Remember that great broadway play a number of years ago entitled “A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to the Forum!”  I think it starred Zero Mostel and was a parody set in the days of the Roman Empire.  Well I parodied it for this conversation.

 A funny thing happened on the way to growing our community at AWP and now Affiliated Women Intl(tm) or AWI!  Yesterday, we introduced ourselves, the vision, mission, purpose and goals to a small group of dynamic women in Indianapolis, Indiana (the capital of motor racing and home of the championship Colts, mind you!).  As some of us are fond of saying - it was a “God thing!”  I watched as 8 women including our Indy planning team bonded together and agreed to take leadership for launching the AWI face to face groups in greater Indy.  I watched as pairs of well-acquainted women bonded with women they just met to form the core of “community”.  Women of faith; women of commitment; professional women with talent, skills & abilities that make one’s head swim!

What happened that made that happen?  Well for starters we were there with a common purpose in heart & mind.  That is the basis for developing any ‘community’ of folks - a common frame of reference; goals and objectives.  When that criteria is met - then community is the most logical outcome and it can (often does) happen rapidly.  The logical answer to the question - “where do we go from her” - is “community”.

One of the greatest joys that is a natural outgrowth of community is meeting other’s needs - without hesitation or thought of personal gain.  I saw it happen in an instant today.  Another natural outgrowth of community is bonding - bonding not just for personal aggrandizement - but for the good of the whole.  The COMMUNITY!

In a former life, I was a professional therapist on a ’sometimes yes - sometimes not’ basis.  My approach was always Gestalt (the whole is more than the sum of the parts - that’s Gestalt).  No where is something more a ‘Gestalt’ than in community.  The ‘whole’ (community) is more than the sum of the parts (individual community members).  There is an energy that flows from community as the whole that is greater than what could ever flow from us as individuals simply coming together as individuals.  Collectively, we can do more, be more and offer more than we ever could separately.

I didn’t mean to go off on a tangent!  But Peg got me to thinking about ‘community’ with yesterday’s blog post and today’s happening brought it to life!

It’s why we’re here.  Why AWP exists and continues keepin on - keepin on!  It’s why AWI has been birthed.  It’s why women from all walks of life in 16+ states across the nation gather here.  It’s why when the light dawns as to how much we can be to each other - virtually and across the table - our ‘community’ will be like the stars that emerge on a clear summer’s night.    Too numerous to count; but beautiful to behold!

My desire for each of you today is that you will have an incredible day with blessings too numerous to count and an overflowing grateful heart!

Linda

“Oh, Mom it hurts so much!“  A daughter’s words at the breakup of a marriage that should never have been.  the emotional toll of having given and given more - only to have the gift rejected!  Not just rejected - but horribly rejected.

I use personal experience because all too often I’ve heard it from women who’ve given & given and given some more - only to have the “giving” rejected in some cruel way.

How do we handle situations like the above in our lives?  It may not have happened to us personally or to a member of our family.  It may have happened in business or in the workplace.  The ‘perpetrator’ may have been a beloved special person; a co-worker, supervisor or business partner.  It may have come at the end of a long line of ‘giving’.  Finally - enough is enough we think and set out to right the situation.

Is there a time when ‘enough is enough’?  Is there a time when we walk away, licking the wounds, while carrying greater wisdom with us?

It’s simply my humble opinion (from one chronologically maturing woman to another) that there is a time that comes when the only (and BEST) choice we have is to walk away.  After all, if our ‘giving’ is consistently refused, rejected or repulsed in some manner - then the ‘gift’ can’t be given.  Can’t be given because the giftee refuses it.

When I was working therapeutically with women (in a former life mind you), the most difficult task was to get them to give up instead of give in.  Every one of them wanted to save something that wasn’t worth saving.  In fact, the “something (or someone)” didn’t want to be ’saved’.

It was over!  The pain of saying that and meaning it was what was fearful.  Feeling the hurt of walking away.  It’s what I used to describe as the going through stage.  ‘Ain’t no way around it except to go through it!

Any loss is painful!  Doesn’t matter what it is - it hurts and we must grieve it and move on.  If we don’t, we and our lives are stuck.

A daughter had no choice but to walk away because former spouse already did it!  Yours-truly had no choice because even the wonderful financial advisor said, “let’s stop the bleeding’.  Many of you have had no other choice because one of two things happened; 1) the giftee walked first or 2) you said “enough is enough”!  Too much, too much, too much.

Once we’ve come to that point, how we handle it becomes the next challenge we face.  But that’s a conversation for another day.  Today, if you are the ‘giftor’ and the recipient of the ‘gift’ continues to reject, repulse or refuse the ‘gift’ - perhaps it’s time to ‘cut your loses’ and say OUT LOUD - “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!”

That should be enough women’s wisdom for an entire week!  May today be a day when your gifts are continually accepted and joy fills your toolbag!

Have an awesome day!

Linda

Oh here she goes again!  Off on the “networking” bandwagon again.

You are absolutely correct!  I’m on that bandwagon again and will continue on it for sometime to come.  Why?

Because networking is what makes our marketplace go ’round.  It’s what builds relationships that help take us from where we are to where we want to go.

But today I’m talking briefly about another aspect of the networking process that is just coming into its ‘due’, so to speak.

“Mentoring!”  We hear tons about ‘coaching’ (and every burned-out therapist I know is becoming a ‘coach’ ad nauseum), but little about mentoring.  Perhaps that’s because ‘mentoring’ isn’t seen as a revenue-producer in the same way as coaching.

What is ‘mentoring’?  I can only give you what I consider it to be and that is a trusting relationship in which 2 or 3 persons engage in helping each other overcome obstacles or challenges in daily life.  Mentors are folks who have a fair amount of wisdom and can see the ‘forest for the trees’.  When we are at an impasse or in the midst of something that has our head between our knees - it’s difficult to be objective.  Another person whose input we trust can help us see more clearly.

It may not be that a mentoring relationship deals with “obstacles” or “challenges”.  It may simply be the old adage that “two heads are better than one” and to carry it further - “the 3-ply cord is not easily broken!”

I view mentoring as a ‘circle’ rather than the hierarchial relationship so typical in the therapeutic or coaching setting.  It is much as a friend who can speak the truth to us “in love” because our relationship is based on mutual honesty, trust and integrity.  And almost anyone can be a mentor or be mentored to.  It doesn’t take special (and very expensive) training to be a mentor.  It does take some self-awareness and skill, but not the kind that requires long hours of study and a series of initials behind one’s name!

As we continue a weekly discussion of what’s in a woman’s Essential Business ToolBag(tm), I’ll say more about mentoring as it’s a key piece to have in our tool bag.

But for today, my desire is that you think of those persons in your circle of influence who might be a good mentor to you and to others you know as well.   And if you haven’t already engaged them in a mentoring process - think seriously about doing so.  It will enrich and empower your life.

Have an awesome day with considerable blessings and much love!

Linda

How many times have we planned and implemented something that is near and dear to our heart?  We begin the process with great joy & excitment, hoping that the process won’t take long.

And often it doesn’t take long to incite the excitement and commitment of others as we roll toward the goal.  They join us with an equal fervor & desire to move the process along at ‘warp’ speed.

Then the stone wall appears!  It looms ahead of us and we can see if from afar.  We know it’s there and we realize that we are approaching it with all cylinders firing.

What do we do now?  I’ve found the question really is “where do we go from here?”  In fact, that’s most likely the “fine print” etched on the wall ahead.

It’s tough to anticipate all the pieces that go into any project we launch.  It’s hard to see every nook & cranny that will need to be filled with significant ’stuff’ if the goals are to be met and our desires fulfilled - as well as those who’ve joined us in the process.

Over the years, I’ve come to recognize that the “stone walls” are not there to stop us; but to slow us down long enough to work the process as it needs to be worked!  I learned it the hard way.

I was at an event and was the featured speaker to present a new project that my employer was launching.  We had spend months designing, testing, redesigning and finally we were ready.  My speaking engagement was to take the project public for the first time. 

Words were flowing from my lips with great clarity; heads were nodding affirmatively and smiles covered every face.  I could see mental lights going on across the room and was delighted that I was achieving what we hoped for.

Then - bam!  Out of the blue came the question.  It was such a simple one at that, but it stopped me in my tracks.  I must have looked like a ‘deer in the headlights’.

I was stumped!  I didn’t have an answer for the person who asked the question.  Thoughts raced across my brain as I mentally sorted how to respond in a way that would not give away our secret.  The “Gee whiz, we never thought about that”, secret.

After what seemed like eons of time, I simply said, with a wry grin - “Gee, we never thought about that!”

The room erupted with laughter; the person who asked was slightly embarrassed & I sat there twiddling my thumbs as if the magic answer was somehow in that process.

God is so good to me at times, that I can hardly believe it.  The room was filled with awesome talent and considerable brainpower, so I gave them a task.  Divided them into small groups; presented the “stone wall” that had been asked and told them to come back in 20 minutes with the answer.

They had a ball following through with the task.  Not one answer, but about 30 awesome answers.  When I completed my talk and returned to the corporate office, my wonderful supervisor was stunned with what had happened and at how quickly I recovered from what could have been a very embarrassing event.

I don’t remember the specifics - just the outcome.  It taught me a valuable lesson about “stone walls” that pop up on the journey from vision to reality! 

The “where do we go from here” is better left as a question posed to a team of enthused, excited folks who want a piece of the action and are willing to bring their expertise and creativity to the process.

So the wisdom for today is to step back from the angst of knowing that a ’stone wall’ may loom ahead and find those ‘partners’ (to use our AWP-AWI word - mentors) who will help us discover “where do we go from here?”

BTW - the evaluations I got from that speaking event were off the wall positive.  In fact, some folks thought the whole piece had been “staged”. 

Well I’ll never tell! 

Have an awesome Monday with great love, considerable blessings and no ’stone walls’ to be seen anywhere!

Linda

There’s a great movement in our day to equip Christians for marketplace ‘ministry’.  The ‘movement’ is based on the understanding that when we are working in our God-given purpose, we are in ministry.  Even if we are only our way to discovering our true purpose, we are in the marketplace as believers and ought to be conscious of the impact we are having.

I buy into the concept - in fact went to a huge conference in January that gathered over 500 people who ascribe to or work in what is now called “market place ministry”.  But what I really buy into is the understanding that our work is our worship.

Gone is the idea that we only ‘worship’ on Sunday’s and we do it in a building with a particular label over the door (or at least on the neon sign out front).  Too often in the past, folks who would identify themselves as ‘Christian’ would put on dress-up clothes; head for a building called “church” and ‘practice their faith’ or whatever term the particular label applied to “attending church”,  to ostensibly worship.

We all have experience with folks who fit the above mold who practiced a different model Monday through Friday in the ‘marketplace’ - right?  Anything but. . .!

The pendulum is swinging!  Swinging to a more correct understanding of what Christian Scripture means when talking about “praying unceasingly” or “worshipping at all times”.  The simple fact is that when we are fulfilling the purpose for which we were ordained, then we are worshipping. Why?  Because we are accomplishing the will of the Father and that’s ultimately why each of us were created.

And no matter what any theological type wants to tell us - we are all ‘ordained’ to accomplish the purpose for which we were put on earth.  And when we do - we are practicing our ‘ordination’ - and worshipping in the truest sense of the word.

So when you go into the marketplace on Monday morning; remember that you are carrying your Sunday worship with you.  You didn’t leave it in the pew when you left the building.  It ought to be an extension of the communal experience of meeting together on Sunday - that extends throughout each day of the week.

And we are encouraged to practice it at the water cooler on Tuesday afternoon; in the breakroom over lunch; or the breakfast meeting with a new business prospect.  We’re equally encouraged to remember it when in traffic or stopped for construction. . . whatever life occurrence comes our way in the hours that follow noon on Sunday.

My desire for you today is that you’ll carry worship in your heart each day of the week and that you will be richly blessed because you do!

Have an awesome day!

Linda

Just when I thought I didn’t have anything to put here today, along comes two great pieces from AWP member, Anita.  The first one tugs at your heart with a smile & a tear because of it’s poignancy and metaphorical spendor.

The 2nd one is a ‘hoot!”  Just what a tired woman from the heartland needed on a dreary day in Indiana.

Enjoy them both & do read through to the end because I have something pretty amazing to share!

“The Concert

When the house lights dimmed and the concert was about to begin, the mother returned to her seat and discovered that her child was missing

Suddenly, the curtains parted and spotlights focused on the impressive Steinway on stage.  To her horror, the mother saw her little boy sitting at the keyboard, innocently picking out ’Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.’

At that moment, the great piano master made his entrance, quickly moved to the piano, and whispered in the boy’s ear,

‘Don’t quit . . .. Keep playing.’

Then, leaning over , Paderewski reached down with his left hand and began filling in a bass part. Soon his right arm reached around to the other side of the child, and he added a running obbligato.

Together, the old master and the young novice transformed what could have been a frightening situation into a wonderfully creative experience.  The audience was  so mesmerized that they couldn’t recall what else the great master played.

Only the classic,’ Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.’

Perhaps that’s the way it is with God.

What we can accomplish on our own is hardly noteworthy. We try our best, but the results aren’t always graceful flowing music.  However, with the Hand of the Master, our life’s work can truly be beautiful.

The next time you set out to accomplish great feats, listen carefully.  You may hear the voice of the Master, whispering in your ear, 

‘Don’t quit . . . Keep playing.’

May you feel His arms around you and know that His hands are there, helping you turn your feeble attempts into true masterpieces.

Remember, God doesn’t Call the equipped, rather, He equips  the ‘called.’

Life is more accurately measured by the lives you touch than by the things you acquire. So touch someone by passing this little message along. May God bless you and be with You always!  

And remember,     ‘Don’t quit . . .. Keep playing.”

AWESOME REMINDER TO US, don’t you think?

Now for the chuckle!

“Billy Graham was returning to Charlotte after a speaking engagement and when his plane arrived there was a limousine there to transport him to his home. As he prepared to get into the limo, he stopped
and spoke to the driver.

‘You know’ he said, ‘I am 87 years old and I have never driven a limousine. Would you mind if I drove it for a while?’

The driver said,  ‘No problem. Have at it.’ Billy gets into the driver’s seat and they head off down the highway.

A short distance away sat a rookie State Trooper operating his first speed trap. The long black limo went by him doing 70 in a 55 mph zone.

The trooper pulled out and easily caught the limo and he got out of his patrol car to begin the procedure.

The young trooper walked up to the driver’s door
and when the glass was rolled down, he was surprised to see who was driving.

He immediately excused himself and went back to his car and called his supervisor.

He told the supervisor, “I know we are supposed to enforce the law…. But I also know that important people are given certain courtesies. I need to know what I should do because I have stopped a very important person.’

The supervisor asked, “Is it the governor?”

The young trooper said, ‘No, he’s more important than that.’

The supervisor said, ‘Oh, so it’s the president.’ The young trooper said, ‘No, he’s even more important than that.’

The supervisor finally asked, ‘Well then, who is it?’

The young trooper said,  “I think it’s Jesus,
because he’s got Billy Graham for a chauffeur!’

Smile - God loves you! I ask the Lord to bless you, as I pray for you today; to guide you and protect you, as you go along your way God’s love is always with you, God’s promises are true. And when you give God all your cares, you know God will see you through!

That one should give a hearty laugh to your day!

BTW - some of you may remember last week’s blog post entitled “Oh, I’m In Love Again!”  It was about my love affair with “The Voice” - Russell Watson.  While checking out the status of the Watson UK concerts this summer, I stumbled upon the “forum”.  After perusing it for a while, I happened on a page that looked rather interesting.  About a 1/3rd of the way down the page, my eye caught a title that looked vaguely familiar.  There it was!  “Oh, I’m In Love Again”.  It had made it’s way all the way across the pond to land in the Russell Watson official forum and the link was posted on yesterday’s thread.  Isn’t that utterly amazing!

That explains all the traffic on the site yesterday.  I bet when I check the analytics, I’ll find a slew ‘a folks from the UK.  Just in case, I’ll say hello to all of you Watson fans from one here in the ‘colonies!’

Have an awesome day with considerable blessings & many significant chuckles to lighten your day!

Linda

It’s one of those days!  A ‘travelin’ day.  A day to work on the business - not in it.

I have to admit, I prefer not having to leave the house to do anything.  Maybe except to wander to either porch for an a.m. or p.m. ‘break’. 

However, we know that balance at any point in our lives is what we must achieve.  It’s critical if we want to add value to years and wisdom to experience!

So for me, it means I have to be “on the road again”.  I have to balance those quiet, cubby-hole office days with my Watson CD playing in the background while fingers fly across the keyboard - with travel days.  Travel to make things happen or get things in place for something that’s getting ready to happen.

I have a background in O.D. (organization development), but my strong suit has never been the “organization” piece.  In an effort to achieve balance - I’ve had to develop the skill of mentally calculating how to manage a travel day.  Write down where I must be and then arrange every other ‘chore’ in sequence to make for an organized day in which I accomplish all.

It is a skill I think most of us who are ‘chronologically maturing’ through the 2nd half of the journey have acquired.  I believe we develop specific skills out of the wisdom gained from experience.

I hear from women all the time how busy they are.  I also hear how they’ve found ways to maintain balance in their businesses; professions; family and all the other aspects of life.  It’s all about priorities!

I like what a number of the women have said - “God first, family 2nd and business 3rd.  If I’m pursuing my God-given purpose ( and know it) then I’ve got one of my priorities in place.   When my family is eager to be a helpful resource for me in every area of life - then my 2nd priority is obviously in place. . . and when I learn to balance working in my business with working on the business. . .well then I’ve got number 3 in place.

That is until one of the ‘balls’ I’m jugglin’ falls to the ground!

Well tomorrow is another day and I promise myself I’ll get everything back in proper perspective and all balls neatly in the air . . . . .

Have an awesome day with much love, great opportunities and all balls bouncing in the air!

Linda

Last evening a dear friend of our vintage (well yours - not mine) was sharing that her quite young g’son had a serious injury to his little finger and had to have reconstructive surgery - late at night of course.  Our friend’s husband & business partners have started a business out of state; she has children still at home & in school; and her mom is recuperating in their home from a heart issue.  Schew (is that how you spell that word that escapes our lips when life has thrown us more than we can imagine or certainly ask for)!!!

Today, another dear friend and AWP leader telephoned to check in and was relaying that to add to an already hectic schedule, they got word they have been caught in the tax folks eager plan to audit as many Americans as possible.

Both women said (if not out loud) - “enough is enough already!”

I’m quite certain there were days-weeks-months like this when we were less ‘chrono-mature’.  For me there was the 15 month battle for my late husband to survive and the fallout when he did not.  But somehow it pales in the background when I look at how life has speeded up for all of us.

We have a new AWP & AWI logo and it’s awesome.  When Deena and I were brainstorming it’s design, I said one of our women said a woman holding a briefcase from which the contents are ‘dripping’.  What I saw is a woman with a briefcase in right hand and jugglin 3 balls with her left hand (the non-dominate one I might add).  To me, that says it all!

Just when we think the 2nd half of the journey is sweeter than the first - only because what is asked of us is part & parcel of what we choose to do relative to our passions & budding purpose. . . BAM, life hits!

I mean “LIFE” with all it’s challenges and struggles.  Both friends lamented that God doesn’t give us more than we can handle - but “gee whiz, Lord - enough is enough already!”

Do you have days, weeks, months - maybe even a year - like that?  Is it getting to the place where you want to scream - no more please! 

You know what - in searching for something wise & profound to say to all of you it suddenly occurs to me that the wisdom is in what happened.  Friends - AWP friends I might add - talked to friends!  Did we have any profound answers?

NO!  Answers were not the reason we were sharing.  It was (or is) in the process of just sharing with a friend that some healing or relief of the stress takes place.  It saves our sanity and turns back the tide of tears, anger and frustration.  And we come away thinking we can do another day without losing our ‘cool’.

So if you are at the end of the proverbial rope and have tied several knots as well - try another strategy.  

Call a friend you trust and ask if you can ‘vent’ or ‘lament’ or whatever it is you need to do.  More times than not, she’ll say “yes, of course”.  And then go to it; let it all out; yell, shout, scream, cry or whatever it takes to bring release.  You’ll feel much better for having done so.

A word of caution though!  Make certain to be the one who returns the favor when it’s your friend who is screaming - “NO MORE, PLEASE!!!”

Have an awesome day with warm breezes & a cool drink to quench your thirst!  Be blessed always.

Linda

Remember when we were less chrono-mature and did it all by ourselves?  Ran after children; laundry; dusting; sweeping; cooking; chauffering; grocery shopping - ah just writing the list makes me weary.

And we were darn successful at it!  And how we looked toward the day when the young one’s were less dependent upon us (or out on their own) and cooking for two meant “eating out most nights” and the budget had room for a cleaning person at least every other week.

Now here we are in the 2nd half of the journey, perhaps having made some significant transition to which we have looked forward for a decade or more!  And, darn if we aren’t at it again. 

All by ourselves. . . doing it all by ourselves again.  When I was in resource development (the ‘politically correct term for raising non-profit dollars), they used to call it the “one person shoppe!”  Secretary; personal assistant; CEO; CFO; COO; and every other “chief” you can think of. 

We find ourselves spending more time working in the business than on the business.  Because there’s simply no one else to do it!

How do we manage to build a successful business (you define success for yourselves) and get it all done when there’s no room in the budget (if there is a budget) for even a virtual assistant.  So we become graphic designer; recording secretary; bookkeeper and everything else that is needed to run a business.

What just occurred to me is that when we are in the business startup phase (and that can last as long as 3 l-o-n-g years), we are running the business.  And if we are not careful - it will run us - ragged.  Running a business is not always synonomous with building the business.

 One helpful idea is to partner with other women, men or couples who have started their own business as well.  Form your own business incubator.  Engage your family members in some of the tasks that would normally fall to executive assistants - like data entry; simple Quick Books entries, etc.  If 3 or more solo-businesswomen banded together in incubator-style, more time could be spent in working on the business than in it.

One of our members pays a teenage child to do data entry - good practice for the young person who’s earning some extra money as well.  The experience is invaluable.

If keeping up with household chores takes a very back seat while running/building the business; and grandkids are big enough to wield a Swiffer & handle a sweeper - hire them to spend a couple of evenings or Saturday’s cleaning g’ma’s house.  They’ll enjoy the spending money and build a work ethic at the same time.  Let them mow grass, weed flower beds and wash your automobile.

I’ve been thinking the incubator thought for some time now as we continue to launch and build AFFILIATED WOMEN INTL(tm).  I’m thinking that AWI members in the same locale could team up and help each other.  If one has a nice copier and all the fancy office equipment others can’t afford as yet - then why not ‘rent’ time on that fancy equipment rather than spending it at O.M. or another office supply house.

As usual I have great ideas for others.  In other words I know what to do and what to tell others to do - but I don’t always do it myself.

But I’m thinking seriously of exiting the office to call my g’kids to weed the flower beds that may not get as much of my attention this season as last.

Seriously, give some thought to ways you can engage your 2nd half of the journey ‘buds’ and turn a ’solo’ business into a ‘corporate enterprise’.

Have an awesome day with much love & considerable blessings.

Linda

There’s that word again. Virtual!  Back in the milennium from which I came, the word meant “real” or “actual” as in something is ‘virtually’ true.

Now it means sitting in front of something the size of a business planner writing to another (or others) who I can’t see, touch, taste, sense, smell or feel - somewhere “out there”.  And marvel of marvels - the other receives from me and responds!  Perhaps from half-way around the world.  That my dear friends, is the new understanding of “virtual”.

If you’re not planning your business in order to have at least some aspect of it ‘virtual’, you may be missing out on great opportunities.  Yes, you have to learn such things as SEO; Google Ad Sense; traffic as in driving it to. . .but it’s worth it.

I really don’t think we (myself included) realize the AWESOME opportunities we have when we connect with other women via AWP and/or AWI “virtually”.  I know we haven’t all captured the power of having such tools as YUGMA at our disposal - just by being part of a growing community of ‘chronologically maturing women’ traveling through the 2nd half of the journey.

We may get frequent emails marketing this or that ‘webinar’ and we may even have attended a few of them.  I have!  And I marveled at how someone sitting in front of a computer with headset & microphone - in Pennsylvania - could educate and inform over 200 folks from around the world!

I kid you not!!!  One event I attended had folks from Australia and New Zealand - chatting back and forth on the text portion of the site as if they were right next door to all of us.

It was AWESOME - to say the least.

APRIL 30, Connie Gelhaus of YUGMA will give her time to teach us this simple WEBINAR platform and give us some ideas of how valuable its use is for us.  Whether we own a business; are advancing in our career 0r working from a cubby hole off an upstairs bedroom (that’s me, of course).

I really encourage everyone of you to REGISTER for the YUGMA event on April 30.  It’s at 7:30 p.m. EDT. 

Oh, and what confusion we get with the time.  Connie is in MN and I think they must be on regular time.  So here’s what I know:  7:30 p.m. EDT is 6:30 CDT; 5:30 p.m. MDT and 4:30 PDT.  If you’re not on daylight savings time, I’ll leave it to you to figure out what time 7:30 EDT is in your area.  Too much for this silver-haired maven to figure out.

I venture to say that once you’ve taken the YUGMA dashboard and been in charge of your own WEBINAR - you’ll be hooked! 

So my piece of wisdom today is to get acquainted with one of the most powerful tools we have in our Essential Business Tool Bag(tm) - the Webinar.  Then register for the April 30 event.  Take a ride around the dashboard and see how simple this tool is.

Trust me, you’ll be hooked as well.

And my desire for you today is that great opportunities join you on the road and that you’re more than prepared to take advantage of them!

Much love,

Linda