Dr. Joyce Brothers, The Lady Who Needed Her Own Psychologist, Has Died!

This is the woman who told me I'd NEVER be successful.  I so wish I had gone back to her to rub my success in her face!  Who, especially a psychologist, tells someone that?!?

Back in the 80's when I was in college, I was blessed to spend a quite torcherous day with Dr. Joyce Brothers.  I was the Public Relations Coordinator on our Student Programming Board at my university.  We planned all the student events, concerts, festivals, movies, and we even hosted guest speakers.  Dr. Joyce Brothers was one of our guest speakers.  And since I was the PR Coordinator I got assigned the duty of picking her up at the airport (which was an hour away), and had to be her personal servant that whole entire day. 

Let's just say, she showed her true colors right away.  First off, we HAD to book her a hotel whose windows open!  Why?  Because according to her, you get Legionaire's Disease if you sleep in a hotel room without the windows open!  Do you know how hard it was to find a hotel room in the middle of a corn field in Illinois in the 80's whose windows open?!?!  It was an IMPOSSIBILITY!!  Strike ONE against me.

So I drive an hour to pick her up at the closest airport.  Mind you she was staying over one night and was to be in town for just 16 hours.  When she got off the plane, she had a giant tote bag full of shoes!  Turns out there were four, yes four pair of shoes in that bag. Plus she had the pair on her feet so that made FIVE pair of shoes.  One pair for every three hours she was to be in Illinois?  Nope! Actually, one pair was for her to wear on the airplane.  There was a pair for her to wear while walking on the concrete.  Her car riding shoes.  Her inside walking shoes.  And then her speaking shoes.  The speaking shoes made sense.  So the whole entire time I was with her, I had to carry that bag of shoes around.  She'd freak if I wasn't just a couple feet from her and with that BAG of SHOES!

She also had with her two giant suitcases!  She had her own sheets, blankets, comforters and pillows.  She must have thought I had booked her in a roach motel.  That was one paranoid lady!!

So we get in the car to drive back to my university.  We chatted a bit. She's boring as all get out!  Then for some reason she started freaking out because she started thinking her speech was going to be recorded.  Hasn't this lady been on TV and been recorded many times?  What the heck was she freaking out so bad about.  I told her we usually recorded the speeches, but if it was in her contract that we weren't to record it then we wouldn't.  I had a copy of the contract. It stated we were not to record her speech.  She insisted she needed HER copy.  Which of course she DIDN'T have.  My copy was the same as hers so why couldn't we use mine?  I seriously think she thought mine was a forged copy.  The lady was crazy!! In fact she needed her own psychologist!

So she starts yelling that we have to stop the car so she can call her agent.  Unfortunately this is BEFORE cell phones, so here I am at a payphone in the middle of a cornfield in Illinois with Dr. Joyce Brothers yelling at her agent.  She's not that quiet, docile person she appears to be on TV!  Needless to say, the agent confirmed exactly what I had told her... WE WERE NOT RECORDING HER SPEECH!!!  So she got back in the car, after changing out of the concrete shoes and back into her car riding shoes!!!  I get back on the highway and this is when she proceeds to tell me that I will NEVER be successful!!!! What?  I made her have to call her agent.  She didn't need to do that.  She CHOSE to do that.

We get to the town my university is in and where does she want to go eat?  Hardees!  That was fine.  Nice and cheap.  Everyone was looking at me like "Do you know who you are with!?!?!"  Duh! Yea I knew who I was with.  By then I needed to be at the bar next door, not eating food at Hardee's. 

Then we go to the university so she can prepare for her speech.  More shoe changes occurred! And now I had to carry around her FAKE fur coat.  I couldn't hang it up. NO!  I had to carry it around because the FAKE fur and the bag of shoes, and ME had to be within just a couple feet of her at all times.  I seriously think that she was afraid not to have me close by.  I wasn't hired as her body guard for Pete's sake! 

Finally she goes on stage.  The speaker coordinator could tell it was an extremely stressful time having to hang with Dr. Joyce.  So being the nice guy that he was, he offered to take her back to her hotel that was an hour away by the airport!  It's a good thing, because her obit may have stated Year of Death 1987 instead of 2013.

Horns on Cars Need to be Banned in the Chicago Area!

I distinctly remember learning in Driver's Ed that pedestrians have the right of way.  Does that not apply anymore?  Clearly is doesn't in Chicago.  Having moved back here after being gone for over 20 years, I forgot how rude and obnoxious Chicago drivers are!  It borders on insanity and sometimes almost criminal!

I drop my son off at high school every day.  And EVERY day someone has to blow their horn at me when I am stopped.  You want to know why?!?  Because STUDENTS are walking in front of my car to get into the school.  What do they want me to do?  Run over the kids?!?!?!

Once I was stopped at a stop sign.  A pedestrian was crossing in the cross walk, so I thought I'd wait for him to finish crossing. I especially thought I'd wait for him to get out of directly in front of my car before I moved my car!  The idiot in back of me would have nothing to do with waiting.  He laid on his horn, yelled out the window, and proceeded to swerve around me thus almost hitting the pedestrian!! You know, when a car is stopped in front of you, there is usually a reason!

Chicagoans also have a knack for knowing at least 5 seconds before a light is going to change to green.  If you are not already proceeding through the intersection before the light turns green you get the horn laid on you.  I just got back from visiting down in South Carolina.  I completely forgot to start going when the light turned green cause no jerk in back of me laid on the horn to tell me the light was going to change.

Oh! And don't only go 10 miles over the speed limit in Chicago!  Your tail will get honked off even if you are only going 10 miles over the speed limit in the SLOW lane.  I'm not sure how fast you have to drive in order to be allowed to drive in the fast lane.  I was driving 20 miles over the speed limit in the middle lane the other day and everyone was whizzing by and honking.  My dad was even yelling, "Go faster! Go faster!"  I'm surprised he didn't have a little hand held horn in his pocket to blow at me.

All you hear when driving around Chicago is horns blowing.  They are way too horn blowing happy here.  Thus, the reason, why it would be much more peaceful, and much less stressful driving, if horns were banned in Chicago.

I Always Love a Good Play on Words

Ha Ha!  This is a great one.  The Dolly Llama.  Parton my expression!

We went out as a family on Saturday to go look for new beds for the kids.  I'm wandering around the store trying out all the beds, comparing pricing, figuring out what would be the best option for the kiddos, and what do I come across? 




Apparently this is how my family shops!  Especially for beds!

The Inspired Living App Has Gone Viral Worldwide!

What's all the excitement about since the launch of the The Inspired Living App and the incredible home business opportunity it provides? One reason is, never before has the billion dollar mobile app industry been coupled with the network marketing and direct sales industries. According to John Rodgers, CEO of Inspired Living Application, the iLA Mobile Application Company has gone viral worldwide, and is expanding at an enormous rate.

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Inspired Living Application has had approximately 45,000 associates join in just a 30 days of its existence!

To quote John Rodgers, CEO of iLA:
” It’s the first App of its kind. It 1. iLA Delivers high quality personal development videos to a person’s mobile device and 2. Makes it possible for the average person to profit from the application explosion.”
This was posted in our Secret Facebook Mastermind group a few days ago…


Why Are So Many People Joining iLA?

• At $9.95 iLA is Extremely Affordable
• Because of its affordable price, iLA Appeals To The Masses
• The iLA business platform is Simple and Duplicatable
• The compensation plan is Very Appealing
• Enrolling associates is as Easy as pushing a button on your smartphone or e-mailing them a video
• All types of People are Looking For Additional Income Streams due to the poor economy
• The iLA Leadership Is “Top Notch” in the home based business industry and has a proven success record to back it
• The iLA Community includes Facebook Mastermind Groups Including John Rodgers, the CEO of Inspired Living Apps who is a member and participant.

Many people who are building primary businesses with Visalus, Numis Network, Beach Body, Nerium, and many others, have enrolled in iLA as well…to create a secondary income. The leaders of these network marketing companies encourage their members to join iLA, as it is a personal growth and self development tool.

Ask any of the Inspired Living App associates and they will tell you the MOST important thing that has transpired since the inception and the launch of iLA is not the income potential, nor is it the application itself…
It’s that the associates of Inspired Living Application have become a family with a common vision and purpose.
Our Inspired Living App family is about Freedom, Family, Wealth and Free Enterprise. It’s about Truth, Guts and Integrity. We are a team who dare to think differently….
We are a team of passionate leaders with servant’s hearts...
We are a team with a vision for our families and for our futures. A vision for a better life. A vision to make a significant difference in someone else’s World ~
Read this Inspiring Note John’s wife Cindy wrote describing her Visionary Husband…“Congratulations Are In Order”

The Inspired Living Application Team and it’s Leaders, are on the Forefront of one of the most exciting technology driven business opportunities of it’s kind.

Here's more information on the Inspired Living App

Join My Inspired Living App team

“If you help people and care for them, the money will chase you down” ~ John Rodgers – CEO Inspired Living Application

www.iLivingApp.com/attain

Watching Hoarders - Sure Makes Me Feel Like the Best Housewife Ever!

My daughter and I LOVE to watch the show "Hoarders".  One automatically feels horrible for all people that end up in this situation.  And it almost always seems like they had some major life obstacle that sent them into the hoarding lifestyle.  So in essence, any one of us could very well end up like that! Scary!!

A good dose of "Hoarders" always gets me to cleaning.  It's great therapy and I always feel like my house is immaculate after watching that show.  Although I'm sure it's not.  It just seems that way. 

Homeschooling automatically creates a mess cause the kids are home 24/7.  Having a hubby that mostly works from home creates a mess cause he's almost always there.  Having three dogs and a cat definitely creates a mess!  Although I'm not sure which of the three situations creates the biggest mess.  I have a feeling it's probably the hubby!!

Anyway, if you ever feel like you're not the adequate housewife, just sit down and watch "Hoarders".  You'll get an instant pick-me-up.  If your hubby ever fusses about your housecleaning abilities, have him sit down and watch "Hoarders".  Let him know it COULD BE WORSE!

The I Living App. What's all the hullabaloo about?

You may have heard or are starting to hear about the prelaunch of a company called iLA or Inspired Living App. There is a HUGE amount of interest in this app already! The company has grown  to almost 30,000 sign ups in January alone.  If you love Personal Development this is right up your alley.
 
The new mobile application called Inspired Living App will be hitting the market on February 1st of 2013. What's all the excitement about? Let me explain it to you:

John Marr, CEO of Savage Apps, is a well known app developer.  Savage Apps have created a tremendous amount of great iPhone apps, including the best selling “I am Beat Box”.

John Rodgers, who has been in sales and marketing for over 20 years, came up with the idea to integrate a mobile app with the opportunity for “the average person” to make money promoting it. He went to his personal friend John Marr and together they have created a very exciting business opportunity! The exploding mobile application industry has now been coupled with the direct sales and network marketing industries!

People are always downloading apps, but NEVER has there been an app that you can generate an income from.

It's the FIRST of it’s kind…And it has gone VIRAL worldwide.
 
WHAT EXACTLY DOES THE iLivingApp DO?
 
It delivers high quality, professionally produced videos directly to your computer, Smart Phone, i Pad, or any mobile device on a weekly basis.
The iLA videos include topics such as:

• Personal growth
• Self development
• Time Management
• Financial planning
• Motivation videos
• Business development
• Goal setting

HOW DO YOU MAKE MONEY WITH THE iLivingApp?

The iLA Living App uses a 3×7 Forced Matrix compensation model. This means that for each person, there can only be 3 direct people wide and 7 levels deep.  This creates a matrix of just over 3,000 people.

This Matrix model makes it easy for iLA Living App users who are not interested in promoting the product but want to make a passive income to the tune of $2,500/month.
For people who want to actively promote the product and build a business with the iLA App,  the potential income increases:

Directly Refer 3  – 10% Bonus match on each filled matrix = Extra $753. 51/month
Directly Refer 6  - 20% Bonus match on each filled matrix = Extra $3,016.50/month
Directly Refer 10 -40% Bonus match on each filled matrix = Extra $10,047.00/month

The only requirement to participate in the Matrix referral pay plan is to become an Associate one of 2 ways:

1. Join for only $9.95 a month.
2. Enroll two retail customers for $6.95
3. 30 day NO RISK  money back guarantee
4. GLOBAL Opportunity
5. No Risk!  No Catches, No Hidden Fees, No Gimmicks, No Hoops to Jump Through!
6. Your Credit Card will not be charged until February 1, 2013!

If iLA IS something that strikes your fancy and you DO want to join in on this exploding money making opportunity ... join our team and work with me…You can sign up right here.  

Once I see that you have signed up with me, I will add you to our "Secret Members Only Mastermind Facebook Group”.  Our group is filled with industry leaders and we will all HELP you build and fill your matrix. People who haven't had much luck with other home businesses are cranking with this one!


This is EXTREMELY time sensitive and folks are jumping on board EVERY day like wildfire. (Over 29,300 associates in the last 21 days have signed on)!
Lock in your spot before thousands of others get into the Inspired Living App business ahead of you.

For only $10, you can build a rock solid income, escape the worry of foreclosure or your children’s college tuition, benefit from HUGE Tax Breaks, and protect your family from the devastating worldwide financial crisis that DOES NOT  have an end in sight!

www.iLivingApp.com/attain