This and That

My book – Treasure Hunt was released on Monday!  Woo Hoo! 

DeLaney Black Heart is the captain of The Gypsy Princess, the most feared pirate ship on the Cannequ seas, until recently. Her long standing enemy, Falken Sands, is making good on his threat to ruin her. She is in desperate need of a large bounty to soothe her crew and reclaim her title.

Raven Kinsley is a treasure hunter. He offers DeLaney the chance to redeem herself. Only their history is stopping DeLaney from jumping on the offer. Raven abandoned her a year earlier and disappeared.

Left with no other choice, DeLaney agrees to Raven’s commission. They begin their journey to claim the lost treasure of Midas, but soon trouble surrounds them. Raven and DeLaney combine forces to battle gryphons, the possessed Falken Sands, and other creatures.

DeLaney tries to convince herself what she feels for Raven is born out of battle, not love. Raven knows he loves DeLaney, but until an old enemy is beaten, he can’t make his claim on her heart.

As secrets are revealed, they realize this is more than a mere treasure hunt. It’s a battle for their lives.

An excerpt and purchase information: http://www.liquidsilverbooks.com/

Week 1 – The 9 steps to Financial Freedom  by Suze Orman

This week is the intro and Step 1. 

Overview of the book:  first three steps will ‘help’ you come to understand your view of money.  The next three steps are the ‘must-do’s’ or laws of managing money.  The final three steps are about the wealth that money can’t buy. 

Some keys things I ‘liked:’

When what you do, think, and say are one.  This is key in almost all areas of life but I think they can get future away from each other in the area of money than any other.  People often ‘say’ they have money issues and ‘think’ they do yet they spend (the do) like they don’t.  I’m sort of here.  My financial cycle of destruction is :

Over Spend —remorse—worry—-lack of money—-save get caught up but never out of debt and repeat.

No financial advice you get or financial book you read is worth anything unless you can put that advice into action.  It’s like watching exercising DVD while eating M&M’s and wondering why you haven’t lost any weight.

Setting goals:

All my goals relate to step 5 –

                – pay off credit cards/debt

                – Retire in ten years

                – Take a year off and travel

One fell into step 3 –

                – get a better grasp on my expenses so I’m not behind paying my bills.

Step 1:  Seeing how your past holds the key to your financial future…

If it wasn’t for my own history I might find these stories hard to believe…I mean really unless you suffered some major disaster would you really not be able to control your money simply because you weren’t allowed to go swimming one Saturday?  But I can relate. 

When I was middle school, I had just been asked to the dance.  I was so excited.  My mom’s reaction? 
“You’ll never have anything if you have children.”  I simply was going to a dance..heck I probably wasn’t even going to kiss the boy.  But my mom thoughts of lacking were so profound at the first sign of me moving into the boy/girl thing this was her warning. 

This drove me to spend beyond on budget on my kids.  I wanted to show my mom that your kids could have things.  

So for week #1…what thing(s) from your past is influencing your spending today? She provides a long list of prompts to help you if the key events don’t spring forward. 

Goal for week:  No spending unless the item(s) were planned for. 

                              Stick to food budget.

Something to think about – what is the best present you remember receiving as a child?  And why?

Mom knows best or did she? 

Today, I’m intrigued with things that rebuke what I and I’m sure many other have been taught. 

Remember your mom’s telling you to stand straight?  My grandma made me walk around the house for fifteen minutes everyday with a book on my head.   Good posture is something I’m sure all of our parents tried to develop in us.  Yet that may no longer be necessary.  Steelcase has developed a chair for slouchers.  The rubbery top bends forward to match the curve of a sloucher’s shoulder. 

And were you one of those kids that leaped from the swing at it’s highest point just for the brief thrill of the sensation of flying?  Yet because we lack feathers, we’ll never truly fly as a single individual right?  I mean we can fall from the sky (parachuting or bungy jumping) but to fly we need a plane.  Not true!  Wingman can allow a single person strapped into a jet pair of wings, fly like a bird, well much faster than the average bird at 134 mph for 22 miles. 

The first one bothers me…not because I think children should be forced to walk around the house with a book on their head. But isn’t it just another way to promote laziness?  Okay, rant done.   What are your thoughts?

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