1. TAKE INITIATIVE:
-Not having a job is no excuse for inactivity. -Preparation is key in securing a job. -Invest one hour daily in making an effort to actively look for a job.
2. NETWORK:
-Invest 30 minutes daily getting to know people in your community. -Ask questions about job referrals and internships. -Use your phone book and call businesses close to your home and ask if they have any job openings.
3. LEARN:
-Every job will require knowledge and skill. -Invest 30 minutes daily to acquire new knowledge and skill in preparation for your new job. -Connect with a mentor/coach.
4. VOLUNTEER:
-The most powerful way to prepare for your new job is to volunteer. -Contact organizations in your community and invest 3 or more hours weekly volunteering until you get hired for a job.
-Check out http://www.volunteermatch.org to find volunteer opportunities in your community. -Email your resume to BrooksFoundation@gmail.com for support in getting a job
Financial wellness is the art of managing family income, investments and expenditures for optimal living. The process of becoming aware and making conscious choices toward financial independence is foundational for financial wellness.
Learning new skills and innovative strategies for maximizing cash flow is a goal many families must commit to before advancing toward financial wellness. The concept of financial wellness is non-existent in many households. However, for families who choose to experience financial freedom, the following steps will empower and bring new insight to your family.
Step 1# Give
Giving is the first step toward financial wellness. This is your financial insurance for creating opportunities to get wealth. Giving is the same as a farmer who plants seeds seasonally so as to reap a harvest in another season. A farmer who desires to reap a harvest of apples in the next season must plant apple seeds. Planting orange seeds and expecting apples is INSANE.
A family with a desire to increase their household income must give (WORK) the use of their talents and abilities to those who could benefit. Planting your talent into an organization or a company is the fastest way to bring increase to your family income. There is no hope for financial increase when a family refuses to work.
Volunteering is an excellent way of planting a seed for the perfect job opportunity. Many organizations would love to benefit from your skills and dedication in the empowerment of your family. Visit http://www.volunteermatch.org to find an opportunity in your community, or visit http://www.brooksandbrooksfoundation.com to assist with our monthly feeding of families in need in downtown Los Angeles (SKID ROW). Helping someone start their own business is another excellent idea for positioning your family for increase.
Without understanding this FIRST STEP in financial wellness, it’s safe to say that the following steps will not apply to you. For those looking for results that work, please continue reading.
Step #2 Prepare to Receive
Preparing to receive is the second step toward financial wellness. Once your family has already planted their seeds by the giving of their talents, ideas, love and kindness to others, WATCH OUT. The harvest has no choice but to come. Not being prepared for the harvest will produce family stress and anxiety for those who did not plant the correct seeds on good ground. An excellent way to prepare for the harvest is to create a 12 month financial plan on how you will spend the increase before your financial harvest arrives.
Step# 3 Your Measurement
It is impossible to receive a financial increase without the planting of your talents and skills. There is no job or business on this planet who will pay you to do nothing. Therefore, your measurement of financial increase is connected to the amount of QUALITY work you give to others. If your quality of work was good, your measurement will be good. If your quality of work was mediocre, your financial return will equal the same. To maximize your measurement, always do excellent work at all times.
Step #4 Pay Back
Pay back is a category in financial wellness that has the potential to produce fruit. Based on your quality of work invested into helping someone else grow their business, there is an automatic release of promotion and pay increase that flows without any extra effort on your part. To position your family for a larger pay back, invest time to develop your skill and talent to another level.
Step #5 Multiply
Multiplication is a form of financial increase that is shaken together and demands attention. At this stage of financial wellness your family begin to enjoy their financial increase dimensionally. Developing your family’s skills and talents to another level raises the financial bar and positioned your family to experience greater financial success. Staying at this level demands enrolling in classes for improving your skills and connecting with a core group of associates that empowers your family beyond measure.
Step #6 Overflow
Living in the overflow is operating with more than just enough money to pay your bills. This surplus and abundance allows your family through the ability of multiplying resources to build schools, fund research for cancer and sponsor programs that provide job training for unemployed families in your community. It is in the overflow that many families begin to establish themselves as a financial resource for others. Operating at this level effectively will take coaching and the development of new skills that prepare your family for leading the community responsibly.
Step #7 Favor
Favor is the ability to experience exceptional kindness and generosity from others effortlessly. Receiving preferential treatment in every area of your life is a strong indication that you and your family have advanced to highest level of financial wellness. This level of financial wellness is where no eyes have seen and no ears have heard the abundance heading toward your family.
Operating at this level is an experience that surpasses all understanding. Do not try to figure it out! Houses, cars, boats, planes, and special invitations to paid VIP luncheons/dinners are some of the benefits that follow a family that is drenched in the excess that come with operating in favor.
This level of financial wellness is not for sale. Favor is a natural progression for families who start by giving through investing time and effort to help others succeed. By helping others to succeed, your family will benefit several times over without having to sell your soul for it. Enjoying and maintaining this level of financial success demands helping others achieve success and rejecting low-level thinking that encourages competition and greed.
Give yourself a clear visual image of exactly the kind of parent you would like to become. Move strategically and skillfully daily into the desired path with the feelings you would like to experience with your new image.
Having provided yourself with a powerful and empowering vision of the parent you would like to become, begin slowly activating your vision. Put full confidence in your ability to parent your child with excellence. Stay grounded in your potential to care for your child with abundant love, peace and joy. Share your success report with your spouse and other parents.
The secret to a child’s behavior is their belief system. A child’s belief system controls their thoughts, the words they speak and the actions they practice habitually. Our children are picture thinkers and therefore easily affected by their environment.
A positive environment is critical for children to develop and grow with excellence. A negative environment can be highly toxic and will pollute a child’s belief system. A child’s attitude about life will always reflect the temperature of the home environment.
The behavior of a child is their belief system exposed. A child’s belief system is made up of choices (good or bad). The ability to think like a winner or to think like a victim is connected to the dial of the child’s mindset.
A child’s thoughts about themself is more important than their behavior. Reacting to a child’s negative behavior using punishment magnifies the behavior. Visit the detention center at your child’s school or our youth prisons to see how this technique works.
The high level of suspension for children unable to control their behavior away from home has risen over the years and can cost our public schools an average of $290 per suspension, $2900 for ten suspensions and $29,000 for 100 suspension.
Children cannot change a negative behavior without first discovering a new belief system. Parents must study what the child believe about themself, and why they believe this thought about themself before changes can begin to take place. Relying on medication as a quick fix for correcting negative behaviors does not work for every child.
The answers to what and why a child believes a certain way is the most powerful resource parents can gather over time for correcting the environment . Once the environment is corrected, parents must move strategically toward assisting their child with developing a new belief system for building stronger self-esteem and confidence.
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1. Perception: Perception is a mind management skill many children will need to correct immediately in order to move beyond mediocrity.
2. Imagination: Imagination is a powerful mind management tool for children to use habitually in preparing for life.
3. Values: Your children’s values influence their behavior and attitude towards themselves, family, and teachers. Create a values statement.
4. Vision Statement: Establishing a vision statement early for children will assist them in achieving their mental target of becoming more responsible.
5. Mission Statement: A mission statement is an invisible hand that guides children towards accomplishing their ultimate goal of being successful.
6. Family Meetings: An excellent idea for establishing structure and balance in your children’s lives is through a weekly family meeting.
7. Word Association: Associate your children’s name with the following words before sending them off to school; Responsible, Intelligent, Confident, Motivated, Determined, Successful, Loving, Kind, Peaceful, Self-Control
8. CISSEARCH: Assist your children with cultivating a strong mind by using the thinking guidelines for accelerated learning: C= Compelling, I= Integrity, S= Superlative, S= Stunning, E= Elevated, A= Authentic, R= Respectful, C= Conclusive, H= Hospitable
9. Parenting: Effective parenting is associated with the following attributes; manager, valuable, organized, team leader, negotiator, forgiving, sound mind, generous, dependable, respectful, healthy.
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A parent’s principles represents a set of values that governs the family’s behavior and is the foundational viewpoint from which their children receive guidance. Family principles determines the leadership that directs a them toward success or failure.
Family values are the true source of their children’s behavior. A parents belief about their leadership role in the home determines the values transferred to their children. A family’s confidence is controlled by the values discussed and posted in the home.
No family can live beyond the limitations of their beliefs. A parents principles controls their children’s response to life and is responsible for the destruction or advancement of their community.
A family who embraces mediocrity or excellence comes from the unconscious and conscious principles demonstrated in the home. It is not an accident that a parent’s mindset about their family equals their reality.
If you do not like your reality, it is up to you to make a change. IGNORANCE is not the only choice for your family.
The most common complaint of parents is, “It’s not that I don’t know what to do, it’s that I don’t do what I know!” Doing too much for your children is an excellent example of knowing what to do and enabling your child to be a victim.
Children can only relate at the level of their parents perception or thoughts of who they are. If the perception of your child is limited, you will find yourself doing everything for them because you believe they are incompetent.
If the perception of your child is uplifting, you will eagerly provide tools and resources for your child to increase his/her capacity for self-growth.
Take time to reflect on the state of your mind before reacting or responding to your child. Look at your children’s potential, not their deficiency.
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