Healthy Wealthy and Wise

"Expertly reasoned and meticulously researched, Wealthy and Wise shows us how we can convert tax-deductible contributions to great reward at little or no personal risk. Rosenberg provides a detailed plan for transforming our troubled communities and improving our lives, and the lives of all Americans, by learning simple strategies for more effective giving. In addition to teaching people of all tax brackets how to cultivate constructive financial habits, this innovative guide will tell you everything you need to know to turn your philanthropic contributions into the soundest investments of all, including: how to calculate what you can realistically afford to give, and where to consider giving it; how to contribute most effectively within your own area of interest, and how to assess where your money is going; how to promote leadership locally; how to estimate your needs over short and long periods of time; how to plan bequests to your children and to charities; how to stop depriving yourself, and allay anxieties over dipping into capital, by learning a new definition of surplus money; how to diversify assets to protect financial investments; how to establish cushions against unforeseen financial problems; and how to plot your own lifelong financial statement and chart goals for personal wealth and intelligent gifting.".

America's health-care system is the envy of the world, but it faces serious challenges. The costs of care are rising rapidly, the number of uninsured Americans is at an all-time high, and public dissatisfaction is steadily increasing. How can we preserve the strengths of our current system while correcting its weaknesses? Three of America's leading health-care scholars answer that question in Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise. Poorly conceived federal tax policies, insurance regulations, and barriers to entry have distorted health-care markets and inhibited competition. John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel P. Kessler propose five key policies to build a better health-care system: (1) health-care tax reform, (2) insurance reform, (3) improvement of health-care information, (4) control of anticompetitive behavior, and (5) malpractice system reform. Together, these changes would harness the power of markets to deliver better health care to Americans. These reforms would strengthen consumers' ability to be cost- and value-conscious shoppers, while promoting quality and innovation in health care, pharmaceuticals, and medical technology. And, by cutting the cost of care by $60 billion per year, these reforms would make health insurance affordable for at least 6 million--and perhaps as many as 20 million--uninsured Americans.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. EABLY BI8ING PBOMOTES THE HEALTH OF THE MIND AND SOUL. This is unquestionably by far the most important view of the subject. How we may best promote the interests of the soul, and develope the faculties of the understanding, should ever be our chief concern. And I submit that early rising is eminently calculated to help forward both of these grand objects. That it is so, it needs only to be tried to prove, if the testimony and the example of many of the most holy and most learned men be not sufficient evidence. And I think that every one, who, from conviction and from choice, has adopted the practice of rising early, would be most unwilling to fall into the opposite habit. An habitual early riser, especially if a child of God, knows well that his intellectual vigour, his cheerfulness, his comfort, and his contentment of mind, are materially aided and improved by this means. He also knows well that his spiritual strength, his loving-service for God, his selfcontrol, his peace of mind, together with all other inward graces and outward evidences of them, depend not a little upon the recollectedness of mind, and the time for devotional exercises, which the habit of rising early helps him to cultivate, and secure. To enlarge, then, upon some of these advantages: --I. First, as to those which the Mind derives by this means, it has been found by experience, that, 1. The TTUDEBSTANDING is most VIGOBOtTS m the early morning; and that Eaely Eisiug Impboyes It. The mind is clearer, and the judgment more to be depended upon, in the early morning, than at any other part of the day. It is the habit of judicious men to "sleep upon" any important plan or decision, at least one night if they can, before committing themselves to it. They know...

Sociologists, therapists, and psychiatrists have spent entire careers investigating the ins and outs of health, success, and happiness, but their findings are inaccessible to ordinary people, hidden in obscure journals seen only by other experts. Now David Niven, the international bestselling author of the Simple Secrets series, has collected the most current and significant data from more than a thousand of the best scientific studies on three of the most important aspects of our daily lives. Niven has boiled these findings down to sound, succinct advice for each day of the year, presenting 365 essential ways to find and maintain health, wealth, and wisdom. Each entry is accompanied by a true story showing the results in action. Whether you want to enhance your body, your bank account, your IQ, or all three, this bestselling series offers 365 essential ways to let science help you.

In this book, you'll find in context, everything Aristotle,Socrates and Plato, had to say and a great deal more, allsimplified and explained. Basically, those famous Greekphilosophers told us we were gods.I will be explaining how and why that's so and show youhow to live your life as a god.I will be explaining how simple it is and show you how tomake life less complicated.As gods, we have the power to choose who we will BE.And lessons learned from this book will have you using yourgod power, BEING power, to make yourself richer, healthier,happier and wiser than you've even imagined possible.The book is written with the intention of providinginformation that will change your attitude, your point of viewand your concept of reality, and with those changes, improvethe quality of your life in many ways.Those promised quality of life enhancements will be yoursto celebrate if you can convince yourself to read this book withan open mind.Keep this in mind: any idea, belief or reality concept, inorder to make a difference in the quality of your life, wouldhave to be contrary to your current reality concept. Most of theideas offered here will challenge the way you currently thinkabout life.Two of the ideas presented are a different way of lookingat life and, once accepted, would drastically alter the way youthink and once accepted, would have you attracting a wholenew and better quality of circumstances.1. One of those would be if you chose a differentreality concept2. and the other, if you changed your attitude.You will accomplish both of those changes while readingthis if you're truly ready for a change. If you can allow yourselfto think outside the box, you will be transformed big time bywhat you learn while reading this book.

Millions of baby boomers, now in their 40s and 50s, will be retiring soon. With retirement will come the need to understand and prepare for new emotional and financial realities. A must read now for baby boomers, this book offers a strategic planning guide for the 23% of today's workforce who will soon find themselves faced with the challenge of retirement.