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How To Teach Your Children Good Financial Sense
Teaching kids sound financial habits at an early age gives all kids the opportunity to be successful when they are an adult. Warren Buffett April is Financial Literacy Month. Its also tax month and money is on the mind for most of us, for better or worse. Whether how to spend it or how to save it, money is in all of our lives, a connective tissue that directly affects our quality of life …
Finding and Expressing True Gratitude
The following is a guest post by Jason Anthony. Do you know the difference between having thanks and truly being grateful? It has been said that you do not know what you have until it is gone, and that is a lesson that could not be more true for me. I used to sort of bounce through life offering thanks to many around me in a cordial kind of way, but I didnt really consider what it meant to have a real appreciation for what it was I had.
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Reading The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle felt like a gift. It is nearly impossible to sum up how I feel about this book, other than to say I wholeheartedly recommend it. If you allow yourself to enter into its pages with a truly open mind and heart, the ability to walk away from the book with great wisdom and a true sense of peace is at your finger tips.
5 Ways To Teach Your Kids To Be Thankful This Thanksgiving
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. – CiceroGratitude – or a lack thereof – is something all parents encounter during the process of raising children. At some point or other, what mother hasn’t looked on with horror as her child blurted out a variant of, I dont like this! Its not what I wanted for my birthday! or worried that her kids took …
A Mother’s Day Wish
I arrived home one early December evening in 2009 with a Christmas tree, hoping my 19 year old son Bryson wanted to help me decorate it. He had not been not feeling well for a long time, several months or so. I had taken him to many doctors over the past 6 months, he had lost 50 lbs and couldn’t eat for quite a while. In my “mothers gut” I knew something was wrong and had been for a long time.