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March 2009 
Lammas musings on my Heart Path - Your input please.....
Posted on Aug 10th, 2008
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Lynx
Lynx
I'm not sure where to start with this, except to say that your input does not need to be either Wise or Insightful to be helpful to me.
And maybe just writing this here will be a part of the process..
I'm looking at my Path of Heart people, wondering and wandering about Right Livelihood.
A quick bit of background: I work as a bodyworker, using a technique called Body Harmony which is about my only regular-ish source of income right now. I love the work, it has plenty of Heart.
However, it's a slow process building a clientele in an area where those who like to work with this type of technique have little cash, and those with cash are pushing the envelope if they take a sports massage - think manicure and sangria land.
What's more, it's a very transient and seasonal population...
So.. as a single parent who's caring for two not-yet-teen boys around 90% of the time, with no financial input from their father..... we're needing another line of income here (and maybe even not just one...)
On my Heart Path there is also work helping a close and very dear friend set up the spanish arm of a uk charity Youth at Risk .. a process which has it's own rhythm, intimately bound up with spanish bureaucracy (yeah - fun?!). This too can eventually bring income... translating for initial projects (the course will have to come form the uk at the start) and also fund raising.
Not a solution with a quick turnaround... but very much part of my path of heart.
So... (again) this is the part I'm needing some Gaian feedback with... I've been into supergreens for some time, buying organic locally is not always easy.. so I use a product to help replace nutritionally what I might provide for myself direct from the veg box/farmer's market elsewhere. I had been planning to introduce it to the local market on a wider scale, translating promotional material, buying book translation rights etc.. and then I learned that the home company, in Provo, is suffering from integrity withdrawal. As the bard would have said, there is something rotten in the state of Utah.
Okaaaay I said.. (was a bit more drawn out than that really) ... more of an Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy .. sh#@t! ... mm... what now?
I've been offered the opportunity of another superfood product which it's hoped will be opening up a european market soon ... it could be a perfect solution ... the company seems to have integrity at it's core, fair trade growing associates, tithing from profits, a fair compensation plan, but I'm feeling a little burned from previous experience here.
Does anyone out there know anything personal-experience-wise about this company?
And while we're here (if anyone but me actually is here - well, the dog just got up and yawned at me - if he's the voice of the many, I really appreciate that YOU are still reading!) what exactly IS my problem with direct sales? Other than that it's also known as network marketing and (oh nooo) pyramid selling...
I mean, I won't be making lists of the top 100 friends and contacts I never want to see again after I'm done bugging them with my latest 'opportunity'... but there's plenty of judgemental baggage out there in the collective human experience that I would rather not butt up against in my daily round just doing my job.
Does anyone have an input here for me? .... on the upside or the downside?
I realise you folks here are the biggest collective of friends I trust with a question of integrity like this.... and I realise I feel a little wobbly putting the question out here .. it all feels a little bit too ME centred. But I also have this BIG responsability - called raising my kids.
Ok - I'm done, except to say that one of my fave astrologer/psychotherapists has repeatedly said that my chart is that of a wealthy woman who would do well running her own business (those looking for future donations - form an orderly queue, and be prepared to wait!) and that with a hyper-aspected grand trine in Earth signs.. I need to do something involving 'stuff', rather than ideas or other such ephemera.
Hopefully
Lindsay lynx
And maybe just writing this here will be a part of the process..
I'm looking at my Path of Heart people, wondering and wandering about Right Livelihood.
A quick bit of background: I work as a bodyworker, using a technique called Body Harmony which is about my only regular-ish source of income right now. I love the work, it has plenty of Heart.
However, it's a slow process building a clientele in an area where those who like to work with this type of technique have little cash, and those with cash are pushing the envelope if they take a sports massage - think manicure and sangria land.
What's more, it's a very transient and seasonal population...
So.. as a single parent who's caring for two not-yet-teen boys around 90% of the time, with no financial input from their father..... we're needing another line of income here (and maybe even not just one...)
On my Heart Path there is also work helping a close and very dear friend set up the spanish arm of a uk charity Youth at Risk .. a process which has it's own rhythm, intimately bound up with spanish bureaucracy (yeah - fun?!). This too can eventually bring income... translating for initial projects (the course will have to come form the uk at the start) and also fund raising.
Not a solution with a quick turnaround... but very much part of my path of heart.
So... (again) this is the part I'm needing some Gaian feedback with... I've been into supergreens for some time, buying organic locally is not always easy.. so I use a product to help replace nutritionally what I might provide for myself direct from the veg box/farmer's market elsewhere. I had been planning to introduce it to the local market on a wider scale, translating promotional material, buying book translation rights etc.. and then I learned that the home company, in Provo, is suffering from integrity withdrawal. As the bard would have said, there is something rotten in the state of Utah.
Okaaaay I said.. (was a bit more drawn out than that really) ... more of an Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy .. sh#@t! ... mm... what now?
I've been offered the opportunity of another superfood product which it's hoped will be opening up a european market soon ... it could be a perfect solution ... the company seems to have integrity at it's core, fair trade growing associates, tithing from profits, a fair compensation plan, but I'm feeling a little burned from previous experience here.
Does anyone out there know anything personal-experience-wise about this company?
And while we're here (if anyone but me actually is here - well, the dog just got up and yawned at me - if he's the voice of the many, I really appreciate that YOU are still reading!) what exactly IS my problem with direct sales? Other than that it's also known as network marketing and (oh nooo) pyramid selling...
I mean, I won't be making lists of the top 100 friends and contacts I never want to see again after I'm done bugging them with my latest 'opportunity'... but there's plenty of judgemental baggage out there in the collective human experience that I would rather not butt up against in my daily round just doing my job.
Does anyone have an input here for me? .... on the upside or the downside?
I realise you folks here are the biggest collective of friends I trust with a question of integrity like this.... and I realise I feel a little wobbly putting the question out here .. it all feels a little bit too ME centred. But I also have this BIG responsability - called raising my kids.
Ok - I'm done, except to say that one of my fave astrologer/psychotherapists has repeatedly said that my chart is that of a wealthy woman who would do well running her own business (those looking for future donations - form an orderly queue, and be prepared to wait!) and that with a hyper-aspected grand trine in Earth signs.. I need to do something involving 'stuff', rather than ideas or other such ephemera.
Hopefully
Lindsay lynx
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Lindsay, i gotta say that imo, network marketing is bollocks….it requires serious energy and money to make it work and the folk above you on the pyramid (it's all pyramid selling under any other name) tend to have collared the market……I've done network marketing with herbal diet plans and with antioxidant stuff and both were enterprises sacrificed on the altar of St Judes…..
Also, respectfully, why does such an intelligent and insightful woman such as yourself need to go see an astrologer/psychotherapist (performative contradiction that title imo) to be told what she is able to do?????…no matter how “true” astrology is or isn't, I reckon somebody with your integrity can get out there and make life work for you without asking other folk or this allegedly intelligent Kosmos to deliver it all in your lap…..
Look at your strengths…I know you can readily grasp and internalise truths…articulate them clearly…multitask…..parent compassionately….ask for support (this here is giving it to you, not criticising you as such)…..translate well….green-finger crops……write……
You go ahead do the things you want to do every second time you want to invest energy in asking others for suggestions…..then record the results, examine after ten days, factorise the results and write your own ticket…..
Don't mean to be trite here Lindsay….honest….this is the most constructive support I can give ye…and I'd love to read a record of those ten days if you follow my advice and offer constructive comment.
love and blessings, Jon xx
Well Jon just hit me outta da ballpark!
If you read my recent blog you'll see how effortless it has been to move into my 'given' profession. It's because I acknowledged [finally!] my innate gifts and skills and decided to optimise them. I looked for the things I would love the market to have and thought “Who best to bring them?” It's been working out great!
The balls, oops, language, is what is needed to bring that thing you do best out to the market. It sounds as if you really don't have the desire to corner the market, just do your thing and live real well… just like me! And that's what bringing quality is all about. It's not mass market, it's just people-focussed.
I think that you know what would work, what would help in your space. And if it looks like if nobody else is ever gonna do it, then just go for it yourself. 'Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid! Goethe'
There will be no guarantees until you take off. And if you have the slightest doubt about following another's lead - such as this other company - you may as well not invest anything much until your mind is cleared on it. I frankly have difficulty buying in to any existing players that fit the profit motive presently. But this is just me… I'm very much the deviant. However, it's working for me now.
So think on this and don't hesitate to link with me separately in case I can help brainstorm your ideas for a bit. As long as I have time I will help you.
Peace and love to you, friend.
Sherri
I will never live up to the wise and insightful cutoff point…. “Comment” is challenge enough.
Sorry. I digress.
I came here only only to offer my deep bows to she who had the courage and wisdom to ask the question, and those who responded in love and wisdom. Tears are on my face, I am so honored to meet you, to learn from you. We are soooo in this all together.
Thanks for the input guys … lots to hone my ideas with here! Got an early start today so will get back to you later…. x L
Ditto what Jon said. Yes, you write you own ticket. Get your vision, your own vision of who it will work - not what someone else will tell you will work. Fill you heart with it, with great joy, believing it and it should work. Taste it as if it is already before you.
XOX
John
your children will love and respect you for what you are giving them now, have faith in yourself and go for it. in agreement wth Jons take on this. Frame your thoughts positively, accept then reframe any negatives you feel. I take my hat off to you, it is not easy in the present economic climate for two parents, and having been a single parent for a while when mine were teenagers I can empathise
You beautiful people thankyou for your input here… it's 33 degrees right now (92) at 11pm, was 45 this afternoon (bout 115) and I still dont like air-conditioning.. so my brain power is langorous, please bear with me! My first response got melted already.. so here's a synopsis..
Jon - as ever, thanks for your straightup honesty. Truth is, I don't often ask for an opinion..but right now I've got a can't-see-the-wood-for-the-number-of-trees thing going on (there are more details than the above) … and experience tells me that advice is only taken when it resonates with me. So somehow I figured that asking for advice here was going to show me what I was really resonating with.. hope that makes sense and feels ok to you (as having been asked). I'm not entirely sure what you're suggesting.. is it to take every second bit of advice as the path to act on, and act on my own intuiton on the first? … can you clarify? Sounds like fun.. though as I said I don't ask for that much advice, so maybe 10 days won't give much material.
With the network stuff, I'd be at the top of the Pirámide Español.. so it would make some sense, IF I wanted to be there. My historic network marketing experience has been much like your own.
(And the astrologer is a psychotherapist I've done quite a lot of work with over the years.. also had a couple of straight up astro readings.. very interesting.. the above was a snippet at the end, there was never a specific motive for consulting other than general overview and interest).
Sherri - thanks for the offer of brainstorming. I'd love to take you up on that if our time/space synchs. I'll be in the UK for about 10 days from this weekend, and am focussed on being with ma boys enjoying the summer till then.. I'll check in with you later. (And Holland in October? Was looking at one of Sandra's Diving Deeper workshops in Amsterdam in Nov.. would you still be there if Malaga didn't work out?)
Willow - thanks for dropping by and sharing your response. It's been quite a process having shared my wonderings here.. WAY more public than I'm accustomed to, though amongst people I trust.
I was really surprised by feeling deeply pained with myself last night…physically. It was a sense of having spent SOOOO long standing to one side of my own centre, and of levels of not acknowledging my own innate and perfect wisdom where I know deeply and assuredly exactly what my own next step is (what need more?)…
It was such a clear physical response to having posted this here.. and a huge gift…
Deep bows and thanks to all for this!
John - thankyou for the Love and support from over at the Porch there. The task is to bring the vision into this expanding heart thing I've got happening…. Yes!!!
Zephyr - your compassion and understanding are worth so much! And your constant reflection of how that Oneness ripples endlessly outward… so much love. Thankyou, accept and reframe any negative - yes. I feel you just nudging me on with what is happening in my life right now.
Overcome with you all taking the time to respond to my ramblings and giving it ra ra's for how you see it
Re- son- ating !!!!!!!
Much love and thanks
Lindsay x
I've been away from here for some time but your posts have obviously been resonating with my current position so much that I was moved to check my Gaia account. You appear to have received plenty of good advice. All I can offer is that which you already know, listen to you body. What is it that you truly feel, your gut feelings, go with them. Having said that we all need and deserve help and support from others. Asking for advice is a giant step in finding your path. I am more than happy to offer any support that I can. I am in the process of re-framing my face to face therapeutic work so that I can work from a distance over the Internet and the telephone. I'm still in the early days of developing a network. My children are all grown up so no worries there I just need to make a living in this beautiful mountain village as I have no pension to speak of.
So call me whenever you would like to unload, in the mean time accept my blessings, you are a brave and courageous person.
Hugs Felipe