Being a part of a mastermind group or team can really accelerate your business. Think and Grow Rich is a motivational personal development and self-help book written by Napoleon Hill where he devotes an entire chapter to the concept of Mastermind.

“Analyze the record of any man who has accumulated a great fortune, and many of those who have accumulated modest fortunes, and you will find that they have either consciously or unconsciously employed the ‘Master Mind Principle.” Napoleon Hill

This Terrific Tuesday Teleclass we delve into…
- Reasons why you need to be in a Mastermind Group
- How to find the Mastermind Group for you
- How to get started with your Mastermind Group

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There are days when I wished that Facebook was a little more intuitive! Lynn, one of my great clients, you’re all great clients by the way, wanted to add friends to her current Facebook Lists but we could not figure out how to do it. It took me a while, but success happened! Here is a quick little video just in case you come across the same challenge!! Avoid some frustration, take a look!

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I read this article via my friend MaryAnn Nagy on Twitter. For some strange reason I had thought that the baby boomer trend was a North American trend. Well on that topic I am now out of my cocoon thanks to this article by Yoon Ja-young a staff reporter with The Korea Times A different perspective!

Baby boomers, who have played a key role in Korea’s industrialization, are being squeezed between the dual responsibility of supporting their parents and raising their children, leaving themselves ill prepared for retirement.

According to Statistics Korea, baby boomers, born between 1955 and 1963 when the birth rate rose steeply after the 1950-1953 Korean War, account for 14.6 percent of the total population.

They have been the main pillar of the economy, enduring the era of industrialization, the Asian financial crisis, and most recently, the global financial crisis.

The baby boomer generation will begin massive retirement this year, but they are left without enough savings to do so.

Statistics shows that 70 percent of baby boomers provide financial support for their parents. However, their parents had not supported them enough while they were growing up. About 64 percent felt they didn’t pursue as much education as they wanted, mostly due to economic problems. It was more so with female baby boomers, with seven out of 10 indicating that they didn’t receive as much formal education as they had desired.

This generation in general, meanwhile, does everything possible for their children’s education. Over 99 percent believe they should support their children through college education, while 83.1 percent find having to provide for their children’s education is burdensome.

Financial responsibility to their children doesn’t come to an end even after sending them through school. Nine out of 10 baby boomers also believe that they should shoulder the wedding expenses of their children.

They are likely to face problems after retirement due to the “endless sacrifice.” While 80 percent stated that they are preparing for life after retirement, most of them are depending on a state pension as the key means of living, which is not nearly enough to maintain the quality of life they enjoyed before retiring.

“Baby boomers are not prepared for retirement. A multiple layer of social safety nets should be prepared,” the statistical office said.

Statistics showed that they are under more stress than the rest of the population, with 65.2 percent saying that they feel a great deal of pressure both at home and at work, higher than the average 60.4 percent of the whole population. Over 7 percent of baby boomers said that they have considered suicide during the past year, with more than half of them citing economic difficulties as the main cause.

They also turned out to be generally unsatisfied with the relationships with their parents, brothers and sisters, or in-laws.
chizpizza@koreatimes.co.kr

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The Pinch How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children’s Future – And Why They Should Give it Back
By David Willetts

Atlantic £18.99

The baby boomers have stolen the world and they should give at least part of it back. That is the theme of David Willetts’s latest book. And does he make a powerful case.

The argument is simple. It might be thought that being part of a large generation would be a disadvantage – more people to compete for anything and everything, from jobs to housing. In practice, the baby boomers – those born between 1945 and 1965 – have had it all.

Their sheer weight of numbers refashioned culture. They have gained enormously from rising house prices; from the final salary pension schemes that are becoming non-existent for new workers but which will still pay out for them; from the higher education and skills that many gained as university provision expanded; from low inflation; and from dramatic rises in life expectancy.

They have gone through life withrelatively few dependants ahead of them and relatively few behind. The result has been that wealth, and increasingly power, has become concentrated in their hands at the expense of younger generations for whom pretty much everything – finding a job, becoming economically independent, buying a house, acquiring a decent pension – has become measurably harder.

Yet it is that younger, smaller generation that will have to create the wealth to pay the pensions and meet the health and social care costs of their long-lived parents. An inter-generational contract – which involves not just wealth and income but the provision of infrastructure and care for the environment – has broken down, and it is down to the baby boomers to do something about it.

This is a wonderful, thought-provoking book, and is something of a tour de force. It starts with an account of how and why British families are smaller than those in most other countries, why that provided an economic and political advantage over the centuries, and how that became one of the causes of the problem he is addressing.

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Creating and nurturing relationships is the name of the game in Social Media.  It has been proven over and over again that people will buy from people they know like and trust.

I found this checklist on another blog and added my own thoughts and musings.

Here is the checklist to assist you in  measuring how you are nurturing
your relationships…

The Gift of Listening
This is and art!  It takes practice and patience because  you must really listen. Don’t interrupt, don’t daydream, and don’t plan your response. Just listen.

The Gift of Affection
Every day be generous with appropriate hugs, kisses, pats on the back and handholds.   Do simple things for strangers, like holding the door open or letting someone go in front of you in a line.  Let these small actions demonstrate the love you have for family, friends and even strangers.

The Gift of Laughter
There is so much truth in the saying that “laughter is the best medicine”  Clip cartoons. Share articles and funny stories. Your gift will say, “I love to laugh with you.”

The Gift of Solitude
There are times when we want nothing better than to be left alone.
Be sensitive to those times and give the gift of solitude to others.

The Gift of a Favour
Every day, go out of your way to do something kind. Good deeds are cool.

The Gift of a Written Note
It can be a simple “Thanks for your help” note, or a longer expression of your appreciation for that person being in your life. A brief handwritten note may be remembered for a lifetime.

The Gift of a Compliment
A simple and sincere, “You look great in red,” “You did a super job,” or “That was a wonderful meal” can make someone’s day.

The Gift of a Cheerful Disposition
The easiest way to feel good is to extend a kind word to someone.

These are eight important ways we can contribute toward whole and healthy relationships. They cost nothing, yet they may well be the most valuable gifts we can ever offer another person.

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