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Thanks so much, those of you who took the time to send in the postcard feedback I sent you about the FREE No Calling Fears Teleclass – I so appreciate it.

It was a new idea for me, to send a card like that.

I liked the idea of using hand-addressed postcards because it seemed more friendly than an email. I wanted a more personal touch – and I was even careful to get recycled paper, and not use slick, toxic fancy paper and inks.

Because…if I’m going to rant about plastic drinking water bottles and being green, I guess I oughta walk green, too, right?

p.s. I invite you to check out my rant-about-plastic site here – this is where I posted all my paintings when I did my campaign for painting 100 painting 100 paintings in 100 days: Facebook.com/ArtistsforAPristinePlanet

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Happy Holidays to you!

And…I’m hoping that before the actual day we leap into 2012, you’ll make the intention to make 2012 the best year of your life!

Take a few minutes right now, and picture, think about and feel what it will be like to have the ultimate 12 months; the most fun, fulfilling and prosperous year in your life so far.

Or maybe EVER!

I invite you to put aside all the little voices and beliefs that you aren’t good enough or don’t do it right or who are you to … whatever – and just allow them to rest and relax on the side as you use your mind and heart to dream up your new year.

DECIDE to have a great year. Whether that means about health, growth, business or personal success, family relationships, your body, your mind, or all of the above. Decide.

When you feel like you could burst with feel-good, when you feel cozy and relaxed, or inspired and excited, note how that feels in your body.

Are you energized? Relaxed? Calm? Tingling? Make note of how that feels, because any time you don’t feel that way from now on, you’ll know you’re ‘off,’ and you can stop, take a breath, and decide to tap and get back ‘on’ again.

Decide to keep your mind on track, and any time you catch yourself feeling like you’re heading down the wrong road – stop! Take a breath and recommit to the path of success that you have chosen.

Focus on what you want, what you can do, what you ARE doing … and keep your mind always headed to that success destination! And remember – it’s all about taking nano-steps, not always only the huge leaps.

Don’t think that’s true? Remember how the Wright brothers had to take lots of small steps as they ran towards the cliff to leap off it to fly? Small steps! Small steps!

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Do you realize that if you watch 2 freebie 1-hour videos every day, you’re spending 60 hours a month that you could have been investing hours in doing productive, revenue-producing work. Or having fun. Or both.

Want to be really graphic about it? Let’s say your general average fee is 100 bucks an hour. That’s 60 hours x $100 = $6000 you’re spending on ‘free’ videos!

Make sure the videos you’re watching aren’t saying the same-old-same-old stuff in various ways – instead, watch something innovative; stuff that takes you intoyour subject deeper; or that gives you actual step-by-step instructions that will really help you.

This is a lovely article about the necessity of creating and maintaining ‘white space’ in our lives.

As an artist, I’m deeply familiar with white space – I insist on a lot of it in my work. You’ll find out how to integrate the concept into using more white space in your everyday life….

http://www.eftpraxis.com/blog/2010/11/white-space

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

- Carl Jung

Some of you have let me know that the links to Paul and Layne Cutright’s Heart to Heart Online Program didn’t work last week.

Paul has now told me that he has fixed them – so – if you were one of the frustrated, go here now – and if it still won’t work, let me know, OK? Thanks! http://bit.ly/heart-2-heart

Recently, a highly talented coaching client of mine, who has some unique techniques she uses to help people with reclaiming their health, asked me to coach her through writing her first book.

She was absolutely freaked out about it.

She cried – flapping her arms like crazy, pacing rapidly across the floor – ‘I don’t have time to write it! I have no notes, no organization! I don’t know where to start! I have all these ideas, but… people might:

• steal my materials and ideas,
• laugh at me,
• criticize me,
• debunk me,
• and I might as a result lose my good standing as a successful businesswoman in the alternative health field.’

In reality, she is already highly respected and helps hundreds of people. But these sneaky, unresolved fears and doubts were lurking there under her every thought and action, crippling her ability to open further into the lives of thousands and help them, rather than just her local hundreds.

Yes, we did use EFT, the Emotional Freedom Techniques (http://EFTinEveryHome.com).

AND…there is a crticial concept that I showed her that makes it possible for her to use each of her fears and doubts as powerful creative juice from now on. I’ll tell you what happened in a bit -

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I’m constantly looking for ways to cut down on marketing time so I can get back to the easel.

I just found a cool site called fiverr.com where there are hundreds of people who say they ‘do anything for 5 bucks.’

I checked them out & liked what I saw, and hired someone to post my painting project page to their huge list 5 times a day for 4 weeks – all for 5 bucks.

I was surprised, then, when I was given access to a control panel – now I can access it and change the posts as often as I like, and the system tweets automatically, saving me time and energy in my marketing.

And today, not even 24 hours later, I’ve gotten almost 100 new clicks that I probably wouldn’t have gotten before.

Here’s where to find fiverr (yes, two rs): http://fiverr.com – and the company I’m using for tweets is:
http://bit.ly/message-broadcaster.

To choose someone to do massive tweeting for you, you do have to be careful – make sure you find out the nature of their list – you don’t want your tweets going to some country where they won’t care about your work or buy your products or services.

And make sure you read the feedback from customers – there was one I saw I liked, but the feedback stank. So I used someone whose feedback and work sounded good. Watch for poor English, as well.

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This week my client, ‘Cynthia’ lit into me and scolded me crisply. She’d seen my email a couple of months ago where I announced that ‘I Quit,’ and knew I was taking more time for my artwork and cutting back on coaching.

She has been a client of mine for a while now, and she’s always sending me little notes of gratitude. She says, “because of you and your guidance, I’ve gone from being a terrified, limp buttercup to a huge, radiating sunflower in my business and personal life.”

So she was asking me about how it has been for me this past few months as I move my energies to living more of my Dream than ever, and how inspired she felt, herself, just seeing me go for it. That was nice. And then she nailed me.

“Angela,” she said (imagine a soft but very clear, low-toned voice),

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A week or so ago I proposed bypassing instead of fighting evil.

Many of you wrote enraged, saying ‘we should fight it forever,’ that we should not go into denial or lala land about it, and other such comments.

Please understand, I don’t condone evil!

When you walk into a dark room, you don’t stand there and say, “it’s not dark!” And you don’t have a fist fight with, make laws against, arrest, raise sanctions against or bom.b the dark, do you? No! You reach over and turn on the light!

Obviously in the ‘real’ world it seems more complex than that, but you get the concept. How do we do that, though? How do we reach inside and turn on the Light?

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