I was asked to write a guest post this last week. I was writing on the topic of Financial Intelligence from my experience as a CPA. The more I wrote and reflected on my experiences over the course of my career the more I found myself thinking about mindset vs. education. When I started my [...]

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There is perhaps an even more important question to ask – will your thinking allow you to stay rich? In my last blog post A Powerful Money Mindset Exercise I challenged readers to try an activity to explore some of the buried beliefs many of us have around money. The comments were excellent and one [...]

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A Powerful Money Mindset Exercise

by Sue

Even though I worked as a CPA and Financial Planner for most of my career that does not mean I had the mindset needed to be a wealthy woman. I grew up in a middle class family with “enough” but we were certainly not wealthy. I used to often ponder why some of my Specialist [...]

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Detour or to Retreat?

by Sue

I never intended to embark on a “series” when I wrote my first blog post on Is Success or Failure a Better Teacher? Because of some of the feedback I received on that post, I felt compelled to write a follow up asking the question Is there a time to gracefully retreat? Once again this [...]

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Is There a Time to Gracefully Retreat?

by Sue

In my last post Is Success or Failure a Better Teacher? a question was raised “If we never give up will we eventually “make it”, or is there a time that we need to gracefully retreat.” This opens up a whole new topic and I thought it was worthy of dedicating another post to that [...]

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Is Success or Failure a Better Teacher?

by Sue

I truly believe that we learn more from our failures than we do from our successes. In his book The Cashflow Quadrant, Robert Kiyosaki says “success is a poor teacher”.  It has been that way for me. I was thinking about this and had the thought if people are afraid to fail – then how [...]

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A Head for Business

by Sue

We have all heard the expressions “he has a head for business” or “she is a born businesswoman”. Is there such a thing?  Are business people born to be business people or do they learn? Maybe some people are born with entrepreneurial tendencies but in my observation over many years of consulting and coaching business [...]

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The Importance of Residual Income

by Sue

I have written about Residual Income before. It is something I am very passionate about as I share in this message. Residual Income is income that continues to generate after the initial work has been done. Some examples of this are: An author of a book receives ongoing income for sales (royalties) A singer receives [...]

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Business Mindset

by Sue

If you have a home based business do you think of yourself as a business owner, a leader and someone who is building wealth? In my last blog post Start Your Home Based Business Like a Business I talked about treating your home based business like a business from day one. Some of the comments [...]

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Start Your Home Based Business like a Business

by Sue

Start you home based business like a real business from day one. If you treat it like a hobby it will pay you like a hobby. Start with the end in mind. This includes setting up proper accounting systems and records. This can be the “boring” part for many people but if you don’t do [...]

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