Archive for March, 2009

What Do the Wealthy Have that You Don’t? It’s not Just Money

March 31st, 2009 • WWS • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

Do you know the key difference between those that are wealthy and those that are not?  If you answered they have money you got it right – partially right, that is.  Jean Chatzky, the financial editor for NBC’s Today show and host of a daily radio show on the Oprah and Friends channel on Sirius [...]

Play Time in the Recession is Key to Your Success

March 26th, 2009 • WWS • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

The recession can bring significant additional stress to one’s life.  At the top of everyone’s list of worries in these trying times are financial concerns, from losses in a retirement account to the real or potential loss of a job.  In addition, the recession often causes people to work harder and put in longer hours.  [...]

Ideas for Saving Money in the Recession

March 21st, 2009 • WWS • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

One of the things the recession makes you do is rethink about your spending patterns.  It forces you look at every opportunity to save money, or as it has been eloquently put by someone recently “look for every penny under the couch”.   With a bit of creativity and the courage to ask for what you [...]

Number of Billionaires Drops by 30 Percent

March 16th, 2009 • WWS • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

The severe recession that is being felt throughout the world is impacting people in the entire spectrum of wealth, from the world’s poorest to billionaires.  Forbes Magazine reported that the number of World Billionaires has been reduced from 1,125 last year to 793 this year.   The typical billionaire has lost at least 1/3 in [...]

Recession Redefines Success

March 11th, 2009 • WWS • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

What a difference a year makes.  Less than a year ago we wrote about the number of millionaires in the world reaching a new record number of 10 million people.  A recent study by Gallup and Healthways reported that in the beginning of 2008 about half of Americans described their condition as “thriving”.  By the end of [...]

Recession Success Stories

March 6th, 2009 • WWS • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

It is easy to be carried away by all the gloom and doom in the news and all around us.  But even in the darkest hour successful people find ways to lead with courage and take advantage of opportunities that inevitably open up.  Judy Orloff, author of the book Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative [...]

A Layoff May Be the Best Thing that Ever Happened to You

March 1st, 2009 • WWS • 3 comments • Related • Filed Under

The economic problems impacting the United States and the rest of the world are taking a toll on ordinary citizens who are seeing their jobs vanish in the wake of the worst recession since the 1930s.  In the last 13 months alone, 3.6 millions jobs have been lost in the United States and the prognosis [...]