Angela Treat Lyon

I have over 300 images on my prints and cards site, many of them from the 100 Days 100 Paintings project I did last year to raise awareness about the pollution we cause in the oceans when we buy water in  plastic water bottles.

There are also many island-themed and other images for Holiday cards and prints – use them both for yourself and as gifts for others: http://PrintsbyLyon.com

You can also get some free e-cards here: http://SpiritCardCenter.com – all kinds of beautiful e-cards from 94 artists for no cost at all to you. Some of my own images are there, too.

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This is the note I got today in the newsletter by Secret Scrolls creator, Rhonda Byrne, today.

I liked it so much I wanted to share it with you.

A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne
Creator of The Secret and The Power

You can make 2012 the best year of your life! And you can do it very easily, right now.

All you have to do is set the most powerful intention you can ever set in your life, which is that you will focus only on what you want, think only about what you want, and talk only about what you want.

Decide right now that anytime you find yourself thinking or talking about what you don’t want, you will stop and demand of yourself, “What is it that I want?” And with all your might, with all your strength, with all your willpower – you will focus on what you want!

This one intention, repeated daily until the New Year and reinforced through 2012, will ensure that you make 2012 the year that your dreams came true, and the greatest year of your life!

To help you have an even more magical year, I’m going to let you in on a secret… I have written a very exciting new book. It’s called The Magic. It will be released within the early months of 2012! Happy holidays, and a very, very Happy New Year!

May the joy be with you,

Rhonda Byrne
The Secret… bringing joy to billions

http://thesecret.tv  •  © Rhonda Byrne

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I had an experience on Thanksgiving this year that affected me deeply. My perception of my ability to be a gift-giver completely changed forever because of it.

So I want to share with you something I learned – a way to give something of the very highest value to as many people as you so choose, any time, with no cost to you. At all.

I’m what they call here a holiday orphan – one of many for whom holidays mean time alone, because family and relatives are far away. So I get invited to parties where pretty much all of us holiday orphans.

On Thanksgiving this year, I went to my friend’s holiday orphan party. I almost didn’t go because I felt a little down – not quite sad but almost – but in the end I decided it would be more fun than sitting around with my face hanging out.

Most everyone was inside, but a few people were out on the lanai – each one alone, in a chair or standing by the railing looking out over the ocean.

Out of curiosity, I approached an older woman I’ll call Lani, and asked if I might sit with her. She smiled and said yes. Lani is Hawaiian, and as goes with many Hawaiian women, has a lovely face and gentle smile. And there was what looked to me like a deep, underlying sadness.

I wondered why she looked so sad, but didn’t want to ask because it would be too intrusive – most older Hawaiians are very private and super polite when it comes to personal space.

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I’m so glad I did two teleseminars of this powerful subject last week – each teleseminar was very different, yet power-packed for all the participants.

The audios are ready for those who bought them, the transcripts will come soon, and if you’d like to catch up and listen to them you can get them here:

http://speakupandsayitright.com/who-cuts-you-down/

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If you were on my recent Defeat Your Devils training teleseminar, you found out how to handle your emotions and take control of your life on a much deeper level by stewarding your energy.

You got three of my powerful, simple, fast, unique ways to keep from getting bogged down any more by fear, anger, discouragement, etc. – even how to harvest the clean energy under those fears and doubts to use later for creativity!

What? You weren’t there?

Then I invite you to get the audio here: Defeat Your Inner Devils.

Why? Because those little devils are the powerful, heckling, dream-destroying buggers that keep you trapped in living a too-small, frightened, cramped life!

Is that what you really want? I bet it isn’t, but you never knew how to do anything about it before. Right? Kick ‘em out! Show ‘em who’s boss! Live bigger, freer, happier! Here’s how: Defeat Your Inner Devils.

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Did you know that you can get royalty-free music as background music for your videos? Then you don’t have to worry about copyright infringement.

Here are a couple of good music sources: http://MusicBakery.com or  http://Pond5.com

Or, you can get one of the many talented people on http://fiverr.com to help create your music for you for 5 bucks! They will play, sing or write a new tune for you – they’re an awesome resource. I use them a lot.

TIP: For your audios, I suggest you get a 30-second intro/outro tune you use as your signature music, and have that in every one of your recordings – play the first 5 seconds loud, then taper off to zero sound at its end as you get into the speaking content. It will help your branding to have your own distinctive sound.

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Woohoo! Dr. Self Esteem is back!

I was so lucky to be able to interview Dr. Joe Rubino last week for the Daring Dreamers Showcase!

Have you ever had a really big dream…and then dreamed it even bigger?

Dr. Joe has done exactly that! Every time I speak with him, I get so reinspired by what he’s doing – I hope you will be, too.

In my interview with Dr. Joe, who has been helping people regain their confidence and self esteem for over 21 years, you’ll find out how he decided he wasn’t doing enough, and how he got the dream to do more.

You’ll find out what his bigger special dream was, and how it has already helped attract 500 people into his powerful new Self-esteem Certification Program in just 3 weeks!

Dr. Joe used to be a very successful, very unfulfilled dentist! Want to know what he did about that that has helped him start on his path of helping 20 Million people regain their self esteem? Tune in here:  IDareYouRadio.com. You can also find it on iTunes – look for the Daring Dreamers Showcase.

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People have said to me, “It’s free for you to give the call, isn’t it? You just show up on the free conference line, right?”

Not hardly! Hah – don’t I wish that was all these is to it! Let’s get real about this.

If you hold teleclasses, you know what goes on behind the scenes. You have to:

•   take time to find and develop relevant points on a topic that serves your audience
•   take time to prepare the teleseminar
•   write copy for your site and email to your list to make sure they know about the call
•   have your systems in place – some of which are as high as $350 a month – like, conference lines, webinar lines, auto-responders, shopping cart, broadcast email system, list maintenance, product purchase button link creator…
•   the proper equipment – editing software, mics, etc. -
•   time (and someone – and $ to pay them) to edit
•   time to create the final cut
•   someone to transcribe the audio
•   time/someone to create the edited pdf from the transcription
•   a website to post the final audio, transcript and bonuses, if any…

And probably more I can’t think of right off the top of my head. Do it for free? If I did it all for free, I wouldn’t be able to stay in business long enough to do more than a couple of teleclasses. In truth, I really should be charging way more.

But I’m doing my best to make these available to as many people as inexpensively as I can, because I want to help you create your Dream life and unstoppably successful business.

Thanks for asking!

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Do you know the sure sign of an amateur graphic designer or copy writer?

It’s when they create lengthy text in a document that is center-justified. Lengthy means over 55 characters wide, and longer than 5 to 10 lines. Here’s an example of center-justified text:

The only text that should be centered is 1. a short quote on a page, like this:

2. a short advertisement, or 3. the text of a formal invitation (like the example above).

Even newsletter, newspaper, magazine and online advertisements are more easily read when left-justified.

Look at this Facebook ad on the left as an example.

The image is on the left so your eye starts with it, then ends up on  the text.

Good! And the text is aligned-left and easy to read. Another good.

So…why is it so much easier to read left-justified over center-justifed text?

Because the way we read in English demands that we read from left to right.

When the lines in your text are justified left (all aligned with the left side of the page, like most of the text on this page), your eye has an easy time of it – it knows where to start each sentence automatically, and can glide to the left and pick up the next sentence easily. Even if the right side of the page is jagged (like this one).

But if your text is center-justified,
your eye has to search out the beginning of each sentence,
because each new line starts
in a different location.
Very, very tiring
after reading a whole page of it.

After a while, people won’t read your articles or entries any more because they know they’ll get eyeball exhaustion. You don’t want that to happen!

So only use center-justified text if it is a 1 to 5-line entry that has up to 55 characters left to right, and no more.

Use left-justified for anything else. Your readers will thank you for being a pro, and for how easy you’ve made it to read your copy.

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Have you ever had one of those days when you know you’re “supposed” to do something you consider important – and you spend all day doing OTHER things instead?

That’s what I did today – and I’m glad I did!

A couple of weeks ago, I was very fortunate to meet Connie Russert, Psychic, Author of Channeled Messages from A Parallel Universe, who was a very straight, left-brained computer professional and then a college professor who worked with deaf people.

She wrote me and asked if I would allow her to use some of the images from my collection of my artwork at http://Lyon-Art.com in the book she was putting together with some of the channeling she was doing.

After looking at the quality of work she was doing, I said “Yeah!” and even offered to create the pdf for her (us!). So, that’s what I spent this afternoon doing. Good fun.

I have no idea when it will be ready, but you can bet it’s going to be a beaut! You’ll be among the very first to know when it comes out.

AND…in case you wonder about this Connie Russert person, and why I’m so stoked to know her, I thought you’d like to hear her amazing story, so I interviewed her for the Daring Dreamers Showcase.

I invite you to listen in and find out how a very straight, left-brained woman who was once a computer pro, and later on worked at a university as an advocate for deaf people…who was so skeptical it took her five whole years before she believed her channeling was for real…came to be a spiritual channel.

http://IDareYouRadio.com/Connie-Russert-Psychic-Author

Not only does she now channel full-time, but she also channels in ASL on Skype with deaf people! I’d say her transformation was pretty awesome. Going from a nice, comfy university job to an independent channeler? Whew!

WANT TO CHANNEL, TOO? If you have had inklings that you might be a channel, or want to try channeling, you’ll want to listen in. http://IDareYouRadio.com/Connie-Russert-Psychic-Author

SUGGESTED READING: Pick up Connie’s Channeled Messages from A Parallel Universe. I think you’ll enjoy it. here:  http://ToolsforTransformation.com

You also might want to look up this book: Opening to Channeling, by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer. This is the very same book I read years ago when I was taught now to channel – it’s a keeper book, not one of those ones you read and then pass on to the library.