Building a Foundation for A Successful Business

I have a new "mentor", "teacher", "guide", "support guy".  

Jame P Friel

I find him a grounding force for me.  In our Facebook group today he asked a question, inviting our reflections.  

Q:  What is stopping you from "totally going for it"?

The Big Why
Having big "why's for my success. That is a big one for me.  Over these last 2.5 years as I've been shifting out of employee "consciousness" into that of being a "business owner" - it has brought up so many core beliefs I have, after a lifetime of feeling I've been a slave to "the job" and "survival".

See Yourself Succeeding
I"m having to learn a whole new relationship to money and thriving. One thing I've heard often these last 2+ years is to be able to see myself in the successful roles I am training for. This is big for me too. Very little framework or foundation for this. So in many ways starting from scratch.

Life Management
Before "going for it" I'm finding I need to trust I am able to manage in my life the things I already feel are core and basic to my health and my values. Time to eat well, exercise regularly, and a balance of rest and time to "just be". I really don't believe that if I work super hard now to achieve, that I will later have time to relax.

I seem to believe that "as I am living now" I am setting up habits for how I will be living when I succeed.

Financial Literacy
One big thing I had to do in building foundation, was to get accountable with my money, my spending, tracking my expenses, watching what I spend money on. And when I buy business training programs, am I actually utilizing the trainings.

I've made good progress on this.  Once I'm confident with managing my money, this opens up more willingness to allow more money to come to me.

Money is energy

I appreciate the engaging questions James invites us to explore.  Helps me to reflect and share in a public way, which is a good reflection back to me. 

James Friel contact info

Facebook page 

James P. Friel 

https://www.facebook.com/james.friel.528?ref=br_rs

Podcast:  Just the Tips

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Letters to Friends: Musings At The River

Sometimes I write letters to friends, that seem to go beyond just "an update" .... and more seems to capture the essence of my life, as it is playing out.  This letter is one of those moments.  

 

Dear Darling WomanFriend,

I'm sitting at the river, at my secret beach, as I compose this. I love writing here, my very own river beach.

I so cherished getting your card and savored each and every word and sentiment.  I am moved with happy heart as I imagined sitting with you as you opened the packages.  The image is a gift in itself!    Friendship is so precious.  With each year, I treasure it more. 

The summer graced me with flocks of Canada geese, mallard ducks, beaver, river otters, deer, rabbits, and now, as Fall approaches, dragonflies fill the air.  I've delighted in butterflies dancing around me and a few precious times also landing on me.  And hummingbirds have been my messengers. 

Sept will be 2yrs and 8months since leaving the employee world (and my cottage).  I'm taking time today to really let that soak in.  Though often I have felt in free fall it's been liberating too.  I'm increasing my capacity for deep joy and days like today, walking the river trail, my Being overflows with gratitude and feelings of grand abundance. 

This year I discovered God is within me and how Miraculous it is that all my needs are so beautifully met.  Especially the more in tune with life and spirit that I get, it becomes easier to recognize this seeming miracle of life.  I'm in a co-creative partnership now with my Beloved Source Creator. 

I feel now I have the core foundation for living a mystic life.
God Within
Co-partner with God
Deep knowing all my needs are met, all in good and wise timing
Overflowing with gratitude and the celebration of the abundance in my life

Awakening to Kindness being a heart centered primary practice for me. 

As for my body, baking soda beverages help to alkalize and essential oils have become my friend.  Frankincense being my favorite. 

To help keep me solidly grounded in my body, I take cold plunges in the Sacramento River. The water comes out of the bottom of the Dam upstream and is icy, so the river is quite cold.  I feel so Alive and Exhilarated playing and splashing in these flowing waters.  Granted, it takes 100 degree+ weather to inspire the plunges, making the temperature contrast thrilling.  But even today, as Fall is in the air, and it's just in the mid 90's - the plunges are still marvelous beyond words!  It's felt like camping every day I'm here at the beach. 

If you were here, and jumped in with me, the sacred river canyon would delight in hearing your divine full body laughter as you join me in the heavenly cold plunge bliss. I am sure!  

As for what is next for me .... First, now with a solid spiritual foundation growing roots within me, my deepest heart desire is to awaken to sharing this amazing life with a beloved partner, husband, best friend, lover.  So I practice opening deeply to this.

and
2nd ... I've been training to be a home-based business owner as a

Digital Marketer (varied online business opportunities),

SEO Agency (helping business websites advertise),

and Affiliate and Ecommerce Sales (advertising to sell other products I endorse)

Essentially, it's a total remake of my relationship with money, career and moving out of scarcity mentality.

Turns out this could be a very lucrative new career for me.

As I get closer to this manifestation, my fears get stronger.  Turns out the thought of being a successful business owner scares me deeply!  
And I am reminded, often, that which scares us, can be things we deeply desire also.

Thank goodness I have EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) - i.e.  Tapping of Acupuncture points ....   EFT in my "tool kit" is wonderful for helping to tap away my fears and other emotional "stuff". 

3rd and 4th are more my areas of passion, but not areas I'm pressuring to produce money at this point. 

3rd is my ongoing love for writing (thus, this letter being an example!) 

4th is my "baby"  that I have held in deep creative space for over 30 years

Finally, over the last year, I trained and learned how to build WordPress websites,

and now I have www.HeartPlanVision.com ; my very own and first website.

It is bare bones right now, and from this framework, I will have a place to come to add material, as time permits. 

Heart Plan is where I will share my ideas and inspirations and collaborations for planetary evolution. 

  

I do love you and grateful to stay in touch.

Shema

Health Care for All Reflections May 2017

Reflections on Verbiage and Deliberate Intent and How Best to Mobilize During These Momentous Times - and specifically - what the heck do we do to bring about Health Care for All ?

A friend asked me a question about a post / comment I made on Facebook.

Her Q: Regarding your recent comment about verbiage....I was just curious how you call out "negative behavior" (of politicians) without using "negative" words/expressions. I know what you mean by how everything we say circles in the ether. So it's good to be conscious about usage of words.

I'd like your input on this how you deal with it! Thank you

My response: I'm trying to remember which post you're referring to. Here's what I'm recalling. Let me know if it addresses your question.

I've noticed my own tendency and others to go into panic mode with what is going down. Example really came home with the latest passage through the House of the Health care bill 2.0.

I was seeing comments etc. as if the passage meant that it was now law. Where really it was the first step and needs to go to the Senate. And the Senate is hell bent on not passing it. Bernie will be introducing Medicare for All, which I am totally for.

It felt to me like people are caving into allowing this bill to pass. INSTEAD of holding a vision of Deliberate Intention for it ABSOLUTELY NOT to pass. That's what I'm meaning by verbiage.

Instead of panic, we really need to be building a vision of what we want, and imprinting it powerfully into the quantum field. The Global Mind, etc.

I've contacted my Republican Rep and gave him my feelings. I'm not saying not to do that. By all means we call them out on the crap. And for sure let them know we will be voting them out of office. Daily Kos also has a letter writing campaign going on. I encourage all concerned to get on board with that, and flood the Republicans who voted for the bill, with our outrage, and commitment to vote them out of office.

But we will need good candidates to replace them, and we need to be sure they represent us.

So in summary .... my big question now is, how do we get Medicare for All a reality ?

I think of the things I have wanted with all my heart, and the energy and focus I put into it. And not accepting no as an option. Only "this or something even greater".

It's time I up my game and apply that level of passion, engagement and commitment to some "Political Issues".

So how do we INSIST that we get corporations out of our health care and go to Health Care for All model ?

We need to be strong and not settle.

We settled with Obama's version. He caved into to keeping corporations in the game.

We need to stop that. NOW. There is no time but NOW. We can do it if we get focused and determined. This I believe.

Remember THEY are afraid of our power. And they themselves are in panic mode to keep us dumbed down.

One more thought, as I reread this. And this is new for me and helping calm my panic.

I'm in for the long haul now. Like Martin Luther King Jr, he's seen the mountain top, and we will get there. How long, anyone's guess.

But we need to give our ALL. This is the time. For we are running out of time for this cycle of the game.

So even though we may have set backs. We can't perceive them as defeats. Very different mind set.

The good that I see now, is that people are so in panic now, and so much is at stake, that it's getting people's attention.

People who normally were too busy with their day to day lives, to pay attention to politics, the environment, etc. People who were "just comfortable enough" to not get involved in activism.

Well, now, for the first time, I don't feel so alone anymore. I feel we're actually starting to talk together and plan and strategize.

And really interesting, to me, I'm starting to hear the mindset of Republicans, and I'm finding it fascinating! Here's one I heard just this week: "in our state, we are red, we're not hippy, tree hugging, bandana wearing ...... - we believe in pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps."

Wow! what the bleep does that mean? So Republicans never get handouts from their families, etc. Well, our little president sure got plenty of handouts when he started out! AND Trees, which are essential to our very survival! Don't get me started on that one.

"Carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is necessary for plants and trees to grow. Forests play a specific and important role in the global carbon cycle by absorbing carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, storing carbon above and below ground, and producing oxygen as a by-product of photosynthesis."

I'm told the end game is to divide us, have us in-fighting and distracted, so they can further their enslavement game of us.

I"m also told if we dig deeper we will find commonality in those we are conditioned to alienate from.

So I'm ready, to dig deeper. Please join me. Our very survival is at stake. Please sacrifice a few hours a week and dedicate that time to engaging in this epic opportunity.

WE are the ones WE are waiting for. Look in the mirror. :-) And remember to do the shadow work too.

As within, So without. Cheers! Shema Satya

Deep Reflection

Here is a lovely guest post that speaks of listening from the heart.  Enjoy.

Deep Reflection
by Rick Theile

"If one wants to change one’s behavior and
move towards healing the soul, one of the
key steps in this process is deep reflection. ... "

See link for full article ...

https://www.whispernthunder.org/deep-reflection.html

Shared on site  Whisper N Thunder .... dedicated to Native American / First Nations empowerment.  This website is a free, online magazine sharing truth from the indigenous & allied perspective.  

A Political Awakening - Entry One - Notes to Myself

Notes To Myself
I begin "Notes to Myself" as project ideas flood in.

What is different now, between past inspired times, is that I am taking one step closer to translating the ideas into web sites I am creating.
Heart Plan Vision and Heart Plan Vision Portal.
Heart Plan Vision Portal has a vision to help (in homeopathic terms) empower people / potentize (to make potent or effective) people into effective action

Goal is to build on information and not lose track of these ideas.

For now, this entry is a download of ideas that flooded in this morning.  No edits on this, but rather just wanting to capture the essence.  To be expanded on as the ideas further flush out for me.

"A Political Awakening"

First topics for Interviews:  Ideas, Suggestions ....
1.  Letter writing to politicians, track their addresses and issues I write about.  Track results.  How to best be effective.  How are they logged and reported to congress people.
2.  Save Social Security
3.  Health Care for All
4.  Fukishima - what to do
5.  Voting Rights - set goals
6.  Who to interview - develop specific questions:  Kucinich, Michael Moore, Greg Palast. Arizona Gabby.  What do they need.  What are ideals.   First  is Sandy Fish and team - develop questions and ask her what they would like to talk about.
7.  Drain the Swamp.  Find the quote of claim that only 5 in Congress are not millionaires - is it accurate.  We do need politicians who represent the people, the 98%.
8.  Ideal candidates represent the people - start building a voter base now - get input from people - leading up to 2018.  What is goal.  A Congress and Political structure that represents the people.
9.  Weekly Action Calls:  examples  Sierra Club  DAPL;  MoveOn.org  Resistance weekly calls  - sending text message alerts.   Track the effectiveness of these.
10.  52 Interviews - one a week, then becomes a package to sell at years end.  Also available to members in the members area.  Include summaries, highlights, what accomplished and what overall vision was.

Heart Plan Vision Portal is like homeopathy.
Seek to empower people.
Strengthen immune system of entire planetary body of people
As people we are care takers of earth, we help enliven people to fee connected with earth (eco-psychology) and take care of her.  She (Earth Gaia) sustains us.
Learn how not to act against one's best interests.
So, HPVP introduces something.  Some knowledge, an action idea, an empowerment tool, expand understanding, and it acts like a high potency homeopathic remedy and people take action in their lives, for some type of betterment for the good of all. 

My Activism.
Environmental Forum of Marin (EFM) - 2 years study and develop Enviro Philosophy day.
EFM Graduate presentation of Heart Plan Vision
Internet & Email began
Facebook and Twitter launch and Social Media
Facebook Community Pages - 55 pages  55K likes so far
Study Internet Business Opportunities
30 Day Blog Challenge - and Kindle book idea - publish the 30 chapters as a book
Then more book ideas start to emerge
OMG, Affilio, Word Press - trainings 2016 +
Gather up Quotes for Earth Day.  How to best inspire people and awaken them more to the importance of caring for our mother earth.

Reflecting more on transition from Employee to Business Owner.
I see how each step I take works to get my info out to more and more people.
OMG Business Model - my study from employee to business owner
Word Press Training
Heart Plan Vision web site and first drafts for Heart Plan Vision Portal
Next:  develop outline for Interview Series and be able to share recording with those I interview
Then:  Heart Plan Vision Portal web site - set up member sitte with Launch Word Press theme (Christina guy)  and PayPal, $10/ monthly membership and Weekly Interviews

Friendships
Greeting cards.  A way to stay in touch with people, so not to lose contact as life gets busy.
Sending love, connection, team building, community building, inspiration, hope to inspire others to greatness.  First sending cards cured my loneliness.  Mother Teresa - give until it hurts.  Indentify beautiful qualities of people and celebrate them in cards with poetry I create.
Keep strong with my core group.

Facebook Community Pages
How can I turn each FB page into some greater engagement.  Cross pollinate - introduce my related pages on related sites.  Example:  flowers and gardens, to food and forestry, to good health.

Developing big enough WHY's
OMG / LOI / WordPress
My desire to learn WordPress - because needed sites to rank (OMG SEO agency) along with Affiliate sales business.
Then I began to ask again, WHAT IS IT THAT I TRULY DESIRE WITH ALL OF ME?
My desire to complete WordPress training and Launch HeartPlanVision.com enlivens as my vision for activating Heart Plan Vision Portal awakens in me and I see the frustration in just being on FB, and my desire to start Interview Series grows strong once again.

Blockages / Road Blocks
If I reach blockage (LOI), then Scenario build / Identify what is blurry / fuzzy.  / Breakthrough Stack - what do next?  / What's blocking motivation and energy to take action?

Neville - explore further his grasshopper and giant analogies.

Heart Plan Vision - weekly interviews using Free Conferencing service.  Be sure I can share the calls, that they record and I can give copy to the people I interview.

Note to self:  one of reasons I like Elementary and Sherlock is his passion - how he loves his work.  and Watson - he says "people who love their work don't need alarm clocks!  They arise with eagerness to begin their day.

Diary of a Launch Entry 12 I'm Back!

Hello there!  Oh my goodness, have I been away for a long while.  Yikes!  Six months away from my diary here.  No, I didn't give up on my business development.  It's more like I went a bit "underground" for a while.  Woodshedding, so to speak.

From the Urban Dictionary

Woodshedding

"To practice or hone skills, particularly musical skills, the origin is from the fact that for purposes of privacy people would go to their woodshed to practice without being overheard."

In a way I'm practicing my "musical skills", if one considers developing a career that allows for lots of freedom, mobility, creativity, and helping others along the same lines as music: vocal or instrumental sounds combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.

I would like that.  For my career, my art that I offer the world, to produce beauty, harmony and emotion in people.  In this regard, my instruments are the tools of my trade, the internet, my knowledge and my resources.

Envision with me for a moment a world where everyone performs their services for their communities and the world, as if a dance, a song, a painting.  How uplifting that would be.  I'm not surprised really, that as I think of developing my business I use analogies from the arts.  I was an artist dancer for the first half of my life, honing my skills in the studio, and performing my story on stage.   

Writers are also known to go into woodshed phases.  I so love to write.  But let me not digress.    

For me, this time, while I've been away from keeping this diary updated, I went "into my shed" so to explore the varied aspects of mysef in regards to my perceived choices of: retirement, marriage, employee employment or the life of an entrepreneur internet marketer.  Or which of these could I combine to create my next life chapter story?  

Today is a breakthrough day for me, in that it is my first day, in a year of studying the ways of internet marketing business, that I actually am looking forward to my day of studies.  What helps to create this upbeat feeling is that I've been busy "closing loops" and getting focused.

Closing loops so that the 'loose ends' of my life are not running around in my mind, cluttering up my available brain power.  Now I can relax and focus a tad bit better, having quite a bit of my extraneous activities nicely scheduled into my week.  This way, I know when something will have my undivided attention.  Until then, when I think of these things, I quietly remind them they will have their time this week.  My 'To Do' list feels like a bunch of exuberant puppies if I don't schedule them for their own time during the week.

Resources

David Allen is a great resource for learning how to manage our most busy lives.
And great thanks to David Mills and his Alchemy training for the understanding about 'closing loops'.  

Reflections Diary Entry 2 - The Boiling Frog

A sleeping giant has awakened with this last wave of violence and horror concerning police brutality and all the varied responses. Let us not fall back to sleep. Here are some reflections on a course of action to take to keep us from going back into the haze that seems to be enveloping us.

The Boiling Frog - it's time we get out of the pot, before it is too late.

If you read this, I hope you'll make a comment, and share what your new commitment is. Imagine if we each do just a little bit better each day. We will be a grand force.  Please join me.

And share either this, or your own version with your "tribe".

Thank you.

A dear friend of mine just made a post about his experience in jail. The post came with a video of a cop tasering a teenager so much, the boy now has permanent brain damage.

My friend’s story: “While in jail when being extracted from my cell I was hit with taser shields over 12 times. The inmates later told me I was dragged from my cell unconscious. This madness has got to stop!”

What is different now is we can capture things on video, and social media lets us share stories. Thank goodness my friend lived through the taser assault. These horrors are not new. What is new is our ability to witness so much.

There is a critical mass building as our awareness of all this crap is coupled with seeing and feeling all this up close and personal. It WILL wake us up out of the daze we are in.

"They" are aiming to bring about civil war in our country. Divide, conquer, further enslave. We will be tested more. Will love prevail? Can we find a higher ground to rise to?

It's up to us how quickly we get out of our daze and mobilize. This last round of horror has deepened my commitment to a whole new level. My commitment is to aim to stop compartmentalizing it all, and going back to life as "normal", between each new assault.

We just can't keep going back to "normal". One powerful thing we all can do is to start asking real deep core questions. The questioning process unleashes much creativity.

What pains each of us the most, and what questions can we each ask to find our way to a life of goodness?

Questioning starts a process within, and then we follow the inspirations that arise from this questioning. And ask more questions and it becomes a road map that can lead us to higher ground.

Let's not fall asleep again. PLEASE. Each person that is murdered is another "canary in the mine". Life as we know it is getting SO toxic. It's time to build a new foundation based on goodness and abundance and love. And we need to, each of us, weed out our own toxins, and become congruent with the world we desire to create.

No one is going to do it for us. Each day let us ask of ourselves. What do I commit to today, to build the world I know is possible?

What can I do just a little bit better today. We need to DO BETTER. The time is so NOW.

Let us remind each other, we are the "Frog in the Pot". We WILL boil to death if we don't get out of the pot!

"The boiling frog is an anecdote describing a frog slowly being boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death."

 The World Needs Us. Please, We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For.

Reflections Diary Entry 1 Origins of Humanity

The Origins of Humanity

"The guardians gave us knowledge of who we are and our destiny as souls. We were brought here to do two things.

First, we are here to enjoy ourselves, to grow, increase and become more than we are, living in the beauty of nature on this beautiful planet.

Second, we are here to discover, to remember our divine origins through the experience of love for one another."

Hank Wesselman

Diary of A Launch Entry 11 First See It Within

What are our big Whys
What are our musts
These are what will propel us forward
These are what are the makings of our beliefs
And our glass ceiling
Design our standards to uplift our musts

 
Develop and ask the power questions
That will inform us
As to the actions to take
To bring about our breakthroughs

What breakthroughs must we have
That we desire with all our hearts
It takes that much desire for a breakthrough
Anything less will just cause our dreams to wither away

Ask these questions with all the passionate power we can muster 
Change only happens once an internal shift happens

See it
Feel it
Know it 
Internally first

Otherwise external actions are wasted
And only prove to reinforce our limiting beliefs

And the downward spiral strengthens 
So Stop It
Stop the downward spiral

We are in the drivers seat
In charge of whether we evolve our lives and progress
Progress always towards greater good

Let it be
Allow it
Encourage it
Small steps or Big Steps
It does not matter
Just be sure to take a step towards greater good

Diary of A Launch Entry 10 Choosing Happiness Now

My newest focus is choosing happiness right where I am with what is going on. I realize more and more that who we are in the present will be who we are when we enter a new situation.

I've often been in the mindset .... "once ... such and such changes .... then I will be happy". Well, I have a sense I have healed enough that I now can wholeheartedly choose happiness right now, even though I'm not in my perfect life yet. haha! that sort of feels liberating.

Now that I'm declaring this publicly, I get to see if there is truth behind my words.  This all sounds good.  Let's see how well I do embodying it.

This applies very much so to my newly forming online career.  My current habits, work patterns, life management mastery and mindset will all follow me into my new career life.  Don't think that "once I arrive somewhere new" then I will change things.  There is no time except the present to make these changes.  Who I am now is who I will be tomorrow, unless I do things differently today.

This last year has really proved to me beyond a doubt that our light and our shadows follow us everywhere we go.  No matter how many changes I made, leaving unhappy romance, leaving uphappy job, being uprooted from my stable home, liberating myself from financial debt, etc etc.  I saw, in each new situation that I was still the same me.  The same victim, the same stuck energy, the same stories, the same unhappy, the same fears.  And! on a positive note, the same courageous resilient woman.  She is my one constant through all the ups and downs of this life. 

There have been some nice shifts inside for me this last week, as I engage in some new internal "energy" work.  the woo woo stuff.

I celebrate the new me emerging this Spring 2016.

I share with you.  

Choose Today.
Choose the Now.

Diary of a Launch Entry 9 Accountability and Laser Focus

This is good.  I'm in the final week of month 4 of my pre-launch preparatory work and training.  Creating my laser focus is in the early development stages.  These first few months have been a bit chaotic, with my energy all over the place.  Learning to recognize how I continue to get pulled to the latest "bright and shining" internet offer.  All the while my OMG coaches continue to guide us to keep our attention on the training within OMG.  Being scattered will only create scattered results.  Follow the clues to success.  Focus  Focus  Focus

David Mills Law of Implication continues to be my guiding light.  "Get time on my side" so I do not rush.  Breathe, relax, stay focused, be calm. I'm not in a race.  Rather, I'm on a journey of building a sustainable prosperous life, being healthy, happy and of great service to others.

I now have 2 "accountability support buddies".  Wonderful women who share similar goals and values as we work to build new incredible lives for ourselves.  One is a local friend and weekly we plan to phone, text, email each other with our intentions for the week.  The other woman is in my OMG group and we will Facebook private message each other about how we are doing with the training, our challenges, and our successes.   

This is my first week I'm ready to commit to a solid 40 hour week on my prep for my first business product launch.  It's taken 5 months, since purchasing the product for my first launch (selling an affiliate product), for me to feel "grounded" enough to move forward on solid actions.   I've been "in the cave" learning how to develop "my offer" and how to get it front of potential customers and clients.

One of my online mentors posed a question today:  "what is your biggest issue or stumbling block in your business right now?"   I pondered this for a bit and answered this way:  Focus, I still get pulled in too many directions.  I have an affiliate product and support to launch it, but each day I keep focusing on more stuff to study in prep.  Mentors keep saying, launch and learn through the process.  I'm still blocked, or at least I'm concerned that I may be.

Then there are the days where I feel, in the bigger picture of my life unfolding, I am handling exactly what is best to be give attention to each day, and my foundation continues to build.  Solid and strong.    

 w

Diary of a Launch Entry 8 Am I Worth The Effort

My coach trainers are sharing great wisdom for contemplation, for me.  Now.  It is time.  Rubber hits the road as the saying goes.  It's time to look ever so deeply into why I am not fully applying myself to my business launch.  What's going on love?  Self imposed beliefs I've put on myself.  Perhaps.

Stories of blame no longer have merit here.  It's about me.  Am I seeking to prove to the father, that I'm a loser, like he said to me.  I'm now seeing however, how I just created him.  I came in, this life, to clear that inner critic, the loser, the one who falls short, the one who fails others.  It's all ultimately within me, these messages, and in the end, just silly mind chatter.

It's rather liberating to take the power away from the father.  Yes father, I'm saying it, you are no longer responsible for how my life turns out.  Can I get a hallelujah!

Yes!  No more victim stances.  I reclaim my projections.  Let me use that energy for myself.  Love it!  I can feel the energy returning.  Now I can use that attention to see me.  Is it lethargy I am dealing with now?   What's keeping me from moving forward?  I don't need answers from without.  I look within now.  What is this frozen energy as I approach my launch?  This is so very curious!

I'm not going to label it.  I'm going to approach it with interest and care.  True, I have seen that I need to manage my finances better.  Before I increase my money earning power, I need to show to myself that I am a good money manager.  Okay, so I'm looking at that now.  Doing my taxes this week.  Step by step, this puzzle will reveal itself.

Am I worth the effort?  What a powerful question and query.  What does that really mean, to me?  Does money getting always require hard work, high self esteem and a huge inner drive?  I'm not seeking money to prove anything.  And my spiritual path reminds me that Source Creator is my true source, not money.

Do I have an ideal that everything within a path with heart must be joyful, light and happy? 

To be continued.  I wish to "sleep on" these questions and explorations. More will be revealed.  I'm not pushing, I'm exploring.  I'm building relationship and intimacy with my inner navigator and director. 

Diary of a Launch Entry 7 Measuring Progress

I love it when a fellow member in my OMG class checks in with me on FB and asks how I'm doing.  One such friend stopped by today and inquired.  Without someone asking, I often will not take time to check in with myself and see how I'm doing.

Here's today's assessment of my status.

Haven't written up my personal review of Feb progress. I did write up my summary for Jan. Hoping to do it monthly. So not sure how successful I feel about Feb.  That's how these reviews help me.  By reflecting on my study patterns, and if and where I am taking "action", I can better access my progress. 

I do know I took some time to clear up some distractions in my personal life, so I can feel more organized and focused, and not have "my life" keep pulling me off track.

In spirit of David Mills and Law of Implication,  I have been practicing separating commitment from action. He spoke about that in his most recent videos that he shared with us in our members area. 

From these new insights I am now clearly committing to take the affiliate product I bought in Nov, and launch the first web site for one of the info products that comes with the program. Hopefully, the plan being, to then see which of OMG tactics can best help with bringing traffic and conversion to the info product.

I'm still not quite happy with my sense of organization within OMG. I learn things in the webinars, and then I'm not able to find my notes on that topic, hence I'm not mastering any of the info yet.
But the SEO terms are feeling more familiar.

Diary of a Launch Entry 6 First Months A Fellow Student Shares

A fellow student that is in OMG, along with me, just did a pretty awesome summary post.  It's so good, wanted to share it here.

OMG Machines - 6 Weeks In Review & Update
http://www.caroline-middlebrook.com/omg-machines-6-week-review/

Caroline Middlebrook:  "For me there are 5 aspects of OMG that I find particularly significant:

• The extensive video based training
• The weekly live webinars with the coaches
• The archive of webinar replays from 2015
• The Law of Implication training
• The Facebook group"

Her blog post elaborates on each.

As you can see, there is good reason I'm deeply immersed in my training now.  I'm learning a new language and a new skill, and the material available is massive.  Every week we also have live webinar trainings customized to help us learn what is most relevant for the stages we are moving though in developing knowledge within the world of SEO, Search Engine Optimization.  

Diary of a Launch Entry 5 Overwhelm

A business colleague and friend of mine expressed great overwhelm and fear today and simply asked for words of encouragement.  She spoke of needing clients and I'm guessing that means money so to meet her basic needs.  She also was processing feelings around a very difficult exchange she had with someone she was working with.  

Here are some reflections I shared with her.

"I know the overwhelm and fear. So sorry to hear about the challenging business relationship. It comes with the territory. One of my coaches advised not to worry too much about difficult situations; clients, Virtual Assistants, etc..  We're not a good match for everyone and that's okay.

I hear you about needing clients, i.e needing money I assume. Reminds me of a video I recently watched of Oprah. She was speaking about the "early days". She'd ask herself regularly "What is the next right move." and just keep moving forward one step at a time. I've written these words in very visible locations in my work space, to help with my overwhelm and lack of focus.

What is the next right move, the next best move.  And take action.

My best route during times like you describe is to pray like I've never prayed. The nice thing about this level of stress is that it gives me lots of emotion so my prayer has lots of passion to it.

Find in your heart what you most need to understand and what you most desire, and then pray with all the heart you have."

Support will come, answers will come.  Stay centered within and keep a look out for answers from within and without.

Just yesterday, I was walking "the river trail" near my home.  I was processing and clearing out some energies around difficult relationships in my life.  I was talking out loud, as there were no people around.  And behind me, a young man on a skateboard passed me, and then turned around, saying he had a message for me (from God).  It was a beautiful message that totally affirmed what I was clearing out  (a topic to discuss at a later time).

Imagine that!  What a delightful surprise and amazing affirmation that energies from the unseen world are present and with me always, hearing me, listening, guiding, supporting, loving me.

We are not alone. 

Diary of a Launch Entry 4 Commitment

Here is a post I just made to Facebook. 

In Dec 2015, my Path with Heart clarified a bit more. and I committed to bring my gifts forward through designing a business I would deliver through the internet. Along with that commitment I joined some trainings, that would guide me wisely into this new career.

Here are some notes I wrote up this morning on this new path I am embarking on.

"I'm developing an online business, delivering services and products by way of the Internet and mobile devices, with special focus on leveraging social media.

With a current population of 7.2 billion and based on current trends, mobile devices will help push internet penetration to over 50% of world's population by mid to late 2016, with social media alone exceeding 2 billion users in late 2015.

There now exists an incredible opportunity to help play a role in uplifting and connecting humanity on a global level, at a critical mass never achieved before."

statistics from: http://wearesocial.com/…/digital-social-mobile-worldwide-20…

love and hugs!
Shema

"Journey Sessions with Shema"