What you can do

Budget Your Time ~ Budget Your Money

December 2, 2010

It’s not too late to change your holiday game plan. Guest Blog By Jan K. Ruskin The holidays, for most, are about spending time with family, making special connections, honoring friends and family with gifts and baked goods, and enjoying lots of beautiful music and great movies. I’ve always loved it all. This year, however, [...]

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Make a Bank Date With Your Kids

November 23, 2010

Now that we have ATM machines that spit out money and credit cards that seem to magically buy anything we want, it’s important to give children a picture of what is happening behind the scenes so that they develop a healthy perspective on money. Even though it might seem unnecessary, we suggest making an actual [...]

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Pre-Deciding…The Framework of Self-Discipline

October 18, 2010

I was having a conversation with a friend yesterday who has gained more weight than he is now comfortable with and he was trying to figure out what went wrong. Where had his life changed to accommodate this extra weight? He came up with several major changes in his life that had happened in the [...]

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Talking To Your Kids About Money

April 15, 2010

From what parents tell me, sometimes it’s just plain challenging to talk to your children and teens about money. Heck, sometimes it’s even hard to talk to your adult children about money. We understand. For whatever reason, as parents, sometimes the words just don’t come naturally. Add to that our own insecurities around money and wealth [...]

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Recession Proof YOUR Kids: Empower Them to Thrive in Any Economy

February 18, 2010

(Note: if you’d rather listen this than read it, click here.) If you have kids, you more than likely want to make sure they grow up knowing what to do with money. And you’d probably prefer that they  know what to do THRIVE financially and not just SURVIVE tough economic times like we’re having now. (My [...]

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Earn to Learn: Paying Your Teen to Learn About Money

January 28, 2010

Sometimes you have to pay your kids to learn about money. If you do, consider it one of the best investment decisions you ever make!

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Camp Millionaire in the News(press)!

May 29, 2009

This letter to the editor is in response to a great article in our Santa Barbara Newspress, entitled, “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.” The letter is for Santa Barbara county but anyone who wants to join along, I’m happy to do the same in your community as well! Regarding the article “Who Wants to [...]

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What are YOU wondering about?

May 19, 2009

People who do great things don’t sit around wondering what can go wrong; they sit around imagining all of the things that can go right! One of my favorite things to teach is the power of the mind to ‘choose’ what it thinks about. At first, the person learning this concept usually doesn’t want to [...]

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Are We There Yet…by John D. Buerger, CFP®

May 14, 2009

Tuesday, 12 May 2009 08:42 “Are We There Yet?” – most young children … about five minutes into a five hour trip Have we hit bottom?  Are we in an economic recovery … please? These seem to be the questions of the day.  My answer is, “No, Sorry – you will need to hold it [...]

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Helping Your Teen Earn Moola This Summer (and beyond!)

April 29, 2009

Teens can do several things to find their place in a world full of other teens looking to do the same thing. There are two basic avenues teens can take to begin making money for themselves: 1) they can get a J.O.B. or 2) they can CREATE their own job by providing a needed product [...]

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