Fabulous News! Funky to Fabulous has been reviewed on AMAZON.COM by one of the TOP 5 Amazon Reviewers! Rebecca Johnson from The Rebecca Review gave Funky to Fabulous 5 stars in addition to a Fabulous Review. Johnson states "Eli Davidson presents a positive and encouraging message while sharing her wisdom with a sense of wit. Her spunky writing style is completely captivating and there is a sense of authentic happiness throughout the writing." She goes on to say "Eli Davidson's refreshing personality infuses the book with sassy style and leaves you feeling like you can take on the world. Read this book this summer and change your life by winter!"

Many thanks to Rebecca Johnson for her time and kind words.

Check out Funky to Fabulous and Rebecca's Review by clicking here.

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Cristina Anderson is a recognized world leader in educating women in creating more positive results. As a professional in Finland, she sees the world from the vantage point of men and women being very equal in the workplace. Here is an excerpt from one of her recent articles.

Law of attraction is a very popular term nowadays when the movie “The Secret” is conquering the world with it’s message of hope and positive thinking. Attraction is, to my understanding, a female force. Women are not by nature used to push things forward but rather to use different means to attract things to happen. For example when we communicate we don’t go straight forward saying: “I want a cup of coffee” but rather “Oh, how tired I am, I could really use a cup of coffee” or “what a nice coffee shop there is….”. In order to achieve higher positions in the organization women are taught to become more straightforward in their communication, they are taught to say “bring me a cup of coffee, please”. This kind of communication is of course timesaving and efficient, that by the way everyone must be able to use in situations of emergency, but the price is that the woman loses her natural female attractiveness and gains the attraction of power instead, and eventually become one of the guys.

Law of gravity might be used as a metaphor for male leadership. Men tend to send things forward with such kick and force that the one selected target is reached without deviations and attuning operations. The people around are seen more as pawns that can be ordered and moved in the “name of the task” than individuals that could be attracted to participate an inspirational challenge. Offering a big sum of money and bonuses is a male way to gain commitment when on the other hand offering initial participation, inspiration, growth and learning is a female way to attain commitment.

Unfortunately when the number of female leaders increase in the companies the systems are not developed to support, empower and promote female leadership. The systems remain “male” and women have learned that the true appreciation and acceptance comes from reconciling oneself into the “male” system. Therefore the real change for female values, we might call those values here as “soft human values” do not take place in the companies. I worked as a business consultant for a decade and saw many ‘womanly women’ give up their womanliness and become one of the guys, for the sake of survival and success in the company. The question is: “does this kind of mental castration bring true happiness and fullness of life and does it really create better workplaces and more successful companies?”

One more question: “If we are to learn tolerance and true appreciation of diversity, are we really doing it by making everybody to fit the system? Are we really incapable of creating systems that allow people be themselves and give their best talent, true self-expression and natural creative force to serve the common good?”

About the writer:

Cristina Andersson from Helsinki is the author of the “Winning Helix – the art of learning and manifesting your true potential”. She is an educationalist, who has taught in several business schools and in the University of Helsinki and consulted several companies on strategic learning issues. She lectures about winning, learning and action-learning processes. She is also a motivational speaker and an inspiring soprano singer.

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1. Personal purchases cost you 60% more as they are after tax.

2. Separate wants from needs. Concentrate on needs.

3. Credit is for emergencies. Pay cash until you reach your goal.

4. Windfalls are capital not income. Capital is for wealth investment.

5. Put your own oxygen mask on first.

6. Inexpensive gifts can show you care. Expensive gifts give a false impression and are motivated by insecurity.

7. Do not forget taxes. Immediately set aside taxes.

8. Debt is poison. It is negative. First is interest and charges. Second debt prevents investing and reaching financially independence. It creates insecurity.

9. Pleasure of luxury is short. Anxiety lasts until discharge of debt.

10. Small savings over big time are better to create wealth than big risks.

11. Never take a risk or purchase an item you can not afford.

12. Get gratification from personal relationships not material things.

13. Fight impulse purchases, resist gratification, invest instead.

14. Why are you shopping, know the reasons.

15. Buy what pays you not what decreases in value or costs to carry.

16. Income $1.00: spend 99¢ = happiness; spend $1.01 = misery.

17. Ask, Ask, Ask for what you want, don’t expect.

18. Comparison shop first.

19. Buy wholesale whenever possible.

20. Do not buy labels, buy value.

21. Buy Pre-owned whenever appropriate.

Fabulous News! Funky to Fabulous has been reviewed on http://www.amazon.com by one of the TOP 5 Amazon Reviewers! Rebecca Johnson from The Rebecca Review gave Funky to Fabulous 5 stars in addition to a Fabulous Review. Johnson states "Eli Davidson presents a positive and encouraging message while sharing her wisdom with a sense of wit. Her spunky writing style is completely captivating and there is a sense of authentic happiness throughout the writing." She goes on to say "Eli Davidson's refreshing personality infuses the book with sassy style and leaves you feeling like you can take on the world. Read this book this summer and change your life by winter!"

Many thanks to Rebecca Johnson for her time and kind words.

Check out Funky to Fabulous and Rebecca's Review by clicking here.

What did you think of the book? Write your own review! If you've read the book, we would love to know what you thought. To get your copy of the book go to http://www.funkytofabulous.com or to AMAZON.COM

Thanks to all for your support.

Kind Regards,

Team Fabulous

Cristina Anderson is a recognized world leader in educating women in creating more positive results. As a professional in Finland, she sees the world from the vantage point of men and women being very equal in the workplace. Here is an excerpt from one of her recent articles.


"Law of attraction is a very popular term nowadays when the movie “The Secret” is conquering the world with it’s message of hope and positive thinking. Attraction is, to my understanding, a female force. Women are not by nature used to push things forward but rather to use different means to attract things to happen. For example when we communicate we don’t go straight forward saying: “I want a cup of coffee” but rather “Oh, how tired I am, I could really use a cup of coffee” or “what a nice coffee shop there is….”. In order to achieve higher positions in the organization women are taught to become more straightforward in their communication, they are taught to say “bring me a cup of coffee, please”. This kind of communication is of course timesaving and efficient, that by the way everyone must be able to use in situations of emergency, but the price is that the woman loses her natural female attractiveness and gains the attraction of power instead, and eventually become one of the guys.

Law of gravity might be used as a metaphor for male leadership. Men tend to send things forward with such kick and force that the one selected target is reached without deviations and attuning operations. The people around are seen more as pawns that can be ordered and moved in the “name of the task” than individuals that could be attracted to participate an inspirational challenge. Offering a big sum of money and bonuses is a male way to gain commitment when on the other hand offering initial participation, inspiration, growth and learning is a female way to attain commitment.

Unfortunately when the number of female leaders increase in the companies the systems are not developed to support, empower and promote female leadership. The systems remain “male” and women have learned that the true appreciation and acceptance comes from reconciling oneself into the “male” system. Therefore the real change for female values, we might call those values here as “soft human values” do not take place in the companies. I worked as a business consultant for a decade and saw many ‘womanly women’ give up their womanliness and become one of the guys, for the sake of survival and success in the company. The question is: “does this kind of mental castration bring true happiness and fullness of life and does it really create better workplaces and more successful companies?”

One more question: “If we are to learn tolerance and true appreciation of diversity, are we really doing it by making everybody to fit the system? Are we really incapable of creating systems that allow people be themselves and give their best talent, true self-expression and natural creative force to serve the common good?”

About the writer:

Cristina Andersson from Helsinki is the author of the “Winning Helix – the art of learning and manifesting your true potential”. She is an educationalist, who has taught in several business schools and in the University of Helsinki and consulted several companies on strategic learning issues. She lectures about winning, learning and action-learning processes. She is also a motivational speaker and an inspiring soprano singer.