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Many of you are stressed by financial considerations, so I'd like to share a few resources -- today, about phone providers -- for taking small steps to control expenses. Also, if you're loving yourself into new levels of success, being vigilant and spending wisely is a key skill.
I'm a fan of simple living and have learned and practiced such strategies for years now, even though we have a comfortable income. Maybe I inherited my frugal genes from my mother who grew up in the depression era!
Yesterday morning I had an email from a subscriber in Bhutan, and found myself making suggestions about inexpensive phone contact possibilities. This inspired me to share briefly with all of you a few tidbits which you may or may not already know, and which may assist some of you with access to my teleconference calls.
First, for those in the US, and like traditional phone systems, if you're not already using a national flat rate long distance plan, I suggest you check out this possibility with your phone provider. It made a big difference in my phone bills and I'm free to call my elderly mom and talk as long as I want, and to listen to as many teleconference calls as I want without worry.
As for cell phones, I know more and more people have switch over to them entirely. I have one and use it some, but I don't keep it turned on consistently. It's more for my convenience if I'm away from the house and need to make a call. So I won't address cell phones further here.
But I've recently discovered more options and will be using these more and more in the future.
For international calls, I've been delighted with Skype.com. I think people with older, slower dial up internet connections report a few problems, like losing a call and having to reconnect periodically, but otherwise it is really neat. (My brother is working from a 10-year old set up and says he can't use it.) You download Skype to your computer. You get a headset/microphone ($25-$30)that plugs into your computer. You click a few times and you can talk to any other Skype user in the world, free.
Once I discovered that the volume control is a little switch on the line between my headphone and computer, I was completely happy with the quality of the connection. Yesterday when I went to use Skype, over 6 million people were connected worldwide, currently talking this way.
You can also buy a phone card from Skype allowing you to talk to people on their regular phones for very little money. For people in North America, I believe Skype is currently promoting a special allowing free calls to regular phones in North America through the end of this year.
One caution. For Skype and any of the Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) phone systems, you do not want to do away with your land line entirely because these programs cannot connect you with 911 for emergency service! So keep your land line phone at a minimum rate and explore some other inexpensive possibilities for your long distance communications.
A similar program is now available through Yahoo. The link is http://messenger.yahoo.com/
There are a couple of other services providing less pricey phone connections, but I have not personally used them. I've seen some very positive comments from one of my alumni associations from people using Vonage at www.Vonage.com.
Here's information from my friend and colleage in the UK, Stuart Nelson, LLB, CEO of StressKill Services and specialist in stress reduction for nurses. By all means, email him at success-story@aweber.com to receive his highly informative newsletter!
There are several VOIP phone programs available. This is one that Stuart mentioned liking from personal use.
"You asked for information about VoipStunt. It can be downloaded from http://www.voipstunt.com and the charge is 10 Euros (approximately $10) for 120 days. This give as much access as you want during that period to free landline calls to the following countries:
"Andorra, Argentina, Australia,Austria, Belgium,Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Monaco, Mongolia,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela
"Cell phones can be rung at discounted rates. If you use this facility, the 10 Euro credit gradually reduces. I imagine that if you use it a lot, you might have to pay another 10 Euros before the end of the 120 day period."
If you've had great experiences with any other specific providers who help you to keep phone charges really low, please let me know and I'll do a follow up blog entry in a few weeks. Either post a comment on this blog, or email me at ilenya@powerofpersonalpeace.com.
That's it for today, but stay tuned for more Keep the Change tips in the future.
And please sign in for my blog and leave comments. I'd especially like to know what you want to learn from me, related to stress reduction, personal peace, loving yourself from the inside out, loving yourself into greater success, and so forth.
By the way, I tried to leave a post on Megan's blog after receiving her comments on a recent post, but I was unable to complete the transaction on her blog. Something was a little off in the system.
Joy and Peace,
Dr. Ilenya
Many of you are stressed by financial considerations, so I'd like to share a few resources -- today, about phone providers -- for taking small steps to control expenses. Also, if you're loving yourself into new levels of success, being vigilant and spending wisely is a key skill.
I'm a fan of simple living and have learned and practiced such strategies for years now, even though we have a comfortable income. Maybe I inherited my frugal genes from my mother who grew up in the depression era!
Yesterday morning I had an email from a subscriber in Bhutan, and found myself making suggestions about inexpensive phone contact possibilities. This inspired me to share briefly with all of you a few tidbits which you may or may not already know, and which may assist some of you with access to my teleconference calls.
First, for those in the US, and like traditional phone systems, if you're not already using a national flat rate long distance plan, I suggest you check out this possibility with your phone provider. It made a big difference in my phone bills and I'm free to call my elderly mom and talk as long as I want, and to listen to as many teleconference calls as I want without worry.
As for cell phones, I know more and more people have switch over to them entirely. I have one and use it some, but I don't keep it turned on consistently. It's more for my convenience if I'm away from the house and need to make a call. So I won't address cell phones further here.
But I've recently discovered more options and will be using these more and more in the future.
For international calls, I've been delighted with Skype.com. I think people with older, slower dial up internet connections report a few problems, like losing a call and having to reconnect periodically, but otherwise it is really neat. (My brother is working from a 10-year old set up and says he can't use it.) You download Skype to your computer. You get a headset/microphone ($25-$30)that plugs into your computer. You click a few times and you can talk to any other Skype user in the world, free.
Once I discovered that the volume control is a little switch on the line between my headphone and computer, I was completely happy with the quality of the connection. Yesterday when I went to use Skype, over 6 million people were connected worldwide, currently talking this way.
You can also buy a phone card from Skype allowing you to talk to people on their regular phones for very little money. For people in North America, I believe Skype is currently promoting a special allowing free calls to regular phones in North America through the end of this year.
One caution. For Skype and any of the Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) phone systems, you do not want to do away with your land line entirely because these programs cannot connect you with 911 for emergency service! So keep your land line phone at a minimum rate and explore some other inexpensive possibilities for your long distance communications.
A similar program is now available through Yahoo. The link is http://messenger.yahoo.com/
There are a couple of other services providing less pricey phone connections, but I have not personally used them. I've seen some very positive comments from one of my alumni associations from people using Vonage at www.Vonage.com.
Here's information from my friend and colleage in the UK, Stuart Nelson, LLB, CEO of StressKill Services and specialist in stress reduction for nurses. By all means, email him at success-story@aweber.com to receive his highly informative newsletter!
There are several VOIP phone programs available. This is one that Stuart mentioned liking from personal use.
"You asked for information about VoipStunt. It can be downloaded from http://www.voipstunt.com and the charge is 10 Euros (approximately $10) for 120 days. This give as much access as you want during that period to free landline calls to the following countries:
"Andorra, Argentina, Australia,Austria, Belgium,Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Monaco, Mongolia,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela
"Cell phones can be rung at discounted rates. If you use this facility, the 10 Euro credit gradually reduces. I imagine that if you use it a lot, you might have to pay another 10 Euros before the end of the 120 day period."
If you've had great experiences with any other specific providers who help you to keep phone charges really low, please let me know and I'll do a follow up blog entry in a few weeks. Either post a comment on this blog, or email me at ilenya@powerofpersonalpeace.com.
That's it for today, but stay tuned for more Keep the Change tips in the future.
And please sign in for my blog and leave comments. I'd especially like to know what you want to learn from me, related to stress reduction, personal peace, loving yourself from the inside out, loving yourself into greater success, and so forth.
By the way, I tried to leave a post on Megan's blog after receiving her comments on a recent post, but I was unable to complete the transaction on her blog. Something was a little off in the system.
Joy and Peace,
Dr. Ilenya
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