February 19, 2008


INCOMING TIDE
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The sun is going to rise again and I have to keep breathing because I never know what the tide may bring in.
Tom Hanks from Cast Away

I ran into someone today that I haven’t seen in about a year. She had lost at least 70 pounds. She looked wonderful but what struck me was that she moved exactly the same. Her body was slightly bent forward, slowed pained steps, and when she stood both her hands were placed on her back to provide “support.” Everything in her energy was as if the same 70 pounds were still attached to her. I thought that this was a perfect analogy for how we often move through our lives, and how we view our finances. How many times have you paid for a bill and thought "but I have this many more?" How many times have you wanted extra money and as soon as you get it you think "...oh but if only I had…" You experience the exact same lack that you had a moment before you received what you asked for. The interesting thing about this dynamic is that no matter what the tide brings in, it doesn’t matter. Regardless of what is occuring in the present, we move through life carrying the weights of the past. The circumstances may have gotten rid of "it" but are you willing to truly LET IT GO?



TESTIMONIAL
"....wanted to let you know that as of tomorrow afternoon, when the electronic transfer goes through, I will have all zero balances on my credit cards. It was ten years and over $60,000 in the making, but it is done. I thank God for giving me the strength to make it through and not end up on the street. I started transferring balances about 5 years ago to get the lowest rate so I could pay off the principal and not just the interest each month. The time is here!

GOD's love and blessings...
Deacon Brother Ron Potochar

CONGRATULATIONS RON! May you move through life having shed this past weight!


PLAN OF ACTION:
What did the tide bring in? Is it exactly what you asked for?
Is the weight of it in the past, present or future?
SHED.



EVENTS
FREE TELESEMINAR TONIGHT
February 19, 2008: Getting Your Groove On Teleseminar, 7:30-8:30 p.m.
The Modern Venus Ltd. teleseminar series launches with "Get Your Groove On!" hosted by our new Luscious Lifestyle Diva Coach, Yolanda "Shoshi" Shoshanda. For more information or to register, please visit www.modernvenus.net and click "press/events."


FREE TELESEMINAR
Go to www.sterlingchoices.net and join Jaquette Timmons mailing list so you can be apart of her wonderful 3 part teleseminar series in February and March:
Making Credit Work for You - Wednesday, Feb 20th
The Best of Both Worlds-Be A Passive and Active Investor
Right Mind, Right Behavior, Right Results.
PLEASE JOIN HER MAILING LIST TODAY!


Paramjit L. Mahli
The Sun Communication Group
"Building Successful Relationships Between Law Firms and Clients"
8 Part Teleclass “How to Grow Your Law Practice on a Shoestring Budget”, for Solo Practitioners, Law Firm Associates or Small Practices, paralegals, office managers, those wearing multiple hats, who want to grow their legal practices WITHOUT breaking their bank accounts. For more information visit: www.suncommunicationsgroup.com.



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*Event Added: 2/13 see below

February 12, 2008

LOVE YOU!

As young children we are taught that there is a family unit and it is filled with love, kindness and peace. Seperate from the family unit, romantically there is a prince charming or princess, it's love at first sight and you walk off into the sunset living happily ever after.

As young children today we are shown images of screaming, fighting, being put down and kids yearning to runaway. Romantically, being a couple means being physically, emotionally and/or sexually abused. You may be unhappy sometimes and down right scared at others but more than anything you are not alone and this means that you are loved. You decide to stay no matter what because there will be no one else out there to love you.

The extremes of these ideals...neither is consistently true. When your own parents are the main source of your pain who can you confide in? When you find your prince or princess and you realize the amount of work it takes to maintain a good relationship, that must mean there is something wrong with you. When someone is interested and they seem really wonderful we can't quite trust it because there is supposed to be some horrible pains inflicted, right? If you won't inflict it on me then I will inflict it on you. And on and on the cycle of broken loves, familial and otherwise continue based on ideals that are not based in reality. The love that is everlasting, that acts as the foundation is your love of you. Everything else builds from that core source of you.

What is "ideal" is what is familiar. Just because it's familiar doesn't mean it's the best thing for us. This V-Day do something different. If you're single and always hate this holiday take yourself on a date. The best V-Day I had was last year when I decided I was going to take myself out and do the things that I enjoy on that day. If you're partnered say where you want to go, don't wait for the surprise only to be disappointed, speak up and say what you want. When we were born we understood that we were whole, perfect and complete. But after only a couple of years we learned that there was something wrong with us that only an outside person or action could make us whole again. I get to be reminded everyday when working with my clients that their smile returns when they are honored for who they are, not who they think or were told that they were supposed to be. The ease and abundance that opens for them immediately is breathtaking. I wish every single one of you a breathtaking week filled with love for yourself and surrounded by those unthreatened by you being who you are. HAPPY LOVING WEEK!

EVENTS TO CONSIDER: FUNDRAISER, MEDITATION AND A CABARET
Defenders of Love Benefit for Single Mothers
Date: February 13, 2008
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: The Cake Shop (152 Ludlow Street at Stanton)
Enjoy musicians, poets, DJ, and a ventriloquist. Raffles could win you a fake chocolate cake autographed by Amy Sedaris and other sweet prizes or get your Valentine a real cake at the bake sale. Proceeds of the raffle go to The Brooklyn Young Mother's Collective.
You can learn more by visiting http://defe ndersoflove.eventbrite.com.
Come see who will win at my raffle table.

EnlightenNext
Engage in Conscious Evolution
Experience many of the fundamental teachings of Evolutionary Enlightenment and come together with others to explore the liberating potential of this new perspective on human development and conscious evolution.
Date: Thursday, February 14th
Time: 7pm- (you can come and go at the start of the sections that you wish)
Free of charge
Location: 243 West 30th Street, 11th Floor NY, NY
(I attended a seminar on Saturday and I literally felt as if the top of my head blew off and light, ideas and energy was shooting to the sky -I highly recommend any part of this evening that you and or you and a loved one can attend)

7:00pm Meditation
A 45-minute guided meditation
As in many traditional spiritual paths, this meditation practice brings you to a deep experience of consciousness beyond ego. But its purpose is also to create a stable ground for cultivating a fully engaged and transformative relationship to your entire life.

8:15pm A light vegetarian dinner

9:00pm The Universe Project teleconference calls
Jeff Carreira and Katherine Miller conduct conference calls discussing fundamental themes of Evolutionary Enlightenment, responding to questions and exploring the frontiers of consciousness over the airwaves. We invite you to join us to listen to these inspiring calls at the NY Center and participate in the enlightened communication discussion that follows.
Visit http://www.enlightennext.com/ to learn more


Bitter Songs for Bitter People: A Valentine's Day Cabaret.
Date: Thursday, February 14th at 7pm & Friday, February 15th at 9:30pm
Location: The Duplex 61 Christopher Street at 7th Ave.
Performed by Linda Jones (an incredible actress)

For those weary of the candy hearts and saccharine sweet-nothings, we invite you to bring out your inner bitter, stir it up in a cocktail and celebrate a darker, funnier Valentine's Day.

Short and sweet - we're at The Duplex in the West Village, a one-hour set, Tix are $10 plus a two-drink minimum. Reservations are highly encouraged, and the details and links are below.

linda@lindajonesonline.com
http://www.lindajonesonline.com
http://www.lindajonesonline.com/runningblonde.html

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New Posts 2/13/08 Thank you for sharing these events

*CREATIVE PIER Visit http://www.creativepier.com/Services.aspx?type=3
Romance with Art Beg. Feb 14, Thursday eveCelebrate the upcoming Valentine's Day with an evening of 'Romance with Art'.

For singles - join everyone in engaging group art projects. Transform past into future and play a part in creating a 'lost and found' art mobile, find ways to connect in 'creative junction', or express yourself in a feelings bouquet with colorful tissue paper.

For couples - choose a joint art project from Creative Pier's special "Couple's Menu" and discover new passions! Pick a color and take turns spinning out shapes and lines in watercolor conversation, let yourself slip back together to a time of playful innocence of finger-painting, discover the sensuousness of clay or create your own dream house.

Admission fee: singles - $20
couples - $30 & up

Complimentary wine and chocolates are offered throughout the night! 6:00-9:00pm,
833 Broadway, 3 Fl, , 10003 Routa Segal, Greg Kessler$20


Saturday, February 16, 1-6pm

Meditation Seminar
Led by Gail Margulis and Jason DiTullio

Through periods of guided meditation and facilitated discussion you will uncover the power that Andrew Cohen's practice of meditation has to liberate us from the compulsive identification with the mind.

"The powerful thing about meditation is its radical simplicity-be still, be at ease, pay attention. That's the beauty of it-meditation means doing absolutely nothing. It is only in the exquisite simplicity of doing absolutely nothing that you begin to be able to see yourself in ways you ordinarily would never be able to do. "

- Andrew Cohen

This seminar will be held in conjunction with EnlightenNext's director of education Jeff Carreira and senior instructor Katherine Miller's virtual meditation retreat.

Cost: $20




PLAN OF ACTION:
1. Be conscious of what, why and when you're choosing to spend this V-Day.
2. If you're always miserable or disappointed during this week (single or partnered
or both day to day - choose to do at least one activity that will bring a smile
to YOUR face.


HAPPY LOVING WEEK!




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February 5, 2008


IT'S SUPER TUESDAY - PLEASE VOTE!!!

BROKERAGE FIRMS
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Last summer I met a woman who was wonderful. She was a financial advisor for a major financial firm. I signed up because I liked her, forgetting that she worked for a company. Sitting down to sign papers, I was irritated by the constant mention of insurance and for an extra $50 you can receive...and if you give me the names and the phones numbers of others then...I wanted to lay out a plan for my finances that would help me save for retirement while getting out of debt. Why does insurance and references keep coming up after I already said what I was there to do? I still really liked her but by the third meeting I finally had to admit that I had made a mistake. This person was not working for me, she was working for a company and as an agent she had certain quotas that she needed to meet. Unfortunetely those quotas were not my priority but of course I liked her so there I was signing up for insurance but I put my foot down on giving out my friends phone numbers.

Trusting her, I blindly signed up for my Roth account. There was no minimum which was my priority at the time. However, I later learned that they deduct a certain amount of money per quarter from what was in my account. That was never mentioned of course. I had already paid my money for the year, I already had my leather bound binder with 150 sheets of computer generated analysis and when I was scheduled to go in for my next appointment, to add more insult to injury, I learned that she had left the company three months before. But I thought she was my personal advisor? Of course, I felt as if the wind had been knocked out of me. But at least since she was no longer there, I can leave this company especially now that I know I can have my account for free. Oh by the way there is a $75 penalty for transferring your money out of the account. What?! So there I remain.


The table below sums up the resources that matched with the books I've read or my conversations with other financial planners that I've spoken to as the TOP DISCOUNT BROKERS

BROKER WEBSITE ACCT. MIN.
Charles Schwab www.schwab.com $1,000
Fidelity www.fidelty.com $2,500
Muriel Siebert www.siebertnet.com none
Scottrade www.scottrade.com $500
Sharebuilder www.sharebuilder.com none
TD Ameritrade www.tdameritrade.com none

Adapted from Black Enterprise February 2008 issue pg. 36
Note: If you're interested in the places that have minimums listed, call them because in some cases they waive the minimum if you set up automatic deposits.

Definition of Brokerage Firm - a firm engaged in buying and selling stocks and bonds for clients
The American Heritage Dictionary

On this Super Tuesday I'm going share another faux pas. I always thought brokerage firms were only if you were a stock broker doing trades in the stock market. Yes, I know. But in case I'm not the only one, I want to share that, this isn't the case. They have CD's, Roth Accounts, Mutual Funds, checking accounts that charge less then the fees of the banks in many cases. In the event that you decide you want to enter the stock market you pay them an amount per trade. You can use the accounts that you have opened with them as your source of financing the trade or not. They have the right to broker but that is not all that they do.

We are living in a very important time in our history, there is no time like the present for putting your finances in order! I hope me sharing my faux pas can help you make better choices!



RESOURCES:
1. On My Own Two Feet by Manisha Thakor & Sharon Kedar
2. Go to www.sterlingchoices.net and join Jaquette Timmons mailing list so you can be apart of her wonderful 3 part teleseminar series in February and March:
Making Credit Work for You
The Best of Both Worlds-Be A Passive and Active Investor
Right Mind, Right Behavior, Right Results.
PLEASE JOIN HER MAILING LIST TODAY!


PLAN OF ACTION:
1. VOTE, VOTE, VOTE! Polls are open from 6am to 8pm. Make the time!
2. If you don't have an account, start with the ones in the table above and choose the one that best meets your needs. Don't forget to actually make a deposit.
3. If you have an account, how long as it been since you checked its status? Is it doing what you want it to do? If not, what are your options? What action will you take this week?

Please share your brokerage firm tales - good, bad and inbetween at emotionalmoney@gmail.com. I'd love to hear from you.




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