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A practical guide that offers parents valuable advice on issues related to kids and money — no matter what their age or stage in life.
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Great book with excellent ideas!!!.......2007-08-23
This book is easy to understand and actually kind of scary how it relates to your own life. It's a book that all parents should read to help their children with life in general. You don't have to be wealthy to read this book....it's for all incomes. You don't have to be wealthy to have a spoiled child that expects too much either. Being a single parent, I'm grateful there are books to give advice on ways to help your child grow up to be responsible. It's common sense really....but to have it in black and white and know your not the only one with issues is comforting. Thanks so much!
How Much Help Did Mr. Buffone Really Get?.......2004-12-23
Mr. Buffone criticizes parents who financially help their children but I wonder, did Mr. Buffone's parents pay for his high priced college degree? Did they lend him money for his down payment on his first home purchase? Always look deeper than what you see on the surface.
Choking on the Silver Spoon.......2004-06-04
I highly recommend this book for parents who love there kids enough to work at raising them to be productive and successful individuals in a "give me" society. This book is an excellent resource for families of silver spooners as well as anyone raising children in a society that encourages getting something for nothing. I have a group of friends who are reading this book in a book club and discussing it weekly.
with a spoonful of humor too!.......2004-05-05
How do rich kids get to be such brats? Have you ever wanted to explain to your kids (& yourself!) what money is & is not, & what it can & cannot do? Then CHOKING ON THE SILVER SPOON is a good place to start.
Dr. Gary Buffone, advisor to the affluent, has written a readable & engaging guide which covers:
When Wealth Cripples: The Monetarily Mangled; Why Parents Worry; Recognizing the Silver Spoon Syndrome; Is Your Child a Silver-Spooner?; The Rising Tide of Wealth in America, & much more.
He explains why Money Can't Buy Them Love & how to go about Curing the Plague of Prosperity. & then he sets forth The Five Immutable Laws of Financial Parenting:
-- of Necessity
-- of Loving Limits
-- of Reciprocity
-- of Fiscal Responsibility
-- of Example.
Rebeccasreads highly recommends CHOKING ON THE SILVER SPOON for all parents (rich & not-so-rich) who want to raise their children with a better grasp of what money means in the scheme of things, & how having it affects your life.
A primer for passing down financial survival skills.......2004-04-05
Choking On The Silver Spoon: Keeping Your Kids Healthy, Wealthy And Wise In A Land Of Plenty by Gary Buffone (a practicing licensed psychologist and Director, The Family Business Century, Byron Harless Consulting, Jacksonville, Florida) is a very practical and accessibly written parenting guide meant for parents everywhere, whether raising toddlers, dealing with difficult teenagers, or keeping in touch with their adult children. Choking On The Silver Spoon deals with the very serious problem of handling children and money matters in a fair and balanced manner that will not "spoil" children, but rather teach them the true value of hard-earned wages, give them initiative to achieve, and help them better succeed financially when on their own. Of special note are the "five laws": The Law Of Necessity; The Law Of Loving Limits; The Law Of Reciprocity; The Law Of Fiscal Responsibility; and The Law of Example. This is superbly presented and highly recommended primer for passing down financial survival skills and endearing a healthy respect for work and the fruits of honest labor.
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This book explains how several much-decried problems in the U.S. health system--glaring gaps in the quality and efficiency of care, high rates of uninsurance, and out-of-control costs--can be resolved by empowering patients.
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A great set of proposals for discussing the critical reforms needed in our healthcare system.......2006-01-01
This short and focused book offers five suggestions to help lower our society's overall healthcare expenses, improve availability, while putting it on a more sound footing for controlling future cost growth. Discussing healthcare is a complicated issue and much of the public discussion is distorted by various kinds of self-interest, lack of knowledge about the technical aspects of the problem (both medical and economic), and different views of what the desirable outcomes would be. This one hundred-page book is a wonderful basic foundation so we can discuss the health care issues from a common ground.
Our present private health care system suffers from several market distortions that prevent efficiencies. First, it arose from a wartime wage & price controlled economy in 1942 when companies began offering "fringe benefits" since they couldn't raise wages. The next biggest problem is that what we really have is pre-paid healthcare rather than true insurance. Insurance is based on the notion of sharing risk not the notion of no-risk no cost. Imagine if we have pre-paid lunches. Wouldn't the natural inclination be to consume bigger lunches than you normally would? Maybe even combine two meals of the day? You would not want to be paying for something you weren't getting the full benefit from, so you would over consume and costs would rise. That would spur the desire for more consumption and a vicious cycle gets worse.
The notion that healthcare should be provided at no cost is pernicious. The government has no money of its own so we have to pay for our healthcare even if the government "provides" it. But worse than the payment problems this causes is the notion that we should be free to use our income on everything else but healthcare and that somehow when we use our own income for healthcare we view it as a kind of oppression. However, we use our income for many less necessary and some very foolish things. The amount of money we waste on foolish things like diet fads, pills, patent medicines, magnets & bracelets that do nothing, and various quack treatments has got to be a large fraction of our actual health care expenditure. We need to spend our money on health with greater awareness and understanding.
So, what are the five recommendations the authors make in this book?
1) Change the tax law to reduce the preference for medical-care purchases through employer-based insurance.
This is an important change because it will allow for people to make health care purchases with their own income and buy their own insurance with PRE-TAX dollars. As it is now, everything is biased towards shifting it to the employer program because anything we pay for is AFTER-TAX and therefore much more costly. Since everything is pushed to the employer pre-paid healthcare it exacerbates the over consumption problem.
2) Reform regulation markets for health insurance.
This is about lowering costs by making national insurance pools and reforming state specific regulations that add unusual costs to the insurance market through specific popular mandates. This is the suggestion I am least comfortable with, however I do understand the notion and think it is definitely worth investigating. What we don't want is a national reform that solely benefits the insurance industry shareholders at the expense of the insured the way our, say, sugar supports keep us paying four times the world price for sugar.
3) Expand provision of health information.
This has two components. The first is to limit discoverability of information that flows between organizations with the purpose of quality improvement. The second is to rate organizations and doctors in a way that provides good information to consumers of healthcare. While I like the notion in the simple abstract, the real problem with this is, for example, that not all cardiologists have the same risk profile of patient. Nor are all the same in their approach to patients. All systems of "grading" are subject to gaming and I wonder how this will be prevented in such a national system.
4) Control anticompetitive behavior by providers and insurers.
Yes, we do need real markets for market forces to do their work in cost containment. But, yes, businesses and businessmen (and women) do want to limit competition and enhance profits (rent seeking behavior in economic terms). So, one of the very most important things our lawmakers and regulators can do is ensure that a strong market and strong competition exists. There is evidence that hospitals and insurers are working to limit competition and using their influence with lawmakers to strengthen their position and raise costs. This is quite important.
5) Reform the malpractice system.
There is no question that the lottery approach to non-economic damages has driven up insurance costs to the point that access to health care providers in some states is impaired. We definitely need to control non-economic costs of malpractice lawsuits. The other aspect of reform, since these kinds of mistakes are well known and the process well understood, is to do what we can in holding down legal costs. This is fought tooth and nail by trial lawyers because they make tens of millions of dollars from these lawsuits. However, those tens of millions of dollars going to lawyers do not help the healthcare of anyone except the lawyers and the families and their employees.
You can see that I have difficulties with some aspects of the proposals in this book and you will likely have some of your own. However, I think they make a great place to start the discussion we must have for the reform that will come one way or the other. I just hope we have the will to make it a strong, active, and constructive reform rather than a passive contraction that will do much more harm than good.
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To be an attentive person, practice attentiveness. To be a compassionate person, practice compassion. To be a creative person, practice creativity. To be the person you want to be, practice the traits you desire. As great philosophers and leaders throughout the ages - from Aristotle to Benjamin Franklin - have observed, a life of joy, balance, and fulfillment is developed rather than bestowed. Andrea Rains Waggener helps readers put this life-changing insight into action, one week at a time. "Healthy, Wealthy and Wise" is a guide to practice better living. Using personal anecdotes and a lighthearted approach, the author describes fifty-two personal qualities (inspired by Benjamin Franklin's thirteen virtues) that contribute to happiness and contentment and outlines action steps for incorporating those traits into daily living. Here is a fresh, optimistic, and eminently do-able plan for readers interested in learning how to live their best life.
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52 anecdotes, not exactly life-changing..........2006-06-18
This book takes Benjamin Franklin's "13 Virtues improvement plan" and expands it into 52 "qualities". Each quality (honesty, sense of humor, grateful, etc) has its own chapter in which the quality is (pedantically) defined, a short anecdote about the author's life that relates to the quality, and then the "lesson". The lesson consists of 1. "Ask to be.. (insert quality here), 2. Affirm your desire to be..., 3. Act as if you're..., 4. List or celebrate... so on and so forth, ad nauseum (52 times).
A few of the anecdotes are amusing, but this book is a failure as a self-help volume, more of a disjointed autobiography than anything else. I gave it 2 stars because it is conceivable that there is someone out there that could receive guidance from this book... just not me..
I Recommend It Highly!.......2005-02-19
"Healthy, Wealthy and Wise", by Andrea Rains Waggener, is an uplifting and thought-provoking book. An easy read, the 52 life-changing lessons are excellent. This is a book to follow the 52 lessons or to read periodically and thoroughly enjoy. I highly recommend it.
Buy this book!.......2005-02-19
Healthy, Wealthy and Wise--Surely these are qualities we all wish for. This easy to read, easy to understand book lays out all the ways we can improve all three. There are many great things about this book--one being that you can pick it up at any place and work on the area you feel you need to, or just feel like working on. You would like to be more independent--go to page 109, You think you might be lacking an adventurous spirit, start at page 17. With warmth, insight, and humor, this author offers encouragement, guidance and motivation. A book to study, savor and respond to. A keeper for sure.
Healthy, Wealthy & Wise 52 Life Changing Lessons for the Tw.......2005-02-19
I totally appreciate the format of this helpful & inspiring book. I love the way the author succinctly describes each attribute and her daily steps to achieve them. The four to five pages you need to read to start working on each area you find yourself lacking in is manageable in even the busiest life (like mine!) The authors' use of stories from her own life experiences are a really nice addition to an already well written and useful book.
Inspiring Book.......2005-02-19
Andrea takes making some deep meaning changes in your life and makes them easy, simple things that anyone can incorporate in their lives. Our society is looking for ways to have deeper meaning in their lives - this book makes it easy for anyone to add some depth to their life. All too often books of this nature are so into the psychology of things, it makes it impossible for the average joe to read and implement changes. Andrea has done an excellent job in making this book not only easy to read, but also easy to adapt and make life changes that will have an impact on all of society.
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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise... This fifteenth century nursery rhyme has stood the test of time but we all certainly could use more advice to accomplish these worthwhile pursuits. Sociologists, therapists and psychiatrists have spent entire careers investigating the ins and outs of health, success, and happiness yet their findings are inaccessible to ordinary people, hidden in obscure journals to be shared with other experts.
Now the international bestselling author of The 100 Simple Secrets series has collected the most current and significant data from more than a thousand of the best scientific studies on three of the most important aspects of our daily lives. These findings have been boiled down to advice for each day of the year and offer three hundred sxity five essential ways to find and maintain health, wealth and well–being. Each entry is accompanied by a true story showing the results in action.
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Healthy, Wealthy and Wise is the "common sense" guide to creating abundance in your life! Derrick's research goes back hundreds of years to discover the actions and behaviors that consistently create health, wealth and wisdom.
This book offers a roadmap to reach your higher self. The chapters within provide key components and exercises that build the internal and financial knowledge necessary to help you become Healthy Wealthy and Wise. While learning to deal with issues we all struggle with, this book also reveals:
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A wonderful read!.......2002-11-24
This is one of the best books I've ever read. Not only does the book teach what actions, beliefs and behaviours are needed to live your life to the fullest, it also has exercises at the end of each chapter to help you develop these skills. The author, Derrick R. Sweet, researched the consistent clues to living life to the fullest; these clues were from people like Buddha, Marcus Aurelius, Confucius, Plato, Albert Einstein, Helen Keller and others. This book is a must read and a wonderful gift to give to someone special!
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THE way to creating a complete and happy life........2006-02-14
I have read and scanned 1,000's of books related to life and I would rate this among the top 20. It is the most direct way to tie down how you want to live your life and how to create the happiness that we all deserve.
Part of its "beauty" is that it takes one through each step necessary to create what we want, rather than the standard book that might be inspiring but skips many of the practical steps.
It is particularly useful to have the self-diagnostic questionnaires, together with the evaluation and the directions each indicates. Knowing what is important helps one to go through each of the steps in creating full functionality in that area. Worksheets (together with suggested alternatives for selection so you don't have to think up all the traits, values, characteristics, or whatever on your own, often missing some key ones on your own) help one be thorough and systematic so that nothing is missed. Then you end up with a complete plan, where the forms are all provided, that will have you controlling the formation of a new, higher level life.
This is the book I wish I had written (at least until I write THE best life management book in history). I would recommend it for any person, no matter the level of accomplishment. It should be required reading for life.
Turn Your Life Around By Finally taking Control.......2001-11-02
If you were going to buy one book that can turn your life around, I would recommend this one. Many self-help books deal with specific areas of life fulfillment, but "How to Be Happy, Healthy, Wealthy and Wise" is a veritable one-stop shop. Kent McArthur touches all the bases from physical to mental to spiritual well-being and then some. Once you put this book down, you will have a lasting blueprint for success and happiness.
Mr. McArthur, in very down-to-earth, practical terms, shows us how to conquer the demons of self-doubt, procrastination and the other usual suspects that generally hold us back from reaching our full potential. He also shows us how to understand who we really are and even provides a valuable computerized self-assessment tool along with the book that will give us instant feedback on our own personality. He asserts that each of us has a life purpose or passion that must be identified and acted upon to turn your life around. I really didn't understand this critical missing element for me, but now I get it.
This book is for everyone from harried executives to multi-tasked moms. However, if your life is in balance, if you have meaningful goals that support your own individuality, if you have no fears and have a plan to know exactly where you are going in life, this book is probably not for you. If you are like most of us, however, the tips and strategies you get here will last you a lifetime. McArthur tells us we must start treating ourselves better. I would recommend you begin that process by purchasing this book. You, too, can finally be happy, healthy, wealthy and wise. You just have to know what to do.
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Healthy, Wealthy & Wise is a "total health solution" for busy men and women who can't seem to make results last. This all-in-one non-fanatical "HealthStyle" plan delivers effective stress, exercise and diet programs, including a revolutionary "Speed Cooking Plan" full of quick, delicious recipes. Both entertaining and educational, it includes valuable tips from some of America's most successful men and women. Perhaps most importantly and uniquely, this book solves an important problem for readers - how to stay motivated, troubleshoot failure and insure lifelong results.
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Easy Steps To Success!.......2006-04-07
Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise was a great read. KRS Edstrom shares the secrets to some of the most successful business people of recent times. This is an "A to Z" list of what helped propel these people to the top.
Wonderful fun for anyone interesting in comparing their habits to those of some of America's most successful.
Fantastic!.......1998-10-02
KRS Edstrom reveals the secrets of success, the foundation of performance, of America's very top executives.
A personal guide to achievement according to the very highest achievers.
A textbook of how to beat the competition.
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Healthy: Just two servings of this each week will bolster your body against heart attack, stroke, type 2 diabetes, depression, AND cancer! Can slash your risk of cancer, halt heart disease, improve your energy level and much more. All these fabulous benefits from just one vitamin! Sleep sounder and wake up refreshed and ready to face the world when you add these foods to your diet! Wealthy: Cut your grocery bill in half with this free frugality guide. Not all the cash you get is taxable. 14 payments the IRS can't touch. Get paid simply for owning and living in your own home. Don't pay big bucks for medications, checkups, and other health services. Get them FREE instead! Wise: Spend $5 at the hardware store and cut your water use by thousands of gallons a year. How to burglar-proof your home without an alarm! Sample letters to solve consumer problems...a complaint letter, a letter to get off mailing lists, a letter to make creditors stop calling you, and MORE!
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This one-of-a-kind book is packed with information from experts on how to improve your health, your finances, your appearance, and your home.
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- Debt-Proof Living: The Complete Guide to Living Financially Free (Debt-Proof Living (Paperback))
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