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Error, Terror & Triumph – Learn before you Leap

On 24 October, 2015, in Book, Skills Projects, by Cindy Pivacic

Youth educational focused pocketbook?

 

The content of this pocketbook is focused on the youth entering adult life and the working world, enlightening them of potential pitfalls, panics and pleasures that could occur and how to avoid or embrace the lesson, should they happen.

 

Each chapter of the 26 lessons starts with a letter of the alphabet i.e. ‘A’ – Action

 

Followed up with a factual experience.

 

Ending with a maximum of 140 characters (easily shared on Twitter etc.) of the #LifeLesson I learnt from this happening.

 

Sample:

 

#Action is everything! It is crucial to life and if you sit back and have a thought and do not put it into action, you are already lost to your cause and life plan.

 

If you do not put your action into practice you cannot assume that life will put your plan in place. Once an action is decided upon, you need to put at least one mechanism in place if you really want it to work, follow through, it is not going to happen on its own.

 

Fact:

 

Each time I have had a roadblock jump in front of me I have come up with a new idea and put it into action.

 

I had wanted to relocate from Durban to Cape Town for years as I believed that there would be more business and openness around health and wellness issues there and when the opportunity arose, I jumped at the chance and took action.

 

At my age, one would think it is a risk. What is life, if not an adventure without a risk or two, a reasonably controlled one of course?  I sold up all my home content as this person wanted someone to take over their furnished place and it was my intention to look for such a place anyway.

 

But the fact of the matter is, I sold everything to the new tenant where I was leaving, purchased a vehicle on the Saturday, loaded it on a freight train on the Sunday, sent my baggage on the Monday via rail as well, flew to Cape Town on the Tuesday, picked up my car at the Cape Town train station and drove to where I was staying for the week.

 

All that from start to finish, making the decision to move and putting into action, took ten days! You can achieve results if your mindset is focused on the end result. Put the power of the mind to the test and the result will be easy to fulfill.

 

#Lesson: Anything is achievable with the right conviction.

 

If your company has a CSI programme that involves the Youth, this is a valuable pocketbook to add to their education.

Contact Cindy Pivacic for more information.

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cindy@cindypivacic.co.za

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NEW BOOK TITLE & COVER

On 1 October, 2015, in Health and Wellness, Media, by Cindy Pivacic

Error Terror & Triumph 2

 

Your input would be most appreciated.

 

The content of this pocketbook, titled ‘Error, Terror & Triumph’ with a subtitle ‘Learn before you Leap’ (which I trust provides clarity to the title) is focused on the youth who are going into the working world, enlightening them of potential pitfalls, panics and pleasures that could occur and how to avoid or embrace the lesson, should they happen.

 

I would like to know your thoughts on the cover and title.

 

The title/cover is purely a template for now as it will hopefully be enhanced by a creative graphic designer.

 

Does the title suit the brief?*

 

Does the title GRAB you?*

 

Does the cover MAKE YOU LOOK TWICE?

 

 

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Synopsis – The Deadly Seducer

On 21 April, 2014, in Book, by Cindy Pivacic

‘THE DEADLY SEDUCER’                                                                                by Cindy Pivacic

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It is all about you if you can live with yourself, stuff everyone else! I understand fully that it is a serious, terminal disease but it is manageable, so try to keep your sense of humour and “Deal With It”, sounds simple, but for some it will not be, that is why I would like to share the more positive side of my experience. It is not some, feel-sorry-for-me memoir or a sad biography – I usually pick up a biography, read the back, say “oh hell no” and put it right back on the shelf.

 

This is just telling it how it is and how I had to deal with “IT”. I have had the most exciting life possible, no regrets. No one is untouchable, although some people I have met have the strangest ideas about “IT”. This can affect anyone, directly or indirectly, and eventually someone else’s situation will affect you.

 

Forty six year old, Caucasian woman, so much for Gay and Black stereotype, HIV and AIDS is my disease!

 

A brief look at a ‘normal’ youth spent in Namibia then going to a boarding school as there were no high schools in Oranjemund to my fathers transfer to Kimberley and the teen years of growing up and testing the waters of what teenagers get up to along with their peers. I come from a very healthy well balanced background which goes to show everyone is vulnerable no matter your standard of living.

 

My first and second marriages were disasters for very different reasons; the first fortunately brought me two wonderful hard earned children but due to the lack of affection from my husband they had to be meticulously planned. The second husband was a violent individual and totally opposite of my first husband the physical side was passionate entwined with both violent abuse and sexual ardour.

 

Deciding to move from the Free State to KwaZulu Natal seemed like the best thing at the time in order to remove myself from my second husbands family and then in time from him, unknowingly setting myself up for an even worse situation. Being the trusting person I am totally misled into a relationship with someone fourteen years my junior resulting in a lifelong deadly disease.

 

Living with the HI virus and acquired diseases related to HIV/AIDS since 2004, the lengthy detailed treatments are shared in the hope that it will create awareness to the public at large and show that acquiring the virus does not have to mean a death sentence. We are all going to die, eventually; it is just up to each one of us how you are going to live in-between, disease or no disease!

 

With support, yes, from family and friends believe it or not it has helped somewhat in removing the stigma and discrimination attached to the disease and with proper assistance and support the stigma can be overcome. By pointing people in the right direction and advising what to do, where to go, when and how to do it will hopefully prolong their life by managing their disease.

 

The treatment takes the reader through the various stages of acquired diseases that affected me and by doing this give people hope that acquiring diseases such as Strokes, Pneumonia, Shingles, TB Meningitis and Cancer (Angioimmunoblasticlymphadenopathy) will show them that living a healthy lifestyle can and does work. Going onto ARVs need not be a nightmare if taken correctly; they will enhance your life.

 

The lack of support within the suburbs is frightening and is addressed with contact details to counselling, testing and support group facilities. Add to this some tried and tested, easy, healthy recipes, the first thing that always gets asked is ‘So, what do you eat?’ necessitated this inclusion.

 

 

The thirty-six FAQ are easy to understand and an integral part of creating awareness and giving information to the still unacquainted people of South Africa in a manner that encourages them to want to read and find out more about this disease.

 

 

It boils down to ADAPT or DIE, I chose to adapt!

 

‘The Deadly Seducer‘                                                                               Blurb by Charlotte Kemp

 

 

‘A bold and honest account, Cindy Pivacic shares her story about how she came to contract HIV & AIDS and how she responded to it.

 

Not only is she living healthy years later, but her vibrant and energetic character has been poured into helping others experiencing the same situation.

 

Cindy presents talks and workshops on living positively with HIV & AIDS and those, with this book and her online presence, gives her the opportunity to create awareness, give testimony concerning the HIV & AIDS issue, and to assist in de-stigmatising this secret killer’.

 

 

AVAILABLE IN HARD COPY OR AUDIO

Interview 1KZN TV – ‘The Deadly Seducer’

On 2 February, 2014, in Book, Media, Press, Testimonials, by Cindy Pivacic

At last I have a copy of the interview with 1 KZN TV.

 

Book launch interview of ‘The Deadly Seducer’ first flighted on 10th October 2013.

 

Some Q & A’s around how I manage my health and the reason for writing a book of my experiences, living with the HI virus.

Follow the youtube link to view.

http://ow.ly/tc4SM

 

 

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  ‘The Deadly Seducer’                                                Author – Cindy Pivacic

 

‘A bold and honest account, Cindy Pivacic shares her story about how she came to contract HIV & AIDS and how she responded to it.

Not only is she living healthy years later, but her vibrant and energetic character has been poured into helping others experiencing the same situation.

Cindy presents talks and workshops on living positively with HIV & AIDS and those, with this book and her online presence, gives her the opportunity to create awareness, give testimony concerning the HIV & AIDS issue, and to assist in de-stigmatising this secret killer’.

 

~Charlotte Kemp~

 

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Speaker HIV – Facebook                 www.facebook.com/CindyPivacicSpeakerHIVAIDS

 

Email: cindy@cindypivacic.co.za

Also available in double disc AUDIO version including 36 FAQ’s that everyone needs to know.

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Single disc AUDIO 36 FAQ’s