Hello Everyone,
I'm pleased to be able to join this community... I signed up for the Simpleology course on Thursday, August 11; I've been doing it every day (except for Sunday, which was my day of rest!)
and for me it has been very timely. I've read other posts here saying they have done several lessons in one day. For me, the pleasure and the value of doing the course will come in doing it daily, one lesson at a time.
I have been "working" on the Internet since mid-2001, but I have very little to show for it. Oh, I have had many subtle and not-so-subtle learning experiences! But the money that I have been dreaming of has not materialized. In fact, I've LOST more money than I have earned (that is, until very recently). I know that's a common experience, which is probably one of the reasons that MJ created the course.
I am also a veteran of many psychological/spiritual courses, teachings, workshops, etc., going back at least 35 years! I've been a seeker all my adult life. At age 53, it's frustrating to still be swimming (apt metaphor, as I'm a Pisces) around in the sea of beginnings when I supposedly have so much learning under my belt. I have discovered myself over the years to be (at various times and sometimes all at once!) either a victim of my brain chemistry, an Indigo child, depressed, an adult woman with ADD, a MENSA candidate, an exceptional A-student, a high school dropout, a philosopher, a mother, a tutor, and an endless variety of similarly paradoxical states of being! What I HAVEN'T been is very much of a DOer!! Unlike probably the majority of people, at least in our culture, I have had no trouble just BEING. Simply being and appreciating the world around me has been my source of well-being. The problems come when I fall short of either my or other's DOING expectations.
I am fortunate now to be one-half of a very loving couple, and both of us are engaged in a very loving and active New Thought community. We feel like we are finally on a good path, surrounded by supportive people, and have lots of opportunities to contribute creatively and be of service. "Many hands make light work" has become a real theme in my life, instead of always feeling that I am struggling through on my own, in my own little self-created world of despair.
This brings me back to the value of Simpleology, for me. I did everything asked of us on the first day, even got my little binder organized and put up my reminders (laminated!). I have been faithfully reading, watching, and performing the exercises each day. I know now, at this point in my life, that the value is not in my faithfulness to this particular course, but in my faithfulness to MYSELF and my faithfulness to the work needed to create new habits and ways of being. I just want to acknowledge MJ and this course as being a wonderful SIMPLE GUIDE for people like me, something that I know will have a tremendous impact on my habits and perspectives. It is "hand-holding" in the highest sense. It’s something that people like me have yearned for. I've taken numerous classes in building good habits, purchased numerous "systems" and books, and I have never followed through on a single one. The SIMPLICITY and EASE of this course is deceptive.... I've only done four lessons and already I feel the power of it. Taking it in tiny little chunks, on a daily basis, even though I could easily absorb the whole course in one sitting, is like practicing meditation: the value of it becomes apparent over time as one keeps doing it, not necessarily in each moment.
I now know that I am READY and ABLE to earn the kind of money that I know is possible--I am already self-employed as a copyeditor and committed to being my own boss. I am working on projects with people who I respect and enjoy (for the first time ever!). And I am also committed to finding multiple sources of residual income that will elevate my income to the stratospheric degree I envision! Toward that end, I just want to talk briefly about a business I've FINALLY discovered that has begun to do that for me.
This is my first post to this community, so I hope that this is not seen as too greedy. The business I've been enjoying has a closely moderated Forum, and I was pleased to read Mark's statements on how this Forum is moderated. Here, we are able to advertise "appropriately" and I hope my signature here is appropriate. That business forbids advertising or personal contact of any kind, and I understand why THEY have to do what THEY do. I'd just like to say that it is a reliable, honest, thriving and PAYING business, and paying in a BIG way. It is something so incredibly simple that absolutely anyone can do it. And it is the FIRST (but hopefully not the only) online business endeavour that has brought a JOB-REPLACEMENT level of income to me. Me, someone who has almost never completed a project of any kind, ever. (Well, I DID have two successful pregnancies and births, and I now have two daughters who are very accomplished young women, on their own, earning and learning, going on to grad school..... I am so unabashedly proud of them--and proud of me for raising them--that I've even named my little company after them. Their names are Wendy and Erin, so my company is Wenderin Enterprises. That name, to me, represents the very best parts of myself!)
So that's my story. I tend to be an active Forum participant, in general.... at least in phases (I tend to take hiatuses)... so I look forward to reading more here and getting to know more of you as time goes on.
Regards,
Barbara
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