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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Finance is a very sensitive and personal subject to discuss.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If you think minutely, then you will realize that hiding deep financial secrets from your partner can only bring future chaos in your relationship!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Being a couple, you share so many personal secrets. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To be precise, sharing is the main driving factor that keeps a relationship intact.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The more transparent you are with your partner, the better is it for the relationship!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If you approach any financial therapist or counselor, you will understand what I am trying to say. There are many instances where debts and other financial problems cause divorces, breakups, delays in conceiving child, and many other mental health issues.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Also united we stand and divided we fall. As I will talk later in this post, if you can merge your finances with your partner, then you can fight emergency expenses and other costly issues efficiently.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Is discussing finances with your partner difficult?</span></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If both of you are ready to participate equally in such discussions, then it’s not difficult. The initiatives should come from both sides.</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Open up your financial issues one by one. Remember to speak out the worst problem first. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: large; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By doing so, you will be able to throw out the other petty issues without any dilemma or shyness.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reveal both of your salaries</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: large; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and don’t hide one’s financial strength from the other.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The main reason for coming into an agreement about financial problems, with your partner, is to </span><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/learnvest/2012/09/10/how-to-combine-finances-with-your-partner/#1d21afa7e22c" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">merge your finances together</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If both of you are income holders in your family, then you can easily divide the expenses between you two, and take charge of obligations separately.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">You can take care of groceries and the utility bills, while your partner can take hold of debt payments.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Do you have enough debts to take away your night’s sleep? Do you feel your income is not enough to suffice your debt payments?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Well you must discuss in brief with your spouse about all the debts that you have, whether or not you can fight it alone, how helpful will it be for you if your spouse plans to contribute to your debt payments.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">When it comes to debts, or tackling loan bills, you both should work together to get the optimum results.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If both of you are breadwinners, then having one low income won’t be much of a problem. Surface your</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.ovlg.com/get-out-of-debt.html" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">options to pay off debts even with a low income</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, by merging your salary with your spouse’s.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Start making extra payments, with the help of your partner.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">There’s nothing called “your debts” or “my debts” in a relationship. By being together, you agree that everything will be shared by both of you equally, including liabilities and responsibility, and debts are no different.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ultimately the money agreement should look a bit like this:</span></span></h3>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: large; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There will be no secrets and hiding of facts</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> when it comes to sharing personal financial information.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Each should have a brief idea about one another, regarding income, expenses, debts, obligations and other miscellaneous costs.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: large; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Savings and expenses, should be divided between you two, based on who earns how much.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So if you earn $5000, and your spouse earns $8000, then your spouse’s contribution will be more than you.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can deal with small expenses, while your spouse can deal with the bigger ones.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The same thing will happen with savings. Your partner’s contribution will be a bit more than yours.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: large; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From now on, every financial decision is to be taken jointly</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, be it a vacation planning or managing medical debts, or even your kid’s college expenses.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Focus on "less." The strategies in Decluttering at the Speed of Life are designed to work whether you have five minutes, five hours, or five days to devote to decluttering. Life happens, which means distractions happen, and the steps I use let me declutter without leaving anything for later, so I can make real progress in any amount of time. Focusing on achieving "less" means that if I work for five minutes, I've achieved my goal because there's less in the space than there was when I started. This mindset shift is a game-changer.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grab a trash bag (and a recycling bin, if you have one) and start throwing away trash. Spoiler alert: that's my first step in dealing with an overwhelming mess. In any cluttered space, I always find trash. Always. Focusing on removing trash is easy, and once the trash (or the top layer of trash) is gone, the space is less visually overwhelming, which encourages me to keep going.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There's hope! If I can do this, anyone can. I've created strategies that remove emotions from the process and allow me to work my way through huge amounts of clutter quickly, and without tears. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: large; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why did you write this book?</span></b></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I wrote Hello Mornings because I’m passionate about helping others build a grace-filled, life-giving morning routine. Over the years, I’ve learned so much about habit building and simple ways to create lasting change that I wanted to put it all together into a fun, inspiring, “how-to” book for mornings.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Well, technically, I don’t think morning routines are important. What I believe to be important is starting each day connecting with God and creating an on-ramp for living each day centered around Him and the life He’s called us to live. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At Hello Mornings we call it the 3 Minute Morning and it has three parts. God Time, Plan Time and Move Time. The central idea is that we don’t want to be ONLY hearers of the Word, but doers also. So, our time with God is followed by prayerfully submitting our daily calendar and tasks to Him and making healthy choices so that we have the energy to do the things He’s called us to do.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>The 3 Minute Morning:</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br class="kix-line-break" /></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Simply do the 3 Minute Morning right when they get up. We all have three minutes. Then as life allows, scale up in any area. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: large; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What difference has this morning routine made in peoples' lives?</span></b></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First of all, I don’t think this morning routine is magical. The difference is made when the simplicity of the routine and the grace-filled focus of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0718094174/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0718094174&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=weekcoun-20&amp;linkId=6352b30ece42392efde7fca4a6c8b2d7" rel="nofollow">Hello Mornings</a> helps people consistently start each day with God. Then He makes the difference in their lives. That being said, we’ve heard powerful stories from people all over the world who have renewed their faith, organized their lives, gotten healthy, restored their vision for their lives and have seen their marriages and families strengthened by starting each day with God.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your life matters. There is no better way to live each day than to start with the One who made us, loves us and has a purpose and plan for our lives. (Jeremiah 29:11)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Deciding what you want by looking at the ads is like going grocery shopping when you're hungry. If you let the ads tell you what you should buy, you're more likely to overspend and buy things that seem cool but you don't really need or don't help you reach your goals.</span><br />
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Weekends Counthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02449875541249694690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722675471865594351.post-2247826522309128722017-11-13T08:30:00.000-06:002017-11-13T08:30:17.923-06:00Preparing the Next Generation of Familypreneurs!<div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-size: large;">First, I wanted to share with parents especially those running their small businesses how they can nurture and educate their children from any early age the basics of entrepreneurship and along the way get the kids to have a keen interests in what Mom and Dad do and how it contributes to the overall family wellbeing and financial stability.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-size: large;">Third, job security is something in the past; people used to work for corporations, receive pension benefits and when they retire, their financial situation would almost be guaranteed for the rest of their lives. Small business do the same for the owners too! Not only their pay (5 figure salary is possible for a young adult joining his parents within 3 to 5 years, which is hard to achieve when joining big corporations).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-size: large;">I am an Accountant by trade focusing on advisory services. Beside my accounting practice, I co-own a Tour Operators company (we purchased it from a family which has owned it for 36 years - Rostad Tours Ltd), a kids playground (under construction - Luv2play Airdrie) and co-founded recently GN Compass, a fintech company in crypto-currency-backed loans.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-size: large;">I am married with 3 kids (2 boys and one girl - age 11, 10 and 7).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-size: large;">If you look into the school curricula, entrepreneurship is never taught at a young age, not even mentioned for even curiosity sake; when we grow up, we find ourselves struggling to grasp the basic concepts of entrepreneurship! We just freeze and we think of business owners as those people who took on huge risks!</span></div>
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Tony Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08888002041995301222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722675471865594351.post-62423730560702755952017-10-23T08:30:00.000-05:002017-10-23T08:30:16.114-05:00Twelve Easy Ways to Save Money That Won't Make You Feel Frustrated!<span style="font-size: large;">Bills. Groceries. Debt. The struggle is real.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Getting out of debt. Building an emergency fund. Saving for retirement. Saving for college.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you must buy name-brand items, you can save considerably by purchasing them at thrift stores and consignment stores. Goodwill Stores carry casual and dress clothes for considerable savings. Just look for items that are high quality and gently used.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If we're really honest with ourselves, many of the things we buy are wants and not actual needs. This question is especially important when you find something in a store that catches your eye.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just hear me out. You can live without cable. Is your life consumed by TV. Get outside. Start a hobby. Actually pay attention to the people in your home. If you have a digital antenna, you can get local channels for free. If you have Internet and a Netflix or Hulu subscription, you can watch most of the shows you like for less than $15 a month. If you have unlimited Internet through AT&T, you can get DIRECTV Now for $10 a month (as of the publication date of this post). This subscription includes most popular channels and many shows you can watch on demand. Compare that to cable or satellite subscriptions that can cost $50 to $100 a month. If you keep your traditional subscription, consider reducing the number of locations in the home where you can watch it so you can save money and watch TV as a family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you have a card that accumulates cash back, points, or miles, use that card instead of paying cash. This won't work for those of you who are cash-only, but using cash when you have a card that offers rewards, you are essentially leaving money on the table by not using it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When we were faculty members, we were on nine-month contracts and we had summers off. While this was fun, that meant we were traveling at the most expensive time of the year. Now that we work twelve months a year, we can take vacation during off-peak times, allowing us to save money. Also, if you watch prices over the course of a week, you may find the cheapest day to book your tickets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rather than buy every item on your list every week, try to only buy the items that are on sale and stock up. This strategy takes some planning, but can save money in the long run.</span><br />
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Sports enthusiasts can also find items at DAISO. While it's not $1.50, this tennis racket is a steal at $2.00!</div>
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DAISO even carries ping pong paddles and gloves!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Too busy to go grocery shopping? Need to save money on groceries? Then try Kroger ClickList!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Save Time Grocery Shopping</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As grocery stores get larger and larger, it takes longer and longer to walk all the aisles to find what you need. You can dramatically reduce the amount of time you spend by shopping online and picking up your items - outside the store.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even when you go the store with a list, we often end up spending more because of impulse buys and items we find along the way. One way to solve this problem is to buy your items online based on your grocery list so you don't buy any extra items. You can also save money by using online ClickList coupons!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">First, you need to buy your groceries online.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When you arrive at the store, you will follow the ClickList signs to the pickup station. At our local Kroger, the pickup station is on the side of the store.</span><br />
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<br />Tony Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08888002041995301222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1722675471865594351.post-33767391375866984132017-10-02T10:00:00.000-05:002017-10-02T10:00:14.619-05:00Teach Your Kids The Drive to Learn - Interview with Author Dr. Cornelius GroveWant your kids to be more successful in school and in life? We sure do. Why are some children more successful than others? We certainly want to find out! That's why we interviewed Dr. Cornelius Grove, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1475815107/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1475815107&linkCode=as2&tag=weekcoun-20&linkId=ca2d45fa449de1d408ef4fb8c9b10c93"><i>The Drive to Learn</i></a>!<br />
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Why did you write The Drive to Learn?</h3>
Jennifer and Tony, thank you for giving me this opportunity to share my views. Since around 1970, an increasing number of Americans has become concerned about the accumulating evidence that our young people are not learning as much in school as the youth of several other cultures. Often noted as attaining superior academic results are Finland, Poland, Singapore, China, Japan, and Korea.<br />
Among Americans who share this concern, the response is invariably to develop a wide variety of “reforms” for what goes on in schools. Well, that’s a reasonable thing to do. But let’s note that virtually all of our reforms address the roles of adults – educators and educational policy-makers – in enabling children to learn in classrooms. Virtually none of our reforms address the roles of the<br />
children themselves in actually doing the learning in classrooms.<br />
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Surely the fact that our children aren’t learning enough isn’t 100% the fault of the adults. It’s the children who aren’t learning enough. They bear some of the responsibility. They’re part of the problem, so they must be part of the solution.<br />
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Professionally, I’m an interculturalist. Interculturalists focus on the differences between cultures at the level of assumptions, values, mindsets, and behaviors.<br />
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We like to compare different cultures. So my concern with the state of American education transforms into this question: “What can we learn from other modern cultures where the children consistently learn more in classrooms than American children do? What’s happening there that differs from what’s happening here?”<br />
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My next question quickly becomes, “Are there any other cultures about which we already know a great deal about all the factors that can possibly help to explain why children there learn more in classrooms?” </h3>
Fortunately, the answer is “Yes!” We know a huge amount about children’s learning in East Asia: China, Japan, and Korea (and including Taiwan and Hong Kong). Since 1970, more than 500 studies<br />
have provided answers to why children there learn more than children here. (Be aware that the findings don’t necessarily reflect student learning in East Asia today.)<br />
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The more I became acquainted with this mountain of research findings, the more I recognized that it’s loaded with insights that potentially are useful for our understanding of our own predicament. And here the thing: That research didn’t address only what happens in schools. It also addressed what happens in other areas of youngsters’ lives, especially in their homes. These findings are invaluable!<br />
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Why did I write <i>The Drive to Learn</i>? </h3>
Because these findings are virtually unknown 1 to the American public, including to educators and educational policy-makers. I say “virtually unknown” because one important, research-based book did come to the attention of the American public during the early 90s: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671880764/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0671880764&linkCode=as2&tag=weekcoun-20&linkId=c717ae6832a167e1459312764888d38d">The Learning Gap</a>, by Harold W. Stevenson & James W. Stigler (Simon & Schuster, 1992). So I made it my mission to share the researchers’ conclusions. I was in a good position to do this because I had lived and taught in China during 1986 and subsequently co-authored <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010WHWCEM/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B010WHWCEM&linkCode=as2&tag=weekcoun-20&linkId=52b989117bb7bf5d4b0c61988ae1f5d6">Encountering the Chinese</a></i> (3rd Edition: <i>Hachette</i>, 2010).<br />
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How do successful students use class time?</h3>
The research makes it clear that East Asian students have expectations about the purpose of class time that differ sharply from American students’ expectations. In East Asia, the mastery of academic knowledge is deeply respected. Therefore, teachers are deeply respected. Books and other repositories of knowledge are treasured. And the time and intense effort required for a young person to master academic knowledge is widely admired. In fact, children who study long and hard to excel in school confer honor and “face” on their families within their community. When you put young people with these beliefs and values into a classroom with a teacher widely respected for her academic accomplishments, the outcome is going to be quite different from the typical outcomes in American classrooms.<br />
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That’s because East Asian young people view their in-class time as a valuable opportunity: Here’s their chance to gain knowledge from authoritative sources, the teacher and the textbook. Only 45 to 60 minutes are available; therefore…<br />
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East Asian students are quietly attentive. They are mentally engaged. They do not interrupt the teacher’s carefully planned delivery with questions or comments; that would take time away from the authoritative source. There is no expectation that they will be broken into small groups for discussions. Nor that the teacher will make the learning fun, lead them in a game, or seek their creative ideas. Nor that the last 10 minutes of class time will be for them to get started on the homework.<br />
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No! Anything that deprives their teacher of teaching time to teach is avoided. East Asian students certainly might have questions as the teacher makes her presentation. They might disagree with something, or even have a creative idea about a point the teacher made. All this may and does happen – mentally. But class time is not the time for students to speak. Class time is the teacher’s time to deliver knowledge. Class time is the students’ time to be receptive to the teacher.<br />
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How do successful students spend time outside of class?</h3>
The research also makes it clear that East Asian students have expectations about the purpose of out-of- classroom time that differ sharply from American students’ expectations. Yes, both American and East Asian students are given homework to be completed outside of class. (And let’s note the constant push here in America to reduce or even eliminate homework.) But that’s where the similarity ends.<br />
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Most of the “active learning” activities that Americans expect to find happening inside classrooms also happen in East Asia – outside of classrooms. And here’s the critical point: These activities are neither organized by, nor suggested by, the teachers. They’re initiated by the students themselves (above the primary grades). What are we talking about here? We’re talking about asking and answering questions, discussing, exploring, disagreeing with the material, offering one’s own ideas, discovering through additional research, finding practical applications – the types of activities that many American teachers try to make happen during class time. In East Asia, these occur in small study groups spontaneously organized by the students. Sound odd? Remember, academic learning is deeply respected inEast Asia; the existence of these study groups is one way we know that to be true.<br />
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If students want to ask the teacher a question, here is how that happens. First, there’s the time immediately after class, when students approach the teacher in the corridor outside the classroom. Then there are other times as well, such as at student-teacher social gatherings (which occur fairly often in East Asia). Or a student might even arrange to visit the teacher or professor in his home. In these cases, before approaching the teacher, a student typically does research on his own or within his study groups. The outcome is that, instead of simply asking the teacher about something not understood, the student is prepared to have an intelligent discussion with the teacher about a range of related factors. I taught in Beijing during 1986 and personally experienced student questions of these types.<br />
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How can Western parents help instill a drive to learn in their children?</h3>
The challenge that we must recognize is this: It’s the history and culture of East Asia that instills a drive to learn in East Asian families. Families, in turn, instill that drive in their newest members, their children. The history and culture of the United States is strikingly different in this respect. For anyone who would like to gain a deeper understanding of this fact, I recommend the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by historian Richard Hofstadter, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0394703170/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0394703170&linkCode=as2&tag=weekcoun-20&linkId=ac1936aded448d7ae7ac9b704d2870cd">Anti-Intellectualism in American Life</a> (1970). But the insight of those 500+ research studies remains valuable: Children who arrive at the schoolhouse door with a drive to learn are mostly the daughters and sons of parents with a drive to learn. We’re talking about academic learning, about the mastering of STEM subjects and other critical skills such as writing. Also revealed by the research is that parents in the two cultures – American and East Asian – have different ways to conveying their dedication to their child’s learning. American parents assume that, once their child is in kindergarten or first grade, his or her learning is largely the responsibility of the teachers. They see their role as supporting the teachers and the school. With their child, they largely assume the roles of encourager, cheerleader, self-esteem preserver, and – if absolutely<br />
necessary – enforcer of rules such as homework-completion and media-limits.<br />
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East Asian parents tend to operate on a different assumption: that their child’s learning is continuously their responsibility. The key here is that in East Asia, the mastery of academic knowledge is deeply respected; a child’s doing so brings respect and “face” to the family. So the parents’ role is a proactive one.<br />
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In the book, I compare an East Asian parent’s role to that of an athletic coach. They are not merely cheerleaders. They are not self-esteem boosters (the child’s self-esteem grows organically as the result of hard work and high marks). Parents are participants with their child in insuring that he or she excels academically.<br />
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Look at the photo on the cover of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1475815107/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1475815107&linkCode=as2&tag=weekcoun-20&linkId=ca2d45fa449de1d408ef4fb8c9b10c93">The Drive to Learn</a>. It shows a parent, at home, participating with her child in persevering study. I commissioned that photo, and I directed the photo shoot, to convey a parent’s responsibility being carried out.<br />
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The teacher? The teacher is very important as the respected authority on her subject. Her responsibility is to carefully prepare and coherently present classroom lessons. That’s not identical to responsibility for each student’s learning of that subject, which East Asian parents maintain as their responsibility.<br />
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There’s good news and bad news here. The good news is that, thanks to half a century of research and over 500 published research reports, we finally understand why East Asian students tend to perform better academically than other groups. The bad news is that we finally understand why they perform better academically. It has nothing to do with their native intelligence, their I.Q. or their aptitude. It has everything to do with their perseverance in studying, guided by their parents’ investment of thousands of hours of coaching, drilling, and participating. It’s a huge parental commitment and, let’s face it, it’s not what most American parents are ready to sign on for.<br />
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How does this book relate to your previous book?</h3>
In 2013, Rowman & Littlefield published <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1475804369/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1475804369&linkCode=as2&tag=weekcoun-20&linkId=64b83242be5adc0846ebce968e8dadf1"><i>The Aptitude Myth</i>: <i>How an Ancient </i><i>Belief Came to Undermine Children’s Learning Today</i></a>. Back around 2006, I had become curious about why most Americans assume that that a child’s school performance is due very largely to his native intelligence or I.Q. In most of the rest of the world, parents subscribe to what our own Ben Franklin said was the<br />
recipe for success: “ninety-nine percent perspiration, one percent inspiration.” The deeper I dug for an explanation, the farther back in time I had to go to discover the source of Americans’ assumption about inborn aptitude. Well, I did find the source: Pythagoras, around 600 B.C.E.! But he wasn’t the main instigator. Culprit No. 1 was Aristotle, arguably the most influential thinker in all of Western<br />
history. And right up there sharing the blame with Aristotle is the 19th century British philosopher and popular lecturer, Herbert Spencer. Spencer is so important to this story that he gets two chapters in <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1475804369/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1475804369&linkCode=as2&tag=weekcoun-20&linkId=64b83242be5adc0846ebce968e8dadf1">The Aptitude Myth</a></i>.<br />
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Anyone who finds the history of ideas fascinating is likely to enjoy reading <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1475804369/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1475804369&linkCode=as2&tag=weekcoun-20&linkId=64b83242be5adc0846ebce968e8dadf1"><i>The </i><i>Aptitude Myth</i></a>. And anyone can find more about it at <a href="http://www.theaptitudemyth.info/" rel="nofollow">www.theaptitudemyth.info</a>.<br />
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What else would you like to share about your book?</h3>
<i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1475815107/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1475815107&linkCode=as2&tag=weekcoun-20&linkId=ca2d45fa449de1d408ef4fb8c9b10c93">The Drive to Learn</a></i>, which is only 182 pages long, is organized as a process of discovery. It begins by asking the basic question, “Why do American students learn less than East Asian students?” By referencing research findings, it finds an answer to that question, but recognizes that the answer raises a new question. Again by referencing the research, it finds the answer to that question – but recognizes that the answer raises still another new question… By the end of Chapter Nine, all questions are answered. Then, Chapter Ten addresses the practical question facing American parents, which is “To what extent could – should – this new information change the way we do things?” <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1475815107/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1475815107&linkCode=as2&tag=weekcoun-20&linkId=ca2d45fa449de1d408ef4fb8c9b10c93">The Drive to Learn</a></i> is extremely unusual in one way: It comes with an annotated bibliography! In writing the book, I relied heavily on 100 of those research reports. For each one of those 100, I wrote an annotation of 200 to 300 words. They’re not in the book.<br />
They’re at <a href="http://www.thedrivetolearn.info/annotated-bibliography" rel="nofollow">www.thedrivetolearn.info/annotated-bibliography</a>.<br />
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Where can people find out more from you?</h3>
I would be very happy to communicate with anyone interested in either of my two books via the “Contact” page of <a href="http://www.thedrivetolearn.info/" rel="nofollow">www.thedrivetolearn.info</a>.<br />
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Author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1475804369/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1475804369&linkCode=as2&tag=weekcoun-20&linkId=64b83242be5adc0846ebce968e8dadf1">The Aptitude Myth</a> (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013)<br />
Author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1475815107/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1475815107&linkCode=as2&tag=weekcoun-20&linkId=ca2d45fa449de1d408ef4fb8c9b10c93">The Drive to Learn</a> (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017)<br />
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