Tomorrow's Treasures: Preserving Your Family's Traditions

By Cheri Powers

Capture the essence of you! Record your family's customs, stories, recipes, and genealogy. Pass on your hopes, dreams, and life's wisdom to those you love before it's gone forever. Tomorrow's Treasures is an interactive journal that preserves your family's traditions. It chronicles the personal journey of your life. It is a collection of your memories and experiences growing up.

Have you explained to your children the stories behind your favorite holiday traditions? Have you wondered what life was like for your parents as they were growing up? Do you have a record of your family's roots? Are you able to pass on the tastes and smells of Grandma's best apple pie or your mom's chocolate chip cookie recipe or your dad's best barbecue? Will these precious images slip through your fingers like flour through a sieve because no one has taken the time to copy them before they fade away?

Memories are snapshots of the past and they become the treasures of tomorrow if preserved. Are there moments in your busy schedule when images flash across your mind and take you back to a special time and place? Do you find yourself reminiscing about your life? Do you promise yourself that next year you will take the time to create the perfect holiday gathering, birthday party, or family album? Are you creating traditions that will leave a lasting impression?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Feb 8, 2006
• ISBN: 9781466958074

Cheri Powers

Cheri Powers is a life development coach and educator. Since 1979, she has been a consultant to businesses, schools, and private individuals. She conducts lectures and hosts workshops in self-advancement throughout the United States and Canada. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband and their two children.

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TOMORROW’S TREASURES

An Interactive Journal

By

CHERI POWERS

©

Copyright 2005 Cheri Powers.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

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ISBN 1-4120-4017-5

ISBN 978-1-4669-5807-4 (ebook)

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CONTENTS

AUTHOR’S NOTE

INTRODUCTION

WHERE IT ALL BEGAN   CHAPTER 1

REMEMBER WHEN…   CHAPTER 2

LIFE’S HIDDEN TREASURES   CHAPTER 3

JOURNEYS WITHOUT LIMITS   CHAPTER 4

WORDS OF WISDOM AND OTHER DREAMS   CHAPTER 5

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTACT INFORMATION

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This book is dedicated to my daughters,

Lyndsey and Loren;

may you always have stories to share.

It also honors each reader by celebrating and documenting

the journey that is uniquely yours.

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AUTHOR’S NOTE

If you have purchased this interactive journal for yourself, it is a priceless opportunity to celebrate the experiences of your life by recording your story and your family’s traditions. It’s in the telling of your stories that all the hidden treasures of your life become visible and valuable. You are defining the essence of who you are by recording your hopes, dreams, traditions, recipes, genealogy, and favorite memories as you live life.

This book gives you the opportunity to share your thoughts with those you love. Treasures of the mind begin to fade with the passing of time unless they are preserved and passed on.