Become Resilient to Cope with Adversity and Improve Relationships

Resiliency helps you to cope with and bounce back from adversity. Building your resilience will help improve your relationships at work and at home.

There are four types of resiliency.

Physical Relience requires a healthy and balanced diet, regular physical activity, adequate sleep and self-care.

Cognitive or mental resilience describes attention, judgment and decision-making skills, during both good

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Being Grateful Helps Us to Be Happy

Genuinely appreciating the different aspects of your life can improve your well-being. In fact, people who regularly practice gratitude – by writing gratitude lists, for instance – report greater happiness and optimism, have lower levels of stress and depression, and even sleep better at night.

Money Does Not Guarantee Happiness - The Tendency to Want More

Having wealth doesn’t guarantee that you’ll be happy. You may still worry but what you worry about is different than what you’d worry about if you weren’t rich.

If you own your business – a dream of many – managing a large fortune composed of liquid and physical assets, scattered in various geographic locations, can be

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Path to Prosperity – More than a Cliché

The path to prosperity – it’s more than a cliché.

To say that we are on a path to prosperity is to define a destination – a state of well-being, a comfortable lifestyle, an ability to enjoy life and help others.

To say that we are on a path to prosperity is to underscore the many steps

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Cash Flow or Net Worth – Which is More Important?

Which is more important – cash flow or net worth?

Actually, they’re both important.

Think of cash flow as the micro-financial metric. On a day-to-day basis you need to have a positive cash flow. This means that you have the money to pay the bills – living a lifestyle that you can afford.

Think of net worth as

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Prosocial Spending Makes Us Happy - But We Tend to Spend for Personal Needs

Can money buy happiness? Much research has been done that shows that income has a reliable, but weak, relationship with being happy. While incomes have surged in recent decades, happiness levels have remained static, showing no sign of people being happier as a result of their increased income.

A University of British Columbia study (”Spending Money

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Money Can Buy You Time With Family and Friends

Being with family and friends makes us happy. Studies have found that regularly seeing friends and family can provide a huge boost to our happiness.

Money helps in this regard, allowing you to go out to dinner with neighbors, travel to see old friends, take your family on vacation and go to the theater with your

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Money Can Give You the Happy, Financial Freedom to Pursue Your Passion

Ideally, you want to spend each day engaged in activities that you find absorbing and satisfying, that you feel you’re good at – and where you feel you’re doing good.

Indeed, happy retirees are typically those who have a sense of purpose, whether it’s volunteering for their favorite causes, coaching a children’s sports team, helping their church

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