Day 7 to Day 1
Did you know Pumpkin Pie has milk in it? 
I should have asked BEFORE I took the couple bites. I passed up the butter on the bread, the butter on my baked yams, no milk or butter in the gravy, no whipped cream on the pie. All of that — to have ruined my No Dairy Challenge eating a very small slice of pie, that I don’t necessarily like that much, is a bit frustrating. But… my rules are my rules!
I was 7 days into my 30 day challenge and was doing fine with it. The toughest point in time for me was when I was making a bean and cheese burrito for my daughter. I had her come in and help so that I would not pick at the cheese (and cheat!). I then fixed myself a burrito — with NO cheese and… SURPRISE it was good. The other difficulty I experienced was with chili. I have always put cheese in my chili and eating it without this was a bit difficult at first, however… I was able to do it without much pain.
We bought Rice Milk, Almond Milk and Ice Cream made out of rice milk. All of these tasted great and worked as substitutes in a couple of our meals (pancakes, waffles). The ice cream surprised me. It is good.
After 7 days, I have not noticed feeling different, not better and not worse.
Will check in again soon – hopefully with better success!
Note to self: Ask about ingredients BEFORE eating!!!
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Today is Thanksgiving and with this, I wanted to express how grateful I am for the people and things in my life.
I have an awesome life partner; he is a fabulous husband, friend and father. We have been through ups and downs and through it all we have arrived at a place where I only fall more deeply in love with him every day, he is my best friend and I am amazed how it only keeps getting better. He is a very loving and supportive man – he is my rock as I am working to change the direction of what I “do” in my “work” life. I cannot express how grateful and appreciative I am for this support. Oh.. and he is SO funny – he makes me laugh every day!
My daughter, who will be 7 in a couple weeks… there aren’t words to describe the deepness of love I have for her. I am proud of her kindness, her light and her ability to teach me and her 
father something about life and about ourselves each and every day. She is full of joy and love and every moment I am with her brings a level of happiness to my world that glows bright. We have a house full of love – our dog (Luna) and chinchilla (Mischief) add love, fun, and light to our daily routine.
My extended family – parents, brother and sister-in-law add flavor and love to my life. The Saturday morning walks with my father and the subsequent morning coffee and hot bread with Daemon and Aliera are cherished and held close to my heart. We enjoy the gatherings with my dad and “mom” – we love conversation, food and wine – A LOT!! The conversations with my 
brother who has decided that he enjoys sweating (he lives in Arizona now) are also cherished; Aliera does many things that remind me of him – we all miss him and Mee Sook. The growth that my brother has experienced since being away makes me extremely proud of him; I know it probably drives him crazy that I always see him as my “little” brother and that he is “kiddo” to me. I want him to know how very proud of him I am proud of how he leads his life, how he strives to be better every day. I am thankful for the great conversations I get into with my mom – she shares the love of personal development and we often can start talking and not end until hours later. It is great to watch her manifest things in her life – she teaches me many things! I am glad for “pops” being in her life. He is a great man – I love to watch him play with Aliera; his playfulness brings joy to our visits together.
I have a great wonderful friend that I have known now for 10 years; she was there for me as I went through some very tough times and has one of the biggest hearts I know and am eternally 
grateful for her friendship. She met and married a wonderful man that I just love and believe that they so balance each other. We also love getting together for conversation and food – the “Chefs Dinners” are always looked forward to.
Our neighborhood and neighbors are absolutely awesome, friends, safety and beauty all wrapped up in one.
The Denver Waldorf community. WOW – it has brought an element to my life and that of my family that is tough to describe fully. The word community does do it justice at some level. We have met so many wonderful people and our daughter is growing up with so much love around her that it brings a huge level of joy to my heart. There are some true friends
hips that have evolved and get stronger every day. I get a huge sense of fulfillment of helping this school and community. The education that it provides the children just plain ROCKS. The quality and intelligence level as well as the strong sense of self that the school builds gives these kids the ability to change our world.
I am so grateful for having Law of Attraction bring a business into my life that allows me to submerge myself in my passion of personal development. The business is changing my life and is allowing me to pull myself out of a comfort zone and work on doing something different in my life. There are so many wonderful people associated with this company and I love what it stands for. It gives back to the world with a real desire to make a difference. There are schools that have been built, pools that have been maintained, and kids that have teddy bears and bikes due to the activity that the representatives of this company performed. It is a great company to be a part of and am thankful that it has fallen in my path!
Facebook friends… is it cool or what? There has been some reconnection with friends from High School and also the meeting of total strangers that through some common interests have allowed me to connect to some really awesome people. It has helped build relationships that without the personal sharing on FB that would have taken longer to build.
I know I could go on and on about things that I am grateful for, however… this is a special day to enjoy putting a meal together that can be shared by family… So, now — off to enjoy this day!!
Happy Thanksgiving!
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The Week After — Bliss!
The feeling of bliss and motivation has continued to push me through my personal development this week. After the Breakthrough Event in Cancun and having the great motivational speakers and personal breakthroughs it was time to get rolling with the Lifepath Unlimited business. This week was free from training. I made a decision to actually take some action and DO some of the things that I have been learning up to now. When setting goals this week one of them was to work on the Article work. So, I got busy writing articles.
I wrote three articles this week. One that I wrote was about Sean Stephenson – he was extremely motivating and seemed amazing to me in Cancun and I wanted to share what I learned from him and also help get the word of his book out there. I hope to do a review of it some time soon. Another article I wrote was about having a plan. The one thing that I have learned as I move into this business that it is so important to know what I am going to do next. I know that much time in the beginning was spent feeling a bit overwhelmed and having a plan of attack helped me so I wanted to put together some advice for others on how to make a network marketing plan . Another article I did came from an audio I had listened to that highlighted Ellie Drake and the importance of being a good coach. Her message was around being a Great Listener in order to be a great coach and ultimately a successful entrepreneur – she gave 9 tips on being a great listener and talked about how listening skills are required . In addition, I put together a checklist for myself that I need to run through after each article is written:
1. Twitter It
2. Facebook It
3. Digg It
4. Submit it to Search Engines (found here)
This may get added to as I continue on with my work. So, one of the three weekly goals I set – are DONE. The next goal I had was to start back up on doing free ads. However, after thinking about this one and some advice I had gotten while in Cancun, I changed this to work on Press Releases. The work I did here consisted of:
1. Wrote two Press Releases to test the grounds
2. Found a list of 50 Press Release sites
3. Created a tracking spreadsheet to track the sites, my id, password and articles submitted
4. Visited each site to determine if the type of Press Releases I would be working with would match the site. (19 did not)
5. Signed up for an account; read their terms of service (noted sites that had expectations like 1 PR per day, etc)
6. Posted one or both of my Press Releases. (sites that were more stringent I posted only one of the two PRs)
7. Am tracking which sites accepted and which did not accept the releases.
So, second of the three weekly goals I set – are DONE. The third goal will not get done and was associated with my corporate job. With some additional time taken off of work this week, this goal didn’t get accomplished.
Even though I took time off from training literally every day offers me something new that I learn with Internet Marketing. Every article I write, every tweak of a press release I learned more and more about the marketing side of the business.
One thing that has been put in front of me this week is the subject of purchasing leads. I continue to struggle with wondering if I have chosen the correct path. There are many people at Lifepath Unlimited that are seeing success and all they are doing is purchasing leads through one form or another. Besides the funding challenge, I am working on generating my own leads because of what kind of business I want.
I want a business that has multiple streams of income. I want a business where it can be successful because I have branded myself and to do that, I know I must become a leader and I must be able to provide value to others. In order to do that, I need to learn how this works, I need to understand what others want and need. If I don’t go through these motions I am not sure how I can provide value to people. By learning this process, going through the motions myself and branding myself I will be able to guarantee myself multiple streams of income.
By generating my own leads I also know that my target market will be on the other side of the phone when we talk. This will allow me to listen and have a higher quality conversation. This seems important to me as I work to do this Right From the Heart!
I also started a 30 day challenge this week, but I am going to write about THAT in a different post.
To close out this Blog, I wanted to say a few words about a woman that decided to depart the physical world this week. Our Grandma Helen (Aliera’s great grandma) has made her way to release from the physical binds that had, for a very long time, had her tied down – not in a happy place. I found something that I highly resonated with and will share it here:
“Love is stronger than death even though it can’t stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can’t separate people from love. It can’t take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death.” Author unknown
I know she is in a better place, but she will be missed. She had three kids and has a slew of grandkids and great grandkids. RIP!
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First Challenge – Dairy Free
This is my first 30 Day Challenge. I have decided to do these for a couple different reasons.
I am dedicated to my personal development and want to improve my life in areas of mental, physical, and spiritual health and I know that it takes 25-30 days to create new neural pathways in your brain. Our brains do not accept new things or allow us to change a habit unless it is repeated for 25-30 consecutive days in a row. (Miss one day and you need to start over at one) Jack Canfield refers to a study done by NASA where they gave the astronauts in training concave lenses. These lenses made people see upside down. After 25-30 days of continuous wear their brains would suddenly see right-side up. Their brains automatically swapped the image. However if one of them interrupted the experiment along the way the results were reversed. NASA had some take the glasses off for one day and then put them back on, these individuals had to wait another 25-30 days to have the reversal.
Some of the challenges will be things that I want to see changed in my life. The other things may not be permanent changes I will make in my life but are things that I want to ”try on” – first off it exercises my self discipline and second off I want to see if making the change affects the way I feel.
My first challenge is to go dairy free. No milk or cheese products. I am not going to include eggs in this challenge. I am not going to include items that have 1-2 Tablespoons included in the ingredients – for instance the bread I make at home has 2T butter. Today is Day 3 of this challenge – actually it should be day 7 however on Day 4 of my first run I accidentally – (really it was an accident!!) I ordered a Thai Iced Tea with our Thai food and I was about half way through it when I realized that it had milk in it! ARGH! So – I had to start over at Day 1… It has not felt difficult. I passed up whipped cream on my dessert last night, and butter on my toast this morning – these were really easy.
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30 Day Challenge!
After the Lifepath Unlimited’s Breakthrough event I have decided to begin having 30 day personal development challenges for myself. I will choose the challenges for different reasons, some may be things that I want to create habits for, others may be to see how it feels after 30 days. I will state in the beginning of the challenge what the expectations of myself will be, and all the rules and guidelines I will follow.
In all of them, if I miss one day, I will start over again with Day 1, so I don’t entirely expect that every single one of these will last 30 days. I can hope though, however… I already know that for the first one (that I started 4 days ago) has already been broken and I am starting over.
My goal is to consistently work on my own personal development which leads to a balanced life and I believe that by going through this exercise I will always be looking for things that will help me reach goals and also in setting goals.
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New Release: Deepak Chopra
The Ultimate Happiness Prescription: 7 Keys to Joy and Enlightenment By: Deepak Chopra
Happiness is something everyone desires. Yet how to find happiness–or even if we deserve to–remains a mystery. Still more mysterious is the secret to a lasting happiness that cannot be taken away. In The Ultimate Happiness Prescription, bestselling author Deepak Chopra shows us seven keys to uncover the true secrets of joy in the most difficult times.
The goal of life is the expansion of happiness, he contends. But in today’s demanding world, that goal seems elusive, if not impossibly out of reach. Society reinforces the belief that fulfillment comes from achieving success, wealth, and good relationships. Yet Chopra tells us that the opposite is true: all success in life is the by-product of happiness, not the cause.
So what is the cause? The Ultimate Happiness Prescription shares spiritual principles for a life based on a sense of your “true self” lying beyond the ebb and flow of daily living. Simple daily exercises lead to eliminating the root causes of unhappiness and letting a deeper level of bliss unfold.
After all avenues to happiness have been explored and exhausted, only one path is left: the journey to enlightenment. In The Ultimate Happiness Prescription, the daunting and exotic challenge of finding enlightenment becomes accessible step by step. We are taken on an inspiring journey to the true self, the only place untouched by trouble and misfortune.
On the way we learn the secrets for living mindfully and with effortless spontaneity. Now happiness is no longer hostage to external events but an experience we carry with us always. As Chopra inspiringly concludes, “Everything we fear in the world and want to change can be transformed through happiness, the simplest desire we have, and also the most profound.”
(From Hardbook cover)
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Breakthrough!!
The event of my life! (thus far!!!!) What a great few days! I have never gotten to participate in something such as what I got to experience last week. I have heard so many things about seminars and great events. I have been to many personal development seminars and this event was different. I was pushed to tears (yeah, I know… for those of you that know me, know that this is not the hardest thing to do) however… I can not express fully in words what this experience did for me. The name of the event is Breakthrough. And … “BREAKTHROUGH” is what you could say I had. This particular event had the theme “Unstoppable”.
Everything focused on how unstoppable we can be and how unstoppable we all are.
The speakers and activities were all arranged to show us we can do anything if only we put our mind to it. We heard from Sean Stephenson about how we need to get off our BUTS – and he isn’t talking about our padded behinds (necessarily!) He was referring to our excuses. He categorized our excuses into three types of excuses. The BUT excuse: but I don’t have the (fill in the blank); BUT fears: but what if I (fill in the blank); and BUT insecurities: but I’m not (fill in the blank). All different types of excuses we use to keep us from reaching our goals. Deanna Latson, who we all love, spoke about food – and living to be a centurion – the steps 1) Eat sensibly, small amounts of unrefined foods 2) Maintain strong relationships and 3) Keep your mind active. Cyntia Kersey was the next speaker and she writes books and lectures on how others have been unstoppable and how we can be unstoppable. Our next speaker (and guide for an evening event) was John Maesel – very awesome man. Very connected to the earth and FIRE. Our next speaker was a man who definitely defined the word unstoppable: David Goggins. David spoke to us about what he has accomplished – which is really – actually – unbelievable. He as a 290 pound man who decided to start raising money for kids of fallen military personnel and he did it in a HUGE way. It was in 2005 he started (at 290 pounds) to run marathons and triathalons and other major races (he finished 5th and then 3rd in the 204 mile Badland runs) and has raised a half million dollars for the kids.
We also did things over the three day event that challenged us to move out of our comfort zones, such as breaking arrows and bending rebar with our throats. We also did The Firewalk. All of these things showed me we can do things that our minds tell us we can’t do. These things pushed me to take steps – small steps (steps that our mind tell us are impossible) – to reach a goal (breaking an arrow, bending rebar or walking across a bed of hot coals).
I love the fact that the Lifepath events welcomes kids. This is a very family oriented event. My daughter and husband were able to attend all events and some things even catered to my daughter. I love being part of something that includes what means more to me than anything – my family!
My major breakthrough for this event happened after the firewalk. I did not get across without some minor (although it did not FEEL minor the night of the event) burns. Prior to the walk we were taught that we needed to be 100% present, that we needed to know where we were, where we were going and we needed to have a plan. I found that when I walked across the coals, I left the present. After dissecting this a bit for myself I realized that I often leave the present, I lose touch with my inner self which results in me — holding me back. It keeps me from feeling comfortable in social situations, it keeps me from being able to tune into myself, which keeps me from being able to be my true authentic self. Although I have had no issues with following my intuition, I feel I am not able to call on it at will. I feel that this stems from many things in my life. I obviously chose a life to learn the lessons needed to truly break free and learn how to be myself – to find the paths that would lead me to lessons where I would be able to see the gap and then find ways to close it. At this point in time, I am not sure of my steps to take to work on this, however, possibly just realizing it may be the first steps. My work now is to find some 30 day challenges that will allow me to reach my goals which include breaking through the self image that I have created for myself!
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Defy Gravity!
Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason by Caroline Myss
Product Description
New York Times best-selling author Caroline Myss draws from her years as a medical intuitive to show that healing is not only physical; it is also a mystical phenomenon that transcends reason.
Inspired by ordinary people who overcame a wide array of physical and psychological ailments—from rheumatoid arthritis to cancer—Caroline dove into the works of the great mystics to gain a deeper understanding of healing’s spiritual underpinnings. Based on these studies, she demonstrates how conventional and holistic medicine often fall short in times of need. Both systems rely upon a logical approach to curing illness when there is nothing reasonable about the emotional, psychological, or spiritual influences behind any ailment.
Integral to this mystical healing approach is the engagement of the soul, which we experience through exploring our seven shadow passions, building an empowered inner self around our seven inherent graces, and learning how to work with the mystical laws that govern it. This knowledge holds the key to understanding what it means to defy gravity and break through the boundaries of ordinary thought. You can heal any illness. You can channel grace. And you can learn to live fearlessly.
About the Author
Caroline Myss has been in the field of energy medicine and human consciousness for 20 years. Since 1982, she has worked as a medical intuitive, providing individuals with an evaluation of the health of their energetic anatomy system. She specializes in assisting people in understanding the emotional, psychological, and physical reasons why their bodies have developed an illness. Her New York Times bestsellers include Anatomy of the Spirit, Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can, Sacred Contacts, and Entering the Castle.
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Catching Up and Making a Change
My last blog in this category was entered two months ago. I was writing about week two of my journey of moving from the corporate rat race to owning my own business. I have come to the conclusion that the reason why I stopped blogging on this category was due to the fact that I was writing about things that had occurred a couple weeks (or more) prior. What I have decided to do is catch up with what I have been doing and where I am today and then go forward writing about what is going on in current terms.
Although I often do not feel I have gotten that much done the small actions every day have added up. I have done the following since my Sept 3 posting:
Web page: The purpose of this site is to sell coaching, products and provide recommended reading.
Training: I have gone through training for Squidoo, landing pages, Ezine articles and writing for pull (how to put together an article)
Articles: I have posted 4 Squidoo and 1 E-Zine articles
Ads: Learned how to place free ads through several websites.
Blogging: Am posting new releases for books that others interested in personal development may find interesting as well as posting book reviews as I finish reading books.
Affiliate: Have signed up for several affiliate associations which should help monetize going forward.
Autoresponders: I have gone through training and selected the application I will use going forward.
RSS Feeds: Learned about these and got my blog set up in several trackers.
Social Networking: Use Facebook and Twitter to build relationships; created a class that can be delivered
Synergy Training: Attended Lifepath Synergy training in Arizona.
E-Book: Have started writing my E-Book on goal setting.
Target Market Work: Took time and brainstormed and narrowed down my target market
Denver Waldorf School: Am chair of a subcommittee on PR and am on the Board of Trustees. Attended several events with my daughter.
Personal Development: Fished the 56 Days to Discovery, several books and listening to several MP3s.
Corporate J.O.B.: Work a full time job that changed during this time frame, so I am learning a new area of the business. Resigned my position with Qwest Women so that I could balance my life.
So, as I review all that has gotten done in just a few months I do feel much better. This proves to myself that it really is about taking small actions toward goals.
One of the best things that I have found is the training I found through Renegade University . They have assisted by laying out a plan of attack as well as given great step by step training. They teach attraction marketing. They take you step by step from looking at and determining what your target market is and then has a plan that takes you step by step through a set of training that gets students up and running. I highly recommend this training!
I have also gone through numerous emotions in the last few months. Although there was a very high level of excitement in the very beginning as time has moved on, my level of excitement has been contained. Don’t get me wrong, I am still very excited. There are many positive feelings – more positive than negative but… there have been negative feelings.
Guilt
I go in and out of feelings and thoughts of guilt. Thoughts that I am not doing enough for the business, thoughts that I am not doing enough at my corporate J.O.B. often go through my mind. At times when this happens I keep thinking about what I ultimately want. I know that I am someone that has always gone over and beyond at what I do and where I am at and I know I can’t do that at everything in my life right now. I have to let some things just be.
Fear
I know fear is a normal feeling when moving out of a comfort zone and doing something new, something unknown. I have definitely felt this as I move forward. I think there are times that my fear keeps me doing some of the right actions to get me moving closer to my goal; it is really easy to fall back into the comfort zone. Especially when I was told I would be moving to a new job within my corporate J.O.B. the fun of learning something new definitely had my mind moving away from my ultimate goal.
Anger
There has been anger at myself. Thoughts that I might have jumped into something too quickly have entered. If I would have spent some of the money on getting the business up and running then perhaps I would be further along. There has been anger at my up line due to some feelings that they have not paid me one iota of attention (after my sending them the money for signing up). The training from them was minimal – there WAS training and it WAS great to have and get. I listen to what other associates are getting and wonder why I am not getting it, I wonder if others are getting more training and included in things that I have not been. I know that my up line had given leads to others (I was one of these) – but I have not gotten that. I then popped out of this negative emotion and realized only I can make this a success. It doesn’t matter what others are getting and if I am missing out on something others are getting.
There is no room for blaming others, I need to take responsibility for my decisions and my actions. I have chosen to do this business and want to do it in such a way that I am branding ANDREA and that has taken some time. Although I could have put all the dollars I have invested into calling leads I have made a decision that this is not the way of the future of selling on the internet and it is especially not how I feel comfortable and not the way I want to sell. I want to establish relationships and give people full training and value. I want it to be Right From the Heart!
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