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The Development Of Personal Credit Is A Valuable Part Of Self Improvement

Written by Tamara Rasheed-Cruz

Topic: HappinessPublished February 1, 2008
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Personal Credit Development is a valuable part of self improvement because it allows individuals to depend on themselves as their own financial resource. It is a system created out of love and conce
for individuals who struggle with the burden of unestablished, bad or average credit scores.

Starting out with bad credit myself, I struggled for 8 years with knowing that I couldn’t provide stability in my basic needs because of my credit problems. From the age of approvability, 18 years old, I had my identity stolen twice and acquired credit debts that did not allow me to even get an apartment on my own. I was married that year as well, and felt especially troubled by not being able to lease my own car or make decisions based on my own credit standing. Before I turned 20, I found myself divorced and a single parent, which weighed even heavier on my inability to depend on myself as my own resource.

In 2005, I was introduced to the world of credit repair, and tremendously unhappy with its costly rates and limited skills, I stuck to restoring my own credit until I could find a way to use it to benefit masses of people instead of lining the pockets of a few. By March of 2007, I had compiled so much data and such a mountain of resources that I decided to implement a class that focuses on the development of personal credit instead of on “quick fixes” and “band-aid solutions”. I have created a Success Portfolio from the feedback I have received by implementing my action based approach to the creation of a new standard in credit knowledge.

Like credit repair, Personal Credit Development is a gateway to de-cluttering your credit reports with a step I call “Spring Cleaning”, but works before and after that process to first create a Credit Awareness so that your efforts have a guided pathway. You learn how to employ daily, weekly and monthly habits and schedules to track your credit debts with Credit Health worksheets, and go on to create Credit Goals to give you a measure to build your lifestyle against.

The best part about this program is that as a Professional Educator and Life Coach, I recognize the time issues that individuals face with trying to maintain their basic needs, so the class on fundamentals and the credit report analysis is only 2 classes at 1 ½ hours each – that’s a combined time of only 3 hours to get all of the skills and knowledge necessary to create credit scores of 750+ in 9 – 12 months.

As a twice divorced single parent of 3, I understand the pressures that credit and finances cause families first hand. Marriages dissolve, depression is created, and unhealthy lifestyles are cultivated by the inability to protect and secure your basic needs. One thing we all have access to that can change all of this is our Personal Credit. I have endured harsh trials in life so that it can be alleviated for others. I understand what you have been through, and what you have continued to go through, but I am now here to say that you do not have to endure those issues anymore. I am committed to teaching individuals just like you how to live life to its fullest by beating the plateaus of life through Personal Credit Development.

By developing your credit, you develop yourself.

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Tamara Rasheed-Cruz is a Professional Educator, Professional Goal Setter and Life Coach. She has authored a textbook titled Beating The Bad Credit Plateau with Personal Credit Development and has received an endorsement in 2007 from Michigan Works! Livonia Service Center backed by the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth. Tamara is a single parent of 3 children and currently resides in Michigan where she heads her nationwide business in the development of personal credit.

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