Retire Rich
Contentment is the only real wealth. Alfred Nobel The benefits of retiring rich can include freedom from worries about comfortable housing and quality health care as well as affording travel, supporting loved ones, enjoying hobbies, leaving a legacy and more. Here’s a video for building retirement wealth after fifty. See Also: 7 Habits of the Quietly Wealthy Retiree, 12 Minutes 6 Retirement Planning Hacks That Actually Save You Money, 6 Minutes Generational Wealth Stats from Dave Ramsey: 5 Ways to spend in Retirement and Build Lasting Legacy, 8 Minutes ********** Here are PacificLife.com’s “4 Ways to Help Turn Income into Wealth.” First, increase savings by reducing debt, tracking expenses and calculating retirement needs. Second, diversify money by placing in various investments, including those that provide equity and cash flow. Third, create generational wealth, like owning a home, life insurance and an annuity with beneficiary benefits. Wealth can also be shared while living by: Helping a family member make a home down payment or start a business. Providing educational assistance for a college education or through direct payment to the school. Paying for a family member’s medical expenses. Owning a business that can be passed to the next generation. Fourth, Learn about building wealth by, Consulting a financial professional who can navigate complex, wealth-building strategies. Studying investing and entrepreneurship.. Investopedia’s “7 Simple Steps to Build Personal Wealth” reminds to earn enough to cover basic needs, save, invest and protect assets. Also, have clear financial goals while managing debt. GuardianLife defines wealth as, “the total value of assets … minus any debts or liabilities.” Assets can include cash, savings and checking accounts. Also, real estate, vehicles, jewelry and collectibles. Business interests can be added as well as copyrights, patents, life insurance policies. In their post “How to Build Wealth in 9 Steps,” recommendations include these types of insurance, Health, to protect from paying catastrophic medical bills Disability, when unable to work due to illness or injury Homeowner, to be reimbursed should home or property be destroyed Umbrella, to protect assets from lawsuits Life, to protect family finances. [Remember, permanent life insurance (as opposed to term life) can also serve as a tax-advantaged savings vehicle, thereby serving double duty.] If wondering “How to Build Wealth when You Don’t Come from Money,” Harvard Business Review answers, Release the belief that wealth is meant for a special few. Believe abundance is deserved. Allow that lots of money can do much good. Understand building wealth requires intention and expenses management. Know that, according to the 2025 Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report, millionaires represent less than 9% of the United States population. Yet, that report noted that in 2020 alone, the United States had 1.7 new millionaires. According to business theorist Thomas J. Stanley who studied more than 1,000 millionaires for his book The Millionaire Next Door, 80% of U.S. millionaires are first-generation “rich.” They didn’t inherit their wealth, but built it. Keep in mind, All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth. — Napoleon Hill Succeed and Soar! Sandra Gould Ford Presenting arts experiences to encourage, refresh, enrich creative thinking and inspire. ********** Radiant Tree Books The Best Journey presents wisdom for a well-lived life. The book contains vibrant photographs taken at Latrobe, Pennsylvania’s Amtrak station. The book is also a journal with space for personal notes. This beautiful, 5×8″, 32-page book vividly illustrates precious wisdoms for life well lived. Also available for immediate, PDF download. A lovely gift. Book $12.50 Instant Download PDF $9.99 Preview and Purchase Thanks for shopping!
Special Select Story: Obstacles Overcome
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. — Henry David Thoreau Each month, Succeed and Soar shares a short video chosen to lift the heart and spirit, awareness and humanity. This select story short [below] is about the meaning of obstacles. Here are more encouragements, Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, of time. — Marabel Morgan Never, never, never give up. — Winston Churchill Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. — Napoleon Hill I can, therefore I am. — Simone Weil Click Here to View. 2 Minutes Succeed and Soar! Sandra Gould Ford The Best Journey presents wisdom for a well-lived life. The book is illustrated with vibrant photographs taken at Latrobe, Pennsylvania’s Amtrak station. The book is also a journal with space for personal notes. For groups, Illustrated Wisdom journaling workshops are available either in person or online. Preview this book. See all Radiant Tree Books Thanks for your support!
New Year Wisdoms and Inspirations
For years, I’ve collected inspiring quotes. As this new year begins, here are words of wisdom offered to encourage, refresh, enrich creative thinking and inspire. Click here for a free, printable, PDF booklet of these inspirations. Take big steps. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. –David Lloyd GeorgeGetting to know and like people and getting people to know and like you are the two top cards in the game of success. –UnknownCherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. –Napoleon HillObstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. –Henry Ford What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love . . . Give it the best there is in you . . . Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team. –Benjamin F. Fairless Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. –Abraham Lincoln Succeed and Soar! Sandra Gould Ford Presenting arts experiences to encourage, refresh, enrich creative thinking and inspire. COMMENT.
Bouncing Back
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. – Babe Ruth For decades, I’ve gathered precious insights. Each one I read is like a breath of life. They lift my spirit and remind of the good we can do and marvelous things we can be. I hope these words of wisdom encourage, refresh, enrich creative thinking and inspire. I hope the Succeed and Soar web site gladdens your heart. Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. – Napoleon Hill I am not what happened to me. I am what I chose to become. – Carl Jung Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. – Ed Cole Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. – John D. Rockefeller Shop Succeed and Soar Inspirations and Art on Onesies As well as tote bags, tee shirts, journals, puzzles, phone cases, ornaments, face masks, towels, blankets, cups, pillows, shower curtains and more The high quality and unique Onesies produced by Fine Art America: Come in four sizes [6 months, 12 months, 18 months, 24 months] Are 100% pre-shrunk cotton Offer choice of 12 colors [including white, gold, pink, red, Kelly green and more] Are machine washable Price: $26 CUSTOMIZE. Use tools with item to: Enlarge, reduce size of art Change placement of art and text Choose from twelve, onesie colors Purchase this onesie [choose from 4 sizes] Shop All Art and Collections HERE. Thanks for your support!
Einstein 16: Your Miracles
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can life as if everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein When an eleven year old’s handmade harp was stolen, the police searched. A CBS TV news story aired. Nothing worked until an odd conversation effected the girl’s mother so much that Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, a psychoanalyst and UC-Berkeley professor, wrote Extraordinary Knowing. The book shares stories of people who knew things they shouldn’t have and scientific support for paranormal phenomena like telepathy, clairvoyance and the power of prayer. See “6 Stories To Make You Believe in Miracles.” Have you experienced unusual, improbable events that helped, a/k/a miracles? What if you can make your own? Deepak Chopra’s The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success opened me to the idea that intentions create destiny. Napoleon Hill proposed the same in Think and Grow Rich and Louise Hay in Heal Your Body. Nine hundred years ago, Rumi said, “Live as though life is rigged in your favor.” [Here are five more of Arianna Huffington’s favorite quotes from Thrive. I really like the Cherokee grandfather story.] What if expectations can shape fate? Jim Rohn said, “A piece of the miracle process has been reserved for each of us.” If so, how can we claim our pieces? See: Make Your Own Miracles in Seven Steps How to create more miracles in your life Blessings & best wishes! ***** Mother’s Day Sunday, May 9, 2021 According to MountainTrek.com, the word ‘mother’ can be a verb [‘to mother’]. So, Mother’s Day can also be a time to remember to nurture and nourish ourselves. First, through playfulness. Here are more tips. Clean Your Room Day Monday, May 10, 2021 Here’s another way to do some self mothering, and here are 13 Bedroom Cleaning Hacks, beginning starting at the top of the room. Ever wonder how rainbows happen? Why rainbows are curved? What’s at the end of rainbows? Here are the answers. * Shop “Rose Bouquet,” this week’s Featured Art .