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Setting Financial Goals – 5 Tips for Goal Planning and Finances

Setting financial goals is the first step to achieving financial goals! These tips for goal planning will help you sort out your finances and make your financial dreams come true. At the very least, they’ll get you on the right track. Before the tips, a quip: “When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will [...]

Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen | August 20th, 2010 | Continued

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How to Reduce Stress by Managing Your Time Better – Time Management Tips

Managing your time better can help you reduce stress – and be more productive, creative, and happy. These time management tips will reduce workplace stress, help you manage your time better, help relieve anxiety and stress. Managing your time wisely is empowering because it gives you a sense of control, which relieves anxiety. And, good time management [...]

Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen | August 9th, 2010 | Continued

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How to Manage Money Better – 7 Tips for Achieving Financial Goals

If you wish you could manage money better, don’t despair! These tips for achieving financial goals will help with debt, household budgets, and various financial transactions. Since they’re based on Lois Frankel’s Nice Girls Don’t Get Rich, they’re geared towards women — but they’re just as applicable to men who want to take charge of their financial goals. [...]

Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen | June 28th, 2010 | Continued

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How to Set and Achieve Fitness Goals – 5 Tips for Fat Loss

Increase your exercise motivation with these tips for setting and achieving fitness goals! You know that old quip that “nothing tastes as good as feeling slim feels”? Well, it’s true – and here’s the first tip for fat loss: “I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I’m doing.” ~ Marsha Doble. If you [...]

Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen | June 7th, 2010 | Continued

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Reach Money Goals Faster – 5 Ways Your Friends Help or Hinder

Friends can hinder or help you reach your money goals. Here are five ways friends affect financial prosperity, whether you’re paying off credit card debt, saving money for a home mortgage loan, or scraping enough money together to start your new business… Before the tips, a quip: “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, [...]

Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen | May 17th, 2010 | Continued

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Halloween Party Food and Indoor Halloween Party Decorations

These tips for Halloween party food and indoor Halloween party decorations include several ideas for trick or treating on October 31! Here’s a little bit of everything, from Jack O’Lanterns to scary skeleton decorations.

Before the tips, a quip:

“At first cock-crow the ghosts must go; Back to their quiet graves below.” ~ Theodosia Garrison.

Graveyards are more of an outdoor Halloween decoration than an indoor one — but a hand coming out of the earth is a great way to light up the table! Check out the Light-up Hand-elabra Table Lamp Halloween Party Decoration, and read on for several Halloween ideas…

How to Express Love – Examples of the Five Love Languages

These examples of the five love languages don’t just suggest how to express love, they show how to put the love languages into action! These tips are from Suite101 writers – some have been married for decades, others are single. Some are parents, and others don’t have kids. A little bit of love from everyone…

Before the tips, a quip:

“The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love,” writes Gary Chapman in The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts. “It is a fact, however, that when we receive affirming words we are far more likely to be motivated to reciprocate.”

“Words of affirmation” is one love language. It sounds complicated, but all it means is saying good, kind, loving things to your partner. Words of affirmation increase the chances that your partner will respond with his own words of love, creating an upward spiral! To learn more about the love languages, read The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts.

And here are several practical ways to say “I love you”…

How to Save Money for College Students – 8 Money Saving Tips

Knowing how to save money for college students is crucial, whether students are just starting college or have recently graduated.  These money saving tips are from financial advisor and author Randy Loren.

Before the tips, a quip:

“Success produces success, just as money produces money.” ~ Diane Ackerman.

The more you save money, the more money you’ll have to save! Achieving your financial goals is an upward spiral — but first you have to get that spiral started. If you struggle with financial debt and money management, you might find Money Management for College Students helpful.

And, here are eight money saving tips from Randy Loren, author of Climbing the Money Mountain: The Young Adult’s Guide to Reaching Your Financial Peak.

Help – My Weight Loss Program Doesn’t Work! 10 Weight Loss Tips

If you need help with a weight loss program that doesn’t work, check out these ten weight loss tips. They’ll help you set and achieve your weight loss goals; these tips are from celebrity fitness trainer Amy Cheryl. She was once an obese teenager of over 200 pounds on a 5′ 4″ frame – so she has firsthand experience with losing weight and looking great!

Before the tips, a quip:

“Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.” ~ Peter De Vries.

Before you can achieve your weight loss goals, you need to deal with the reasons you overeat. If you’re an emotional eater, you might find The Emotional Eater’s Book of Inspiration: 90 Truths You Need to Know to Overcome Your Food Addiction helpful.

But if you just need a new and improved weight loss program, you have to check out P90X Extreme Home Fitness Workout Program – it includes 13 DVDs, a nutrition guide, and an exercise planner. It’s Amazon’s bestselling weight loss program.

And, here are ten ways to achieve your weight loss goals…

Too Stressed to Study? 6 College Stress Management Tips

If you’re too stressed to study, you won’t get good grades! These college stress management tips are about better time management, because stress is caused by feeling out of control.  The more in control you feel, the less stressed and anxious you’ll feel — and the more you can focus on getting good grades.

Before the tips, a quip:

“Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put an orgy in my office and I wouldn’t look up. Well, maybe once.” ~ Isaac Asimov.

Cute, huh? One of the best ways to manage stress is to laugh. Make time in your schedule to watch funny movies, such as Date Night starring Tina Fey. Or watch a few episodes of 30 Rock or Friends or whatever makes you laugh and forget about school for awhile.

Then, after you’ve taken a break from life, learn how to manage stress so you can get good grades and achieve your college goals…

How to Use Your Credit Cards Rewards Program for Realistic Rewards

Your credit card’s rewards program can be very beneficial – if you’re realistic about spending money! Here are several tips for using credit cards to your advantage, without going into credit card debt.

“If you think rewards credit cards are an easy way to earn free stuff, do not open one,” says Ann Smarty, who wrote this guest post. “Like low rates and balance transfer offers, rewards programs are a marketing tool. The point is to persuade you to open an account. And once you have an accessible line of credit at your disposal, it is easy to overspend, especially if making purchases means earning more rewards. If you aren’t careful, you’ll end up paying to use your own money, and high interest rates will cancel out all those appealing rewards.”

If you’re hoping to use your credit card’s rewards programs to pay off your existing debt, you may have to rework your plan! Read The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness for help managing your money – it’s Amazon’s bestselling financial book.

And, here are four tips for using your credit card to reap financial rewards (and possibly help you achieve your financial goals!)…

Girls Halloween Costumes – Ideas for Homemade Costumes for Girls

Finding the right girls Halloween costume takes time, but these ideas for homemade costumes should help you out! These girls Halloween costume ideas range from “What are little girls made of?” to the Alice in Wonderland’s Mad Hatter.

Before the tips, a quip:

“When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween.” ~Author Unknown.

Halloween doesn’t have to be about black cats, scary witches, and bad luck — it can be about cute costumes for girls! The pink Supergirl Halloween costume is the cutest thing I’ve seen in ages — and if you have time and sewing skills, you could do it yourself at home.

Here are more ideas for homemade costumes for girls…

Boys Halloween Costumes – Homemade Halloween Ideas

These boys Halloween costumes range from homemade Halloween ideas (“Nightmare in a Closet”) to online Halloween costumes (“Buzz Lightyear – to Infinity and Beyond”). Have fun exploring Halloween ideas with your boy; he’ll be too old for Halloween and trick or treating before you know it!

Before the tips, a quip:

“Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.” ~ Steve Almond.

Boy, do I miss dumping out my pillowcase after a long night of trick or treating! Sorting it, planning what to eat when, trading it…those were the days. When you’re looking for a boy’s Halloween costume, make sure it’s comfortable and roomy, so he can collect his loot easily! Here’s a good example: the Star Wars Child’s Hooded Jedi Robe.

And, here are several ideas for DIY Halloween ideas…

What Are the Best Brain Vitamins? 10 Brain Improvement Tips

The best brain vitamin may be the omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oils (especially DHA). But, these ten brain improvement tips go beyond taking supplements! These activities will help fight age-related memory loss and improve overall brain health.

Before the tips, a quip:

“The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.” ~ Thomas Edison

That’s because the brain is one of the most important organs in your whole body. Take care of your brain now, and it’ll take care of you later. And, you’ll reduce the risk of age-related dementias, such as Alzheimer’s Disease. For more information on brain health, read The Better Brain Book.

And, here are ten ways to improve your cognitive health, memory, and concentration…

Setting Financial Goals – 5 Tips for Goal Planning and Finances

Setting financial goals is the first step to achieving financial goals! These tips for goal planning will help you sort out your finances and make your financial dreams come true. At the very least, they’ll get you on the right track.

Before the tips, a quip:

“When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.” ~ Nido Qubein.

There’s nothing less motivating than trying to achieve other people’s goals – even if those goals could make you rich! Setting financial goals (or any life goal) involves digging deep into yourself and figuring out what you want out of your life. The odds of achieving your goals are much higher if you pursue what you really want.

If you’re struggling with debt or budgets, read The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness. And, here are five tips for financial goal planning…