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Assets & Liabilities

The holidays are upon us, and I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling a mix of excitement . . . and stress! I don’t think I’m alone: I already received an email about having a “meltdown-free holiday.” (!) And a holiday poll I stumbled on by Think Finance says 45 percent of those surveyed would prefer to skip the holidays altogether. So how do you break through the negative stacking, and turn a holiday pity party into something proactive?

Is This Misguided Mindset Keeping You from Success?

A 2013 Gallup poll reported that more than half of all Americans want to lose weight. (International friends, maybe you can relate? Or maybe not!) 🙂 The funny thing is, only 25 percent of us are actually working on achieving that goal. I once was once in that “not going to do a dang thing about it” group, a few years and 30 pounds ago. But then I realized I had to make a shift, not just in my eating habits or how I exercised, but in my mindset. I saw the power of mindset in action in the nearly […]

Why First Impressions Count

I’m working on launching an all-new website and there are times that it’s really felt like work. 🙂 There have even been times when I’ve felt sympathy for those medieval builders who spent their lives (and more!) constructing the cathedrals of Europe. The Spanish Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí started his cathedral-sized basilica, Sagrada Família, in 1882, and work still continues in Barcelona to this day. While I hope developing my website won’t go on for quite that long, I do believe it’s been worth every minute of my time.