How To Make A Spending Plan - Marketwatch.com

Great article about making a spending plan. Step 1 is to change the word budget to the phrase spending plan and then take it from there.

Check out the complete article by Jeff D. Opdyke How To Make A Spending Plan

Vote!!!!

Enjoy the day your way,
Kiki
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Daily Life Consulting
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Use the Economic Crisis as a Personal and Professional Opportunity

Hi All

So it feels like it's all bad news all the time. Right? Not necessarily. With challenge comes opportunity and we've been working with all of you to find the silver lining behind the cloud and all the other cliche type metaphors for turning a difficult and ________ (scary, terrifying, debilitating, paralyzing - fill in the blank) situation into new options, beginnings, opportunities and plans for getting through the present and planning for a great future.

If I sound ridiculously optimistic it's an optimism and sureness born of personal and professional experience. I've gone through tough times and career forks-in-the-road and flourished and have been furtunate enough to be able to assist others to do the same. So it may all sound Pollyanna-ish or Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm-ish - both of which I've been called before but it's based on fact and experience. You can get through this successfully.

In answer to your emails and phone calls requesting information about our services here's a short description of some of the services we offer to individuals and companies. From career coaching and counseling for individuals and groups to business services such as once monthly or weekly 'open' days where individuals, executives, project managers and their teams can in complete confidentiality work with one of our coaches to help smooth through their challenging work issues and move forward with their project work.


Daily Life Consulting
Short Term Coaching Long Term Solutions
services and issues covered include:
* Training, Seminars, Workshops, Individual and Group Coaching
* Boosting Morale
* Focusing and Multitasking
* Dealing with new and/or more responsibilities
* Motivation
* Transitions - within a company or after downsizing and restructuring
* New economic realities - managing anxiety, strategizing and planning ahead
* Coping with economic stress in healthful ways
* Rethinking Career Direction and Plan
* Rethinking Retirement Options
* Second Career or Mid-Career shifts
* Short term and long term planning


We've been featured in national publications including Forbes, the LA Times, Pink, Chicago Sun Times, Dow Jones/Marketwatch, MSN, WebMD, Yahoo/HotJobs and many others.

For those of you we know and love - keep up the great work! You will get through this and you'll get through this successfully! We'll make sure of that!

For those of you we've only "met" through email and phone queries - we look forward to working together soon. If you have any more questions please call 646.468.0608 or email coach at dailylifeconsulting dot com

We're ready for you - are you ready for your new future? (The great and exciting one that is...)

Enjoy the weekend,
Kiki
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Daily Life Consulting

Short Term Coaching
Long Term Solutions

Motivation and Transition Coaching

Hi All,

No - I couldn't believe the last time I posted here! It's been a crazy time. The economy is causing lots of anxiety, distress and the need for change, new strategies, motivation, morale boosters, new directions, new career and life maps for the new directions and on and on.

We've been swamped here at Daily Life Consulting with clients, workshops, seminars and training programs. So the workbook series has taken a back seat to the immediate needs of clients. Whew!

Keep the emails coming. If you'd like more information or to speak to a coach please call 646.468,0608 or email coach at dailylifeconsulting dot com

Don't panic! Help and support are available. We'll get through this. We'll get through this successfully.

Enjoy (as much as you can of) the day,
Kiki
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Fall News + http://www.savelorishouse.com

Massive apologies to those of you who've been requesting your "fix". It's been quite hectic as it usually is in September. Keep your emails coming and please give me/us a little more time to answer than we would normally need. You should hear from someone within 24 hours (except over the weekends). You can always call at 646.468.0608!

Ok - so workshops and seminars moving right along. We're adding a new one for October that will focus on managing stress and work and actually flourishing with all the gloomy financial news that's hitting us from all sides.

15-minute coaching phone calls are proving to be a great tool for many of you. Checking in, brainstorming, focusing, preparing for meetings, follow-ups to meetings and more. Glad you're liking it and finding it helpful and empowering!

Also - please check out Save Lori's House
and lend a hand. Lori is a single mother who has been stricken with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). People from all over the world are pitching in to help, Ben Lee has lent his song "We're All In This Together". We are. Please help if you can.

Enjoy the day your way,
RK
Rebecca "Kiki"
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Rebecca "Kiki" Weingarten
Daily Life Consulting

Fall Preview

Hi All!

We're back...ish. Sessions continue with a bit of a break for some end-of-summer R&R. We're also getting in gear for the workshops and seminars and new projects that will be beginning in September.

We'll be offering some of the coaching topics as online workshops and seminars as well. Topics such as Career Transitions, Pre-Retirement Planning, Stress Management, Time Management, ME FIRST(sm), Finding Focus, Creativity Boosters and more. So for those of you who've been asking about them - you've got it. We'll be sending out emails with information - and keep checking back here for more details.

Stuck? Stressed? Overwhelmed? Not sure what to do? Can't wait until your next session or workshop? Need help fast/now/in a flash? We're starting something new as of next week - check out Coaching Phone Calls. 15 minute coaching! It's not meant to "solve all your problems" in one 15 minute coaching interaction. It's for those times that you need a quick dose, before or after an important meeting or interview, brainstorming a new concept, project or change, an interaction with your employees or your boss. It's a boost to get you to the next step, or session, or just to help you get through. For more information call 646.468.0608 or email me at kiki at dailylifeconsulting dot com.

Meanwhile - we're going to enjoy the first stunning day of "summer in the city". Enjoy the day your way,
RK
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Rebecca "Kiki" Weingarten
Daily Life Consulting

Updates - (what we've been up to since we've been AWOL from posting)

Ok - we're here but sort-of-ish here. That means we've been busy doing what we always do coaching, workshops, seminars, webinars....ok a little R&R too and not too much blogosphere.
What we have been doing is working on the new projects for the Fall. I am so excited, I love all this stuff and I'm excited about the new projects to come.
In short;
* We'll be devoting one blog to your Q&A. The Motivation and Transition Coaching blog
will be the place to go to for asking, and getting answers to your questions about anything and everything motivation and transition related. If you'd like to see your questions answered on the blog please email motivateme at motivationandtransitioncoaching dot com. Can't wait to hear from you!

We've also been working on setting up workshops, seminars and classes online. Over the years we've been getting lots of requests for them to be online and now we're going to be doing it. Stay tuned for more info.

We'll be posting the schedule for the Fall workshops, seminars and classes in August. If you have a topic you'd like to see covered please email me at kiki at dailylifeconsulting dot com and I'll see when we can fit it in.

Topics that will be covered are career choices, career transitions, career and practice shifts, exploring new options, stress management, time management, creativity, finding focus, etherthink and more. Our education and parenting workshops will include learning skills, school skills, reading-writing and comprehension, competition skills, children on overload, parenting skills and helping children succeed and sometimes fail successfully, enhancing creativity in children, helping children become life-long learners. You can visit http://dailylifecoaching4kids.blogspot.com for more information or email me at kiki at dailylifeconsulting dot com

Enjoy the summer - I don't know how hot it is where you are but we're scorching over here in NYC. Argh.

Enjoy the day your way,
Rebecca "Kiki"
Daily Life Consulting

Follow-Up What Do You Want To Do in Act II?

Thanks to ASTD and everyone who participated in the What Do You Want To Do In ACT II? Webinar on Thursday, July 24th.
Thanks everyone for your terrific questions and kind emails! The questions you sent in are a bit too complex to do justice to with a brief few-line answer. I answered in general and they'll be posted on the ASTD site soon.

Of course, being a Career and Transition Coach, would suggest working with a coach to really flesh out a solid, fulfilling and enjoyable ACT II. It’s a great new ACT for a new stage of life. Lights, camera – take action and make it the best it can be. You deserve it. You’ve worked hard your whole life it’s time to reap the benefits and make the most of this great, new exciting ACT II.
Take center stage in this next phase! Wishing you all great good luck and lots of years to flourish and have fun in ACT II.

Rebecca "Kiki"
Daily Life Consulting