Most Americans, regardless of their personal religious choices, have grown up under the influence of the Puritan Work Ethic (or Protestant Work Ethic). According to Wikipedia, the PWE emphasizes the necessity of constant labor and diligent work in order to attain grace and salvation. After all, idle hands are the devil’s playthings…

In more modern, secular terms, hard work (and I don’t know about you, but I think of “work” as something I don’t enjoy and don’t necessarily want to do) is the key to happiness and financial success. No pain, no gain, right? Many of us believe that we are so fundamentally undeserving that we must earn our happiness and success through blood, sweat, and tears. (This doesn’t really make sense when you look at the world around you, does it? How many people do you know who’ve worked hard all their lives and are neither happy nor financially successful?)
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Are you ready to leave the “Balance Bandwagon”?

Sometimes a message comes along that makes you STOP in your tracks and reconsider what you have been doing in your life. For women, the message has been that we need to balance all the areas of our lives and look good doing it. Two amazing women and authors, Susan Guiher and Mary McHenry, tell us that this message does not work! According to Susan and Mary, the idea that we can balance it all is a myth and only leads to increased stress and feeling overwhelmed.

Stop Spinning Plates: How to Lose Your Balance and Become a Thriving Mother is a new book that shatters all the myths about how you “should” be as a working woman and mother. Susan and Mary will teach you how to stop feeling overwhelmed, stop doing things just because you think you should, and practice blending all the areas of your life through leverage and community.

Whether you are a Mom or a woman who is mothering a project or passion, Susan and Mary want you to learn to create a new way of being which allows you and your family to grow, develop, change, make mistakes, and feel good at the same time!

Several friends and colleagues of Susan and Mary (including me) are thrilled to be offering you special bonuses collectively valued at more than $1000 when you purchase the book today. Not only that, a portion of all proceeds will be donated to Kiva– the world’s first person-to-person global micro-lending website.

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