Elisabeth Donati

Financial Planning Musts for The Perfect Vacation

February 2, 2012

There you are, in unfamiliar territory (US or abroad), frustrated by the fact that the credit or debit card you had planned on using isn’t going through at a local restaurant or hotel. Now what do you do? The one thing you do NOT want to have trouble with while traveling, especially out of the [...]

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Financial Complications – Choose them wisely.

December 8, 2011

What I have noticed most in the past ten years of being entrenched in this financial literacy business (and it is a business even though there there’s more passion than profit in it…more on that later), is that human beings tend to make their lives complicated. Most of these ‘complications’ take money and I have [...]

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Stop, Read and Clarify…How to Avoid Costly Mistakes

October 7, 2011

Have you ever made a mistake that cost you money? Lots of money? And when you thought back over how it happened, you realized it was simply a lack of attention to detail on your part? Of course you have. We all have. I know I have, and recently I might add. It started out [...]

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“Make it cash for me!” in the Cash versus Credit Question

September 30, 2011

by Paul Richard – ICFE PresidentSan Diego, CA – A growing number of merchants won’t accept cash anymore, including many airlines, which insist you pay by credit card if you want to buy a drink or a sandwich on board. There are also news reports that the U.S. Treasury is printing fewer dollars, as American [...]

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Burning Financial Education Question

September 21, 2011

We frequently get questions from our websites from visitors. Here are a few I answered in very unconventional ways. Here is his email to me… My single biggest question(s) when it comes to creating financial freedom for myself or teaching my kids about money is(are)… 1. What world currency is the most stable/reliable jurisdiction to sustain [...]

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Financial Freedom: Moving From ‘Have To’ to ‘Want To’!

August 25, 2011

Up until now, the majority of children in this country, and perhaps the world, have been raised with the belief that the way they will be financially successful in life is by getting a good education which will then (hopefully) lead to getting a good job where they can then save and invest enough of [...]

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Anatomy of a Financial Summer Camp

August 11, 2011

Every Camp Millionaire we hold has the same group of kids in it. We have marveled about this for years. We chuckle about it during and after camp as we notice how, over and over again, the same personalities show up. Since we just had one of our weekend Camp Millionaire programs two weeks ago, [...]

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Financial Freedom – What you are doing, and NOT doing, to create it.

July 22, 2011

I once heard Harv Eker, the author of Secrets of The Millionaire Mind, say during his Millionaire Mind Intensive… “We have two kinds of habits…habits we DO and habits we DON’T do.” Simply said, you’re either in the habit of doing something or in the habit of NOT doing something. This is important to contemplate [...]

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Bean Counting…Another Garden Metaphor

July 14, 2011

So there we are, Jan and I this morning, picking beans in my garden. I planted three types: green, yellow and purple. Before you get all excited about the purple ones you need to know they turn green when you cook them. Imagine my disappointment because I love purple. I had grabbed a metal bowl [...]

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Questioning Everything is What Creates Leaders

June 30, 2011

Status quo. The idea that “this is just the way things are” has never sat well with me. Not when I was passionate about health, fitness and nutrition (still am…just don’t do it for a living anymore) and certainly not while I’ve been passionate about teaching people about money. One of the philosophies I passionately [...]

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