Perfect Together – Make Money, Lose Weight, Get Silly!

Morning all,

Ah, what a day yesterday!  I spent 4+ hours or so crafting my April Fools Day post over at:

Rainbows follow ME in search of GOLD – Make Money and Lose Weight

Talk about constant brain power – not only did I have to expand past the boundaries of hysterical silliness online, but I also had to craft up the backend for the joke as well – that meant setting up an autoresponder, building up the One Time Offer, photoshopping all the pictures and more.  Let me tell you, by the time I was finished, I had zero creativity left….no desire whatsoever to return to Business As Usual (so I gave myself permission to rest and relax). 

However, I’m quite pleased with the results….as I’ll be using the whole experience as a Case Study for products down the road.

Remember…EVERYTHING you do online should be geared towards being profitable in the future.

But I digress. 

I didn’t get a chance to post here yesterday either!  Wah!  So I wasn’t able to regale you with tales from Adult Sparring, in which I was utterly decimated by a Beast.  We’re talking an incredible fighter; great guy, love hanging out with him, utterly ferocious.  He was so tough I actually called time out which then really pissed me off!

You see, in a real fight, you CANNOT just call ‘time out’. 

In hindsight, I cannot believe I did that. Honestly.  I lost my temper (the sensei running the bout wisely stopped it just then) and just took some time recovering…wow.  Afterwards, I did thank The Beast for the match; I plan on taking him on again (and asking for less intensity) so I can build up to 1/384th of his level.

In other character-building news, I’m finding out a lot more about my own inner spirit/personality/inner strength than I knew I had. 

There are folks whom I love, folks whom I tolerate, folks whom I’d happily watch roast on a BBQ, folks who…you get the idea, right?  Anywhos, I was raised by my folks to be completely honest…and later on in life, I learned how to take complete and total ownership of my feelings.  That way, I can never said, so-and-so made me feel like xyz….instead, I proactively chose to allow my reactions to gyrate in that general direction.

This is one reason why my family dynamics for the most part are really quite spiffy – I’ve passed on to my kids the fact that they and they alone are responsible for their actions.

And my husband and I…we always make certain to begin our discussions with, here’s how I feel, and not, YOU MAKE ME XYZ etc.

It’s really a helpful way to live life.  But more on that at a later date.

Oh, and remember how this weekend my family earned their brown belts in karate?  My kids are most pleased indeed as am I – for a 40-something woman to start Martial Arts and not give up when physical problems challenge her is rather note-worthy as well (she said, patting herself on the back    ).  The best things is my kids see that Mom walks the walk she talks…and throws herself in 110% to boot.

Life…it’s worth living. 

Enjoy,

Barbara Ling

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