Make debt reduction and elimination the number one priority for your family this year. You life and the life of your family will benefit greatly by having no debt.

Do you really need to spend up to $5.00 a day for some fancy coffee?

Can’t you bring your lunch to work and save almost $175.00 monthly?

This simple savings above going toward your credit cards and other debts will significantly reduce the stress of your family.

Most families argue about money, and what this website is about is being a true man and leader of your family.

Investing in their present and future instead of always buying things that satisfy in the moment and not the long term. We will continue to explore this in future articles and bring you to excellent resources on the internet that will continue to help you reduce your debt and improve your life dramatically.

MANY YEARS AGO, A YOUNG FELLOW came into my office and wanted a job selling insurance. He had been driving a bread truck selling bakery goods house-to-house. He had no money and was living with his wife and little baby boy in the home of his wife’s folks. His shiny blue suit showed signs of wear, but it was clean and well pressed.

He was a stranger in the city and most of his experience had been in mechanical work. He had attended high school, but didn’t finish. So, I was in a dilemma. I knew the odds were against him.

But I was struck by his “look of courage.” He didn’t have much to offer, but this didn’t daunt him. He looked me in the eye and said he’d just like a chance. He wasn’t cocky or chesty -just poised and determined. How could I turn such a fellow down? Fortunately I didn’t.

It was a long hard struggle. From time to time he had to get part-time work with a transfer company hauling barrels. He and his young wife bought a cheap lot in the outskirts of the city and built a little two-room home with their own hands during the week ends and evenings. Another baby boy came along. Meantime he was getting a foothold in selling. He overcame discouragements that would have stopped most men cold. Why was this? More on Never Say Die

The brilliant band of blood-red is at the top of the rainbow. This typifies the spiritual qualities of the salesman who wins-Courage, Conviction, Enthusiasm, and Persistence. Battles aren’t won by brains and cunning alone-it takes “blood, sweat, and tears,” to quote the immortal words of Winston Churchill. This applies to selling, too.

So in the first section of this book we will consider these emotional and spiritual attributes that a man must develop if he aspires to leadership.

Master Salesmen Are Men of Spirit

IF FIFTY LEADING ARTISTS WERE TO paint a picture of the Grand Canyon every one would be different. Some would be dark and grim. Others would depict the lighter hues. No doubt a few would be realistic and beautiful. Others would be impressionistic and hard to understand. But they would all reflect the personalities and ideas of their creators.

So it is with master salesmen. Each has his own way of persuading men to buy. One may be suave and adroit. Another will be direct to the point of being overbearing. Most successful salesmen are polite and courteous, and yet others are almost insulting. More on The Power of Spirit

When we see a lovely sparkling rainbow in all its glory we usually don’t stop to consider that it is really only the white lifegiving light of the sun separated into its “rainbow colors.” http://www.warriordad.com/scienceofabundantlife.html More on Rainbow of Success

Some individuals may wonder why it is necessary to concern themselves with the details of marriage when marriage for them seems so far away. Let’s take a look at the reasons:

1. People are marrying at an earlier age than ever before. In 1890, the average bride was 22 years old; the average groom, 26. Census Bureau figures show that in 1955 the average bride was about 20, the average groom 22^4. Today there are more than 1,000,000 husbands and wives in the United States still in their teens. Experts expect this trend to continue for some time.

2. Although some persons are able to take a marriage course in college, the majority must rely on a high school course or their own reading program. Some dioceses do offer Pre-Cana instruction, but circumstances oftentimes arise which prevent you from attending them. More on Reasons for Preparing for Marriage

Every marriage failure discloses somewhat the same tragic picture. Young people are rushing into marriage without knowing what it is all about. They center their attention upon the wedding day and the honeymoon without trying to glimpse at the duties and responsibilities which lie hidden in the background. They are ignorant of the problems – physical, psychological, social, economic, as well as spiritual – which must be solved if the union is to endure and succeed. Preparation for marriage is essential if couples are to make a go of it! Judge Theodore B. Knutson of Minneapolis pointed this up recently. Sixty per cent of the divorces granted since his court’s family division was established affected those marriages contracted when one or both parties was less than 20 years old. “In almost every case,” testified the Judge, “the young people had no premarriage counseling whatsoever.”

Unfortunately, the amount of preparation available today appears to be far less than is needed. From his tour of 100 United States dioceses, Msgr. Irving A. DeBlanc, former director of the NCWC Family Life Bureau, found that 50 per cent of the Catholics who marry received no formal premarriage instruction and another 20 per cent got only one talk.2 Father Edward V. Stanford, O.S.A., author of Preparing for Marriage, in a recent Chicago address stated that in the 1957-1958 school year less than 5 per cent of the Catholic high schools in the United States were offering marriage preparation courses. In the 1958-1959 school year, the figure increased to an estimated 20 per cent.

Here I am starting a category that is from a book on Christian Marriage. I think there are many good lessons from this book and I want to share them here. I think you will enjoy some of the articles from this book.