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Posted by Sharyn: Monday, April 28, 2008

My friend Ginger and I went to the New Living Expo in San Francisco yesterday and I had a great time. The first lady I met, Monique confirmed that I would be predominantly living out of the country by the year's end. Hooray! that means, I can leave the Bay Area which is going to increase in population by 50% in 2012. Today there are 8 million people living here and without any new roads, schools, police, fire departments etc. we will add 4 million new residence - where will they all live? It's one of the reasons that I believe that the real estate market in the Bay Area will bounce back within a year. We've already added 500,000 residence since last June.

So where would you live if you could live anywhere i the world? Why not start making plans to make your move? Choose a place that suits your personality and climate preferences. 

Posted by Sharyn: Monday, April 21, 2008

Currently I have the fourth and the occasional fifth weeks of the month free of meetings and obligations other than speaking. It is a wonderful way of catching up. I get more rest, write or edit more, work on my websites and take time out to have lunches with my friends.

I started this practice in 2000 when I wanted to go to a training in Los Angeles that was a week long event. I had about 3 months notice so I changed my business development meetings from twice a month to once a month and encouraged the members to visit the other groups if they wanted to meet more often. It became more productive than the meetings that were twice a month.

And the bonus, was I de-stressed big time. I then began to analyze how productive my meetings were in each location. I'm a big fan of quantifying my time. In San Carlos for an example, I had to have 50 people on the attendance list to get 10 in the chairs. I shut down the San Carlos meetings that spring. By September I realized that the once powerful return on my efforts in San Franciso, the ratio for attendance had become 4 commitments to get 1 to attend. So I incorporated those member to my Oakland groups and stopped traveling to San Francisco.

What is it that you are doing that takes up an inordinate amount of time but yields you a minimal return? Can you take 3 days off every week with a goal of taking 4 days by the end of the year? One of my favorite books is the 4 hour Work Week listed below. The reason I love this book is that Timothy has challenged himself and all who will listen to live their life now and not wait until they retire.

Whatever you can do to simplify your life and spend more time with your family and friends needs to be a priority.

Posted by Sharyn: Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Tax day! For most people, a stressful time. For me, just a beautiful day that was 75 degrees and a delightful experience. I simplified my life much in the same way I simplified my taxes. 

First the life. In the 80s I worked in the big bad corporate arena. I was part of the road rage, part of the always running late, never enough time to enjoy the moment crowd. Then two things happened: first, I began to get ill, minor incidents at first, headaches, backaches, sleepless nights and all of the typical repercussions of not taking care of myself.

Second, I was downsized, however unexpectedly, it was in hindsight, the only way I could jump off the disastrous roller coaster ride that I was on.

It took me awhile, but I finally found my path when I began to work with entrepreneurs in 1991. I became more of who I was meant to be and thus shed the years of bad habits. I laughed out loud for the first time in more years than I could remember. I stopped to have lunch with friends, because I could. I noticed the new flowers in the spring, the turning of the golden hills in the summer, the delightful crispness of the air in the fall and marveled at a stream of water frozen mid air in the winter. I had returned to the land of the living. No longer simply existing from one day to the next. What a marvelous transformation.

I work at home all but nine days out of the month. I never leave the house before seven am other than rare occasions. I'm almost always back home by three pm. And as for that road rage, it's just a distant bad memory.

Simplification . . .  that is the name of the game.

And as for the taxes, this is the greatest tip you'll receive year to date: I was at a T Harv Ecker event in April 2005 in Los Angeles. I'm not sure how I stumbled upon this but the idea crept into my consciousness because of something T Harv said.

When I got home I immediately began to enter my receipts into an excel spread sheet. Nothing unusual right, but this spread sheet was an extension of the excel phone log I looked at every day. So at the end of the month, my total income and expenses were tallied automatically. At the end of the year, worksheet 13 exhibited all the details for the year, itemized and ready for my CPA! Hooray! Tax day: January 1st, next . . .  move on to something I want to do! That is four and a half months, or eight if your like most people, of not having to think about taxes!

Simplify your life and minimize your stress!

Posted by Sharyn: Tuesday, April 8, 2008

I am always at awe . . . or ahh . . . 

I started entering events into my success journal again, no entries for two years. Did I forget or was it really that challenging? Either way, here it is, two weeks after my first entry in too long and now there are 39 items that would be considered minor to major success stories.

Which came first? The gratitude for the experience or the experience inspiring gratitude? Now that is a million dollar question. I am blessed to have the awareness of how special my life is and has been. Even while facing five death sentences over a period of 12 years I was always aware that the lessons were coming fast and furious. Every day there is something to be grateful for - if nothing else, just the fact that I'm still here in the third dimension capable of learning yet, one more lesson.

Posted by Sharyn: Tuesday, April 1, 2008

April is one of my favorite months. In the Bay Area we are so lucky to have the scenery we have. Every day is like being on an extended vacation and I remind myself how fortunate I am to being able to appreciate the beauty.

Living in gratitude is one of the key fundamentals of living life on purpose. Its all about knowing what to focus your energy on. What can you change today? What is important enough for you to take the time and plan out the action steps to make your life more perfect? It really doesn't require that much effort.

Make your list, then create an action plan. Who can help you achieve your goals?  Then ask for help. When you ask others, you are giving them an opportunity to participate in your success.

Of all the times I've asked for help, I have never been turned down. If they don't know how to help me, they usually introduce me to someone else who can.