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PLUG THE MONEY DRAINS

       Money isn’t everything as long as you have enough.

MALCOLM FORBES

The most common mistake I see when coaching people in the area of money is their believing that the quickest and easiest way to solve financial problems is to figure out some way to make more money. This is why people fall for get-rich-quick schemes every day. The problem with thinking like this is that money is not the answer to most problems. A study evaluated lottery winners and the impact winning the lottery had on their lives six months later. The same researchers also studied another group—people who had recently been in accidents that made them paraplegics for the rest of their lives. The study revealed that six months after winning ...

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