Goodies

Relax and Succeed???

I just bought a new car. Well, it's a 2005-new car, but it's new enough for me! Here's what happened:

I had the distinct displeasure of coming home from a relaxing month away to find that my old car wouldn't start. After tinkering with it, Jamie, my mechanic, said it was dead, and gave me the number to call the guy who hauls cars away for free. Uh - gee thanks!

Buying a new car was very definitely NOT on my January wish list. But something really strange and wonderful happened.

Instead of getting upset - which would have been really easy, with the amount of stuff I had to get done in a very short time, and there I was with no wheels - I simply relaxed back into it and decided to feel good, no matter what Instead of calling here and there and finding prices and going to look at cars, I thought I'd just wait a couple days. I did a little process I use, and repeated to myself my old standby, "Something amazing is happening."

Future Memories

To start the ball rolling this year, one of my favorite people in the world is coming to be with us: EFT Master Dr. Patricia Carrington! I know you remember her - she's the one who gave us the brilliant innovation of the EFT Choices statement.

She showed us her NEW EFT system of Creating & Anchoring Positive Future Memories!

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You may also know of Pat as someone who also has worked with Drs Carol Look and Sandi Radomski in producing a dynamic interactive computer program for using EFT for weight-loss (HERE . ). She also runs the EFT certification program.

Recently, Pat awoke one morning with a startling vision. She spent the next few days playing with what she had found, and has now developed a new EFT system around what she experienced that morning.

Eat and Stay (Get) Thin!

Here's how I was able to be away from home for 37 days - most of them in Mexico, land of fab food - and not only lose weight but feel great!

We're Wired to Connect

Big Idea... We're Wired to Connect - By Mark Matousek, January & February 2007. (This article is from the AARP newsltter, and can be read in full HERE.

Our brains are designed to be social, says bestselling science writer Daniel Goleman—and they catch emotions the same way we catch colds.

Have you ever wondered why a stranger’s smile can transform your entire day? Why your eyes mist up when you see someone crying, and the sight of a yawn can leave you exhausted? Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., has wondered, too, and just as he helped revolutionize our definition of what it means to be smart with his 1995 blockbuster, Emotional Intelligence, the two-time Pulitzer nominee and former science reporter for The New York Times has dropped a bombshell on our understanding of human connection in his startling new book, Social Intelligence (Bantam).

Business Blog Basics

Blogging is all the rage these days.

Just take a look around: businesses of all sizes have joined the blogosphere by the bazillions. They’re seeking to connect with customers, increase their credibility - and grow their businesses, of course.

Here's where to sign up for this Blogging Basics course: Business Blog Basics. Class 1: Jan 17, Class 2: Jan 24, Class 3: Jan 31.

Bottom line: Before you take one more step and jump on the business blogging bandwagon, you need to ask yourself several crucial questions:

Easy Bake Weblogs

Easy Bake Weblogs! You can build a blog in the next 15 minutes! Here's a 4 part course with Andy Wibbels - including instant lifetime access to audio archives.

Stop right there! What’s a blog and WHY do I need one?

For starters, a blog is an instantly, easily and frequently updated website. That’s it. Looks like a diary but is so much more.

Now, for the “why in the heck do I need this?” part.…Easy Bake Weblogs is great for people who really have no clue if their business could even use a blog. The course is taught by the King of Bloggers, Andy Wibbels, and runs 4 weeks.

Here's the link where to sign up for the course: Easy Bake Weblogs. Dive in!

Last year, I took a basics blogging course with the King of Blogs, himself, Andy Wibbels. I learned all the basics - which blogging site to use, how to sign up, what kind of blog to have, how many, how to set up my blog, how to design the pages, set up the colors, make an entry, post photos - the works.

It was so simple that, once I started, I had it done in less than a day. And, I haven't changed anything about it since then - that says lot for this tweak-it-til-it's-perfect freak!

Live As An Artist

This is from the Artists' Letters written biweekly by Canadian artist Robert Genn. I loved what he had to say here about how to live as an artist.

In 1903, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke responded by letter to a young man seeking his advice. Rilke eventually wrote ten letters now collectively known and much published as "Letters to a Young Poet." They are heartfelt advice from a successful (but still struggling) artist to another who was deeply mired in self-doubt. The classic language of these letters soars in beauty as well as lofty good sense. His idealism is applicable today to all who might pursue any sort of creative activity.

Yesterday, on a pathside bench deep in a blustery, storm-destroyed forest, I reread the letters. Here, partly in direct quotation and partly in condensed summation, are some of Rilke's ideas:

Your work needs to be independent of others' work.
You must not compare yourself to others.
No one can help you. You have to help yourself.