Women’s self-defense classes, seminars and videos are short-changing women. The idea that women can learn to defend themselves against men, without training with men, is simply false.
There are many who say women learn self-defense better in an exclusively women-only environment. The so-called “experts” say it is less intimidating if women don’t have to compete with the men, or, it is easier (more comfortable) to discuss subjects like rape without men present. So, the new trend in self-defense programs is “Women’s Self Defense” classes.
“[I]f you’re in your thirties, forties, fifties – even your sixties and beyond – you’ve still got an opportunity to put your life on the right track financially and stop worrying about the future,” says David Bach, financial advisor and author of this book and several others, including The Automatic Millionaire.
Like most books of financial advice, Start Late, Finish Rich reinforces the commonsense principles you probably already knew you should be following. Also like most of them, it contains a few of the author’s personal and sometimes counter-intuitive ideas.
Probably the most well-known book about creating wealth also happens to be one of the best, if not the best. Think and Grow Rich was written by Napolean Hill in 1960 at the behest of Andrew Carnegie.
Carnegie, who amassed his fortune in steel, is one of the richest people to have ever lived; the book contains his secret for creating wealth. Think and Grow Rich is one of the best-selling books of all time. It is now in its twentieth printing.
Among the people who used Carnegie’s secret in their own endeavors are Henry Ford, Charles Schwab, Theodore Roosevelt, Wilbur Wright, John D. Rockefeller, Thomas Edison, Woodrow Wilson, and Alexander Graham Bell.
In Robert Kiyosaki’s book, Rich Dad Poor Dad, he clearly points out that anybody can become rich. Nevertheless, he cautions that it’s more difficult for the children of the poor and middle classes because they have been taught incorrect information. For example, their parents have told them, “go to school and get good grades so you can go to college and get a steady job with good benefits.” These people have been taught to think, “I can’t afford it” instead of (as the rich do) asking, “How can I afford it?” There is absolutely nothing that you cannot afford. When you honestly desire something you’ll figure out how to obtain it.
Enter any functional home and within moments it, becomes apparent who manages the household. Who schedules the appointments, organizes family affairs, is the at home physician, chauffeur, counselor, cook, and mediator? It’s the women. Combine this role with the growing necessity to work outside of the home contributing a shared or full income; it becomes evident that women have begun to move beyond the traditional roles of home management. Women are now managing the money. Charlotte Whitton – mayor of Ottawa said “whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good, luckily, this is not difficult.”
Money — Earn it! Spend it! Lose it! Imagine having made significant financial gains generated by a lifetime of hard work and smart financial planning all to be lost to a gambling addiction. Caught in the Web of the Spider tells of a German woman growing up during the Nazi era and, just as Germany falls to ruin as a result of World War II, her own life also falls victim to the Roulette tables, ending in disaster.