And then! Oh, the noise! Oh, the noise! Oh the noise! Noise! Noise! Noise! That’s one thing he hated! The NOISE! NOISE! NOISE! NOISE! ~ Dr. Seuss, from How the Grinch Stole Christmas How the Grinch Stole Christmas is one of my favourite holiday classics – both the book and the animated version. I know….
We will open the book. It’s pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. ~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce Wishing you and yours happiness and health in 2010!
This is a selection of 10 articles I thought you might find interesting from the month of December, 2009. This is by no means a comprehensive list, and there were lots more I could have included. Fiscal Fizzle gave us some great information on How to Write a Great Financial Mission Statement. Ray at Financial…
Happy, happy Christmas that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! ~ Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers ~1836…
To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have. ~ Ken S. Keyes Jr. Oh, the wonderful, picture-perfect scenes that Christmas time brings: families hugging, enjoying special food and special times together. Everything is perfect. The children don’t squabble, couples are in sync, and any past disagreements are forgotten….
I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them…
I got the blues thinking of the future so I left off and made some marmalade. It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. ~ D.H. Lawrence Well said, Mr. Lawrence. We’ve spent the past few posts examining some essential but somewhat tedious financial concepts and I, for one,…
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. ~ Carl Sandburg Time. We can give it, receive it, plan it, take it, spend it, save it, invest it,…
