January « 2010 « Crown Publishing - Books for Better Living

advice and inspiration to help you improve your life | January 2010

IN THIS MONTH'S ISSUE:
· This January, Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
· How To Get Your Savings Back on Track
· Five Ways Women Can Increase Their Mating Rating
· Are You Getting Enough Sleep?
· Take Control of Your Financial Future
· The Key to a Strong Marriage
· Reader Responses: Whom are You Grateful for?

This January, Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions

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How To Get Your Savings Back on Track

Advice from David Bach

Follow these easy steps from personal finance guru David Bach and re-build your rainy-day savings fund.

The biggest obstacle to setting up an emergency fund isn’t convincing yourself that you should but convincing yourself that you can. I can’t tell you how many students and clients of mine over the years have said to me something like this: “Come on, David, let’s get real. I can barely make ends meet as it is…”

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Five Ways Women Can Increase Their Mating Rating

Advice from Barbara and Allen Pease

Ladies, do you want the truth about how to be more attractive to men?

Based on the surveys of what over 20,000 men said, here’s a collective summary of the most valuable actions women can take to improve their attractiveness and their Mating Rating.

1. Enhance and improve appearance
2. Highlight fidelity
3. Play hard to get

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Are You Getting Enough Sleep?

Advice from Alice Domar and Susan Love

It’s not always easy to get a good night’s sleep, but small changes in your sleeping habits can make a big difference.

If you’re not getting as much sleep as your body needs, the best place to start is with your sleep habits. You may already know some of the basic good sleep habits—cutting off your caffeine supply in the afternoon, avoiding alcohol in the evening, going to bed at the same time each night…

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Take Control of Your Financial Future

Advice from Brad Klontz and Ted Klontz

Leave the financial fairy tales behind and learn to effectively manage your money.

The idea that women shouldn’t worry about money, or that it’s not ladylike to be good with money, is thankfully going the way of the eight-track tape and the 56K modem. Still, many women who are adults today grew up with some version of that lesson…

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The Key to a Strong Marriage

Advice from Will Bowen

What can you do if you and your spouse start to grow apart? Will Bowen shares his advice:

There is an old maxim I regularly share with couples when they come to me for premarital counseling:

A man marries a woman thinking she will never change.
A woman marries a man thinking she can change him.
They are both wrong.

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Reader Responses: Whom are You Grateful for?

In the last newsletter, we asked you to tell us about someone for whom you were grateful, and we were touched and inspired by your responses. Here are some of our favorites:

I am so very grateful for my husband of 39 years. He’s seen me through the good times as well as the bad times with unwavering love and support. After I was diagnosed with breast cancer last year there wasn’t one day he wasn’t at my side pushing me to continue fighting…

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