I had a blast today with Valerie Saurer, a real life friend I met first on Facebook last year, who turned out to be a real find.  I’ve been running her Prosperity Project in Horizons Magazine each month and enjoy the insights at her blog: The New Book of Clues.  Last week she made a post on Facebook “I am joyfully and gratefully holding the vision of myself living in my beautiful new home. It has a huge kitchen with lots of storage, beautiful wood floors, a purple reiki room, and a huge screened in porch. It is nestled in a secluded garden filled with fairies and mango trees. I am happy there, surrounded by love. I hear laughter and singing among the wind chimes.” She posted a link to pics of the house and sounded so excited about it.  When friends are excited about something, that joins me in the excitement with them and I want to help them achieve it.  You’re the same, aren’t you?

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Yesterday I sat down to do my billing and got a pleasant surprise: I’d forgotten that I began the billing last week, as soon as I sent the February mag to the printer.  I didn’t want to send bills out that early, because I always want the advertisers to have the current issue in their hands before they get a bill for the next issue.  So, seeing that my job was half done – I was stoked!  Simply by forgetting I’d begun the billing earlier, I felt like someone else did half the job for me. Continue reading →

 My boss is a real slave driver.  At it or on call 24/7.  Yes, I’m self employed, so how do I make it hard on myself?  Things such as: Not scheduling enough time for sleep, so a good night’s sleep puts me behind schedule.  Or, my biggest one, I set a goal for myself that I’ll do the billing on Monday and then I schedule other duties to be done the rest of the week.  So when Monday comes around and I choose to instead take the day off, now the pressure is on because the billing isn’t done and I need to move on to other chores first thing Tuesday morning.  Or so I tell myself.  I get so good at tricking myself into getting things done by deadline, that I can forget what’s a real deadline and what is just a flexible goal I set for myself.  I do that on purpose.

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I keep of the track of the James Ray Sweat Lodge Matter since I get many requests asking about it.  I was reading at the latest Q & A with James Arthur Ray by New York Mag’s Michael Joseph Gross the press interview that Ray attended via phone with his attorney.  I’ll give you a few minutes to read the interview.

The info is a typical press release response to a public clamboring for him to address the matter.  His account differs from witness statements. He does does not answer any of the deeper questions, referring the questioner to the James Ray White Papers.  But what caught my attention was his responses to the following questions: Continue reading →

Did you ever wonder why two people sitting side by side doing the same thing can have such different experiences?  A couple of Januarys ago, a friend and I were sitting in a sunny clearing in my woods eating clementine oranges.  We had a little basket of them between us.   Tony can be a real pouty puss sometimes, although he’s a really cool guy.  But he does seem to focus on things around him that are not going well.  So we’re sitting and eating the clementines, which I’d been buying all month.  He  complained that “these tangerines were good but they had so many seeds.”  Yet I’d eaten 2 dozen of them in a 2 week period with nary a seed.  He was getting seeds and I was not.  He was not fibbing; I saw him spitting out seeds.  So I hand him my clementine and take his.  He bites into mine and finds a seed.  I eat the rest of his with no seeds. We did the same with two more clementines.  So take notes that being a pouty puss pretty much guarantees you’ll come across seeds, even in seedless fruits. I SOOO know it’s about vibrational matching.  Yes, even when I am the one getting the seeds.  Especially then.

With the February Horizons having gone to press, this is the week I coordinate my drivers and distributors, and update all my addresses before the mag hits the streets next week.  I’ve got about 150 small stacks of mags that get mailed each month because postage is cheaper than paying a mileage to a driver.  Last year, the U.S. Postal Service changed their rules about mailing, and I had to get an imprint permit and start doing a bunch of paperwork each month.  They used to charge me $14.25 to come pick my job up. Now I have to separate by weight, sort by zone, count by zip code, and put into mail sacks weighing no more than 36 pounds per sack, and put the correct routing label – according zip code – on the mail sack itself.  That’s a lot of math.  But now I’ve done it for 5-6 months, I’m getting the hang of it and find it’s not all that hard to do, after all.  That happens a lot.

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