n this column we will explore a means by which you can conduct a self-assessment and begin the process of improving your ability to learn as a student and as an employee.
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Now that I’m in high school juggling responsibilities like school, work, friends and family, college applications, and pandemic stress, I still take refuge in books. I often turn to stories that work through a struggle or theme I’m dealing with in my own life. They give me a safe space to reflect and process, help me gain perspective, and make me feel understood"
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WEALTH BUILDING POWERS
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO DEAL WITH YOUR IRRATIONAL MIND? – CRITICAL THINKING SERIES – PART NINE (9)
History is replete with examples of individuals in both the private and public sectors making irrational decisions that have led to serious unintended consequences.
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Each day we get 86,400 seconds, and at the end of those 24 hours, it's gone.
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MENTORS , WEALTH BUILDING POWERS
RAINBOW OF ROLE MODELS {WEDNESDAY SERIES} – Ida B. Wells, FAMED 19TH CENTURY JOURNALIST AND ANTI LYNCHING CRUSADER
She attended a segregated Black school and became a teacher in Memphis, Tennessee, until she was fired in 1891 for speaking out against subpar learning conditions. A staunch activist, Wells similarly filed and initially won a lawsuit against the Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern Railroad Co. in 1884 after being forced out of a first-class train car despite having purchased a first-class ticket. The ruling was eventually overturned by the Tennessee Supreme Court and spurred the beginning ...
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Never think you have no influence whatsoever. Your trace, which you leave behind with every good deed, cannot be erased.”
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FINANCIAL LITERACY , WEALTH BUILDING POWERS
RELAX ALREADY, YES INFLATION IS HIGHER THAN IN THE PAST 13 YEARS, BUT IT’S TRANSITORY!
Transitory means not permanent or temporary. Now why these big brains cannot bring themselves to say temporary, is beyond me. For Americans who need to purchase little things like food, gas, pay rent and utilities, kids' clothing and shoes, etc., this "temporary" inflation is taking HARD-EARNED MONEY many Americans simply do NOT have!. This "temporary" inflation significantly HARMS our most vulnerable Americans.
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FINANCIAL LITERACY , WEALTH BUILDING POWERS
LET ME GET THIS RIGHT – BROWN PEOPLE ARE TOO STUPID TO BE PROFICIENT AT MATH, READING, AND WRITING?
Instead of addressing poor and unacceptable achievement, the government pours more money into the existing failed structure, eliminates tests that expose its failure, and imposes race-based preferences to cover this national crisis.
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FINANCIAL LITERACY , WEALTH BUILDING POWERS
MAKE YOUR VOTES COUNT – SUPPORT CANDIDATES THAT FUND CHARTER SCHOOLS!
Support and vote for those candidates that strongly support the rights of ALL {Wealthy, Poor, Black, White, ALL) parents to have choice of schools, including Private, Charter and Home Schooling.”
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WEALTH BUILDING POWERS
BLACK LIVES MATTER AND YES, ALL LIVES MATTER by Contributing Author: Brenda Cannady
"Black Lives Matter!!! And for the folks in the back row, let me say it again, BLACK LIVES MATTER. And yes, also All Lives Matter: Children’s Lives Matter, Indigenous Lives Matter and Animals Lives Matter too. Every life form that God has whispered the sweet breath of life into matters. Recognizing the problems and inequities with an intention to provide resources and corrective actions to reform conditions in one group, ...
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