Advice for Young Girls Looking for A Way Out
Life Isn’t Fair: It’s a statement of fact. And while you should fight for fairness and equality, you’re best served personally by understanding this truth. Whether because you’re black, Latina, a woman, physically challenged, or poor, there will be reason for people to root against you. Commit Yourself to Excellence: Given life isn’t fair, commit yourself to being the very best. We will not make it to the mountaintop, the top of the class, or the executive suite by just “getting by.” We get there by excelling and outperforming. It starts now. Thirst for Knowledge: Read your local and national newspapers. Become ...
Everyone Can’t Be in Your Front Row
I was recently visiting family back home. My cousins, who are more like sisters to me, and I were having a conversation on toxic relationships with family, friends and significant others, and how sometimes the best thing you can do is distance yourself from them. It seems harsh, but regardless of if you love someone, they can be bad to your health, heart, and spirit. One of my cousins mentioned a poem she had read that gave her greater clarity and comfort when having to remove people from your inner circle and, in some cases, loving them from a distance. Everyone ...
45th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act
Statement by President Obama on the 45th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act Today we celebrate the 45th Anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, one of the most historic and groundbreaking pieces of legislation in our nation’s history. For those who marched bravely; who worked tirelessly; who shed their blood and gave their lives in the pursuit of freedom for every American, the Act served as the culmination of decades of work to fulfill America’s promise. And for the members of the Moses Generation – including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks, who stood alongside President Johnson when ...
Heels & Helmets: Understanding Fantasy Football: Pick Your Quarterback
The office chatter about fantasy football has already started. Which fantasy league are you in? When is your draft? Ochocinco may not get a lot of points with T.O. in town. In some cases you will hear more about fantasy football than real NFL games. What’s all the hype about? Fantasy football allows a lot of football fans to have their ultimate fantasy job – own, manage and coach a professional football team. Just like a NFL general manager, you get to draft the players that you want and trade them throughout the season. You also get to put on your ...
August 2010 Happiness Project: Have FUN!
Gretchen Rubin’s Happiness Project encourages us all to focus on FUN for the month of August. With all that we have going on in our lives, the economy, and the recent jobless numbers, it is sometimes difficult to focus on fun. The drudgery of the daily grind and trying to “get by” make it difficult to focus on fun. But there are rewards and contentment in doing so. According to Gretchen, why it’s important, and even selfless, to have fun: If you have plenty of fun in your life – if you make time to see friends, to learn about things that ...
Marshmallows and Raising Financially Responsible Kids
Forbes has a good article on how to raise financially responsible children. Key takeaways: give your kids real money to manage so they can appreciate the value of money and teach your kids the concept of waiting (no more instant gratification!): The best predictor of how financially successful your children will be in life may not be an IQ test or SAT score, but how long they can resist popping marshmallows into their mouths. Stanford researcher Walter Mischel began his research on the long-term effects of delayed gratification in the 1960s. He studied the behavior of 4 year olds tempted by plates ...
Adios, Overdraft Fees! (Well, Kinda)
Ever have $ 24.82 in your account and you write a check for $25.00? Yes, the proverbial writing checks your ...bank account... can't cash. That was me in college. Not on purpose of course! I was usually just hoping/wishing/praying that my paycheck would beat the check I had just written to the bank. That didn't work out so well. That 18 cents was compounded by an overdraft fee of $20...usually minutes before my paycheck made its final lap to the bank. Though it taught me valuable lessons, overdraft fees only seem to get you deeper and deeper in the hole. It is like falling dominoes toward ...
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Attention to Detail on Indepednence Blvd
How many workers looked at this sign, knew it was misspelled, but probably said, “it’s not my job?” Or worse, didn’t realize it was misspelled. Major fail. I wonder how much money and manpower it will take to fix it. According...
Grammar Matters: Whose and Who’s
I always get these confused, so much so that I avoid using either all together. Finally, I took the two minutes needed to refresh my memory and understand the difference between the two. According to Paul Brians’ Common Errors in English Usage: This...
Heels & Helmets: Understanding Fantasy Football: Pick Your Quarterback
The office chatter about fantasy football has already started. Which fantasy league are you in? When is your draft? Ochocinco may not get a lot of points with T.O. in town. In some cases you will hear more about fantasy football than real NFL...
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Grading Teachers Gets An A+Makes sense to me. And apparently it is starting to make sense on the West Coast. In Los Angeles Unified School District, some 6000 teachers were recently graded on their performance. Most importantly, these performance indicators were made public...
Parentgiving: Powers of Attorney Explained
A Power of Attorney allows one to designate another person or organization to act on one’s behalf to handle financial, legal or medical if one is unavilable or unable to do so. The person designated is known as the attorney-in-fact. There are many...
The Mis-Education of the Negro
I oftentimes wonder how many of us have read the classic texts shaping the African American experience…and how many of us have just “heard about it.” Have you read Carter G. Woodson’s The Mis-Education of the Negro? Fortunately...
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Adios, Overdraft Fees! (Well, Kinda)
Ever have $ 24.82 in your account and you write a check for $25.00? Yes, the proverbial writing checks your …bank account… can’t cash. That was me in college. Not on purpose of course! I was usually just hoping/wishing/praying that my paycheck would beat the check I had just written to the bank. That didn’t work out... [Read more]
Happy Birthday Social (In)Security
Last week marked the 75th birthday of legislation creating Social Security. While politicians traded barbs back and forth on how the other political party has ruined it, Social Security remains in dire straits. The reality of a program designed to provide a supplement to retirement income has morphed into a belief that social security in itself... [Read more]
Marshmallows and Raising Financially Responsible Kids
Forbes has a good article on how to raise financially responsible children. Key takeaways: give your kids real money to manage so they can appreciate the value of money and teach your kids the concept of waiting (no more instant gratification!): The best predictor of how financially successful your children will be in life may not be an IQ test or... [Read more]
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