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Managing money is like feeding sharks – if you don’t know what you’re doing, you can lose more than a finger.

That’s why, as a family dad, continuing to learn and staying up-to-date with how best to handle money situations is critical.

First things first, do YOU manage your bills, savings, and everything financial – or does your wife/significant other?

If the answer is yes, great!  If the answer is both of you do, great too!   If the answer is no, does the statement “Houston, we have a Problem” mean anything to you?

It is important that, as the family dad, as the CEO of your organization, as the head or the household – you either take the lead or be intensely involved with household money matters. 

You can’t just stay in the dark and let someone else drive this thing.

If your excuse is you’re not good in Math then go here and then come back when you’re done!

Back, great!  Let’s continue…

3 Steps

There are at least 3 steps a family dad takes when it comes to prospering with personal finance.  These 3 are necessities, not options.  They are Measurement, Planning, and Automate/Diversify.

Measurement – Measurement is taking a look at a snapshot of your finances.  How much comes in and how much goes out (Cashflow). 

The dreaded budget word is associated within this step.  Also, do you own more than you owe and how much (Net Worth)? 

Before I lose you, please note that since this step is not as easy to do right now, we will not talk about it anymore – it will be at another time.  But remember, you will need to honestly and accurately measure your status regardless of any circumstances.

Planning – Shouldn’t it come first?  Not really, you need to know where you stand first before you start mapping out where you’re headed. 

Under planning, you really identify your goals and dreams – it’s fun, but we are not going to talk about this either – it also can wait for another time.

Automate/Diversify – In the next post, will start here.  By the time people start these steps, they rarely get to this most important part – the part where you are actually doing something. 

Before you check out the next post though, please note that the Automate/Diversify step is directed for those who generate more income than what they pay out. 

If, for any reason, that’s not you at this time, it may still be helpful to think about how you’ll move your money around once you get there (and you will!).

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Autumn is here…

Kids are going back to school. 

The outlook for your job/career/business is sort of blurry.

If you live in an area where seasons change, you’ll soon notice the changing outdoor colors.

If you live in an area with only one season, you’ll still feel something changing – even if you can’t see it.

Change is all around us.  It wins presidential elections.  It surprises you if you aren’t prepared. It’s the only thing that’s constant.

Change will happen whether we’d like it to or not. 

It doesn’t need a permission slip.

So, how do you handle change? What can you do for you and family to prosper in changing times?

Do you worry? 

Of course not.

You know that worrying is just another way fear shows up.  You know that not only do you produce nothing when you worry, it actually can be very dangerous.

How?

When you worry, you are meditating – but meditating on negative things – exactly the opposite of what you want to happen.

As you know, what you think about (or meditate on) will eventually become reality.  This is not a secret anymore. 

But it works both ways.  It is a two-edged sword.

Instead, how you handle change is to embrace it.

First, be open to it.  Learn (more on that next time).

See change as exciting opportunities that are just waiting to be found.

Next, sit back, relax…and begin to visualize.  God has given you a mind and universal laws that are more powerful than we can imagine.

Meditate, pray for, visualize on specific things regarding surround-sound prosperity:

• The kids are doing excellent in school academically, socially, and in every relevant way
• You now have a wonderful job/career – the one that you are a natural for
• Your business is more profitable every month and is growing exponentially
• You have so many prosperous ideas every day, you’ll need catch your breadth

Please make sure you get this very important note though:

This doesn’t mean you sit around daydreaming.

Far from it.  What you are doing is setting the expectations for you and your family to prosper in the specifics of life.

These expectations serve as guides/directions for the actions needed to be done by you, your kids, your company, etc.

Without these, your actions are just random – they have no meaning, no reasoning, no basis for existing.

Does that make sense?

A discussion about handling change cannot be done in one post.  For this reason, this is the first of a series regarding this topic.  In the meantime, remember: don’t worry about change, be happy with it.

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I’m not going to talk about how the obesity rate is where it is and increasing in epidemic proportions. 

Not even going to mention the fact that less and less people are exercising or about the multibillion $ per year in health care costs that it produces.

Nope.  Not going there.

Why?

Because this is all about bringing you & maintaining prosperity – not only for you the family dad, but for those you love and follow your example – from your family to your friends and those you touch.

The question is:  how can you prosper with your health and in turn prosper the health and wellbeing of those close to you?

Remember this…

There is nothing worse than doing nothing.

As you know (and this pretty much is a universal starting point for succeeding at anything), prosperity with your health begins with doing something – anything. 

As a matter of fact, doing anything that is an action verb and ends with “ing” works. 

Use your imagination, but mine include walking, lifting weights, running, dancing to all kinds of music, boxing, and so on.

Yes, walking with the family, going white water rafting, playing tennis (even if it means with your Wii system), or going snowboarding are all beneficial.

So, after reading this, just get up and get going.

What you want to do is perform actions that can become good habits.These habits will help you and others stay away from the sofa. 

They will yield the results you really want & need –to continually prosper and, yes, increase good health at epidemic proportions.

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