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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

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 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.

Sometimes when I think of self-help, I still have a tendency to

So I should probably give a little more background as to how the whole teleseminar came about, especially because it ties directly in with the content of the teleseminar itself.

I started working online and getting involved with getting a website (or two or three) up at the very beginning of this year. I had gotten interested with internet marketing and online business in general about two years ago. Life happens, and two years later I was able to start devoting serious time to everything I had been reading, listening to (you gotta love mp3 files!) and following. I started a coaching program dedicated to social networking in January- before I had any website. Through that I found someone who has his own company and his product is a great CMS (content management system). So between meeting Pete (he’s my web guy in Canada…I’m in California), starting the coaching program, coming back to Wordpress with this site and meeting David (he’s in Oregon…my other ‘web guy’) some amazing

Ok, so today has been a bit hectic (actually most of my days seem to be this way….but not in a bad way). Hopefully some of you have registered for the teleseminar tomorrow on the Law of Attraction, if you haven’t, you can still register here: http://manifestingandlawofattraction.com/, just follow the instructions and the links will be sent to you (it’s free to register).

Anyways…..so, with this teleseminar happening tomorrow I’ve pretty much been glued to the computer all day trying to get things situated on this site and another site I have: http://getouttaretail.com/ , the challenge though is that like most things, there was a bit more to get done than I’m capable of doing in a day and sort of sent myself into panic mode (my neck is killing me). I just transferred this site to a different host yesterday and have re-done some things on my other site. The plan was to have my ebook finished and up on the other site. Well, that’s just not going to happen. The ebook is actually written, I’m just editing it and adding some screen capture shots to use as examples.

What I realized though in all of this panic mode was that I just needed to settle down and know that things will be fine- regardless of whether or not the sites look perfect. What’s important is that I did get A LOT of things accomplished and that I’m really happy with the way things are going on both sites. So, at this point, it sort of is what it is. It’ll be much more beneficial to me and to the people listening tomorrow if I am relaxed and not worried about what I didn’t do. (Kind of sounds like Stuart Smalley from Saturday Night Live….”I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me!”…..maybe I shouldn’t write blog posts when I’m tired? :-)). Enough said….I’m going to go relax.

What do you do when you are moving in the right direction in your own life, but things around you seem to be going off in a million different directions? Staying grounded seems to be one of my biggest challenges. I have found that it is something that I have to consciously work at every day. I’ve started listening to a meditation that someone else did with me/for me everyday. It helps to remind me that when other people in my life have their own challenges to deal with, I’m actually more help to them when I’m firmly planted in my own life, living on purpose and creating as much positive energy for myself. Sometimes we can’t do anything