We are not trying to organize your lives with all these helpful
hints. We’ve made a lot of suggestions so that you can pick and choose
the ones you think might work for you. And we hope you will give at
least some of them a try. You will, after all, get out of your portfolio ex-
actly what you put into it.
If you do nothing else as a result of reading this chapter, we do
hope that you will develop Portfolio Habit 2:Always get documents for the P.E.A.K.S. you have developed.Make it a personal rule that whenever you have done something
that demonstrates one of the P.E.A.K.S. you might need, you will find a
way to get a document that verifies this. Do this one thing and your
Master Portfolio “career account”will continue to grow in very useful
ways. And here’s a nice bonus: This is an account you can draw on as
much as you like, without ever depleting it!
In the next chapter, we will explore some ways you can use a com-
puter, if you are so inclined, as a tool for developing and using your
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