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No, Tidbits isn’t bankrupt! But every year, for a multitude of reasons, millions of Americans file for bankruptcy protection. It’s not always Mr. John Q. Public who does this – many times it’s celebrities who “had it all” and lost it, or wealthy business magnates who made poor investment decisions. This week, we’re looking at some well-known people who have filed bankruptcy, sometimes more than once!

• In 1989, actress Kim Basinger bought herself a town, Braselton, Georgia for $20 million with plans to develop it. A few years later, after accepting a film role for “Boxing Helena,” she backed out of the movie. The studio promptly sued Basinger for $7 million. Shortly after paying the damages, she filed for bankruptcy and abandoned Braselton.

• Singer-songwriter Willie Nelson made headlines back in 1990 when the IRS seized his bank accounts and real estate holdings as security for the $16.7 million he owed in unpaid taxes. Nelson had channeled his income into a tax shelter that the IRS had declared illegal. He took the bull by the horns and recorded a new album appropriately entitled “The IRS Tapes: Who’ll Buy My Memories?” to raise money to pay his debt, one he eventually paid in full.

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GOING BROKE! (continued): • Unpaid taxes do have a way of catching up with you. Just ask actor Nicolas Cage, who owed the IRS $13 million by the end of 2009. Cage wasn’t too wise with his $150 million fortune, purchasing an $8 million castle in England, where he never slept one single night, another castle in Bavaria, two New Orleans mansions, a $17 million home in Bel Air, and a $10 million Malibu beach house. A $7 million 40-acre private island near the Bahamas was followed up with a $30 million private jet to visit all his homes. Nine Rolls Royces were parked in his garage next to his Lamborghini and Ferrari, and 30 motorcycles. When Cage got in trouble, he began unloading his real estate, along with his cherished Action Comics collection that brought in a record $2.16 million. Lucky for Cage, he is still considered a Hollywood star who continues to land big roles, although most of his salaries go straight to his creditors.

• Formerly a duchess married to Britain’s Prince Andrew, Sarah Ferguson ran up $8 million in debt from the time of her 1996 divorce until 2011.

Ex-husband Andrew saved the day by loaning her money, and her creditors also agreed to take a smaller percentage of what was owed to them.

The $10 million contract she signed as a Weight Watchers spokesperson may have helped out, too!

• Musician MC Hammer found out that an overlylavish lifestyle can backfire. In the early 1990s, Hammer had a net worth of more than $33 million.

Within five years, he had accrued $14 million in debt and filed for bankruptcy. How did that happen? Hammer maintained a 200-person crew that cost him about half a million every month. He lived in a $30 million house with a 17-car garage, a bowling alley, and baseball diamond. He owned two private helicopters, luxury cars, airplanes, and a record company.

• During his heyday, professional boxer Mike Tyson was bringing down $30 million for a single fight! His career earnings were somewhere between $300 million and $400 million. In 2004, he was $38 million in debt, with $17 million of that owed in back taxes. He owed $750,000 to seven different law firms, and another $300,000 for limo services. Although he blamed dishonest financial advisors, his spending habits included mansions, over 100 luxury cars, extravagant jewelry, a $2 million bathtub, a $410,000 birthday party, and pet Bengal tigers, which cost about $1,500 a day to feed.

• How did NFL legend Terrell Owens burn through his $80 million career earnings? Part of it can be attributed to the more than $50,000 per month in child support payments he makes to four different women, three of whom have filed lawsuits against him. He also cites unscrupulous financial advisors, who led him into risky real estate investments. No matter what the reason, it took Owens less than 10 years to squander an amount that could have supported him comfortably for the remainder of his life.

• Not everyone who’s gone through bankruptcy or financial troubles has been a big earner, nor have they all lived in our lifetime. President Abraham Lincoln declared bankruptcy in his 20s after his general store failed. When the store where Abe worked closed down, he saw an opportunity to open his own store, buying out other stores’ inventories on credit. After going broke, he repaid all his creditors, a feat that took 17 years. At least three other U.S. Presidents have filed bankruptcy – Ulysses Grant, William McKinley, and Thomas Jefferson, whose estate Monticello and its 120 slaves were auctioned off to pay his debt.

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In 1821, the Mississippi town of Le Fleur’s Bluff became the state capital and was renamed _______________in honor of a military hero and future president of the United States.

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The capital city of Florida, ___________________, is an Apalachee Indian word meaning “old town” or “abandoned fields”.

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CHARLES GOODYEAR Although he suffered through financial distress and bankruptcy his entire life, the name of Charles Goodyear lives on through history. Let’s see how much you know about this self-taught inventor and his work with rubber.

• The name of Goodyear is significant in New Haven, Connecticut, for more than Charles Goodyear’s inventions. In 1638, his ancestor was a founder of that city, and it was here that Charles was born in 1800. At age 14, he headed to Philadelphia to work as an apprentice in the hardware business, which occupied his next seven years.

• At 21, Goodyear returned to Connecticut to partner with his father in the business of manufacturing ivory and metal buttons and an assortment of agricultural implements.

Following his marriage, Goodyear moved back to Philadelphia, operating a thriving hardware store.

However, his practice of liberally extending credit caught up with him, and the losses from non-paying customers led to his business failure. Because he was in the midst of perfecting and patenting several inventions, he refused to declare bankruptcy for fear of losing his rights to those inventions. As a result, he was thrown into debtor’s prison for failing to pay his debts.

• At 31, Goodyear first learned about gum elastic, or natural rubber, and began experimenting with the substance. He started out creating life preservers, presenting them to a New York rubber company. It soon became apparent that natural rubber froze hard in the winter and was a sticky mess in the summer.

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Self-talk, whether positive or negative, is your inner voice that says things you seldom speak out loud. How you talk to yourself determines the kind of person you are becoming.

The good news and the bad news about self-talk is that what you say is what you get. Speak critically to yourself and you will think badly about yourself.

Speak graciously to yourself and you will think kindly about yourself. Your words will either bless or curse you and only you can control them.

Here are your choices Positive self-talk makes you feel confident, poised and assertive. It is like having a happy, optimistic tune playing in the recesses of your mind reminding you to look on the bright side, see the good, or to expect success.

Negative self-talk makes you feel unattractive, dumb, and faint-hearted. It is like having a perpetual moaning lament, a funeral dirge playing in the recesses of your mind reminding you of all the horrible things that have happened or might happen to you.

Which voice is the loudest for you?

Learn how to make self-talk work FOR you not against you. Here are four intellectual tricks you can pull on yourself to halt the nasty, negative, oppressive self-criticisms that hold you back: Eavesdrop on yourself. Take note of the words you use to describe yourself. Do you say things like, “I look ugly,” or “I can’t learn anything new,” or “I’m nothing compared to those people,” or “I’m not very smart, after all, I flunked 7th Grade math.”

Pay attention to what you are saying to yourself.

You may have become habitually addicted to selfcriticism, and that self-criticism will keep you from becoming the person God intends for you to be.

Your first step to halt negative self-talk is to know what your inner voice is saying.

Cross-examine yourself. Your negative self-criticisms are likely untrue. Just because you flunked 7th Grade math does not mean you are dumb. It only means you flunked 7th Grade math.

Ask things like: What evidence is there for what I just called myself? Would I talk to another person the way I talk to myself? Are there more positive, uncritical ways I can speak to myself about myself?

You want others to tell you the truth, don’t you?

You should also want YOU to tell YOURSELF the truth about YOU. Interrupt yourself. When you face a significant problem and your inner negative voice says, “Here we go again - another opportunity to prove how stupid I am!” Interrupt the negative voice with positive words. The voice may start out saying, “Here you go again,” but you catch yourself about to criticize yourself. Interrupt the sentence and speak out loud, “Another opportunity to solve a problem and be a happy person.”

Promise yourself. You are the only one who decides what your mind focuses on so promise yourself to be kind to yourself. Stop the nasty, negative selfcriticisms and replace them with complimentary, up-beat messages to yourself.

Speak gently and kindly to yourself and you will be happier, have more peace of mind, and display a quiet confidence that will impress others. ©2015 Ronald D. Ross

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