Tips to help you prosper from Jean Chatzky

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Financial journalist Jean Chatzky is known for helping millions of Americans improve their lives with her calm straightforward advice. She’s witnessed people who seem to move easily from a paycheck-to-paycheck lifestyle into comfort or wealth while  others get stuck or get further into debt. She uncovers  the differences that matter in her new book, The Difference: How Anyone Can Prosper in Even the Toughest Times.  Jean says there are real steps anyone can take to transition from living paycheck to paycheck into a life that’s financially comfortable and here’s what she says are  the eight things that matter:

• Happiness and Optimism.

• Resilience.

• Connectedness.

• Passion.

• Intuition.

• Habitual saving.

• Invest in stocks.

• Gratitude.

More about Jean Chatzky: An award-winning journalist, bestselling author, and motivational speaker, Jean is the financial editor for NBCs Today, a contributing editor for More Magazine, a columnist for the New York Daily News, and a contributor to The Oprah Winfrey Show. She also hosts a daily show on the Oprah & Friends channel, exclusively on XM Satellite Radio.