Wall Street Women and Plastic Surgery

I'm really not sure what to think of this article, but it is an interesting observation.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/45669839/Wall_Stret_Women_and_Plastic_Surgery

Stop What You’re Doing!

For all you professional multitaskers with short attention spans! Here are three easy ways you can slow down to speed-up.

1. Minimize distractions. NEWSFLASH! Your Type-A brain is underperforming by trying to overperform. Too many of the business professionals feel they need to be doing at least three things at once—eating lunch and checking email while on a conference call—to feel productive. Don’t be a sucker for distractions. Staying focused on one task makes you more productive. So shut your instant messaging and Facebook. You are just making your workday longer than needed. Check them a few times a day. Same goes for email. Don’t stop what you’re doing every 43 seconds to see if you’ve got a new message.

2. Control Your Day. Most of us have a list of more than 20 things we need to get done. Instead of looking at the daunting list every day and feeling overwhelmed, write down three things you will realistically accomplish in a day and stick to accomplishing those three. Creating realistic goals makes you more productive overall. Being overly ambitious just leaves you feeling defeated.

3. Find 10 minutes. Even in your busiest day, taking ten minutes to relax will actually help you be more productive for the rest of the day. By actively choosing to take a break, you will feel more in control. Stress is often caused by the overwhelming feeling of incompletion, and our thoughts tend to be fear-based: “I won’t be able to finish this” or “My manager will find out I don’t know what I’m doing.” Take 10 minutes to step outside, listen to music or eat your lunch. Another option, you can download this 10-minute body-scan mediation to your mp3 player for a short mental break. http://www.mindworkscorp.com/resources.html

So remember, just like a marathon runner, you need to pace yourself to win!

Wall Street protests enter 11th day

By Ed Payne, CNN

updated 7:28 AM EST, Tue September 27, 2011

Does Michael Moore support capitalism?

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• The protest is being driven by social media
• Arrests total about 100 people
• Some protesters are accusing police of using excessive force
• Demonstrators have taken inspiration from the Arab Spring protests

(CNN) -- Protests to draw attention to the power of Wall Street firms in the United States and world economies will continue for an 11th straight day in lower Manhattan Tuesday.
"Our main concern is the way that democracy is hijacked through wealth inequality," said Patrick Bruner, a spokesman for the protest group Occupy Wall Street. Bruner said protestors plan to present a list of demands, though they don't know when or to whom they will present them to.
The group, taking its inspiration from the Arab Spring protests that swept through Africa and the Middle East, has taken up residence in a park in New York's Financial District, calling for 20,000 people to flood the area for a "few months" to press home their point. Social media fueled those uprisings in places like Egypt and Libya and organizers are hoping it will work in the United States too.
"The rich are getting away with a huge crime," documentary filmmaker Michael Moore said Monday on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight." "Nobody's been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They're not paying their fair share of the taxes."
"I do well," Moore acknowledged, but "we reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China ... and it becomes this shell game."
Moore spoke to the protesters before appearing on CNN, telling them that he'll be happy when "the real people in this country are in charge" and he doesn't have to make another movie or write another book on what he sees as the social and political ills of America.
About 100 people have been arrested during the protests, police said. People were apprehended for disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration and assaulting a police officer, said New York City Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne. Most of the arrests came Saturday. There were no arrests Sunday and Monday, protest organizers said.
Demonstrators have accused police of using excessive force, following the release of a video from Saturday that shows an officer pepper spraying several women.
"This officer in a white shirt just came around and sprayed me and three other girls in the face," said Chelsea Elliott, one of the women from the video. "Of course the rest blew into everyone around us and the cop in front of me got hit too."
"It was one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen," said Amanda Clarke, another protester who witnessed the incident. "It was absolutely horrible to see."
Elliott called the incident "inexcusable" and said she plans to file a formal complaint.
The Occupy Wall Street website calls for the officer to be "charged for his crimes" and jailed. The group also has demanded that Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly resign and that Mayor Michael Bloomberg "apologize for the police brutality and the cover-up that followed."
Appropriate and necessary force was used, police said.
"Protestors who engage in civil disobedience can expect to be arrested," Browne said. "Those who resist arrest can expect some measure of force will be used."
Police say the videos failed to capture or edited out important events that led to the eventual altercation. It's a charge protesters have denied. The group has posted multiple videos showing the incident on its web page.
The protest campaign -- which uses the hashtag #occupywallstreet on the microblogging site Twitter -- began in July with the launch of a simple campaign website calling for a march and a sit-in at the New York Stock Exchange, just as demonstrators did in the Middle East and Africa.
"The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%," the group's website said.
Source CNN:  http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/27/business/wall-street-protests/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Sallie Krawcheck, ousted from her senior position at Bank of America!

Check out my feelings about the lastest news that one of the few senior women on Wall Street is no longer with Bank of America.  Fox Business News gets my perspective on this video clip:


http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/willis-report/index.html#/v/1148107207001/the-obstacles-facing-women-moving-up-on-wall-street/?playlist_id=157870

Press Release: First Class of 2011 Progressive Women’s Voices Announced

See press release:  First Class of 2011 Progressive Women’s Voices Announced

About to head to New York City to be a part of Progressive Women's Voices and meet all these interesting women challeging the current conversations in media 

Speaking at TEDx Houston

Speaking at TEDx Houston was so amazing!  The energy and passion at the event was contagious.  If you ever get a chance to attend a TED event, don't miss the opportunity.  Thanks to the TED organizers for pulling off a fabulous event.  I'll post some of the videos from the event when they're ready. 

Love these fun cupcakes which were so tasty!

Each one of these balloons had a note on it that gave you an idea of how you could help make the world a better place.  Mine said I should read to a group of kids.  Done!

Bloomberg interviews Suits: A Woman on Wall Street author

It was so much fun doing the TV shoots!  Maybe it is just because I talk fast, but I loved having a short window to fit in what I wanted to say.   I particularly enjoyed the Bloomberg interview with Pimm Fox because I felt he wanted to delve into some issues I felt strongly about.  After the interview he said I could come back anytime so you may see me on there again!