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The Real Significance of Holi: (Festival of Many Colors)

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  Holi is a festival where the Hindus celebrate festivals coinciding with the spring season. The season manifests divinity and its expression through plants, shrubs, and trees filled with sweet-smelling flowers. They all proclaim the glory and everlasting beauty of God. The season inspires us with joy, hope, and rejuvenated life. It propels you forward to our inner journey to scout out God- the creator and indweller, who is hiding himself in human hearts and these external manifestations.   Bharat's holy scriptures relate the festival to the various ancient legends." One event connected to this legend of the demon Holika is Bhakta Prahlad's devotion to Lord Narayana, and his subsequent escape from death at the hands of Holika. Prahlad's father, Hiranyakashipu, punished him in various ways to change his devotional mind and make him worldly-minded. He failed in his attempts. At last, he ordered his sister, Holika, who had a boon to remain unburnt even in fire, to take

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Retirement Plan Participants

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  We might have heard of an old saying and people are salves of their HABITS- If you break the word Remove H - A BIT remains, if you further remove word A, still BIT remains. How often we make New Year resolutions and barely two months in the New Year have we often found ourselves that most of the resolutions were broken and we came back the same old habits of living our lives and hang on to the very same things that we wanted to get rid of. It is no surprise keeping our resolutions requires our unflinching commitment, laser sharp focus, self-discipline, will power and time management skills to overcome the Daemon called “Habits”.   And surprisingly, the same habits cast their ugly shadow on our planning for retirement. Why should you enroll in a retirement plan or contribute to your 401 (K) plan, 403 (b) plans? We often put the most important decision of our lives on backburners and keep delaying the decisions that can make or mar your retirement lifestyles and unknowingly make our li
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  Growing the Financial Planning Practice: Cracking the Code.   By: Mahendra S. Rathore. MBA BA (Hons) CFP CRPC ChFC   Today’s Dynamic: Focus on Achieving Exponential Financial Planning Practice Growth. We see that most successful business owners today are not getting the financial advice they’ll need to achieve their biggest, most meaningful goals. Many of the prospective clients aren’t getting the advice, insights, and solutions they need from their current advisors. That’s because most professional advisors who work with successful entrepreneurs do not provide the wealth management strategies and products that can maximize these people’s Long-term financial wellbeing. You have a distinct value proposition to make by delivering prudent wealthy-strategies suitable for the super-rich and by ultra-wealthy business owners for growing their wealth, minimizing the taxes they pay on their wealth, transferring the wealth as they see it fit and protecting their wealth from being taken
          SEP IRA Strategies for Small Business Owners BY: Mahendra S. Rathore. MBA BA(Hons) CFP® ChFC® CRPC® PMP® CTC® CLU® There are 28.8 million small businesses in the United States, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration, which employ 56.8 million workers. Small businesses (defined as businesses with fewer than 500 employees) account for 99.7% of all business in the US. Today more than 15% of workforce is comprised of free lancers and temporary workers. And thanks to improved technology that makes it easier for us to work remotely, that number is expected to surge up to 20% by 2020. Imbedded in these figures is the fact that more and more workers are “Self-employed”, and responsible for their own retirement savings. According to a recent survey by Manta, 34 percent of entrepreneurs polled said they did not have a retirement savings plan. So how do we help them with their retirement goals?   Gallup polls suggests that the majority of small business owners will d