Free Teleseminar-How to Get the Life You Love!

It's okay! Don't fret!
So many requests have come in from
folks who missed my complimentary
teleseminar to kick off Chinese New Year
on Monday-- that I'm offering it to you NOW!

It's jammed with great tools & tips on
How to Get the Life You Love!

(I decided to host the complimentary
call to celebrate my TENTH YEAR
of teaching Get the Life You Love
for Emory University in Atlanta.

Here's where to register and you'll
get right to the mp3 download--
for some fun & inspiration!
http://www.artofchange.org/gtl

You'll learn:
*7 Secrets Blocking People from
Getting the Life They Love
(after all, defining a problem is 50%
of its solution!)

*The ONE MOST IMPORTANT THING
you need to do to get the life you love
(it's so do-able, what a gift);

*Simple tips & exercises to generate that
good juju for yourself;

*A life-enriching exploration of YOU that
may really open your eyes!

If you're feeling a bit low right
now over the economy or anything else--
this call will BRING YOU UP!

http://www.artofchange.org/gtl

Check it out!


Love & Well Wishes,


Patrice

PS--Here's what Kelly Czack of Athens, Ohio, said about
the call:

"I'm so burned out from reaching and researching
a new path for myself that I don't have much "kick" left.
Or at least I didn't think so until tonight....your teleseminar
hit a chord with me!
http://www.artofchange.org/gtl

SELFLESS SERVICE EXTRAORDINAIRE

Dr. Nancy Robinson (here in her doctoral robes) and I met when I keynoted the Soroptimists Awards Banquet in March 2007--when she was just embarking on her dream of creating TechKnowledge Learning Centers, Inc, a 501c3 charitable organization with a goal of "bridging the digital divide."
http://www.techlearnit.org

Nancy, who didn't begin her own higher education until age 48, completed undergraduate & masters degrees in five years, and then a doctorate in computer science three years later. That's FOCUS. And she's focused on giving it back.

Her structured after-school programs will provide one-on-one instruction to underprivileged and underserved youth -- and she wants to keep the light in their eyes by offering all state-of-the-art technology.

As she pointed out, kids can go to the library, wait in line two hours to get on the computer for their 30 minute time slot, and get dulled out by antiquated technology before they even begin.

Go for it, Nancy! Currently they need more mice, keyboards & workstations. And donations! She has provided virtually everything else from her own pocket. Wow.



DALE WOULD BE PROUD OF HIS PEEPS
Here's a motley crew! Dallas resident & leadership trainer Mary Beth May, Blaise Dismer, my former next door neighbor who now lives on St. Simons Island, Georgia, and represents Bx-Dx pathology testing labs, and Ned Webb, a high level trainer for AT&T are gathered with me at the memorial service for Nedly's mother, Lillian Webb.

What a great Carnegie family! We four enjoyed the rigors of Dale Carnegie Sales Course Instructor Training in 1986--it was intense! Not only that, but I was kicking the cigarette habit at the time (can you say "nerves on edge?") But it was perfect. Blaise and Ned usually kept us laughing hysterically --at least during breaks from instruction.

Everyone and every aspect of my radical comfort zone expansion through affiliation with Dale Carnegie organization was a blessing. I ended up instructing the Sales Course for 15 years--and earned many "Outstanding Instruction" plaques along the way.

EMERGING FROM THE HOLIDAZE

The Philly family visit was most delightful at Christmas, with my sister Sue (on right) and I enjoying SPECTACULAR Longwood Gardens with my father. We timed it so that we experienced the DuPonts' party houses & ballrooms (now the endlessly-winding acres of greenhouses) both during daylight and after the fairy lights transformed everything. It was JAMMED--and for good reason.


One day Soeurx (my pet name for my sis, sortof a combo between French for sister (soeur) plus Siouxie (of the Banshees fame), and I trekked across Temple U.'s Ambler campus into the woods for a lovely, brisk woodland jaunt through the mists.



Among other things we encountered a confederacy of asses. The two with their heads together reminded me of the Kurt Vonnegut tale--I think it was Slapstick-- where two idiots put their heads together and became the president of the United States. Vonnegut had obviously envisioned the future! Thank God that era is passing, in just a few days. Hooray!


I also had the pleasure of meeting Tricia Gallagher, Creator of Team of Angels http://www.teamofangels.com. What a dynamo! She's currently developing a "Friendship House" for women experiencing depression and that empty-nester aimless feeling. I donated a copy of my award-winning inspirational book, BACK TO THE GARDEN: Getting from Shadow to Joy http://www.artofchange.org/april08 as well as the CD of Selected Chapters to her library for Friendship House, and here's what she had to say about it: "I was driving to Princeton right after our meeting and was so engrossed in listening to the CD that I went to Trenton... I kept thinking of how I wanted each of my kids to listen to it, and my friends too. I have listened to Wayne Dyer and all the big wigs for years and honestly, I got more out of this than anybody else. And then the book... I love every bit of it...the story, the message, the beautiful design, colors, photos, everything..." Thanks, Tricia! She is currently looking for funding for Friendship House, so please contact her if you have suggestions.



A day before my trip my new best friend and I visited my young friends with a Santa load. I have to tell you, even in the most dire years they've had up a Christmas tree--even when they were living in that dumpy little motel room in December 2006. Well, this year, no tree, no gifts wrapped, nothing. This was the day before Christmas. And the two teenage girls with their 3 little boys (pictured here with me are Aunt Kesha with her nephews DeAngelo on my lap, Davon & Davonte) had just been kicked out into their own apartment again--after moving back in with mom and the slew of other relatives living in their little house six months ago. The boys' mother works at Mrs. Winner's. At least she has a job.

Yes, it does take a village...I'm glad to be of the small service that I am to these kids & this little family... It's going to be a long road.... I hope some of the new social programs can help keep families like this on the road to recovery.