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“Take this marriage thing seriously -
it has to last all the way to the divorce.”
~ Roseanne Barr

Did you know that statistics show there are 1.2 million divorces in the U.S. every year? That means that every year, another 2.4 million people go through divorce. That doesn’t include the children, pets, in- an out-laws and all others affected emotionally and sometimes financially.

If the average cost of divorce is $20,000 per couple that means that Americans are spending $42 billion (yes, that’s billion) on divorces each year! AHHHHHHHHHH!

Stop losing your money, your mind and your mojo over personality and other “differences” gone south.

 If you have questions about your divorce, or need a “Divorce Survival Kit: How to Survive Your Divorce Financially” to help you through one, I want to introduce you to Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) Carol Ann Wilson, professionally trained as a Collaborative Divorce Specialist and a Certified Financial Divorce Practitioner. She is a nationally recognized expert in divorce financial planning and have been quoted in hundreds of articles throughout the country. In addition, she works as a pre-divorce financial analyst/consultant through her consulting company, and is an expert witness in court.

She has a deep passion to help people, men and women, financially survive their divorce. We have all seen it happen, time and time again, after divorce, one spouse or another (sometimes both!) struggle to stay afloat. It is just not necessary.

See Carol Ann’s Bookstore and get Carol Ann’s 10 Most Common Money Mistakes in Divorce.

And I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I won’t forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.
~ Lee Greenwood

Click here and see Greenwood’s music video.

Remember our soldiers — men and women –

fighting for peace throughout the world.

I love having clients, now friends, who are so creative.

Sandy Sartor is one of these. In an effort to help her very right-braincreative/learning children learn left-brain math, she created these very cool books!

Listen in Addition and Multiplication Sensation, move the mind, and the body, to learn snappy songs to number adding and multiplying. Great job Sandy!

Click here and find out more!

BOOK REVIEW:  Achievement IQ Moments by Mr. Achievement, Stanley Bronstein.

I love this book! A great read for anyone wanting to be reminded that no matter what happens in our lives, we can take the A.IQ leap to positively change our direction and destiny.

Bronstein interviewed 50 extraordinary people who have life and career stories proving that we can make a great life out of chaos, loss and confusion; that we can thrive wherever we are and look back over the detours and bumps and see that they all made sense to get where we are now.

Bronstein’s stories are 2-3 pages each. Quick reads and powerful real-life stories of people alive and well today, with dot com information to find each and learn more or even contact them!

This is the third in Bronstein’s books helping others get and stay on the path they truly want to live and experience, no matter what happens.

I highly recommend Achievement IQ Moments. Click here to order.

WHAT I THINK ABOUT THIS BOOK: 

Achievement IQ Moments should be used in junior and senior high schools, colleges and as a gift for students and young people. Bronstein’s real-life stories of what others have done to get from there to here are positive, uplifting and practical. The choices his interviewees took to move through their personal tragedies, diversity and usual life-decision confusing times – to leap into the opportunities that created lives of success and joy – are brilliant role models for anyone, but so much more for those just starting on their life’s career paths. In fact, prisons might be a good candidate too!

What I love about Achievement IQ Momentsis that the stories of those Bronstein interviewed are not the “same old names and stories” heard too many times. They are fresh and alive, here and now. Each one teaches how A.IQ Moments moved them beyond stuck places, obstacles and disasters. They teach and show steps to success and awesome lives that we all can relate too and strive to use and become.

Achievement IQ Moments offers the reader great examples and proof of helping others, support “up the ladder” and “out of the pits” of life by others. It reminds over and over that no one does it alone, no one moves into the best places of life alone. It also reminds the reader to be proactive and ask questions to let others know help is needed!

Achievement IQ Momentsis written in short and sweet chapter stories, making it easy to read for any age, memorable and impactful.

In the dot com age, it’s nice to be able to follow up on each of the people in the stories of  Achievement IQ Moments for more information and/or to follow their lives and yet-to-unfold stories into the future. It makes it real and more personal too.

I’m all about underdogs! My favorite story of the many breakthrough stories in Achievement IQ Moments is Chapter 33, of immigrant and baker, Andrew Ly. What a wonderful story of one who kept on moving, even when everything said to stop, more than once, while carrying his family and others up the river of joy and abundance with him and his vision.

REVIEW / BOOK: Priestess Entrepreneur

Cindy Morris did a great job telling her story of how self-employment really works -  the pitfalls and great stuff. I hardly read a book cover to cover, but I couldn’t put this one down! Priestess Entrepreneur reads like silk. Cindy is a storyteller extraordinaire. Personable, real, authentic, professional, successful – she’s been through the real trenches and came back up to teach and laugh about it.

It’s a self-employment, entrepreneur story told with distinction and dedication to loving and honoring what you do and who you are. It’s a positive, clean and focused storyline of business. Refreshing to say the least!

In an age where Online Business seems to overshadow brick and mortar businesses, this curb-side storyteller takes the reader by the hand and step-by-step, authentic and animated, story-by-story, richly and kindly teaches invaluable lessons for the woman entrepreneur in ways that are memorable, impactful and humorous.

I know plenty of women business owners who would have profited from this book over the years, cutting short their learning and emotional trauma curves. Every woman in business should read Priestess Entrepreneur.

(C) 2008 Kim Wolinski, MSW
 

Tim Russert died today. It’s so sad to lose smart, funny, honest, honorable and noble people from the ranks of human kind, like Russert. Blessings to his family in their grief.

Please take time to listen to him reading a powerful excerpt from his book Wisdom of Our Fathers, so close to Father’s Day.  (mp3) http://is.gd/x2u

Have you seen the movie EVENING, with Vanessa Redgrave? It was in the theatres earlier this month. Ohhhh, what a movie. After this rare gem of a story on screen was over, clumps of people, well, women, couldn’t get out of their seats. A mother and her teenage daughter sat sobbing, others just sat stunned. It was into five or more minutes before my friend Sylvia and I got up and left, leaving others still glued to their seats. I suggested to one clump of women that I could stay and continue the message with a retreat! They thought that was a great idea!

If you haven’t seen it, make sure you do or rent it as soon as it comes out. And, men, no - it’s not a chick flick. It’s about real life and dying and living and wondering, in our very human way, if we did the right things in our past with the options we faced.

It is impossible to make a mistake. Each and every moment offers us a choice to make a decision, an opportunity to learn and experience life . . . no matter what the outcome.

I’ve never liked hearing that “life” or “planet earth is a school” and “we’re just here to learn.” Maybe it’s how I was raised in a not so happy gradeschool environment. I “learned” there are lots of teachers, in this case nuns, who shouldn’t have been teachers, or nuns.

To me, life is just stuff happening. If you take ego and irrational guilt and shame and fear of rejection out of the picture, we’re just thinking, conscious creatures wandering around evolving at some uncalculable rate. We get to choose at each moment what we believe is true for us and what that means in what we are going to explore and experience due to those beliefs, choices and subsequent actions. The importance and value we put on anything is our choice at that moment. Everyone is different, so we create a grand variance of values and importance on people, things, real estate, art, music, money, lifestyle, sex, fashion, looks and so on.

I just know, that when I remember that “there are no mistakes,” I am much more peaceful and don’t feel so much like a flunking student.

How would your life experience be different with the belief ”there are no mistakes?”

©2007 Kim Wolinski, MSW “Dr. DeClutter”  Stress, Change and Organizational Skills Expert   www.DrDeClutter.comEditors and publishers are free to reprint blog articles as long as it is reprinted in its entirety and the signature line remains intact.

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