Goodies

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.

Rampage of Appreciation

The Feast is done. Thanks to everyone who participated!

Here's something I think you'll enjoy, if you are interested in being able to mainfest what you want:

"We want you to feel the value of connecting with Non-Physical Energy, and APPRECIATION is the easiest and fastest way. When your desire to connect with the Non-Physical Energy is sufficient enough, you will find dozens of ways, in every hour, to flow your appreciation.

"You have to come to remember that it makes no difference whatsoever how anyone is flowing back at you, otherwise you are going to be defensive - and you cannot be defensive and appreciative at the same time. When you concentrate on appreciating, then appreciation comes right back. But you are not really looking for appreciation to come to you, you want the feeling flowing THROUGH you.

"As you move through your day and you become aware of something that you do not want, your desire about what you DO want comes into clearer focus.

And now, since you have been practicing the RAMPAGE OF APPRECIATION, you can easily refocus your awareness of what you do not want into your awareness of what you do want. Now you are the hands-on creator that you have come forth to be.

"Life is not about tomorrow, it's about right now. Life is about how you are currently molding the Energy!"

This is taken from the book I told you about earlier, Ask and It Is Given (sorry, I wrote it out wrong before), Learning How to Manifest Your Desires, by Esther and Jerry Hicks, the teachings of Abraham.

Get the book. You'll read all about how to create a Rampage of Appreciation, why to do it, and more about what it will get you.

As I said before, I don't sell this book - you can get it at amazon or your local bookstore. I just think it's really appropriate for this time of year when it's so easy to fly off the short end and mess up yet another year with old friends or relatives just because we forget to appreciate.

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and any other greeting that suits you for these days - including Happy Winter Solstice! I wish the best of all times for you and your families, loved ones and all!

I celebrate you - see you in January - unless I get a wild urge to write again next week on my way back to LA and home again!

aloha -
Angela Treat Lyon

The End of the Feast

Here are a couple books that I think might help you make your life brighter and more the-way-you-like-it.

You've heard me refer to the Esther Hicks/Abraham book, Ask and It Shall be Given. (see sidebar) That one alone is worth having - I refer to it every single day - I just open it randomly and see what it has to say. Sometimes there are three or four words that are all I need to see, other times a whole paragraph, other times a few pages. Any way you take it, it's a fabulous reminder how powerful we are, and how easy it is to get what we want - and to muck it up by forgetting we know how already!

The Feast Special Continued

I'm in San Blas, Mexico right now, loving the fine weather and new experiences that go along with a first-time visit to a country. And we just happened to come in the midst of the country's biggest holiday, the 9-day celebration of the Virgin de Guadalupe, so we've seen beautiful, colorful processions and celebrations every night since we got to Mexico a week ago, both in Puerto Vallarta and San Blas.

Mexico III

Yesterday we went up to Tepic, the capitol of this little state. It's not a regular tourist destination, so it was very different in flavor from Puerto Vallarta. We were the only gringos wherever we went, and it was funny to see some of the people stare at us - especially the kids - as if we were aliens from another planet. Must have seemed really weird to them to see people with such light skin, and me with my half-white, half-dark hair -

More Mexico

Yesterday I wrote up a long description of where I've been here in Mexico and some of the things we have done, but hit the wrong button and lost it all. Any more impetus to write further kinda disappeared for a while....

It's been a really weird experience, this vacationing! Literally every other trip I have ever taken in my life has been business-oriented in one way or another - go here to paint, go there to carve, go there to market my work, take a seminar, teach - this is the first time I have been able to just sit with friends and yeow-yeow, or laze at the beach or sleep in for hours - all sans guilt. Amazing.

Mexico!

After a week in LA with a friend, here I am at last in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. I've heard so much about it over the years from old friends who are sailors and surfers who travel all over Mexico for the best sail, the best waves. I'm not so sure either Puerto Vallarta or San Blas, which is where I'll be soon, are good for waves - I don't see much action right now - but that can change as seasons shift.

Right now it's muggy and very hot - just walking the few blocks from my little hotel (40 bucks a night for a decent room overlooking the water and the usual amenitites and right in "old town" near shopping!) to an art store produced a quantity of water from my body I never knew was there. It's probably about the same temperature as Hawaii, but no trade winds. Makes for major sweat.

The art supplies, in case you want to know, were outrageously cheap - like, paint for only 3 dollars a tube, a 30 x 30 inch canvas for only 15 - wow! However, it's a good thing I brought the main bulk as they have very a limited range of items. I discovered I would not be able to bring oil paints as they are flammable - don't want to be thrown off the plane as a t--rist from my paint supplies! (Stop that woman! She's a threat to the country - she's carrying paint!) so I brought acrylics with no hassles from inspectors.

I behaved shamelessly by sleeping almost my whole first day away - time changes and some hold-over sniffles from LA made me grumpy and tired - but am now fine (I've been using a product called Airborne, developed by a cold-riddled second-grade teacher as a preventative against colds and flus from the kids - works great). We've had huge delicious meals for never more than about 30 bucks total for the two of us - I can handle that!

Tomorrow we go to San Blas for 3 weeks.

Your Optimal Heath!

This Monday, I held the second of the series of 6 one-hour calls with Ceil Salvatore, the owner of New Sun Health products. I always feel so remarkably privileged to be able to speak with her - I mean, how many health product company owners are there who are open to giving you a freebie call about health and how to attain it?

What I loved about this call was that there was hardly any make-sure-to-call-my-company-and-order stuff in it - it was 99.9% information - and highly detailed, to boot.

Like, I bet you'll never guess what one thing they check for when they muscle test for correct products for you (and if you do EFT, you'll be pleased and surprised!).

Sail Through the Holidays This Year!

I said last week that I was going to create a whole smorgasbord of goodies to help get you through the holidays in grand form - books, audios, courses - well. I think I outdid myself. There's more stuff there than you will believe - and some awesome prices to take advantage of.

I have even introduced - for the very first time on this earth! - the new book by Mark Bossert and Dr. Win Wenger - who you may have recently seen being referred by Joe Vitale as the "modern-day Einstein."

Mark co-authored (actually doing most of the hard work) the book with Win to bring innovative and unique approaches to solving the problem of writer's block. He goes over internal connecting tips, ImageStreaming, The Wall, and other fascinating ideas that help get through, over and around any blocks.

HERE's where you can check out three pages chock full of books, audios, courses - all for way less than usual - ranging from 9 to 335 dollars! Authors from EFT Master Rue Hass, me, Larry Phillips, to Mark and Win....