By Deborah McCarragher – Did the start of the New Year bring anxiety or dread? Are you over-committed? Do you feel like you’re running faster and faster to just keep up with everything? Well – you’re not alone! This year in particular I’m feeling a sense that God wants me
By Sherri Snelling – As I began to research this blog article for January’s Financial Wellness Month, I came across a fact that seems serendipitous – the financial planning industry is about the same age as the average family caregiver – between 48-50 years old. This seems fitting because as
By Penelope Lemov – They are a two-car family living in a comfortably affluent neighborhood. With her college-sophomore son home for the summer, a friend was sharing her car with him. Though he had been unable to get a regular job, he had cobbled together a coaching business with a
Guidelines for Choosing the Right Attorney By Beverly Lewis – The 7 essential elements you should always look for when you choose an attorney to represent you are best represented in the “code of chivalry.” Knights in the middle ages are thought to have a “code of chivalry” which has
By Sharon O’Day – Good news! You can actually make a difference. At least you can if you enroll every one of your friends, and maybe even a few enemies. How’s that? Well, our manufacturing jobs have skedaddled off to Malaysia, China and Vietnam. No need to rehash all the
By Sharon O’Day – Holiday shopping! Black Friday alerts are popping up all over my email these days, a sure sign that the peak holiday shopping season can’t be far away. Excitement’s up, precaution’s down. And, like all the riffraff that appears right after a major hurricane to take advantage
By Sharon O’Day – “Read it to me one more time, Mommy.” And off we go again, hearing how the damsel in distress was swept off her feet by her charming prince … and lived happily ever after. Unfortunately, that’s probably one of the most insidious things our mothers could
By Tamara Elizabeth – This time of year with all the fliers and mail/internet order fliers and catalogues arrive at your doorstep, our inner child evolves into a “material girl”. She comes out of the gate fighting- a ravaged shopper from hell – and she’s hungry. The pre-holiday sales are
By Jacqueline Darien – What could make your retirement plans go awry? And what strategies can help you keep your plan on track? The events of the past few years have led to many people rethinking and restructuring their retirement plans. A large percentage of people are planning on postponing
By Jacqueline Darien, CFP – Several years ago I played golf with an attorney for a large bank. As we walked along, we chatted about housing, as people in NYC are likely to do. I had sold my apartment and was renting. She was renting and wanted to buy an
By Kathy Caprino – As a trained family therapist and career coach, I’ve researched for over eight years what makes some people highly successful in business and in life, and others doomed to fail. I’ve observed this: Being more positive in your behaviors and language paves the way for greater
Helping out our grown children now or leaving a legacy for later By Penelope Lemov – My husband and I have been incredibly lucky. We came of age in the great economic expansion that followed World War II. We’ve had good jobs and rewarding careers–to the point where we have
By Art Koff, Founder RetiredBrains.com – Facts and Figures You Should Know Seniors will pay a great deal for their health care in their retirement years and these costs continue to increase every year. Below I have quoted several reliable sources and although the numbers vary, all are in agreement that overall
By Sharon O’Day – Finances, pesky finances. Even those of us who seem to have our finances totally under control have bad days. Typically, it comes from being in financial overwhelm. If we’re not careful, those bad days may extend into weeks if we don’t nip the problem in the
By: Sherri Snelling – Caring for an older parent or an ill spouse can be a labor of love, but it can also take a toll on you emotionally, physically and financially. While many caregivers are not fully prepared for their new role, it is important to understand the impact
By: Sharon Hurley Hall My mom excelled at leading by example and giving sound advice. That was never truer than when it came to money management. It’s an area that defeats many women in business, as Ms Money points out, “far too many women stay on the sidelines of the
By Sharon O’Day – Every woman wants to get her finances under control, right? Well, one of the toughest parts of doing so is getting honest with money itself: the green stuff, the coins, the paychecks, the bills. The stuff you either have enough of … or you don’t. In
By Sharon O’Day – They say that how we handle our money is inherited from our parents and from the different memories we absorbed of all the experiences we had as children. Those experiences are what created our subconscious feelings towards money, subject for another day. But what our parents
By Sharon O’Day – Tax Day is rapidly approaching in the U.S. The closer it gets, the greater the gloom you feel descending over people. You see, they’re struggling with the fact that they’re going to have to write down in black-and-white (and acknowledge) how much they made last year,
By Sharon O’Day – Ask people what their greatest problem is and, almost always, it comes down to the same thing: “I need more money.” “If only I had more money…” Whether they say, “I wish I had more sales in my business,” “I didn’t get a raise this year,”
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