THE DIFFERENCE
I joined Carmen Wong Ulrich on her CNBC show On The Money last night to talk about The Difference. She focused on the power of saving, as do most of the wealthy and financially comfortable people I surveyed for the book: 55% of the wealthy said that saving was one of the big factors in getting them there.
THE DIFFERENCE
I spent yesterday at Bryant University in Rhode Island with 900 women — telling them about The Difference — and how it is my belief that they are the only ones who have the power to take themselves from a life of financial struggle to one of financial success. We talked about optimism, resilience, connectedness — and how I believe today as I always have you have to do the work. And they got it. These women, like so many Americans, and I think like almost every hearty Rhode Islander, were not — they are not — looking for a free pass. More…
THE DIFFERENCE
In my seventh grade chorus class, there was a boy with sandy blond hair and freckles. He sat behind me and he had “it.” The boys wanted to hang with him. The girls just wanted to be near him. He was popular. I didn’t live in that town long enough to know if he grew up to be prom king. But later, I — and everyone else in America — watched him motivating a bunch of pros to become the youngest Super Bowl-winning coach in history.
As I dug into the data for The Difference: How Anyone Can Prosper In Even The Toughest Times, I was particularly interested to see if popularity at a young age was tied to success and wealth in adulthood. More…
THE DIFFERENCE
That was what President Obama asked us to do in his Saturday radio address — to be open to discovering “great opportunity in the midst of great crisis.” In other words, be resilient — a key component of The Difference.
It’s not only possible, but I am starting to hear the sort of stories and examples that we should all be not just listening to but learning from — and being inspired by. Marcia, from Sacramento, for instance. Marcia called my Oprah Radio show on Friday. The dismal jobs number had just come out and we were talking not about crying in our beers but about where the opportunities actually were. Marcia’s job — she didn’t say what — had been eliminated about six months earlier. She’d given herself a few days to have a pity party but that was it. Then she started to think about what she could do to make some money in these tough times to keep herself afloat. More…
My friend Elisa has many things to admire about her — but the thing I admire most is her enthusiasm. She’s one of the many women I know who stopped working full-time when her children were little (it was hard for her, she enjoyed her work in employment law but the hours were unsustainable). But unlike those who have been tentative about how to get back in, when to get back in, if they should get back in, Elisa always knew she wanted to find something else to excite her and fill her days — and though she hasn’t exactly found it yet, she has been willing to try many things. And I think that’s great. More…
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