DiamondJul’s Blog

I am always walking the tight-rope between my inherent, too-sunny-for-some optimism and the sometimes brutal realism I create for myself as I go along. Good thing this year’s study and practice is all about “Leadership.” I have discovered fairly recently I shine as a Manager…not so much as a Leader… I have all the markers to be a good one, and by the way, what exactly does a Leadership role look like for me?

I’ve asked myself lately, “Self, why are you shy to share your stuff now?” I certainly wasn’t in the past, I was always “out there” with my words…a pioneer of the grassroots network online, an innovator in virtual community technology and etiquette…you are happiest out here on the leading edge of thought and vision and all it provokes…what’s changed?

The answer was not long in coming back and it was a revelation: Remember, 10 or 12 years ago, most of your world was not online yet…the internet was a foreign animal to most and a wonderful new-world escape from the usual and mundane. All those you know and love are now showing up, technology has now caught up to your dream – thanks to Facebook, they’re finally here!

Gulp…no wonder, and dammit, I’m still letting what others think trip me up and hold me back from contributing what I worked so hard for to give!! Some old programming is indeed insidious and persistent. I am back, not giving a rip anymore, the rubber’s meetin’ the road for many and it’s time to share like I’ve never shared before!

This past holiday season I celebrated my 5th year out here in the world of business on my own.

It has taken me about 24 months to accomplish what it took me 24 years to do on the traditional employment path.

Since leaving “Ma Bell” after 24 years of faithful and loyal service, I have looked back only to remember and appreciate all those that I knew and loved and to revel in the glory of just how much I have accomplished in such a short time out of my “corporate nest”.

I am now living the dream I knew how to dream back in 2004. I am enjoying the manifestation of the intentions I launched from my asking for “more and better”. This future – now – looks a little different than I pictured and yet it “feels” better than I could have imagined, more perfect than I could have made it with my mind’s eye. I have confidence and assurance that my future is always brighter than I’m able to paint it – and yet, paint it I must!

It seems I need an entirely new dream for the next 5 to 10 though, the trips ‘round the sun are going to go by no matter what I put my focus to, and I’ve been on this plateau I’m on for too long. In the busy-ness of my early-retired life I had failed to notice I had “arrived”, which equates to a lack of appreciation on my part. I have experienced first-hand that partying on the plateaus too long on the journey upward leads to inertia and left long enough – ultimately to attrition.

The intentions I launched as I was heading out the door of corporate employment in December of 2004 were realized some months ago. My intention for now – 5 years from back then – was to enjoy a similar home environment, income and security as I was accustomed to within my corporate experience – without the bosses, daunting tasks and family-time cramping schedule. I wanted more fun and freedom, time to create and reflect, more choices – work or play? Both? OK. I wanted more possibilities…passive, residual income. I wanted to be an excellent Network Marketer. It became a drive and my chosen profession years before I left my place of employment.

Today my MXI Corp US$ cheques arrive every two weeks, like clockwork, on the same day they had from Bell Canada since the 1980’s. I have created a valuable business asset the bank and our government really, really like and encourage me to grow and nurture. I have more friends, guides, perks and security than I could have imagined for myself 5 years ago – even the corporately sponsored car is on its way.

This household has been on the government program few yet understand the power of for almost 15 years now.

This week I will celebrate my 3rd anniversary as an MXI Corporation Executive Associate, trying to imagine 24 years with this corporate entity. I am at the company’s Silver level, about to go to Gold on my way to the current top level “Ambassador”. I am already an “MXI Ambassador” in my mind and actions. Capturing the honorable MXI Ambassador flag is just a matter of a little compressed time, a handful of life-loving people, a few more favourable circumstances oh, and bullet proof belief in my vision and the absolute power at my command.

This is not my first affiliation, having only minute success with many other vehicles before this, to have “failed forward” this far is to call myself a professional and render myself very useful to many that are now asking for more and better for themselves – asking louder and with a little more urgency than ever before.

I have begun the climb up the corporate ladder once again, this time, I like what I see at the top, I actually want to go there!

As my long-time mentor Jim Rohn R.I.P. used to say,

“The problem isn’t that there’s not enough room at the top,
the problem is getting through the crowd at the bottom.”

This time there’s a few of my friends gathered at the top waiting for us to arrive and the crowd at the bottom is mobilizing upward…the next stretch is going to be an absolute blast, we’ll continue the party on the way up!

This is my goal for this year:
(Hand doodled while reflecting on my plan.)

Translation:
I will help 6 families create an extra $50,000 this year.

As a result I will get what I want and they will all get more than they ever dared to dream of before!
This is the invitation and the promise.

This is the year where I get to show a bunch of good people a great time with a whole new game plan! We pretty much know that an extra $500 to $1500 a month will prevent most from going into bankruptcy and allows them to “get caught up” on some things.

I want the same “thriving” I enjoy, for those I know and love, and I’m fairly certain they are asking for the same. There is a vast difference between thriving and surviving, one leads to growth and abundance, the other to attrition and lack of choices, thriving is way more fun and is simply a decision “to be and do” it.

There is both great misunderstanding and great curiosity about “what we networkers do”. I have not accomplished what I have alone – everyone is doing a little bit to create a lot for All involved. I have never retailed a product in this particular opportunity – a salesperson I claim not to be, and for the first time, I have access to a solid and capable team backing me, holding their vision of greatness for me, and eagerly waiting to work for and with whoever wants to come out to play with us.

My company alone in one year is sharing out in excess of $40 Million of their profits as referral commissions to “their loyal consumers” representing ½ of all they take in, funds that otherwise would have gone to the big guys like Walmart. At the time of this writing there’s a small handful of people sharing in this one profit pot – some are taking portions in the Millions, we can still count them and fit them in 1 small room.

I call it “winning the lottery slowly”, the pot’s there for all and every ticket’s a winner, it is the current day’s low to no risk, “sure thing”!

I am certain by my observing and listening to others that many “think” they know what Network Marketing is all about, they “think” they know what they would have to do in “something like that”.

I ask them what it is they think they have to do? Ya’ know they really aren’t sure after thinking about it. Have they asked for explanation or understanding of “what it takes”? “Well no, not really.” Do you want to understand? Hmmm…great question…

I ask them to look around and see if they can identify someone in their life that is having success with this life-saving business model, let alone doing it well and truly serving others with real results. As a profession it is like anything else, a small percentage of all of those “running around doing it” are doing what’s supposed to be done – and how.

Network Marketing is different more than difficult, it is unlike any other business model on the planet, it is highly respected and so are the leaders and masters within it, they make great change using it as a vehicle for leverage to create abundance for the masses. I personally have never done something as serving or more fun.

It is a people business first, it asks that we show up ready for fun and to give of ourselves, be open to new ways of seeing and understanding things, be teachable, coach-able and give ourselves permission to screw up along the way…sounds a lot like life itself eh?

I’ve been committed to this concept of Consumer’s Networking for almost 15 years, I’ve held out for the “Perfect Storm” of desire, leadership, technology and finally “mastery”.

Network Marketing isn’t new – it’s been around since the mid 1950s, and the vehicle I work with is certainly newly evolved and unique within this sector – “The Perfect Combination”. The internet has married this concept of grassroots marketing and has caused much of its positive change, the winds are heavily in our favour at this time…they say this is the year where many more of us will “get it”.

We are fairly certain the old ways of doing things ’round this planet isn’t working for all of us, new options are needed to replace the old paradigms.

It all comes back to identifying what we really want, from the heart, and holding ourselves worthy to declare why we want it…usually it requires opening up to something new and excitingly unfamiliar, something refreshingly different.

What do you really, really want? What is your “NLG” – Next Level of Greatness?

If we could show you a way to get it over the next 12 to 24 months by adding some fun and well-being into your mix, are you open to having a conversation about that?

Will you be one of the 6 to step up this year so that this time next year you can say,

“2010 was the year EVERYTHING changed for the better.”

Join Us!

Last week while waiting for an order of new books to arrive, I pulled out my copy of The Richest Man In Babylon by George S. Clason, written in 1926. It is a book that through parables teaches the ancient fundamentals of “finance” – it’s a teaching story, with direct ties back to ancient historical documents.

I hadn’t read this little jewel since prior to the year 2000 for sure. I was curious to see how much of it would seem like new to me after so many years of training and changes to my philosophies.

I was profoundly surprised and delighted to find that even though, over time, I may not have remembered the words on the pages I definitely remembered how this book made me feel. Looking at my current situation and what I have created the last decade, it’s obvious that sub-consciously I took some things forward with me that have stuck and will stick with me forever…once our view has been expanded, it’s impossible to go back to the old one!

In this book is the stuff of real value, for those ready to hear, it contains the life-transforming secrets that aren’t really all that secret. This is the guidebook they didn’t share with us in high-school – at least not in my high-school!

I distinctly remember being taught how to “tithe” to my church and being told “save your money”, no one really showed me how, and I don’t recall anyone telling me that “a portion of all I earned was mine to keep.”

I started amassing “my portion” almost 20 years ago now. Finding that place of “me first” was a challenge and a process of changing some of my philosophy – it’s still going on to this day and I suspect always will. I now “protect and nurture my portion” as a good Mother would her children …

Jim Rohn says, “Work full-time on your income and part-time on your fortune.”

The Richest Man In Babylon is all about the “part-time on your fortune” part…

It’s this orator’s keen observation that most individuals or families make “enough” money. The only missing I see for many now, is the teachings around how to acquire or create, manage, protect and grow “their portions” – and coming from my background I was taught to work hard to get ahead, not that that philosophy is a bad one, effort is always required to accomplish anything of greatness, and re-define “effort”.

In examining effort we find the beauty of one of my favourite laws, “Leverage”.  Leverage changes the whole game and the way we do everything!

Swinging from the habits of working hard to the habits of working smart hasn’t been as difficult as it has been “different”. One’s ability to show up in life open, teachable and alert to solutions that come from “out of the box” is critical – it defines “quality of life.”

And on working smarter, that doesn’t mean that One should need an MBA to create an abundant profit center at the heart of one’s home.

Download a copy of:

The Richest Man In Babylon and start practicing the knowledge of ancient wisdom now!

Book Excerpt:

Ahead of you stretches your future like a road leading into the distance.

Along that road are ambitions you wish to accomplish…desires you wish to gratify.

To bring your ambitions and desires to fulfillment, you must be successful with money. Use the financial principles made clear in the pages which follow. Let them guide you away from the stringencies of a lean purse to that fuller, happier life a full purse makes possible.

Like the law of gravity, they are universal and unchanging. May they prove for you, as they have proven to so many others, a sure key to a fat purse, larger bank balances and gratifying financial progress.

LO, MONEY IS PLENTIFUL
FOR THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND
THE SIMPLE RULES OF ITS ACQUISITION

1. Start thy purse to fattening
2. Control thy expenditures
3. Make thy gold multiply
4. Guard thy treasures from loss
5. Make of thy dwelling a profitable investment
6. Insure a future income
7. Increase thy ability to earn

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In less than 5 years, the field team with MXI Corporation has created:
2 Multi-Millionaires, 12 Millionaires and
10’s of 1000’s earning 3, 4 and 5 figure incomes with part-time focus!

Here are we, from N.P.C.,
Here for all to see,
Loyal to the green and orange
Through the years to be.

Far and near rings loud and clear,
Mighty North Park’s name,
May her sons and daughters
Bring her to Lasting Fame.

Give a cheer for N-P-C
Moving on to victory
North Park Collegiate,
Our hearts are all for thee.
Yea!

The old school song thundered out from the packed gym to close the opening ceremonies and begin a weekend of fun and reconnection with a distant past. It’s been 30 years since I graduated from high-school.

It was a full couple of days as I attended North Park Collegiate’s 50th Anniversary celebrations; it was an exercise in pure fun and self-observation with a lifetime of experience to benchmark progress by!

I’m pretty sure that our little town hasn’t seen such a party in quite some time and I was amazed at how flawlessly 2 and half years of planning a weekend came together – kudos to the organizing committee and small army of volunteers that pulled it all off.

Over 1500 graduates showed up ready to rock their high-school once again – and rock it we did! I hadn’t walked the halls of NPC since I left there in 1979. It seemed a perfect plan for a Thanksgiving long weekend. The hotels were booked up as folks took trains, planes and autos to join their fellow classmates and families in their old home town.

Everyone left their troubles outside the doors, those that couldn’t do that didn’t show up! A fabulous time was had by all while catching up with old friends and some of the teachers that helped shape our early philosophies. Friday night opening ceremonies kicked off with speeches from Parliament members, the Mayor and other distinguished guests and celebrities. We wrapped up the evening with two full rounds of the school song – which our children didn’t know existed. I wonder when they gave up having pep-rallies? (I had to perform it for my son Saturday morning as he snickered on in amusement.)

Saturday saw dozens of classic cars parked on the lawn and a packed cafeteria to meet the teachers of past and present and mingle with old friends. The evening was happy pandemonium as over 1100 former grads descended upon the gym, cafeteria and the halls in between for the first ever Pub night! The drinks were cheap, the dance floor full and everywhere I went I saw laughing, hugging and hand-shaking amongst throngs of excited and surprised people shouting variations on the greeting: “Holy s*#t! How are you’?!”

The word “surreal” was used frequently to describe the space and energy of the event, and I found myself reminiscing in thought more than once as distant memories came rushing back in the familiar surroundings and company.

Sunday night we all gathered again at a local club to be entertained by our most talented graduates, with great bands, comedians and dancers! With Monday a holiday it was another night of dancing and connecting into the wee hours.

As the weekend came to the closing ceremonies, we all agreed we should do this more often and get together every 10 years instead of every 25 or 30!

I am now a card-carrying NPC alumni member and am looking forward to contributing to special events going forward. Old friendships have been renewed and new friendships have developed. As usual I was too much in the action to take pictures, there was a photographer running around all weekend and now we’re waiting for the album to be posted to the website!

“The one who follows the crowd, will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to discover places no one has ever been before.

Creativity in living is not without its attendant difficulties, for peculiarity breeds contempt. And the unfortunate thing about being ahead of your time is that when people finally realize you were right, they’ll say it was obvious all along.

You have two choices in life: you can dissolve into the mainstream, or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different you must strive to be what no one else but you can be…”

– Taken From “Creative Problem Solving”

This long overdue posting serves as my “What I Did This Summer Report.” Summer? We had summer in there? I had no idea the whirlwind I would experience going into it, and as usual, with clear intentions around me, I am amazed looking back at the previous 4 months at how time gets all outta’ whack when I am in the zone of following my bliss and single focused to an ultimate end. And we know that every ending is just a new beginning…

It’s been an unusual and turbulent year for just about every Being on this precarious planet and although I am blessed to be having a different ride than most, the last few months was not without its attendant challenges. Seems once summer hit, I had a strong calling to go find some more bliss for myself. I didn’t quite know what that looked like or what it would take and I had to brake through some inertia and excuses I had running to recreate that wonderful feeling of momentum again.

I learned while away, that I am in good company in my “not knowing” what the future really holds in store.

After a few trips around North America to be in the company of some of our most masterful business and investor folk, it appeared to me that no one, from the top down, really knows for sure what’s next, although there are some obvious solutions popping up as most likely, it seems that we are creating our restructuring as we go. What is crystal clear is, just about everyone in these circles are over the top excited about where we’re headed, and consequently, so am I!

I set out to find the inspiration for “re-invention” of myself. I wanted to find new solutions and ways of “doing things”, to run with a new crowd, find a different perspective and develop my skills of benevolent influence and persuasion in order to further enhance and develop my roles as leader, entrepreneur, and investor.

Just when you think things are as perfect as perfect gets, something – and usually someone with it – more perfect comes along to add to the mix of fun and abundance!

While I was away I found another Golden Goose for my multi-stream income nest, amazing new friends, eager to learn, to play, to have fun with life, and, some new and different mentors to follow and model.

I heard a statement recently with regards to advancing up the ranks in my main business. I have it now filed as a “Universal Truth” as it applies to life as well:

“The people that brought you to this level or that take you to the next level may or may not be the same people that take you to the top and beyond.”

In my last post I was just going into a formal coaching relationship – that was July, the exercise has been priceless…and not too similar to what I had pictured for the experience.

When I go after what I need, a whole bunch of what I didn’t know I wanted shows up!

Taking a leap of faith for me is like jumping into a cold lake on a hot day. I generally take a while to jump in and get it over with. I am sensitive to the contrast of the immediate environment change; I have to go through some short term discomfort to get to the fun and ease of swimming. Albeit it uncomfortable, the short term suffering is worth the end goal – have fun with my friends…and…

“How we do anything is how we do everything.”

My fellow healthy chocolate Peeps are inspiring and astounding me in their persistence and determination. It’s been almost 3 full years focused on that business and after experiencing the battle of “attrition” together this past year, those of us left standing are they that really understand and see the bigger vision focused on solution.

We learned first hand that attrition happens when the market/the people panics – and it’s only temporary if one takes action and tends to it. We are a force and viable source to be reckoned with and are rallying together to get the word out about the solution we have for saving lives, and mostly…

“We are listening like we’ve never listened before.”

Something else I found out, there is massive opportunity in panic and change!

As my chocolate business grows and thrives, I find myself acclimating to a new environment the last 2 months. It’s been 4 solid years since I was scared straight into the unfamiliar territory of finances and investing. Finally after this much time and much discomfort, absorbing and wading through information and concepts that used to flat out scare or bore me, I heard something at this year’s investment festival calling out to me. It had always been there and I guess now I was ready to notice and embrace it…

I set my alarm every morning and pop out of bed to head to the desk and out onto the FOREX yard for a morning of play. If all goes well and I’m good – I will collect a lot of “pips”. I am fascinated as I watch the constantly changing red and blue “candlesticks” and become familiar with the ripples of movement as trillions of dollars move about the planet in reaction to the collective vibration! Riding the waves of the open Foreign Exchange Market is my newest passion and as I have discovered – one of the quintessential skills one might like to master going into the future. I have taken to it like a duck to water and it is the something I didn’t know I wanted and was right under my nose for quite some time. Confirmation once again that I will hear and see what I’m truly ready to hear and see.

FOREX trading is being touted as the next big skill open to the masses to learn, it has become the perfect fit for my portfolio of income streams. It fits the number one criteria and that is, that it doesn’t mess with my first love – my chocolate business. Instead, what has occurred is that, as I learn the disciplines required to be good at day trading, my other business is benefiting from the experience!

My days now have more structure and I get more done in less time. I am surrounded by masters cheering me on to the finish lines of my goals in all endeavours, and I now have 2 ways to ensure the lifestyle and freedom I prefer! Everyday I hear the personal results of those that know the nature of this thriving market, I am motivated to get good fast. I’m also acutely more aware of how much I can actually accomplish while having fun doing what I must do.

If I have to pick one, my chocolate business gets priority focus, it’s got the satisfaction of helping people in all matters, the leverage of everyone doing a little bit and the passive residual returns over time.

The FOREX yard is almost always open for when I’m ready to step in and out of it, and in it I must be to scoop out the profits of the pips! It represents the pulse of the global collective and adheres to natural laws that I can bank on. It satisfies my need to observe patterns of behaviour while I practice remaining detached from outcome, it hones my patience while I learn the art of following a system and the skill of wisely responding instead of gut-reacting.

So as I consume my healthy chocolate, counsel and plan with my fellow chocolate peeps and play my trading games every day, I am aware of how peculiar my way of earning a living and doing life must appear to those on the outside of it looking in.

I am resigned to master one thing for sure and that’s “rolling with change”, I commit to being flexible and adaptable to new environments no matter how uncomfortable it is to dive into them, because, after what seems a few moments, I’ll be shouting to those still dry, “C’mon in the water’s fine!”

“So she’s beginning to feel invincible.
She’s beginning to feel that there isn’t anything that,
hear these carefully chosen words…

She’s beginning to feel that there isn’t anything that she can’t work the
bugs out of HER about.

Not out of the government, not out of the economy,
[not out of the opportunity she has], out of HER!“

Abraham-Hicks – Los Angeles, 3/29/09

“They say”, “if you want to get a different result or break through to another level you must ask some different questions and definitely take some different actions.”

I get that. And, what does that really look like on a daily or minute to minute basis for me specifically?

Tomorrow begins a whole new ball game for me and the direction of my business, and likely my life! I have been invited to play in a unique and “elite” coaching program, it would be “unwise” of me to say, “no thanks”. I am Knowing what I have been wanting and am now asking for and have little idea of what “the next level” really looks like for me specifically, I just know there’s some solutions in the forthcoming workout.

For the first time I have implemented 2 things:

1. Hired a personal assistant.  Time to let go of the tasks that tie up my time and focus.

2. Hired a personal life and business coach to run with me over the next few months, we will be working on “mindset”, “influence” and after 16 weeks of that comes 10 weeks of “concept training”, things specific to my field, talents and gifts. I have come to know “Me” about as much as I can without some outside support and guidance by those that can see me “better”!

My investment was insignificant with regards to both money and time by comparison to the results I know I will achieve through the exercise, I feel I’ve hired the best I’ve experienced so far. At the same time, by comparison to any other investment I’ve made in myself in the past, this is by far the single largest and most significant. It is causing me to feel that familiar feeling of being “stretched”, it is a place of faith that no matter how uncomfortable I’m feeling right now, it’s a good uncomfortable – excitement if I focus on my intended results! I feel like I’m about to jump out of an airplane or off the side of a mountain – nervously in tandem at first and looking forward to flying on my own alongside the others!

As one that has lived life “hacking things out for herself” – and I might add, has done well by the hacking alone – it is time to refine my hacking skills and lay plans for carving out something more deliberate and significantly more powerful for me and mine.

Today I draw some lines in the proverbial sand, make plans, set intentions and get as clear a vision as I can about what a year out from now could possibly look and feel like from every detail! There are some things I want to accomplish and just can’t seem to get done without a little support on the side.

As a wanna’ be accomplished entrepreneur, I’ve hired myself a Millionaire boss and mentor for a while. I’m sure there are old habits to release and fabulous new ones to replace them with, that I don’t even know about yet! All things considered, if you’re reading this you’ll likely be a part of the journey, I’ll be sharing as much of it as I can express in words…all sides of it, the good, the bad (cause we’re usually bad at something before we get good) and who knows, perhaps even the ugly side just to hone our preferences by!

Wish me luck, a lil’ of that always goes well with faith!

“When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull’s eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim – improve yourself.”
– Gilbert Arland – Writer

And it’s not what you think, for shame! Although it was good for me…otherwise I wouldn’t be blogging about it here…ahhhh…care for a puff? (Only some of you will get that last quip.)

The phone rang from the front door a few moments ago, and I got caught in the zone of production workin’ in my housecoat, doh. The man announced that he had 2 registered letters for me to sign for and I had 10 minutes to get down to the mailroom to receive them. (The mail contractors don’t have it in their job description to deliver to the individual’s door in a multi-unit building ya’ know?) I actually asked him if I could get it tomorrow,

“Nope.”

My knee-jerk thought: “Well! What kind of customer service is that?”

“Well alright then, I’ll be right down.”

The offence was quickly forgotten in the moment and I immediately got excited because I knew what he had for me! I ran upstairs, threw some clothes on, grabbed the garbage, the recycling, my keys and bopped down to the mail room to pick up my prizes – stopped at the garbage chute on the way of course and yes, almost dropped my keys in!!

When I arrived the mailman was sorting a big stack of letters into some boxes so I said, “Be right back, I’ll drop this recycling in the bin outside while you do that.” “Great” he said.

I returned from the short walk in the gorgeous sun and prepared to wait, and he was ready for me in the mailroom…I thought to myself, “Wow, he’s efficient”!

I eagerly beheld the envelopes with the big red and white stickers on them as he picked them up to hand them to me. I reached out my hand to accept them and suddenly, he pulled them back from me and said,

“Question.” In the moment it was more of a command than a question and he was holding my stuff hostage, he wanted an answer!

It kind of knocked me out of my glory for a second and I replied with a smile as he was very non-threatening and genuinely curious, and asked my own question, “Yes?”

He held up the letter which was addressed from Me to the “care of” Me and pointed at the return address on it and asked,

“I’m curious.”

My thought: “No kiddin’?”

“How come you’re sending a letter from yourself to yourself?”

I replied and asked, “In these envelopes are my winning lottery tickets, they are “intellectual property” for sale or for development, by Me or another. Have you heard of “copyrighting”?”

“Yep.”

“Well, you have noticed the words the letter is addressed to, and underneath C/O me?”

“Yep”

“I just copyrighted THAT phrase. No one else has thought of it before. Not only that, I own the Internet address or the domain, and I have an idea for a concept, I’ll put that little copyright symbol beside the phrase when I publish anything on the web with it. I will develop that into something with the help of a team or sell it to another that wants to do something of value with it.”

“Cool.“

“Isn’t it though?”

“You mean that’s all there is to it?”

“Yep. Most don’t know how easy it is to claim “rights” to their own “intellectual property”, that is the original ideas, inspirations and inventions of your mind that can be used to do something good and something big with.”

“Huh.” (And he actually scratched his head! It was so cute!)

Then and there I left him thinking because there was now a line-up for pick up at the mail room, I thanked him and said see you next time! As I walked away I could see his wheels spinning, this wasn’t the first batch of envelopes he had delivered to me, so he remembered me from before.

I was joined for the trek (in this building it is truly a trek) back, by the last person in line behind me who had been even more inconvenienced than I by the call to accept her books. She had just gotten off work an hour ago and was prepared to go to sleep for a while…I was excited that she got new books, and she was too…she just needed sleep…

I love people! I am observing them differently lately and having so much fun!

My new project is to “play with resistance” and see what shows up, ask more and different questions of others, notice how others “ask”. The exercise so far has had extreme value in it.

The power and value of “original thought” has been skillfully demonstrated to me lately. I have come to realize some of those dreams and innovations locked up in my head, and those heads of others are the stuff of “origin”. I am not sure if others have thought of my ideas before, and I do know, no one has acted upon them if they were first. It seems like me, many others tend to think another has “already done that”, in few cases they have. I have acted on a couple of “strong promptings” which have resulted in registered letters back to myself!

I am excited to be able to create some things anew, to define new terms out of re-purposing old materials – working with what we already have , to add value in new and thoughtful ways.

Have you ever had a brilliant idea out of nowhere? Or thought of something really cool only to have someone else show up with it? Doesn’t it make you wonder how 2 people at opposite ends of the earth from totally diverse situations can have the exact same great idea? I say it’s necessary to guarantee the existence of the idea, few if anyone actually acts on their promptings.

Next time you have a stroke of brilliance, write it down, take the next action step to claiming it as your own, if you don’t know what to do next, don’t worry about it, just start looking for those that can help you with that!

The important thing is that you act upon your ideas, others with like mind and more resources will be along to assist you with whatever comes next if YOU take the first step, you have to, it’s YOURS.

You’re probably not alone with your inspiration, and it’s up to you to take the lead with it, find the others that share your vision. I can guarantee you, your ideas have a financial value to them, it pays very, very well, and in fact, if you set things up “right”, your ideas will continue to pay your grandchildren and contribute to others long after you’re gone!

“Those that think govern those that labor.” – Marshall Sylver

The mailman and I will be connecting again I’m sure, I like his attitude and confidence and his curiosity – tells me he’s “open”. He’s a bold and friendly sort – or in this case “sorter” – and brings me my mailbox money from other ventures too, of course I’m always glad to see him! He always brings good stuff!

Lovin’ my life and the ease with which it is unfolding…

Have you offered another your “value” today?

I have just returned from Canada’s most gorgeous city on the West coast after having whisked my grasshopper off to play with his Mom for a few days at the heart of downtown Vancouver, British Columbia!

My reality has become rich with synchronicity and ease. This was my second trip in a month – first time back since almost 20 years ago – and the first for my son, Vancouver is a sensual city of extreme beauty and charisma, and my favorite – diversity. It buzzes with a certain energy that rejuvenates the soul and mind. On my first trip there I took a day to just walk around and “get a feel” for what this place is all about, I distinctly remember looking up at Canada Place and the Pan Pacific Hotel and thinking, “It would be way cool to stay there sometime…”

Fast forward to 7 days before this last weekend when I pulled up Hotwire.com to book a last-minute package for flight and lodging…the best deal – of course – was at the Pan Pacific, just 2 blocks from the event, which was a sold out venue anyway…so on the water we stayed, it was a very “uplifting” experience.

Although I didn’t know at the time I invested in the ticket to this seminar we went to attend, this get-away served as the fitting graduation gift for my son. I am proud as a peacock to have just witnessed the end of a long and grueling challenge for him – high school, or school in general. The fact that he was determined to finish what he started, even if he finished late was far, far more than “good enough” for me! I am grateful and in appreciative bliss that he is done with that so real life can begin for him…I was poolside in Reno, Nevada when he IM’d me to tell me he officially graduated! Yippee! I did a tearful happy dance right there on the spot!

Little did I realize going into this particular adventure just how significant and impact full the few days would be, and once again I am assured that investing in me first and following the inner callings – also called “my gut”, “a sixth sense” or “intuition” is abso-frickin’-lutely the way to do life to its fullest!!

After a direct flight and quick cab ride into the city Thursday evening, we were left with an East coast clock and a day to explore on Friday. We walked down to the beach and took in the sites of a new city, admired the yachts and imagined what it would be like to live on one all the time. We took an aquabus ride over to the hoppin’ Granville island where we walked around it and the public market, were entertained by Buskers, saw movie stars and shared our lunch in the sun with the very friendly birds watching on in anticipation.

For a Mom, it was a dream day of connection with her son. I am blessed with an unusually acute and aware young man, unlike others his similar age; he enjoys and appreciates both the beauty and contrast around him, in both the scenery and the people. Later in the day, we visited with a local friend whom, as a most gracious host, took us on a tour to some of his favorite parks and waterside spots that otherwise we wouldn’t have seen.

Shortly after 9am Saturday morning, after a good sleep, registration, hugs and re-connecting with some of those I had met on the previous trip, I sat up front in the room with my boy and watched clips of a movie he’s never seen, and one of my all-time favs – “The Karate Kid”. It kicked off the 2 days worth of events and set the context for what we were all about to both agree to and experience…

It was only a few weeks ago I attended InvestFest09 in Vancouver, where we were joined by many top trainers and speakers, amongst them and by far the most captivating was Marshall Sylver – the planet’s most accomplished hypnotist, performer, cold reader and benevolent “Millionaire Maker”, he’s out to win a Nobel prize. I have friends who have been in his presence in the past and highly recommended taking in his seminar, until now I hadn’t really heard the message. In observing the results in their lives since, it appears it indeed was a “Turning Point” for them.

Aside from being one of the most fun, goofy, charismatic, fascinating, and trustworthy people I have ever encountered, he also struck me as the most accomplished and gifted at what he does, which is “different” from those I’ve learned from before. As a coach and relationship marketer who’s raw material is “people”, I found his teaching the perfect missing piece for taking “what I do” to the next level.

Some of My Turning Point notes and videos too!

“I am morally and ethically obligated to share the good things I have with others. If something I’ve got stops being of value or no longer serves, I have a moral and ethical obligation to stop sharing it.”

• SATORI – means to “be here now”
• Showing up late in life is always “better than never”.
• Living in the future is anxiety. Living in the past is depression.
• NON-CONFRONT – the subconscious’s way of not dealing with something:
  - by not hearing, sleeping, going to the bathroom, getting sick, getting angry (a fear the offence will reoccur)
  Pay attention to what’s being said when I want to take myself out.
• The higher the level, the bigger the devil. (Yikes.)
• Most people spend their life preparing to live.
  The ultimate “non-confront” tactic is “to die”.

COMMITTED ENROLLMENT

• The fastest way to make any fear vanish is to experience it fully.
• Give other people value.
• Fall down 9, stand up 10.
• Deal with what emerges.
• My conscious mind is my “critical factor”, the gatekeeper that decides which is truth and which is resistance.
• Those that think govern those that work.
• Money is math.
• The subconscious is a reprogrammable computer – garbage in, garbage out
• Everything is hypnosis – hypnosis is the act of setting aside the “critical factor”.
• Belief – “Whether you think you can or cannot, you’re right!” – Henry Ford
• OBJECTIVE REALITY – is the opposite of “trance” or hypnosis
  Nothing has meaning except the meaning I give it.
• NO RISK = NO GOODIES
• You must plant in fertile soil, have relationships of harmony.
• Michelangelo didn’t actually paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he managed the people that did the work, he was a project manager!
• Get Out Of Ego
• Respond to challenges with, “So what. Now what”?
• Develop RANDOM DISCIPLINES – do things in a certain way because it works
• Communicators are always wealthy.
• The devil is in the details.
• Play every ace.
• Your self-esteem is directly tied to your bank account.
• It’s not about how much it costs – it’s about how much it’s worth.
• Dis-ease spreads.
• We become the product or average of our 5 best friends.
• COLD READING – the ability to read others general thoughts by their body language.
  Every single thought has an outer physical response.
• Be interested rather than interesting.
• Be congruent. If my actions are a printout of my thoughts, transform my thoughts and my a$$’ll follow.
• Walk around with a “subliminal smile” – have fun on the inside first!
• Smile while delivering bad news.
• Never apologize for messing up!

My success in life will be in direct proportion to how much stress we’re willing to handle. (This directly from my notes and as I type it I notice the change in context – from my to we? Learning – I don’t have to take all the stress on myself – I have a team!)

PROGRAMS – for your subconscious computer.

“I” or “I AM” Most powerful for your mind to hear.

PROJECTED PROGRAMS

“You” or “You Are”

THE MASTER PROGRAM – “It’s easy for me to change.”

Boldness is always rewarded!

OUR COMMUNICATION PROCESSES
Words = 7%
Tonality = 30%
Physiology = 63%

2 things about this came up for me – video is important to the internet and social networking online & I am SO very blessed and appreciating my gift with words and realizing if one is going to “talk in type”, that means 63% of the conversation is hidden, whoa, that math needs further analysis for sure! I can develop a whole training around this insight!

WORDS TO REMOVE FROM YOUR VOCABULARY

• “Try” – think Yoda/Star Wars – Luke, there is no “try”, only “do”. Do or do not.
• “Can’t” – Don’t know how to? Or Don’t want to?
  7 figures is just “different” not “difficult”.
• “But” – remove it entirely and replace it with “and”, our Universe is by nature “and/or” engineered, it’s not an “either/or” world.

WIMP WORDS
Hope –> KNOW
If –> WHEN
Problem –> CHALLENGE
Why –> WHAT? Or HOW?

When someone asks, “How are ya’?” or (here in Canada “How’s it goin’ eh?”)
Respond with, “Fantastic! Perfect! Awesome!” or if the above doesn’t fit the mood, “Getting better all the time.”

Put your requests out to the Universe!
Know what you want and continually offer your ideas and questions to others so that you are in a place to receive resolution and peace of mind.

DO A DREAM SHEET!
It’s fast and it’s easy, brainstorm for no less than 10 minutes on paper, just start writing and don’t stop until the 10 minutes is up.

What do you want?
People to meet, places to go, things to see, awards to win, experiences to have…

What is your ideal day at work?
What is your ideal day at home?
What is your ideal body?
What is your ideal mate?

If your financial needs are met and you are being, doing and having anything you want, what does that look like? The sky used to be the limit and it isn’t anymore…I want to go into space! What is it for you?

What excites you?

Savor the wanting more than the having.

Communication = Wealth – Schmoozing works.

Try on the term “Plan Setting” instead of “Goal Setting”.
Go for at least a 7 figure income!

1. The closer, more precise you can zero in on what you want will determine how fast you get something…
2. List action quotas
3. Plan High
4. Chunk it down.
5. Personal Alterations
6. Read Every Day

Take the first step and the next one will appear. You don’t need to know “how”.

MONEY

1. Money is an energy source.
2. Those that think govern those who labor. It’s not enough to learn, one must “become”.
3. We have GOT to create value.
4. You must always give more than you are asking for.
5. Always give joyfully. Never loan money you aren’t willing to part with anyway.
6. Be willing to accept money!
7. Make sure it’s not about the money.
8. It always comes from other people.

Think: “I’d rather be happy than right.”

FOUR METHODS OF CREATION

1. Labor
2. Inspiration
3. Serendipity
4. Manifestation

AFFIRMATIONS

• I am totally responsible
• I have great self-management
• I am a great risk-taker
• I have a manic need to succeed
• I am a winner
• I know my own limitations
• I am massively organized
• I am decisive
• I am open-minded
• I am always creating
• I am a powerful leader
• I am irresistibly influential
• I have a joyful spirit
• I am a strategic thinker
• I am charismatic

TOTAL PROSPERITY IS MINE!

A millionaire is someone that makes a million dollars joyfully.

Environment Enlightenment
“Change the people you hang out with or change the people you hang out with.”

The Persuasion Equation
“Influence is the ability to get somebody else to ask you for what you’re selling, and think it was their idea.”

All buying decisions are first based in emotion and backed up with logic.

Your job is to play with resistance. Find out why they said, “no”.

Funny means money. Lighten up, have fun, humor is your best selling tool.

Influence is; understanding you’re doing them a favor. It’s the ability to come from a place of “authority”.

Small commitments lead to large commitments.

Not expecting someone to measure up is an insult.

Use “pattern interrupts” – try something totally different if you want different results.

Deal with what comes up as it emerges.

People of influence are highly assumptive.

People vote with their wallets.

Persuasion and influence is how we communicate.

Be congruent to gain rapport, develop trust and credibility.

Be Real – help them to identify or relate to you.

Elicit their outcome – sell them what they want, not your product.

Play Every Ace

Influence is both a science and an art.

MODELING AN 8 FIGURE BUSINESS – $10 Million or more…

1. Spiritual Health
2. Balance – 1. mental 2. physical 3. relational 4. financial
3. Priority Management – set dates on plans
4. Massive Action
5. Create a plan
6. Systems for business – one for sales and one for marketing
7. Influence (Selling) & Negotiation (Buying) – the poker game isn’t always won by the person with the best hand.
8. Presentation Skills – be good at sharing what you have – the value line has moved
9. Financial Investing
10. Asset Protection and Tax Planning

REHEARSE, REVIEW, REVISE

Marshall Sylver’s Video Of His Trip

You may live in Canada…

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from
September through May,

If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance
and they don’t work there,

If you’ve worn shorts and a parka at the same time,

If you’ve had a lengthy telephone conversation
with someone who dialed a wrong number,

If ‘Vacation’ means going anywhere
South of Detroit for the weekend,

If you measure distance in hours,

If you know several people
who have hit a deer more than once,

If you have switched from ‘heat’ to ‘A/C’
in the same day and back again,

If you can drive 90 km/hr through 2 feet of snow
during a raging blizzard without flinching,

If you install security lights on your house and garage,
but leave both unlocked,

If you carry jumper cables in your car
and your wife knows how to use them,

If you design your kid’s Halloween costume
to fit over a snowsuit,

If the speed limit on the highway is 80 km –
you’re going 90 and everybody is passing you,

If driving is better in the winter
because the potholes are filled with snow,

If you know all 4 seasons:
Almost winter, winter, still winter,
and road construction,

If you have more miles On your snow blower
than your car,

If you find 2 degrees ‘a little chilly’.

I’ve just been zipping about YouTube after receiving a beautiful music video from a friend at Facebook – thank you Velma!

As soon as I queued it up the goose-bumps started flowing up my body so I paid attention and waited for the expected message I knew I was about to receive.

What struck me about this beautiful gathering is that it represents what’s possible here and now, it is done from all around the world, musicians from diverse and distant cultures playing and singing the same song together, 20 years ago something like this just wouldn’t have been possible.

As one that builds my empire through the relationships I create mostly online, I invest a good deal of time promoting the benefits of “Being Online”. I’m always urging others to jump right into the Global melting pot, to get out of their small-boxed environments and out into the vast diversity of people and places that exist beyond the reach and vision of the mass media vehicles many are used to parking their brains in front of on a daily basis.Right beside the video I was watching was a link to the original studio recording of “We Are The World”, many of you boomers will remember this one, and this is where my message came through. I can’t imagine the amount of logistics, schedule re-planning, co-ordination and collaboration it must have taken to pull this many powerful people into one room to get it done.

We are in a time and place where small tribes of people can make a massive difference, their collective desires for change, peace and “no more trouble” ripple out and touch those that otherwise wouldn’t have access to the message or are open to hearing it.

I pretty sure I’m on this planet here and now to facilitate a transformation unlike we have ever experienced in our documented history!

Why are You here?

Celebrate life! It’s all good and gettin’ gooder!

Use The Power Of Online Social Media To Shine Your Light And Point The Way…

You don’t have to look far or listen too long before you see or hear something about “Web 2.0”, a newly evolved version of the Internet experience that includes the massive power of things like “Social Networking” and “Social Media Sites”. You know them as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or YouTube.

As a pioneer and surfer on the leading edge of technology and “online collaboration”, and an expert in “long-distance” relationships and team-building, I don’t really see “Social Networking” as anything new, in fact I consider “socializing” a lost art – long gone lost.

No matter what instrument one uses to get their thoughts and feelings across, they have to be willing to share them first and listen to those of others – first we sow, then we reap.

I am often complimented on my “writing skills”. From my side of that – and thank you – the ability to put my thoughts and feelings here on this web page is not because I’m a writer, it’s because I don’t particularly give a rip what people think about what I think, say or write…(wasn’t always so) and well that’s not entirely true, I care what SOME people think…and I am continually letting go of the “need to please everyone” mentality.

Doing anything to please another is a trap in itself, let alone trying to please them ALL, it’ll never happen and it’ll drive anyone to some form of private debauchery for trying!

I have learned how to tell a story, and I call this story-telling over the net, “talking in type”…proper spelling, grammar or punctuation is optional and, if you’re a texter, as you know – not recommended! I feel free to invent new words along the way if it helps to get a concept across or meld together ideas and we now have video and audio for those that aren’t comfy with their “thoughts-to-words” assembling skills.

I believe what we are seeing manifest here and now is another go-round of the “Mom & Pop” days, this time on a global level, with exponentially more leverage for each individual involved. Some newly coined words for this phenomenon as it is unfolding are popping up to define the direction we are headed, “brandividuality” or “brandividualism” are recent additions to the new dictionary.

“Your Name” is what you are building the credibility of, not the companies, partnerships and products that are part of your business or financial portfolio. There is only One “You” – that “individualism” you bring to the global marketplace is what’s irreplaceable and in-doable by any other individual in the Universe!

If you are good at offering value, anything behind you is good and others will want to know what you’ve got, what works for you will likely work for them too. 

The more value I bring to my marketplace, the more I know I will be rewarded in kind and beyond, my spreadsheet shows me that I’m beginning to understand the concept, the understanding shows up in real numbers called “positive results”, which equates to real dollars in my bank accounts.

Perhaps those too familiar with you or that have “history” with you are tired of hearing about or from you for one reason or another? Maybe you came from a place you want to forget about, start fresh and create a new environment or a new You altogether?

I’ll guarantee you there are an unlimited number of people just waiting to hear your stories, what you learned from your failures, they’ll cheer you on and help you to celebrate your successes, if you share them.

Share that which inspires you in your moments of inspiration and your voice will carry farther than you can imagine and land exactly where it needs to be heard. Your voice matters and you will be heard if you just show up and give a shout out!

I have an associate that calls herself, “The 10 Years Too Late Girl”, although “late” is, most definitely better than never with persistence, by comparison to my friend’s story, I then have to call myself, “The 10 Years Too Early Girl”. It seems I’ve been waiting for at least that long for my vision to come together and manifest into my physical reality, for others to “get it”, interesting thing is, 10 years later, my unique offering is still needed, my niche still exists! As much as I come and go, my “calling” remains the same.

I bill myself as an “Ambassador For Connection”. I notice the “connecting” part of the equation is still missing for a lot of people, I see them walking, I hear them talking, and still they stand alone and afraid to trust or move forward…

I have 100’s if not 1000’s of people in my organization that say, “I have run out of people to talk to”, the ones that are left on their list, they have reconsidered working with – and usually I cannot blame them! They want out of that existing circle, into something entirely new and are generally both the army and the General of their one-man army in the beginning of their venture. They lack the time and energy to “push ropes” and the financial resources to go out and meet a whole different crowd or even 1 or 2 good friends –

…relationships, no matter how you do them, take time and most importantly personal focus and energy, relationships are the true overhead of any of life’s endeavors. Nothing manifests in my world unless another shares my vision, I have accomplished nothing strictly “on my own”.

All I need to ask a person is “Are you on Facebook yet?” and I can instantly tell by their body language and response what they know about it, few know much – they are where I was 10 years ago, I am called to fill a need, to inspire others to dip their toes in the proverbial waters…

More than once I have been in high-powered marketing seminars and snicker when a speaker makes reference to “the greatest marketing plan ever launched” – in reference to the marketing behind “The Secret”. I snicker because I was in on that master plan from the beginning, and there really wasn’t one! The power of that “little film” was driven by a small handful of people with unstoppable passion and belief in something they absolutely knew worked and would make a difference on a massive scale! Tip the scale it did.

Those of us in charge of getting the word out about this new program all had a talent for “natural promotion”, for putting our excitement “out there”, we had big mouths, worked diligently and had a whole lot of fun along the way! We knew what we wanted “The Secret” to do (before it was even called that) and it did it! We gathered together 1000’s of people online months before there was ever a finished product…we did that on total faith, I invested at least 2 years sweat, energy and real dollars into that project once the dust all settled from it. I recall many times looking up and asking that this project please be a success…it was one of my life’s greatest learning experiences in business.

If a small handful of people can gather the attention and focus of 10’s of 1000’s of others from around the world over a few months, how many can you gather with your enthusiasm and appreciation for life over 1 to 2 years?

If you follow the stories of the successful it is easy to see that their successes were had because of a relationship with another. 1 or 2 great connections can change the course of life and business.

“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”

Get out there and start spreading your valuable insights, ideas, visions and dreams, you’ll be surprised at who shows up to join you for the ride!

Here’s some statistics that should make you sit up a little straighter!

• Facebook has 200 million members and climbing.
• YouTube visitors are viewing 13 billion videos a month.
• LinkedIn has over 15 million businesspeople networking.
• Twitter is growing at over 40% a month.
• Digg and Delicious are driving millions of visitors to websites every month.
• GoogleWave is on the way – it’ll likely capture the best features of the above list!

As an aside note, I noticed just the other day that the first ever Instant Message system I used extensively over a decade ago has almost 1 BILLION ID numbers registered if not more – that would be the legendary “ICQ”, short for “I Seek You”, for it’s time it was brilliant and changed the face of the Internet forever. I’ll never forget the space I was in the first night I fired up “ICQ”, it was one of those moments in life that fueled a vision I continue to chase today, in fact here I am a decade later and as quickly as some things change, other things just don’t change at all, it seems my unique offering is still in high demand…

As I type this, I hear an old friend’s voice in my head, she used to shout to her lingering little ones,

“hey kids get outta’ the house for a while and blow the stink off!”

Go find a couple of new friends that think like you do and dream like you do! These relationships might start on Facebook or Twitter or any of the other nooks or crannies where people hang out on the net, and I’ll guarantee you eventually you’ll be in each other’s arms if it’s a connection that’s meant to be…and who knows what wonderful things you will create for us all together!

I Am an Ambassador For Connection, I facilitate in the connection, awareness and transformation of those ready to take on the journey…and because of that there is always enough money to live the life I choose, to enjoy myself, contribute and invest!