A night out
Do you love live music and the soulful sounds of
Incognito, Earth Wind & Fire, Angie Stone, Chaka Khan, Jill Scott, Soul II Soul, Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu, Faith Evans, Maxwell and other great soul artists?are available in advance from band members, on the night at the door.
Alternatively, you can book a table for dinner, in advance, by calling
the Battersea Barge on 020 7498 0004 or emailing mail@batterseabarge.com. For more venue information and directions please visit www.batterseabarge.com. Doors open 7.30pm.
Using Your Voice
Did you know that your have your own inbuilt ampilfier in the front of your chest, inside your head, and around your shoulders?
Well neither did I, until this weekend when I attend a short half-day seminar about improving your vocal confidence.
Recording audio means that my voice now becomes an important part of my business and I had noticed that I sounded as if I had a cold! That is because I have been talking outwards from my throat instead of pulling my words in from an area just below my ribs.
Also, did you know you could breath from your back!!! Something else new I learnt. There is an area in your back in which you can store air so that as you talk you do not have to inhale deep breaths. Instead you can use this area to store air and your audience wont notice you taking a breath.
I had the pleasure learning this through Alix Longman and I can’t wait until she brings out some dvd’s.
Accepting what’s so
When we really want something it can be hard to accept what’s so. It can be hard to accept that everything you have in your life right now is fine. But this simple act can help you to get what you want!
Release the “expectancy” and the “need” and allow universal support to attract to you that which you so desire.
But this post is about “accepting what’s so” and what I really want to do is point out the pitfalls you may get yourself into when doing that.
It can be hard to accept “I am a drug addict and a theif” or “I am 300 pounds over weight” or “I owe £30k in gambling debts” and in doing so here are two things you may do, but you won’t now that you are reading this :0) :
The first is you will use “what’s so” as a way to beat yourself up (Oh! I’m so hopeless or Oh! How could I have gotten myself into this mess) that
kind of rubbish doesn’t help so stop it! Give that up now. You are
where you are, accept that.
This is very important because it is easy to be hard on yourself and it solves nothing. I totally gave up useless self-defeating emotions like guilt, and self pity about 18 months ago and life has been great since. You free up precious life energy that you were using on those emotions and use them in helpng you to create a fantastic life instead. It was a process though, something I worked towards over years, but it is better to start now than to never start at all.
Just promise yourself that whenever you feel guilt, self-pity or whatever you do to keep yourself small creeping up on you, you will stop, acknowledge it is there (accepting what’s so remember!) and then CHOOSE something else for yourself.
Choose to be brave, positive, passionate, forgiving, happy, joy-filled, self-expressed, whatever it is that you feel is what you need. Choose that instead.
The second thing you may use “accepting what’s so” for is as an excuse to develop apathy (Oh!
What’s the point? Why bother? Is there really any need?). There is a point! The point is when you accept where
you are at you can work towards doing something about it and figuring out where you want to be.
This is a great place to be in, the place of “accepting what’s so” because when you know what’s so then it provides an opening to create “what will be” or even better “what is”. It is more powerful to create something for yourself and believe it is there for you right now, but if you have trouble with that concept, or you can’t believe “I am rich” when your present cirumstances show evidence to the contrary then start with “what will be”.
Create what you want for yourself in your future and keep it positive, as much as possible keep it in the present tense. I am, I have.
Also give thanks, show gratitude for what’s so, because it has provided you with a great lesson, something you can learn about yourself. Use those lessons in the future, avoid making the same mistake twice!
Accepting what’s so is one of the biggest gifts you can give yourself, and the art of giving thanks, of gratitude is one of the biggest gifts you can give to the universe. When the two come together creating what you want becomes possible.
Failure is doomed!
"People feel overwhelmed when they see a
failure as a personality defect instead of what it is – a great signal to
modify their approach" Tony Robbins
Do you think that perhaps that is all you need to do? Modify your approach?
Perhaps whatever you believe you have not been successful at or you have not achieved is in fact just in need of a slight modification or two. Doesn’t that make it feel as if you could now go back and take a look?
I remember reading a quote that said you are not a failure until you give up and I really believe that. Only those that have given up on life, or are not even trying to make life better when they know they are totally unhappy are true failures. If you have been out there doing something and it didn’t work out then good for you! At least you made an effort, at least you tried, at least you put yourself out there and had a go, took a risk, stepped up to the plate!
Failure is one of those words that is in the perception of the holder! Which means then that it isn’t a rigid thing that is true, it is in fact just a matter of how you look at it. Isn’t that fantastic. That means then that there really is no such thing as failure.
Excellent. So now go out there, modify your behaviour and enjoy life.
My new writing career
I love writing! Ialways have. But I have never fully gotten into expressing myself using the written word, until now!
Since January 2006 I have taken on writing quite a bit and I now have 3 blogs (well 5 actually but the other two are money spinners and I tend to just paste whatever I put here and in my others!).
So I have added a feed to this blog so that you can catch up with me whenever I am. The content for each one is definitely different!
http://www.gettingmoreconfident.blogspot.com
This is a site especially (but not exclusively) for parents who want to build their confidence and is attached to my site http://www.gettingmoreconfident.com
Inspirational Millionaires Online
This is my blog about me becoming a millionaire by the time I am 43 – 3 years time, although I feel as if it will be a lot sooner than that. Even though as of today 16th April I am starting from scratch! No savings, only income from my business (which goes out as fast as it comes in!) and very little investments. But I have the mindset and the determination so what more does one need!
I have added them to the categories as xml feeds so you can catch up!
My numerology reading for April
There is a site that provides great numerology readings called 123 numerology. They actually do a nice free report for you first too. Anyway their longer report is over 300 pages long! And this is my reading for April:
Your Personal Month for
April 2006 is 1
Diane, April is a 1 Personal Month in a 6
Personal Year and brings new beginnings in several areas of your
life. You have more energy and are ready
to implement some changes in your life. Display aggression in your career and it will
progress nicely. Start new projects. Take a chance. A 6 Personal Year often brings considerable
financial gain, particularly in or
around the months of April or November.
This is also a time in which matters of the
heart come to some kind of climax. Young lovers get married, married
people re-commit, and troubled relationships either work it out or separate.
The month of April brings challenges in the
area of communication. Be careful what you say and how you say it so
you don’t stick your foot in your mouth. Actively pursue the things you want in your
career, finances, and love-life.
Will let you know how april pans out!
How great am I!
Today I placed audio onto my site http://www.gettingmoreconfident.com
As I thought back over all the things I have accomplished since October 2005 when I discovered the wonders of working on the world wide web it is actually quite amazing!
In october if my life depended on being able to tell you how to upload a website I would have died! I had no idea. In fact I was paying something £300 a day to work on my website and upload it for me. Now not only have I mastered most of Dreamweaver without training, I have also taken on XSitePro (brilliant piece of software if you are into making money online) and taught myself how to use that.
Probably would have saved some time by reading the manual but I prefer to learn by doing no matter how frustrating!!!
Then today I decided to add RSS to my site and did it within an hour! In December when I was reading about RSS it may has well been written in a foreign language because I couldn’t get to grips with any of it, then today I decided I was going to add it and I did!
I have mastered audio, I will be recording video and I have a piece of software that puts audio and video together to make a presentation so I will be using that too!
For me this is a great lesson why perservence is such a great skill (actually it had more to do with me being a stubborn b**ch that didn’t want to give up!). Only 7 months ago I couldnt even read and understand all this internet stuff never mind do any of it.
Now things are different and I could actually teach someone how to do it for themselves!
So if you are struggle with anything today as you read this just keep on going and seven months from now you will look back and see just how you were able to break through that and triumph!
In celebration of Spring!
I love inspirational quotes! They make such a big difference to me, especially when I need a lift.
so I have put together a 50 page powerpoint presentation which contain inspirational quotes that I hope you find uplifting.
For the rational amongst you…
Diane
The Biology of Belief Bruce H. Lipton, PhD
Though mass consciousness is currently imbued with the notion that genes control the character of our lives, the results of the Human Genome Project completely undermine the long held concept of genetic determinism. (see it isn’t because of your genes that you are the way you are 
)
Once thought to be in the domain of the genes, the control of health and behavior are now dynamically linked to the environment, and more importantly, our perception of the environment. (Oh, so what you are saying Dr Lipton is that it is all about the way we choose to look at something that counts, our perception… interesting… please go on)
Dr. Bruce Lipton, noted lecturer and cell biologist, will present exciting new information on the molecular mechanisms by which animals, from single cells to humans, transduce environmental stimuli into physiological and behavioural responses. (so it is about the way we intrepret events in our environment and respond to them with our behaviour and the way we look/stand…. I see)
The newly identified cellular mechanisms include master switches through which our thoughts, attitudes and beliefs create the conditions of our body and of our place in the world. (our thoughts, attitudes and beliefs create the way our body looks and feels and also our place in the world, so if my place in the world isn’t great what you are saying is I created that…. ummm!)
These amazing advances provide a scientific foundation for the necessity of merging allopathic, complementary and spiritual healing modalities. Evolution of this molecular mechanism provides for human consciousness and contributes to our spiritual nature.
(so with all that said it is important to look at our spiritual nature and life as much as our physical one. I think Diane always goes on about that one )
Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., is author of the best selling The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles. As a scientist and lecturer, Bruce formerly served as an Associate Professor of Anatomy in the School of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, where he participated in the medical curriculum as a lecturer in Cell Biology, Histology and Embryology. His laboratory research on muscular dystrophy focused on the biochemistry of cloned human stem cells. Subsequently, as a Fellow in Pathology at Stanford University’s School of Medicine, his published research on cloned human cells revealed how perception controls behavior and gene activity. Bruce has taken his award-winning medical school lectures to the public and is currently a popular keynote speaker and workshop presenter on topics of conscious parenting and the science of complementary medicine. To learn more of Dr. Lipton, visit http://www.brucelipton.com/.
I choose
I can choose to face it or I can choose to run
I can choose to argue or I can choose to stay calm
I can choose to smile or I can choose to be angry
I can choose people who empower and uplift me or I can choose people who don’t
I can choose to be happy or I can choose to see everything as a problem
I can choose to learn from my mistakes or I can choose to play the victim
I can choose to take a risk, have a go, get up when knocked down or I can choose to hide
I choose what my life becomes because I choose
The decision is mine
I decide