We would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! We would also like to send you off inspired and excited about the weeks and year ahead.

While you are enjoying yourself with friends and family over the next couple weeks, there a few powerful things you can do to build your financial foundation:
•   Acknowledge all the good you currently have in your life from the simplest of pleasures such as your ability to communicate freely to the more complex like your expertise, professional relationships and opportunities.
•   Be aware of what inspires you: beautiful things, entertaining, being entertained, giving gifts, receiving gifts, planning activities, quiet and peaceful reflection, none of these things, or all of these things.
•   Consider where you are today and where you would like to be this time next month, next year, and 10 years from now.
•   Document your feelings, your frustrations, inspirations, ideas and the finances associated with these things. If you are inspired to give many gifts to people you know as well as to volunteer your time for others in need, then: how much money will it take for you to be able to freely buy the gifts you want for those you love? And, how much time will it take to do the things you want to do next year? And, if that means time off work, what is the cost to do that.
•   Everything you do this season, do it thoughtfully and begin to connect your feelings, activities, current reality and your dreams to the dollars and cents required to maintain and create your life the way you want to live it. When you know how much money it will take to live the way you want to live, then you have the basis of creating and following a plan.