Category Archives: Change and Personal Empowerment

The Voting Is Over But It’s Not Over Yet!

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Dear family, friends, and supporters:

Thank you for all that you have done in Phase I, the voting stage, which is now over.  We made a valiant effort together and the fact that I got 5,297 votes (because of you) within only  8 days cheers my heart. I woke up this morning happy that I had taken the chance on my dreams and that each of you supported me.  Your faith in me has made me a winner already.  Thank you for all the votes and the wonderful comments you left on the Oprah website.

During the next week the Oprah producers will scour over the auditions and select 35 additional folks to join the top five on-line vote-getters. “Energy flows where attention goes,” so let’s not lose any momentum now .  We must start Phase II immediately. This is the phase where you pray and visualize me getting my OWN show. Please know that I will get my own show, no doubt about it.  It will either be on the OWN network or some other. But make no mistake,  I WILL have my own show in 2011 because I BELIEVE it and I can  already SEE it.  Remember, “Seeing isn’t believing, believing is seeing.” So pray for me and visualize me on my own show, especially over the next week, while they are selecting the final cast members.

Will you commit to praying for me every day this week? And, don’t stop then, keep me in your prayers over the next few months,  pray that God’s Will be manifested in my life.  I believe America needs a show that showcases, ‘The Best of Us’ and if it is truly God’s Will, IF this door closes, surely another will open.  Thank you, thank you, thank you, again!  I love you all!!

Barbara

3 Graces on the Path of Service Audio

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Part 1 (Click on arrow to listen)

Part 2

My OWN Show Audition

Vote for Me to Have a Show on the Oprah Winfrey Network

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The 3rd Grace: Helpful Committed People

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There are now only 3 days left in the competition since it ends July 3rd.  My caretaker duties have usurped much of my time and I haven’t been able to do much that I’ve wanted to do to get people to vote for me.  But, I’ve always believed that if you do the right thing,  the right thing comes to you.  That brings me to my third grace, wonderful committed friends.

I think it was Mary Crowley of Home Interiors who once said something to the effect that she’d trade any number of ‘interested people’ for just one committed person.  That’s my third grace.  I have a lots of friends that were interested in my success, but I had a few family members and a few friends that were committed.  Thank you Betty, Linda, April,  Teisha, Gile, Gille, Michelle, Larry, Shawn, Brian, and Radiance.  And a huge debt of gratitude to Roya, Maxine, Tony, Kedicja, and Clif.   Let me explain the difference.  My committed friends were willing to stand out in front of the metro and hand out voting instructions.  They were willing to go door to door, to stay up late calling and emailing friends and voting for me.  They are willing to consult with, encourage, and go the journey with me.  I could scarcely believe how much they loved me and wanted my success.  They gave me the strength to keep pushing even as the top vote getter’s votes soared over 9 million.  What was so beautiful about that is that one lady had not even met me and called me daily for flyers to pass out at the metro.  It doesn’t get much better than that.  Grace is being loved and supported and I have that!  The competition isn’t even over yet and I feel like I’m the big winner because of my wonderful supportive friends and family.

So this month, my newsletter is sparse, with just one article.  July will be a whopper sharing the outcome of the competition as well as the lessons learned from the endeavor.  Meanwhile, would you check out my video, vote for me, and tell your friends.  I’m still holding on to the dream.  You can vote many times.  Thanks in advance.  In conclusion, I’ve learned that we can get anything we want in life if we just help enough other people get what they want.  Thank you

Grace #2: Reunited with an Old Client

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I am now officially a part of the sandwich generation.  The prediction that we would one day be taking care of children and our parents at the same time is becoming a reality for me and many others.  I’ve had my step mom for the last 2 ½ months to help her recuperate from a heart attack, dialysis, and a blood clot.  This week while trying to focus on the last 5 days of the challenge, one of her feet began to swell.  I dropped everything and have spent the last two days running from doctors to labs etc.  I was starting to feel like my dream was slipping away from me because I couldn’t find the time to get on the computer or phone to let folks know I was in a competition.  Even now in writing this, I had to stop to take her to her dialysis appointment and then come back and finish it.  But there are hidden graces in service.

On the way out of one doctor’s office, I recognized a lady that looked familiar to me. I mentioned that to her and she said she thought that I too looked familiar.  After exchanging names, we realized that I had worked for her agency over fifteen years ago.  I told her that I had been trying to find out who to contact after the people I’d worked for had either retired or gone on to new agencies.  She told me that she was the person I would need to speak to.  I felt so blessed and guided for I had been trying to get back into this agency for years.

LESSON: “When the most important is before you, you must learn to let go of the important.” Now that more and more people are finding themselves taking care of elderly parents, we’re going to have to make even more sacrifices.  But when things get overwhelmed I remember that quote.  It was clear to me what or who was most important.  And, as a reward, without any expectations, I found grace on the path of service.

Part 7B: Success And Money Are Spiritual Matters (Biblical References)

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Ask for The Wisdom and Knowledge to Serve Better and You Will Receive Riches

Continued from Part 1: Success and Money http://wp.me/ppImQ-rV

Napoleon Hill in his ‘Philosophy of Success” mentions the importance of consciously:

  1. Choosing what we want,
  2. Asking for it specifically,
  3. Promising what service we will do in exchange for our dreams,
  4. Reciting the goal and the promise we’ve made at least  a dozen times a day and,
  5. Always praying after the recitation of the request and the promise for wisdom and understanding .

In  fact he states that the secrets of his success was that he prayed (not for riches), but instead for more wisdom and knowledge to use the gifts and talents that he had been given at birth.  I know this to be truth because I found confirmation of his very prayer in the King James Bible.  We are admonished to ask, believe, and we will receive, but the following verse describes specifically what we are  to ask for.

Chronicle 2 in the King James Bible shares a story of Solomon.  “1:10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?

1:11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king: 1:12 Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.”

Wealth and Riches Are Gifts, Appreciate Them!

I’d personally like to add a #6 to the list above and that is to be grateful, for we know that it is a grateful heart that attracts blessings to us, and not a fearful, desperate, angry, entitled, arrogant, hateful, or ungrateful heart.

Many people are reluctant to set monetary goals for fear of sacrificing an even greater eternal life.  But in the King James Bible 1Timonthy verse 6:10, it clearly states that it is the love of money, not the money that is the problem.   “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”   The key here is to desire service first and the money will come and to not “err from the faith.”  But Ecclesiastes 5:19, states, “Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.” I think it is important to understand that we are free to use our riches in whatever way we choose, but also have the responsibility to only take our portion.  That implies sharing the rest with others.

To continue to Part 8- Mid-Year Checkup, click here  http://wp.me/ppImQ-sv