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Kids and Their Concept on Money

Friday, April 16th, 2010

By Michael Framball

You’d be hard-pressed to find many young children today who have a good grasp of the concept of money. Most of them are too young to understand the value of money and the work that goes into earning it.

However, as a parent, you can ensure that your children understand the concept of money from early on in their lives. Introducing them to the importance of working for their money and saving it will help them greatly in the future.

Read on to discover a few guidelines for teaching your young children about the value of money. Read More→

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Rules For Being Human

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Taken from “If Life is a Game, These are the Rules” by Cherie Carter-Scott, PhD, this beautiful video shows us how to play the game of life in a most positive and wonderful way! Read More→

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Don’t We All?

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

by Author Unknown…

I was parked in front of the mall wiping off my car. I had just come from the car wash and was waiting for my wife to get out of work. Coming my way from across the parking lot was what society would
consider a bum. From the looks of him, he had no car, no home, no clean clothes, and no
money.

There are times when you feel generous but there are other times that you just don’t want to be bothered. This was one of those “don’t want to be bothered times.”

“I hope he doesn’t ask me for any money,” I thought. He didn’t.

He came and sat on the curb in front of the bus stop but he didn’t look like he could have enough money to even ride the bus. After a few minutes he spoke. “That’s a very pretty car,” he said. He was ragged but he had an air of dignity around him. His scraggly blond beard keep more than his face warm.

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by Raymond Aaron

GOAL-SETTING TIP #1… NOT BINARY

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You must never write goals in the binary way, meaning that the only options are success or failure. Practically every person makes this mistake. People write a goal to achieve a certain outcome. If they achieve it, then they feel good. If they do not achieve it, they feel bad.

This is very harmful. Why? Let me give you an example. If you ask a child to put out his hand and the child does and you give that child a candy, the child is happy. If you ask again and give the child another candy, the child is of course happy again. You can do this 9 times and the child will comply each time. Then, on the tenth time, when the child puts out his hand, let’s say you slap his hand with a ruler. Let’s review, the child got positive feedback 9 times and got hurt only once. Read More→

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Do you procrastinate? Are you living a life of “shoulds”? Here’s a funny cartoon video that describes an average day in the life of a character that could be you or a relative or maybe a friend. There is a great lesson about life here, folks – life is NOW! Let’s replace one “should” every day with a “do what you love“.

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