Every now and then the question will come up about Reflexology and Christianity.
In in fact, a few years ago I was trying to access my website On Your Feet Coaching in a restaurant that had wireless and couldn't get through. The website had been classified under New Age and blocked. I couldn't believe it! I must say I was a little embarrassed that my innocuous website had been blocked but mainly I was incredulous that such a ridiculous thing had happened.
Well to cut straight to the chase. Yes, it is entirely OK to do Reflexology if you are a Christian both as a practitioner and as a recipient.
To be completely honest, this issue, in effect, ended a friendship I had with someone who calls herself to be a diehard Christian. She considers Reflexology to be completely New Age.
Apparently she hasn't read and absorbed the passage in the Bible wherein Jesus washes the feet of his disciples (John 13:2-17). And let's not forget the sinful woman with the alabaster box who washed Jesus' feet with her tears and anointed them with a expensive fragrant oil (Luke 7:37-50). Jesus completely forgave her sins!
Interpretations of this passage will tell you that in washing his disciples' feet Jesus was showing that as believers we should seek to serve, not to be served. He washed his disciples feet as an act of servanthood to show them how much he loved them. If anything was "wrong" with attending to his disciples' feet, then I am sure Jesus would not have done it. The woman with the alabaster box also shows humility and a desire to serve.
Eunice Ingham is considered to be the "mother" of Reflexology. Her books "Stories the Feet Can Tell Thru Reflexology" and "Stories the Feet Have Told Thru Reflexology" are classics. While you will find acknowledgment of Chinese Zone Therapy in her books, there is absolutely no discussion of chakras, meridiens (she simply calls the zones) or deities or anything that would suggest you practice a different religion. In fact, she has many scriptural references including one of my favorites "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings." (Isaiah 52:7).
Because everyone has feet, it stands to reason that feet would play a role in all cultures and that therapies would be developed around the feet. That certainly doesn't make Reflexology per se New Age or un-Christian. Reflexing the feet is shown to have therapeutic effects, period.
When I first experienced Reflexology as a student, I felt like I had had anesthesia. I felt completed relaxed on a mental, physical and spiritual level and knew this was something I had to share with others. As a Reflexologist, my clients tell me how renewed they feel after a session. The ability to help people relax through Reflexology is a gift and we are told in the Bible to use our gifts.
So if you have thinking about getting Reflexology or studying Reflexology and are a Christian, put your concerns aside. Reflexology is one of the most spiritual things you can do. Because you become so relaxed, it will even deepen your relationship with God because you will be so open to receive him. In this hectic world where multi-tasking has become a badge of honor, I can't think of anything better than to put your feet up and become a vessel for God to work through you and for you!
"Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light for my path." (Psalm 119:105)
Copyright 2010 Paula Quick
Article may be used with copyright and link to website: On Your Feet Coaching
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Relaxing with A Mental PDA
Relaxing with a Mental PDA - Your 5 Minute Daily Program For Stress Management
"Stressed out." It is one of the most popular phrases we use to express when we feel under stress. When it comes right down to it, however, I think that it is how we work or even relax, for that matter that triggers stress. Ever been stressed even when you're well relaxed and bored? I know I have.
"Since Error! Hyperlink reference not valid" is unavoidable in life, it is important to find ways to decrease and prevent stressful incidents and decrease negative reactions to stress. Here are some simple but highly effective things that can be done by just remembering them, since life is basically a routine to follow like brushing your teeth or eating breakfast. You can do a few of them in a longer span of time, but as they say-- every minute counts.
Managing time
Time management skills can allow you more time with your family and friends and possibly increase your performance and productivity. This will help reduce your stress.
To improve your time management:
· Save time by focusing and concentrating, delegating, and scheduling time for yourself.
· Keep a record of how you spend your time, including work, family, and leisure time.
· Prioritize your time by rating tasks by importance and urgency. Redirect your time to those activities that are important and meaningful to you.
· Manage your commitments by not over- or undercommitting. Don't commit to what is not important to you.
· Deal with procrastination by using a day planner, breaking large projects into smaller ones, and setting short-term deadlines.
· Examine your beliefs to reduce conflict between what you believe and what your life is like.
Build healthy coping strategies
It is important that you identify your coping strategies. One way to do this is by recording the stressful event, your reaction, and how you cope in a stress journal. With this information, you can work to change unhealthy coping strategies into healthy ones-those that help you focus on the positive and what you can change or control in your life.
Lifestyle
Some behaviors and lifestyle choices affect your stress level. They may not cause stress directly, but they can interfere with the ways your body seeks relief from stress. Try to:
· Balance personal, work, and family needs and obligations.
· Have a sense of purpose in life.
· Get enough sleep, since your body recovers from the stresses of the day while you are sleeping.
· Eat a balanced diet for a nutritional defense against stress.
· Get moderate exercise throughout the week.
· Limit your consumption of alcohol.
· Don't smoke.
Social support
Social support is a major factor in how we experience stress. Social support is the positive support you receive from family, friends, and the community. It is the knowledge that you are cared for, loved, esteemed, and valued. More and more research indicates a strong relationship between social support and better mental and physical health.
Changing thinking
When an event triggers negative thoughts, you may experience fear, insecurity, anxiety, depression, rage, guilt, and a sense of worthlessness or powerlessness. These emotions trigger the body's stress, just as an actual threat does. Dealing with your negative thoughts and how you see things can help reduce stress.
· Thought-stopping helps you stop a negative thought to help eliminate stress.
· Disproving irrational thoughts helps you to avoid exaggerating the negative thought, anticipating the worst, and interpreting an event incorrectly.
· Problem solving helps you identify all aspects of a stressful event and find ways to deal with it.
· Changing your communication style helps you communicate in a way that makes your views known without making others feel put down, hostile, or intimidated. This reduces the stress that comes from poor communication. Use the assertiveness ladder to improve your communication style.
Even relaxation experts like myself can get stressed even though I'm always thinking of creative ways to get others relaxed. Whether you're the mail guy, a business owner, or probably the average working parent or caregiver,, stress is one unwanted visitor you would love to boot out of your homes, especially your life.
"Stressed out." It is one of the most popular phrases we use to express when we feel under stress. When it comes right down to it, however, I think that it is how we work or even relax, for that matter that triggers stress. Ever been stressed even when you're well relaxed and bored? I know I have.
"Since Error! Hyperlink reference not valid" is unavoidable in life, it is important to find ways to decrease and prevent stressful incidents and decrease negative reactions to stress. Here are some simple but highly effective things that can be done by just remembering them, since life is basically a routine to follow like brushing your teeth or eating breakfast. You can do a few of them in a longer span of time, but as they say-- every minute counts.
Managing time
Time management skills can allow you more time with your family and friends and possibly increase your performance and productivity. This will help reduce your stress.
To improve your time management:
· Save time by focusing and concentrating, delegating, and scheduling time for yourself.
· Keep a record of how you spend your time, including work, family, and leisure time.
· Prioritize your time by rating tasks by importance and urgency. Redirect your time to those activities that are important and meaningful to you.
· Manage your commitments by not over- or undercommitting. Don't commit to what is not important to you.
· Deal with procrastination by using a day planner, breaking large projects into smaller ones, and setting short-term deadlines.
· Examine your beliefs to reduce conflict between what you believe and what your life is like.
Build healthy coping strategies
It is important that you identify your coping strategies. One way to do this is by recording the stressful event, your reaction, and how you cope in a stress journal. With this information, you can work to change unhealthy coping strategies into healthy ones-those that help you focus on the positive and what you can change or control in your life.
Lifestyle
Some behaviors and lifestyle choices affect your stress level. They may not cause stress directly, but they can interfere with the ways your body seeks relief from stress. Try to:
· Balance personal, work, and family needs and obligations.
· Have a sense of purpose in life.
· Get enough sleep, since your body recovers from the stresses of the day while you are sleeping.
· Eat a balanced diet for a nutritional defense against stress.
· Get moderate exercise throughout the week.
· Limit your consumption of alcohol.
· Don't smoke.
Social support
Social support is a major factor in how we experience stress. Social support is the positive support you receive from family, friends, and the community. It is the knowledge that you are cared for, loved, esteemed, and valued. More and more research indicates a strong relationship between social support and better mental and physical health.
Changing thinking
When an event triggers negative thoughts, you may experience fear, insecurity, anxiety, depression, rage, guilt, and a sense of worthlessness or powerlessness. These emotions trigger the body's stress, just as an actual threat does. Dealing with your negative thoughts and how you see things can help reduce stress.
· Thought-stopping helps you stop a negative thought to help eliminate stress.
· Disproving irrational thoughts helps you to avoid exaggerating the negative thought, anticipating the worst, and interpreting an event incorrectly.
· Problem solving helps you identify all aspects of a stressful event and find ways to deal with it.
· Changing your communication style helps you communicate in a way that makes your views known without making others feel put down, hostile, or intimidated. This reduces the stress that comes from poor communication. Use the assertiveness ladder to improve your communication style.
Even relaxation experts like myself can get stressed even though I'm always thinking of creative ways to get others relaxed. Whether you're the mail guy, a business owner, or probably the average working parent or caregiver,, stress is one unwanted visitor you would love to boot out of your homes, especially your life.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Optimist or Pessimist?
Enjoy Your Life: Change Your Point of View
"Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one sees the stars."- Frederick Langbridge, A Cluster of Quiet Thoughts
If you’ve placed second in a writing contest, will you jump for joy and push for better results the next time or will you be discouraged and find an excuse not to join again?
In life, you are always filled with choices. You may opt to have a pessimist’s view and live a self-defeated life or you may decide to take the optimist’s route and take a challenging and fulfilling life.
So why nurture an optimist’s point of view? And why now?
Well, optimism has been linked to positive mood and good morale; to academic, athletic, military, occupational and political success; to popularity; to good health and even to long life and freedom from trauma.
On the other hand, the rates of depression and pessimism have never been higher. It affects middle-aged adults the same way it hits younger people. The mean age of onset has gone from 30 to 15. It is no longer a middle-aged housewife’s disorder but also a teen-ager’s disorder’ as well.
Here’s how optimists are in action and researches that back up why it really pays to be an optimist:
Optimists expect the best
The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe bad events, which will last a long time and undermine everything they do, are their own fault.
The truth is optimists are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world. What differs is the way they explain their misfortune---it’s the opposite way. They tend to believe defeat is just a temporary setback, that its causes are confined to this one case.
Optimists tend to focus on and plan for the 'problem' at hand. They use 'positive reinterpretation.' In other words, they most likely reinterpret a negative experience in a way that helps them learn and grow. Such people are unfazed by bad situation, they perceive it is a challenge and try harder.
They won’t say “things will never get better,” “If I failed once, it will happen again” and “If I experience misfortune in one part of my life, then it will happen in my whole life.”
Positive expectancies of optimists also predict better reactions during transitions to new environments, sudden tragedies and unlikely turn of events. If they fall, they will stand up. They see opportunities instead of obstacles.
People respond positively to optimists
Optimists are proactive and less dependent on others for their happiness. They find no need to control or manipulate people. They usually draw people towards them. Their optimistic view of the world can be contagious and influence those they are with.
Optimism seems a socially desirable trait in all communities. Those who share optimism are generally accepted while those who spread gloom, panic and hysteria are treated unfavorably.
In life, these people often win elections; get voted most congenial and sought for advice.
When the going gets tough, optimists get tougher
Optimists typically maintain higher levels of subjective well-being during times of stress than do people who are less optimistic. In contrast, pessimists are likely to react to stressful events by denying that they exist or by avoiding dealing with problems. Pessimists are more likely to quit trying when difficulties arise.
They persevere. They just don’t give up easily, they are also known for their patience. Inching their way a step closer to that goal or elusive dream.
Optimists are healthier and live longer
Medical research has justified that simple pleasures and a positive outlook can cause a measurable increase in the body's ability to fight disease.
Optimists’ health is unusually good. They age well, much freer than most people from the usual physical ills of middle age. And they get to outlive those prone to negative thoughts.
So why not be an optimist today? And think positively towards a more fulfilled life.
Why not look forward to success in all your endeavors? Why not be resilient? Like everybody else you are bound to hit lows sometimes but don’t just stay there. Carry yourself out of the mud and improve your chances of getting back on the right track. And why not inspire others to remove their dark-colored glasses and see life in the bright side?
"Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one sees the stars."- Frederick Langbridge, A Cluster of Quiet Thoughts
If you’ve placed second in a writing contest, will you jump for joy and push for better results the next time or will you be discouraged and find an excuse not to join again?
In life, you are always filled with choices. You may opt to have a pessimist’s view and live a self-defeated life or you may decide to take the optimist’s route and take a challenging and fulfilling life.
So why nurture an optimist’s point of view? And why now?
Well, optimism has been linked to positive mood and good morale; to academic, athletic, military, occupational and political success; to popularity; to good health and even to long life and freedom from trauma.
On the other hand, the rates of depression and pessimism have never been higher. It affects middle-aged adults the same way it hits younger people. The mean age of onset has gone from 30 to 15. It is no longer a middle-aged housewife’s disorder but also a teen-ager’s disorder’ as well.
Here’s how optimists are in action and researches that back up why it really pays to be an optimist:
Optimists expect the best
The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe bad events, which will last a long time and undermine everything they do, are their own fault.
The truth is optimists are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world. What differs is the way they explain their misfortune---it’s the opposite way. They tend to believe defeat is just a temporary setback, that its causes are confined to this one case.
Optimists tend to focus on and plan for the 'problem' at hand. They use 'positive reinterpretation.' In other words, they most likely reinterpret a negative experience in a way that helps them learn and grow. Such people are unfazed by bad situation, they perceive it is a challenge and try harder.
They won’t say “things will never get better,” “If I failed once, it will happen again” and “If I experience misfortune in one part of my life, then it will happen in my whole life.”
Positive expectancies of optimists also predict better reactions during transitions to new environments, sudden tragedies and unlikely turn of events. If they fall, they will stand up. They see opportunities instead of obstacles.
People respond positively to optimists
Optimists are proactive and less dependent on others for their happiness. They find no need to control or manipulate people. They usually draw people towards them. Their optimistic view of the world can be contagious and influence those they are with.
Optimism seems a socially desirable trait in all communities. Those who share optimism are generally accepted while those who spread gloom, panic and hysteria are treated unfavorably.
In life, these people often win elections; get voted most congenial and sought for advice.
When the going gets tough, optimists get tougher
Optimists typically maintain higher levels of subjective well-being during times of stress than do people who are less optimistic. In contrast, pessimists are likely to react to stressful events by denying that they exist or by avoiding dealing with problems. Pessimists are more likely to quit trying when difficulties arise.
They persevere. They just don’t give up easily, they are also known for their patience. Inching their way a step closer to that goal or elusive dream.
Optimists are healthier and live longer
Medical research has justified that simple pleasures and a positive outlook can cause a measurable increase in the body's ability to fight disease.
Optimists’ health is unusually good. They age well, much freer than most people from the usual physical ills of middle age. And they get to outlive those prone to negative thoughts.
So why not be an optimist today? And think positively towards a more fulfilled life.
Why not look forward to success in all your endeavors? Why not be resilient? Like everybody else you are bound to hit lows sometimes but don’t just stay there. Carry yourself out of the mud and improve your chances of getting back on the right track. And why not inspire others to remove their dark-colored glasses and see life in the bright side?
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Network Marketing - the New 21st Century Factory
After pledging to be done with network marketing, I recently got pulled into yet another network marketing product and one that I admittedly love.
Now for the "good" stuff. This is the umpteenth company I've been involved in but quite frankly, the only one that I am really working as a "business" versus a hobby. I think my main motivation with the other companies was to simply get great products at a discount - LOL.
How often are we told that network marketing provides great residual income as well as time and financial freedom that you cannot get from a traditional J-O-B. We are told that in network marketing you are working for yourself but not by yourself.
I wholly agree that given the right product residual income can be a terrific stream of income and I think everyone should consider network marketing for that purpose. Certainly Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki think so as they have endorsed network marketing in their book "Why We Want You to Be Rich."
But as to time and financial freedom, I beg to differ, especially when you're building a team in network marketing. My experience with all the network marketing companies I've been involved in heretofore is that there is no easy street to that time and financial freedom for most people. A lot of the top leaders in network marketing companies are career network marketers who oftentimes bring a "downline" with them when they join a company.
If you're just an average Joe or Jane, however, to seriously build a team you must eat, sleep and breathe network marketing -- always prospecting, always chasing down leads to present the "opportunity" to some unsuspecting or sometimes "suspecting" soul. To move up the various levels you need an endless funnel of leads whether they are personal, referred or purchased. It is not an armchair business.
Secondly, to stay in the game you must be a purchaser of the product or whatever the "thing" is. There's always some monthly commitment you must personally meet and that usually involves money.
Look folks, this isn't time and financial freedom to me. Chasing down leads seems like a plain ole job, but instead of being inside a corporate structure, which admittedly today is far less stable than in years past, you're totally on your own to make it happen. Even at the top of the chain, the leaders are still prospecting (or least urging their downline to prospect) lest that gargantuan monthly check find itself whittling away.
The myth of network marketing is that you sign up, get family and friends to sign up and bang, you're on your way to financial and time freedom. It's rarely that easy or simple. If it's your third foray into network marketing, for example, then your family and friends probably don't even want to know about your new company so now you must find "new" people to cultivate -- and that takes time!
The reality of network marketing is that you're still working for someone else -- your upline. Furthermore, today's networking marketing has become a well-oiled machine where the overriding model is to make yourself "duplicatable" -- different from the Corporate America model where you really want to be unique and stand out. GM and Chrysler may be gone as we know them but by golly, network marketing is the
new 21st century factory --- grind out x number of widgets and one of those widgets is YOU!
Not that there is anything wrong with being a widget. The key thing is to know what you're getting into when you sign up for a network marketing company. It's definitely not your Uncle Harry's company any more.
Happy Prospecting!
Now for the "good" stuff. This is the umpteenth company I've been involved in but quite frankly, the only one that I am really working as a "business" versus a hobby. I think my main motivation with the other companies was to simply get great products at a discount - LOL.
How often are we told that network marketing provides great residual income as well as time and financial freedom that you cannot get from a traditional J-O-B. We are told that in network marketing you are working for yourself but not by yourself.
I wholly agree that given the right product residual income can be a terrific stream of income and I think everyone should consider network marketing for that purpose. Certainly Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki think so as they have endorsed network marketing in their book "Why We Want You to Be Rich."
But as to time and financial freedom, I beg to differ, especially when you're building a team in network marketing. My experience with all the network marketing companies I've been involved in heretofore is that there is no easy street to that time and financial freedom for most people. A lot of the top leaders in network marketing companies are career network marketers who oftentimes bring a "downline" with them when they join a company.
If you're just an average Joe or Jane, however, to seriously build a team you must eat, sleep and breathe network marketing -- always prospecting, always chasing down leads to present the "opportunity" to some unsuspecting or sometimes "suspecting" soul. To move up the various levels you need an endless funnel of leads whether they are personal, referred or purchased. It is not an armchair business.
Secondly, to stay in the game you must be a purchaser of the product or whatever the "thing" is. There's always some monthly commitment you must personally meet and that usually involves money.
Look folks, this isn't time and financial freedom to me. Chasing down leads seems like a plain ole job, but instead of being inside a corporate structure, which admittedly today is far less stable than in years past, you're totally on your own to make it happen. Even at the top of the chain, the leaders are still prospecting (or least urging their downline to prospect) lest that gargantuan monthly check find itself whittling away.
The myth of network marketing is that you sign up, get family and friends to sign up and bang, you're on your way to financial and time freedom. It's rarely that easy or simple. If it's your third foray into network marketing, for example, then your family and friends probably don't even want to know about your new company so now you must find "new" people to cultivate -- and that takes time!
The reality of network marketing is that you're still working for someone else -- your upline. Furthermore, today's networking marketing has become a well-oiled machine where the overriding model is to make yourself "duplicatable" -- different from the Corporate America model where you really want to be unique and stand out. GM and Chrysler may be gone as we know them but by golly, network marketing is the
new 21st century factory --- grind out x number of widgets and one of those widgets is YOU!
Not that there is anything wrong with being a widget. The key thing is to know what you're getting into when you sign up for a network marketing company. It's definitely not your Uncle Harry's company any more.
Happy Prospecting!
Saturday, May 30, 2009
When Your Church is Not Enough
A friend recently invited me to an introduction to a very popular lifelong coaching program. I was pretty amazed at the number of people at the session as well as the passion of the people leading the introduction.
What it ultimately said to me is that people are looking for "truth" they can hang their hats on and they will search high and low to find it. Just think of the millions who tuned into Oprah's "New Earth" series. Heaven knows what she has in mind for the fall season.
Based upon numerous conversations I have had amongst friends and acquaintances, there is a universal theme arising. The theme is that many people simply are not being fed by their churches. I say "many" because certainly many people are indeed being fed by their church but I suspect that the amount not being fed is really more than "many.
This is a subject that I will be writing about more in the future.
But for the time being I want to lay out some very basic steps for people seeking more spiritual nourishment.
#1. If you're not being fed by your particular church, then find another one! There are thousands of churches out there. The important thing is not to give up on being "churched." If traditional church doesn't appeal to you, then consider attending a "house church." Just ask around if anyone knows someone who is actually conducting church in their home. You'd be surprised at the number of people who are doing this. I truly believe that community and fellowship with other Christians are vital in getting closer to God.
#2. Start reading the Bible. I mean really reading it in a way that you can understand. You no longer have to wade though the King James Version. The Bible could not be presented in more contemporary and understandable language than what you find in "The Message." The important thing is to find a translation where the words start to resonate deep inside of you.
#3. If you feel uncomfortable sharing your spiritual disconnect with friends and family, then find someone with whom you can speak openly on this topic. Don't miss out on developing a closer relationship with God because you feel you have no one to talk to. There are people just waiting to share the "good news" with you!
Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a part of it.
(1 Corinthians 12:27)
This blog post may be reprinted as an article and shared with others as long as you give the following attribution:
Copyright 2009. Written by Paula Quick, Certified Christian Coach, www.spiritualhospitalitycoach.com
What it ultimately said to me is that people are looking for "truth" they can hang their hats on and they will search high and low to find it. Just think of the millions who tuned into Oprah's "New Earth" series. Heaven knows what she has in mind for the fall season.
Based upon numerous conversations I have had amongst friends and acquaintances, there is a universal theme arising. The theme is that many people simply are not being fed by their churches. I say "many" because certainly many people are indeed being fed by their church but I suspect that the amount not being fed is really more than "many.
This is a subject that I will be writing about more in the future.
But for the time being I want to lay out some very basic steps for people seeking more spiritual nourishment.
#1. If you're not being fed by your particular church, then find another one! There are thousands of churches out there. The important thing is not to give up on being "churched." If traditional church doesn't appeal to you, then consider attending a "house church." Just ask around if anyone knows someone who is actually conducting church in their home. You'd be surprised at the number of people who are doing this. I truly believe that community and fellowship with other Christians are vital in getting closer to God.
#2. Start reading the Bible. I mean really reading it in a way that you can understand. You no longer have to wade though the King James Version. The Bible could not be presented in more contemporary and understandable language than what you find in "The Message." The important thing is to find a translation where the words start to resonate deep inside of you.
#3. If you feel uncomfortable sharing your spiritual disconnect with friends and family, then find someone with whom you can speak openly on this topic. Don't miss out on developing a closer relationship with God because you feel you have no one to talk to. There are people just waiting to share the "good news" with you!
Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a part of it.
(1 Corinthians 12:27)
This blog post may be reprinted as an article and shared with others as long as you give the following attribution:
Copyright 2009. Written by Paula Quick, Certified Christian Coach, www.spiritualhospitalitycoach.com
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
The Law of Attraction and the Blissful Combopreneur
Lest you have any doubt, the Law of Attraction DOES work, even when you're not consciously trying to put it to use. That's why many coaches focus on getting you to be a "conscious creator," versus an unwitting one.
Consider the following:
Back in September I created a social network focused on entrepreneurs who for whatever reason are doing their entrepreneurial thing AND working a part-time job and actually loving it. They're loving it as opposed to bemoaning the fact that they are working outside of their business.
Unfortunately there seems to be a stigma attached to being an entrepreneur AND still continuing to work, especially if it's part-time.
God recently shifted me into a part-time position that I really, truly love and which allows me to still do my Reflexology and Coaching without a hassle. Nevertheless, I noticed that when people see me in my new assignment, I can tell that some are assuming I am working part-time because of the "economy" and my business must be "off."
Truth be told, however, if I were to do it again, I would (and will) continue to work a part-time job whether my business is making it or not.
True, the part-time job allows some extra spending money so that I don't have to tap other funds. It is also true that having to take a reprieve to take care of my mother when she fell two years ago and then spending thousands of dollars for medical care for my beloved Shih Tzu Starr didn't help matters any. However, I can assure you that the "economy" is not why I have gladly taken on this part-time gig.
It allows me to get out of my home office -- which is sorely needed during the day --and to be in an industry where I am not trying to solve someone else's problems - I'm just allowed to "be" my happy self.
When I created the social site, which is called "Blissful Combopreneurs" I actually was coming out of a horrendous experience working part-time for a small, on its last legs company.
I'm happy to report, however, that now I am the epitome of the Blissful Combopreneur. I love my new part-time assignment and I love the fact that it integrates so well into my business. Praise the Lord!
Even though I had no idea that this new gig was on the horizon, the Law of Attraction has made me a totally Blissful Combopreneur!
If you would like to know more about this network, please visit (and join, if you like): http://combopreneurs.ning.com
Do you have a Blissful Combopreneur story? If so, please share!
Consider the following:
Back in September I created a social network focused on entrepreneurs who for whatever reason are doing their entrepreneurial thing AND working a part-time job and actually loving it. They're loving it as opposed to bemoaning the fact that they are working outside of their business.
Unfortunately there seems to be a stigma attached to being an entrepreneur AND still continuing to work, especially if it's part-time.
God recently shifted me into a part-time position that I really, truly love and which allows me to still do my Reflexology and Coaching without a hassle. Nevertheless, I noticed that when people see me in my new assignment, I can tell that some are assuming I am working part-time because of the "economy" and my business must be "off."
Truth be told, however, if I were to do it again, I would (and will) continue to work a part-time job whether my business is making it or not.
True, the part-time job allows some extra spending money so that I don't have to tap other funds. It is also true that having to take a reprieve to take care of my mother when she fell two years ago and then spending thousands of dollars for medical care for my beloved Shih Tzu Starr didn't help matters any. However, I can assure you that the "economy" is not why I have gladly taken on this part-time gig.
It allows me to get out of my home office -- which is sorely needed during the day --and to be in an industry where I am not trying to solve someone else's problems - I'm just allowed to "be" my happy self.
When I created the social site, which is called "Blissful Combopreneurs" I actually was coming out of a horrendous experience working part-time for a small, on its last legs company.
I'm happy to report, however, that now I am the epitome of the Blissful Combopreneur. I love my new part-time assignment and I love the fact that it integrates so well into my business. Praise the Lord!
Even though I had no idea that this new gig was on the horizon, the Law of Attraction has made me a totally Blissful Combopreneur!
If you would like to know more about this network, please visit (and join, if you like): http://combopreneurs.ning.com
Do you have a Blissful Combopreneur story? If so, please share!
Friday, March 13, 2009
Sparkly Twinkle!
I had to take my darling Shih Tzu Twinkle to the vet today because she seems to have lost a couple of pounds. After having lost my 16-year-old Shih Tzu Starr in October, the idea of something being wrong with this new addition to the household was a sobering one. So far, we think she is just full of energy and has worked off a couple of pounds simply from running throughout the yard.
At any rate I found myself singing "Look at the That Face" to her (anybody remember Barbara Streisand's version?) while we were waiting for the vet to walk in.
The point I want to make is that if you are feeling blue or somehow sad, a pet can lift your spirits like nobody's business because they have no worries -- they KNOW they will be taken care of. Plus, if you can sing to them -- so much the better for YOUR health and wellness!
P.S. Some blood work was drawn just to make sure she's A-OK. I'm confident that she is.
P.S.S. Blood work came back OK. We think it's all her running around the yard that is causing her to lose some pounds. Maybe I should run with her :)
In the meantime, here is a photo of Sparkly Twinkle. I hope she makes your heart melt as much as she does mine!!!
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