Inside this book you will find many interesting and common sense tips on how to take care of yourself and be the best that you can be in all areas of life. The author presents life as a puzzle with eight pieces that fit together to make it complete. These puzzle pieces represent basic aspects of life. Heres What It Takes] is designed to help you identify and learn how to be successful in each one of those areas, and understand how they fit together to create balance, fulfillment and overall well-being. The eight pieces to lifes puzzle are: Spirituality Health and Well-Being Interpersonal Relationships Education Career Money Management & Consumerism Leisure Time Fun! This book will equip you with information and ideas in all these areas to help and motivate you to live more healthy, wealthy and wise. Read it and share it with others. Unfortunately, some people stumble through life for theyve missed out on the information presented in this book. Those who have acquired the information through reading this book or taking classes taught by the author have improved their lives, and only wish theyd learned about this information earlier in life. Just as a ship or a plane needs radar to reach the right destination, your life needs signals and guides, for without them, it is all too easy to end up where you had not planned to be. Dr. Linda suggests that you keep in mind the words used by a flight attendant when giving passengers safety precautions before taking off, If there is a lack of oxygen in the cabin, put on your own oxygen mask first before helping anyone else. Taking care of yourself should be a priority, otherwise you can easily become ill in mind, body or spirit -- unable to adequately take care of yourself or anyone else. The author, Linda A. Smith, is a Doctor of Education, and has taught Life Management, Consumer Education, Money Management, and Marriage and Family Life at the college level. In Heres What it Takes to be Healthy, Wealthy and Wise, she offers a simple, yet thoughtful and easy approach to managing life with all its joys and challenges.

Healthy Wealthy and Wise

America's health-care system is the envy of the world, but it faces serious challenges. The costs of care are rising rapidly, the number of uninsured Americans is at an all-time high, and public dissatisfaction is steadily increasing. How can we preserve the strengths of our current system while correcting its weaknesses? Three of America's leading health-care scholars answer that question in Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise. Poorly conceived federal tax policies, insurance regulations, and barriers to entry have distorted health-care markets and inhibited competition. John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel P. Kessler propose five key policies to build a better health-care system: (1) health-care tax reform, (2) insurance reform, (3) improvement of health-care information, (4) control of anticompetitive behavior, and (5) malpractice system reform. Together, these changes would harness the power of markets to deliver better health care to Americans. These reforms would strengthen consumers' ability to be cost- and value-conscious shoppers, while promoting quality and innovation in health care, pharmaceuticals, and medical technology. And, by cutting the cost of care by $60 billion per year, these reforms would make health insurance affordable for at least 6 million--and perhaps as many as 20 million--uninsured Americans.

"Expertly reasoned and meticulously researched, Wealthy and Wise shows us how we can convert tax-deductible contributions to great reward at little or no personal risk. Rosenberg provides a detailed plan for transforming our troubled communities and improving our lives, and the lives of all Americans, by learning simple strategies for more effective giving. In addition to teaching people of all tax brackets how to cultivate constructive financial habits, this innovative guide will tell you everything you need to know to turn your philanthropic contributions into the soundest investments of all, including: how to calculate what you can realistically afford to give, and where to consider giving it; how to contribute most effectively within your own area of interest, and how to assess where your money is going; how to promote leadership locally; how to estimate your needs over short and long periods of time; how to plan bequests to your children and to charities; how to stop depriving yourself, and allay anxieties over dipping into capital, by learning a new definition of surplus money; how to diversify assets to protect financial investments; how to establish cushions against unforeseen financial problems; and how to plot your own lifelong financial statement and chart goals for personal wealth and intelligent gifting.".

His Holiness Srila Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj was born in the outskirts of Mumbai in 1919 on the auspicious day of Dattätreya Purnima in the month of mārga-śīrṣa [November-December]. He appeared in an eight generation Vaishnava family. He was the most elderly sannyasi (spiritual teacher) in ISKCON (International Society for Kṛṣṇa Consciousness). Maharaj first took darshan of Srila Prabhupāda in 1973. There Srila Prabhupada's lecture marked the turning point in Maharaj's life. Srila Prabhupāda had stated that whenever we meet our friends, we ask them so many material things, like how is your business, your family etc. But this is simply a waste of time. If we really cared for them, then when we meet them, we should ask them how far they have progressed, since we last met, in the matter of stopping the repetition of the cycle of birth and death.