Comments on: Book Review: ‘Overcoming UnderEarning’ Part 11

By: Will

Will — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:06:05 +0000

TRISHA’S reviews! Sorry to mis-attribute credit. The big “Liz’s Blog Showcase” at the top of every page has subconsciously become associated with this, TRISHA’S site.

By: Will

Will — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:55:12 +0000

Hi Diane - If you are following this, I want you to know that something you said lit a light bulb for me also.

I believe you are right that being an underearner has nothing to do with intelligence. I suspect that the more intelligent you are, the more important it is that you do work that you love. I just started an online business helping people do something I love to do myself. I think when you do something like that the positive things you feel about your work come through to your clients and it is real rewarding. I still consider myself an under earner, however. lol! Maybe I will eventually be successful at changing that! I probably should read the book, but I am almost through all Liz’s reviews and she does such a thorough job that I might not have to!

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By: Diane O'Brian

Diane O'Brian — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:12:04 +0000

I loved your Blog and Your Website…one more example of things I want to do and have not done yet….Anyway this book looks great. I was on the Debtors Anon website and I saw the word underearner and it was like a light bulb went off in my head. I have always known I am smart even though for years I downplayed that. Than in my thirties I took off and went back to school and got my degrees and made a career and a life for myself. It was incredible. I was a single parent with five children, and yet managed to get both my BA and a Masters Degree. Long Story short I worked my way quickly up the ladder and went from being a counselor making 20,000 a year to be the Executive Director of an Agency making about 80,000, within about five years. It was all wonderful. I still had alot of left over “Junk” though from childhood and from years of abuse. I was struggling with depression although keeping it at bay by spending time with kids and through the love of my workand what I was doing, etc. One fine day howevr I fell and broke my ankle in about 27 pieces and for the next couple years….”all hell broke loose”. My Ex-Husband came back on the scene because I needed his help with the children while I was in a wheelchair, etc. and besides that I ended up getting addicted to the pain pills I was taking . In a nutshell I ended up losing everything. I went to live with my Mom for awhile after loosoing my home and she died about a year and a half later. With that came homelessness and more poverty until I finally realized there was def. more wrong than just a broken ankle not healing right. So another long story short I find out I have Rheumatoid Arthritis (by the way by now the EX was not only long gone again, but dead from an overdose)… and so things got steadily worse for awhile. Finaly I just kept praying and I just kept reminding myself of who I once was and eventualy made my way back to AA (I had beenr ecovering form alcoholsm throughout all of this, and to this day never have taken another drink, I have 26 years of sobriety Thank Goodnes). I have been trying so hard to get a career back and for the last few years Ive worked at either just above minimum wage or close enough to it. My last job was substitute teaching which I did enjoy and I started to notice some of my old ways, of looking at the big picture, whcih is something I have always done. When I was a counselor I wanted to know what the rest of the Organization did, and I learned quickly which is how I was able to work my way up so fast. I have always loved fixing systems, you know, making things better so people can get help , thistype of thing, is my passion, which is why I was so good as an Executive Director. I have just lost all my confidence and I dont seem o be able to get back the vision of myself as being sucessful. Before I couldnt see myself as anything else, but, do you know what Imean? I am sorry to go on and on, and I wasnt expecting to but I can tell you I could probably write even more and more on this topic because it is such a major part of my daily life. Being in debt, never having enough money and knowing I am capable of more but yet not really believing it? I dont know if it is still the past stuff that causes this, or maybe Ihave been out of the loop too long or what. That makes me so sad, I worked so hard to get where I got, and than boom. So I think I will read the book and more on the subject but I do appreciate you “listening” and having your site available for such an important subject. Thanks so much…. Diane

By: Will

Will — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:10:35 +0000

Thanks! This is a great set of reviews, almost a book in itself! I read a few out of order, but now need to start at the beginning.

One quote above from the book, “high earners ‘think’ differently…” is interesting. I have talked and joked about this with friends many times. We joke we will never be rich because we just don’t think like the way that is necessary to accumulate wealth. We laugh that this is a good thing and what makes us the people we are and love. But under the joshing around, I think we all wonder if it is possible to “harvest” some of the approaches to life that financially successful people have. I guess the trick is to do it without sacrificing what we like about who we are now.

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By: Barbara Stanny

Barbara Stanny — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:57:54 +0000

Thank you for doing such a fabulous job summarizing my book, Overcoming Underearning. I loved everything you said. I know you inspired others. And I am deeply honored you chose my book to review so enthusiastically and accurately.

With deep appreciation,
Barbara Stanny, author
http://www.barbarastanny.com

By: Business book believer

Business book believer — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:12:10 +0000

These are some great, simple ideas that anyone who is serious about getting out of a low paying job should read. Thank you for sharing - it’s time for me to take action.

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By: Trisha

Trisha — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:34:42 +0000

Thanks! Let me know if you get an email - as this should both post in the comments and send you an email, unless you checked the ’subscribe to comments’ box.

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By: DazzlinDonna

DazzlinDonna — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:30:55 +0000

Might have to add this book to my amazon wish list.