DREAM  TRAVEL  TIPS

1. Pick up magazines that are laying around.  Travel agencies often don’t mind if you take some home.  Get together with friends.  Share and help each other find those special pictures.  Talk about stories from travels past and future dreams.  Cut and paste.  Create a DREAM TRAVEL BOARD.  Cover a book, use construction paper, use an old picture frame.  You don’t need to spend any money to make the most magnificent TRAVEL  DREAM  BOARD.
2. Read books, look at magazines in the Doctors office or hair salon, search online, read travel blogs.  Go to library and book stores to browse what costs you nothing.  Virtual shopping, checking out Pinterest and Lonely Planet just looking at places that attract you.
3. See yourself there.  Don’t be attached to when or with whom.  Be open to opportunities.  Visualize.
4. Notice and seek out conversations about travel, about people who want to travel.  You can join Meetup groups (free) in most communities and all large cities.
5. Talk to certified financial advisors who will offer you FREE consultation on how to get $$ available for your travel dream.  Talk to people who have the life you want (not the family or friends who will make you feel you can’t succeed.  YOU CAN SUCCEED)  Believe in yourself and your dreams!
6. Consider alternate and additional sources of income.  One such example might be a home based business.  Perhaps in relationship marketing, or coaching, teaching something you love?  Learn about the options and shop for FREE advice from professionals.
7. Talk to an accountant and get advice on possible tax breaks, write off’s and options for your new part time business opportunities.  Select your method for increasing your income specific to your travel dreams.
8. GET STARTED!  Today, small investment now.  Take some online training (FREE) and get some coaching from your selected Mastermind Group.
9. Talk to me about your availability, refer to your friends and family.  Invite and start packing!
10. TRAVEL … get out there.  Experience the world.  Blog, take pictures, and get ready to live the life of your dreams.

From Curiosity to Competence, the ABC’s of Success

A              Art- attract – automatic pilot – awareness – Aloe

B              Be – become – beliefs – bounce back – business- bold

C              Commitment – continuous – curious – courage – consistent – confident – cucumber – cruise – curiosity – clear – coaching – capacity – complete – competent – calm – connected – compatible – contribution – courageous

D              Duplicate – dialogue – delegation – dance

E              entrepreneur – empowered – effectiveness – emotions – experience – enthusiastic

F              foundation – fundamentals – focus – forgiveness – flow – feelings – faith – fun

G             grounded – growth – greens – gold

H             Ho’oponopono – healthy – hope – happy – happening –

I               inner game – imagine – influence – intentional – impact – insight – identity – interviewing – inspire – inspire – increase – income

J               Joy – journal

K              Kindness – keys

L              learning – love – leadership – loyalty – life – live – Leaders –

M             Management – meta greens – modeling – mastery – mindset – manage – magnet – meaningful – magnificence – mastermind – meditation – Matol – marketing – money – mornings – marvelous –

N             Network – Now – notice -newsletter

O             Open – offer

P              Passion – prospecting – personal – planning – practice – perspective – pattern

Q             Query – questions

R              Reflection – ready

S              Steps – stand – Self – strong – shift – space – strategize – significant – support – self care – systems – successful – skill – story – Sharma – sales – simplicity –

T              Team – time – training – Tango – travel – thoughts – top ten tips

U             Univera – Universe

V              Vision – values – Vitale – vital – variety

W            Whealthy – wealth – willingness – weight management – white board

X              Xtra

Y              You Were Born Rich –

Z              Zero Limits –

My breath catches, my eyes smile as the little noise rises from my iphone and a message from my daughter on Mothers Day, “facetime?”.  YES yes yes!  Not too long ago I would not have known what that meant.  Today it means face to face with my two grandsons and their beautiful mom.  A special Mothers Day moment to be cherished for a lifetime.  We won’t capture this moment ever again. I rush home, and prepare.  Skype is a blessing of free communication and face to face talk with the family.  Luke can see me and once realizes we are chatting says “Grammie, come.”  He is wanting me to be where he is.  The tears of joy well up in my eyes even as I write this.  And in that moment my heart was even bigger than it had been a moment before.  Painful sensation in my chest, tingling and then love pours from me through my home computer to the little boy who seeks the real essence of our relationship through the computer screen.  I remind him of the times we had together recently, “remember the goats?”.  His eyes roll a bit to the right as he accesses a file folder in his brain and bring forth a memory of not so long ago … a little over a month must be a long time in a 2 year year olds mind.  He finds what he seeks and says “GOATS”.  We talk of hot tubs and back hoes and other reminders of our last days together in person.  Later in the chat, when it is time to go, he kisses the ipad at their end …. Saying good bye to grammie. A while later they call me on the phone.  The second best way to say “I love you” on Mothers Day.  I speak to Luke.  I tell him in our private language “bucket of kisses from grammie” and I know he is listening and leaning in to the phone by the way he breathes.  He can hear me.  He can feel my heart and he is back in that moment when we were together.  And then, I sing the song I sang when we were together, La la la  la and I hear his little voice resonate with mine in the same frequency.  Our language of love.

THE  PERSON  I  INTEND  TO  BECOME

Self confident / Believe in myself / Positive to everyone I encounter

Successful and secure, financially, spiritually, physically, emotionally

Healthy and Strong / Safe and Protected

Giving and Generous

Interested and interesting / genuinely curious and lifelong learning / innovative / creative

Inspired and inspiring, supportive, loving and empowering

Peaceful and happy, content with what is, mindful of my actions and their impact

Zero debt and donating generously to support and empower women of all ages, globally

World traveler with over 100 others

Travel at least 3 times a year, each year.  Take my family with me at no cost to them

Supportive and loving mother, daughter, grandmother, wife, friend

Best selling author of significant book.  Successful blogger of travel stories

Founder of HerWay Travel International, global resource community for the world of women

Strive for Highest and Best in all I do

Live in Easy World, My life lived joyfully and with ease

To love myself exactly as I am

“To think well of myself and to proclaim that to the whole world, not in loud words, but in great deeds”

Who was that person and what was the lesson?  Why do I put myself out there?  And when did it start?  Great questions.  Not sure I need to spend much time on the answers.  Let the questions hang in the air like an unfinished sentence…..

I met a man today who was raised on Anthony Robbins from childhood!  What a start in life that would be …. What potential is awake when that is your early life support.  What a gift he will be as a father and partner and friend.  He will change the world by his impact on this new generation.  He is a brilliant, sensitive and strong man with a vision.

By putting myself out there I get to experience and practice my higher self.  My skills become more honed and my vision more clear; my message and my presence influencing others.  Was I of any assistance to this person in search of answers?  I believe in my core that I had a premonition of him today and my day was in preparation for our meeting.

After talking about Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, “Don’t Bite the Hook” cd by Pema Chodron, and Zero Limits book authored by Joe Vitale … I pulled out of my bag two identical blue pages with the words I had written this morning in my blog.  So perfect the synchronicity and yet how basic the skill to connect, listen, ask questions and lend support.

I am in awe of my day.  I walked through a grove of old gnarly oak trees around Cedar Hill Golf Course and truly saw the beauty in them.  So much to learn and experience.

“I love you.  I am sorry.  Please forgive me.  Thank you.” Ho’oponopono.

Financial Freedom and being a Grammie

Wanting to make the world a better place probably started when I had children of my own; a larger and grander sense of purpose.  Safety, protection, prosperity, comfort, health, strength, happiness; all factor in to the future goals I began to set for myself even back then in the early 80’s.  Of course there was my heart’s desire even before that, however I can say with certainty that I was unconscious and making decisions that were not often in my best interests and even contrary to what I now know as my special purpose.

As my career as a probation officer (specializing in youth services and then even further to working with girls who find themselves involved in youth justice) developed, so did my sense of self as a helping professional, as a caring person and change agent, and a conscientious parent.   

Oh, the mistakes I made!  Mostly I am afraid, with my children, the most precious of all my interactions.  As I grow each day and uncover more about my authentic self I come to see that while my intentions were always good, my commitment to change, to follow through with integrity and knowing my true purpose were not always foremost.

Today, at age 54, I can most certainly state that I am investigating, learning and practicing daily those actions that I believe are more in line with who I am and my goals for myself.  And now with the super-extraordinary “special beyond belief” relationship I am developing with my grandchildren I see even more clearly how my actions impact the world.  Their world, my world, the world of my children (now adults) and all of the world that I encounter.

I am coming to accept personal responsibility for all that comes in to my awareness; at home and inside my mind and body, as well as globally, with all women everywhere, and their loved ones.  Everyone has a parent and someone who loves them.  Everyone is my responsibility.  My thoughts and actions are my responsibility.  I shall continue to strive for the financial freedom which provides me the vehicle to travel and inspire, impacting all the women around the world and thereby their loved ones.

May I be safe and protected.  May all people be safe and protected.

May I be peaceful and happy.  May all people be peaceful and happy.

May I be healthy and strong.  May all people be healthy and strong.

May I be wealthy, financially  free and generous.  May all people be financially free and generous.

May my life be lived joyfully and with ease.  May all people have lives lived joyfully and with ease.

May I love myself exactly as I am.  May all people love themselves exactly as they are.

“I love you.  I am sorry.  Please forgive me.  Thank you.”  Ho’oponopono

Hi, I have decided to try to post more regularly and more often.  So much happens in between my travels that is significant.  My life is happening and I need to show up and write about it!  I hope you will join me.

I believe in living my vision and passion for creating abundance and financial freedom.  I start with great health and vital energy and I succeed in all areas of my life so I can live my dream to travel the world with my family and friends. 

I am presently enjoying safe and healthy weight management using the www.matoldietinfo.com program.  It works and is easy and I get to eat Chocolate Cake for breakfast!  Gluten free foods are important to me and I have enjoyed the convenience and variety of the ones I use on this program.

I attended a Disney travel presentation a few nights ago and won the grand prize.  No longer one of those people who never wins!  I will be traveling hopefully with my eldest daughter and her family, my grandsons and heading to Disneyland in spring 2013.

Also planning to travel with my partner and his daughter and her husband, as well as my dear friend to Europe end of September for Rome round trip cruise, Seminar at Sea, with Royal Caribbean International.  Being a travel agent has its perks!

Also making plans for group of us to be in Europe on a cruise with Princess from 2 Sept to 23 Sept.  More on that another day.

My dreams are reality.  I have vision boards around me and I see the future as it unfolds before me.  I set it in motion by my intention and enjoying the creativity of my life.