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You Can Change Your Life

You Can Change Your Life

Change is not easy and you can recognize the points that have changed your course in life only in hindsight. We call these points “quantum moments”. I have had many quantum moments in life and the ones that have steered me in the right direction included reading books, meeting inspiring people and attending empowering events. I contemplated each of them until I got to some realization that later became part of my being.

My biggest change in life was when I was 15 years old. I remember how before it, I dreamed every day of waking up to a different life. I said, “I wish…” and had millions of wishes. I hoped to be the Genie of the Lamp, but every morning realized I was not. I built up hopes and got up in the morning to realize they were just illusions that I had no power to fulfill.

You see, it is one thing to want and another thing to make it happen.

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April 25, 2017 by Ronit Baras In: Parenting Tags: change, Emotional Intelligence, empowerment, financial freedom, goals / goal setting, happiness, how to, inspiration, motivation, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, positive attitude tips, self confidence / self esteem / self worth, success

Happily Wealthy Family: Positive Beliefs about Money

Being wealthy is more than counting the money you have in your bank account. It is a mindset. In the last chapter of Happily Wealthy Family, I shared many of the negative beliefs we often have about money. By identifying these beliefs, you can do your best to replace them with positive beliefs about money.

Here is a list of 100 positive beliefs about money, wealth, investing and rich people. Reading them does not mean you automatically adopt them. Find the ones you do believe in and make sure to hang them up in a place you can read every day. If you find others you want to adopt, find a story, a situation, or a person you know that is proof that this belief is valid.

For example, I had a belief that you have to be born rich to be rich. I wanted to believe that everyone could be rich. I knew a guy (who was my dad’s boss) who was very wealthy but was born to a very very poor family. With the help of this story, I could adopt the belief “Everyone can be rich!”

This post is part 9 of 9 in the series Happily Wealthy Family

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May 15, 2014 by Ronit Baras In: Success / Wealth Tags: attitude, beliefs, change, financial freedom, focus, gratitude, happiness, income, lifestyle, list, mind, money, negative, poor, positive, positive attitude tips, rich, skills, success, values, wealth

How to Be Your Own Financial Planner

This weekend, we had some friends over for a barbeque with their kids. The place was full of lively conversation, food and games and time went by quickly.

Since the men had not seen one another for a few weeks, we did a round of updates and Wayne told us he was planning to change his line of work and become a financial planner. As soon as he mentioned the words “financial planner”, the rest of us changed facial expressions and posture and it was clear we all had strong feelings about this profession.

This was by no means personal, because we like Wayne a lot, but we had all been visited by a financial planner or two and had all chosen not to use them. From that starting point, we felt Wayne was starting “on the back foot” and was headed into difficult, unpleasant territory.

As we talked, some interesting points emerged, which I would like to share with you, because they can help you become your very own financial planner and stop looking for one, if you are.

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March 10, 2010 by Gal Baras In: Success / Wealth Tags: budget, change, choice, decision making, financial freedom, focus, how to, lifestyle, money, success, wealth

Rich Parent, Poor Parent

In many areas of life, we relive the same pattern over and over again, but we do not notice it. Just like riding a bike (the ultimate cliché about automatic habits), we pedal on, completely oblivious to each up and down movement.

Sometimes, circumstances make us take note of our patterns and we start thinking about them. Rarely, we change those ingrained ways of behavior and our life changes as a result, hopefully for the better.

Anthony Robbins compares human beings to thermostats. He says every person has a sense of where they feel comfortable and does many things subconsciously to stay in that place. Sure, everyone knows what would be better, but too good is also uncomfortable, because it does not fit our sense of identity and self worth.

So each of us lives within a certain range of “temperatures”. When it gets to “cold”, we take some action to “warm up”. When it gets to “hot”, we procrastinate for a while and even sabotage our previous efforts, until it is “nice and cozy” again.

One particular area in which this happens to us is our finances.

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November 11, 2009 by Gal Baras In: Parenting, Success / Wealth Tags: beliefs, change, choice, dreams, Emotional Intelligence, financial freedom, focus, goals / goal setting, how to, lifestyle, money, practical parenting / parents, projection, self confidence / self esteem / self worth, self-fulfilling prophecy, success, wealth

Make a list: Beliefs about Money

Money is a big part of every success in life. Money is an enabler – the more money you have, the more successful you can be. For example, my son is very successful as a musician, no doubt due to his special talent, but without the money we spend to support his musical journey, he could have never reached this level of success.

This post is part 12 of 41 in the series Make a List

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July 31, 2009 by Ronit Baras In: Personal Development, Success / Wealth Tags: beliefs, change, choice, dreams, Emotional Intelligence, financial freedom, focus, goals / goal setting, how to, lifestyle, money, motivation, personal development / personal growth / personality development / self improvement, poor, projection, rich, self-fulfilling prophecy, success, wealth

Skills You Don’t Learn at School

Unfortunately, there are a lot of things we should have learned at school, because as a society, we cannot rely on parents to be able to do it by themselves. For example, we cannot expect all parents to teach their kids literacy and numeracy because not all of them know enough and out of those who do, not many are also good at teaching.

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May 12, 2009 by Ronit Baras In: Education / Learning, Parenting Tags: beliefs, choice, Education / Learning, family matters, financial freedom, health / wellbeing, how to, K-12 Education, lifestyle, money, practical parenting / parents, role model, school, society, wealth

Happily Wealthy Family: The Magic Money Jar

Sabrina did not believe it when she overheard the school librarian talking about the days her grandfather had been so poor he used to walk 45 minutes to work to save the money required for a bus ticket. “He made all his money from the jar”, said the librarian to her friend. Sabrina thought he had made his money from building houses and was very surprised.

This post is part 4 of 9 in the series Happily Wealthy Family

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October 27, 2008 by Ronit Baras In: Parenting, Personal Development, Success / Wealth Tags: beliefs, Emotional Intelligence, family matters, financial freedom, focus, lifestyle, money, positive attitude tips, practical parenting / parents, success, vision, wealth

Happily Wealthy Family: The World Bank

I hope that by now you are convinced it is better for you to be a happy, wealthy parent and all you need is some knowledge about the way to get there. As strange as this seems, not all people want to be wealthy and, sure enough, they are not.

This post is part 3 of 9 in the series Happily Wealthy Family

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October 20, 2008 by Ronit Baras In: Parenting, Personal Development, Success / Wealth Tags: beliefs, Emotional Intelligence, family matters, financial freedom, focus, lifestyle, money, positive attitude tips, practical parenting / parents, success, vision, wealth

Happily Wealthy Family: Rich Thoughts, Poor Thoughts

Many people, when I talk to them about making money and being rich, come up with good “reasons” why they do not need to be rich. They tell themselves that rich people are sad, miserable, stingy and, most commonly, corrupt, and they do not want to be rich to avoid fitting these descriptions.

These beliefs were made up by poor people looking for ways to feel good about not having enough money or the skills to get it.

This post is part 2 of 9 in the series Happily Wealthy Family

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October 13, 2008 by Ronit Baras In: Parenting, Personal Development, Success / Wealth Tags: beliefs, Emotional Intelligence, family matters, financial freedom, focus, lifestyle, money, positive attitude tips, practical parenting / parents, success, vision, wealth

Happily Wealthy Family: 8 Good Reasons to Be a Rich Parent

Financial struggles can put a lot of strain on family life. When I talk to people about the challenges in their life, many of them say that shortage of money is the main source of their difficulties. In this new series, I am giving you tips on how to be richer, starting with why to be richer!

This post is part 1 of 9 in the series Happily Wealthy Family

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October 6, 2008 by Ronit Baras In: Parenting, Success / Wealth Tags: beliefs, budget, Emotional Intelligence, family matters, financial freedom, focus, lifestyle, money, motivation, positive attitude tips, practical parenting / parents, success, vision, wealth

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