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Ready and rearing to go!

No work of love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now . Alan Watts, author
Today is the day! The day, the day, the day for another Book Signing event at Nicolas Brooklyn! All I can say right now is that I am humbled, grateful, ready, rearing and excited!
Boom!

Everyone has a story

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again."—André Gide

Yesterday's event was at the Moth, totally awesome experience! The Moth is a place where you are allowed to tell YOUR story! I heard stories yesterday that made me chuckle, cry, laugh, clap, think! And I have learnt that we ALL have a story and I am making mine an empowering one!
Big thank you to Ms Tricia Clarke who introduced me to the Moth and will be reading at the event tomorrow
If you are anywhere close, feel free to come and say hi!
Peace!

I am here for a purpose...

I am here for a purpose - Louise Hay

Day 2 NYC
NYC is full of lessons! I have learnt acceptance, the power of positive thinking and showing up as you every single time!

I've had a few meetings and a few rejections to go along with it! Listen the thing hurt! Initially, I was sour, salty, quiet, pensive! The thing hurt, did I already say that?
Yea so what's next? The lessons started kicking in and that is when I know that I have progressed!
I eat No's like Cherioos, No means next opportunity and man's rejection is God's protection, I started singing that mantra to myself from about an hour after the "salty" behavior

Rejection happens, what I have learnt is the story we give it is usually worse than what it really is, I have also learnt that it is a fuel for going again, taking a pause and looking at things with fresh eyes,listening to you gut feeling and obeying what it tells you!

Two more events today and a little more wise!
Peace!

Taking a bite out of the Apple...

yearning for a new way will not produce it.
Only ending the old way can do that. Neale Donald Walsh





 NYC awesome ones!!, I love the city, its buzzing, its vibrant, its to me, filled with opportunities and dreamers and lessons! I arrived last night about midnight and the place was jamming! Places open, lights blazing! I couldn't help but be stoked up as well!

Today I start my "business" meetings with book stores, planning events and in between having some F.U.N!

Wish me luck
Peace!!

Claim Resonsibility

It takes a Goliath of a spirit to claim the responsibility for one's irresponsible behaviours. Most choose to defend self, explain self, with a desire to be more desirable based on justification. Reasons. Excuse. Natalie Stewart, Poet
When you mess up, admit it! I've learnt that! When you're out of order, you're out of order. I've learnt that!It's best to own up, take responsibility, if you got to say sorry say sorry, no one is perfect! I've learnt that!It is not pretty to defend it, lie about it, justify it, cuss people about it. I've learnt thatBe authenticBe realBe openBe bigAnd then start all over againI've learnt that!Peace!!

My best type of meetings

Most people are dying from ignorance (Hosea 4:6)

On Thursday I had a scheduled meeting. In my mind nothing too out of the ordinary, the usual chat about what's happening, options, moving forward, plans and the whole shebang! I had two meetings before with her and after I thought to myself and actually said it out loud as I was getting into the car " Self, you learnt a lot from that meeting about life and life lessons" She came across to me as wise, authentic and genuinely interested in people before work. People seemed to be the most important thing in the whole scheme of the work!How many top executives have I met with that mindset? Not many! I can count them on one hand! Those that are "free" and by that I mean they aren't scared about meeting targets, being shown up by someone else, confident in their own skin to learn and share and has balance?

After Thursday's meeting I got back into the car and thought the same thing, wow I learnt some life lessons there and the best line for the meeting was "You can never go back to the past to change anything and you cannot ever hold yourself hostage to make up for mistakes or things you thought were your mistakes" You will be in the negative for a long time, make peace with it, accept it and focus on now" Chances are it wasn't your fault anyway, and if it was forgive yourself, start there"I say there just soaking it all inShe is what I would call "ah real boss!!" I give thanks for all of these encounters!Peace!!
NYC and Chicago is drawing near!Book signing at Nicolas Brooklynhttps://www.facebook.com/events/15263...

Its all an inside job!

Nothing outside you can ever give you what you are lookin for Byron Katie

Listen up. This one might need your extra attention. There is nothing ,hear me well,


nothing that you are searching for and running behind that isn't in you. Brutally honest
Stop the chasing and the running. Back up. Look in the mirror and say it out loud and look into your eyes when you say it.
I am love
I am power
I am abundance
I am awesome
I am beautiful
I am successful
I am worthy
I am enough
Write it down even
Then stop chasing people,places,things,qualifications, men, women, jobs,friends,sex,weed,food
Whatever you are running behind to "complete" you or make you hap0y. It's in you. Notice it. Recognise it. Accept it. Love it. Know it. And then act like you know. Peace!

I am responsible for what I see..

I am responsible for what I see.
I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide upon the goal I would achieve.
And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for, and receive as I have asked. A Course in Miracles (ACIM)


   ACIM keeps it real! That is why I love it, it's sometimes brutally honest, in the lesson called the "The Responsibility of Sight" it says "Deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless in the face of what is done to you. Acknowledge but that you have been mistaken"

We make out that we are helpless, hell I have done this! why? why? why? and just moan and talk and no action! I have been doing this up to yesterday!  deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless in the face of what is done to you! Listen, it was done, it has been done but you are not helpless! do you realize that? you are not helpless! Sometimes when I drown out all the voices I sit in awe of how powerful we are and  how we refuse to tap into this power choosing instead to be a victim and act helpless. Deceive yourself no longer my friends!
You are powerful, you are divine! so act like you know!
Peace!!

No ordinary half hearted call here....

This force, which is the best thing in you, your highest self, will never respond to any ordinary half-hearted call, or any milk-and-water endeavor. It can only be reached by your supremest call, your supremest effort. It will respond only to the call that is backed up by the whole of you, not part of you; you must be all there in what you are trying to do. You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure… Only a masterly call, a masterly will, a supreme effort, intense and persistent application, can unlock the door to your inner treasure and release your highest powers.” - Orison Swett Marden, was an American writer associated with the New Thought Movement.

NiNa- Developing Young Entrepreneurs a program I started in 2010 for young women aged 15-19 is truly one of the things that brings me the most joy! To see young women transform in front of my eyes is truly awesome , I cannot even put a price on the feeling I get. As at September of this year, the program will be expanded to more areas and although it is scary it is still exciting as I get to feel those feelings even more!

As part of the program, the participants present a business pitch at the end of six weeks of life skills and entrepreneurial training of their own business idea , the top three are awarded some small seed cash to expand on the idea, the top idea winning the NiNa Aspiring Entrepreneur Award. This year a young lady won the competition by developing a natural hair care product in her kitchen, tried tested and used (I actually used it as well)! I nominated her to attend a conference in Barbados called the CPDC Youth Training Workshop. They choose three Caribbean participants, NiNa winner being one of the three!

She never traveled before, she asked me if someone would accompany her, I said why don't you try it alone and see how it goes, they will take great care of you! She came back on the weekend and was transformed even more, she had a ball! She made new friends and got a taste of independence and learnt a whole lot! She caught the travel bug! "learnt a whole lot, opened my eyes to issues I never knew existed in the Caribbean, and I know now that I will always own my own business"
I smiled all day! The challenges to set up and run this program was just all worth it
Do something that brings you joy!
Peace!!

Thanks to all who support me in making the program a success!

Is it for your highest good?

I have learnt that there is nothing like relationships (all types of relationships and particularly intimate ones) that can teach you about yourself! Family relationships and intimate ones especially. Why? because they really are like holding up a mirror to you showing you the good and the things that need some work. The things that we love about our families and loved ones are also inside us and the things that piss us off teaches us things like patience, courage, acceptance and unconditional love mostly for ourselves before anyone else!

Everything outside ourselves is merely a reflection of the relationship we are having with our own inner being. So it is really a sobering thought to realise that when we are involved in a relationship that makes us feel powerless or is not what we want it really is a reflection of how we see ourselves at that moment in time and same the other way around. The fear of moving makes us paralyzed in making the step when we know we have to! I've learnt that loving myself sets the tone in the people I attract in my life and how I interact with my family, and this is not being narcissistic it is just the truth of the matter that it starts with me.

 Keeping ourselves fully anchored on the spiritual path by choosing not to get caught up in relationships that lower our vibration is not selfish, it actually serves the whole of humanity! We cannot be of service to humanity if we continue to allow others to pull us down into the lower vibrational energy of confusion, chaos, denial, limited beliefs, addiction and drama. We need to pull ourselves out of denial and be really honest with ourselves and ask if our current relationships are based on love or fear. If they are based in fear, you will need to love yourself enough to disengage from anything that is dis-empowering and does not serve your highest good. This does not mean if you have made a mistake in a relationship you should take the easy way out and abandon it. You cannot change a negative behavior if you do not acknowledge it. Recognize your mistakes, bringing them into your awareness so you can transcend them
The highest way we can be of service to others is to stay in the higher vibrations of love, joy, peace, compassion, forgiveness and understanding setting an example for others to follow

Is this relationship, activity, thought or belief for my highest good?Is this relationship, activity, thought or belief a wise energy investment?Does this relationship, activity, thought or belief enhance or deplete my light?Do I wish to integrate this relationship, activity, thought or belief into my being?
Does this relationship, activity or belief contract my energy through fear or expand my energy with love?