Hi Everyone ~

Spring is just around the corner and so is my "Ultimate Possibilities for Women" workshop. This exciting workshop will assist you to tap into the vast potential that sits within all of us, discover hidden strengths and work through limitations you may have unconsciously placed upon yourself (or had placed by someone else). You will also have loads of fun in a hilarious activity that teaches all of us how to Pay Attention.

This never before offered workshop will be held in Chilliwack on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at the Best Western Hotel (Oak Room). It will run from 7:00 pm until 10:00 pm. Cost is $29/person and if you bring a friend it's 2 for $39.

All participants will receive a participant manual, take-away tools and an exciting, fun, and interactive evening. Oh and we have a terrific door prize for one lucky participant.

Coffee, tea and water will be provided to quench your thirst. This will be a phenomenal event that will change your life.

Tickets are now available and are limited due to room size and space required for the workshop. Enquiries can be sent to me through my website. Several tickets requests have already been received. I don't need to tell you then to act quickly.
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Article ~

"You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one.
Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own.
It's just a matter of Paying Attention to this miracle."
~ Paulo Coelho

Are You Really Paying Attention?

by Barb Langlois

How much attention do you pay to what's occurring in your life?

I believe the Universe, God or whomever (whatever) you prefer provides an abundance of opportunities for our growth and we have to be paying attention to notice these opportunities and make use of them. Sometimes I find, I am way too busy to notice such things and other times, I am simply not paying attention which is when the Universe sends me a signal (or two) to alert me to begin paying attention again. I've found if I choose to ignore the signals, they don't go away, they get louder until I finally get the message. Seems this phenomenon occurs with others too:

A colleague of mine was parked outside a small Lower Mainland hospital. She needed to drive to another site so she backed up into a quiet intersection (yes, you read that correctly) so she could proceed in the correct direction. As she backed into the intersection (which she knows is not a good thing to do), an RCMP patrol car rolled up beside her. She was lucky, she got a warning. This is an example of a gentle warning from the Universe = Pay Attention to what you are doing.

The next day she was driving to work and made a left hand turn onto a street near the hospital and there awaiting her was another RCMP patrol car. Apparently a "no left turn" sign had been erected some weeks before, but she hadn't noticed. This was a much louder signal for her to pay attention to what she was doing, to the tune of $120. Are you starting to see how the messages from the Universe work?

I must say I also learned this lesson the hard way. I was recently attending a firewalk event in Dallas, Texas with 15 other people from around the world. I had been excited and I must say somewhat nervous, for this event, particularly the firewalk portion. On the first night prior to our first firewalk, professional fire dancers performed a fire show for us. We were all standing outside, in our bare feet, watching this spectacular show before walking across the fire ourselves. As I was standing there, I was thinking about the firewalk, not really paying attention to the fire dancers and certainly not giving them the attention I would have wanted had I been a fire dancer. I noticed everyone else standing and watching attentively. I had such a weird feeling on my feet that I couldn't stand still - the tops of my feet were stinging, badly. I didn't move away nor did I look down. I just kept wiping them off, kind of jumping around but trying to be inconspicuous as my attention was suppose to be on the fire dancers. All I kept thinking was "my feet are burning already and I haven't even walked across the fire!"

The next day, after a successful firewalk, the bottoms of my feet were . . . soft and smooth. The tops of my feet were a different story. It turns out, the night before I had been standing on a Fire Ant Hill!! No pun intended. For those of you who don't know what a fire ant is, it's a tiny ant that inserts a venom into your skin as it stings you repeatedly. I had approximately 100 bites (yes, I counted them) on my right foot alone. Apparently the whole colony attacked! What lesson did I learn other than it's a good idea to carry Pure Aloe Vera Gel around?

I learned to Pay Attention to what is occurring. Had I just took note of where I was standing, the whole fire ant escapade could have been avoided, but I was too busy not paying attention, to pay attention. I learned my lesson the hard way. One week later, the bites formed into burning, itchy white pustules.

What keeps happening and re-happening in your life? Are you paying attention to the lessons and messages you need to receive or are you going to be like me and continue to stand on the fire ant hill and wonder why the pain doesn't go away?
I urge you to Pay Attention.

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