Need a gift for a speech-language pathologist, OT, PT or special educator?

Are you planning on buying a gift for someone in the helping professions, such as a speech-language pathologist, occupational therapist, physical therapist or a special educator? Do you know someone in those fields who wants a second job or is planning to retire soon?

Helping professionals in those and other fields often have many talents that can be transferred into another career field, or into a career that is related to what they have done before. Many of them combine two career fields, such as therapy and training, or therapy and graphic arts.

Alternative Career Options for Speech-Language Pathologists is a book that discusses the career paths of 18 professionals. It covers each person's (or team's) traditional career, how the person changed to a new field, what the person does now, and the advantages and disadvantages of making such a change.

The book includes a career self-assessment questionnaire to help the reader consider his or her possibilities.

In a special offer, if the book is purchased by December 15, 2014, and the reader completes and e-mails back the questionnaire by December 30, 2014, the author will offer personalized suggestions to the reader at no extra charge! (This is a $50 value!)

Find out more about this extraordinary book, Alternative Career Options for Speech-Language Pathologists, and get your copy now!

SLPs: Considering retirement?

At this time of year, many speech-language pathologists (SLPs), occupational therapists, physical therapists and special educators are tired of excess paperwork/IEPs/insurance claim denials/productivity demands/etc and considering other career choices in the field. (Supervisors, beware!) Others in the helping professions are Baby Boomers who are considering retirement or want to have a second job.

 Creative SLPs for years have been combining speech pathology with other fields to find greater career satisfaction. Most of the choices do not require a new degree.

"Alternative Career Options for Speech-Language Pathologists" is a book describing the choices made by 20 of these speech-language pathologists. It covers each person's choice, how he got into it, the advantages and disadvantages, and more. The book includes a career self-assessment survey to help readers consider new possibilities.

Many of the choices in this book are suitable for physical and occupational therapists, special educators and others in the helping professions who are ready for a change, a second job, or who are considering retirement and yet want to stay in the workforce, albeit in a slightly different way.

Alternative Career Options for SLPs comes with  a special bonus that expires February 10, 2015; check here to learn about this remarkable offer!

3 Reasons to Start Becoming Financially Organized Today

How simple is it for you to get a complete picture of your personal finances? Can you easily access your account numbers of your various accounts: bank, retirement, stock brokerage or more? Can you find your various insurance policies' numbers, and the phone number to call for claims for each?

If not, today's the day to start getting organized! Here's why:

Reason #3: If something bad happened to you - unexpectedly - would your family or a trusted friend be able to easily  access the financial arrangements you have in place? Or would they have to paw through stacks of papers desperately hoping to find the right information  instead of using precious  funds and time needed for something else? If you care for a senior citizen whose memory is going, use this today to gather as much information as you can (including some tips on where to look for other relevant information).

Reason #2: If a weather disaster occurred, would you be easily able to contact your insurance company and calmly give them the details they request to settle your claim quickly? Would you know your policy numbers and how to reach the claims departments?

Reason #1: You deserve to experience the serenity that comes from having your financial affairs organized! You deserve to be able to have your assets - and debts - in one place, so that you can access them whenever necessary.

Getting organized does not have to be overwhelming. It involves finding one single fact at a time and writing it down. You can do this while opening your mail and e-mail, whenever you get some financial information. Add to it with information about your benefits from work.

To make it easier, The Financial Overview Template (www.myfinancialrecords.net), lists the details you will want to gather, as well as how to find missing documents you may need.

Imagine what it will feel like to be organized financially...to be able to find the information you need, easily and fast.... Get started today with the Financial Overview Template!

Baby boomers: organizing personal finances now

Are you trying to plan for your own retirement, or deal with a senior citizen's tangled finances? Are your insurance, bank and stock or IRA account numbers "somewhere" in a mound of papers - maybe?
Maybe you are wondering how to get a replacement birth certificate for your senior citiizen, or for yourself.

An easy way to get organized financially is through the Financial Overview Template. Use this easy template to write down as much information as you can find now.  Then, be sure to print a hard copy of it, which you can get to if needed, if the electricity goes out.    Later, add the rest of the data, bit by bit, as you locate it or as it arrives in the mail or online. (As your information changes over time, you can update it easily.)

Some of the information may be easy to find, such as birthdates and the name and contact information of a particular accountant, doctor or dentist. Other information such as insurance account numbers and who to call in the event of a claim may take more work; if you can't find these, contact the company or wait for an update from them.

The pages online can be password-protected, and you can keep a copy of this on a password-protected flash-drive with you, handy in case of an emergency such as an unexpected trip to the hospital, evacuation or other disaster.

If you use the services of a financial planner or financial planning software, use this information from your various accounts or those of your parent (or other senior citizen) to prepare before your next visit. By visiting the website of each company and putting in the account number, you can determine the value of each account; write it and the date when this value was announced so you can report this to the financial planner.

The pay-off for this will be a serene sense of financial organization and confidence; you will be able to find  the data you need, when you need it. Just think: your account numbers will finally be easily accessible to you. Your knowledge of your benefits and what they cover, your retirement information, and many other details will be quickly available, too. Imagine how wonderful that will feel! Get the Financial Overview Template now, and be prepared with knowledge of your finances before you need it next!