Just came back from a Personal Finance conference last week. This is what I have learned and experiences from it:
- Old faces: People whom have interviewed me and those whom I know from graduate schools. One of them converted from teaching to extension expressing discontent about decreasing discipline and attitude among students.
This maybe what it looks like.
- Dr. Joan Koonce writing a book, Intergrity. One thing that I remember ab0ut her is that she has a picture [pic] of her old beat-up wooden house in her office, reminding us of our herd upbringing.
- Financial literacy issues in the military is a huge issue. According to a personnel whom I talked to, this is partially related to deployment period.
- Presentations at luncheon …. make them interesting. Less talk, more entertaining presentation.
- Money management personality: There were two methods presented, Money Habitudes [habit + attitudes ?] and . From the one that I took, the result point to a tyrant money management style.
- As I have long expected, overshopping is a huge problem. With her psychological approach, Dr. April Lane Benson shared her reasons on why this issue is larger than being addicted to alcoholic drinks.
- Tips on shopping for a morgage; Consejos Para Hacer Frente a la Reduccion o Congelamiento de una Linea de Credito con Garantia Hipotecaria!!!
- Some free, complementary items are good and others are just plain bad. The coolest: Flashdrive bracelet from the award-winning Financial Security for All eXtension subgroup.
- It’s just amazing how people are trying to sell you a very focused product. In this conference, there was a product that merely focus on improving credit scores or getting your credit score to 850 [I was going to link it to its website, as shared on its product catalog, but its name is not even on google search list (12/18/2009) http://www.creditscoreplus.net/]. A healthier money mangament habit promotes improved credit score, which may be obtained through the Money Coaching Institute.
- The big extension programs tend to be in te health and food areas. So, an option is to include a short segment of personal finance in bug funded programs or market our program as a these big-funded programs such as the Smart Choice$ program.
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