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Time is Now

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Time is our most valuable asset. Time is perishable. Time is now. Time is how we plan, play, work and do our lives. Who and how we spend our time is how we create our legacy of our life. Many people are stuck in the Rat Race and working just to pay the rent/mortgage and not having much fun doing that. Some people are working hard at their businesses as the sole proprietor and thus have no leverage. They can only trade time for money. Some people waste time in front of the TV, sitting in traffic, standing in line, complaining about the thing that is bothering them.

Time goes by so quickly when we are having fun and busy. Time goes by slowly when we are stuck doing something that is less than fun or not what we want to do. Time is measured and quantified. We measure our age, the anniversaries, the time at work, the time it takes to travel, stand in line and just about everything. It is quantified for payment as an employee.

When I reflect on how life is now, compared to only a few years ago when I was so busy raising a family I am wiser about the value of time. I was working for a corporation trading time for money, and planning for the vacations which always were too short. Spent time doing the daily things such as shopping for food, paying the bills, laundry and the routine of driving the kids to and from their dance, friends and activities. I realize that time was not always used productively. I also spent too much time watching cable TV, too much time in traffic, too much time worrying and not being present in the now.

The kids are raised and now young adults. Sometimes I wonder how they grew up so fast and then I realize why. Time went by quickly because I was busy just doing stuff. They are great young adults and I enjoy watching them conduct their lives. I seek times for us to connect and spend time together and totally enjoy the moments of time. This week my youngest came for a visit and we enjoyed some moments of huge value in Whistler.

My partner Robert and I went to the Service Awards Recognition at Whistler-Blackcomb this week on top of Whistler at night. Very special time to spend together with incredible people.

Time is moving quickly as we are preparing to host the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. I know the time will go by quickly for all involved, athletes, volunteers, Olympic family, spectators and entertainers. 25000 Volunteers will operate the games. We are called Workforce 2010.

Most of us live with an expectation that time is unlimited. A few people do not because of health challenges. We must live with time as a gift of now because we do not know when our limit will come to an end. We must be present, congruent and be clear on our intentions. We must be using our time with respect for how it effects us, and those we interact with, and aware that we are all connected.

As Eckhart Tolle writes in his book The Power Of Now. There is only NOW and we must be present with it.

I am grateful that I live in the now most of time and am present.

I am proud of my accomplishments with the skills I have now because I stopped wasting time in traffic, watch cable TV and with people who do not get it yet. I have great friends who are present and living in now. Knowing that time is only now and we do not know what our limit is.

Knowing that we are all responsible for what we create and leave behind because we all have a purpose.

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My Top 10 List for 2009

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Becoming an NLP Master Practitioner
Becoming a member of Carbon Copy Pro
Becoming a member of Wealth Masters International
Moving to Squamish
Watching with pride my daughter Emily graduate from High School with English and French diploma
Learning to Photo Read
Making new friends that are aligned with my values.
Choosing to be free and following my passion to be an Entreprenuer
Seeing and hearing the truth about the way money works.
Moving to the B and I Quadrant.

What is your top 10 list for 2009. Share it with me and those you seek to connect with. Then set up what you want to accomplish in 2010. It is then great to reflect back on what you accomplished.

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Ready to Leave The Rat Race? Time to Choose !

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Consider each day, each hour, and each minute of your life and ask yourself these questions;
1.) Is it productive?
2.) Is it fun?
3.) Is it rewarding?
4.) Is it taking me where I want to go?
5.) Is it congruent with my passion and purpose?

I have done this and for me the answers all pointed me “away” from how I was spending a significant amount of my day-time waking hours. (I was working for corporations in various levels of sales). Because working for wages and commission, trading my time and talents for someone else to get the profits did not make sense to me. After I read Rich Dad/Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki and Why We Want You to Be Rich, by Trump and Kiyosaki, I could no longer remain compliant to the rules and regulations of corporations (staying main stream). I began to realize that I was enslaved to the wage and I was always going be just over broke in my JOB. Of course becoming aware of what was not working gave me the first step to becoming aware of what I did want to create for my life.

I asked myself. What did I truly want to achieve with my life? What is my legacy to this beautiful planet? How can my passion to help people and my desire to educate to those who are ready to learn be best served? I went back to a time when I was at the beginning my memories. I recalled my dreams and how I saw the world of possibility before I was brainwashed by the main stream thinking. Then I applied the wisdom and lessons that life has delivered to determine the truth as I see it.

I became aware that I have been distracted by the media and its stories which are often only about the negatives and silliness of celebrities that happen in our society and world. I call these distractions because they have caused me to feel numb and often left me feeling like I had no control. FEAR is the primary emotion that the media uses. Do you see and hear this too?

The mainstream media owned by a handful of large corporations and they create stories to distract you and keep you numb and brainwashed and living in FEAR. If this makes sense to you and you see the truth in it, then you are ready to learn how to move forward with knowledge, empowerment and control.

I made a decision a few months ago. I turned off the TV, canceled the newspaper subscription, stopped listening to the radio and started reading books, going for walks, riding my bike, skiing, hiking, spending down time with my daughters, contacting friends, studying to gain new skills and reconnecting to the dream I had almost forgotten……
It is a path that requires courage to choose, because it is not status quo (yet). Are you ready to take control and responsibility of your financial life? Are you ready to create wealth in your life?

I have chosen to no longer be controlled, enslaved to wages and be numbed by main stream media. I have chosen to be awake, aware, and creative. Being resilient. Make choices of freedom because taking action based on knowledge and the honest desire to learn and teach others is where my dream began.

We set our direction, goal and then life happens. Many things happen to draw our attention, sometimes it is good and fun and sometimes it is hard and difficult. I have found that the hardest experiences are where the greatest lessons have been learned.

I believe that each experience we have happens because it is there to teach us something, to learn the lesson. Let your emotions be the “alarm button” to wake you up from numbing. Anger and sadness are emotions to signal that something is not working. Many people get caught and stuck there and keeping the negative emotions because they are serving them in some way. Being stuck on unhealthy cold emotions of Fear, Anger and Sadness is hard on your health. Attend personal development training and then you will be able to grow and move through these emotions to the healthy ones, love, joy, gratitude, excitement, pleasure, and feel the warmth that is associated with them. Your health will improve too.

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So are you ready to learn the TRUTH?

Friday, August 28th, 2009

I have been busy in the last few weeks moving households and neglected my Blog. All good because I now live in beautiful Squamish, which is located halfway between Whistler and Vancouver. The drive is spectacular along Howe Sound. Some days you can see whales and every day you see the majestic mountains that drop directly into the sea. You will be seeing more of this area, because we are hosting the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and the media are coming to town!

The world has changed and some people do not seem to be aware that the changes are dramatic and significant. I am not talking about the Climate change. I am talking about the Financial changes. You have a choice to make, right now and right here. Do you want to become educated and be told the truth?

When I first learned the truth, I was emotionally upset because I realized that I had been dummied down, which started when I was only a child in school. My public education was so un-educating, when I look back I am amazed I actually stayed in school. (I know it was my parents wrath that kept me there).

I began to understand that the financial education I was given as a child and then as an adult was seriously lacking in the whole truth when the market crashed in 2001. My RRSP portfolio lost a significant amount and it was too late to do anything after the money was just vanished. I realized the advice I was getting from the Financial Planner was lacking the truth when I asked. “How do I get different advice than simply investing in Mutual Funds?” The answer was I had to have at least $500,000 and then I would get different advice on how to invest. After doing some quick calculations I knew that unless I won the lottery, I was not able to save enough to get there while still raising my daughters and working in the JOB (Just Over Broke).

So the next chapter began. I started to read books, Rich Dad Poor Dad, Cash Flow Quadrant, Why We Want You To Be Rich and Think And Grow Rich and a few others. This education allowed me to realize that the stock market with mutual funds as the investment is a extremely risky. I told my Financial Planner to take all my investments out of the mutual funds and convert it to cash, because I knew that at least that would not lose value. (or at least I thought at the time)

I know much more now and am so very grateful to be in a place in my life that allows me to have control of my financial portfolio. It began because I seek truth and had enough life experience to know the truth when I hear and see it. I had the courage to take action, even when some people felt that I was taking too much risk. I feel staying invested in the stock market with mutual funds and restricted RRSP’s and have the JOB is way riskier than what I am now doing.

So, as the title of this article says. Are you ready to learn the truth? If so, then go to my contact page, complete it and begin your journey of education.

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How does what I choose create the destiny of my life?

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Consider each day, each hour, and each minute of your life and ask yourself these questions;

1.) Is it productive?

2.) Is it fun?

3.) Is it rewarding?

4.) Is it taking me where I want to go?

5.) Is it congruent with my passion?

I have done this and for me the answers all pointed me “away” from how I was spending a significant amount of my day-time waking hours which was working for a corporation. Because working for wages and trading my time and talents for someone else to get the profits did not make sense to me any longer. I read Rich Dad/Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki and Why We Want You to Be Rich and I could no longer remain compliant to the rules and regulations of corporations. I began to realize that I was enslaved to the wage and to the rules. Of course becoming aware of what was not working gave me the first step to becoming aware of what I did want.

I asked myself. What did I truly want to achieve with my life? I went back to a time when I was at the beginning my adult journey. I recalled what I dream of. Then I applied the wisdom and lessons that life has delivered.

I know this to be true. Life happens – giving each of us experiences then we do choose the attitude that creates the next experience. We set our direction and then something else happens to draw our attention, sometimes it is good and fun and sometimes it is hard and difficult. I have found that the hardest experiences are where the greatest lessons have been learned.

I began to be aware that I have been distracted by the media and its stories which are often only about the negatives that happen in society. I call these distractions because they have caused me to feel numb and accepting that me as an individual has no control. Sometimes they created very strong emotions such as FEAR and at times all consuming. I started to see the pattern and made a choice and took action. I believe that each experience is there to teach us something and to learn the lesson. Let the emotions be the “button” to wake up the numbing. Use the emotions button to get the movement going. However, I also know that hanging onto negative emotions is hard on the health and decided to preserve the learning, and drop the negative emotion.

I made a decision a few months ago. I turned off the TV, cancelled the newspaper subscription, stopped listening to the radio and started reading books, going for walks, riding my bike, skiing, hiking, contacting friends, studying to gain new skills and reconnecting to the dream I had almost forgotten. Because the lesson I had to learn was that the TV/Media/Radio is there to distract me, to keep me numb and often to brain wash me to believing the stories they are telling me and to create fear. Now some of you will point out that TV/Media/Radio each provide good honest stories and that being unplugged from the world is not wise. Well I have found that my friends, family and the odd time I will see the newspaper headlines, and listen to the radio keeps me informed just enough to assure me that the decision made a few months ago has been one of the best decisions I have made thus far in my life. Because I am no longer numb and being entertained or brain washed by the media and I am now healthier, wiser and taking actions that I am choosing. These actions are not through Fear, but through informed and educated knowledge.

It is a path that many would not have the courage to choose, because it goes against the masses, the status quo and what I was brought up to believe was the way it is to be done.

I have chosen to no longer be controlled, enslaved to wages and be numbed by TV/Radio/Media fear. I have chosen to be awake, aware, and creative and to be resilient. I know that I am walking a road that is less traveled, one that does not have a lot of people on it (yet) and one that will give me choices of freedom because taking brave action based on knowledge and the honest desire to learn and teach others is where my dream began.

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