Financial Profundities
January 2010
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 Hello and welcome to Financial Profundities, an ad-hoc e-newsletter designed to inspire thought-provoking conversations about the intersection of money, choices, relationships, and life.
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Get Back to Basics and Save Your $anity
It isn't too late to register for the winter 2010 installment of this seven week tele-course. And if getting your finances in order is one of your top three goals or resolutions for 2010, this is a course you'll want to take. When complete, you'll have a customized approach for managing all facets of your financial life. The next installment commences next Tuesday, January 26th!
Course details at a glance: Week #1 - Create a Clean Slate - 1/26 Week #2 - Get Clear About Your Life Goals - 2/2 Week #3 - Get to Know Your Dominant Financial Behaviors - 2/9 Week #4 - Create a Financial Roadmap, Pt. 1 - 2/17 Week #5 - Create a Financial Roadmap, Pt. 2 - 2/23 (Date changed from 3/2.)
Week #6 - Create a Career Roadmap - 3/9
Week #7 - Wrap-Up & How to Stay on Track - 3/16
Plus a thirty-minute 90-Day follow-up session (June 15th) : 8:00 p.m. EST Format: Each session is sixty-minutes in duration, held over the phone, and recorded. So if you are unable to attend a session, no worries; you won't miss any content as all sessions will be available immediately as a MP3 download! Plus, you will have unlimited access to an online resource center set up exclusively for the participants. Your investment: Time - 450 minutes of course time, plus homework Cost: $147, plus the cost of the e-workbook - $21.95 Ways to Pay: Single Payment or Installment PlanCourse benefits: - Gain greater clarity and the ability to focus on what you can control
- Reconnect with timeless, yet timely, financial principles
- Learn how to be strategic, but fluid, so that you can thrive regardless of outside market forces
What others have said: "...thanks for guiding me to a healthier financial foundation." L. Chappell (Spring '09) "
Jacquette demystifies what drives people with their money
and how to think
differently about it." N. Kim (Winter '09)
Click here for more information.
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"Talking Live" Series
 "Career, Interrupted" is the next installment in our "TalkingLive" series. My guest is Colette Ellis, founding principal of InStep Consulting, LLC. Please join us as we talk about the continued recession and the choices many people are facing, the altered employment landscape and how it is hiding a critical crisis, and what you can do to avoid a common pitfall. When: Monday, February 8 Time: 8:00 pm EST. To register, click here. |
Financial Intimacy: Events & Media
 Book Event & Scholarship Fund Raiser for the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership
When: Wednesday, February 3rd
Time: 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. EST
Where: The Museum of Jewish Heritage - 36 Battery Place (Battery Park City) - New York, NY
RSVP: Click here
Virtual Book Group Discussion, sponsored by the Alternative to Marriage Project
When: Wednesday, February 10th
Time: 9:00 p.m. EST
Remember to check our Facebook Fan Page for more information on upcoming events, photos, and musings.
"Financial Intimacy" is in the February issue of Ebony Magazine! And, Naomi Wolf gave us props in her recent article for Project Syndicate, "How Women Go Bankrupt."
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January's Ruminations
As has become a tradition, I brought in the New Year by running in Prospect Park's New Year's Eve 5k race. It was another good run, made even better because of the balmy, unseasonably warm temperature, beautiful fireworks and "back-in-the-day" dance party that followed. A perfect way to say goodbye to the year that was and hello to a new one.
I woke up on New Year's Day a bit achy and with a slight headache,
but nothing an Advil couldn't squelch (or so I thought). I popped two pills and went on about my day. But by the evening, there was no denying it: I was coming down with something. The next ten days consisted of non-stop coughing, neti-pot cleanses,
and lots of naps. I felt, as the saying goes, "sick as a dog." Not exactly how I had envisioned
kicking off 2010!
Luckily, it wasn't the flu -- just a bad, bad cold that the nurse said, "you'll have to suffer through." Which I did. All the while feeling frustrated because I had plans, looming deadlines, and a growing list of things to do. Being sick was getting in my way.
Resistance to reality eventually gave way to acceptance once I realized that everything would get done but within a much different time frame. Additionally, I came to view my bout with my second cold in as many months as a wake-up call. Perhaps "life" was trying to tell me it was time to slow down and pace myself better; maybe it is time to push the reset button. Great idea. Too bad I'm just finding it hard as hell to do, consistently!
Pushing the reset button is much like making resolutions. They both present similar challenges, regardless of why you need to shift out of the status quo. You:
- have to look at where you are now and what is/is not working;
- find yourself making declarations to give up something that feels familiar and on some level works for you, even if it isn't necessarily good for you;
- are reminded of how much diligence and discipline is required to bring about the changes you either need and/or desire; and
- have to remember that the process of achieving any goal is just as important as achieving the goal.
While resets and resolutions present a fair share of challenges, the rewards of overcoming those challenges can be oh so sweet! Likewise, success with both can come from following the 21-day theory.
Research has shown that it takes 21-days to break an old habit and form a new one, or what I call the "replacement habit." (Nature abhors a vacuum.) Hence the reason this month's issue is being published today. I want to congratulate those of you who kept the commitment you made to yourself for twenty-one straight days. Good for you...kudos! But, if like me, you had a back-sliding moment, let this be a reminder to start over beginning today. Thankfully, you and I can start over as many times as necessary until we get it right!
All the best,
Jacquette M. Timmons
Sterling Investment Management, Inc.
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