That’s The Spirit !
July 24, 2014 Leave a comment
Taking Up With Billionaires
July 23, 2014 Leave a comment
These days I come across a lot of women who are keen to exchange their beauty to enjoy the benefits of some or other man’s resources.Most of them cut pretty poor deals and the others cut one or other good deal only to lose the benefits they just gained via the next poor choice they make.The following is a reality check for women trading on looks to get ahead:
‘We are happy that we were able to reach an agreement for the benefit and well-being of our son, Augie.’ With these words Linda Evangelista and Francois-Henri Pinault closed a fiercely fought child support battle.
Canadian-born Linda Evangelista is a Vogue cover model many times over, including on the current Italian Vogue.She was one of the biggest names in modeling in the late 1980s and early ’90s,At the height of her career, she famously said supermodels ‘don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day.’
Pinault is CEO of PPR, a holding company that owns Gucci, Yves St. Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Boucheron and other fashion lines. Forbes estimates his family’s net worth at $13 billion.He supposedly makes about $4million a year.Ladies,here’s the first thing to note: declared incomes and estimated wealth are complex issues.
The intercontinental twosome dated – sporadically, according to Pinault – over about four months in late 2005 and early 2006. Augie was born in October 2006.After Pinault told Evangelista he didn’t plan to raise the boy with her,he supposedly wanted her to get an abortion , she willingly paid all the expenses herself at first from her roughly $1.8million-a-year income.But when a big contract with L’Oreal ended she needed Pinault to chip in. Read more of this post
Karma In Action
June 17, 2014 Leave a comment
That’s why we encounter the people we do at the time we do.So that we can accomplish our life’s purpose,to change paths or develop in a way necessary for the next stage in our lives.
Of Heart Breakers And Home Wreckers
June 12, 2014 Leave a comment
Relationships take so much of energy and there is nothing like a significant relationship going bad to seriously affect your net-worth.So why not take a quick look at a person’s zodiac sign before making a significant commitment?
AshleyMadison.com is the world’s most trusted extra-marital dating site.Out of AshleyMadison.com’s 17 million plus users, 15.6% of males are Pisces (a la Rob Lowe) and 16.1% of the female philanderers seeking a discreet affair on the site are Geminis (a la sexy vixen Angelina Jolie). Thus we can surmise that Pisces men and Gemini women are more likely to cheat than any other astrological sign. Pisces top the list because they’re the rulers of the imagination and fantasy. And they have a hard time letting their curiosities go unexplored. Read more of this post
Dealing With Family
June 8, 2014 2 Comments
When it comes to family, it’s always the thoughtful, generous, helpful members who wind up on the losing end. Unfortunately, that will probably never change.Family will come right out and ask for a favour, but offer nothing in return. They’ll expect a brother, sister, or cousin to take time out of their day and do something. If that brother, sister, or cousin doesn’t want to or have time to do it, the family member who asked for the favour gets offended. Yes, that is twisted and wrong and very, very unfair.So what are you supposed to do? Just put your foot down and set some boundaries with your family. If you choose not to do so, you have no one but yourself to blame.
And BTW,if you feel your husband is being taken advantage of by his family,do not be suckered into taking up the cudgels on his behalf with your in-laws.Your husband is an adult and perfectly capable of saying no.Do not allow your husband to duck the responsibility of standing up for himself if he says he doesn’t want to do the things his family asks but at the same time doesn’t want to look like a bad person by not helping them out.Why carry the burden of being branded ‘the witch’ while your husband remains ‘the nice guy’?If you are worried about the use of your joint resources,force your husband to take a stand in the open.You have a right to your husband’s resources and need not hesitate to seek clarity.What is the worst you can hear?-That he doesn’t consider your needs the only or even primary charge on his resources?Its hard to stomach hearing something like this, but deal with it and you are free to make your own arrangements to have your needs satisfied.And as in all things,time is most important.The earlier you know,the more time you gain.
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