Our son, Noah, is in his 7th month now! He has been crawling for almost a month and standing on anything and everything. So time to baby proof the whole house! He seems to be the mover and shaker of his little baby friends, as most of the little ones are sitting and playing at this stage, noah is crawling around the house and exploring everything he can get his hands on. He still is not the best sleeper, although he is a happy, fun, beautiful and sweet boy during the day and we are having so much fun with him.

To see more of noah....(he recently made his first marriage proposal to a little girl, named, lola, which you can see a photo of on Facebook), befriend me on Facebook or visit me if we are already friends :)

Join Financial Therapist and Founder of Conscious Bookkeeping, Bari Tessler, for a complimentary information packed one-hour Teleseminar on the Conscious Bookkeeping philosophy and the 'Wake Up With Money' Course that she will be teaching in May.

• When: Monday, April 13th,
  or Wednesday, April 29th -
  5:00 p. m. PST
• Where: Dial In: 1-218-936-4700
  Password: 940061
• Cost: Complimentary

I invite you all to join me for my 8 Week Tele-Course which begins on:
Wednesdays, May 6th.
I have been teaching this course for 7 years and it is an integration of the Three Doorways: Financial Therapy, Bookkeeping and Life Visioning.

I offer a discount for couples and I am open to payment plans!

See you there~



WAKE UP WITH MONEY - 8 WEEK TELECOURSE

Transforming your Relationship with Money on a Practical, Psychological, and Spiritual Level.

Starting May 6th - June 24th!

Our foundational course at Conscious Bookkeeping with Bari Tessler-Linden, M.A.

Summary: This course is an integrative approach to Financial Therapy & Values - Based Bookkeeping Training: (Formerly known as the Level I Course)

It is designed to increase your clarity, intimacy, knowledge, ease and success with your relationship to money!

With group coaching, tele-seminars and homework in between classes, there will be plenty of time to dive into and begin healing the emotional, psychological and practical issues you may have around money. You will also explore the basic structure of a bookkeeping system from both a philosophical and practical standpoint. And you will complete this course with one-on-one bookkeeping techniques and software training with Eva Koningsberg - our Quicken Expert, who will give you the handholding you need to lay the foundation in transforming your relationship with money.

While we have been recommending and also training on Quicken and Quickbooks for years, we are always looking for the best accounting programs for all of you to be using to assist you on your financial awareness journey.

Mint arrived on our radar screen a few years ago and here is what Taj, our client-now colleague, says about the program:

"Happy to give thoughts. Mint makes it easy to get everything at a glance, much more so than Quicken for Mac. With Quicken, you have to push buttons to retrieve data-with Mint you simply login and it grabs everything right then. There's also an iphone app for it.

Mint lets you nickname payees, assign categories, and will give you some budget info (and graphs I think) based on your categories; it also compares different months to the most recent to give you a heads up on spending changes. I have found that one rather lackluster; since I haven't done much with categories, it doesn't know what's what as well and therefore doesn't provide the clearest picture of spending comparisons.

Mint will email you with bill reminders, and the occasional alert about unusual activity.

Mint also will help you find better deals on credit cards and perhaps other loans-this may be in concert with partner companies, although I think maybe it's unfiltered.

Another thing Mint has in a social network of people giving advice to each other and chatting about financial concerns. I haven't participated much, but I understand it's fairly active.

All in all, Mint is very useful for personal tracking. It's free, customizable, and easy to use. Once you enter a financial institution, it's in there. Once you want to get a little more complicated, you'd be better off with something more robust (like Quicken).

I'm probably going to get the latest version of Quicken for the Mac when it comes out this summer. I've got business expenses from time to time that I need to keep track of. Meanwhile, Mint is a handy site."

-Taj Moore, Denver Abundance League

To read about the results of the Mint.com research, read the article below:

We have been looking for a good Debt Consumer Advocate for all of you. Gerri Detweiler provides a ton of resources and advice on Credit Counseling Agencies, Debt Negotiation and Debt Settlement. We are learning a lot from her. For those of you that need these type of services and guidance, we encourage you to learn from her as well.