What Happens When You Decide?

In an earlier post, I confessed I was starting out on my wild and wonderful adventure to create my very own online business.

Well, yesterday I had my first lesson (WOOT!). We did some google research and identified the best domain name, my internet mentor Nicola Cairncross has given me access to her own membership site and avail of all the modules there. This is amazing value as I also get to 'meet' the other people who are doing the same thing. I'm looking forward to getting to know them and see where this takes me, and how fast.

(It's a known fact that when you are in a community of like-minded 'cats', you get to where you want to get to much faster. Ask any self-respecting Leopard.)

Anyway, my homework is to buy a domain name and start planning out my ebook for next week. Nothing too startling here (except... I have to plan out my ebook and I haven't a clue how to start) but a few things out of the ordinary have happened since my lesson yesterday which finished at 4pm this which keeps me going and feeling great:

1. A friend of mine rang me up at 6pm to say there was an internet seminar with a particular focus on social media and that a number of Italian internet gurus speaking and that this seminar was 5 minutes walk from my house. She asked me if I'd like to go? (Is the Pope a Catholic, I ask you!)

2. We went, (it was filmed to be shown on sky live and I got my 5 seconds of fame when the good-looking presenter Marco Montemagno asked me what I thought the internet represented to me. I wasn't ready for the question but I blurted out 'Freedom' and he Beamed at me. I found out later he is extremely famous and quite accomplished - look him up!) we met these gurus and I was able to pick their brains on what they do, how they got started, who they listen to - FAB!

3. Another friend from Down Under, David Wolfe who has written a book on how he survived cancer sent me his book for free and I can see how others approach writing books. If you want to read his book for free, it's really good - add him as a friend on facebook and join his group!

4. Another new facebook friend, an established author contacted me today on twitter to let me know that if I needed help writing my book to just ask her!

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I guess I saw the signals because I was ready. More magical things started happening once I decided to take action. I feel I am in the flow, not necessarily totally in control but happy that I am moving forward towards my goal. And I find it quite reassuring to feel that the universe is conspiring to help me once I do.

Actually, I'm very very grateful!

Creare il Mondo intorno a Te

Questo prossimo video ha catturato l'imaginazione di millioni di persone in tutto il mondo nei ultimi tre mesi.

Il corto e' intitolato "Creatore del Mondo" (World Builder). Mentre sembra di essere un film di fantascienza, Creatore del Mondo e' una storia d'amore e di creazione.

Consiglio di usare i prossimi 9 minuti per vederlo.



Ecco delle considerazioni tratte dal video:

"Siamo tutti degli esseri di energia

Creamo attraverso i nostri pensieri consci -
a volte sono i minimi dettagli che cattura la nostra attenzione

La vita e' soffiata nei petali delicati di un fiore.
Quello che ci ispira e' l'amore!

Scopriamo chi siamo nell'Universo che creamo.
E l'Universo si scopre in noi."

E tu che ne pensi?!

The Tao of Success

"To live through an impossible situation, you don't need the reflexes
of a Grand Prix driver, the muscles of a Hercules,
the mind of an Einstein. You simply need to know what to do."
--Anthony Greenbank

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is
because we do not dare that they are difficult." --Seneca

"The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate.
It is for us to harmonize with this order." --Henry Miller

"If we do not know what port we're steering for, no wind is favorable." --Seneca

Smile and Move

Here's an uplifting 3-minute video I came across this afternoon, which I think you'll really enjoy.

It's called Smile & Move (there are 5 ways to smile, 4 ways to move).

It's a reminder of how we can be more valuable to others in our daily efforts.



Keep smiling and keep moving!

Putting things into Perspective

I found this lovely little message from God in my inbox thanks to my lovely cousin, Isabella. (Isabella, ILY!!!)

Ho trovato questo messaggio nel mio email da Dio, grazie alla mia cugina Isabella. (Isabella, TVB!!!)

Subject: Message from God

To: YOU

Date: TODAY
From: GOD

Subject: YOURSELF

Reference: LIFE

This is God. Today I will be handling All of your problems for you.
I do not need your help. So, have a nice day.

I love you...

P.S. And, remember...

If life happens to deliver a situation to you that you cannot handle,
do Not attempt to resolve it yourself! Kindly put it in the SFGTD
(something for God to do) box. I will get to it in MY TIME.

All situations will be resolved, but in My time, not yours.

Once the matter is placed into the box, do not hold onto it by
worrying about it. Instead, focus on all the wonderful things that
are present in your life now.

If you find yourself stuck in traffic, don't despair. There are people
in this world for whom driving is an unheard of privilege.

Should you have a bad day at work; think of the man who has been out
of work for years.

Should you despair over a relationship gone bad; think of the person
who has never known what it's like to love and be loved in return.

Should you grieve the passing of another weekend; think of the woman
in dire straits, working twelve hours a day, seven days a week to feed
her children.

Should your car break down, leaving you miles away from assistance;
think of the paraplegic who would love the opportunity to take that
walk.

Should you notice a new gray hair in the mirror; think of the cancer
patient in chemo who wishes she had hair to examine.

Should you find yourself at a loss and pondering what is life all
about, asking what is my purpose? Be thankful. There are those who
didn't live long enough to get the opportunity.

Should you find yourself the victim of other people's bitterness,
ignorance, smallness or insecurities; remember, things could be worse.
You could be one of them!

Should you decide to send this to a friend; Thank you. You may have
touched their life in ways you will never know!

Now, you have a nice day...God

Unlock your Greatest Potential

As I was browsing the web, I came across this lovely article to motivate anyone who is feeling stuck to take heart and take charge.

“I am stuck!”

This feeling of being stuck is very familiar for most of us.

Sometimes you can’t see your way out of the mess.

How easy to think, you will be feeling like this forever.

This moment can be a turning point for you.

Here is a secret.

You are never stuck.

No matter where you are, you can turn things around.

You simply have to be open to change.

The feeling of being stuck is simply YOU telling yourself that there is more that you desire in your life.

The frustration of being stuck, and the negative emotions that are created around it, is often caused when you aren’t sure how to make the changes you want.

Yes, life has created certain challenges for you. But the purpose was not to make you feel stuck. The purpose was to set you free. To provide you with lessons, experiences, and circumstances that would trigger growth and healing.

Life is provoking, promoting, urging you to grow, stretch, learn and heal.

Life is trying to get you unstuck.

If there is one thing to be true, life is in a constant continuous change.

For getting unstuck. Get clear on what you want to change. Set up realistic timelines. Be optimistic about it is you want. Cry when you need to. Rest when you are tired. But give life the space to work its magic.

Get unstuck, this second, this minute, this hour, this life. And live the life you are meant to live.

by Lolly Daskal - www.lollydaskal.com

Doing the Avatar Course (see previous posts for course dates) for some is the first step to getting clarity and getting unstuck. Getting unstuck is probably one of the life challenges of going upstream.

Here's a video below - a talk by Harry Palmer, author of the Avatar materials who talks about being stuck, going downstream and on general life challenges.

http://avatarepcmedia.com/lifechallenges

(Apologies for the link and not the video itself.... I tried for AGES to embed the link but it won't let me for some reason which is frustrating. Technology, bah! so please do click on the link for an interesting insight into the subject:

http://avatarepcmedia.com/lifechallenges

For more videos visit http://avatarepcmedia.com)

For me, it was the best investment in myself I ever made!

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Getting Unstuck

(My three wise men)


Do you have a dream? Do you ever think that if you achieved (fill in the blank) some day, your life will change?

One of my dreams or best-kept secrets is to become a successful online entrepreneur. For me this dream translates into financial and time freedom to enjoy a lifestyle that is based on my choices not on me surviving or battling with whatever life throws at me.

Before I go on, just want to let you know that this is a long post so depending on when you read it, it's probably best if you are sitting down with a glass of wine or your favorite cuppa! Apologies for the lack of photographs... my camera is on the blink at the moment...

So here's where I was coming from:

I realised some time ago that having a full-time job was not for me. I didn't like getting up early or being squashed in the metro during rush hours, nor did I enjoy worrying whether my contract would be extended or working for stressed-out people and seeing myself turn into one of them. I didn't coin this acronym, but it really resonates: I hated having a J.O.B. (= Just Over Broke). My life was being controlled by the whims of others.

So back to my dream. Let's look at it in detail:

My online business is fully automated, it runs perfectly whether I work in it or not, it offers a solution to a particular problem people are searching for on the web. I wake up every morning to see that people had bought my products and have sent emails to thank me for the difference I was making in their lives. I have more money coming into the bank than I can spend and I am financially free. I can choose to work on only projects that interest me, I can jump on a plane to visit friends anytime no matter where they were in the world, I can start learning to play the violin and dance tango in Buenos Aires. I am secure in the knowledge that my finances are in order. Every year I travel first-class to the Caribbean for a month to my 5-star luxury apartment which I own to rest and recoup (this last part will be a reality in six years time).

So I started searching for problems that I could solve for people - other than offer the Avatar course (which are leading edge tools and techniques for managing your thoughts and beliefs to create a reality you prefer). I used these tools on my own limiting beliefs that the internet would work for me, that I could do it and kept on going... but the set-up process was so foreign to me and that I was dead scared of making a mistake. (Sound familiar?) I had studied long and hard for two years but was nowhere near close to starting an online business. I hated to admit it.... but I was stuck.

You see, I had attended loads of internet seminars and webinars, read tons of books including Tim Ferriss' book The 4-hour Work Week (an amazing read for anyone who wants to get out of the rat race) thinking that everything I was doing would move me forward. I subscribed to a number of the top online entrepreneurs' blogs, newsletters and was seduced by the idea that by reading everything they wrote I would become ready one day to make it online. I thought my commitment to creating an online business was solid.. but again I had no idea what to bring to market and I didn't want to make a... terrible mistake.

So it slowly dawned on me that I was really just thinking about it rather than actually doing anything. I was just chasing my tail. My dream would always be a dream because I had no deadline to it. I was justifying it to myself that I was getting ready, that I wasn't sitting on the fence, that I was waiting for that perfect idea...

Are you still with me?

So a three things happened. Nope, the skies didn't open with an earth shattering illuminating moment, or bells started to chime, it was more of a wee snowflake gathering momentum down a hill.

The first thing that happened is that I saw yet another video of an internet coach who advocated that in order to improve your game fast, and he was using tennis as a metaphor, you need a coach, whether people chose him or someone else, he didn't care as long as you are serious to improve, he said, get a coach. Hmmm I had heard it before but it really resonated this time.

I know that you cannot become a basketball star by just reading about basketball and that training is crucial in learning a new skill. But I also knew that buying a pre-packaged program wasn't going to do it for me. I had bought one in the past, spent a lot of money on it and after hours of frustration, I gave up since I couldn't understand the technology it taught. So I resolved to find an internet mentor by the end of June that would coach me in the manner I needed to be coached.

The second thing that happened is that I wrote this goal down *in front* of a good friend of mine. In fact I wrote all my goals down including that I would have an online business by the end of December 2009. We decided to keep each other accountable for the other's goals. Yikes - my dream had turned into a goal! I needed to get moving but I still did not have an idea of how I would do it nor did I know who could help me.

Third, I sellotaped the page with these goals where I could see them from my bed and they are the first thing I see when I wake up and the last when I go to sleep. I read them and imagine what it would be like to have already achieved each and every one of these goals... and keep using the Avatar tools whenever I hit a particular resistance. I just zapped 'em out of my system.

Then one of the internet coaches that I admire most (because I KNOW she walks the talk and makes at least five figures online) wrote that she would coach three people over the phone for three months. So biting my lip, I asked her if she would coach me and in that moment I wrote a tentative idea that came to me, thinking 'you never know'.

She replied that day that she found there was a HUGE market for my idea and she'd be happy to coach me. Yikes! OMG... where is that brown paper bag when you need to hyperventilate?!

I was soooo exited I could hardly breathe!!!

I start getting mentored when I get back from the Avatar course and finish in October. If I keep focused and do what she tells me, I could have an online business by the end of October - two months ahead of my goal. I am also ahead of schedule in finding a mentor. It's only the first week in June.

I should recover my coaching investment within the year and start making a small profit by the end of next year. I don't know if this website will set me financially free in the future but it will certainly have me take a giant step towards it and for once I am looking forward to the adventure to learning and BEing an online (apprentice) entrepreneur. Watch this space!

And the techie part - noooo problem, I've decided I'll outsource it to professionals and just manage the process.

So that's my story and thanks for reading so far. I hope this story inspires anyone who is feeling stuck or has emotionally given up on their dreams.

You can turn around the process in a minute:

1. Decide what you want
2. Write it down
3. Feel what it would feel like to already have it
4. When opportunity knocks and it feels right, take action, even if it scares you.
5. Be ready to be amazed.

What have I learned from all of this? That once you finally get off the fence and start taking action in the direction of your dreams, miracles happen!

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