Looking for a Place to Start a Journey? Try “The Traveler’s Gift”

Good Morning,

Yes, it has been quite some time since I last posted.  So, let me jump right to it.

I have been reading, and reading, and listening, and reading some more.  I am now on book restriction (self-imposed) for the time being.  I have realized that reading one more book, learning one more thing will in no way change my life.  The big secret is that there really is NO big secret!

I attended a very small “country” school.  We had two grades in each room with one teacher.  I have always said that I learned everything I have needed in life from those first six years of schooling.  The important things are the basics (reading, writing, arithmetic) from there you CAN learn anything you choose.  I tell my daughter, if you can read – You can learn anything!  There really is nothing we cannot do.  I must digress here for a moment and say how much I loved that school – the teachers, the playground, the friends, and yes, riding our horses to school (on the last day), our bus driver, Bob Summerfield… So many good things to recall.  The building now is home to a church and I am glad that I can still visit those hallways and remember.

Back to books.  There are many books by many different authors – each come back to the basics.  “Feeling is the Secret” by Neville Goddard probably is the most simply stated, most clearly written, and in the fewest words.  There definitely is a common thread through each.  There are terribly LONG books with many stories, and very scientific books written for those who think fifteen dollar words are required.

I’m not trying to suggest that you read or not read these many books.  I will however, point you towards the one that started this recent journey for me.  “The Traveler’s Gift” by Andy Andrews is a fantastic place to start.  Andy uses his life experiences interwoven in a fantastic tale.  I have read and reread, and listened to this book at least fifty times.

I hope this book will touch your life – Blessings!

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Waiting for the Rain

It has been quite some time since I sat down to write – seems I got distracted.  Very distracted as it goes.  Susan Crawford suggested a book to me which has led me on quite a journey deeper and still deeper.

So, here I sit waiting for the rain to begin and making a new start of it.  I don’t think we are ever ready to do what we need to do in our lives – it seems to be life’s way of pushing us to change and to grow.

As the saying goes today is the first day of the rest of our lives.  Or as my friend John “JJ” Jackson says, “Today is the best day of my life.”

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My Favorite Office

Boy, what a day. What a better way to spend an evening. Sure it’s 90 degrees out – or so the weather guys says so. But it’s nice out here in my favorite office. 

 

I love to bring the laptop out here – I’m in a shady nook of a shrub of unknown variety. Over the years the ivy has covered it and forms a protective umbrella. I have often wanted take that shrub down and plant a respectable tree but I know that it would take years to grow to shady proportions and the ivy haven that both the birds and I dearly love. 

Yes, the tree and ivy are full of many little birds that come to overnight here – a sheltered roost. Outside the ivy covered fence I have two bird feeders full of seed and inside a hummingbird feeder.

Our property here in suburbia is home to 16 towering oaks. Right now the breeze is rustling the leaves on this wonderful spring evening.  I’m sitting here relaxing – preparing my mind for Dathan & Jerry’s live Q&A for our training class.

How perfect, ice tea, breeze, birds, and the wireless internet that connects me to the world…

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Keep Your Dreams Alive!

When it seems your dream is close to death, could it be the pains of birth?

Think of your dreams as something that must be nurtured, fed, and yes, even loved before you can bring them to life.  Just as a woman becomes pregnant – the conception of a dream is a miracle.  It is what makes us different from other mammals.  The ability to use our minds to make a conscious or sub-conscious  choice.  Conception happens long before the dream is achieved.  The period of time between conception and the birth of a dream is a process.

A process is a systematic series of actions directed to an end.  It takes continuous action or a series of changes taking place in a definite manner.  Heading towards the definite goal. This is the period of time when the dream is in the “womb”.  It is often filled with doubts, adversity, changes, and even some out and out surprises!  There will be good and bad days.  At times you may be faced with serious dilemmas: Should you give up or should you go on?

Without a moments hesitation, I will give you my answer, “Don’t give up on your dreams!”

Nurture your dreams – a woman does not become pregnant and just forget about it until it’s time to be delivered. A woman spends her every waking moment thinking about the dream; the dream that will become her child.  Love your dream.

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Boca Raton Florida and the Master Marketing Event

There are few words that could describe the Master Marketing Event (MME) this past week in Boca Raton Florida and even fewer words that can describe the gratitude felt towards the founders that make the event possible.   The MME allows us to rub shoulders with other member of Carbon Copy Pro family.  To spend time and to learn.  To meet the people we hear on the calls each week.  Thank you Jay and Aaron!

Jay & Aaron

Jay & Aaron

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Getting Ready for Boca Raton

We are getting ready this morning to catch our flight to Ft Lauderdale Florida.  Kenny and I are heading to the Mater Marketing Event 31 March 2010.  I will also be celebrating my birthday on the 1st of April in Florida.  Hoping for a nice day on the beach before the flight home.  I hope to have tons of pictures and videos for posting.  Blessings!

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The Buck Stops Here – Taking Responsibility

On the way to work this morning – of course, I was listening to a CD of a book. This author was discussing about being responsible for your past. Stop blaming where you are today on others, on outside events. I’d never thought about it quite this way before – it hit me like a ton of bricks!

Stop being a victim.

How cool is that. I am not a victim of circumstances. Where I am today is based upon choices I’ve made up to now.
The best part of this – where I will be in a year or two, or three, or ten – is totally based upon me.  No one else!
We are not victims. That thought just lifted my spirits and the weight left my shoulders. I hope you feel the freedom too.

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Saying “no”

Look for ways each day to say “no” to yourself.

Be in control.

Ask yourself, “Is this beneficial to me? To my business?”

Will this choice control me?  Or I it?

Your character is the sum total of your everyday choices.

Look for ways to say “no” to yourself each day.

Exert control.  Be in control of you.

Tell “the little guy” in your head to sit back and shut up.

Choices made this day will affect the rest of your life.

Choose.

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Eagle Festival in Cambridge Maryland

We are leaving the house at 5:30 am. Yes, a two hour drive to Cambridge, for the 10th annual Eagle Festival. Three will be live eagle, peregrine falcon and other birds of prey programs, kid’s programs, kid’s bird box construction, puppet show, eagle prowls, bird walk, wildlife exhibits and live bird exhibits, and food all day.
I’m taking the Flip – so hopfully there will be some video to share.
Blessings!

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A bit about me today….

After spending 6 years in the US Air Force out in the “real world” – I had a job as a trainer. Yes, I traveled the world from Europe, to an island in the Indian Ocean, and yes, to an island in the Bering Sea. I loved the travel. But more, I loved training. Working with the people to help them understand a difficult software system.

We traveled and installed systems (the hardware and software) and I trained the operators how to use the new system. The thing that always amazed me was how during each and every single class that I could learn something about a software package I thought I knew inside and out. We think we know the “way” to do something. But another can look and the same thing and do it very differently. Not wrong by any stretch – just another route. I loved the training, working shifts with the operators.

This makes me think of a quote, and I don’t know by whom, “If we keep going down the same old road, how will we get anywhere else”.  In other words – if we continue to do the same things that got us where we are today – then how can we expect tomorrow to be any different.  Hope is great – but there has got to be some action on our part. 

I hope you’ll think about that and maybe I’ve it a chord….

It was a great time in my life and I’m glad of the experience.
Blessings! Colleen

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