Work Life Balance Part One by Tina Erwin

     The first time it happens to you, you find yourself a little stunned. How did this happen? When did it change? Did I miss the memo on this? Who decided that this was okay?

      Scenario One

       You come into work Monday morning and your officemates are not there, they are all in a meeting, a meeting you obviously didn’t know about. You aren’t sure what the meeting is about, but it looks like the entire staff is there and you quietly slip into the back.

       When your boss notices you, she embarrasses you by asking you why you didn’t read your email that she sent you. You explain that you didn’t get an email about this meeting on Friday. No, she says, the email I sent out at 4pm yesterday afternoon, you know, Sunday afternoon. Why weren’t you reading your email?

       Now you can boldly go where no executive has gone before and observe that you weren’t aware that this organization worked 24/7 or you can mumble a humble apology for missing the meeting.

       Leaving the meeting, your officemates look at you like you are a complete failure. What’s wrong with her, you can hear them thinking.

       There’s nothing wrong with her! She had no idea she was expected to work seven days a week. There was no memo that discussed office expectations of never having an entire day off.

      Scenario Two

       You make a presentation to a group on a Saturday. Your entire staff gives up their Saturday to do this special work task that will bring in more business. You have all worked night and day to get this done. The presentation is a wonderful success. Everyone is pleased. Their Saturday workday ends around four. Everyone is exhausted from the tension of the workup and then the successful presentation. You tell everyone to have “a great rest of what’s left of the weekend!”

       Monday morning, as you are reading your email, you notice that the Chairman of the group hosting your presentation the previous Saturday, sent out an email at 7am Sunday morning demanding an edited copy of your power point presentation to share with several hundred people. It was due to him before Monday morning.

       Your power point will take time to edit, condense, review and then send to him. You had no idea that you were expected to check email all day Sunday, to work all day Sunday, on a serious deadline no less.
       You can’t help but ask yourself: why was this such a fire drill? Why was this an emergency?

       So, how do you handle this since you have obviously missed his rushed deadline?

       Scenario Three

      Your boss is tired all the time. She works literally from dawn to dusk and expects everyone else to do the same. She is also sick all the time. She never rests and she sends emails out like there is a quota for how many a person can send and she maxes out that quota every day. She sends them day and night, memo after memo, Saturday, Sunday and holidays. It never ends.   

       She expects you to read and answer her emails promptly. She has no family, no ties that bind her, only the identity that is her job. She thinks you are a slacker if you aren’t constantly reading and responding to email. Push, Push, Push, get it done.

       She’s burning everyone out. Since her day and her week never ends, obviously neither does anyone else’s.

       Part two: The devil that is email.

Independence Day by Tina Erwin

     The Fourth of July is a great summer holiday and there will be lots written about how valuable freedom is to all of us.
    We will hear all about how freedom isn't free. It isn't. We pay for it by the good and bad decisions our elected representatives make.
    The Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights were designed to be the guide through the generations and for generations to come of how to run this country to maintain all of these freedoms that we all hold so dear and for which so many of us have died - again and again. However, not everyone believes this. Some elected officials deny the very rights that we celebrate on the 4th of July.  Some elected officials are deliberately putting our country at risk.
     When anyone, including any elected official who wrongly believes that he or she is above the law, seeks to circumvent the Constitution and the Bill of Rights of this country, this person needs to be impeached, removed from office through the correct legal means.
    When anyone, including any elected official who wrongly believes that he or she is above the law seeks to subvert the safety and security of this country, with individuals and governments that wish to destroy these United States and its visitors all over the world, this person and his or her lieutenants, need to be impeached, removed from office through the correct legal means.
      When any elected official seeks to subvert the rights of freedom of speech, denies the truth of situations and lies to the American people and its allies, this person and his or her lieutenants, needs to be impeached, removed from office through the correct legal means.
      When any elected official seeks to destroy the very basis of good order and discipline that define the US military and the safety and security of this country, this person and his or her lieutenants, needs to be impeached, removed from office through the correct legal means.
       American tourists, American personnel working in Embassies, American military personnel and American staffers working for aid agencies all over the globe are now less safe than they have ever been. They have a target on their backs, thanks to the most recent actions taken by elected and non-elected officials. Never in history have Americans been in such a precarious situation put there squarely by those supposedly elected to see to our safety.
        All Americans have a duty to stand up and tell their elected representatives how they feel about the most recent actions happening today and demand that those responsible at the highest levels, be removed from office, for they no longer represent the best interests of the American People.
       Either we stand up for freedom or we no longer deserve to enjoy it.
     And yes, sometimes being 'spiritual' means standing up for the right thing and then doing the right thing.

The Second Ghost Story Book is Coming in August!

Dear Friends,
     I am happy to say that Ghost Stories from the Ghosts' Point of View, Trilogy Volume 2 is in the editing phase. Cover design is in progress and we are well on our way to sharing more fascinating stories of assisting ghosts to cross over to the Heaven World.

I have been delighted to hear the stories of how so many of you have used the information in Volume One of these stories that I would like to include your testimonials in Volume Two. I am especially encouraged to know how you have all used The Crossing Over Prayer©.

I am inviting you all to share your testimonials. If you have used The Crossing Over Prayer©, please share what happened. I will be using this information either on the inside of the book, the back cover and possibly in marketing the book. 

I so grateful for your help that I will share an advance sneak peak at one of the compelling stories you will read.

I will need your testimonials in the following format:
1. The testimonial needs to be no more than 75 words and it will need to be in Microsoft word as a docx or in an email.
2. Please sign your testimonial using your first initial and last name. 3. Include your state or country. 
4. Once submitted, all testimonials become the property of TinaErwin.com
5. I will need them 01 July 2014.

Please email all testimonials to Tina@TinaErwin.com 

You never know how much your testimonial can help someone deciding to read or purchase this book. Your words may be the ones that encourage someone to take a chance and see how they can also help those lost and needy souls on the other side find the light of the divine.

Thank you with all my heart.  Tina