David and Goliath

David and Goliath!

Have you ever wanted to succeed in something however things keep getting in the way? My passion since becoming a kinesiologist has been to make the modality of kinesiology a widely used therapy for our Senior citizen population. One day it will be a standard form of care, and I look forward to that day with hope and enthusiasm. What is side tracking me is the situation of financial independence.

Our family has been swept along in an event of mammoth calamity along with nearly 3000 other Australians in the collapse of a large financial company. The life savings and in many cases the family homes of the survivors have gone. It wasn’t declared a national disaster or even spoken about with alot of sympathy by many others, but it has torn the hearts and souls out of the people involved. It has become a case of David and Goliath, where the everyday mums and dads are David and the banking systems are Goliath. What the Goliaths did not expect was the support, friendship and downright tenacity of the ordinary folk.

Unfairness of any kind is not tolerated well by the Australian public and this group of people have been treated most unfairly. So like any minority they have formed a common group and from the ground up have sought support and help from many avenues. We have had to face the public censor of being called greedy, been shown in the media as victims, written Parliamentary Inquiry submissions that bear our angst to the world and to live with the knowledge that possibly it is all to no avail. Many lives have been permanently shattered with some having no hope for getting back their life savings, all has gone. This has come at a high price for many as, like most everyday people, being in the limelight is not always comfortable or welcome.

However this will be a long battle with no guaranteed outcome, so it is dependent on all the families to survive however they can. On one of my many sleepless nights I felt impelled to write a poem, not any poem but an inspirational and energetic poem. This poem would be my and many others salvation, I didn’t know how it would work I just knew it would. I wrote my poem then called “For what am I bid for this fantastic precious piece of string?” and have since then have been putting together my knowledge to release it to the universe. I have gone to internet courses, inspirational weekends, written blogs, joined and embraced Face Book, conquered technology (sort of), and am gradually getting ready.

So my energy and focus have been split between my two hearts missions and they have been entwined together as they both require each other to succeed. The change I will make in the world is that I will make a difference to peoples’ lives, for the better, I will succeed. If I can pass subjects like Chemistry, Bio Chemistry, Anatomy and Physiology, Muscle Skeletal, the majority with 7’s and overcome my fear of the weird stuff like Chakras, Auras and Meridians and the like, all the time having hot flushes and fried brain function from menopause. As well as still be a Wife, Mum and daughter, start up a successful small business, well as Helen Reddy says “I can do anything, I am women”

I want to create peace in my life. To have the financial abundance that enables me the opportunity for people to choose to change their lives.....for the better.

Storm Investor Comsumer Action Group

Storm Investors Consumer Action Group!

The survivors of the Storm Financial meltdown formed a group called SICAG, Storm Investors Consumer Action Group and these people are affectionately known as "SICAGERS". The initial reason for the group to form was due to the shock and disbelief each and every Storm Financial Investor felt. Collectively as a group they could band together and gain support from others who knew exactly what they were going through.

One of the most amazing feats of this group was their being instrumental in getting a Parliamentary Inquiry into the financial industry of Australia, which may in time benefit ordinary Australians to be safe from unscrupulous financial practices. At present you the consumer has no redress when either financial consultants or the banks especially the 'big four' and their subsidiaries change or vary their rules. The word conscionable when used in context with banks is in my view an oxymoron! As is also often the case the fall guys become the ordinary staff members, who follow orders, whilst the "fat cat" executives sit in their glass ivory towers exempt from all blame and gleefully receiving their bonuses without a blush!

SICAG also managed to catch the eye of a law firm that was willing to help by taking to task the banking system and have been able to achieve an almost impossible result of an out of court settlement which will in a small way alleviate a portion of the residual debt of many of the 3000 Ex Storm Clients. For the majority however the debt looms constantly and most will end up loosing their homes or having a 'lean' on the value of the family home until such time as the home is sold. Nearly all will have to find gainful employment, even though the collective average age of this group is approx 65+. These investors had all been working towards not being a burden on society, and to be independent and and self funded in their retirement.

Collectively as a group SICAG have played an important part in keeping individuals safe and alive. They have provided a shoulder to lean when it was all getting too much, they have formed friendships and bonds, have shared information and advice, and have above all .....kept the spirits and sanity of all uplifted. Many and countless stories will be told of this group of everyday Aussies and their fights for justice and truth. The SICAG group have been lead by a band of men, real men with the caliber of strength and dignity and who have unselfishly given of their time, emotions and energy.

The Storm Financial/CBA meltdown will go down in Australian Financial history and is Australia's worst corporate collapse. The SICAGers will not go down with out a fight and they are standing tall, and doing what countless other Aussies have done down the ages....fought for a fair deal and integrity.

What next for Green String!

What Next for Green String

The processes involved in any plan can often be momentarily sidetracked. At present in my home town and state there is a natural disaster unfolding and for now my blogs will reflect this. However it does not mean that I have given up , it just means there are actually some other things on my priority list for now. The same happened whilst I was enhancing my Internet Marketing skills to enable me to help others with my inspirational poem. Life has a way of giving us more to do and also to allow us to take a break from the emotional trauma and be practical. This allows our adrenal response to settle down and get ready for the next wave. A group that was formed for preserving sanity and as a life line for the Storm Financial Survivors was called Storm Investors Community Action Group or affectionately known as SICAG. I will talk more about them and how they have helped a group of people stay alive and connected in a further chapter.

For now however please enjoy this next article written by Performance Forums PF which is very relevant to the people of Queensland in January of 2011.


Tips to clean up after a flood

A Friends practical advice! for Qld Flood Assistance.

I want to help with the QLD floods but don't know how

by Annie Evett on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 11:38am

There are a few ways people can help right now ...

• you can donate to the flood relief appeal -http://www.qld.gov.au/floods/donate.html
• if you live in or around Brisbane and can help with accommodation register here - http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-can-give-shelter-to-the-flood-victims-in-QLD/179213392111896
• You can donate to specific towns that have been affected as most have set up their own appeal
• You can if your local register with Disaster Managment Council - group formed made up emergency services and local govt reps with EMQ on all decision making they also are the ones who have a register so you can list as a volunteer, accommodation assistance with pets, caterer for evac halls etc - registering is important
• If you are any type of entertainer, can face paint, or look after kids with games and activities turn up to one of the evacuation spots and start a show. There are alot of scared people who need their spirits lifted.
• You could assist with those who have been evacuated as they could not take pets to the evac centres
• You could adopt a town - search for alistings of towns - this changes day by day
• Gather any of your unwanted or excess stationary, books or IT gear and get it ready for donation to school in affected areas.
• your community group or group of friends could adopt the town and support the local newsagency and assist with replacing items - same as trade services etc - each town needs money put back in - not in 5 weeks but immediately so the best way to help them get on their feet is find out what the town most needs and support them from there.
• Organise a clothing, blankets and basic necessity collection and take it to an evacuation spot - or get it to Red Cross or one of the other charities.
• Keep an eye out for charitable fundraisers such as the 100 stories for Queensland ( contact Jodi Cleghorn regarding this) which will directly assist those in need.

IT is important you understand that working with Disaster Management Council will allow needs to be met so get in touch through Brisbane city council or Toowoomba or the council for the town you wish to adopt!

Good luck and together we can unite and help rebuild!!!

Trust your Intuition!

Trust your Intuition!

With so much happening here in my home town of Brisbane, I have found it not so easy to do my blogging so will share with an article that I wrote some time ago. It is still regarding my poem, My Green String. I had written it to explain in my words how I feel the universal Laws of Attraction works.

“Intuition”

Have you ever been told to trust your intuition? What exactly is meant by that? For that matter what does the word intuition mean?

Wikipedia states:-

• Intuition (philosophy), the act by which the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas
• Intuition (knowledge), understanding without apparent effort

Oxford dictionary states:-

(Noun)

• the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning:we shall allow our intuition to guide us
• [count noun] a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning:your insights and intuitions as a native speaker are positively sought

Hi and welcome to my place. I am a professional kinesiologist and own a boutique clinic called Kinique, which is kinesiology uniquely for you! Recently I was guided to write an inspirational poem, Green String, and I would like to share with you some of my journey along the way.

I have used the expression “trust your intuition” and if you are like the old me that may not appear quite so easy. When first starting my career as a Kinesiologist, (one of the natural therapy modalities) I was in denial about the whole metaphysical aspect of life. You would not have found me within cooee of such things as auras, chakras, meridians and as for intuitive belief or psychic guidance I cringed at the thought of it. I did however have the family belief that you should have a trust in what you perceived as the truth. A family motto passed down to me by my maternal grandfather was the saying “to thy own self be true” and it was this saying that assisted me greatly during my studies into the metaphysical aspects of life. If I thought it was getting too weird, I reminded myself of the above thought and I gradually became aware that these sometimes strange words and ideas were in fact tools to identify aspects of life. As I gained knowledge and learned to trust that knowledge a whole new world opened up for me.

I also realized that I had often prayed for assistance and had regularly asked for help from long deceased relations, so just why I was so against the idea of Divine Guidance I am not so sure. It was gradually borne on me that trusting your intuition or guidance was no stranger than praying and asking for strength from others. We are all guided; some by self trust others by family or religious beliefs and many by the utter belief in another’s word. For me it came down to three basic rules that I set so that I could acknowledge and relay information that came my way and these are:-

*To believe in your self

*To be honest about why you need to know

*To be able to share without harming others with words

We are each unique as such we will all have our own way and method of acquiring and sharing knowledge. That’s one of the great aspects of being human, our uniqueness and individuality. Just imagine how dull it would be if we all had the same views and ideas. Another aspect of the unique you is your inner vibration. This vibration is at the very heart of everybody, it is how we communicate without words, how we share our thoughts and emotions with others. It can also be referred to as our life energy or Chi and it is our unique ability to live our lives to our highest ability.

Learn to find your unique vibration and with it the gift of being able to tune into and connect with others, learn to trust your guidance and to be confident in your messages. Tap into the Universal knowledge bank and above all trust the process.

Ask yourself the following questions

*Is the information beneficial to me?

*Is this information beneficial to me on all levels?

*Is this information in my highest good?

Listen and speak with your heart. Start to take notice of seemingly unrelated or sudden thoughts you have. Write them down on post it notes or in a small book. After writing them down, walk away from them and return to whatever you were doing, safe in the knowledge that you have captured your thoughts/guidance. Later when you re-read your notes, allow the energy/vibration of the messages to return and you will easily pick up the thread. The notes will begin to make sense and you will find the answers to many puzzling questions or situations.

How often when a particular event takes place do you find yourself saying “I should have listened to my inner voice” or “I knew that was going to happen”? These are examples of snatches of thoughts or ideas that are given to us daily and most often we forget them or take no notice of them. They form the basis of the vibration of our dreams and wishes, the answers to many of our puzzles in life.

Enjoy your journey, cheers

Marney

Not Another DVD!

Not another DVD!

This is it, my friend and I are going to make this Internet Marketing business ours! Between us we will get it right, and by making sure we have our weekly meetings we will be able to help each other, and support each other, and what we do not understand we can ask our mentor.

Luckily the first dvd was given to each person to take home from the seminar, that way I could get started straight away. Before I started to forget the terminology....which to me is still so strange. All of the knowledge that I was acquiring was what I needed to be able to easily make my poem known around the world. Once I had a proven process I could copy that process and that would be that. I keep assuring my family that it would not be very long before my poem, My Green String was a number one best seller:)

Well can I tell you now how much those monthly DVD's became a stress to me. You see it was not just the watching of the DVD's, it was the understanding what they actually meant, most times I couldn't do what they assured me was so easy. I was dammed if I could come up with a niche market that had a certain number of searches, and also a green bar and no competition, and the right keywords and and and and! it went on! Then there was the, for me, the challenge of the computer.

I was given lots of pre-packaged ebooks, all I had to do was market them and put them on a website, buy a domain name, get my keywords, and presto...I was making money...while I slept! Well I can tell you from this little black duck, it just didn't happen. You see although I was qualified by the aspect of being a computer illiterate, remember "Mum Not Geeky", that label didn't suddenly lift. I retained that ability to be absolutely flattened by the technical aspect of the computer. I would go to download my E-book material, and click to open......then this mysterious thing called 'winzip' would require me to say yes to things and then....it would disappear!

I have no doubt that my technical language will give you a small hint as to my ability, my children got so frustrated with me "loosing stuff" they made me a folder on my desk top called "Save in me". That way they felt I could put any thing I was downloading or saving in that folder and I would find it again. In theory that is correct, in practice not always. It was a long time later that I found, quite by accident, a drop down box called "downloads". You would be amazed at how many times I had downloaded the same article because I never could find it again. I really should have been given E for effort!

Another aspect was the reams of paper I was using by having to print all the instructions, and there is no point in you telling me now just to open and shut the little windows as I follow instructions. By the time I had clicked off one and opened another, I had forgotten the word or code I was using, so had to go back again. I hadn't quite got the hang of cut and paste yet! So I have lots of folders with instructions which I would precede to tick off as I completed a task. This was getting quite time consuming, and yet another DVD would arrive! Plus of course there was all those emails coming from all those great sites that would help me.

Was I enjoying what I was doing, did anything go right? Well yes, in a big way I was enjoying myself. I was certainly being challenged, however it was keeping me busy. I also felt a big sense of achievement when I managed to move onto the next step, or understood an article, or for me found something I had downloaded. The thing is I am the same as anyone else, all this was happening in my spare time. I still had a family to look after, a house to run, a business to work in these aspects of my life didn't stop just because I wanted to learn something new. It was on top of everything.

Our financial situation was still the same as well, nothing had changed there at all. The anxiety of the GFC and all of its ramifications to us and all the other ex Storm Financial Clients had not gone away. They had in fact gotten worse, because on top of anything else, we had to find paperwork from nearly ten years ago, and fill out questionnaire after questionnaire and financial statements and profiles listing how much you spent on groceries, cars, insurance etc etc when you first applied for the loan, and the same for when the loan may have been topped up and for now. Trying to get information and copies of loan documents out of the banks was like getting blood out of a stone. A stone also had more sympathy. They were dark times, with high tension, anxiety, stress and depression. Little wonder that the other stuff I was doing was like a circuit breaker. Frustrating but at least do able!

I had worked out a plan of attack for the DVD's , each month I got one that was for the Internet Marketing and usually a couple of bonus ones to watch, really a lovely gesture, but boy just added to the pile. So I got smart, I would only watch the important one and would keep the others for a rainy day. I managed to get through about 5 months, before I started to say I will look at that one later. I am not saying I had given up, I had just diverted a little. My clinic had started to grow and I also managed to write a workshop, which I run a couple of times each year. The other thing I did was to start to mix with other people who had already become successful with using the internet for business. I even wrote one of those E-Books and managed to upload it onto my website, so other people can download it:)

How is My Green String coming along....that is yet another story:)

Jack's Back!

Jack's Back!

I had been listening to the evening news and heard the announcement that John Farnham had announced his return:)

This just had to be another sign that I was on the right track. The euphoria from the seminar had died down to a large degree and really I was no closer to making my family fortune via Internet Marketing. I had however started to read lots about it and to make sense of some of the more technical terms. I mean I now knew what a blog was...still couldn't seem to keep my posts from going to cyberspace! and I knew that an E-Book was one that you downloaded..again I am still a tad disappointed by that as well..and I knew that I had to rank on Google's SEO listing for people to find my stuff. Would also like to brag that I actually knew what a SEO was.....Search Engine Optimization.......go me:)

Now all of this to you, the experienced Internet Marketer or Seminar Groupie, this is no big deal at all, but for me it was major! This was the start of my not being blasted by words and being defeated before I'd had a chance to have a go. As a kinesiologist I am constantly working with clients to address Stress Triggers and emotional trauma from words, so I knew that to succeed I had to be not stressed by terminology. Now my good friend contacted me about another...wait for it....Seminar! Again being held in Brisbane and this time she had the free tickets. Would I like to join her.....would I what.....you betcha! I figured I had survived the last one and at least I knew what to expect this time, and the best bit....I would understand all that was being said:) I know exactly what you are thinking and I have to agree......It was nothing the same. This time there were several guest speakers each of them experts in their fields and each with a massive learning opportunity. Once again I was gobsmacked and spent much of the day with my jaw on the ground. One of them a guy called Brett McFall spoke just to me...."create abundance, enjoy work life balance, work smart not hard, and the icing on the cake...make money while you sleep!" and all of this easily! Now it all sounded great but honestly the "making money while you slept" was a real good option for me. I love to sleep:)

I looked around the room and again saw people from all walks of life, ages, nationalities and a pretty even mixture of male and female, each person being open to new concepts and ideas. Again the notion that even a novice computer illiterate could easily, with the right guidance and a personal determination achieve financial security. All one had to do initially was take some ACTION.

Remember my story, a stay at home Mum, who at 46 who decided to study and get a diploma of Kinesiology and managed to study and achieve good grades for subjects like chemistry, anatomy and physiology, nutrition, and not to forget that abstract concept of kinesiology and natural therapies. Then to get my Diploma and have the GFC nearly wipe us out financially so that our family lived in a constant state of anxiety, stress and depression. My Green String the inspirational poem was going to make a difference, all it needed was for me to conqueror Internet Marketing and the computer.

We sign up......my friend and I...committing that between us we would understand what we needed and give each other moral support. Of course we had the support of the person whose program we were buying as well. All in all a win win win situation:) Was I aware fully of what I was getting myself into?...not a chance! Here's a sneak preview...Dvd's to watch at least one per month, workbooks to complete, blogs to write and post, key word research, market research, niche markets to find, cd's to listen to, programs to download, groups to join.....EEEK!

About this time my friend and I, realize to survive we needed to be very committed and arrange to spend at least one day a week on our internet work. We would do this methodically and draw up a plan, and stick to it. It would require baby steps and as much as we both wanted it now....first we had to breathe! Oh and of course we were one up on most others we knew how to de-stress and to use a technique called Frontal/Occipital....a visualization process so we could dream the dream, see it, feel it and taste success:)

Breathe!