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01/04/2015 - Added favorite applications, right margin of New Year page
01/14/2015 - Observations of the State of the Art in Financial Planning
​01/14/2015 - Bought Ross Douthat's book Bad Religion
01/17/2015 - New Mortgage Payment Calculator
01/26/2015 - Added video to MLM Businesses page
01/26/2015 - Added Method CRM to Improve Income page
02/09/2015 - To help companies who retail time by doing jobs thrive, launched the revolutionary "How We Did" app.  
02/11/2015 - Why I Made the "How We Did" App:  post-development reflections on justice, wisdom, Truth, and peacemaking.
02/12/2015 - Added Tutorial Video page for the How We Did App.
02/14/2015 - Added Application Development page
03/11/2015 - Added Ray Dalio's video, "How the Economy Works" to the Kids page - thanks to the mention in Tony Robbin's new book, Money:  Master the Game.
03/31/2015 - Added new web page about Mitchell-QuickBooks integration for the Auto Repair industry.
04/11/2015 - Added Grid Edit (quick spreadsheet-like) functionality to the How We Did app.
04/20/2015 - Enhanced the How We Did app to support large complex projects
04/23/2015 - Added Gantt Chart Functionality to the How We Did app for complex projects, thereby bridging the gap between Project Management and Accounting.  Added Gantt screen shots to the web page.
04/27/2015 - Published 20th annual investment research findings.
05/02/2015 - Published 20th annual newsletter
05/07/2015 - Changed Welcome Page to a question-answer format that shows at a glance how I help businesses through their whole life cycles.
05/08/2015 - Added new Project Log Excel template to Real Estate Investors page
05/12/2015 - After researching best tools & practices & state of the art in Project Management, created HWD Advantages page.
05/22/2015 - Configured the HWD app for Architects, who need to reconcile square foot pricing with hourly billing.
05/30/2015 - Added SPAM page
05/30/2015 - Wrote book review, The Narcissism Epidemic
05/31/2015 - Added notes to Red Motley's 1960 speech, "Nothing Happens Until Somebody Sells Something" to the SPAM page.
06/02/2015 - Clarified the goals of this site on the Welcome page.
06/04/2015 - Added research findings - overview of Salesforce.com's products & prices - to Improve Income page.
06/06/2015 - Added "Cloning" functionality to the HWD App.  Huge time saver & value-add.
06/08/2015 - Developed color-coded web site page view month grid on the Analytics page that highlights top 3 pages daily.  Contact for details.
06/08/2015 - Frustrated with Google Analytics' inaccuracy, discovered Clicky web analytics.  Added link to E-Commerce page.
06/11/2015 - Because it's all about productivity, added Ray Dalio's video to the HWD Advantages page.
06/11/2015 - Added Web Site Analytics page, under E-Commerce.
06/18/2015 - Added video & Truth quote of Gary Cokins, Executive-in-Residence, Institute of Management Accountants, to the Ethics page, and about Predictive Accounting to the Business Plan page.
06/20/2015 - Created new web page for real estate brokerages.
07/06/2015 - Poem, "Perhaps I Shall Blog About Bloggers Who Blog About Blogging."
07/08/2015 - Developed a staff training tracker for the health care industry.  See the Application Development page.
07/09/2015 - Enhanced the General Contractor version of the HWD app to ease income & expense allocations from Project, through Phases, to Tasks, & added a Clone feature to ease management of many similar projects.
07/10/2015 - Top personal finance blogs - from this Forbes article to Bargaineering blogger Jim Wang, whom I discovered by Googling "7 figure blog" while researching income claims about blogging, I discovered this list of top personal finance blogs at the Wisebread blog.
07/20/2015 - Added a work schedule feature to the HWD app.  Now in addition to the usual Gantt style timeline overview of a whole project, users can make work schedules over whatever time period is convenient (typically the upcoming week) that can be emailed to individual workers to give them a heads-up about what to expect in the coming week.  This keeps everyone focused, on task, and forward-thinking, ensuring that the project is completed as soon as possible.
07/26/2015 - Wrote review of the 17 Hats solopreneur ERP app.
07/27/2015 - Reviewed FreeAgent accounting software
08/02/2015 - Discovered that Ben Kinney's Brivity is a state-of-the-art real estate CRM.  Studied his video, 13 Ways to Defeat the Top Real Estate Agent.
08/03/2015 - Composed new poem about budgeting myths, added to Budget and Short Term Savings pages.
08/03/2015 - Embedded Ben Kinney's video, Maximize Your Database, in the Improve Income page.
08/04/2015 - Created Time Management App.
08/15/2015 - Created a version of the HWD productivity & project management app for Web Design firms that includes meticulous, effortless time tracking advantages from the Time Management app.  Here's the web page, and here's a direct link to the display version.
08/18/2015 - New book review, The One Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan.
08/20/2015 - Message from Allison Mnookin, General Manager of QuickBase about its future after Intuit's divestiture
08/21/2015 - Inspired by Gary Keller's book Millionaire Real Estate Agent, developed a sixth version of the HWD productivity app for real estate professionals.
08/24/2015 - Wrote book review, Gary Keller's The Millionaire Real Estate Agent.
09/02/2015 - Wrote book review, Gary Keller's The Millionaire Real Estate Investor.
09/02/2015 - Inspired by Gary Keller's book The Millionaire Real Estate Investor, developed a seventh version of the HWD productivity app for real estate investors.
09/07/2015 - Added Onboarding page.
09/22/2015 - Added notes from QuickBase/Association of General Contractors webinar, Scale Your Business & Keep Your Sanity.
09/23/2015 - Added Time Management feature to the HWD App for Architects.
09/25/2015 - Added new graphic about Despair Merchants to the Gumption page.