Jul 03 2009
Jun 12 2009
The Charly Leetham Business Plan Model
Brilliant and Savvy--Charly Leetham
We had fellow Squidoo Rocket Mom, Abundant Babe Master Mind member and
online business genius on “Moon, Moo & You: The Collective Wisdom” June 9, 2009!
We were going to discuss “Women In Business” but a day or two before the show, I
began to feel adrift in my business. I attributed this to the drive to make Giant Squid
by the end of June by creating 100 quality lenses. I am usually very good at juggling
the various weekly tasks I set for myself, but the sheer energy involved with creating
theses lenses, and full time work, blogging, getting ready for a Rally For Single Payer
began to cloud my sense of overall vision.
And Charly was just the person to address the void I was feeling by leading the
discussion we ultimately had:- Creating and Holding To A Business Plan.
Charly has been working with unemployed men and women in her local area, Canberra,
Australia. Her main focus has been helping these men and women develop well thought
out business plans for future business or job ventures.
Most people approach their business in this way: Ready, Fire, Aim!
Joan and I are goal setters but neither of us have a business plan. We understand
various aspects of the online business puzzle–but have not learned to juggle all aspects of it
efficiently or proficiently.
Running an online business is not so different from having a brick and mortar business.
The principles for running both are exactly the same.
You must look at your business as a Business and not a Hobby.
What are your raw materials, your strengths and your weaknesses?
If you are feeling scattered, this is a great opportunity to tame the wild beast and
become the main orchestrator of your Business Creation.
Achievement has to do with single minded focus and absolute determination based
on the plan and vision you create for your business.
Once you have this, you are unstoppable.
Think of your vision as an extension of your business.
We discussed that great universal common thread that so many of us talk about: feeling
scattered. Charly said that often, feeling scattered is a sign of getting out of your comfort zone.
This means you are in a good place but also means you have to take steps to get where you
want to go.
Do one thing everyday that moves you towards your ultimate goal. Always look and review
the big goal and break that down into bite sized chunks.
Where To Start: The business plan is a living, breathing document. Once you work it out,
don’t put it in a drawer and forget about it.
Breakdown the business plan in this way: 1) Overview 2) Resource Management
3) Marketing Plan 3) Communications 4) Customer Service 5) Financial
Describe what kind of business you want to have, with all four senses. Who are your
clients? What do they love? and hate? eat? what cars do they drive? Get to really
know your target audience!
If you’ve been in your business for awhile, take time to reflect on what drew you to
the business vision that got you started on the path you are now on.
You may need help with certain components of the business plan. In a word–Outsource.
Look at your business in 3 and 6 months, 12 months, 18 months and 1 year.
Them 2 years, 5 years, 10 years out. Be flexible and adapt where needed.
You certainly could utilize a coach during these times of planning.
How much money do you want to make? Go quarter by quarter and make adjustments as
necessary.
Take this particular page out of the business plan and stick it up on your wall, computer or vision board.
Look at this daily to gauge whether or not you are on track.
Make sure all of your online pursuits are adding to your overall business plan. For instance, I belong
to an online forum, created by Pat O’Bryan, called the Milagro World Forum. The amount of information
exchanged here is invaluable. And it’s free to join.
The Squidoo Lens making experience has helped me gain credibility and trust within and also outside
the Squidoo Community. This is also a service that is free of charge.
Twitter and Facebook, and all the Nings are a way to further broaden relationships and trust all
across the world.
We addressed refocusing our efforts to the immediate localities where we live. We discussed
niches and broadening niches to include many more people.
As an example, my original niche was always healing and self-healing, but my original target audience
was nurses–and still is to a certain degree. However, I am now expanding my focus to include all
caregivers, healers in all walks of life, always with a spiritual focus.
So perhaps we will pick Charley’s brain on this topic further. I know I will!!
May 28 2009
Chef Keem On Moon, Moo & You: The Collective Wisdom
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Chef Keem is a beloved Squidoo Lensmaster, entrepreneur, chef, musician, and
much more!
We asked Chef Keem: How did you land on Squidoo and when?
He said the date was 1/29/2008. He was browsing the internet, looking for a site
that would allow him to make free web pages and also a place where he could freely
express himself. He found the perfect place in Squidoo and has been there ever since, with
short sleep breaks in between!
He said he’s never looked back! He said he was looking for this opportunity all of his adult
life or at least since the day he got sober! His whole experience on Squidoo has been one
of giving and receiving. He said he felt this was miraculous!
The Squidoo community is the foundation of the whole Squidoo experience, by design.
Chef Keem said if you provide unique, useful and updated content you will find your audience,
you will make sales and google will find you.
It’s all based on your contribution with integrity.
The biggest piece of useful advice you can give on Squidoo or any online business endeavor
is to be authentic, to be yourself.
Chef Keem discussed going into a store with the intention of buying a product. The person
waiting on you may not be very communicative, may lack enthusiasm, or may refuse to give you
their name.
You will not feel like buying anything, and you will flee.
Online business gives you the opportunity to give of yourself, to exchange valuable products that
solve a problem.
We asked Chef Keem what his most important life lesson has been thus far? He said, put yourself
in someone else’s shoes. Be compassionate. Be helpful. We are all interconnected and everything
we do has a ripple effect.
The more we care about other people, the more we receive for ourselves. This is Universal Law,
based on Scientific Principles.
We discussed the Secret Dollar Man, Todd Silva, about giving away a dollar a day and making sure
that no one sees you do it. You put it out there and release it. You give without expectation
yet you know you will receive, because it is the Law.
We asked Chef Keem if he had a Spiritual Awakening that led him to seek recovery from
alcoholism?
He said a friend dropped off a book at probably the lowest point of his life. He did not care if he
lived or if he died.
The book was entitled: “Quiet Mind,” by Grace Cook who channelled a being called White Eagle.
The book said we are here to learn certain lessons and come back many times to learn more.
The book gave him the will to live and gave him the will to enter treatment.
This one book changed his life.
We discussed the Big Book of AA written by Bill Wilson, AA founder and dubbed the “Greatest Social
Architect of the Twentieth Century,” by Aldous Huxley.
If AA works for Alcoholism, it can work for everything. You heal your life through the twelve steps,
through meditation, through contemplation of the Higher Power. We can heal everything that ails
us through emotional, spiritual and psychic tools and allow the teachings to do the miraculous work
of healing.
Whenever we are doing something because we are inspired and led to do it, we will never know who will be touched somehow by what we say or by what we have created. We discussed that Bill W. was a spiritual giant who did not know this about himself. Many of the great teachers did not know exactly how far reaching their message extended, sometimes far into the future.
We discussed that the changing paradigms in our society seem to be happening first on the internet with online communities such as Twitter, Squidoo and Face Book. Yet even on line, there is an element of anonymity. More and more people on Squidoo are opening up and telling the truth about their lives which gives others permission to do the same.
The most important thing to remember is that whatever we are doing, whether online or off,
we can add to people’s healing.
But we may never know exactly how this is happening.
And not knowing is the spiritual mystery. We act upon our desire to create and to contribute, and all else
will enfold exactly as it is meant to.
We just step out of the way and let it take on a life of its own.
http://www.squidoo.com/ChefKeemonTwitterandMoonMooYou
May 22 2009
Way To Bliss Now On Moon, Moo & You: The Collective Wisdom
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Laura Whitelaw and Liz Lichti, EFT and ZPoint coaches who work together in
Canada, and are Master Mind friends, were our guests on Moon, Moo and You:
The Collective Wisdom 5/19/09.
As the show got started, all four of us had a deja vu experience where we felt
like we were on our weekly Master Mind call!
Laura discussed how she and Liz met. She said she had been projecting wanting
to partner with someone to do an energy coaching business.
They both went to a local Meet-Up Meeting in their hometown, and this is where they
first met.
Liz said she, too, had put forth an intention to the Universe that she wanted to find
someone of like mind–and the karmic bond was realized.
The night of the Meet Up, they spoke in the parking lot for several hours, and before
long, they had a coaching business together, called Way To Bliss Now.
Since they only live twenty minutes from one another, they get together with their children,
chat, take walks and pan website content together.
Way To Bliss Now Offers ZPoint, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), or called simply
“tapping,” Some of the blocks to the awareness of our liberation are more appropriate
for ZPoint, others for EFT.
If you know specifically what it is you need to work on, then EFT is the tool. If you just
aren’t feeling “right” and have no idea why, ZPoint is the better tool. ZPoint can be done
anywhere unnoticed, whereas EFT makes you stand out because of doing the “tapping,”
although you can mentally tap and get the same results.
ZPoint is excellent for insomnia. If used, you can fall asleep in minutes.
People tend to worry and analyze how ZPoint and EFT works. The creator of ZPoint,
Grant Connelly, says that ZPoint will take you to the 10th dimension. Later in the program, we saw
exactly the truth of this.
When doing ZPoint, you repeat your key word and allow the process to work. The simplicity
of ZPoint can throw people off. Using the key work on the need to analyze and worry about
whether it is working will calm these inner doubts.
ZPoint and EFT are on the forefront of helping tools. What may take years to resolve with talk therapy
may just take minutes with EFT and ZPoint.
Just this evening, I had an allergic reaction to a plant that brushed against my skin
when I went outside to walk the dogs.
I began to sneeze, itch and my skin burned all over my body.
Not one to ever use EFT, I did a few rounds of tapping and BINGO!! Gone!!
This was miraculous to me. A drug-free, and yes simple solution which worked very quickly.
You can do ZPoint and EFT by yourself, or with a coach, too. Emotional release may be immediate,
or may take hours or days. Or even, longer, but do not fear, the process continues to work through
you.
Sometimes several sessions are needed to help resolve issues, but the most important
thing is to keep at the energy work.
Energy work is hygiene for the emotions which enhances the positive, not just dissipates the
negative.
Three things are needed for a ZPoint session.
1) A healing program is read to the subconscious mind only once,
2) A key word is decided upon.
3) You are then guided through several statements and all the while inwardly say your
key word.
Gage your issue from 0-10.
Locate the feeling in your body.
As Liz took us all through a session, I noticed that my iPhone was sending me Twitter messages.
My iPhone was not programed to receive any Twitter messages, so this was very unusual.
What I read were Re-Tweets from the astronauts in outer space, looking down on Planet Earth
and noting how beautiful she is.
They must have felt that any disharmony, war or human strife was a figment of the
imagination.
And so did we after our ZPoint session!!
http://www.squidoo.com/waytoblissnow
May 16 2009
Pray To Become One With The Object Of Your Desire
The Magic Of Pray Rain
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Joan Adams and I are intensely interested in journaling techniques. So keeping pace with
this, we had a guest on the “Moon, Moo and You: The Collective Wisdom,” Jeannette Maw,
who has an entirely different perspective on Journaling.
She calls it “Pray Rain Journaling.”
This concept of Pray Rain Journaling was given to Jeannette By Gregg Braden, author
of “Divine Matrix” among many other books.
Gregg was in New Mexico during a period of a five year drought. A friend invited him to
a ritual to “Pray Rain.” The friend purposely did not say “Pray For Rain.”
The two went deeply into the woods, and came to a circle of sacred stones.
The friend stepped mindfully into the circle and proceeded to say a few words to the
Ancestral Friends and became still.
Gregg imagined his friend would be doing a Prayer Dance with costumes and ceremony, but
this was not the case at all.
Later the friend explained what he did. He simply imagined the rain falling on his
skin, tasting the rain, and the corn waving in the wind after much rain to make it grow.
That night there was a flood!!
By asking for something, we are acknowledging that we don’t have it!! We discussed the concept
of Pray Peace, and I was inspired to create a lens on this. After all of these many years of Humans
interacting with one another, peace has not been realized.
Could it be we’ve been going about it in entirely the wrong way?
When Jeannette began playing with her Pray Rain Journal to change some things
about her life, she didn’t see the connection between this journaling technique and Law Of Attraction.
But Abraham, channelled through Esther Hicks, said if you write as if you have something,
by the end of the book, you will have it.
Or this or something better.
The first time Jeannette practiced with her PRJ, hours later she got exactly what she wanted.
She must have really been ready!!
Soon, Jeannette will have “Pray Rain Blog dot com” up and ready for everyone who
wants to work with this in an online community setting!! We are excited about this!!
Many times when a person begins the process of Pray Rain Journaling, they don’t know “how”
to begin. This will be where the community will help get the juices flowing for everyone
involved.
We discussed the beauty of online communities, like Twitter, Squidoo and Face Book.
And writing out your wishes may not be your thing. You might want to create scrap books,
vision boards, songs–and sing your way to your dream!!
But Pray Rain Journaling is simply telling your story the way you want it to be. As you
write or paint or sing your story, you are spared of looking crazy to your family and friends.
We discussed the “I am” statement. This was a powerful discussion and process, I think. Jesus
said, “I am That I Am.”
This is a powerful use of “I Am.” Then we discussed the “I am tired, I am sick, I am overwhelmed, I am
angry, I am depressed, I am an alcoholic, I am sorry.”
A pretty cool discussion. Listen to the program to hear it.
And finally we discussed Jeannette’s adventures with animal rescue.
Animal lovers are a special breed of human. They are a little different than those who cannot
relate to animals. I bet Jeannette has the Saint Francis effect.
I bet the Bull Frog in my basement would crawl out from under his rock to greet her
happily.
But that’s another story.
May 06 2009
Dannion Brinkley’s Near Death Experiences
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http://www.squidoo.com/LighteningStrikes
Apr 27 2009
Tree Huggers Unite!! Pat Hicks On Moon, Moo & You: The Collective Wisdom
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http://www.squidoo.com/pathicksmoonmooyou
http://www.newlifehardwoodfloors.com
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Pat Hicks was on our show this week, 4/21/09 and his passion is the history of trees
in America. He helps to utilize those trees which have been discarded and left at the bottom
of rivers, protected by silt and cold river water, which have left them intact for hundreds of years.
Pat now has a home based business called New Life Hard Wood Floors which specializes
in eco-friendly, environmentally sensitive, reclaimed, re-milled antique oak hard pine
flooring.
New Life Hard Wood Floors is committed to the ecological friendly recycling of old
growth antique hard wood flooring. Future generations can admire, enjoy and benefit
from the distinctive and uncommon beauty of these superlative hardwoods which would
otherwise be lost forever.
We asked Pat how he came to be so drawn to the preservation of these Long Leaf Pine Trees.
First of all, Pat said, he has always loved antiques. About seven years ago, his neighbor showed
him wood that came from 100-200 year old trees that he salvaged from an old building. 60-70
years ago, wood came from 100-300 year old trees.
This is not true today.
Pat experienced a floor made out of 200-300 year old Pecan trees. He experienced 100,000
feet of oak that literally had been thrown away.
These experiences were a wake up call for Pat Hicks.
Salvaging and reusing old growth wood is emotionally satisfying, Pat said.
Pat explained to Joan and I that when the Europeans first came to this country, they clear cut
28 million acres of Long Leaf Pine that stood 100-200 feet high. They were as hard as Red Oak,
were termite proof and fire resistant. These trees were rigged to float down river to saw mills. Many sunk
to the depths of the river.
Pat is in the process of making a video about the trees and the antique flooring. In it are pictures
of these floating trees that are so abundant that you can’t see the river for the floating logs.
This image has a sickening effect on the mind. Yet as Pat pointed out, the exact same thing is happening on the Amazon today. These trees are all cleared for farm land, so people can eat.
A tree 100 feet tall and 12 feet in diameter, cut down in 1900, started growing in 14-15-1600. Our landfills are now overflowing with this wood.
We can’t find 400 year old trees anymore, or rarely.
The trees we enjoy today are only as old as the Great Depression. Teddy Roosevelt was instrumental
in establishing government work programs, where Loblolly Shortleaf Pine were planted in a mass effort to replace the destruction of the Long Leaf Pine tree.
Loblolly Shortleaf Pine grow very fast, say 30-40 years, whereas the Long Leaf Pine grows over a 300-400 year period.
Each piece of the Long Leaf Pine is unique. The forests were dense where they once grew and they had to fight for every ounce of growth due to lack of light.
Pines of today are light weight and not nearly as durable.
These fast growing Loblolly Shortleaf Pine trees were planted in the 1920’s and 1930’s. By the end of World War II these trees were maturing and used as building materials for suburban growth.
Joan’s sister, Betty DeLorme, came on the show at this point and described the grief she
experienced when a 30-40 year old Oak Tree had to be cut down in her yard. The miracle of it is that
the people who cut down the tree were sensitive to her love for the tree. So often, people are not
in tune to how much people love a tree that dies or has to be destroyed, or is cut down carelessly by
a a person who “just doesn’t get it!”
Trees that grow near us are a part of every fiber of our being!
The people who milled the tree for Betty were also sensitive about the Oak that was cut down
in her yard.
Betty wanted bowls to be made from the salvaged wood for her children. The woodworker told Betty
that the tree was telling him that it wanted to be made into a lamp and not a bowl.
And lamps were what were created from the tree.
Pockets of Long Leaf Pine still stand in parts of the South, some in South Carolina, and some in Georgia. We are in the process of locating these trees and perhaps will make a pilgrimage to them.
Attitudes about trees have changed. More and more people are pulling up carpet and either
preserving the flooring they find or putting down antique floor. The floor will last forever, for our
children and their children to always appreciate.
At this point, I told the story of preserving our 150-200 year old barn, lifting up the foundation and
mixing batch after batch of cement to restore the front of the barn which also houses the cistern.
In the process we also saved a bull frog, who lives in our basement still.
Several years back, we put our property up on the market, and our Realtors told us to tear down the barn.
My husband and I stood up calmly and asked then to leave the house.
This lack of respect for our beautiful property was not what we wanted in a Realtor. We took the
house off the market.
American society is recycling, reusing and conserving with greater enthusiasm now than ever before.
The plastic age of use it and throw it away is changing as reflected in the growing popularity of Pat’s
business. The green movement, the Sierra Club and local conservationists are attracted to Pat’s message.
Pat mused about the old house my husband Tom and I live in. He thought about the house when it was first built in 1792. The window sills in my living room are deep and thick with oak that grew in the woods beside the house. The wood in this house started growing as a seedling in 1390, perhaps, because the oldest trees were always used to build houses in those days.
What were the trees like in 1390?
If the wood in my house could talk, what would it say?
Having Pat Hicks on the show was a great experience, a consciousness expanding moment. Trees are
living breathing beings and are Universal Healing Symbols.
Let us learn to love them as children of God/ess.
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