annual vision board exercise toward young pros
SMART Coaching
Smart Life Family Foundation hosts its annual vision board exercise toward young pros!
Date: Sunday, 2/16/2025 3-7 pm Eastern
Address: 2726 Gallows Road Game Room Vienna VA 22180
Parking: Free parking across the street at Harris Teeter grocery store garage
SMART Goal Setting
Coach Mike will cover (1) goal setting for young people through vision board; (2) Coach Mike and Chris share their vision boards in 2024 and 2025; and (3) Coach Mike, Chris and Kevin talk about FIRE strategy (Financial Independence and Retire Early) related tax planning.
SMART Life Family Foundation Grant Program
SMART Grant
We are actively seeking an IRS approval under the IRS Section 4945(g)(1). We will update all the applicants and candidates timely.
SMART Goals
The purpose of the grant is to align with the mission statement of SMART Life, i.e.,
a. Sustainability related science and life styles;
b. Masterful public speaking;
c. Active career building;
d. Responsible family and community members; and
e. Thoughtful and faithful leaders. The acronym is SMART.
SMART Life
Therefore, the grant is to improve or enhance the recipient’s literary, artistic, musical, scientific, faith pursuing, or other similar skillset and capacity that ultimately benefit the society and general public and that fit into the SMART categories.
Smart Youth Vision Board event 1/19/2025
Create A Self-Manifesting Vision Board
Have you done Vision Boards before, only to have them wind up in your closet along with all those Christmas presents, exercise tools and personal electronics that seemed great during the Holidays? Rev Jim Webb helps you to actually MANIFEST your vision board. Jim uses his book, easy to use guide helps you to understand and use the powerful spiritual principles, and creative spiritual energy that will supercharge your Vision Board into manifestation.
Keynote Guest Speaker Jim Webb
Rev. Jim Webb is an Ordained Interfaith Minister who serves as the Senior Minister of the Takoma Park Chapel in Silver Spring, MD. He has studied and taught metaphysics for over 30 years and lectures and teaches workshops nationally, sharing the wisdom he has received. He has served as a faculty member of Iyanla VanZant's Inner Visions Institute and taught at the New Seminary in New York. In addition to his Masters of Divinity from the New Seminary in New York, Rev.
Webb has a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School and an MBA from New York University. He has served on the Board of Directors of a Washington DC based AIDS Services Organization and as the Vice President of Marketing for a DC Based information technology firm. His business acumen, spiritual wisdom, and inspiring counseling style have helped countless people to overcome their fears and live with joy, and these experiences combine to help YOU in his latest release "The Soul Of Prosperity".
In addition to his Masters and Doctorate of Divinity from the New Seminary, Rev. Webb has a BS in Economics from the Wharton School and an MBA from New York University. He as served on the Board of Directors of a Washington DC Social Services agency and as the Vice President of an Information technology firm prior to devoting his attention to full-time ministry. His warm, loving demeanor and inspiring counseling style have help countless people to overcome their fears and live with joy.
Jim's website: https://www.revjimwebb.com/
SMART Life Coaching
“Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.” – Oprah
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Passcode: VisionBoard25!
SMART Life
A 2025 Vision Board can be an incredibly effective tool for achieving your SMART Life goal.
Here’s how it can help:
1. Clarity of Goals: A vision board provides a clear, visual representation of your financial and lifestyle goals. It might include images of a debt-free life, investment milestones, or the early retirement lifestyle you envision. It helps you prioritize spending, such as cutting expenses, maximizing savings, and building passive income streams.
2. Motivation and Discipline: Seeing visual cues like a beach house, travel destinations, or a debt-free chart can inspire you to stick to your savings and investment plans.
3. Accountability: It reminds you why you're making sacrifices (e.g., skipping unnecessary purchases or working overtime).
4. Tracking Progress: Include progress trackers on the board for goals like savings benchmarks, investment growth, or debt repayment milestones.4. 5. Creative Problem-Solving: Use the vision board to brainstorm strategies for achieving FIRE, like side hustles, optimizing your budget, or new investment opportunities.
sasha speaks at capa mc
Thrive, Not Survive
Sasha Soukhoveev, Chief Coaching Officer at Smart Life Family Foundation and public speaking coach at Speak to Lead LLC, speaks at the youth wellness program as the keynote speaker. The event is hosted by CAPA MC, a 501(c)(3) public charity (https://capamc.org/).
CAPA MC stands for Chinese American Parents Association in Montgomery County, Maryland. CAPA MC has a mission statement to (1) promote Chinese American parent involvement in school communities, (2) advocate on behalf of our students and parents; and (3) establish a strong partnership with all stakeholder to address educational issues and challenges.
A Yoga Champion
CAPA MC sees an increasing need to address the young people mental and physical wellness and resilience issues troubling the MoCo and beyond. The stress, anxiety, isolation and hopelessness have detrimental effect on young people’s quality of life and effectiveness of school work.
Sasha is unquestionably an ideal speaker and demonstrator on this youth health matter. She is a three-time champion of USA Yoga competition for the girl (15-18 age group). She is a Johnson scholar at Washington and Lee University, a prestigious liberal art college, with a major in neuroscience and health related fields. She is a devoted Chrisitan, building hope and peace internally and externally.
Strong Mind; Happy Family
Strong Mind; Happy Family
About Speak to Lead LLC: we are a public speaking and leadership coaching company to build future leaders worldwide. Visit SpeaktoLead.us for our coaching services.
About Smart Life Family Foundation: we are a non profit organization with SMART goals (visit SmartLifeUSA.org for detail).
Disaster Relief for L.A. County Fires 1/2025
Public speaking, tax planning and charitable giving: All in One!
A group of CPAs and FEMA staff talk about how to make donation to the L.A. fire disaster victims and obtain the deserved tax deductions.
Topics
1. Tim Zhao, Giesel and her sister shared their art education (and free classes) to auction youth artwork to raise fund for LA disaster area victims and their children. Their non profit site accepts donation: http://thenyva.org/
2. Youshan shared her CPA knowledge of how to make charitable donation as an individual donor or as a business (S or C Corp)
3. Mei shared FEMA’s resources. Chinese hotline available too.
4. I walked through the IRS pub 526 and 3833: Disaster Relief: Providing Assistance through Charitable Organizations
CAPA NoVA (a 501c3 non profit) raises funds and support LA victims as wel
Zoom Recording
Speakers
Youshan (CPA), Mei (FEMA) and Mike (CPA, CEO Smart Life Family Foundation)
Sponsored and hosted by CAPA (a 501c3 public charity)
Mike Nie Coaches at Youth Leadership Workshop
CAPA NoVA Summer Campus
“A leader is a person who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.” – John Maxwell
1. Coach Mike provided leadership coaching to a group of high school students
2. Leadership training include (1) Watch Sasha’s interview about leadership in the biblical framework; (2) presidential debate review and leadership critique; and (3) case study of crisis management with a strong leadership (Boeing incident)
Smart Life provided leadership book to students and CAPA.
Vision Board 2024 Exercise (Free to join. FOod provided)
Welcome to Smart Life USA Life Coaching
- Hosted by Smart Life Family Foundation
- Purpose: set up a life goal, live a purposeful and powerful life in 2024, and make a great run in 2024
- Event time: Thursday, December 28, 2023 2-5 p.m. Eastern
- Address: Wilton House conference room, 2726 Gallows Rd, Vienna VA 22180
- Parking: Public parking across the street (near Harris Teether grocery store)
- Contact: Mike Nie, CEO of Foundation at mike@smartlifeusa.org
