Suggestions For Study
Suggestions for Individuals
It’s best to read no more than one chapter per day. Most people will find the material so easily covered, they’ll read and read until they find one or two concepts they can immediately apply to get them out of an immediate crisis. Once the crisis is over, they revert back to their comfortable behaviors and never return.
The stories in the chapters have principles in them. Much of the effectiveness is lost for the person going too quickly. After each chapter do some thinking.
Create examples in your own life of other people going through the same kind of situation. Picturing familiar situations of people you know will make the stories more real for you to remember. You’ll start to notice situations where you can apply the knowledge.
The reason for taking a slower pace is to learn the concepts so well that you instinctively apply them whenever you need them. Go through the information again in about six months. You’ll have mastered a couple of the concepts and forgotten about other ones entirely.
This time through you’ll notice yourself coming at the material as a different person. Time will change the meaning from the way you saw the material before. Follow the same procedures about every six months. Years from now, you’ll see your money problems and possibilities from a wiser place.
Suggestions for Families
Each family member has a common interest in the family income. The family income provides shelter, clothing and a collective supply of food. It’s also the source for Mom and Dad’s needs, older sister’s pocket money, Nathan’s baseball uniform and little sister’s tea party set.
This material can shed a bright light onto the limitations of the available money and the advantages of not simply living within the income, but of building up a reserve.
It’s amazing how children of even the sixth and seventh grades learn these principles and their willingness to co-operate for the good of the family, once they understand. Their unique solutions to the subject, while often simple, can be an example for the rest.
Read one of the stories or a whole chapter aloud. Talk about an event or someone known to all the family who has been in the same situation. This will help paint a mental picture of the principle being applied, while making the story their story.
You’ll find the more openly this material is discussed the easier present problems will be solved. You’ll also be personally teaching your children this priceless knowledge for their future.
