three months of effort. Additionally, this is really encouraging since I did not get to create many articles in February at all. All my eHow earnings were from old articles. Even my affiliate sales were from articles I wrote last month. Pretty cool. Pretty cool indeed!

I also hosted my first blog contest on ChasingTheBull. The results were pretty pathetic to be honest with you. I have contacted the winners to notify them of the prizes they have won.

There were numerous articles from another the net that I truly enjoyed this week. Here they are – in no particular order.

Megan, at Counting My Pennies, finally got around to automating the contributions to her Roth IRA. Smart move, in my opinion. If you listen only to the popular media outlets you would think that America will cease to exist next week. Don’t believe the hype. If you are not going to retire for 20+ years, you need to start investing. The government will not be in the position to help you out when it is your turn. The math just does not work.

Todd, at Harvesting Dollars, reminds us that we should not pick our investments based upon tax implications. I could not agree anymore! I hear people tell me all the time how wonderful it is that I have mortgage interest to deduct on my taxes. Are you serious? I would rather pay the government $2,500 and keep the other $7,500 in my pocket, thank you very much!

FreeFromBroke discusses the merits of using Google Calendar to pay your bills on time. Currently I use Quicken to do this exact thing. If, however, I do not open Quicken, I could miss a deadline. This is definitely something to invest this week.

Passive Family Income discusses his peer-to-peer lending experiment. Man, this sounds cool. I have always wanted to try this. Perhaps now is the time!

The Passive Dad discusses the numerous frugal things you can find at your public library. I am a huge fan of our library. In the past 6 months, I have checked out 15 books, 5 audio books and watched all 5 seasons of Babylon 5 (awesome stuff).

What articles did you enjoy this week?

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