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.