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Do You Respect Yourself Financially? By Kimbles There is always much talk about what the secrets for achieving financial dreams, whatever they be, are. It may seem like a mystery as to why some people seem to be able to make a lot of money, keep it and then go onto make more. The truth is these people follow some basic laws concerning money management. These laws are not difficult to understand, however they do require discipline. Money management and financial knowledge is important.
I am sure that there are some people who are reading this who feel ashamed about how they handle their money. The trouble with this is that shame or guilt about finances only creates a state of "poor" thinking and this type of thinking attracts more financial trouble. To turn this around you need to focus your energy and attention on new behaviors that will establish you to think wealthy thoughts. When you feel good about how you handle money, you can learn to trust yourself.
To improve your financial health you need to start out slowly and methodically in order to develop the good habits of fiscal management. Start by asking yourself this question: "What's the one thing you need to do in order to improve your financial well-being.?" Usually you will know immediately what it is because it is baggage
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Donor gives UH business college Ala Moana Hotel condo unitHong Kong businesswoman Cecilia Ho has gifted a condominium unit at the Ala Moana Hotel with a value of $117,000 to the University of Hawaii Manoa?s Shidler College of Business.
The college said it plans to use the condotel unit for visiting professors, faculty candidates and visiting executives-in-residence.
Ho, a Shidler College alumna, has authorized the school to sell the unit in the future to fund the Cecilia Ho Endowed Scholarship for Excellence for full-time undergraduate students enrolled...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Star-Advertiser will print Hawaii edition of USA TodayThe Honolulu Star-Advertiser said Friday that it will begin printing a Hawaii edition of USA Today next week that will condense the newspaper?s usual four sections into two and include two pages of local news.
The new Hawaii edition will be available on the date of publication, the Star-Advertiser said.
?We are delighted to have concluded this agreement with USA Today,? Star-Advertiser Publisher Dennis Francis said. ?It enables us to provide Hawaii with more timely access to a great national...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Crazy Shirts? T-shirt collection features Disney characters<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/pacific/news/Crazy_Shirts_Disney_LadiesMinnie*100.jpg?v=1'>Hawaii-based Crazy Shirts said Friday it is launching a new collection of speciality T-shirts featuring Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Tinker Bell and other Disney characters.
The shirts, designed by Crazy Shirts Creative Director Eric Robison, feature 18 original, island-inspired designs. They are available at Crazy Shirts stores in Waikiki, Kaanapali and Wailea resorts on Maui, and the Waikoloa resort on the Big Island, the company said.
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</div>New chancellor eyes Pacific-12 Conference for HawaiiNew University of Hawaii at Manoa Chancellor-designate Tom Apple has some high hopes for the school?s athletics.
How high? Well, forget about being part of the Mountain West Conference because he is talking Pacific-12 Conference and competing against the likes of the University of Southern California, Stanford, Oregon and UCLA.
?I won?t go dreaming about where we might be, but there is a really good conference out on the West Coast that it would be wonderful to be part of, eventually,?...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>PBN Forty Under 40 class reflects Hawaii?s business communityThey?re small-business owners, company executives, attorneys, government employees and members of Hawaii?s nonprofit community.
They have two things in common: They?re all under the age of 40 and they all have been selected by outside judges to be members of PBN?s Forty Under 40 class of 2012. They will be honored at an awards reception at the Hawaii Convention Center on June 21.
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</div>PBN Forty Under 40 Class of 2012Here is the list of the Pacific Business News Forty Under 40 Class of 2012.
Click here to read about this year's Forty Under 40 event.
?Desirea Aguinaldo-Helsham, CEO, OneSource.
?Bronson Aken, vice president and chief engineering and technology officer, Pelatron.
? Kathy Custer, owner, Keiki Sitters & Ohana Helpers dba Aloha Sitters.
? Michael Dahilig, director, Kauai County Department of Planning.
? Carlos Di Ponio, partner, Sterling & Tucker.
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</div>Star of ?Battleship? movie lives in Pearl HarborIf you want to see a movie star up close, you don?t have to hop on a plane to head to Hollywood.
That?s because Hawaii has a huge star right here at Pearl Harbor ? and her name is the USS Missouri.
The ship ? on whose teak deck Japan surrendered to the allies to end World War II ? is featured in the new movie ?Battleship,? taking on aliens with really bad attitudes. The ship was also featured in the movie ?Under Siege.?
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</div>Oahu's Dillingham Ranch on the market for $65MA 2,700-acre ranch on the North Shore of Oahu founded a century ago by Hawaii railroad tycoon Benjamimn Franklin Dillingham has gone on the market for $65 million.
The Dillingham Ranch in Waialua includes oceanfront property, Oahu?s North Shore polo grounds and a main lodge built in 1917 that recently underwent a multimillion-dollar restoration.
?This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire such an iconic landholding,? said Ed Rapoza of Island Land Co., who represents the listing along...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Energy Department to fund wave power test in HawaiiThe U.S. Department of Energy said Friday it would make $500,000 available for a year-long test of a wave energy conversion project at the Navy?s wave energy test site off the Marine Corps Base Hawaii at Kaneohe Bay.
The funding presents a new opportunity for a wave energy project at the Windward Oahu base, which has been the site of three test projects by Ocean Power Technologies, which recently removed a 40-kilowatt PowerBuoy from the waters off the base.
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</div>Erika Lacro named chancellor of Honolulu Community CollegeErika Lacro has been named chancellor of Honolulu Community College effective July 2.
Lacro, who is currently vice chancellor of academic affairs at HCC, was chosen by the University of Hawaii Board of Regents from a list of three finalists, who were announced last month.
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More Americans expected to hit the road for Memorial Day <img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/dallas/blog/highway%20congestion%202*100.JPG?v=1'>More Americans are expected to be traveling this Memorial Day, though they won?t be going as far.
AAA said it expects about 34.8 million Americans to travel at least 50 miles over the holiday weekend. That?s an extra 500,000 drivers expected on the road between May 24 and May 28, up 1.2 percent over last year.
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</div> Heart Association recognizes Memphis employee wellness programs <img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/memphis/news/webTopoLargestEmplMethodist*100.jpg?v=1'>Healthy employees are happy employees ? at least, that?s the position the American Heart Association?s Start! Fit-Friendly Companies Program maintains.
The national organization today announced it has added three Memphis-area companies to the ranks of its Fit-Friendly Companies, naming Memphis Light, Gas & Water and Methodist Fayette Hospital as Gold level members. Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare joined as a Platinum level member.
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</div> MBJ presents Small Business Award finalists <img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/memphis/news/SBAlogo32small*100.jpg?v=1'>The Small Business Awards have served as a way for Memphis Business Journal to recognize and reward some of the most successful small businesses in the Memphis area for more than three decades.
MBJ presented its 32nd annual Small Business Awards finalists in this week's print edition. The winners in each category ? 1 to 20 Employees, 21 to 75 Employees, 76 to 350 Employees and Executive of the Year ? will be revealed at an event May 24.
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</div> Top of the List: Physician Practices <img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/memphis/news/TopoftheListLogoPhysicianPractices*100.jpg?v=1'>Memphis Business Journal's emphasis in this week's print edition is on Health Care and we're giving web readers the top five from our Physician Practices list.
The list ranks the practices by local, full-time equivalent employees excluding physicians.
See the top five physician practices in Memphis
Research director Jason Bolton writes that acquisitions by Memphis' two largest hospital systems ? Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. and Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare ? have changed the complexion...<div class="feedflare">
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</div> Behind the List: Physician Practices <img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/memphis/blog/TopoftheListLogoPhysicianPractices*100.jpg?v=1'>Acquisitions by Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. and Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare have changed the complexion of local physician practice ownership.
In a flurry of deals in 2011, Baptist added The Stern Cardiovascular Foundation, Boston Baskin Cancer Foundation PLC and Family Cancer Center Foundation, which are all among the top 25 physician practices in the Memphis area. Baptist Minor Medical Centers is also an annual fixture on the list. In February 2012, Stern made an acquisition of its...<div class="feedflare">
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</div> First-quarter housing affordability at record high <img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/housing_affordability_price_550*100.jpg?v=1'>Though it?s been said many times before, consumers in the market for a new or existing home have the upper hand.
According to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index, housing affordability hit an all-time high for the second consecutive quarter during the period ending March 31, 2012. Still, a familiar foe stands in the way of prospective home buyers.
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</div> Fitch downgrades Memphis airport <img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/memphis/blog/morning_call/Morning%20Call%20sun%20Memphis*100.jpg?v=1'>Fitch Ratings downgraded Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority's bond rating, but revised the rating outlook to Stable from Negative.
The airport's $415.5 million worth of bonds were downgraded to "A" from "A+" mostly due to Delta Air Lines Inc.'s service decline at Memphis International Airport. Local passenger traffic is projected to drop below 4 million, which translates into a more than 30 percent enplanement loss from the peak levels in 2008, according to Fitch.
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</div> 5 Memphis restaurants make Urbanspoon's high-end list <img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/memphis/blog/morning_call/Morning%20Call%20sun%20Memphis*100.jpg?v=1'>Memphis is well represented on Urbanspoon's list of "America?s most popular high-end restaurants" as five local restaurants are among 250 across the nation.
The Memphis restaurants named by the popular restaurant recommendation app Urbanspoon are: Flight Restaurant and Wine Bar, Acre, Houston's, Texas de Brazil and Restaurant Iris.
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</div> Commissioner Ritz says suburban Memphis schools will cost much more than advertised <img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/memphis/blog/morning_call/Morning%20Call%20sun%20Memphis*100.jpg?v=1'>Shelby County Commissioner Mike Ritz says suburban Memphis residents are being lied to about how much creating independent school districts could cost, WMC-TV reports.
Ritz questions the math on feasibility studies conducted for the various suburbs and says it could be off by as much as $1 million. Southern Educational Strategies, a school consulting firm, conducted all the surveys for six different municipalities around Memphis.
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</div> Big Star member, Memphis financial planner Steve Rhea dies <img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/memphis/blog/morning_call/Morning%20Call%20sun%20Memphis*100.jpg?v=1'>Steve Rhea, a rock 'n roll drummer who went on to a successful career as a Memphis banker and financial planner, died Wednesday, The Commercial Appeal reports. He was 62 and had been diagnosed with cancer last year.
Rhea was a drummer in the legendary Memphis band Big Star, as well as several of the group's precursor bands. He also worked for Ardent Records before leaving the scene in 1970 to pursue a degree at Southern Methodist University. He was replaced in Big Star by drummer Jody Stephens.
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