5 Essential Elements for Attracting Abundance Into Your Life
by Mark Zaifman
There are essentially two ways you can accumulate wealth.
The traditional and familiar path requires hard work, exacting plans, or driving ambition. You’ll outwork or outthink the competition, you override the inner voice that tells you to stop once and a while and smell the roses, you sacrifice and struggle to accumulate more and more things and your hope is that all this hard work will eventually result in a huge payoff one day.
The less familiar route to prosperity involves more of a spiritual quest. This is the path of least resistance, where you understand your true nature, where your money and your life are in perfect alignment with your core values - and wealth, abundance, a sense of well-being, good health, fulfilling relationships, energy and enthusiasm for life, and material abundance will spring forth easily and effortlessly.
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The Art of The Financial Planner
by Stephanie Berenbaum of 'Fabulous and Frugal'
January 2010
Think a financial planner is only for someone who has a ton of money to invest and manage? Think again! It’s a common misperception that “financial planning” is only for the rich, but, really – how do you think the rich get so rich anyway?! Definitely not by sitting back and letting their financial lives pass them by. So, no matter how much (or, ok, how little) you make, it might make sense for you to consult a financial professional to help chart your financial future.
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The Best Ways to Cut College Costs Now
by Maya Frost
January 2010
I often receive questions from parents regarding how to save for college, but lately, I’ve been getting emails from financial advisors. They are looking for tips to pass along to their clients who are overwhelmed by the cost of educating their kids and ask me, "What’s the best way for families to save for college now?"
Unfortunately, this is an Old School question that, though still relevant, does not lead to the solutions that are helping savvy families give their kids a great education without spending a fortune.
Things are changing, and I wanted to find a financial advisor who is embracing a more progressive and holistic approach to finances in general. I was especially delighted to connect with Mark Zaifman of Spiritus Financial. I'd learned about Mark through Vicki Robin and her best-selling book, "Your Money or Your Life" which was published in the nineties and just re-issued with an updated edition. My husband and I read this book years ago and it profoundly influenced our perspective on money and time and planted the seed for our big decision: selling everything we owned in 2005 and leaving our suburban American lifestyle behind in order to move abroad with four teenage daughters.
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Making and Keeping Investment Portfolio and Financial Planning Resolutions For 2010
by Mark Zaifman
January 2010
Even if you aren't among those who normally make New Year's resolutions —this may be the time when you will want to make and keep them in the year to come.
With stock markets around the world recovering from their lows last year, and a sense that maybe, just maybe the worst may be over, it’s unfortunately too early to take our eye off the ball.
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