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Article Title: The Facts Of Life: What Every Woman Should Know About Money (1992)
Shared by: Craig Lock
Category (key words): Money, money management, finance, women, financial success, financial independence, personal finance, money books, books on money management (enough there now)
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(Personal growth, self help, writing, internet marketing, spiritual, ‘spiritual writings’ (how ‘airey-fairey’), words of inspirationand money management, how boring now, craig)
Publishing Guidelines:
We hope that the following article (an extract from one of Craig’s early manuscripts, ‘THE MAD MONEY BOOK’ written in 1992 may be informative and helpful to you.
‘We share what we know, so that you and your money may grow.”
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The Facts Of Life
What Every Woman Should Know About Money
(Whether Married Or Single)
By Craig Lock
How to make the most of your “hard-earned” money (1992)
Money can’t buy you happiness.
But it helps you to be miserable in comfort.”
Fact One: Most of the financial hardship experienced by women in later life is due to someone refusing to face facts early on.
Fact Two: Women need to prepare for financial independence as much as men do:
These days one does not hear so much about the “family breadwinner, “largely because so many women either provide for themselves or make a substantial contribution to the FAMILY INCOME. But what happens if your husband dies and his income dies with him? Suddenly you are prevented from working. All to often the result is a dramatic fall in the family’s standard of living and in their quality of life. And this happens just at the time creature comforts are most needed to soften the blow. No amount of money can bring back a loved one, but quite small amounts set aside regularly can make the difference between sadness and absolute despair for you and your children. The only way to be sure you can cope is to do something about it yourself– to make sure you are adequately provided for.
Fact Three: Three out of four women have no personal savings.
Fact Four: Women live longer and so have a greater chance of being left alone.
Fact Five: One marriage in three ends in divorce, desertion, or separation.
Fact Six: Thinking about what might happen doesn’t make it happen.
The Final Word
Hope this information has been helpful to you.
Good luck*
Craig Lock (Eagle Productions)
originally written in 1992
* “luck”, as ‘they’ say, is where preparedness (is there such a word?) meets opportunity.
“Whatever the mind can conceive, can be achieved.”
– Goethe
“Believe in yourself and in your dream,
Though impossible things may seem
Someday, somehow you’ll get through
To the goal you have in view.
Mountains fall and seas divide,
Before the one who in his stride
Takes a hard road by day
Sweeping obstacles away
Believe in yourself and in your plan
Say not – I cannot – I can
The prizes of life we fail to win
Because we doubt the power within…”
– anon
About the Author:
Craig has worked for “many moons” in the financial services industry (in the days when he had a “proper job”)…before becoming a writer. He has studied and written extensively on money matters: articles, brochures for financial institutions and books.http://www.craiglockbooks.com and http://www.selfgrowth.com/experts/craig_lock.html
The various books* that Craig “felt inspired to write” (including his various books on money management) are available at: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4 and http://www.creativekiwis.com/amazon.html
Hard-copies and e-books, fiction and nonfiction: self help, novels, travel, humour, writing, inspiration and money management
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– Margaret Fuller
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– Booker T Washington
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