Million Dollar Diva

From the back cover:
Finally-- the woman's answer to growing rich safely! Women today face more money challenges than ever before, from managing careers and families to finances-- the demands on their time and resources are increasing. Bad financial advice abounds, and it can be hard to know what to do. Award-winning author Tristi Pinkston teams up with bestselling authors Brett Kitchen and Ethan Kap to bring you Million Dollar Diva. Experience Tristi's real-life transformation from struggling in debt to million-dollar retirement!

In this Book, you'll discover:

• The 5 step, simple, safe , and predictable process to change living paycheck-to-paycheck to enjouying wealth and security.
• How to give yourself a $400 per month raise without asking the boss or working a minute of overtime.
• "Spend Like a Diva." How to have anything you want--nice vacations, eating out, trips to the mall. It's all part of the plan!
• The secret formula of how to completely eliminate your debt in 1/3 the time and save tens of thousands on interest costs in the process. You'll see why all the TV gurus are wrong!
• 5 Million-Dollar-Diva investing strategies that will grow your money safely and predictably every year, without the guesswork.
• Plus! Discover the key to stop fighting and quarreling with your spouse about money forever!

Imagine yourself living debt-free and building a million-dollar retirement safely and securely, so you can have total confidence in yourself and your future.

Ok, when Tristi asked me if I wanted to review this book, I told her that I would only do it if it was written in lay man's terms and easy to read.  If it was full of math and formulas then I didn't want to do it.  She assured me that it was very much an easy read and it is. 

This book came to me at a time when my finances are being cut back drastically, but expenses are unrelenting and I need help in figuring out how to get out of debt and heal my bank account and somehow provide for my family and save for the future.  It all felt rather crushing and debilitating to me.

After reading Million Dollar Diva I don't feel so scared for the future.  In fact I have a plan and am getting ready to use the resources made available in the book and I will be ok.  In fact I am going to be better than ok.

What are those resources you ask? And how can you take advantage of them?

Between now and May 15 you can get a book free here- you just pay shipping and handling.

While there you can take advantage of some of the other freebie resources such as the Create Your Wealth Blueprint.

After the 15th you can purchase a book here.

I am really excited to start the process and become a Million Dollar Diva myself.

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2 Weeks

Two weeks from today Elder Matthew Sorenson comes home!! 

2 WEEKS

But whose counting?

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Water works

Can I just say that I really, really hate that I still have tears left to cry over this?  After this long one would think that the tears would be all dried up and I would have no feelings left.  But I do.  I don't want them, but I have them anyway.  And even worse? I cried in front of him and that just makes me mad because he will see it as weakness and probably use it against me.  When what I want him to see is someone that no longer cares, is strong and moving on.

Why do I have to care so much?

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A lifetime of memories

27 years ago today I thought forever would never be long enough.  I was a princess and life was good.  I imagined that today, 27 years into the future, would find me even happier and more content and a queen. And the years inbetween would be filled with happiness and sunshine spent with my best friend to hold me up and help me bear whatever hardships might come our way.

And I was so wrong.

Those 27 years brought me 7 of the most wonderful children in the world. 2 miscarriages, 6-7 major surgeries, taking care of a spouse after he suffered a brain aneurysm, broken bones, stitches, 5 jobs, 6 dogs, numerous cats, birds, fish, and rabbits.  And a life of pain and sadness that was mine and the children's waking hell for most of it.

Until this last year when I finally learned about true love, forgiveness and the atonement's ability to take the pain and anger and hate away.  The man I married was not the man I was married to.  And no matter what else he is or did, he always provided for us a place to live, cars to drive, clothes to wear and food to eat. For that I am grateful.  And this past year I thought we were trying to figure out how to go forward and change the things that need changed and make our life together the wonderful life it should be.

I was wrong again.

How does one take 27 years of life and throw them away as if they never existed? Package them up and divide them into yours and mine? Move on to someone else because they don't require you to deal with your baggage? Turn your back on those that love you the most, know you the best, and are willing to forgive and move on?

 Today I feel as if my heart is being shredded into a million pieces and then ripped out of my chest, piece by piece and thrown away.  It is not the life we had that I am mourning, but the should have beens, could have beens, if onlys.  The what I know could have, should have been if he would only do what he needs to do and not be afraid of the hard work.

Today I mourn the loss of my friend, because we really were good together, really. But I have found that in order to be good for each other we both have to be more than 100% committed to the relationship and to making life better for the other person.  And when the other party  is committed to themselves only and the relationship and you always come third or fourth, no amount of love or trying can make it work. It only works if you both want it to work.

And I hate that after all this time I still have tears to cry. I hate that a sound or smell or stray thought can bring a quiver to my lips and tears coursing down my cheeks. I know that as I sign the papers sometime in the next few weeks that will end our life together, I will cry again.  And I will take my lifetime of happy memories, leave the ugly ones in the journal, and move on.

I know there are some that do not understand why I spent this last year trying instead of just moving on. But I also know that without this last year, I would not be crying, but would be angry and filled with hate.  I can now walk away knowing that I tried and did everything I could.  I can hold my head high knowing that despite what I am being told, it is not my fault and I have nothing to regret.

Happy anniversary to me.

Now excuse me while I go try to dry my eyes.

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Healing update

The word I chose for this year is Healing.  I should have chosen wealth, or prosperity or something I am beginning to think.

Can I say that my life pretty much stinks right now.  Just when I think it can't get worse, it does.  I really don't know how much more I can take.  I want to say that I am done, I give up and then go to bed and stay there for years.

But, you know, I won't because even when I am saying "I can't do this" I will just keep putting one foot in front of the other as I climb my mountains.

But can't I just be at the top and headed down the other side already?  Because, truthfully?  I can't do this anymore.

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He is Risen

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Easter Weekend 2

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