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by Marion Syversen

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What do you do if talk of stocks and bonds aren't your think, but you want to know more about money? Who can you ask when you are feeling down about life? How can you encourage the family when you feel pressure? Optimist and encourager, Marion Syversen, will cheer you up and fill your heart with hope in this introduction to her new podcast. Marion owns Norumbega Financial, is an independent financial advisor, the wife of one man, the mother of two sons, and the nana of nine grandchildren. What if relatives want to borrow money? How much stuff do kids really need? How can we meet the deep needs we have without spending all our money? I want you to see how beautiful you are, how capable is your brain and that improvement doesn't have to hurt. Look for the Money, Motivation & Motherhood Facebook group and join in the conversation. https://www.facebook.com/moneymotivationandmotherhood/ Connect with Marion: Twitter https://twitter.com/home Website http://www.norumbegafinancial.com/

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February 6, 2020

Episode #4 - Gratitude & Peer Pressure

Podcast – Episode #4 Gratitude & Peer Pressure Gratitude is a good practice to have any time of year, all year, or around the holidays. The practice of gratitude is the mindful focus on the people, situations and things for which you are grateful. It sounds easy and too simple to be helpful. But being grateful changes our brains. Studies on happiness have found that a key to joy is gratitude. You’d think with all the years of research (for instance that something as simple as smiling – even without emotion, by holding a pencil between your teeth) people would do what they could to live in as much joy as they could. It’s FREE, it’s EASY and it changes your outlook and can lift up the hearts of those around you. And yet, though we may be thankful for a few days, or weeks, we tend to quickly fall back into our grouchy habits of jealousy and discontent. You may look around and think, ‘life is pretty chaotic here. The kids are noisy, money is a struggle, my spouse and I are tired, and the work piles up.’ Yeah, but what if you said, ‘I’m married to the person I prayed for, a man who loves me, and does all he can to take care of us.’ Or, ‘I always wanted kids. I dreamed of being a mom. And now I get to live this life.’ Or, ‘we are making progress in money and so many parts of life. And look at all the blessings that we enjoy!’ Part of our discontent is wound up in a discontent caused by our own hearts. And studies have also found that peer pressure can play a role. You’re shopping with friends, and feeling out of your element. But you want to fit in, so you spend money when you had kind of decided that self-control was your new middle name. Or you are simply envious of your neighbor’s new car and vacations and put yourself in financial jeopardy spending money unwisely. Giving into to these darker impulses only give us a kind of pleasure for a short time, before we are overcome with remorse and maybe are even embarrassed. Gratitude is the victor over jealousy and peer-pressure. Knowing you have everything you NEED, that you are blessed with breath and that there is beauty in the nature around you. Kissing your kids who are safe in their beds at night gives a lasting peace and joy that few other things can match. For many people, a Gratitude JOURNAL is a great way to see all the good things that float in your life every day. What works for me is a blessing Jar. I write down all the kindnesses that come to me that made a situation more wonderful. Friends that go beyond the extra mile. A gift won in a contest. Health in a situation. A joyful event. On New Year’s EVE we open the jar and reflect on all the good things God has sent into our lives over the past year. When you begin focusing on the good things that FILL your days, you will see even more of them. When you practice gratitude it’s much easier to be content. Makes sense. That contentment gives you a sense of confidence that makes you stronger in a variety of situations. Now you can choose YOUR plan for your future, instead of perhaps spending money that you don’t have to meet other’s expectations. Where to YOU want to be in your life? Are you willing to sell your future just to keep up with others? Do you want the peace that comes from knowing your life isn’t perfect, but it’s awesome and getting better every day? Use peer pressure and a good group of friends to help you STAY on track. Not because you show them your checking account balance and they monitor your spending. But folks who have similar goals and priorities as you when it comes to what they find important in life. Folks with similar values will be less likely to pressure you into things that aren’t in your best interest. But ultimately, you and your family are the BEST JUDGE of what’s good for you. It’s easy to be grateful for new stuff. It’s BETTER to build your gratitude based on things OUTSIDE of stuff. Practice gratitude for PEOPLE in your life. One happiness author wrote that you could SPREAD gratitude by writing a happiness letter. An actual letter thanking a person for all they mean to you and the life change their presence has had in your life. Positive attitudes in a negative world can be easily lost. So you need to guard your heart and mind to keep on the gratitude journey and not go back to the land of jealousy and discontent. You know yourself. Limit exposure to things that derail you. Don’t bad mouth yourself for ‘weakness’ thinking you ‘should be able to withstand the negative pressure. That’s just crazy. Why put yourself in that position? Just don’t and keep your joy. Don’t sabotage yourself and others with foolish chatter that gossips or envies. SAY good things, positive and uplifting things to friends and family, even strangers. Compliment people. DO things that HELP others. Living and giving of yourself is the natural way to lift up your own heart and fill it to overflowing with joy and gratitude. There was a movement around my circle a few years ago where you wore an elastic around your wrist, and when you complained, you would snap the elastic and change wrists. The goal was to STOP COMPLAINING. For some that is TOO big a goal. Then stop complaining for a DAY. Gratitude. It’s just human nature to want more, be discontent. But you are really okay. And if you are NOT okay, get help. But most of us are REALLY okay. We’re aren’t just okay, we’re good. Maybe even great. So you don’t have to spend more; you don’t need to fix it; you don’t need as much as you sometimes act driven to get. Practice gratitude and in doing so take control of your heart and your brain.

February 6, 2020

Episode # 3 - Medals

Podcast #3 - Medals I recently ran four races in three days and received participation medals for them all. The days were spent with friends, but the focus was on the racing. Or running, since many of us weren’t going fast enough to WIN. My brain sees so many bits to share from that experience. <ul> <li> </li> </ul> I have never been a big athlete. My preferred way to relax is sitting in my garden, puttering a bit there, but usually reading a book – and snacking. I like to sit by our cozy fire and read in the winter months. And snack. And though I have almost always set aside time to do 20-30 minutes of some aerobic activity 3-4 times a week, that level of activity didn’t cut the mustard as my snacking continued and my metabolism slowed. So a month before my 59th birthday, in frustration and not really wanting to RUN, so much as wanting to change my body in an efficient time, I started the Couch to 5k program. Abbreviated as c25k I was invited to join a group of friends who were also frustrated at their weight and health, to meet them at ‘the track.’ SO unfamiliar with sports at all I had NO idea where or what was the track. Apparently, you don’t have to be of superior ability to start this sport. For those unfamiliar the program – which is free- works by prompting you to run a minute or two, and more as you progress, and to walk some time. Years ago a fitness instructor, and friend, had told me ‘anyone can run IF they RUN SLOWLY ENOUGH.’ So if you don’t sprint like a 2 year-old trying to get away from mom, and slow down the pace to what may feel ridiculously slow- you CAN RUN for a very long distance. As you do this running, and the support things with it, some strength work of hips, core and glutes, you will likely get faster. But, like the race I first talked about, it was also the people. The people who encouraged one another, who laughed with you, who you prayed for when they had a hard situation and who you looked forward to seeing again. Since that first beginning, I’ve kept running- even though I don’t love it. I don’t hate it anymore, so that’s a step in the right direction. I am God’s girl. I try to do many of the things science and common sense says leads to a healthy life. BECAUSE He has a job for me and I want to be a vessel that He can use. So I try to do what I know to do. Most of the time. Unless there’s a block of cheese nearby. Or chips. I do love chips… There’s a lot of things YOU can do to be healthy and it doesn’t have to be running. I’m just generally a slug and running makes me have an APPOINTMENT to MOVE. Walking, cycling, boxing, hiking, karate, rowing, skiing, climbing, so many opportunities to be FIT. Not guilt. But also not excuses. Today, take one step closer to doing what you KNOW TO DO to get your fitness on track. <ul> <li>Finances</li> </ul> The next thing these medals and this weekend of running made me reflect on is finances. Finances? Yes, because it’s my job and a passion of mine to figure out finances for folks. The races made me think about WINNING at money. So many folks are adamant, speaking in loud and insistent voices about finances and how it should be done. Of COURSE, there are principles. ‘Live your wage,’ is a good principle. Sometimes we’ve already messed up – and maybe badly- before we really hear that idea, and we can’t figure out how to run the finances race except as the last runner, way in the back, followed by the sweep car that tracks the last runner. There is no one who hasn’t erred in money. Perhaps they’ve spent more than they earned and the debt feels like guilt. Or maybe not guilt, but not excellence. Perhaps they’ve gotten bills under control and they aren’t tithing. Tithing is the practice of giving back to God a tenth of all He has given you. I know a lot of people, who in getting their ‘spending under control’ and accumulating an emergency account, stopped tithing, and have never begun it again. Maybe spending on the kids is where you mess up, or some other area that you kind of know isn’t wise. You may argue about it with your spouse, and yet you persist. But maybe you feel like you have always done this well. You are generous, you are careful, you have no fear or quirk that produces a bit of lunacy, and you feel on a good plan. I would argue that everyone makes mistakes, so be humble if you feel like you are perfect in this. All of us are on a journey, hopefully running the race in such a way as to win the prize. Wherever YOU are on this journey, make one step forward in your goals TODAY. No guilt. No excuses. Do the thing you KNOW you ought to do to move this forward. <ul> <li>People</li> </ul> The last thing the races and my wonderful medals and that whole weekend was about the people. The most important thing is that we love God and love people. When you find your peeps, the folks that cheer you on, and love you enough to not just say yes all the time. But love you enough – and know you well enough to correct and help you grow, those are the people that you need to keep close. The thing I see so often is that we let our tendencies drive how we do people. I’m a borderline introvert/extrovert. I need time alone to rejuvenate. Too much with people drains me. BUT I could very easily become a hermit and just stay in my own small world, ignoring the community, to which we are all called to love and serve. People are God’s hands and feet. We are the ones who are going to be used to be answers to your prayers. We deliver answers, casseroles, hugs, love, laughter, babysitting. WE are the ones who surround you and help fill your heart when crisis come. In the celebrations we CHEER for you. In the darkness we sit with you. You fill a place in our lives NO ONE ELSE WILL EVER FILL. There is only ONE YOU. Made for us. Your gifts and talents for this community. Your adorable sense of humor for our people. Your insight needed to grow God’s kingdom. I don’t know how it all works together when we feel like we are a raindrop in an ocean. But I believe God and he says all this. So those medals represent Sarah, and Therese, Melissa and Jocelyn, Kathryn and Bill, Trish and Nikki, and so many others, who are full of spit and vinegar. Who are sweet as sugar and tough as nails. People who love the best they can and who are always trying to move further in their journey. People who are my friends. For all those races in a few short days, there was a training plan. I started barley able but slowly increased my capability to run the distances and stay healthy. Like my finances. A plan. A strategy and putting it into action a little at a time. Consistency grows as we overcome obstacles. Confidence grows as you ride out storms. With people it’s also taking a risk, putting yourself out there, opening your heart- wisely- to possible rejection. Loss happens. Things don’t go smoothly. There are stones in the path and leaves atop them that hides the possible pitfalls. Things happen that are OUR doing, or others, or things that are unexpected. Life is getting back to the plan and pressing on, time after time and time. I am not likely going to win the race in running. UNLESS no one shows up in my age group. I won’t be the richest person in America, or my state, or my town. But I’m going to be the best I can be, within my interest in pushing myself. I’m going to have expectations about being tough and strong, and disciplined and focused. I will also leave room for short attention spans and eating too many chips. I will determined with myself and forgiving. I will say things that reflect who I am in Christ and not the lies I may hear from the past. One step forward. In fitness. In finances. Loving people.

February 5, 2020

Episode 6 - A Man is Not a Financial Plan

Episode 6 – A Man Is Not a Financial Plan – and why men should care Years ago I came upon an awesome bumper stick put out by the Women’s Institute of Financial Education, or WIFE. (You can find them at <a href="http://www.WIFE.ORG">www.WIFE.ORG</a> ) And they have a free bumper sticker that reads, ‘A Man is Not a Financial Plan.’ This is not meant as a slight towards your partner. It is instead a wake-up call for women to take some control of money and finance. Let’s face it, it’s not just you who may not have this high on your list of priorities, this financial stuff. But ignorance isn’t a good place to be, either. I was waiting for an appointment at my doctor’s office and picked up the People magazine where I read about a famous and seemingly strong woman news anchor. She and her husband were getting a divorce. She had been making millions of dollars every year as a woman at the top of her field, and assumed they were financially awesome. Well, she assumed wrong. In fact, she had very little left. The court documents alleged “…that Cohen, 59, had spun “a Byzantine web” of investments and refused to disclose specifics, Zahn’s attorneys say that she is now “readying to assume responsibility for her own financial security.” * Looking from the outside, we probably wouldn’t have guessed that this was what was happening. That this strong and capable women was not really keeping track of her finances. But there’s another reason to know what’s going on than because of the unlikely possibility of mismanagement. Men don’t want to do the financial management alone. Their biology doesn’t make them financial advisors or wealth managers, and your input matters a great deal. I’ve spoken with couples and the husband is often very interested in having a partner to help figure things out. Probably neither of you have gone to school for this or necessarily feel like experts in the field. So both of you, working together, make a more balanced pair than one carrying all the weight. Look, I understand the division of roles. We do that here, too. Neither of us are great at every task needed to run a family – though we do both cook and bake pretty well. We even separate the financial jobs for the household. But we discuss what’s happening in every aspect of our finances. We both are very aware of bank balances, of spending plans, of investments, etc. And you should be, too. Aware. Informed. Taking part. Being a voice. You don’t have to know how compound interest works to have the common sense needed to make a financial map for your family. You have a good brain. You know baloney when you see it. And you bring a different perspective that is what makes you two so good together. And if you are doing things by yourself for your family, get yourself to a financial institution or to a knowledgeable friend who can be your coach or financial bud, to help you stay balanced in your own plan. We are all quirky and have fears and tendencies. If you’re married, we have a built-in person to balance out your wonkiness. If you aren’t married, grab a bud with whom you feel safe, and have lunch together occasionally to keep the quirks in line with reasonableness. Whatever you do, don’t think you’re off the hook for having a basic idea of what’s going on with your money. You don’t have to be an expert in every aspect of this. But you do have to take responsibility for your grownup self and be involved. Love yourself enough to take a role in this. Honor your relationship enough to stand together and carry your weight. * <a href= "https://people.com/archive/unhappy-ending-vol-68-no-11/">https://people.com/archive/unhappy-ending-vol-68-no-11/</a>

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What is moneymotivationandmotherhood's podcast?: What do you do if talk of stocks and bonds aren't your think, but you want to know more about money? Who can you ask when you are feeling down about life? How can you encourage the family when you feel pressure? Optimist and encourager, Marion Syversen, will cheer you up and fill your heart with hope in this introduction to her new podcast. Marion owns Norumbega Financial, is an independent financial advisor, the wife of one man, the mother of two sons, and the nana of nine grandchildren. What if relatives want to borrow money? How much stuff do kids really need? How can we meet the deep needs we have without spending all our money? I want you to see how beautiful you are, how capable is your brain and that improvement doesn't have to hurt. Look for the Money, Motivation & Motherhood Facebook group and join in the conversation. https://www.facebook.com/moneymotivationandmotherhood/ Connect with Marion: Twitter https://twitter.com/home Website http://www.norumbegafinancial.com/
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