The Generosity Experiment: Bouncing back to prosperity + giving

after experiencing a home invasion, death threats, a stalker, hate campaigns, business closures, petty lawsuits, massive debt, homelessness

Andrea Reynolds

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Blog: The Peripatetic Professional

Mission:To promote Creative Generosity: Generosity of Spirit, before Generosity of Goods/Cash

INVITE ME TO SPEAK ON...

* My 12 Year Generosity Experiment

* Recognizing/Allowing Creative Generosity

* Recovering Money & Personal Property with Generosity

* Writing Tough Letters Brilliantly

* When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Lemon Meringue Pie (Life lessons from a former home ec teacher)

* How to Win Essay Contests When You Really Need to Win the Prize

My 4 goals in sequence:
1. Get back on my feet after meeting all my financial obligations - all living expenses paid on time, all debts paid and a year of living expenses put aside - so I have no more anxiety about money.

2. Write and publish a book about my 12 year Generosity Experiment that sells 10,000 + copies so my sponsors and our charity earn money too so they will be thrilled with my promotional and sales efforts.

3. Build my retirement fund so I can live on the interest from investing it, from age 67 on, travel about the country as an activist, speaking about generosity of spirit.

4. Create a million dollar fund to subsidize other authors who are forced to stop writing, self-publishing, promoting and selling books online as I was.

I'M WRITING LETTERS to those who haven't paid me or who should give me a refund for work not delivered, so I can repay those to whom I owe money. I'll give you compelling reasons why paying me is in your best interests, too.

IF YOU OWE ME MONEY, this would be a good time to pay up, in full, with interest... before I approach you. I will accept items on my wish list in lieu of cash or check.

IF I OWE YOU MONEY, you're already on my list and I'll contact you. Would you consider forgiving the debt, applying the debt to sponsorship of my book or web site, or allowing me to provide consulting, writing or speaking services in lieu of payment?

Visit my 4 sub-sites:

Advice Empire (consulting services for practitioners)

Commission-Free Speakers (blog)

Crisis Brainstorm (crisis clinic)

Handy Ande (home services + errands)

HOME

VAN

Organized all my computer disks

09/11/09 Filed in: BUSINESS

I was able to get 60 more plastic CD jewel boxes at a price lower than Walmart's so I could consolidate all my software masters and back up files and have them more easily in reach. Before they were on 2 spindles and in plastic sleeves inside several binders. Now they all sit in two plastic shoe box size boxes, with all the description labels facing in the same direction. Now I don't have to hunt in 3 places for them or handle dozens of them before finding the ones I needed. And I also separated the software according to which machine they belonged to. (I have two antique computers from 1991 and 1998.) It was a small price to pay for the feeling of convenience.

Oh, and I'm repurposing the CD sleeves as grocery store coupons.