Beyond the titles others have given you, who are you?
It’s easy to use the normal labels of wife, father, best friend, accountant… but they describe what you do or who you are in relation to others.
What do you enjoy?
What do you think about?
What do you want to achieve in your lifetime?
What do you value?
What makes you smile?
Why is your favorite color your favorite color?
Why do you like the movies you like?
Who are YOU?
I’m honored to be the ‘Geek Support’ for this project, developing the website etc. If you are someone you know needs help, please reach out… The documentary will air throughout NV on Jan 22nd and will also be screened online. Just go to the website for more info: http://traffickednomore.org
Documentary airs January 22nd 7:30-8:00pm. The half hour educational documentary “Trafficked No More” will air uninterrupted and simultaneously on every major network in a roadblock fashion in Nevada statewide. “Trafficked No More” watch parties will be hosted to increase viewership.
“Trafficked No More” is also proudly sponsored by the following:
If you’re a teen in trouble ~ or you know someone who is ~call Runaway Safeline 1-800 RUNAWAY ( 786-2929 ) & Human Trafficking Hotline 888-373-7888 or TEXT to be free 233733
If you think a friend or someone you know may be in trouble, check out the WARNING SIGNS and ask for help! If you’re right and you reach out for assistance to help them, you may just save a life…
If you’re in New Orleans on Thursday of this week, I’m speaking at this event and would LOVE to see you there! It’s a wonderful group of mostly entrepreneurs.
445 South Rampart Street, New Orleans, LA (map)
Join us for our weekly casual business mingle lunch that will be hosted at Little Gem Saloon which is centrally located in downtown New Orleans on the corner of Rampart and Poydras.
Come from your home office or office, suit or jeans.
It’s free to attend, you just pay for your own lunch.
Thanks to http://imgfave.com/view/812487 for this image…
Think about it… If you were put here to teach, what would you teach?
1. What do you love? Dancing, painting, talking, inspiring, running..? For now, don’t think about whether you feel you could teach it, just think about what you love to do…
2. What do you love to discuss?
3. What were your favorite subjects in school? If you wanted to take some adult classes in a subject, what subject(s) interest you?
Now, forgetting for a moment longer whether you feel you can teach, look at your answers and find one or two common aspects.
Done that?
OK, now consider actually teaching that to a group at a senior citizen’s facility – or perhaps a mother’s group… Where is there a group that would be interested in what you have to teach on that subject?
Remember, you don’t need to know it all, but in some way or other we are all here to teach…
Find your gift and share it with the world..!
I am honored to have been asked to produce the website and online promotional materials for the Nevada Sex Trafficking Awareness Campaign and the documentary, “Trafficked No More”. (http://traffickednomore.org)
https://vimeo.com/user8244884/review/77935992/99345f0e8e
AB 67, signed into law by the Nevada Legislature on June 6, 2013, is a key component in the fight against sex trafficking in Nevada.
Many agencies and organizations have already begun to participate in educational campaigns including the Nevada Sex Trafficking Awareness Campaign led by Pastor Troy Martinez, founder of 10,000 Kids.
Additional groups involved include the Children’s Advocacy Alliance which has served as the facilitator of this statewide effort, local school districts, the Nevada Truckers Association, the faith based community, a variety of community partners, judges, law enforcement agencies and our media partners who have agreed to air a half hour education documentary, “Trafficked No More.”
For more information, please contact:
Pastor Troy Martinez
10,000 Kids Partnership
6450 E. Stewart Ave.
Las Vegas, NV 89110
Here are some photos I took on Pawley’s Island, SC the night before a full moon…
…a guided journal to discover your passion…
Imagine how empowering it would have been when you were in high school or college to have had the benefit of a resource that helped you work out what you wanted to do with your life!
What Do I Want To Be? Is a careers guide structured in journal format to enable teens and college students to increase their self-confidence, discover their passion for life and inspire them to truly believe they can achieve their dreams!
Rather than tell students what they could or should do, inspirational Author and Speaker, Leigh St John uses the power of strategic questions to elicit answers from within our students, to discover their own answers and their own passions.
| “Thank you for letting me have an advance copy of your book. I’m one of those people who have too many passions.I used to feel totally overwhelmed because I love to do many different things. Your book helped me find that there was a single core passion in the middle of it all and I am now clear on what I want to study.Thank you for bringing me out of my overwhelmnedness.” Maricel, College Student |
While working through the chapters, students simultaneously create a journal/workbook they can reference and use to develop a personal roadmap for life, a solid foundation to build on, and a personally discovered passion for life.
Once students can realize their individual and collective potential, they begin to be more engaged in their school work, their future, and aspire to positively contribute to their lives and their communities.
Are you a Parent?
Parents will also find inspiration by being a collaborative partner with their children, supporting and reinforcing their chosen passion. With a common defined goal, parents can now clearly fortify their child’s objectives and proudly enjoy the journey together.
| “I know I’m only in high school but …your book… helped me know that I have lots of choices but only some of them are what I want to do with my life because only some of them are my passion.My family don’t have a lot but they want me to be happy. I didn’t think I could ever go to law school because I didn’t think we could afford it so like it says in your book I didn’t let myself want that.Now I know there is always a way even if it might take me longer. I do want to go to law school and now I believe I can.” Brittany, Student |
Imagine how empowering it would have been when you were in high school or college to have had the benefit of a resource that helped you work out what you wanted to do with your life.
Rather than lecture to students about what they should or could do, this guided journal (workbook) challenges them with a series of questions and activities to allow the student to discover their own right answers.
“What do I want to be?” will show you how to:
“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.” Mark Twain
Whether you have a vague idea of your passion or no idea at all, “What do I want to be?”will work with you through the process of not only discovering your passion, but also putting into practice the steps necessary to actually live your passion.
To purchase your copy of the book, simply go to http://bit.ly/leighstjohn13
I don’t know about you, but a year ago I wish I had started doing a LOT of things differently…
Let’s start TODAY to ramp up the volume on what we expect of ourselves FOR ourselves…
Every now and again I read something that SO resonates… and this book is one of them.
Not only that, but MJ DeMarco presents a blue-print for a successful business that EVERYONE should apply. It is the single most basic yet brilliant piece of business advice I’ve every heard (and I used to teach at one of the world’s top business schools, so that’s saying something!)
Here’s the blurb from Amazon:
Is the financial plan of mediocrity — a dream-stealing, soul-sucking dogma known as “The Slowlane” your plan for creating wealth? You know how it goes; it sounds a lil something like this:
“Go to school, get a good job, save 10% of your paycheck, buy a used car, cancel the movie channels, quit drinking expensive Starbucks mocha lattes, save and penny-pinch your life away, trust your life-savings to the stock market, and one day, when you are oh, say, 65 years old, you can retire rich.”
The mainstream financial gurus have sold you blindly down the river to a great financial gamble: You’ve been hoodwinked to believe that wealth can be created by recklessly trusting in the uncontrollableand unpredictable markets: the housing market, the stock market, and the job market. This impotent financial gamble dubiously promises wealth in a wheelchair — sacrifice your adult life for a financial plan that reaps dividends in the twilight of life. Accept the Slowlane as your blueprint for wealth and your financial future will blow carelessly asunder on a sailboat of HOPE: HOPE you can find a job and keep it, HOPE the stock market doesn’t tank, HOPE the economy rebounds, HOPE, HOPE, and HOPE. Do you really want HOPE to be the centerpiece for your family’s financial plan?
Drive the Slowlane road and you will find your life deteriorate into a miserable exhibition about what you cannot do, versus what you can. For those who don’t want a lifetime subscription to “settle-for-less” and a slight chance of elderly riches, there is an alternative; an expressway to extraordinary wealth that can burn a trail to financial independence faster than any road out there.
Demand the Fastlane, an alternative road-to-wealth; one that actually ignites dreams and creates millionaires young, not old. Change lanes and find your explosive wealth accelerator. Hit the Fastlane, crack the code to wealth, and find out how to live rich for a lifetime.
You can buy the book buy clicking HERE.
…I just had to share this story from Mind Power News! …and at the end of the article, I would add Psalm 37:5, “Commit thy way unto the Lord, trust in Him, and he will bring it to pass”…
“How to Order from the Universe
The universe you live in works very much like a popular restaurant. You go in, you decide what you want, you order it, you receive it, and you digest it.
Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t seem to know how to order. Some are downright inept at it. They walk into this restaurant, behave like complete idiots, and they end up hungry and disappointed. Then they complain about the restaurant and post negative reviews online, despite the fact that the restaurant has received rave reviews from the most experienced food critics.
The Universal Restaurant
I can’t tell you how many times I encounter people who set goals like, “I want a romantic partner,” or “I want a stable job that pays more money,” or “I want to lose weight.” I’ve heard enough of this drivel to last a lifetime. It’s reached the point where I may start carrying around a squirt gun and shoot people in the eye when they say stuff like this.
Those are crap goals. Don’t waste your time on them. And definitely don’t say them within earshot of me.
Setting such goals is the equivalent of walking into a restaurant and proclaiming, “I’m hungry. I want some food.”
First, people will look at you like you’re an idiot. They’re only doing that because you are.
Second, you won’t get fed.
If you’re lucky, someone might hand you a menu and ask you what you’d like to order. You can order off the menu, or you can concoct something creative, but either way you have to be specific. If you stand there asking for food, you’ll remain hungry.
Is this happening in your life right now? Are you standing at the Universal Restaurant, waiting for your desires to manifest, and receiving only static in response? Might the reason be that the wait staff can’t figure out what the heck you’re actually trying to order?”
To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
“Leave no stone unturned.”
Edward Bulwer Lytton
No matter what you are striving for, we all run into challenges, road-blocks and things that look like dead-ends… When you come face to face with a stone-wall, just start picking up each stone, turn it over and place it aside. It may take a while but the journey and destination will be the reward for your dedication…
September 2001, I was scheduled to leave my then home in Australia for a speaking & book signing tour across America later that month.
Have you ever given any real thought to ‘time’ and our travel through it?
Lately I was thinking about my great-grandmother, my ‘Nan’ the woman who largely raised me and taught me all the important values and morals I trust to this day.
Nan
was born just after the end of the 1800s and died just before 1980.
Think about what my Nan experienced during her lifetime…
She saw:
What will our descendants list as milestone events that occurred during our lifetime?
Somehow I don’t think it will be as varied as the changes my Nan experienced. Even though we feel the world is moving faster and faster, imagine starting your life right at the time men first take to the sky and ending it after they have already explored the moon!
I want to say “thank you” to all the people who have gone before us… It’s thanks to each and every one of them that we have the freedoms and benefits we enjoy today.
So, when you next think of time-travel, may you give a thought to your own travel through time and the legacies you will leave behind…
Until next time…
“Innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.” Steve Jobs
At present I’m redesigning my entire online ‘life’ to make it more streamlined, while also implementing innovative and sustainable methods to boost the income of several businesses and charities with which I’m involved.
Those two words, innovative and sustainable are very important.
As the saying goes, ‘innovate or die’ (sorry, I don’t know who said it) and unless the methods are sustainable, you will find yourself having to come up with new ways to do the same thing over and over and over again… (and I seem to recall someone mentioning a definition of insanity that sounds very similar to that…)
Is it time for you to innovate?
Does your business need a boost?
Does your life need an overhaul?
Consider taking a step back, reviewing the situation and, as Steve Jobs said in the quote above, come up with an innovative idea that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem!
If you want a fabulous book to help you think differently, I came across this book a looooooooooooong time ago (the mid-1980s to be specific) and it’s still as fabulous in it’s current edition!!!
Check it out! http://tiny.cc/leighstjohn-whack
I’m sitting in the restaurant of the hotel here in LA having spent (or that should be ‘invested’) today in Mark’s informative conference. As you know, I love my online work and am thrilled with the calibre of information and attendees…
I read Mark’s book, “Laptop Millionaire” a few months ago and bit by bit am putting everything I learned into practice.
You can find the book here.
If you are serious about making ‘real’ money online, Mark and his team are among the very best available
OK, well a few more emails to send and some homework to do before I can finish for the evening…
Wishing you a truly blessed night…
Until next time…
Leigh
Being very much an Elizabeth Bennett at heart (and still looking for my Mr Darcy! ~ or more specifically, hoping he will find me…) I’m enjoying the readathon to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of its publication…
http://www.janeausten.co.uk/janeaustenreadathon/
“The Jane Austen Centre in Bath is to host an event that will be broadcast around the world -a 12 Hour International Readathon.
January 28th 2013 sees the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice and to mark this bicentenary the book will be read in its entirety during a twelve hour period.
The half- day long ‘Readathon’ will take place at the Centre in Gay Street and will be streamed to eager fans all around the world.
The book, which regularly tops polls as the nation’s favourite novel, will be read in short 10 minute segments by up to 140 celebrities, authors, politicians, musicians, Olympians, school children, competition winners and personalities.
The Centre will also be welcoming internet streams from the various overseas Jane Austen societies and celebrities.
David Baldock, Director of the Jane Austen Centre said, “This is such an important literary milestone that it cannot be allowed to pass without recognition. I have witnessed how Jane Austen’s talent unites people from all corners of the world and this ‘Readathon’ is one way we can celebrate this together.””
“Take failures and victory coolly. To do the latter is a very difficult mental exercise. In a running race, the losers, when running neck to neck, prompt the winners to run faster. They inspire the grit, to put in that extra pace which brings victory to the winners. Hence, winners must actually be thankful to the losers for their victory. Those who did not win, I ask you not to lose your self-confidence. Never attach too much value to victory and defeat. All of you are born for far greater things than winning mundane races and competitions. Your destiny does not depend upon a game or an examination – it depends more upon your character, your will power and the grace of God.” – Baba
This is an interesting perspective ~ that the winners actually have the losers to thank for their victory (I guess if no one else showed up and you still ran the race, would you say you ‘won’?)
“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” —-Gail Sheehy
[From Wikipedia] “Gail Sheehy (born November 15, 1937, Mamaroneck, New York) is an American writer and lecturer, most notable for her books on life and the life cycle. She is also a contributor to Vanity Fair magazine.
Her fifth book, Passages, was called “a road map of adult life”. Several of her books continue the theme of passages through life’s stages, including menopause and what she calls “Second Adulthood”, including Pathfinders, Spirit of Survival, and Menopause: The Silent Passage. Her latest book, Sex and the Seasoned Woman, reveals a hidden cultural phenomenon: a surge of vitality in women’s sex and love lives after age fifty. She wrote a biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hillary’s Choice.”
I love this quote by Harper Lee… There is something very unique and special about Southern people that I love and admire…
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