Hot Flash April 2, 2011

A Thousand Points of Light

This past week, a television special was aired honoring President George Herbert Walker Bush and his iniative – A Thousand Points of Light.  Their were 4 former Presidents in attendance and the people for whom they gave standing ovations for, were the American citizens that saw a need and said, “I need to do something about this.”  One of those citizens loved the Mississippi River and noticed how much trash was in it and started cleaning it when he had time himself.  He was only one person and even though the is so huge, he didn’t but let the size of the task overwhelm him.  He just got started.  Today over 70,000 people have worked together taking trash out of the Mississippi River. 

In every incident, someone saw a need and took action.  President Bush said that there aren’t really 1000 points of light, there are millions - every person who says “I can help.”  This message left us feeling pride for our American citizens who choose to make a difference and inspired to look for ways to help – even if it is just one person that we can touch in a special way.

Have a blessed week!

Ruth and Brenda

Soulful Whispers

Flowers on the Bus

by: Jean Hendrichson

 

We were a very motley crowd of people who took the bus every day that summer 33 years ago. During the early morning ride from the suburb, we sat drowsily with our collars up to our ears, a cheerless and taciturn bunch.

One of the passengers was a small grey man who took the bus to the centre for senior citizens every morning. He walked with a stoop and a sad look on his face when he, with some difficulty, boarded the bus and sat down alone behind the driver. No one ever paid very much attention to him.

 Then one July morning he said good morning to the driver and smiled short-sightedly down through the bus before he sat down. The driver nodded guardedly. The rest of us were silent.

The next day, the old man boarded the bus energetically, smiled and said in a loud voice: “And a very good morning to you all!” Some of us looked up, amazed, and murmured “Good morning,” in reply.

The following weeks we were more alert. Our friend was now dressed in a nice old suit and a wide out-of-date tie. The thin hair had been carefully combed. He said good morning to us every day and we gradually began to nod and talk to each other.

One morning he had a bunch of wild flowers in his hand. They were already dangling a little because of the heat. The driver turned around smilingly and asked: “Have you got yourself a girlfriend, Charlie?” We never got to know if his name really was “Charlie”, but he nodded shyly and said yes.

The other passengers whistled and clapped at him. Charlie bowed and waved the flowers before he sat down on his seat.

Every morning after that Charlie always brought a flower. Some of the regular passengers began bringing him flowers for his bouquet, gently nudged him and said shyly: “Here.” Everyone smiled. The men started to jest about it, talk to each other, and share the newspaper.

The summer went by, and autumn was closing in, when one morning Charlie wasn’t waiting at his usual stop. When he wasn’t there the next day and the day after that, we started wondering if he was sick or — hopefully — on holiday somewhere.

When we came nearer to the centre for senior citizens, one of the passengers asked the driver to wait. We all held our breaths when she went to the door.

Yes, the staff said, they knew who we were talking about. The elderly gentleman was fine, but he hadn’t been coming to the centre that week. One of his very close friends had died over the weekend. They expected him back on Monday. How silent we were the rest of the way to work.

The next Monday Charlie was waiting at the stop, stooping a bit more, a little bit more grey, and without a tie. He seemed to have shrunk again. Inside the bus was a silence akin to that in a church. Even though no one had talked about it, he had made such an impression on us that summer, we all sat with our eyes filled with tears and a bunch of wild flowers in our hands.

Quotes for the Week

Our attitude towards life determines life’s attitude towards us.”  John Mitchell

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”   Victor Hugo

“The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”  Allen Chambers

  

Hot Flash March 27, 2011

Need a unique fund raising idea?

As moms, we spent many years of our lives raising money for all sorts of causes.  We still have some of that wrapping paper  that we bought!

We have an idea for a fund raiser that we’d like to share with you.  If you have a group that would like to do a quick, super easy, fund raiser or if you have a favorite charity that you’d like to support,  let us know.     Contact us at info@wonderouswomanenterprises.com and tell us about your group!

Have a great week!

Ruth and Brenda

Soulful Whispers – A Trajedy or a Blessing?

About 20 years ago, Ruth met an amazing woman who was 85 years old at the time.  Mary was one of those folks that you just love to listen to.  She told wonderful stories about her childhood in England.  She was a fascinating, dear woman. 

One story, though, really stood out.  When Mary was a small child, her father left their home in England and traveled to the United States to work.  Mary and her mother were left behind to pack and get ready to join him.  They purchased ocean liner tickets and began preparing for their trip.  The day finally arrived and Mary and her mom excitedly went to board their ship. 

When they arrived, there was little time to spare before the ship sailed.  Mary’s mom reached into her bag to retrieve the tickets and realized that she’d left them at home.  Thoroughly disappointed, they went back home to wait for the next ship to sail.

Their disappointment and devastation quickly turned to gratefulness.  You see, they missed the maiden voyage of the Titanic.

Mary told that story to reveal what an impact it had on her life.  She knew that she and her mother were spared for a reason.  Mary went on to become a beloved school teacher.  Her greatest joy was watching children learn and grow.

Isn’t it amazing how one event in one person’s life can make a difference in the lives of so many others!

Quotes for the Week

 This week, a legend passed away.  Elizabeth Taylor lived a colorful life and in a recent interview, she said that she was most proud of her family and her fight against AIDS.  We thought we’d share some of her quotes.

“When people say, she’s got everything, I say I don’t have tomorrow.”

“I feel very adventurous.  There are so  many doors to open and I’m not afraid to look behind them.”

Life is Mental: Think Thin to Live Thin

Our  friend Kelly Stallings, Psychotherapist, has your weight loss answer in her new eBook, Life is Mental: Think Thin to Live Thin.  She is celebrating the launch of her eBook today by offering tons of gifts for buying her book during this global book launch!

Check it out: www.lifeismental.com/globalbooklaunch.html

Kelly has helped her private clients lose weight and keep it off…now she wants to help you. Because Kelly knows taking action is the crucial step toward success, she has put together a huge ‘bribe’ to move you into action and lose weight for life.

To get your hands on the $1054.00 in gifts, you only need buy ONE copy of Kelly’s book for $9.95!

The gifts are too extensive to list here, so click the link to view all the amazing gifts designed to enhance every part of your life: Mind, Body and Spirit! 

www.lifeismental.com/globalbooklaunch.html

How is that for a celebration?

You spend $9.95 and get $1054.00 worth of amazing information, ebooks, video, tele-seminars, and support networks.

PLUS – Kelly’s personal support with the training in her eBook! That’s right…Kelly wants you to connect with her during the Global Book Launch Live Chat on Facebook today from 10 am-2pm CST (here is the link: www.bit.ly/lifeismentalchat)…and stay connected to Kelly via Facebook so she can give you ongoing support and motivation!

BUT you must take action today!

www.lifeismental.com/globalbooklaunch.html

As always, Kelly gives a money back guarantee…so you have Nothing to Lose…but Weight!!

New Author Takes on What’s REALLY Ailing the World of Business

New Book Healing the Corporate World by Maria Gamb arrives Tues Oct 12th

“Something is wrong.”

These are the first three words that appeared on the page when Maria Gamb first sat down to write her book about what is ailing modern business today.

Maria Gamb, former Fortune 500 executive with over 20 years of experience in the corporate world, and author of the new book Healing the Corporate World: how value-based leadership transforms business from the inside out, knew that stress was endemic in corporate life. She also knew the impact it was having not only upon individuals, but upon entire companies, if not the world as a whole. But rather than settle for the typical approaches to “stress management” so prevalent today, Maria had a different idea altogether as to what the real problem was, and what was needed to rectify it.

By all accounts, Maria was experiencing a highly “successful” career for many years—at least to the naked eye. But inwardly, Maria, a highly sensitive and intuitive woman, with a great belief in the human spirit, felt something was intrinsically wrong with the way businesses were being run in our modern world. Stress wasn’t the problem; it was merely the natural symptom that arouse as a result of much deeper issues. Competition, fear, blame, feelings of helplessness, and a sense of not being “seen” had all-too-often become the norm rather than the exception, especially in corporate life. And no amount of stress management would ever make stress go away until these issues were addressed—not only at a personal level, but also at a global level.

She felt it was time to talk about how we were going to transform the business world and heal a seriously ailing system.

Understanding that real change could only come from within, with each person taking personal responsibility for his or her own thoughts and actions, Maria decided to write a book that would serve as a call-to-action to the business community entitled Healing the Corporate World: how value-based leadership transforms business from the inside out.

Maria wrote this book with a passion to start the ripple of change that will do exactly what the title says: HEAL the corporate world. By “healing,” she doesn’t just mean to rescue our culture from economic crisis, but rather to heal the people and relationships within organizations so they can become healthy, flowing systems for change and creativity that are founded upon values, innovation, personal responsibility and authentic leadership at all levels of the business structure.

And while the title suggests a focus on corporate life, Maria’s intention is that the book is NOT just for CEOs, senior managers or even corporations—she sees it as a book for anyone who works, from middle-manager to a new employee on a team to the self-employed and small business owner. Her intention in writing the book is that the principles would be applicable to anyone who wanted to create a more human-focussed society by transforming the way we do business.

The official Amazon launch of Healing the Corporate World
starts at 12:01 AM Pacific, Tuesday October 12th.

To celebrate the release of this “inspiring and visionary book” (Ernest Chu, bestselling author of Soul Currency), when you purchase Healing the Corporate World on the day of its launch, you can receive a complete library of personal development gifts from dozens of leading authors, business professionals, speakers on the subject of business and self-improvement, [, including one from me, put YOUR name and describe YOUR bonus, if you have one. If you are not offering a bonus, end the sentence with “claim your bonus gifts.” >].

To purchase the book and claim your bonus gifts, go to

http://healingthecorporateworld.com

When you look at all the bonus gifts, don’t worry about not having enough time to download them all. Maria assures me that as long as you purchase the book during the launch, you’ll have access to the download page until October 31st.

I hope you’ll check out Healing the Corporate World on Tuesday October 12th, so we as a society can begin to apply these values-based principles in our work-place, and help start the process of healing for everyone.

Hot Flash – 9/17/10

If You Give a Mom a Muffin

Ruth’s daughter, Ashlee, has a  very busy life as do many young mothers.  The balancing act between being a full time wife, mother, office manager and college student can get hectic to say the least!  She shared this story with us and we laughed so hard that we cried!  We’ve ALL been there or at least know someone who has!  Enjoy!

 If you give a mom a muffin, She’ll want a cup of coffee to go with it.  She’ll pour herself some.  The coffee will get spilled by her three year old.  She’ll wipe it up.

 Wiping the floor, she will find some dirty socks.  She’ll remember she has to do some laundry.  When she puts the laundry in the washer,  She’ll trip over some snow boots and bump into the freezer.  Bumping into the freezer will remind her she has to plan supper for tonight.

She will get out a pound of hamburger.  She’ll look for her cookbook. (101 Things To Make With a Pound of Hamburger.)  The cookbook is sitting under a pile of mail.  She will see the phone bill which is due tomorrow.

She will look for the checkbook.  The checkbook is in her purse that is being dumped out by her two year old.  She’ll smell something funny.  She’ll change the two year old.

While she is changing the two year old the phone will ring. (Of course)  Her five year old will answer it and hang up.  She remembers that she wants to phone a friend to come over for coffee on Friday.  Thinking of coffee will remind her that she was going to have a cup.

She will pour herself some.  And chances are,  If she has a cup of coffee,  Her kids will have eaten the muffin that went with it.

 Soulful Whispers

 Rocks, Pebbles, Sand

A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When class began, wordlessly he picked up a large empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks right to the top, rocks about 2″ diameter.

He then asked the students if the jar was full? They agreed that it was.
So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks. The students laughed.

He asked his students again if the jar was full? They agreed that yes, it was.
The professor then picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
“Now,” said the professor, “I want you to recognize that this is your life. The rocks are the important things – your family, your partner, your health, your children – anything that is so important to you that if it were lost, you would be nearly destroyed.

The pebbles are the other things in life that matter, but on a smaller scale. The pebbles represent things like your job, your house, your car.

The sand is everything else – the small stuff.
If you put the sand or the pebbles into the jar first, there is no room for the rocks. The same goes for your life. If you spend all your energy and time on the small stuff, material things, you will never have room for the things that are truly most important.

Pay attention to the things that are critical in your life. Play with your children. Take your partner out dancing.
There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal.”

Take care of the rocks first – the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just pebbles and sand.

Quotes for the Week

“Time is priceless.  You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it.  Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.”  Harvey MacKay

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own.  No apologies or excuses.  No one to lean on, rely on, or blame.  The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.  This is the day your life really begins.  ~Bob Moawad

A New Dawn Awaits

 Today I have the great pleasure of being the host on Day 9 of the Virtual Blog Tour for A New Dawn Awaits by author E.Dee Conrad.

A New Dawn Awaits is a compassionate and inspiring channelled collection of short inspirational reflections, bringing together wisdom of the ages, showing us how to access knowledge that has been part of our consciousness, but has been dormant, for eons. E.Dee’s intention in writing this book is to help readers reach inwards into their divine essence and outwards to the energy that connects us as one humanity.

Yesterday, E.Dee visited Geoff Laughton’s blog http://geofflaughton.com/gltc/blog/.  For today’s stop on the tour, I thought it would be interesting to interview E.Dee about the experiences that led her to write the book and what we can expect to experience when we read it.

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Ruth:  “E.Dee, I am so excited to visit with you about the experiences that transpired that prompted you to write this book as well as what we can expect to experience when we read it.  First of all, I think folks would love to know about your leaving your corporate career in financial and legal publishing in 2006.  How did you know that it was time to leave?”

E.Dee: “I was the head of a contract publishing unit.  I had worked my way up through the ranks from editor.  My role was challenging for a while and then one day, I was working on the budget, massaging numbers and thought – I’m not helping anyone.  I’m not my serving my life purpose.  This is not making my heart happy.  What legacy am I leaving?”

“So, I took a leap of faith, and left without a job.  This was very hard to do especially when people thought I was making a mistake. But I just had to make this change.”

Ruth: “Wow, that took a lot of courage!  I love the quote by Ureil/Uriah and Clarissa, the guides that helped you write this book,  ’No one can tell you what the truth is, only you can know.  Finding your truth is what the journey is all about.’  How does one begin to find their truth?”

E.Dee: ”It’s different for everyone, but for me I began to mediate 5 – 10 minutes every other day.  Meditation helped me connect to my inner core – my higher self.  Meditation nourishes our souls.  When our minds quiet down for at least 30 seconds, just enough to hear your inner voice, we learn so much about ourselves.    Not everyone knows their life purpose, so they have to be quiet and listen to their higher self, because it knows.”

Ruth: ”What compelled you to write ‘A New Dawn Awaits?’”

E.Dee: ”I didn’t decide to write the book – I agreed to write the book.  I was doing my “green dot” meditation and a huge figure of light came into focus.  My head snapped back like I was saying ‘Whoah!’    I was told that I was going to write a book and that I need not answer and make the commitment right then.    I was also told that when I did write the book, my life would never be the same.  And, I was assured that I didn’t have to be creative, because the book was going to be technical.   I was also assured that I would have support along the way.”

“After this meditation experience, I remembered walking down an alley in Dallas, Texas when I was 16 and something told me that I was going to write a book.  I didn’t give this another thought until I had the experience during my mediation.”

Ruth: “What is the main message of ‘A New Dawn Awaits?’”

E.Dee: “There are two key messages of the book.  The overall intention is to share ideas about how to shift our consciousness and move forward to universal consciousness.  The first approach is to meditate.  Meditation is so important.  Whether you meditate for 15 minutes or all day, the practice gives you a chance to get inside of yourself and learn the messages that are there for you. 

The second key message is to recognize that our thoughts are energy.  Thoughts have the power to create and destroy.  Our goal is to have more thoughts of loving kindness.  Simply becoming aware when you have negative thoughts is the first step.  It may be difficult to turn every negative thought into a positive one, so we just need to succeed one time, and just by noticing the negative thought it will disappear.

Ruth: “You mentioned that Uriel/Uriah had a message too.”

E.Dee “Yes, they did.  The message is a little bit of  a shift from ’do unto others as you would want them to do unto you.’  Instead, remember to ‘think of others as you would want them to think of you.’  When I began doing this, I started experiencing more joy in my life.”

Ruth: “What did you personally experience while writing the book?”

E.Dee “While I was writing the book, an energy would come through me.  This energy was compassionate and loving and it helped open my mind and become open to the words.”

Ruth: “I understand that you have a fantastic telesummit coming up.” 

E.Dee: “Yes.  I’m really excited about it.  The telesummit is called ‘The Shift, The Message, The Transformation.’  There are some great thinkers that will be batting ideas around.  Our panel includes authors, channellers, and people living their life’s purpose.  Everyone who participates in the telesummit will really learn a lot. 

Ruth: “What are the dates?”

E.Dee: “It will be held for three nights, September 14 – 16, 2010.”

Ruth: ” That does sound facinating.  I’m looking forward to attending!  In addition to this great telesummit, you mentioned that everyone who purchases your book on September 21st will have access to 30 different gifts.  That sounds fun!  What can you tell  us about these gifts?”

E.Dee: “They are really exciting and there is something for everyone – free teleclasses, free music, ebooks, and a lot of others.”

Ruth:  “Thanks so much!  In addition to your amazing book, your readers will also benefit in a lot of other ways, too!.  We’ve got all of that information down below in our blog, so I know our readers will want to take advantage! 

It has been such a pleasure spending time with you E.Dee.  You’ve definitely whet my appetite to read your book, attend the telesummit and take advantage of the free gifts as well.  I wish you much success and love on your journey.

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I hope you enjoyed this interview with E.Dee Conrad and that you’ll check out her book A New Dawn Awaits, which is coming to Amazon on Tuesday September 21, 2010. You can receive a collection of over 30 beautiful personal development gifts when you buy her book on the day of her launch.

In addition, E.Dee is hosting a very special FREE telesummit entitled “The Shift. The Message. The Transformation” on September 14th, 15th and 16th with nine of today’s most vibrant authors and speakers on the topic of the consciousness, transformation and the global “shift” occurring on our planet today. If you’d like to attend, all you have to do is request a “launch reminder” about the book, and you’ll receive all the information to attend. If you cannot make the live event, you can download the audio at your convenience.

To find out how to buy E.Dee’s book and receive these gifts, including the FREE pass to the 3-day online telesummit, go to http://spiritauthors.com/pages/edee/new-dawn-awaits-by-edee-conrad.html

AND you can read all about the telesummit and the guests on the 3 days at

http://virtualspiritualevents.com

Be sure to follow E.Dee tomorrow when the next stop on her Virtual Blog Tour is

Andrew Mondia’s blog at http://andrewmondia.com/andyinspire/.

As usual, please do feel free to share your comments and thoughts below. I love reading your feedback.

Hot Flash – 9/10/10

A Quick Pick-Me-Up

Several years ago, Ruth started placing cards, notes and copies of emails that that people had sent her, for a variety of reasons, into a file.  She noticed that everytime she re-read one of these treasures, she smiled.  The name “Smile File” was born.

Whenever she feels discouraged, she opens that file to read its contents and is reminded that she is appreciated, loved, and that something she has done made a difference in someone’s life.   The people who wrote these notes  never realized that they would continue to touch Ruth’s life in a very meaningful way.  By the way, her Smile File just had its 20th birthday!

Start your file today and SMILE! 

Soulful Whispers

We are both animal lovers and our pets have their favorite treasures.  Most of them are old and ragged, but they are treasured none-the-less.  We ran across this story that really touched our heart strings.  Every time we read it we tear up and are so grateful for the beauty of innocence and love.

 Lucky

Mary and her husband Jim had a dog named ‘Lucky.’   Lucky was a real character.

Whenever Mary and Jim had company come for a weekend visit they would warn their friends to not leave their luggage open because Lucky would help himself to whatever struck his fancy.   Inevitably, someone would forget and something would come up missing.

Mary or Jim would go to Lucky’s toy box in the basement and there the treasure would be, amid all of Lucky’s other favorite toys.     Lucky always
stashed his finds in his toy box and he was very particular that his toys stay in the box.

It happened that Mary found out she had breast cancer.   Something told her she was going to die of this disease…..in fact;  she was just sure it was fatal.

She scheduled the double mastectomy, fear riding her shoulders.   The night before she was to go to the hospital she cuddled with Lucky.   A thought struck her….what would happen to Lucky?   Although the three-year-old dog liked Jim, he was Mary’s dog through and through.
 

If I die, Lucky will be abandoned, Mary thought.  He won’t understand that I didn’t want to leave him!  The thought made her sadder than thinking of her own death.

The double mastectomy was harder on Mary than her doctors had anticipated and Mary was hospitalized for over two weeks.   Jim took Lucky for his evening walk faithfully, but the little dog just drooped, whining and miserable.
 
Finally the day came for Mary to leave the hospital.   When she arrived home Mary was so exhausted she couldn’t even make it up the steps to her bedroom Jim made his wife comfortable on the couch and left her to nap.

Lucky stood watching Mary but he didn’t come to her when she called.    It made Mary sad but sleep soon overcame her and she dozed.

When Mary woke for a second she couldn’t understand what was wrong.   She couldn’t move her head and her body felt heavy and hot.   But panic soon gave way to laughter when Mary realized the problem.  She was covered, literally blanketed, with every treasure Lucky owned!

While she had slept, the sorrowing dog had made trip after trip to the basement bringing his beloved mistress all his favorite things in life.

He had covered her with his love. Mary forgot about dying.   Instead she and Lucky began living again, walking further and further together every day.   It’s been 12 years now and Mary is still cancer-free.   Lucky…   He still steals treasures and stashes them in his toy box but Mary remains his greatest treasure.

Quotes for the Week

“Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.” ~ Unknown

 ”Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so.”~ Mary Jean Iron

A New Dawn Awaits – A Synopsis

We had the pleasure to interview E.Dee Conrad and we can’t wait to share her with you!  We’ll be posting our interview with her on September 15th, so be sure to come back to learn about how she “agreed” to write the book and how each of us will benefit by spending time with her words.

Here’s a brief synopsis for the book:

“A NEW DAWN AWAITS”

Humanity is at a crossroads – the future is ours to choose. The coming years will be full of unprecedented challenges on many levels – spiritual, physical, emotional, and financial. Those who will best survive this transition will be those who are willing to shift to the next level of consciousness and a new way of being.

In this channeled work, E.Dee Conrad brings together the wisdom of the ages and shows us how to access the knowledge that has been part of our consciousness, but has been dormant for eons. The time has come to reach inwards into our divine essence and outwards to the energy that connects us as ONE humanity.

This book is a powerful reminder that the end is not near but the future is – humanity is poised to reclaim its magnificence.

Hot Flash – 9/3/10

A Positive Influence

 All of us serve as powerful examples to young people, friends and family members. That’s a lot of influence and a big responsibility.

Daniel Webster wrote, “If we work in marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill in them just principles, we are then engraving upon tablets which no time will efface, but which will brighten and brighten all eternity.”What a great reminder of the glorious opportunities available to all of us whenever we’re willing to serve as positive role models.

People are placed along our path for us to influence. Every time we serve as a good example, we help to reshape the world into a better place.

Soulful Whispers

When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade!

What a remarkably old saying, but last week, Brenda had an experience that the “lemonade” was actually made for her!

 Brenda moved her daughter, Kacie, to Stephen F. Austin University last week.  All of the feelings that come with letting go and sending an only child off to college were swirling inside of Brenda.  The week prior to heading to school, Kacie was involved in an accident that totaled her Jeep.  Thankfully, she only sustained minor injuries, but a rental car entered the picture. 

Brenda was on her way to return the rental car after dropping Kacie off at school and she was hit by another driver.  His car pulled out of the turn lane into the side of the rental car.  Brenda, in her lovely southern accent said to herself, “You have got to be kidding me!”  She got out of her car and noticed that there was a car directly behind her.  She went to the driver of that car and asked if she had seen the accident.  The driver replied that she had seen everything that had transpired and would be willing to recount her eyewitness account to the police. 

Brenda, the driver who hit her and the eyewitness moved over to the side of the road to await the arrival of the police.  The young woman got out of her car and Brenda noticed she had tears in her eyes.  Brenda thought, “Wonder why she’s crying?  I was the one hit!”  The woman told Brenda, “I’m so sorry that you were hit, but if you hadn’t been there, things would have been devastating for me.  If you hadn’t been there, he would have pulled into the intersection and I would have hit him.”  At that point, Brenda noticed that she had two small children in the back seat.  One child was a year and a half old and the other was two months old. 

When Brenda saw these children, she immediately realized what a blessing it was that she had actually been the one hit.  The gratefulness of the young woman was the impetus behind the lemonade.  After all of the craziness of the police and the return of the rental car (in bad shape) Brenda reflected on her experience.  She realized that she had been chosen to make a difference in the lives of the young mother and her children and found gratitude bubbling up inside her as well. 

We never know how and when we will be chosen to make a difference.  Next time we find ourselves with a handful of lemons;  it may be our turn to make some lemonade.

Quotes for the Week

“Act as if what you do makes a difference.  It does.” ~William James 

 ”How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”  ~Anne Frank

 

 

   

Reaching Our Goals Doesn’t Satisfy Us Anymore

These days, we look around and we are starting to see more and more people beginning to take stock of their lives, considering what they have achieved over the course of the years they have spent here on earth. What so many of us find when we do this, is that while we may well have achieved most of the goals we set for ourselves as young people, we also have a sense of hollowness— a feeling of emptiness—that we can neither understand nor explain.

This sense, this feeling, is one of the many themes addressed in a brilliant new book – A New Dawn Awaits by E Dee Conrad. E Dee describes her work as a guide to “the times ahead and how to shift your consciousness” but this does not even begin to express the many and complex issues the book addresses. Different chapters will speak to different people, but one thing that immediately caught my attention was the following statement:

 “Many people have a deep-seated sense of failure even though by societal standards they are successful. This is because they have not achieved their life’s purpose. One can be successful in terms of job and money but if the soul has not been nourished, if the soul’s true life path has not been at least acknowledged, much less attained, the victory will be a hollow one and the person will always have a longing deep in their heart for something they cannot identify.

 Of course, achieving one’s life purpose and being successful according to the dictates of society are not mutually exclusive. They only become so when one is achieved at the expense of the other. To achieve both there needs to be a balance, an equilibrium of focus.”

 E.Dee Conrad’s book tells us not only how to achieve this equilibrium but also why each of us is here on this planet at this time and what we can each to do to shift, as a group, to the next level of consciousness.

 If you are (like me) even teensiest bit curious about what you can do to help humanity shift, you owe it to yourself (and the rest of us) to read this book now!

 A New Dawn Awaits: The Times ahead and How to Shift Your Consciousness is coming to Amazon on 21 September 2010. To show my support of this inspirational new book, I am giving away <insert the title and short description of your bonus gift> to everyone who buys A New Dawn Awaits on the day of the launch.

AND… In addition to my gift, there are over 30 other wonderful gifts being offered by mind-body-spirit teachers, authors, coaches and healers from around the planet when you purchase A New Dawn Awaits: The Times ahead and How to Shift Your Consciousness on September 21^st.

To find out how you can buy this book on September 21^st and receive over 30 other gifts, go to http://tinyurl.com/NewDawnAwaits. AND… When you sign up for a “launch reminder” you get FREE access to a 3-day telesummit entitled “The Shift. The Message. The Transformation.” At that event, E.Dee will be hosting a panel of 9 international leaders in the subject of consciousness and its evolutionary path on our planet today. I’ll be going to be there, for sure. I hope you’ll join me. If you cannot make the live event, you can download the audio later, but only if you register in advance.

 Again, to sign up for a “launch reminder” and get your free pass to the telesummit, go to http://tinyurl.com/NewDawnAwaits.

Then mark your diary for Sept 21st for the launch of this great new book, A New Dawn Awaits by E.Dee Conrad.