Monday Night Quote: Decisions

Decisions affecting the lives of others must always be made. The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive  - M. Scott Peck, MD  The Road Less Traveled 
 
No matter what role you play in life you cannot get away from making decisions and many times these decision will affect [...]

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Successful Transition into Greater Maturity

Taken from Road Less Traveled, by M. Scott Peck
Some of the major conditions, desires and attitudes that must be given up in the course of a wholly successful evolving lifetime: 

The state of infancy, in which no external demands need to be responded to
The fantasy of omnipotence
The desire for total possession of one’s parent
The dependency of childhood
Distorted images of [...]

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Monday Morning Quote: Strength

Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.”
Each of us has our own ‘limit’ of what we can take of a particular obstacle, challenge or problem. Somehow if we can push through it, we [...]

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First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit… You have 6 months left

On July 30, 2008, President Bush signed a major housing bill (H.R. 3221) into law. As part of the housing bill, Congress has created a new, temporary tax credit to provide an incentive for first time homebuyers. The $7500 credit will be available for the purchase of a principal residence on or after April 9, 2008 and [...]

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Monday Morning Quote: Martin Luther King

If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr. – speech, Detroit, Michigan, June 23, 1963
That quote moved me to read Dr. King’s full speech that he gave on that day back in ‘63. It is called a Call to Consciousness, Speech at the Great [...]

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4.5% Interest Rates…?

I am a little behind in posting this entry as the word was out at the beginning of December about the FED possibly lowering interest rates to 4.5%. 
Who will this apply to? How would it possibly work? Read Jeremy Stoddart with Stragegy 7’s blog entry on 12.11.08. He adds some clarity to the situation and [...]

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