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List of Brain Food: 5 Things to Keep Your Mind Sharp

List of Brain Food: 5 Things to Keep Your Mind Sharp

Are you super-charging your mind with good brain food? Our brains are the engines that power our lives. We get out of our minds what we put in. Do high-performance race cars run on the same fuel as a Volkswagen Bug? No way! They would never win.

Why SMART Goals Don't Work and How to Fix Them

Why SMART Goals Don’t Work and How to Fix Them

“Where will you be in 5 years?” I’ve always hated this interview question. The truth is none of us has a clue where we’ll be in 5 years. We may be in Phoenix, Antarctica, or Bali. We may be healthy or sick, single or married. Yet, so many classic self improvement books instruct us to create 5 year plans and to set SMART goals to reach them.

Ideas To Help Your Children Become Smart Shoppers

Ideas To Help Your Children Become Smart Shoppers

We need to make a concerted effort to help our children become smart shoppers. Children are easily influenced in their shopping decisions. Kids are heavily targeted by advertisers hoping to score big sales. My children often want whatever toy was on the last commercial they saw on TV or that they last played with at a friends house. Impulse buying can lead to serious financial consequences.