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!… Continue Reading
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20 Cents From December 2009
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… Continue Reading
Home for Christmas
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… Continue Reading
Celebrate What Is
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.… Continue Reading
Christmas Conversion
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… Continue Reading
Taking a Break Is a Great Investment
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,… Continue Reading
3 Keys to Change Part III: Perseverence
It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s just that some people are ready to change and others are not. – James Gordon The third key to change is perseverence. Even if we are able to learn a great deal and put some regular effort into our financial life, we can lose… Continue Reading
3 Keys to Change Part II: Effort
Never again clutter your days and nights with so many menial unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when… Continue Reading