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      "body": "The Veil of His Flesh \nPt.1: Hidden Glory\nAn Advent Reflection \n\n\n\n …by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, - \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t- Hebrews 10:20\n\n\nAs we celebrate Christmas we ponder the wonder of the incarnation of Jesus. That the second member of the Godhead added humanity to himself thus forever uniting himself to humanity. \n\nThe writers of the New Testament stress both the humanity and divinity of Jesus.  So we affirm that Christ is one person with two distinct natures, not separated, not mixed but forever united.\n\nTheologically we refer to this as the hypostatic union.\n\nIn this brief advent reflection I want to look at the words ‘through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;’ and examine the imagery the author provides.  \n\nHere the author is saying, that by the blood and through the flesh of Jesus we enter the most holy place with the human Jesus as our high priest who leads us.  \n\nBut notice that it is His flesh that is the gate of entrance. This is an intriguing way to express the high priestly work of Jesus and how He brings us into the presence of God.\n\nWhat I want to do now is take up what seems to be an invitation to explore the range of meaning that the imagery employed by the author evokes, focusing on the imagery of the veil.\n\nThe flesh of Jesus veils the glory of god\n\nWhen Jesus was transfigured on the mountain, we read 'His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.’  \n\nWhat happened is that Jesus temporarily allowed His Divine nature to be expressed and let his glory radiate. 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Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. \n\nHe goes on to say in Revelation 22:5\n ‘There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light.’\n\nWhat is to be stressed here is that in the New Jerusalem God’s glory will be present and expressed with all its fullness. Redeemed humanity will be able to stand it because they will be in their glorified state.\n\nUntil then, man cannot withstand being in the full presence of God’s glory.  Thus as Jesus was on the earth He had to restrain the full expression of His glory, and His flesh was the veil that covered His glory from man.\n\nTo further develop this idea we can think of Moses who was also on a mountain where the glory of God was revealed.  In exodus 33, Moses asks God to show His glory.  God’s response was that Moses could not see His face and live. 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Sharing in our flesh.\n\nKeith Fortenberry is a pastor in Calvary Chapel Heidelberg, Germany\n\nYou can follow him on Instagram: keith410berry\nand Facebook https://www.facebook.com/keith.fortenberry",
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      "body": "The New year is fast approaching.  Many of us find ourselves in the time of holiday hurry and fast paced days.  We also find ourselves reflective.  Wondering if we grew the way we wanted to this year.  If we achieved any goals, lost weight, read our quota of books and so so on.\n\nFor many of us this is also a time when we examine our relationship with God.  We ponder our wanderings and and celebrate His faithfulness.  We find a renewed awareness of our need to spend time with God and a renewed desire and passion to pursue Him in the quiet spaces and places of our life.  \n\nIn other words, we have a renewed energy and commitment to make our devotional time our top priority.  So we download Bible reading plans,  buy journals and organize our planners with outrageously early times to rise and read and pray.\n\nThis is all good and to be applauded.  \n\nWhat I want to do is give your five elements that will make your devotional time effective.\n\nRoutine\n\nWe begin with a bang.  Energy and enthusiasm mark our efforts.  Just like Genesis 1!  We begin there, take notes, see new themes we never saw and revisit old ones.  \n\nThen as days go by we get into those sections that seem complicated to us, hard to understand and hard to retain an interest in.  This is normal.  \n\nThat is why it is important that these precious hours are fixed into a good rhythm and rigorous routine.  There will be days when you don't want to do your devotions.  Life happens, bodies get tired and kids... well... kids are kids.\n\nBut if we approach our time with God with a routine, we ensure a more effective and consistent devotional life.  This is exactly what we see with the great saints of church history and in the Bible.  I think specifically of Daniel.  Daniel was a very busy man with a host of excuses to not make time to pray.  But we are told he prayed thee times a day no matter what.  We even see this with Jesus, who often rose early to go be alone with His Father in fellowship.  \n\nA good routine will have a repeated time, place and rhythm to it.\n\nRelational\n\nIn our devotional time, we do not want to slip into some form of religious dullness.  This is hard, and it will happen at times.  But overall the way to avoid this is to remember we are engaging with a person.  God is not a concept or theory.  Nor is He simply the provider of some concept or theory.  He is a person who fellowships with us on an intimate level.\n\nThrough the humanity of Jesus, we as humans come to God who is Divine and partake in His eternal life, which is marked by joy and holiness.\n\nWhen Jesus taught us to pray, He immediately emphasized the relational aspect of being with God as our Father.  There is an intimate expression of fellowship that awaits us as we spend time with God.\n\nWhen we lose the relational aspect, we become cold and disinterested because it has lost it's power of personal connection.\n\nReflective\n\nOne of the most helpful things to do in reading our Bibles is to meditate and reflect.  To learn to listen to the voice of our shepherd as we listen to God's voice in the text.  It is in the process of reflection that new insights are drawn, new discoveries are made and growth begins to happen.\n\nThink of all the times God spoke you as you reflected on His word.  The ways He led you and loved you and changed you.   \n\nThis also reinforces the words we read and aids us in memorization.\n\nRenewing\n\nLastly, effective devotional time will be renewing.  Paul describes it as having a renewed mind.  God renews us as we spend time with Him.  And this, is ultimately the goal.  We want our time with God to change us.\n\nI would like to emphasize something here.  A good devotional time should have an impact on the rest of your day.  It is not like we are to make Jesus first, and then move on to the rest of our day and compartmentalize our devotional time.  \n\nThere is a power at work that is to shape our approach to the day.  An effective devotional time will prepare me for what the day has so I can approach it as a disciple, equipped by Scripture and empowered by the Spirit.\n\nSo there are 5 key elements to having an effective devotional time.  I hope you are encouraged and equipped and apply these elements to your life and live a faithful and fulfilling 2020.\n\nThanks for reading. Like it? Please recommend it so more people can read it…. thanks!\n\nI write on related motivational topics to productivity like personal vision, goal setting and time management to name a few. If you want to read more posts like this give me a follow… I will give you my best each post!\n\nI am also a life coach, if you or someone you know are interested in being coached let me know in the comments and we can connect and pursue that further, just let me know in the comments if you would like a free Complimentary Coaching Session and we can set it up.",
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At the end of the week you are left feeling lost and unsure about what sort of progress or achievements you have had.  This is because you did not have a plan to measure it by.\n\nTo plan well, we plan ahead so that each day has a set agenda and goal.  Good planning takes tasks and then works them into our schedule and calendar.  When we do this, instead of asking what we should do next, we can consult our planner and know what is next because it has already been scheduled and assigned that time slot.\n\nI take Sunday nights to look at my week and see what things I need to get done.  Then accordingly I make my weekly schedule to accommodate those tasks.  \n\nPlanning ahead gives me a big picture and sense of control and organization.  \n\n#2 Have clear priorities \n\nThe second principle is to have clear priorities.  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Good organization will mean that we mindfully begin to remove things from our lives and declutter them.\n\nThis means that you will need to be able to decide which things are important and which things are not.  This brings us right back to determining priorities.  \n\nThe point is that as we filter our tasks and set priorities we need to begin to either delegate or eliminate the things that are not our highest priority.  \n\nThere is a great interest in having a simplified life today, and for good reason.  There is simply too much we can do.  The most productive people are the ones that simplify their lives and go all in with intense focus on the important things.\n\n#4 make lists \n\nThe next principle is to work with lists.  These are action items and tasks that need to get done.  A good list will be categorized and itemized.\n\nFirst, categorized lists are groups of items that belong to a certain goal, project or task.  This can be as simple as a shopping or packing list.  Don't just make a list of items to shop for, and then right after chores to do at home.  Keep them separate.\n\nSecond, itemized lists are straightforward.  Make sure you right down the key items to do.  Thinking about what to do will help you remember, and writing it down will leave no task out.\n\nHaving a list of items to check off as they are accomplished will help you be more organized and purposeful in your life and work.\n\n#5 Review and reflect \n\nLastly, to be organized we need to review and reflect.  I admit, this is where the real discipline comes in.  Planning and list making is fun because it is forward thinking.  As people who want to achieve, we like to push forward.  But to be organized will require us to go back and visit our goals and tasks and measure our progress.\n\nIn reviewing we make ourselves willing to see what worked and what did not.  Where we failed and where we succeeded.  Momentum needs to be measured, and if we never slow down and analyze how we are doing we will not be organized because we will not make the appropriate adjustments along the way.\n\nReviewing helps us stay organized because it keeps the big picture in mind, measures success and results and analyzes procedural issues and progress.\n\nThis is why successful organizations will constantly revisit their mission and vision statements and measure their activity and results by them.\n\nSo use these five proven principles and you will be more organized in life, and therefore more peaceful and successful.\n\nThanks for reading. Like it? Please recommend it so more people can read it…. thanks!\n\nI write on related motivational topics to productivity like personal vision, goal setting and time management to name a few. 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      "body": "'Leadership is the problem, leadership is the answer ' \n- Bedros Keuillian \n\nI like that quote.  It reminds us that leadership is necessary for the success of any organization.  \n\nLeadership is necessary.  Leadership is needed. \n\nLeadership is taking people from one place to another.  Therefore it is vital that leadership be great.\n\nWhat makes a leader great?  What sort of qualities do they possess that enable not only them, but those they lead to excel?\n\nHere are 5 qualities that every great leader possesses.\n\nGreat Leaders Have Character\n\nThis goes without saying you would think.  But sadly much leadership is toxic simply because it lacks character.  A great leader will be a person of character.  They will have integrity.  They are known for honesty.\n\nThis sort of leader people can trust because they know they are who they are all the time.  They have ethical excellence.  They do not take shortcuts, manipulate people or use people simply as means to an end.  \n\nYou can take them at their word.\n\n\nGreat Leaders Have Competence\n\nGreat leaders are competent.  They know what they are doing.  Leadership is taking people from one place to another.  In order to do that, one must know where they are going and how to get there.  A competent leader has a clear picture of what they are leading people to achieve.  They have a clear vision with clear goals and a clear plan to make it happen.\n\nIf a leader does not know where they are going, everybody will be confused.  No one will have any idea what to expect or what to do.  \n\nGreat Leaders Have Courage\n\nNext up is courage.  I put this next because this has to do with mindset.  There are plenty of competent people who lack the courage to act.  Courage is unavoidable in leadership.  Courageous leaders see opportunities where others only see obstacles.  They are willing to step up, step out and take risk.  Facing potential failure, fears, the unknown and endure hardship and criticism.\n\nAll great leaders have been courageous.\n\nGreat Leaders Communicate\n\nGreat leaders are great communicators.  They communicate what the goal is and how to get there.  Their communication is clear and compelling.  No one is confused about the objectives.  They also communicate expectations clearly as well.  Everyone knows what to do.\n\nGreat Leaders Coach\n\nGreat leaders are coaches.  They bring out the best in their team.  They help others rise to their highest potential.  This is especially valuable in several areas.\n\nWhen there is a performance gap and someone is not meeting their key performance indexes, the coaching leader will ask questions to help them diagnose what is holding them back.  It might be a mindset issue, or a skillset issue.  Whatever it is the coaching leader will help them see where they are stuck and develop a plan to get them going on in productivity again.\n\nCoaching also helps in dealing with conflicts.  By coaching, the leader helps their team member see things and situations from broader perspectives.  Then they can analyze the conflicts they face in a healthier manner.\n\nGreat Leaders Have Commitment\n\nLastly, and not least comes commitment.  The apostle Paul said to lead with diligence.  Leadership takes every effort for excellence.  Good leaders see things through and are fully committed.  \n\nStarting is easy, but finishing is rare.  Great leaders see things through to the end.\n\nThere you go!  5 qualities every great leader possesses. \n\nThanks for reading. Like it? Please recommend it so more people can read it…. thanks!\n\nI write on related motivational topics to productivity like personal vision, goal setting and time management to name a few. If you want to read more posts like this give me a follow… I will give you my best each post!\n\nI am also a life coach, if you or someone you know are interested in being coached let me know in the comments and we can connect and pursue that further, just let me know in the comments if you would like a free Complimentary Coaching Session and we can set it up.\n\nTo Your Growth!",
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Or find a way to collaborate with others to do it.  The point is, if you really want to do it but cant and are not willing to leave it alone.  You need to find a solution so you quit feeling stuck.\n\nThe feeling is frustration.\nThe reason is there is desire but no ability.\nThe solution is to either eliminate, delegate or innovate.\n\n4) Flourishing - desire and ability\n\nAh.... finally!  Flourishing.  This is what we all want.  This how we all wont to feel with our work.  This happens when ability and desire align.  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I also help people in career transition smoothly move from one line of work or job to another.\n\nI can help you get to that feeling of flourishing. \n\nLet me know in the comments if you would like a free Complimentary Coaching Session and we can set it up.\n\n\n\nThanks for reading. Like it? Please recommend it so more people can read it…. thanks!\n\nI write on related motivational topics to productivity like personal vision, goal setting and time management to name a few. If you want to read more posts like this give me a follow… I will give you my best each post!\n\nI am also a life coach, if you or someone you know are interested in being coached let me know in the comments and we can connect and pursue that further.",
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How much easier would transitioning back be!\n\nSo next time you go on a vacation, create a game plan for your return and you will get back into the swing of things more smoothly and more successfully.\n\n2- Come back with time to rest and prepare\n\nOften we want to maximize our time away and take as much of it as we can.  This is completely understandable.  But think about it, when you come back the day or night before you have to go to work, you have not given yourself that much time to transition back into the normal routine of life.\n\nI am a big fan of coming back from vacation with at least one day to rest and prepare myself for work.\n\nWe just came back from our holiday and it was great.  But as relaxing as vacation is, it is also tiring.  We actually live in a cozy German town, and our vacation was in Istanbul, which is a city of some 20 million people.  While we love that city, and all the energy it has, it is tiring.  Most people leave the city to vacation in a place like we live.  We did the opposite.  \n\nI am so glad that I had a few days to settle in. I was more tired than I realized.  \n\nGiving yourself the space to rest up and prepare yourself helps you settle in with a clearer mind and stronger body.\n\n3- Leave the vacation mindset on vacation\n\nVacation is great, as long as it stays on vacation.  We often urge people to leave work at work and not bring it on vacation.  Well, the same is true for vacation.  Having a few days in between to rest helps me to have a contextual detox and process all that happened.  This helps me to see where some things from my vacation might be creeping into my mindset and rhythyms that need to be addressed.  For instance, we stayed up late basically every night.  This is something that cannot continue if we want to have a good rhythm at home.\n\nThis requires that I am aware of the vacation lifestyle, and intentionally shift back into the life at home lifestyle.  This means we are not eating out most nights anymore.  We are not sitting outside late and talking most nights anymore.  And, yes... we can't sleep in anymore... :-( \n\nI love going out and being in the city.  And back home some nights I can do that, but not at the pace I do on vacation.  \n\nIt is important to be mindful of the change in our approach to the day that needs to take place and intentionally shift our daily and weekly routines and patterns.\n\n4 - Keep a healthy pace\n\nSpeaking of pace, set a good sustainable pace right away.  It is easy to feel overwhelmed and just start eliminating tasks and getting busy with the stuff we need to do.  Totally understandable.  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      "body": "![Unknown-4.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmPincWaW3QUVasdxqePVqSytBnGRphYMEwv3Xkxfee3Yj/Unknown-4.jpeg)\n\n\nWould you say you are a focused person?  Do you want more focus?  \n\nWhen we live and work with focus, we get more things done, and we get things done more effectively. \n\nFocus helps us in all areas of life. When we focus on our health, marriage and work we see the results we want.\n\nAs I closed a coaching call I encouraged my client, and affirmed my belief that they would reach their goals.  They were taken back, yet appreciative.  I just said ‘All you have to do is focus.  Know what you want and focus on doing it’.\n\nI have been a huge Lakers fan my whole life.  So obviously I have been a fan of Kobe Bryant. One of the things that helped Kobe be such a dominant player was his intense focus.  During Game 1 of the NBA finals against the rival Boston Celtics, famed comedian Christ Rock was sitting next to Kobe making jokes.  Kobe did not even notice him.  That is how focused he was.  \n\n\nSo, what is focus and how do we increase it.\n\nTo define focus, lets use this dictionary definition: ‘an act of concentrating interest or activity on something’\n\nSo how we can we increase our focus?\n\n#1 Get Clear on what you want\n\nTo focus on something, you need to know what it is.  Concentration on an interest or activity requires that there be one.  Too often we find ourselves doing things mindlessly.  Focus requires Clarity.  We have to get clear about what our objectives are and what we are trying to achieve.  \n\nOnce we know what we want to achieve and have a clear sense of it, we can concentrate on it. \n\nSo begin here.  Know your desired outcome and pursue it with singular focus and energy.  Stop working mindlessly and start working purposefully towards a clearly defined result.\n\n#2 Slow down\n\nHurried work is rarely effective work.  John Wooden, the famed UCLA basketball coach who is renowned for his leadership said “be quick, but don’t hurry’.  When we do things in a rushed, frantic, and panicked pace we tend to do things sloppily.\n\nLike the kid who has to do the dishes before they can go outside and play.  Those dishes are rarely sanitary due to the pace at which they were done, which affected the attention given to the task.\n\nDoing things in a rush leads to mistakes because we are moving so fast that we overlook important parts of the job.  When we get into a calm and easy paced rhythm, our work is much better. We think better, work better and produce better.\n\n\n![Unknown-1.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmXHDGMNt7mh1FQyhDdgVKea9PjvpKxkN7VeD67H25BQge/Unknown-1.jpeg)\n\n#3Deal with distractions\n\nThis is a biggie!  Why?  Distractions are all around us.  Some of us are like Dug the talking dog from the movie up.  One squirrel and we lose focus.\n\nHave you ever been in the midst of an important project, and then somethings interrupts you and you lose your momentum and never really seem to regain it?  Maybe it is a phone call, a text message, an unexpected interruption like an office visit…\n\nIt can be anything.  And honestly, even if we cannot predict and control everything about our day, we can at least be prepared to deal with distractions when they come.\n\n3.1 Identify distractions\n\nBefore we can deal with distractions, we need to identify them.\n\nWhat are the things that set you off course and kill your momentum?  It is vital and necessary to identify what these things are.  I think for many of us they come in digital forms.\n\nBrian Tracy notes that what when we respond to electronic interruptions such as emails, texts or phone calls it takes around 17 minutes to get back to our work.\n\nThink about that!  For every time we check email, facebook, news or instagram we not only lose the time we spent doing that, but also over 15 minutes of time to get back into a good work flow.  That can easily add up hours in a day, and that is just the readjustment time!\n\n3.2 Eliminate Distractions\n\nKnowing what our distractions are, we must ruthlessly eliminate them.  Maybe that means hanging a sign on your office door that says do not disturb.  Or telling your secretary you are unavailable, or putting your phone on airplane mode, or in your drawer and turned off.\n\nOffice space is also important.  Be sure your office is not full of potential distractions.\n\n#4 Work with set deadlines\n\nTime management is an important key to working efficiently.  This is an area that we are always needing to grown in, because time is limited and unforgiving.  When we get good with our time, we work with more efficiency.\n\nWe can use the tyranny of time to our advantage.  Setting deadlines on our calendars gives us several advantages in in our work: \nIt creates a greater awareness of the task that needs to be done \nIt provides a sense of urgency to get the work done in time \nIt helps us organize our activiities accordingly.\n\n\n#5 Develop the ability to say no\n\nAssertive people know how to say no.  The fact is, if you take on too many things, you will never be able to have the attention required to concentrate on what you do.  One of the things I do when I coach people is help them to identify what things they should stop committing to, and then create ways to eliminate these from their list.\n\nWe get more done when we do less, but do it better.  Free time is not a sign of laziness.  Lazy people do not have free time, they just never work and get things done.  Diligent people on the other hand have free time because they work hard and smart.  They work on the things that matter and do them well.  They do not allow their list to get cluttered with inconsequential tasks.  \n\nGood things are not necessarily necessary things, and can clutter up and squeeze out the important things.\n\nReduce. Reduce. Reduce.\n\n#6 Do one thing at at time \n\nIn Nancy Napiers article ‘the myth of multi tasking’, she shows how research shows that our brains do not really do things simultaneously, but actually switches back and forth between tasks.  Thus we are in a constant state of starting and stopping.  \n\nWhen we try to multi-task, we cannot apply the focus we need on our work.\n\nILike Confucius said: “The man who chases two rabbits, catches neither.”\n\nThe fact is we can only do one thing at a time.  If we want to work with greater focus, we need to keep the main thing the main thing.  Or maybe we should say, keep the one thing the only thing.\n\n\n#7 Drill down, dig in and finish the job\n\nBasically, go all in.  If you are committed to finishing the job, you will have the focus you need.  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      "body": "The average american has $38,000 in debt.\n\nOnly 2% believe that budgeting is necessary if you have a lot of debt.\n\nThis is alarming to say the least.  Living in debt is slavery, and not having a budget is foolery.\n\nI used to live on credit card debt.  I had no control over my spending, and that was an indicator I had no control over my life.  But the truth is, accruing debt is easy and budgeting is hard.\n\nPeople have a number of reasons they offer as to why they do not have a budget.  Some say they dont make enough, others they dont have time, others are just scared and hopeless.\n\nOnce I began to budget, my life changed.  I saw hope.  I had confidence.  I felt in control.  My marriage got better and my overall self control did as well.\n\nBelow I want to share four benefits of having a budget:\n\nfinancial awareness\n\nwhen you begin to watch your money, what comes in and what goes out.  Where it comes from and where it goes, you begin to get a good sense of where your priorities are.  This can be a painful truth to face, it can be embarrassing, but it can be fixed by a budget.  When you begin to get educated about your money and spending habits you begin to become aware of what you really need in life.  You will be amazed at how many things you realize you buy that you do not need.\n\nBeing aware of how you money is operating is empowering.  It also shows you how you operate and that is freeing as well.\n\nsecondly it gives you control\n\nFirst, you begin to control what your money does.  When you do not control what your money does, your money controls you.  A budget causes you to assign activity to your money.  You tell your money where it will go, when and how.  This gives you a sense of control and empowerment.\n\nAlso, there is a sense of self control you get from a budget.  Alot of our spending is just flat out laziness.  Tightening up our spending patterns causes us to tighten up our living patterns.  We begin to adjust our lifestyle as we adjust our spending.  \n\nThird, a budget helps you destroy debt\n\nIt was debt that really cause my wife and I to get educated about money (a journey we are still on) and tackle our debt.  Within a year we went from over $10,000 in debt to having $10,000 in savings, not to mention traveling with out using a credit card.  We have not even used a credit card since we made the decision to eradicate our debt.\n\nWe felt free, in power, united and like a team.  It was the first step in beginning to work on building a better marriage (also a journey we are still on :-).  \n\nThis leads to the last benefit, which is peace of mind\n\nKnowing what your money is doing because you are in control of it give a sense of serenity.  In the end, that tranquility is what we are after in the first place.  When our relationship with money is off, everything goes off.  Money is not everything, but it is impossible to live life without it.  Therefore we must have an educated and active approach to how we handle it.\n\nOften we are stressed and anxious because of money.  A budget will help you get peace and freedom.  I know because it did for us.  Are we perfect?  No!  But having a budget always shows us when and where we begin to get sloppy.\n\nThanks for reading. I write on related motivational topics to productivity like personal vision, goal setting and time management to name a few. If you want to read more posts like this give me a follow… I will give you my best each post!\nLike it? Please recommend it so more people can read it…. thanks!\n\nhttps://www.debt.com/research/best-way-to-budget-2019/\n\nhttps://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/20/how-much-debt-americans-have-at-every-age.html",
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