A Solo Mum’s Road to Riches- Dorien Forster

This Thursday’s post marks the start of a monthly book review series on mom friendly books. Each month I will be posting a book review on books that I have read and would like to share with my readers. If you have any books which you would like me to feature feel free to contact me with the relevant details.

I have been subscribing to quite a few new sites lately and have downloaded many new books for reading. Here is one that I recently read by Dorien Forster. This book was offered FREE when I subscribed to her newsletter.

The 107 paged PDF Book documents her life from pre-marriage, birth of her 3 kids, divorce to where she currently is a self-made property millionaire.

I found it very inspirational as Dorien documented her struggles and successess with buying, doing up and either renting or flipping the property.

She listed down the steps that she took and how she managed to go from living paycheck to paycheck to being her own boss with her own company. How with the support of her children and her constant interest in upgrading her skills and learning did she manage to expand her knowledge and build up her empire.

Her determination and spirit is really admirable and I definitely hope to be able to model upon.

Here is a great quote from her book.

“Don’t underestimate what you have to contribute. I think what this world needs most is passionate people doing what they are best at. Don’t worry about comparing yourself to others. If you compare yourself to people worse than you, you will run the risk of ego tripping. If you compare yourself to people better than you, you run the risk of feeling inadequate. The only person in the whole world you can truly compare yourself with is YOU. Are you doing better now in most areas of your life than you were last year?

The danger with comparisons is that we pick on one facet of the other person only and then compare that one thing with ourselves, e.g. ‘she is more beautiful’, ‘he has a flasher car’, ‘they have more money’. But if you compare the whole person and all that is going on in their life,would you really want their life?

There are always going to be others better than you who have done more than you have. So what! They are just doing what they were born to do and that is all you have to do too. Just do what you were born to do and be the best that you can be!”

The more we compare ourselves with each other the most disgruntle we become and miss to appreciate the gifts that GOD has showered upon us. Do you have the same feelings too?

January 7, 2009

6 Social Networking Communities for Moms

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Social Networking and building community is very important nowadays, especially in the blogsphere. Having an online support community does wonders if you need some advice, some where to seek information, reassurance and build up friendships.

Here are some communities which I have joined over the past year which I have been actively participating in.

For Mom Interaction

1) Mom Bloggers Club

This site has 2700 members at last count and a very active forum section whereby one can join discussions, read or post articles and interact with all the other mommies on board. I have met many new friends through it.

2) twitter moms: the influential moms network

This is a fun network which I joined which is a branch off from another social network which I am deeply connected to :

: Image via CrunchBase

For those who do not already know my twitter handle is @dominiquegoh

Do check out my twitter profile 🙂

For enriching my soul and spirituality

4) 29-Day Giving Challenge

I joined the 29-Day Giving challenge once but was not able to complete it within the stipulated 29 days. I do intend to give it one more try though this year. It is not easy to constantly give on a daily basis to others without seeking reciprocal feelings or actions. Reading through member’s blog posts it not only gives me ideas of what gifts I can give others but also how beneficial it is to give to others .

5) Greenlight Community

The 3000+ strong community aims to help foster better relationships with others, how to communicate with others and much more.

For the Domestic Goddess Within

6) Blissfully Domestic Living

This community network is a spin-off from the highly popular online parenting blog- Blissfully Domestic. Created by Mrs Fussypants herself, Allison really rawks!! Did you know that her Blissfully Domestic was nominated for 2008 weblogs award as a finalist.

I too did create my own social networking community – Savy Hip Parenting but have yet to really launch it and get more interaction of it. I intend to use it to build up a forum for the upcomming book club that I intend to launch later this month.