Monthly Archives: January 2010

How to have a very rich shopping experience!

posted on 30 January 2010
posted in Jane's Blog

This morning I drove to Inverness intending to spend some vouchers from Christmas. I decided I was going to have an experience of feeling rich doing it. It’s so easy when amongst the shops to find yourself thinking ‘Oh it’s lovely, but I can’t afford it’.

Regardless of whether you think that is true or not, or even if it is true in terms of your bank balance, having the thought ‘I can’t afford it’ or ‘it’s too expensive’ doesn’t make for having an enjoyable shopping experience.

Here’s what I did to make sure I was going to have a great time, no matter what happened. I simply decided to consciously walk around the clothes saying to myself ’ I [read more]

Learning from my body

posted on 29 January 2010
posted in Jane's Blog

I’ve been in bed all week with a very nasty cold. Not nice. But as I was lying there, I decided to find the positive aspects of the situation. One of them glared out at me — I got to lie down a lot, read some novels, and forget all about everything else!

The previous week I had been working very hard with some unusual commitments in that week, as well as getting things ready for the RichThinking Way Free Trial set up. I knew I was pushing, and on the Saturday night as I was at a friend’s house for supper I felt the prickings of a sore throat.

Sure enough, that started the cold. Today, I’m definitely on [read more]

Rumi’s way of dealing with emotions

posted on 22 January 2010
posted in Inspirational Quotes

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.

Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,

Some momentary awareness comes

As an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!

Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,

Who violently sweep your house

Empty of its furniture,

Still, treat each guest honourably.

He may be clearing you out

For some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,

Meet them at the door laughing,

And invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,

Because each has been sent

As a guide from beyond.

(From The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks; Harper Collins, 1995. P. 104). [read more]

What is your ‘big want’?

posted on 22 January 2010
posted in Jane's Blog

Yesterday it was hard to get out of bed. So nice and warm and cosy under the duvet, reading my novel. I just couldn’t think of a good enough reason not to just stay there and finish the book, at least for half an hour.

But I also knew that my morning ritual, which sets the tone for my day, is important too. Very important. Still, I was tempted to just spend that extra time lying in the cosiness of the bed.

So what got me out? I had read about the difference between ‘big wants’ and ‘little wants’, as Jinny Ditzler writes about in her book ‘Your Best Year Yet’. A big want is just that, something you [read more]

Joint ventures and your database

posted on 20 January 2010
posted in Business Basics, Jane's Blog

A joint venture in the internet marketing world is when two or more people join together to help promote their business to each others’ mailing lists. I’ve been investigating this lately, and although I have learnt a lot about it from various people more experienced than I, what I hadn’t realised is that my whole marketing programme needs to be laid out before I can approach others.

I discovered this when I agreed blithely to promote a colleagues’ work, and introduce my mailing list to a teleseminar they were doing, which would provide them with great content and then an opportunity to take up an offer they would make at the end of a call about their new teleseminar series. [read more]