A Funeral I once heard a speaker get the attention of his audience regarding making positive changes in their life by suggesting they take time to sit down and write out their own obituary. For most of us that is a chilling thought. None of us want to think about our life coming to an […]
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Do You Know Why You Are Poor? It is important to know why you are poor before you can find a way to become wealthy. But put aside the work “wealthy” until you can define how you came to be poor. For many, it may have started with your parents or grandparents, based on their
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The Unknown Is Just Unfamiliar When I retired my wife and I set out to explore our beautiful country, pulling an RV. We knew a little bit but not a lot about finding routes and RV parks. It was unfamiliar to us. But we made it an adventure, and I shared some of our travel
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Finding Willing Help The perception of blue-collar workers is that they do physical labor. And physical work causes many people to hesitate. Therefore, not all people are willing workers. That becomes a problem for contractors and any of the other occupations requiring manual labor. Finding willing help is essential. Being punctual to show up on
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“Getting By” Goes Nowhere Do you consider yourself average? Do you live for the weekend because your job has little interest for you beyond the pay? Are you living on your current pay with little savings because you have a credit card to cover emergencies? Then, you are average. However, you are setting yourself up
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Futurist Financial Advisor Earlier this year I got a deal on a book at the library book sale. It was The Truth About Your Future, by Ric Edelman, who is an independent financial advisor. He has ties to the Singularity University, which is a consultancy and professional educator of executives, with focus on “exponential technologies”.
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Think Like an Employer An employer has a lot to think about, especially one with sales big enough to hire people to provide products and services to take care of their clients. Any business must promote their business to get sales, provide the products or services to meet demand, collect the revenue, pay for supplies
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Reality Around You I learned a couple of things in my retirement about reality. First, your savings for retirement becomes the clay that molds your retirement activities. Translation: What you can afford to do. Second, your opportunity for future earnings will be limited by both yours and others’ perception of your age and physical and
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Your Blank Slate It is natural to be influenced by those with whom you associate, primarily friends and family. But, at some point, you need to take responsibility for what gets through to your thinking criteria. Regardless of what has influenced you to act in the past, you still have control over today’s influences. How
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Activity Perspective How do you plan your daily activities? Do you have a plan? Are you responsible for anyone other than yourself? Being responsible can interfere with being entertained. So, if you like entertainment, you must plan. I do prefer you to allow some time for recreation. And being entertained can be refreshing. Your attitude
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