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Financial planning is an ongoing process that supports our current needs while helping to prepare for long-term financial goals. It helps to amass and maximize assets as well. Financial Planning Month is a time of year dedicated to taking a strategic look at our spending habits, budgets, and the like. Of course, this should be conducted throughout the year to help ensure various financial matters are in order. It’s never too early to plan for our financial futures, starting as young as possible is a crucial ingredient of the secret sauce. Creating a solid foundation in financial literacy is just as important. In fact, once you’ve secured a "basic understanding" of some terminology in and around personal finance, it’s time to safely kickstart your financial planning journey…and yes, it’s a journey!
Many would say the first stop along the way evolves around budgeting. The most ideal situation is always having a firm idea of where your money is going. This could be done by utilizing a spreadsheet or stepping up to a reputable software application to help you track. Your expenses should be meticulously accounted for to rid wasteful spending. Staying abreast of your fixed and variable expenses are extremely important throughout the financial planning process, too. Ultimately, paying these bills in a timely manner is vital to ensure additional cost from late fees or penalties are not incurred as well as helping to keep your credit standing up to par. The assistance of a Financial Planner will certainly educate, inform, and help keep you on course throughout the journey. This conversation with Ms. Laticia Sunshine expands on many of these financial planning-related elements and a few others. Happy planning...it should become a part of your lifestyle!
*All original work attributed to “Chris Jones” ©️ 2021 "Chris Jones"
According to the World Health Organization, World Mental Health Day 2023 is an opportunity for people and communities to unite behind the theme ‘Mental health is a universal human right” to improve knowledge, raise awareness and drive actions that promote and protect everyone’s mental health as a universal human right.
Mental health is a basic human right for all people. Everyone, whoever and wherever they are, has a right to the highest attainable standard of mental health. This includes the right to be protected from mental health risks, the right to available, accessible, acceptable, and good quality care, and the right to liberty, independence and inclusion in the community.
"World Mental Health Day" (October 10, 2023)
January recognizes many meaningful causes. Mentoring is one that is observed annually and is steadily gaining more traction across the country. For the most part, “National Mentoring Month” focuses on how we can increase the number of mentors throughout our communities to ensure enough trusted advisors are available for young boys, girls, and young adults to look up to as needed. Many of us can personally attest to the positive impact(s) mentoring, when conducted early and often, can have on young lives.
Mentoring is helpful in countless ways. Oftentimes, it exposes mentees to new experiences that promote healthy growth such as improved communication and active listening skills. It has also proven to boost one’s confidence and self-esteem. There are numerous enhancements around life/soft skills and various hands-on abilities, attributed to good mentoring. Ironically, mentees are not the only ones getting something significant from the exchanges. Studies have shown mentors tend to benefit as certain things are reenforced while helping others…a win-win for everyone involved!
Many public and private organizations are fully aware of the lasting benefits of mentoring and now offer formalized mentoring programs to help young members, employees, etc., obtain and further develop certain skills. This phenomenon works wonders from an organization development standpoint. The workforce’s chances of being healthy and vibrant increases dramatically when any facet of mentoring is implemented.
For those of you out there mentoring, be it in a formal setting or just helping your brethren along the way, keep putting in the work. Sometimes, you never know how impactful your efforts are, even if they seem somewhat menial to you. Mentoring works both ways…make yourself available to help someone in need or seek the help you may need to make YOU a better YOU…the rest will take care of itself!
*All original work attributed to “Chris Jones” ©️ 2022 "Chris Jones"
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