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Welcome to the 11th issue of "Your Guide to the Life You Love!" You are receiving this newsletter because you signed up for it or the companion Ebook, 101 Simple Ways to Kick the Depression Habit & Get Happier without Prozac. Every time someone new logs on, I'm sending a sincere blessing your way. Experiments involving water by Masuru Emoto demonstrate that when a droplet of water is blessed it creates a beautiful crystalline shape--and when it is exposed to heavy metal music or even negative words (like the name Adolph Hitler) it gets pretty ugly. Don't take my word for it--Google it! In the past I didn't believe in the power of blessings, but the more I study about energy and its impact, whether present or remote, the more I believe. And that's why I'm sending all of my readers a blessing today. Learn how real people have overcome real challenges, emotional, mental, spiritual and sometimes physical, in this newsletter. Thanks for being here--you are appreciated--and you are blessed! *** Make Connections More Easily For 15 years I was one of fewer than ten women worldwide who taught the Dale Carnegie Sales Course--what an excellent training in honor, technique and intentionality -and I won numerous awards for outstanding instruction, as the plaques on my wall attest. Now I'm offering some of those tools and techniques in an upcoming Webinar--how to stop selling and just let people buy--especially for those who would rather persuade than sell--this may be for you. And it's a great refresher on what works in marketing as well. The Webinar is a taped & edited 20 minute presentation I did for Creative Entrepreneurs Network at (believe it or not) a hip little watering hole called The Flying Saucer, followed by 15 minutes of live Q&A--Read On. INFLUENCE MADE EASY: Making Connections that Sell! ElifeMagazine.net Webinar Thurs June 28, 2007 8pm EST (New York time) Here's how you register: http://elifemagazine.net/webinars.htm If you've ever almost gagged at the notion that you might have to actually sell something, sell yourself, or get the courage to ask for what you want to achieve some of your goals in life-- this action packed Webinar may be for YOU! How many times have you thought that your product or service should "sell itself" because you know how great it is, and you truly believe in it, and yet you find yourself in the doldrums with no cash flow? How many times have you seen someone whose product or service isn't nearly as good as yours soar past you into the land of success while you stand by the side of the road and wonder what happened? Have you ever wondered what it is that gives some people the edge in connecting with others--which seems to lead to more stability in life, more business, more money flowing in their direction? What are those slight shifts that YOU can learn and incorporate easily into your own presentation style, even if you've never had the slightest bit of sales training and don't even like the idea of selling? THE SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL INFLUENCE ARE EASY in this Dynamic Webinar on Thursday, June 28, 2007. Enjoy a 20 minute Video Presentation with Creative Entrepreneurs Network followed by 15 minute LIVE Q&A with Patrice Dickey, "Your Guide to the Life You Love!" THE SECRETS OF INFLUENCE IN A NUTSHELLHere's what you'll get when you sign up for my ELifeMagazine.net Webinar, "Influence Made Easy: Making Connections that Sell!" on Thursday 6/28/07 at 8pm EST-- Learn more now at http://elifemagazine.net/webinars.htm This fast-paced 20-minute Webinar gives you action tools to present and sell your ideas with confidence and power. You'll learn to get greater buy-in from co-workers, teammates, department heads, clients, new sales prospects and more. Following the actual 20 minute video of a live presentation to Creative Entrepreneurs Network, you can interact with Patrice Dickey in a real time 15-minute Q&A session about the ideas to stop selling and just let people buy! Benefits to You: Take the stress off yourself by employing techniques of effective persuasion and influence. You will learn: *How to see clearly from the other person's point of view
Register now: http://elifemagazine.net/webinars.htm Keep in mind this is a 20 minute talk and does not go into the depth of the 50 hour, world-renowned sales training class that I taught for 15 years! It's an overview with take-home pay. Here's what others have said about Influence Made Easy: Making Connections that Sell! "Thank you Patrice--Great workshop! Full of reminders and fresh techniques. Avoiding the 'interrogator' stigma is especially difficult for me, since the more information I can accrue, the more ideas result." David Deal, graphic designer "Patrice Dickey is just the type of speaker we always strive to have for our Atlanta eWomen Network events.... interesting and energetic while providing valuable information in a short amount of time. The comments after the event showed that the tips she shared in Influence Made Easy were of value to our members." Vanessa Lowry, owner of Profits in Progress "Just wanted to take a moment and tell you how much I enjoyed the seminar you presented for us at NAMAR. I've been in a doldrums (burnout) phase and it always helps to hear someone with fresh perspective and great enthusiasm. I'm looking forward to reading your book "Back to the Garden." Keep up the good work; you are terrific!" Linda Wantland, Peggy Slappey Properties Inc. For more information and to register, please visit http://elifemagazine.net/webinars.htm
Feature Article is an Excerpt from BACK TO THE GARDEN: Getting from Shadow to JoyIn Honor of My Father for Fathers DayIndependence Day Sixty-one ago on July 4, 1946, my father was honorably discharged from military service in the United States Army Air Corps. The mere notion of his being that young and my being as old as I am seems so unreal that I count it on my fingers like a child learning abacus speed math. How could all that time have passed since he was a young strapping handsome Irishman? And now I, Daughter Number Two, join him on a holiday weekend in Buffalo, New York, to help him clear out some of the impediments of his life and fortify a safer path through the Vortex--his office. Although his second wife swept through most of the house like a white tornado, this was the place she feared to tread in case of stepping on his feelings (or some other booby trap) and never being sighted again. She was the irresistible force, but he was the immovable object, and resist he did. And so they parted ways and his daughters swooped in to deal with the perilous possibility of his falling, wedged among high stacks of papers, a daunting VHS tape collection, old Christmas cards, scrapbooks, cartons of trophies, half-strung suspenders, piles of folded towels and billows of dust, and not being able to get up. Chakra Deficit--or Excess Dear old thing, he can't help it. Being a packrat stems from a very basic insecurity about one's place in the world--a deficit at the very root of one's existence, in the first and second chakras, which relate to survival and creativity. Many people who experienced childhood during the Great Depression retain that packrat mentality long after they've become financially secure and successful, because they don't feel fully grounded; they don't feel quite secure. Therefore they gird themselves with stuff to anchor themselves to the ground. (Anodea Judith's Eastern Body, Western Mind offers many constructive exercises for balancing all the chakras, whether one experiences deficits or excesses in any of them). He grew up in the Depression. And then he had to deal with my mother. How he survived the emotional abuse and psychic carnage of that so-called life with my mother over those years I'll never know, but he did manage to rise above and carve out a life of service for himself which was, and is, truly admirable. Ho! Ho! Ho! Through the Wards Recently he trained to deliver communion to shut-ins for his church, where he serves as a deacon. Deacon Dickey, I tease him. This is a man whose arthritis leaves him barely able to walk! For years he donned his goofy Santa Claus suit and "Ho! Ho! Ho'd!" through hospital wards to cheer up sick and injured children. He also sponsored Youth Hockey games for mentally retarded children and got involved with fundraisers of every kind for the Shriners, Kiwanis, and the Masons. For decades he uplifted himself and others while singing a strong baritone with the Buffalo Philharmonic chorus and Shrine Chanters. Like everyone, he has his issues, but he's certainly one who gives back. What a great example for me, and all of us! Walter Mitty, Steady at the Helm In his Walter Mitty-esque way, he always dreamed of fantastic escapes, and yet stayed steady at the rudder of our family's tossed ship during my mother's downhill slide into alcoholism and eighteen years of paralysis. Without complaint he put two daughters through college, supported his own elderly mother for decades and his father in a nursing home, and paid hundreds of thousands for my mother's care out of his own pocket, well above and beyond what insurance covered. Although not flashy heroism, isn't that the definition of a modern-day hero--one who quietly and calmly does his perceived duty, trudging through each day without saying, "Look at me--aren't I great?" A mere wink of the eye ago my father was the best looking young man in his home town of Cambridge Springs in northwestern Pennsylvania--an idyll in the road. Bless you, Dad.
The above article is a sample of the kinds of information and stories you'll read in the book and hear on the new Audio Book version --Selected Chapters from award-winning BACK TO THE GARDEN: Getting from Shadow to Joy. Visit my website at www.patricedickey.com to order the CD Audiobook for only $12.95 (plus S&H) and book discounted online to $14.95--or a combination of the CD and book for only $24.95! (Georgia residents will be taxed 7%). The combined order regular price is almost $30 - for a discount on a collector's book and inspirational CD. Here's what others have said about this life-changing book (and audiobook):
A fascinating internal journey of a woman determined to go her own way,
taking readers along as intimate companions while traveling from
misadventure to disaster to illumination. In Back to the Garden,
Patrice Dickey faces her life with naked frankness and learns from
her (many) mistakes to find a way to the light.
You have certainly led a most remarkable life. It is quite clear that
through your work you hare having a most positive impact in changing
the lives of others.
Back to the Garden. . . is a highly readable mix of personal memoir and
advice based on her work as a workshop leader and personal coach.
--Cliff Bostock, Ph.D.
Back to the Garden is a unique and compelling read that is worthy of
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create the lives we love.
You have created a brave and beautiful thing here. I truly admire your
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The Haunted Bed--YIKES!!
Your book inspired me to take some bold steps myself, to move beyond my
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Your wonderful book touched me at the time when I needed it the most. It
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having a conversation with the author by an open fire on a winter's
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Get the Life You Love OUTSIDE THE PERIMETER Fire Up Your Group-Hire me to Speak!Testimonial from my workshop for Community Bankers Assn of Georgia "Influence Made Easy: Making Connections that Sell" "The workshop was excellent--the most important ideas were that people are either moving toward pleasure or moving away from pain; that they buy based on emotion but justify with logic." Webinar Thursday June 28, 8pm EST (New York time) - click the link! "Influence Made Easy: Making Connections that Sell." For more information and to register, please visit http://elifemagazine.net/webinars.htm Cool Mind CandyIf you have a moment, or want to take a moment to refresh yourself, visit http://www.holysplashoftimemovie.com to be reminded that all we have is this very precious NOW--let's make the most of it. Thanks for sharing this Rita--y'all, please feel free to send me your Mind Candy to share! Join My Celebration!Writer's Digest recently notified me that my book BACK TO THE GARDEN: Getting from Shadow to Joy was chosen as an Honorable Mention in the Inspirational category of the 14th Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards, so I'm offering an Internet special! Visit www.PatriceDickey.com and the book is yours for only $14.95 plus shipping and tax where applicable. The cover letter said, "Competition was particularly fierce this year so (the) accomplishment is truly impressive."--I'll toast that! Here's what Judge #39 said about BACK TO THE GARDEN. "This really is a delightful book, full of pithy, wise, fun, real, honest, short selections, each to the point and with a message one can carry away to ponder. Written by a woman who has obviously Been There, the book shares, directs, reflects wisdom and understanding at every possible turn--and quite painlessly. The writing is witty, accessible, easy and enjoyable to read, chatty or conversational, on universal subjects, what we will all encounter as we lead full lives. Dickey offers effective ideas, new fresh perspectives, techniques or tools to deal with these everyday problems or situations... The subject titles are fresh and catchy; and the interior design and cover are attractive. I like this book." I'm also honored to mention that the book has previously won Inspirational, Spiritual, Aging, Death & Dying, and 1st Place Nonfiction awards from the IPPYs 2006, Best Books 2006 (two categories) and Atlanta Writers Club, respectively. |
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If you find this Ezine refreshing, please pass it along to your friends and colleagues. Much appreciated! Your Guide to the Life You Love™ Patrice Dickey is a coach, motivational speaker and author of the internationally award-winning book Back to the Garden: Getting from Shadow to Joy. Learn more at www.artofchange.org. If you'd like to submit some Cool Mind Candy for consideration, please email me at pdcom@mindspring.com Thanks! 6/14/07 Copyright © Patrice Dickey 2007. All rights reserved. PERMISSION TO REPRINT: You may reprint any items from "Your Guide to the Life You Love(TM)" in your print or electronic newsletter. But please include the following paragraph: Reprinted from "Your Guide to the Life You Love(TM)" a complimentary Ezine featuring tools & tips, perspective shifts to help enrich your life, expand your horizons and experience Your Personal Definition of success—always including cool mind candy with that hopeful flavor. To subscribe, please visit www.artofchange.org and, if you like, download the Ebook "101 Simple Ways to Kick the Depression Habit and Get Happier Without Prozac." PRIVACY STATEMENT: Your Guide to the Life You Love(TM) will never distribute your address to anyone—honest! ***
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