#20 OF 52 GIRLS
Posted on December 17, 2014 Leave a Comment
This week’s creative collaboration. Enjoy.
A gift
Posted on December 13, 2014 Leave a Comment
Don’t know if it’s the grayness of these days or an overflowing heart, but the song in this video brought me to tears. A cleansing, freeing cry. Enjoy.
New Entrepreneurs – Stop Clawing, Become Radiant
Posted on December 9, 2014 Leave a Comment
How often do you find yourself feeling like a cat clinging to a brick wall? Even though you dig your claws into the bricks and use every bit of strength to move forward, nothing happens. You are just stuck there clinging for dear life. And all you wanted to do was to climb to the top of that wall and bask in the sunshine.
As a new entrepreneur do you feel like a cat clinging to a wall ?
We receive so much advice to keep moving forward. Keep our Facebook posts current and engaging. Blog weekly or better yet daily. Get guest blogs, build our list, nurture our customers, create content of value. Check out this new webinar, beta test this new super-fast list building technology. Here’s a subliminal tape to bring abundance and wealth. Read this e-book for the ten tips to a successful launch.
And we’re trying to do all of this and work a full time job because we really don’t have a list and no matter what tricks we’ve learned about Facebook, our followers still won’t engage. Then one day, we wake up.
Sometimes we just have to stop.
We realize it’s time to stop clawing and clinging toward the top. We need to really look at how we’re spending our time, what results we’re getting or not getting, and where do we really want to go? With that realization a door opens and a clear pathway to launching our business opens.
Simply Radiant
Some people can bootstrap their on-line business. But, many of us need help. We need a facilitator and coach who is going to give us words of encouragement, point out our strong points, offer suggestions, and lay a foundation for us to grow our business. Cheryl Woodhouse is one of those people.
Coming from a corporate and public relations background, Cheryl decided that she wanted to use her skills and knowledge to help women successfully move through the maze of on-line entrepreneurship. Quickly she began her business Radiant and reached out to help others. After launching Radiant she began the organization International Society for Intuitive Entrepreneurs,ISIE.
It takes courage, commitment, and determination to succeed in any business. And when we can’t build a list, can’t get guest blogs, and can’t figure out how to make social media work, we need help. Cheryl is here to assist.
With her soft-spoken, supportive, positive phone consultations, Cheryl gave me the confidence to explore the possibility that I could start an on-line business. As a member of ISIE, I have gained valuable information and resources. Her pointed advice transformed a casual idea into the development of a strong opt-in offer.
So, jump off that brick wall. Take a look around and step onto a radiant stairwell. Her name is Cheryl and she offers a clear path into the sunlight of fulfilling entrepreneurial dreams.
Insights on Life and Death –Wonder Haiku Project
Posted on December 7, 2014 12 Comments
I began this year with the goal of writing 365 haikus about death. So far, I’ve written 225 but in the writing, I often found the topic was life. Then this haiku came to me and I realized the ultimate purpose of the wonder haiku project. Life and death cannot be separated, not in reality, not in our minds, not in my haikus.
We must acknowledge that every day we fill with the bounties and glories of this physical life is another day bringing us closer to its transformation. We can try and protect ourselves from the ultimate change in the many ways we do. Some Indigenous cultures and other traditions forbid mention of death. Positive thinkers instruct us not to think about death or accidents. Some of us just pursue our material interests and pleasures with abandoned passion. While others, usually of a more radical religious bent, concern themselves more with the promised pleasures of the afterlife rather than indulge in the temporary pleasures of this life.
But, if as the physicists (Hindus and Buddhists have taught this for centuries) if the elemental make up of all that exists is an invisible energy comprised more of empty space than measurable atoms, isn’t this all – life, death, eternity, reincarnation – a grand and fantastic dream?
The question to ponder.
Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.
― Zhuangzi, Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang-Tzu
Let’s accept that all of this is a dream. We then have the power to make this life a meaningful, purposeful adventure in compassion, generosity, creativity, and expansive invention. Or we can continue, as we have much of recorded history, to revolve in our selfish pursuits for greed and power, creating negative karma that results in violence and destruction.
Looking at the state of most governments in the world today, it is difficult to believe that we are actually living in the 21st century. Every day new technologies are developed to advance humanity, from nano-technology to cure diseases to space settlement. Yet, we remain unable to resolve disputes over land, resources, and religion without resorting to weapons and violence.
Of course, we all know that at the base of most of this violence, and all weapons, is a vast and evil international cartel of capital interests that will only continue to grow until more of us are willing and able to put flowers in the barrels of guns, to kiss the mouth of our enemy, and to boot the corrupt politicians – with their corporate lobbyists and billionaire funders – out of governments.
To have the courage to take actions needed to end corruption and violence we must hear and practice the teachings given through the ages from Buddha, to Jesus, to Gandhi, to M.L.King, Jr., to Malala Yousafzai. First we free ourselves of our own internal poisons of jealousy, hatred, greed, pride, and ignorance. Next we practice compassion, kindness, and generosity as our guiding daily principles. Then and only then will we be able to hear the music of space and dance through life and death’s endless dream.
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