Often times when people join a business they feel overwhelmed. Many people feel that there is so much they need to know before they approach anyone. So…WHAT is it that you should know before you approach people?

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So, you have this home party business selling X, Y and/or Z. You have had a couple of parties but seem to have a hard time getting people to book the next party. You might think “how can I get some parties booked so my hostess can get rewards and I can do more parties?”.

Plant some seeds!

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Back in June I wrote about why anyone would blog. There is a critical piece I need to add to the reason people blog.

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When our kids are young we have hopes and dreams for their future.. we want them to grow up to be strong and independent. We want them to be confident and self assured. Those are natural desires that parents have for their kids.

When they are old enough to understand we discipline their behaviors when they act up, we tell them to have confidence, we tell them to believe in themselves, we tell them to be good with money, we tell them to be kind, we tell them to be strong. Every parent has a desire for their child to have a better life than they do…. are you starting to see where I am going with this?

We can tell our children lots of things but what they do is…what we DO. We don’t want them to make the same mistakes we do but sometimes we don’t change what we do, we only tell THEM to change.  For example, I have a friend who dates guys who don’t treat her very nicely, she does all the giving and dates takers. She is teaching her daughter to be a victim yet her desire for her daughter is to have healthy relationships with men. She is telling her daughter one thing and is in-congruent by doing the complete opposite.  My husband wants our kid to keep their rooms clean yet he’s got piles of stuff all around the house and doesn’t keep his part of the bedroom clean.

One of the things I learned from family counseling is the same thing people learn in dog training classes… in dog training classes, it’s not the dogs that are getting the training but the dog owners. In family counseling it’s not the kids who are getting the counseling but the parents.

Strong leadership starts at home. If you desire to work on your week areas, look at your children. They are your mirror… whatever they need to work on, is probably what you need to work on. To be a leader, you cannot ask those you are leading to do something you are not willing to do yourself. Some of the greatest generals in history are the ones who were on the front lines with the troops and not sending directions from an armchair.

If you feel your children need a change, then be that change first. They will follow your lead naturally. If you think that your children don’t know what your finances are like… think again, they can detect all that information from you. Children know when their parents are worried, they know your weakness and live them as well.

If you want your children to change then be the change you want to see in your children. Be their leader.

Charlotte Salafia

www.designedfordivinedestinations.com

“Where it’s not just about the destination, but the journey to get there.”

When it comes to Abundance and prosperity people usually think of this in a “right now in my pocket” kind of way.

After the hit book came out “The Secret” it really enlightened lots of people (myself included) that you can have the lifestyle, health and relationships that you desire.

It also had a negative aspect (which I found usually by people who had NOT read the book/or watched the DVD) that you could just ’sit on the couch’ and expect your millions to fall into your lap.

Here is my story that I would love to share with you on how I used the Principles from “the Secret” and brought an event into our lives without having made any extra money!

At the time we were living in a very tiny ‘two bedroom mobile home‘ and my hubby had just gotten a new job in a different town.

At first I just looked around at rental’s since we were hesitant to buy not knowing our new neighborhood yet.

My DH (darling hubby) had also been reading the Secret and was totally supportive of doing ‘envisioning techniques’.

Here is one ‘envision’ that I was holding firmly in my head each morning, probably for about 3-4 min’s.

“I am so thankful and grateful for sitting here in my beautiful sun-room enjoying my morning cappuccino.” Using this statement I would vividly picture myself in a well-lit yellow room, overlooking a beautiful lake, in a green chair and doing my morning journaling.  I saw myself smelling my coffee, and brought up images of how I felt in the chair, the refreshing view of the lake, the warm happy feelings that I was writing down in my journal. Basically I was “living” that moment in time.

Now to get back to our ‘rental’ situation. We ‘looked and looked’ at small homes to buy, since we could not find one single rental house.  This started in May and by mid-August we were getting a little frusterated, a house would come up for rent and before we were even able to call, it would already be rented to someone else.

My DH finally had a break-through moment at work when he was ‘yet again’ looking at homes for sale on the internet in his spare moments.  A colleague was walking by and casually mentioned “man, aren’t you getting tired of always looking online for a house?”  The light-bulb went on.  He realized he was putting out to the Universe the ‘Intention of looking’.  He immediately closed down the windows he was looking at, threw away all the mls listing stuff he had been carrying around and “knew” our home was going to be shown to us.

On his way back to our campsite…uh yeah I forgot to mention this…he was living in a campground for the past four months waiting for us until a home was found…he stopped at the corner store and saw a little ad “house for rent on lake”.

He brought it back to the campsite and told me about it.  I said “let’s go take a look”.  We phoned and by luck (mmmm really? ha ha) the owner’s who lived 4 1/2 hours away were there.  So we drove over and took a look.  It was crazy with our kids, their kids and dogs.  The price was a little more than what we were expecting, but we looked at each other and said “it’s on the lake though let’s get it!”

Within the week and just before school started we were moving into our new ‘home’.

After a few weeks had passed and we were finally settling in, I took my morning cap and went into the sun room (which we hadn’t even noticed when we looked at the place) and sat in my fav chair.  My hubby had placed the chair specifically for me so that I could enjoy looking at the lake.

I probably don’t have to tell you this part, because I’m sure you have already guessed it…but I will anyways.  Yes, I was sitting in my comfy green chair (which we had in storage when we were living in the trailer) looking out on a beautiful lake view (the sunroom was way out front of the house and had a totally AWESOME view) drinking a cappaccino, and the room (which was in a pale wood) suddenly lit up with the morning sunshine coming into it….a bright yellow!

A sense of deja’vu erupted in my heart, and I’ve had many moments of deja’vu but this particular time I knew that this EXACT moment in my life I had ‘brought to me’.

The coolest thing with this experience is that our money situation didn’t change (we weren’t suddenly making hundreds of thousands of dollars extra each month)the change came from within!  It started with my vision of exact-ness (uh is that word?..is now) where I clearly ’saw what I wanted’, envisioned it Every Day, felt what is was like to be there.  Money, or more money, was not part of this equation.

Here are a few tips that I would love to give to you to help make your Envisioning just a little more helpful.

1) Start with a simple phrase with a Gratitude in it!
2) Sit in a place where you feel warm, secure and have no interruptions. (this will take about 5-10 min’s)
3) Now sit back, close your eyes, say your manifestation out loud and then let your dream flow.
4) Notice particular parts of your dream (I love focusing on comfort level, what I see, sounds around me and what I can see & smell)
5) Do this EVERY Day!

I would Love to hear your stories as well.

Jody Maley

Jody is a WAHM and has been leading other ladies in their chosen field of business for the past 15 yrs! She is a mom of six, an Accomplished ToastMaster, and has a passion for helping other women find their ‘aha’ moments!

Jody is owner of the new website www.DesignedforDivineDestinations.com where she blogs about day to day issues with other moms in raising children, having your own business and how to “Blend” it all!

“Where it’s not just about the Destination, it’s the Journey to get There”

Raising children is the hardest thing in the world to do. As parents, our greatest concern is that we raise our children to be safe, responsible and well adjusted. Raising step kids is all that much harder. It is inevitable that there will be a certain amount of resistance because you are not their “real” parent. They fantasize about their missing parent or constantly compare you to the other parent in their life. Children of divorce or trauma (loss of a parent) have suffered some emotional blows early in their lives so how do you get through it with them?

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It’s my favorite personal development movie. Po is an excellent example of a person (or a panda bear) who is ready to move forward in life but who is stuck. He feels stuck in the soup making business with his dad but yet has a desire to become a Kung Fu master. How do we know he is ready to move on?

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Recession is a word that I hear most every day lately. It’s on the news shows, newspapers, online, twitter, you name it. Is there a recession? YES. Most of these people are talking about an economic recession. We hear about people losing jobs and companies closing. Is this an economic recession or another kind of recession?

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As I grew into adulthood I could never did like the smell of coffee. My mom was more of a tea drinker so I followed suit. I have always been a tea drinker and love my tea.

Tea is a comfort thing for me. I know the stereotype in England is that tea will fix everything. Some tragedy happens and then there is someone putting the kettle on next. Putting the kettle the indirect way for Brits to say “I want to comfort you”.

Before I lived in England, for a couple of years, I would drink any ol’ hot tea. When I lived in Coventry, I learned what good tea is, I even go to import stores and get some when there is no one I know making a trip to England that I can bribe or if I can’t find some stranger in the UK online who I can charm into mailing me some. (Yes, I have done that).

Since I returned to the US in 1991, I just can’t take bad tea. On occasion I will pick up some random Ceylon (oh my favorite blend) and try it out.. I know, it’s never going to be as good but lots of times I will get lucky and it’s good. It’s always risky drinking tea when I’m out, tea seems to be the bastard child if you go to any place that focuses on coffee “we have 8 million coffees, and oh, here are our 4 teas (usually some weird fruity thing)” I always end up with an English Breakfast blend OR if there is a turine with hot water in it, it’s iffy..I mean..it’s probably had coffee in it …and they don’t clean that out well and well, the tea just ends up smelling like coffee.. BLECH!

Why all the tea talk, it’s kind of a rant but not really, because what this really is..is to say that life is too short for bad tea. Seriously, I can’t just accept the tea I am given. I’m not drinking bad tea. If I pay $2 for a cup of tea and it sucks, I throw it away. If I buy some at the store and it is stale, I toss it.

Life is too short for bad tea! I won’t accept anything below my standard. If I am that way about my tea, imagine what my life is like anywhere else! If I won’t accept bad tea, I certainly won’t accept less in my relationships, my work, my spiritual life..or any place else.

Are you drinking the bad tea because that is what you were served, or are you holding out for the good stuff..finding out where the good tea is?