Any advice would be appreciated, and feedback of course is encouraged.

I share that story to encourage you to stick through this rough patch. 

Instead, I'm going to give them general CONSERVATIVE information, encourage them to complete the application, and we can find out the answers once they have done it.

I suppose I wrote it both to encourage myself to stay the course and (hopefully) to encourage new investors to give themselves permission to set healthy boundaries as needed. 

Appreciate the encouragement brother.

In this Part, we discover that the Silver Saddle salespeople held raffles for free airline tickets to Hong Kong and Manila, shopping sprees, watches, cameras and other perks to encourage people to invest.

That may encourage relatives to help out. 

One thing I encourage people to do when they are new, and even when they are experienced, is to network like crazy.

Also, you don't want to encourage lengthy vacancies. 

I actually have read Rich Dad Poor Dad, and that encouraged me to post this about finding jobs to learn new skills!