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Your Business and the Law of Attraction

So here is the recording of my first teleseminar with Hemal called “Your Business and the Law of Attraction”. I hosted this with Hemal on July 28th. If you haven’t visited the Law of Attraction page on this site, you can read more about Hemal there, but he also has a wonderful blog and you can read more about him, his work and how he helps people with the Law of Attraction and manifestion at : http://www.manifestingandlawofattraction.com

I have a group on facebook called The Women of Internet Marketing and Hemal has a group called Universal Law of Attraction. My group focuses on women who are building online businesses and Hemal’s group is, well, obviously about the Law of Attraction. We received some great questions before and during the teleseminar. I hope you enjoy it!

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So I had a TOTALLY proud mom moment that I just had to share. I took my son with me to turn in a bunch of recycling last weekend (I finally broke down and decided to turn in our cans and water bottles…$40!).  I had foot surgery a few weeks ago, so I needed him to help me get the bags out of the car. As I kept our place in line, he went and got all the bags out of the car (my little man….he’s 7 years old) like a trooper. The day we took the recycling in it was super hot (I believe it was over 100 degrees) and the poor guy running the recycling center was totally roasting, and it was only 10:30 am). I mentioned to my son that we should go get the guy something to drink when we were done. A few minutes later, my son looked up to me and said “I have my water bottle in the car and I haven’t opened it yet, can I give it to him?” I gave him the car keys and he went and got the water bottle, which totally made this guy’s day. Then as the recycling guy was pushing some of the garbage cans back to the customers to put their recycling into, he accidentally knocked over a small garbage can with all the plastic lids from the plastic bottles in it. My son just ran over and started picking them up for him! I was in awe of his simple acts of kindness and could not have been prouder.

After we were done, we went into the grocery store to get our cash and decided to buy a big water and gatorade to take back to the recycle guy. I had my son get out and give him both the bottles. He was so appreciative! Seeing the look on my son’s face throughout each of these actions was worth it’s weight in gold. For the rest of the day he was in a place that I can’t even explain. What I do know is that he made the connection between giving and how good it feels and that was reward enough for me. This was one of those moments that I’ll carry with me whenever I doubt myself as a parent or am about to get upset about something that isn’t really important with the kids, and it’ll put me in a place that is indescribable also.

So I got a message from my body a week or so ago….basically it was a reminder that I’m not 20 anymore (actually haven’t been for a while) and that I can’t stay up into the wee hours of the morning, then get up early and go about my day as usual. This is the third week my kids have been back to school, so the first week is when I pushed myself a bit to much. Soccer also started the same week, so we were of course running around for the whole week.

As things have been picking up with my business, I find myself back on the computer late at night (I guess that’s probably the only downfall to working for yourself, doing something that never feels like work). I tend to be a creature of habit, so when my sleep was cut from about 7-8 hours a night to 6 or less- it caught up to me. After a week of this schedule, I ended up getting pretty sick. Sore throat, congestion, cough, aches, the works. Which is pretty much the only time I get sick….when I’m not getting enough rest. So, by pushing myself (although it didn’t feel like it at the time) I ended up losing a lot of time last week. At lot more than I would’ve lost had I just gone to bed earlier. Oh well. Lesson learned!

Needless to say, I’m back on a better schedule and am taking the time out of my day for rest, meditation and exercise. Taking the time to do these things ensures I will have the strength and energy to do everything else.

I sort of go back and forth between listening to music and listening to books on CD in my car, it just depends on my mood and how long I’ll be in the car. I was heading over last week to get a massage and dinner with two of girlfriends (a surprise birthday outing), so I popped in a CD lecture by Dr. Wayne Dyer and Marrianne Williamson. It’s a 4 CD set, the first two CD’s are them speaking individually, then the last two they take questions from the audience (I need to go to one of those events). I’m always amazed at how I can listen to something multiple times, yet something different will resonate with me each time.

As I was listening to Wayne (yeah, we’re on a first name basis), I heard something that almost brought tears to my eyes ( in a good way…I know, I’m a bit of a mush). He was talking about the morning, afternoon and evening of your life ( a theory I believe he said was Carl Jung’s) and that for most people, the afternoon of your life is in your 30’s, although that’s not the case for everyone. What got me so emotional though was when he said that you go from a state of ‘doing’ to a state of ‘being’, and that when you find your passion, it really just takes a hold of you. As I was driving, I realized that this is exactly where I’m at in my life right now. I’ve explored so many different things in my life, but nothing has ever taken a hold of me the way this business has. Not only am I getting to do something I love, but the most amazing people keep showing up in my life. I couldn’t stop this thing even if I tried (not that I want to). And what really inspires me is simply the way I feel when I’m a part of it. I haven’t lost site of the big picture- but it’s just not that important. I am so grateful for where I’m at that I’m just enjoying the ‘being’ of it all. The doing gets done without me having to think about it.

I may be being a bit ambiguous here, but the feeling that comes when your passion takes a hold of you is like nothing I’ve ever experience before. Hindsight is 20/20- but I can definitely say it’s been worth the wait.

So lately I’ve become crazy busy with everything I’m doing on the web. Don’t get me wrong- I couldn’t be happier. I’m literally walking around saying “Thank you” in my head as often as I can, because being able to do something I enjoy so much, which never feels like work, really is a blessing. My challenge is the amount of things I’m learning at one time- and as much as I am a self proclaimed information junkie, sometimes you need to know when to stop what it is you’re doing and move on to something else.

I picked up Adobe Photoshop last week- the real deal! I had started with Elements, but realized I needed the full version to be able to work with most of the web graphics I’m dealing with. I am fortunate enough that one of my ‘web’ guys has spent a couple of hours on photoshop with me and I’m getting much more comfortable- or so I thought. Two hours later and a heated wrap on my neck…..I’ve decided it’s time to switch to something else. I got quite a bit done, but know that if I keep working on the same thing, not only will I get way more frustrated, but I’ll lose the rest of the day!

Naturally, I came back here. I have plenty of work to do on this site, and as much as I love learning the graphics side of all this, there’s so much more to do. I have a couple of other projects to work on in Photoshop, which shouldn’t create the issue I had with the last. I think I’ll give it another shot after I finish up here…..we’ll see how long it lasts.

So we had the second teleseminar today (by we I mean Hemal, of http://manifestingandlawofattraction.com), which is really more like Hemal having a teleseminar, where I get the opportunity to ask the questions and more or less be his co-pilot. Today was really about the fundamentals of the Law of Attraction, and what I realized is that it all really comes down to the way you feel. Not to simplify things (which usually I don’t….I’m better at over thinking things..)but when Hemal was giving examples of your thoughts and how to change them as well as the bigger picture, softening and focusing, etc. (there’s a link on the Law of Attraction page to a free pdf download Hemal created for today’s class), I realized that it all just keeps coming back to the way you feel.

In the post I made the other day about coming back from vacation and feeling out of sorts- I realized what I was feeling and basically just put it aside. I went about my day, same intentions (building the business, getting back on schedule) and just kept moving forward. I wouldn’t necessarily say I was ‘pretending’ to feel it, but I just sort of put the blinders on and went about doing what needed to be done…not worrying about how I was feeling.

The next morning, the universe provided exactly what I needed to put me back in a place where I was more or less feeling unstoppable! I spent the first 4 1/2 hrs. of the day on the phone (with Lesley in England and Pete in Canada….creating great things to come and learning amazing things with Photoshop!). I also realized (thank you Hemal), that working with these wonderful people I’m meeting isn’t about accountability as much as it is a motivating factor for me. When I’m collaborating with other people, I feel great. Which of course, is really what it’s all about.

So we got back from vacation late last night. Nothing too terribly exotic- but beautiful none the less. We went to Couer d’Lene in Idaho. An absolutely beautiful area- I’d have to honestly say I couldn’t find a single thing that wasn’t enjoyable about the area. It was one of those trips that was fun, relaxing, pleasant and just overall perfect (even with the kids arguing!). While the plane ride wasn’t long (and I was able to sleep in this morning), I’m feeling pretty exhausted tonight, but wanted to share a few thoughts.

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