History has proven that 70% of family businesses will not transition to the next generation. Will yours be one of the statistics? Based on our experience guiding families to a successful transition, here are 7 warning signs you are headed for serious problems.
How To Avoid Market Swings
How are you doing in your search for the ultimate investment – low risk, high guaranteed return? Find out how to Avoid Market Swings!
Do You Have 2 Classes of Children in Your Family?
Each new stage of life offers new insights, perspectives and hopefully wisdom. Our family is on the verge of our second child’s wedding. We have been blessed with exceptional people who have joined our family through marriage. This makes the occasion an incredible celebration. It really is one of life’s greatest blessings. Ask yourself, Do You Have 2 Classes of Children in Your Family?
The 7 Forms of Generosity
Think of the last time you were the recipient of an act of kindness or generosity. How did it make you feel? Did it brighten up your day? Did you tell someone about it? Did it inspire you to pass kindness or generosity on to someone else? We cannot receive an act of kindness or generosity and not be positively impacted!
Splitting Heirs: Giving Your Money and Things to Your Children Without Ruining Their Lives by Ron Blue
In this book, Ron discusses how the financial wealth you leave behind could be the best thing that ever happened to your loved ones—or the worst. “Inheritance is risky business, often damaging lives, marriages and children. Few of us bring an eternal perspective to leaving money behind or to handling unearned wealth.” – Randy Alcorn.
Three Keys to Being A Multi-Millionaire
If you believe, as I do, that true wealth is made up of more than just money then you are much, much wealthier than you think. The key to enjoying your wealth is found in these simple steps:
• Stop
• Look, listen, feel, smell, taste
• Enjoy
4 Keys to Financial Contentment
Would you rather be content or rich? Rather than rush past this very important question, hit “pause” in your reading and actually answer the question. Chances are, you may have to search through a few layers of thought to find an answer you feel is genuine.
Are You Leaving a Fraction of What You Could?
Our self-made, independent, North American lifestyle results in each generation basically starting over. Out of ignorance, we make the same mistakes of past generations and miss the incredible wisdom from the life lessons of those generations
Giving It All Away by David Green with Bill High
Green sees the life of giving as a life of adventure. But it’s a life that pays the best rewards personally, offers a powerful legacy to your family, and changes those you touch.
Family. Money. by Greg Wills, David & Parker, Terry & Sperry – National Christian Foundation
Written from a Christian worldview, this book outlines the dynamics of family money & how to avoid the common pitfalls of wealth & inheritance. This is a thought-provoking book from 3 of the country’s leading experts on wealth transfer, David Wills, Terry Parker, and Greg Sperry.