What everyone Else says

November 21, 2012 By

When I approached my friends and family about the light bulb moment, they all just stared at me blankly.  I am not too sure if  they understood my concern with what was going on, or even worse what might happen.  I was very confused.  Honestly these are the people you turn to in time of need, and  they were looking at me like I was crazy.  I don’t think they understood my fear, or for that wanted to understand this new paranoia.

Talk about a kick to the teeth.  Then I remembered the one of the very first seminars my husband dragged me too.  They spent most of the weekend talking about the idea of Content vs. Context…to be successful you need to surround your self with those who share the context side of the glass, as the content is subjective.  Meaning you only ever learn what you think/feel is important.  You cannot force some one to change their context like you can force feed content.  Make sense?

From that point on, although I will admit it  is difficult on a regular basis, but I had to stop caring about what others thought of me.  I am going to do right by me, my husband and my kids, no matter what others may think of my so called  madness.  One of my favourite quotes of all times says it best…

Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don’t matter,
and those who matter don’t mind.
― Dr. Seuss

 

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First Realization

November 13, 2012 By

Over the years  there have been a number of different times were the information I was hearing, I was actually absorbing.  You know the feeling of energy, motivation, and necessity.  The one that hit me  the most, that slap up side the head, happened last year in Edmonton Alberta.  I was listening to Arlene Dickinson  tell of her early beginnings, and her motivation to get her to being one of the most successful Canadian Women.  The things she said really made sense, and if I did not make a change in  the direction of my life, I am the only one to blame for it.

As I said, I have been at home since the birth of my first child, helping, and supporting my husband in his endeavors with Business and real estate.  I am not complaining, I consider myself to be very luck to live the life choices I do.  I get to drop my kids off and pick them up everyday from school, I get to go to every activity, play, game, or concert without thinking.  I do not have to stress if one of the kids are home sick…I am just there, and I love it.

The Light bulb moment for me was when Arlene Dickinson asked what would you do to survive if  the worse thing happened.  What would I do if it was upto me, myself and I to support the family?  I haven`t had a real job in years, I did not know anything about business, what would we do…Then an even bigger thought came to me…What have I taught my kids about surviving?  They had no real context to know anything, “Daddy works at the kitchen table, and mommy does stuff at home” is what they told their Daycare teacher 2 years ago.  From that moment forward I knew something had to change and the something was me.

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Starting at the beginning

November 12, 2012 By

Okay now  that most of the back history has been established, I will start to write the what it is that I set out write about.

This whole thing sits hard for me every I attend a conference, seminar, or teaching, as there is always someone, myself included who asked or questioned why this stuff is not taught in the school systems.  The idea of having some basic ideas of around business, and money seems to be a basic life skill, and the idea of school is to educate our children to be ready for tomorrow; it seems to be a legitimate question.  The more information I gathered for myself, the more I realized that it the schools responsibility to teach academic skills, not life skills…No matter what the name of the class is.  If we want for our children to be leaders, we have to show them how to do that.  If we want for them to think independently, it is up to us as the parents to ask questions to get them to think out side the proverbial box.  We cannot afford to wait for the school to do it…This type of learning has  to begin at home.

I have been doing a fair bit of reading on the subject of teaching kids about money, and I have found that there are generally 2 different camps, the institution (Banks, schools, government) side, and  then there is the Entrepreneurial side.  There is no right or wrong side, it is what you believe, know, what, feel, and agree with.

With all  that said, I ask you to think about these 4 things.

  1. You need to decide which side of  the debate you ARE on.
  2. You need to decide what side of the fence you WANT to be on.
  3. Think of where you WANT YOUR KIDS be, Learn, Understand about money and business, and finally….
  4.  What ARE YOU going to do about it.
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