All Things Anne Wondra

Lessons from Border Collies - Find yourself some work to do

We can learn a lot from animals.  Take border collies, for example.  These are working dogs, used to herd sheep.  An interesting thing about border collies:  Even when they don't have any sheep to herd, they are driven to find themselves some 'work' to do. 

My in-laws have a border collie.  Her name is Reba.  When my father-in-law was alive, his daily routine included a trip out to 'the property' where he had a 10-acre plot of land with a big garden.  Reba was his constant companion.  Whether she made it her work to herd him or keep the rabbits away, I'm not sure.  I just know Reba was always at his side.

When my father-in-law passed on, Reba found herself a new project...my mother-in-law.  Once again, Reba is a constant companion, always at my mother-in-law's side.  Reba will go walking no one else who might take her away from her 'charge.'

The lesson here?  We are each responsible to find ourselves some work to do.  If we are self-employed or have an employer, we have some defined work to do.  For those who are not employed right now?  Find yourself some 'work' to do, whether it's paid or unpaid.  If a border collie can do it...

Today, there are many good, able-bodied, intelligent, talented, creative people, with time on their hands, available to make a positive impact in their neighborhoods and in their communities.  You don't need permission to gather with your neighbors and make your neighborhood a clean and safe place.  You can contact your local United Way and find out where your talents could be used to help others.  You can follow your own passions, inspirations, causes of the heart, and be with people who share your interest.

Opportunity knocks in job loss.  It's not all about the money.  It's also about use of time and attitude, and living with intention.   Find yourself some work to do, paid or unpaid, something positive and constructive you and others can do with you time and abilities and connections and creativity.  Besides, who would you rather hire?   Someone you knew perhaps from a community project you both worked on?  Someone who sees possibilities in challenges perhaps?  Someone who chooses to be positive, and does something constructive with their in-between time perhaps?  Who would you rather hire?  Choose to BE that person.  The benefits far outweigh the alternatives.

On the lighter side, here's a Just for Fun page and a youtube clip of a talented border collie.  Find a way to make work feel like playing.  Enjoy.

 

28 Laws of Attraction for Life and Business

What makes a person attractive? 

What elements attract YOU to want to work with someone, be with or around someone, to do business with one person rather than another?

The author of The 28 Laws of Attraction, Thomas Leonard, was a financial planner by profession, who disliked many traditional aspects of sales.  His clients also wanted more from him than help with their finances.  His principles of attraction made him successful and sought after. 

Thomas' material is well-known to coaches.  This is his first (and only) consumer resource.  And I'm excited and delighted to share it with positive people who are ready to grow and evolve, both personally and professionally! 

The conference calls are on Saturday mornings at 9:30 (CST). 

At the least, print yourself a copy of the class schedule for your copy of Thomas' 28 Laws of Attraction.

Enjoy life.  - Anne

 

Golden business opportunity for alternative and complimentary health care practitioners

Health insurers will disclose cost estimates.  Customers can learn of out-of-pocket expenses.

JS Wed May 28 2008

Now here's a golden marketing and business opportunity for alternative and complimentary practitioners:  Put it out there.  Easy access to pricing information consumers want to know, and deserve to know, without hassles.  And let's get the word out.

Most consumers are frustrated with all the hoops and hassles of our health care and health insurance industries.  And that opens opportunity to other health and wellness practitioners.

Simply post prices for basic, common services:  An acupuncture session, a chiropractic assessment, a therapeutic massage, reiki session, life and wellness coaching, thermography, a nutritional support consultation, reflexology, personal trainer, hypnosis, art therapy, a routine physical....  

Most complimentary and alernative, holistic practitioners readily offer that information.  Many also post it on their website.  Businesses know what their costs are and what fees they charge.

When I go to a grocery store, or a clothing store, or a restaurant, I expect prices to be easy to find.  Don't you?  That's a simple, basic, reasonable consumer expectation.  If the traditional medical community is unwilling to offer that, then as intelligent consumers (and the ones making the payment) let's look around, do a little research (the internet is an amazing thing), and make alternative (often less invasive, more effective) choices. 

True, the service you select may not be 'covered' under your insurance.  And it will be an out-of-pocket expense.  And maybe that's to your benefit.

Ask yourself this:  How high is your insurance deductible?  Chances are you'd be paying for your services out of pocket anyhow.  The difference is, the services expenditure, and your condition, won't be 'tracked' in some insurance company's global database.  And the services report will come directly do you.  It won't need interpretation by another expert (and another appointment and fee) to explain it to you.  You'll also likely be dealing with smaller, more personal, private practice businesss.

There's no questions traditional health care has it's place.  It just has this big insurance industry attached to it.  And the interests of the clinics and the doctors and the pharmacuetical companies are all intertwined.  The language they speak is also of illness and disease, and a lot of it preys on fears.  How about the language of wellness instead...

Call me cynical or suspicious.  It seems to me, however, that these players have a vested interest in keeping their clientele (us) 'in the system.'  They push pills with a litany of known serious side affects to keep the cycle going.  Whatever happened to learning from Mother Nature, teaching natural self-care and home remedies, and learning about nutrition, how to get healthy and stay healthy, and use the right body fuel, so we won't keep coming back for complications from the same conditions. 

It's your body and your life and your money.  You're the consumer and the customer. And we do have options and choices.  There are service providers and healers, traditional and nontraditional, who will gladly answer your pricing questions without hassles, treat you with respect, and tell you about their services and how they work to help your body. 

Who do you trust?  Who treats you well?  Who's wellness philosophy and focus fit you and your need?  Who have your friends and associates recommended?

There are directories of holistic practitioners.  Some are listed here. Readers are invited to comment and add others.

By Region - JBA Network

Outpost Exchange Magazine and Directory - Milwaukee

Wellness Incentives Guide - Southeastern Wisconsin

Naturopathic Physicians

Women, Wages and Root Causes

I've worked in a law office, a church, and in a corporate human resource office.  And the only place gender discrimination was, and is, legal was the church.  There's something wrong with that picture. 

Churches influence our beliefs about what's right and wrong, the roles and value of men and women.  As a rusult, the lives, careers, and paychecks of women have been particularly impacted.  Think about the 'glass ceiling,' political leadership, wages, benefits and the role of women in churches. 

Because the environment always wins, those kind of discriminiating faith environments may not be safe, positive, empowering or supportive places for women who aspire to be leaders, women who desire to hold top positions of power or financial wealth; women of spirit and spunk who want their voice and vision to be heard and respected; creative women of wisdom and intelligence with intuition and dreams and transformational passions. 

Look around and listen, as if for the first time, next time you're in a church service.  Are you being included, or not?  Are you being inspired?  Energized?  Given attractive feminine role models, images of divinity to emulate? 

If not, seek one that does.

It takes courage to look elsewhere, or to leave.  These organizations specialize in guilt trips.  And it gets painful and harmful to your spirit and soul if you stay.  Remember, the environment always wins.  Choose environments that support, encourage, and affirm your best, most beautiful self, who you are and desire to be.  Leave those that don't.  When do you feel the greatest?  most successful?  fulfilled?  worthwhile?  appreciated?  You want MORE of that!  And there are positive places and ways to attract and build it.

An organization that perceives or treats womankind as anything less than the powerful, intelligent, leaders, everyday goddesses, and queens that we are, does not derserve the benefits of our time, talent, services, or financial support.  As Suze Orman says in her book, Women and Money, We are not on sale.  There are organizations that honor, appreciate, and fully support all of who we are and aspire to be.  If you don't know one, let's talk.  I can help. 

Free-Flowing Money

Our job is not to figure out the HOW.  The universe will take care of the HOW.

Decide what you want.  Believe you have it, that you deserve it.  Visualize having it, enjoying it.  And release it to the universe.  - The Secret

The world is awash in money.  It's flowing like Niagra Falls.  And most of us are showing up with teaspoons.  - The ProsperityGame

The problem isn't a shortage of money.  There is an abundance of it all around us.  The abundance or lack is in our attitude and our perception.  What if we change those.

Ask and it is Given - Money comes easily and frequently.

Hello Blog world,

I'm laughing because the Universe has a sense of humor.  It got me again.  Ask and It is Given...and it is.  Words are powerful magic.

How to get Someone Else to pay for what You Want

Start with what you want.  Then figure out who would benefit from your getting it, and who has easy, ready funding resources to invest.