Several years ago, I had a big change jar in the closet that I would drop my coins from the day into. Each day might have been a few cents, but they all were put in. Eventually, I decided to take the big jar out to see how much we had in there from my years of saving them. To my absolute amazement, I had accumulated over $900 in coins just a few cents at a time!   Little things add up!   I have a friend who recently got a divorce. They had a good marriage and three beautiful

I recently read an article about the final pieces of advice given by senior citizens as they reflected on their lives. Here are some of the powerful things they said:   I wish I'd lived the life I wanted rather than the one someone else planned for me. Don't sleepwalk through life. You'll miss the important things. You never know the value of a little moment until much later, when you realize how big that moment really was. I wish I had spent more time with my parents listeni

I don't remember all my mistakes, but I've had more than one conversation in my life where I didn't think of the perfect thing to say until days later, when it was too late.   Last year, I had a confrontation with someone in a volunteer organization I worked with. This person lost his temper and said something incredibly cruel, and I was so shocked and overwhelmed with possible responses that I ended up saying nothing and walking away. For months afterward, I replayed the con