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What if I told you it was possible to pick the brains of some of the top money earners in the country?  Would you do it?  Of course you would and so would I!  This is just what my friend and best selling author, Barbara Stanny has done in her book, “Secrets of Six-Figure Women - Surprising Strategies to Up Your Earnings and Change Your Life”  You may remember Barbara’s first best selling book, “Prince Charming Isn’t Coming - How Women Get Smart About Money”.

I read this book and said to myself, “I have to meet this woman”, and then as if by magic, I was invited to a teleclass she was leading the next day.  I jumped on the call and remember taking copious notes.  Barbara is wonderful…she speaks in sound bites, so it’s easy to remember her quotes.

To make a long story short, I called our home office after the call and was given her phone number.  I hesitated…I have never done this before…but I picked up the phone and called her.  Guess what-Barbara answered the phone herself.  I couldn’t believe it!  I was talking to this best selling author and it was easy!

What’s really amazing is that we really hit it off on the phone call and the next thing I knew, Barbara had invited me to stay in her guest house overlooking Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains and I was going to do an interview with her and take her workshop!  This was the Law of Attraction at its best!

After her workshop, I told Barbara that I had to do this workshop too.  I was so tired of only being able to help those who had money to invest.  I wanted to be able to help women make money and change their beliefs about money.  Well, again, be careful what we ask for, because last year Barbara licensed her workshop, “Secrets of Successful High Earners - Going to the Next Level in Your Life”, and this month, I will be offering it myself to the women of Smart Women’s Coaching.  This workshop is not about investing your money.  It is about your relationship with money, because whatever is happening in with your money is happening in your life.

• It’s a powerful workshop with a 33 page workbook and is based on hundreds of interviews with six and seven figure women. 
• There is an UnderEarning Quiz that will help you identify where you are sabotaging yourself. 

When I took the class with Barbara, I knew I was a six figure earner, but the quiz showed me the one area I was sabotaging my earning and my confidence.  I was afraid to raise my fees.  As soon as I returned from the workshop, I told my partner that we were doubling our planning fees.  You know what happened?  We received more business.  Why?  Maybe the lower fees made our work look less valuable?  Maybe we didn’t want to be hired anyway since we weren’t even covering our costs?  Anyway, that one action changed my life and my confidence.

Where are you sabotaging your life, your income and earning power?  Be sure to sign up for my free one hour teleclass on Tuesday, October 16 at 8:30 pm EST to be introduced to the Secrets of Successful High Earners.  I have attended Barbara’s 2 day live workshop three times and each time I have gone to the next level in my life.  This is a powerful workshop and I invite you to join the call!

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Dear Friends and Family:

The rainy season is upon us.  The Village mood is happy with the expectation of a good growing season.  So far it’s rained every day for the last five days.  It’s been perfect rain, gentle and frequent.  Matjeeka has been sorting out her seeds from last year’s crops to begin planting and her son, Tjeeka, has returned from his job in South Africa to help.  There is excitement and optimism in the air.  I’ve been using our watery abundance to wash everything I own.  For the last few months my clothes have been washed in filthy, parasite-infested donga water.  Now, when I put even the “clean” items into our fresh rainwater it immediately becomes dirty.

It is no wonder that summer storms are met with an almost reverential awe here in Lesotho.  They pass through with such powerful grandeur.  We don’t get “socked in” with the flat gray skies of my home State, Michigan. Instead, magnificent storms with dark billowy clouds rumble through sending flashes of lightening in their wake and dousing us with blessed rain. They leave us with air that is fresh and delicious and few hours of sunshine before the next great storm rolls through.

Actually, I’ve just returned from a weekend of R&R.  I went to a lovely, quiet resort just over the border in South Africa with a delightful group of friends.  Our group consisted of another PCV, Elizabeth Cohen, who is working in an AIDS clinic in Butha Buthe, Dr. Edith Semone a truly wonderful OBGYN from Switzerland who is working in a hospital far up in the mountains, her mother, currently visiting from Switzerland to help with the children and Edith’s two beautiful little children ages 3 and 5.

The resort we visited, Wyndford, has a spectacular mountain location with expansive views and many perfectly tended English-style perennial gardens. The property is quite large although the maximum capacity is 30 guests. The same family has owned Wyndford for 25 years.  They are descended from some of the earliest English settlers in South Africa.  We rented a large chalet and wallowed in the luxury of satellite TV (mostly tuned to the cartoon network for the little ones), endless games of Scrabble played in both English and French and delicious meals prepared by our very hospitable hosts and served with great style on linen clad tables complete with fresh flower bouquets and crystal.   I was in heaven – I think we all were. 

It was raining for much of the weekend but between gentle storms we went on long, beautiful hikes, the little ones keeping up with amazing Swiss agility and stamina.  The area is home to some stone age San wall paintings as well as some historically interesting Boer dwellings tucked into sandstone caves that were used as hiding places during the Boer wars of 1899-1902.

The two little ones made me so hungry for my own beautiful grandchildren.  To Edith’s delight I courted them outrageously and before our weekend was over they were snuggled in with me laughing at my accent as I read to them from their French story books.

I returned home Sunday feeling completely relaxed and refreshed and have been doing laundry and cooking big pots of food for my continual stream of visitors ever since.

So much is going on with our various projects.  I’ve been working with some great folks from the Maluti Drakensberg Transfrontier Project (MDTP) and it looks as thought we may finally make some progress on the Cultural Village Project.  World Bank finances MDTP and we are planning a two-day workshop next month to get all the stakeholders together and try to streamline and combine our efforts.  My fingers are crossed.

We also have a new country director, Hill Denham.  He and his family are from Evergreen Colorado, have extensive previous Peace Corps experience, and have already won the hearts of all of us volunteers.  Hill actually visited my site for a whole day.  Not only did he visit but because of some car and driver complications he came with me on public transport from the closest camp town, Butha Buthe.  This meant he waited two hours in the hot sun with me for a koloi, squeezed into the small van with 18 other passengers to bump along the lousy roads then walked the last seven kms to the village.  He visited all our village projects saying just the right things to the workers.  He was a big hit and I am delighted that this empathetic, intelligent and completely supportive man is running the PCV program here.

So, at the moment, I haven’t a single complaint. It’s 4:30 am just now.  I can hear the family preparing the oxen, cart etc. to go to the fields to plant.  I want to join them for a while so must run.  Life is good.

I hope this letter finds you content, healthy and enjoying all the good things this life has to offer.

With love from the quite damp but warm heart of Africa.

Peggi