"...read the news rather than watch it"!

Now, I can't take credit for this concept, since it was part of an article I read in my most recent copy of Money Magazine ... but you'll notice I said I was READING it as it caught my eye (and attention), so what does that tell ya? This is NOT, however, to say we should eliminate TV altogether. In fact, for many of you/us out there (yes, I'm guilty too) you/we might find it difficult to survive without our shows. However...

As part of that same "How I'm Coping with a Scary Market" article, Jean Chatzy quotes Kathleen Gurney as saying: "Anxiety inhibits our ability to perceive what we're hearing and seeing" and then goes on to say: "When anxious people listen to the news on TV or on the radio, sometimes they pick up only the negative information". Reading at our own pace (twice over for some of us!) allows us to take what we've read in at our own pace - rather than the Announcer's - thus absorbing and digesting the content that much better. Anyway...

Within April's edition of Money Magazine, Jean Chatzy offers consumers sound advice in her Time to Hunt for a Vacation Home article. This comes just 1-month after another well-written/well-presented Time Magazine article by Mr. Dan Kadlec known as: Ignore the Headlines!

My opinion? Well, um, er...

I'd share it with you here, but then you might not read either one ... and that's assuming you've made it this far! Of course, any of you can always contact me right here, through our office, or - better yet - my cell!