The Money Game is a big hit!

You know how one person can make your day? Well, this morning at Creative Wealth we got a great letter from Steve. Steve purchased The Money Game® a while back and just used it to teach 21 kids and teens this past weekend and he took the time to send us this great...

Teach Math Through Sound Financial Education Program

When it comes right down to basics, life at it’s core it simply about survival. Oh, we want it to mean so much more, but it really isn’t any more complicated that eating, drinking, breathing and staying alive. So, why is it that the basic life skills we...

8 Financial Tips for Your Soon-to-be College Student!

It  always strikes me as funny (in a sad sort of way:-) that parents wait until their children graduate from high school before thinking about how to teach them to manage the money they’re about to go off to college with. Someone asked me recently for some...

The Right Age to Teach Kids About Money

Question: What is the right age to start teaching kids about money? Answer: If they are breathing, they should be learning about money! OK, that may seem a little over zealous, but here’s the thing… Just like our need for oxygen from the moment we pop out...

Financial Surrender…Breathing Deeply Into What Is

Inquiry of Stuff I know, I know. The idea of surrendering to life for a lot of people puts them in a state of fear, or panic, or worse. However, the idea, and practice, of surrendering to ‘what is’ can be quite freeing, especially when it comes to money...

Kids and Goal Setting: Soccer Anyone?

Many adults set yearly goals while others set monthly or weekly goals. Only a handful set daily goals. Statistics show that people who set daily goals  reach more of their goals than those who don’t. Regardless of how often parents set their own goals, it is...

Dream Your Life Into Being with Dream Boards for the Whole Family!

Have you ever had a dream, thought about it for hours on end, thought about it from every angle, contemplated every detail, even knowing what it would feel like when the dream came true? If you have, you understand the powerful process of manifestation. If you...

Teaching Financial Literacy Teachers

I have been holed up since Tuesday of this week (7/6/10) teaching a new group of trainers how to use accelerated learning to make financial education programs like Camp Millionaire more effective and so much more fun for the participants. Though I haven’t had...

Teaching Yourself About Money…Where Do You Begin?

There you are…faced one morning, noon, or evening…with the stark reality that you don’t have a clue how to manage your money, let alone how to prepare for the R word…Retirement. Though the concept of retirement has recently moved aside and...

Financial Self-Esteem: What Really Makes Us Happy

We’ve all heard the saying, Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness, AND most of us have experienced a time when we felt much happier when we had money in our lives than when we didn’t. As much as we want money to simply be a tool that helps us reach our dreams,...