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Three weeks ago I said I would catch up on the chaos that has been my life the last few months… This will should finally catch everyone up.
In February I decided to write 100 articles in 8 weeks…56 days. And on April 8th finished, 100 in 50 days! COOL!! I am stepping up my writing even more now!
This is a huge step to me… and you will notice I do love the combination of MJ Schrader Author… Of the currently 148 live articles 86 have been published elsewhere.
I visited my grandparents as stated in the last post, and finally found the words to explain why family is so important to me, although blood does not make a family to me. Especially after spending time with boyfriend’s family. One of them in the midst of the chaos of first communion, brunch and family togetherness asked… “Are you thinking our family is crazy yet?” “No, you are family, it’s just … perfect.”
But the biggest thing that happened in April was all the self discoveries. The realizing why family means so much to me. I care about my brother, sister in law and parents, but not about the ones who only care about me because we are blood, a family means more than that. Family is love.
But that wasn’t the only thing I realized. And some very wonderful friends of mine are about to hear an earful…
The first three will laugh over the use of their icons here. First is Allison Smith Haley of AllicatCo. Then Bonnie Cranmer, she’s green (environmental) and business website oriented. Next is Kelly Maria Clark, a life coach and a fitness pole dance instructor. Martha Giffen is a motivator and encourages internet beginners.
My j.o.b.s. have greatly under paid me. Actually Allison’s website was a game changer for me. As sad as it is to say, I have gotten used to being under paid. Not only does it not benefit me, it also has people undervalue my skills. Yet considering the almost regular calls I get for hunting a problem on WordPress, I must have quite a skill set.
Each one of these fine ladies encouraged me to realize that I have a great deal of skills in the WordPress and How To arena. It made me realize I could and should offer my WordPress lessons as a paid course. The benefits of this upcoming course are OUTSTANDING. Because in the end, people in the course are learning what it took me years to learn. And instead of one course there will be two!
They are yet unnamed, because one course will teach Website Basics and WordPress site creation, like WordPress 101. The second I guess would be a WordPress 102, because it will take someone who has some knowledge and teach them how to create the site, and have additional lessons 101 (or whatever it will be called) does not have.
Both courses will have at least 52 lessons. Yes it seems like an overwhelming number, but this is a lesson per week. The lessons are big enough for you to grow and small enough not to overwhelm. There also will be freebies and specials thrown in.
So if you have opinions on course names… please tell me. Price opinions?
~MJ
By the way my birthday is Saturday! If you want to get me an Amazon card I’d love it 
*hey a girl can dream
In 2008 after attending Unseminar 5, I realized jobs and I were not friends, in fact we were in fact not even on friendly terms. If anything, we have a mutual hatred of each other. (As long as it’s mutual right?) And that it was actually possible to make a living online. But I had promised my clients I would work one more season.
One More Season
Tax season started early in November because our company offered a “pre-season” loan that reduces the refund, by giving clients money now. This early loan bothered me ethically, the interest rate was legal, yet the fees associated with it made it reprehensible. Plus unfortunately this mostly preys on the uneducated and we are “encouraged” to push them to get the loan if they sit at our desk.
Starting in November threw me off schedule for the things I needed to have done before Christmas and on my business. But throwing me worse was that twice I had the boss visit me at my desk to publicly yell at me. During this last season she yelled at me at least a dozen times. Yes, yell, raise her voice and yell at me. No, I am not deaf.
Every tax season, since I started at the new office, I would get laryngitis for almost a week. This year was different, I got it in November, in January, and in late February. 3 TIMES. One co-worker was getting her associates degree online when we were slow, my co-workers on crafts that they would later sell. Yet my writing a book was strictly prohibited. When clients came in, my crafty co-workers were given a moment to get things off their desk, I was not. And in the end I got the least pay that I had received in years.
With the laryngitis and other oddities, it was like being given a big “have you finally had enough?” kind of warning.
Roadblocks
So as soon as tax season ended, my credit card got hit with a HUGE fee for an annual subscription that I didn’t know I had. The company refused to refund my money, because I had “agreed” to the subscription. The credit card company refused to work with me. And now I have a subscription to service that has ebooks and articles written by non-English speaking writers. Mistakes are common.
Salem, my now 10 year old cat was attacked by another cat. It’s happened before, he normally needs a few days to recoup, but he started getting worse not better. The vet prescribed antibiotics, and said he’d might need surgery and come back next week. Next week resulted in the same issuance, so 6 weeks after the first visit he finally had surgery and a final week of antibiotics. 
Just in time for Luna to cut her paw open…
Having not been much of one for being sick (except for the annual laryngitis and a bit of flu then), I was shocked to get the flu in the middle of the summer. Every time I tried to make big progress with one of my businesses I got sick. Blocks appearing to get me discouraged and whenever I wanted to make progress. So it was a bummer… but
Progress was made!
July 20th, I hosted a 12 hour web Ustream marathon. Interviewing different people on how to conquer fear. The book I started writing in 2008 was put on a shelf until I could make money. Yet I produced an ebook and two videos. I created 3 new websites during 2009 that have been my new hub, my business and personal blog (which you are reading). My personality has changed to a stronger and more positive.
While there are some who say I am negative, a lot of my posts here must reflect my own stories of abuse because I cannot tell someone else’s story, nor can I tell what has been disclosed to me personally. Plus if I only include the positive how can I hope to help people find the positive from negative situations, or to realize that they deserve better than abusive situations. Too often we only qualify physical abuse when there are other forms of abuse. In addition sometimes what others view as negative is statement of facts for me.
That’s my story… and I’m stickin’ to it.
So please comment with what have been your roadblocks?
MJ
There are some elements which are very necessary for your online business success.
Do you have a mentor?
For years I wanted to create a business online, I started working online 7 years ago. My income was minor, but it was there. At the end of each year I had enough money to pay for Christmas. This was not exactly the business success I envisioned.
Then 2008 I wanted more, my income increased but not enough. Finally in July of 2009 I decided to finally get a mentor. My business started growing, I learned little things to help my business succeed, while my blog makes money now. If you are curious about my mentor visit Pat’s Coaching.
How does a mentor help?
Having a mentor has meant someone who stirs me into action. He guides me along the path, without forcing me or the situation from school “it’s my way or else.” Business is not like that, there is not one correct answer. However there are times when we need assistance and direction. A mentor also helps give advice when you are stuck.
Is it worth a monthly fee?
Well, as a friend would say, “it’s worth testing.” If you decide you want to try a paid coaching program commit yourself to three months of training. You don’t have to pay them for three months, you may quickly find you and the mentor are not compatible. However if you like them, then commit to 3 months. It takes time before your business will see any success, so quitting too quickly could shut you short.
What is the last important factor?
Yes, a mentor can help you. Yet, only if you make a commitment to work, to aim for success and go for it. So like mentioned previously and will be mentioned again YOUR SUCCESS DEPENDS ON YOU!
A month ago I took off “suddenly.” The thing to know about me, is I never actually do anything suddenly. Having been alone for most of my life I plan things out with great detail in my head, so when I act it looks very sudden.
The visit was months of discussion, months of persuasion and me resisting. Actually I had planned to go since April, but things didn’t work. Yet this new factor was both a temptation and a reason to resist. One resistance was budget in nature, but I will explain that later.
On July 3rd a classmate came to town from Las Cruces for a family wedding. A third classmate joined us, and we went out to eat around the corner from her hotel. Soon we were joined by her husband. He had already eaten so he stayed for a drink and left, then her brother showed up, a friend on facebook.
The 5 of us soon went out to a club, her brother and I danced the night away at the Mambo Club. We laughed and acted like we were a couple (see the image above). So the next week, I asked my classmate about him. She didn’t say much, but a few weeks later she said to talk to him.
The conversations were few, but comfortable. Often with him encouraging me to visit his sister and him in New Mexico. Finally in November, my resistance broke, and I am glad it did. Yes, it was nice to get away from home. But truth is I had a lot of fun, and all we did was hang out, like a first date (that lasted 2 days) Well, I guess it was… and soon we will try a 4 day second date.
Unfortunately for him, I have dated more than a few jerks, so he’s got a mountain to climb. Which really isn’t fair to him; but, something tells me he’s up to the task. 
Course this is going to be a bit weird if he reads my posts… although he’ll probably laugh.
Now drifting back to the first resistance and the related. Part of the disillusionment with taxes and bookkeeping is the pay has not gone up while the bosses have gotten progressively meaner. In my 20s I shopped for designer labels on sale, although I could buy them full price. My savings was nice.
In my 30s after a bad business deal, the business partner made off nice . Followed by a period when no one would hire me, my savings disappeared, debts appeared, in droves. A few years of work helped, but when I was laid off in April, I decided to quit in July (long story). It was time to follow a 30+ year dream of being a writer, but the starving artist is NOT part of the dream.
I want to able to pay bills, even better to buy things again, without worry. But after New Mexico, my urge and urgency has grown. My debts need to be paid off, the sooner the better.
So what’s the plan o’ action? First are goals, $1500 to raise before the end of the year, $5000 by February 1st. That will be great forward progress.
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Sell my Wendi Friesen and Joe Vitale stuff on eBay to raise money ASAP (see if there is more stuff I can sell) http://bit.ly/6oBTJQ
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Promote my products more on http://RockstarGuideBooks.com,
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Produce new products.
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Find JV partners.
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Write articles.
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Do more graphics. I do graphics for fun but it’s a little bit of income.
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Offer ghost writing
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Make the ex-boyfriend pay his debt to me.
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Believe.
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BELIEVE. (worth repeating)
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Make it so… (Star Trek: TNG)
So if you need to learn something in particular, have ideas to raise some funds, ideas of what I can sell, please leave some comments. If you know (or even better are) a potential JV partner, please leave a comment.
MJ Schrader
This was my task. A simple one. One that multiple people had asked me about. It’s a simple process that I had already done, before, for myself and for others, this time they wanted it recorded. So my task was…
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“Record how to get a product on E-Junkie.”
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Ok, this should have been very easy. But there was something that literally and figuratively blocked me. I had internet interruptions that literally halted video, watching “Loading, Loading, Loading…” Two takes were interupted by Lilo. One time, she was mewing a lot, the second she tried to jump into my lap… and semi-missed. The claws went straight through the jeans and the scream and threat to kill the cat didn’t seem quite appropriate.
Then there were takes when I couldn’t talk, (on this vebite???) couldn’t type, couldn’t get to the right program. Perfectionism got in the way a couple times. Then some days I was too frustrated to film, and finally decided when it was 1am that it was too late.
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Was I not comfortable with doing videos?
Was it lack of right equipment?
Was it that I didn’t want to work?
Was it a dry spell? |
No, because I shot 4 during the Ejunkie chronicles. There is a “Rockstar Starter Guide to Autoresponders” available for sale as of November 6th. The sales page is ARVideo.RockstarGuideBooks.com For Halloween wallpaper I created How to change wallpaper. Then the popular MJ is dressing up for Halloween as with a Video is at the bottom To explain what I do I created a video for my friends on T61 Radio so we could easily explain the basics to newbies.
So that’s why I am a bit out of sorts over the EJunkie video. It took over 25+ takes, probably closer to 40. There were 10 in the two days before the final take, and that was 2 weeks of attempts. Fortunately I found a way to unlock the Edit feature on the Camtasia version I have. After that was unlocked I learned how to zoom, add boxes, arrows and some other stuff. Perhaps I should leave that as the point?
Honestly, I don’t know. Hope the block is gone. Hope it’s happy to leave me alone. BUT I WANT EVERYONE TO RECOMMEND THIS VIDEO!!! PLEASE BUY THIS VIDEO!!! It’s only $14.95 and it would make me feel TONS better about it. The sales page will go up on Friday. It will be $14.95 there, even if you join the affiliate program this price is still cheaper.
PLEASE BUY THIS NOW
$14.95 for the E-Junkie Video that took 25+ takes
Seriously, please buy it. It’s not a lot of money and it would really help me. Between my budget getting tighter and tighter and let’s just say the video still caused me nightmares in uploading, downloading, putting it online, streaming it…
But what is the lesson you ask? “You always share a lesson with us readers.”
Fall down 9 times get up 10.
Ok, a bit too fortune cookie. But what do you expect, I shot one video over 25 times?? OK! FINE! Lesson 1: The video isn’t perfect, but a perfect product never reaches the market because you are always working on it to make it perfect.
| Lesson 2: It took over 25+ takes, it cost me time, a big bruise on my ego, but I didn’t die. (Unless I am dead and typing blog posts? Potential side effect from Plants vs Zombies?) But the point is… the video finally got done, I learned and can move past it. I didn’t die, so what difference are a few bruises? It’s not going to be the first nor the last. |
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Lesson 3: Sometimes you have to change pace, change your focus, change your mind. You have a block. So what? Is that the only thing you can work on right now?? Clean house, play a mindless game, watch a movie, go for a walk come back to it later with a clearer head and fresh perspective.
Lesson 4: The attempts didn’t work. You still put forth effort, find a way to reward yourself. Give yourself a half hour to read a book, play games whatever. Set a big reward for when the project is done. Movie night, a day off, several games of Mario Kart Racing. Those may be my rewards, but you get the point. Now for the final lesson.
LESSON 5: This is the most important lesson of all. Fall down 9 times get up 10. The fortune cookie was right. Sorry, but it’s true. You only fail when you give up; try again, change your project, refocus, but always get up again. AND THEN YOU HAVE WON.
Besides you can point and laugh at me and say, “it took you how many takes???”
Share with me some of your thoughts. *buy the video* Add some comments below *buy the video* Look for the sales page Friday *buy the video* and last but most important pay attention *buy the video* to the subliminal text in this paragraph.
Live ♥ Laugh ♥ Love
♥ MJ ♥
May 24
Someone who has already burnt you asks you to work with them, because the person is “working directly with X and Y” who are 2 big name internet marketers you want to learn from, you are promised that you will be taught secrets and you will get information soon.
June
The person is back home, you think. But when you contact the person they say they went back but are now traveling, and they will get you information soon. The person needs “WordPress work” but will not give any details on what is needed. Repeat in July.
September 4
You have asked repeatedly about above work, and you are on final stages of writing a book about “How to Set Up WordPress.” Suddenly the person contacts you. The person wants you to join a coaching program. The person asks you to join said program, you say, “No, I don’t have the money.” You repeat, you also explain “last chance, burn me this time WE ARE NOT FRIENDS.” The person tells you if you do some work, that person will pay you enough to cover it. The work is setting up a couple wordpress sites per month and adding “some stuff” but that’s the only information you get.
September 11
Your WordPress guide is finished. (Ok, a week later you add another chapter, but still.) You are proud. Said person asks for a copy. Will review it, tell people, tell you if you made any editing mistakes. Your gut says no, but what could be the worst that happens?
September 27
The person does a class on WordPress. You see it on Twitter & Facebook. Your real friends knowing you gave the person a copy, start asking “are you in on this?”
October 8
You send an email asking “what about the work you had for me?” You get an angry email saying that you never did anything, so you won’t get paid. And the person had to go out and learn how to do wordpress and “doesn’t need you anymore.” Something you’ve been told by bigger and better, but it hurts like h*ll.
Funny since you sent the person a how-to-book. Now you have a course to pay for that you joined ONLY BECAUSE the person insisted and because you were going to break even. Money is extremely tight.
October midnight 8 into 9
You wind up crying, and feeling absolutely nauseous. And make a comment on Twitter and find out there are real friends in the world.
Salem finally had his surgery Friday!
For those who don’t know, my 9 (10 on Halloween) year old black cat was attacked by a stray. He came home scratched up; I thought, but after a few days; it was clear, he needed veterinary assistance. The vet shaved him, cleaned him and in addition to some wounds elsewhere, there were LITERALLY CHUNKS OF FLESH missing from his back!
Dr. Claude Waters gave me a bottle of antibiotics and ointment, with a “come-back-next-week.” So every day, twice a day, I had to pin my poor cat down, shove a dropper full of antibiotics down his throat, and put ointment into his wounds. Note: Yes, into. No, I don’t have a strong stomach.
We came back the next week and got a repeat. The third visit he went to a stronger antibiotic, with another “come-back-next-week.” This antibiotic is also stronger smelling, and Salem really hates it. The fourth visit he said “come back in 2 weeks and hopefully we can stitch him up.”
Friday, 6 weeks after being attacked by a stray, Salem had his surgery. I have counted 9 stitches. My stomach is apparently stronger than it was 5 weeks ago because the stitches don’t phase me.
Here’s a picture of my “poodle” now If he knew about blogs, he’d kill me.
That’s 5 weeks of antibiotics and ointment, 4 office visits, one surgery with anesthesia.
After the third week I was in a panic over expenses. Plus the Unseminar 7 tickets are for sale, and I want to go. So in anguish and dread I told a forum and my Mastermind group, I need money. The forum said look around your house, there’s got to be something for you to sell.
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This is a note for everyone: Finding Product isn’t hard
If you have been online for a bit, you have ebooks with Master Resale Rights, and Private Label Rights. Master resale rights or MRR means you can resell them. Private label rights or PLR can be sold as is, changed, re-worded whatever to sell and add money in your pocket. Typically both of these come with the sales page. Even if you don’t have some, it’s easy enough to type in MRR or PLR and your niche and get ebooks.
In my case, the Mastermind group recommended selling the interviews from the “Vanquishing Your Demons” marathon. This is my niche, helping people make their inner rockstar shine. So this fits. But it would be easy for me to panic, which is something we all do at various times.
You see I have 12 hours of interviews, plus there are at least 3 more in the works. getting all of these transcribed is quite a bit of money and time. The thing is, who said I had to sell the complete package right away?
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Break it down!
So I broke it down. One interview released each week, that will give the transcriber time for transcribing, me time for copy writing, and after a couple sales I will have money to pay for the next transcription.
T hus the release of the interviews are going in order of creation. The 10am call with Twenty Twenty is now available here. It’s $24.95, there is a lot of great information there, and it includes the transcription.
The whole set will be available when I get them all transcribed, plus some great bonuses that aren’t ready yet. People will really want the set when they learn who I will be interviewing in the near future. Of course the set would sell for a discount over buying each individual call.
But then someone who bought the individual calls would feel overcharged. Plus, I need money now, and I certainly can’t charge the complete price, so the answer was simple. Charge $100 for the set this first week and each week with the new interview the price goes up by $10.
So I wrote a simple sales letter, and offered the whole set for $100, and the buyer will get each call as soon as it’s ready.
Thus a budget painful thing like Salem’s surgery and wanting tickets to Unseminar becomes a catalyst to produce ways to make money.
MJ Schrader
@LoveRockstar
P.S. To help build my business here’s a contest: If you want a chance to win Twenty’s interview. On Twitter recommend @mr2020 & include this link http://bit.ly/ygeuH If you have at least five Tweets with the link & recommending him, you will be entered into the drawing. On Friday I will pick someone to get it free!
PPS If you want the set for free: I am part of Niche Club by Eric Farewell, if you join Niche Club through my link, I will give you the complete set for free. You need to email me with your receipt.
The marathon, two weeks ago was about “Vanquishing Your Demons.” And it took a lot from me, the 12 hours, and some other demons I had to face. Like quitting my job, taking a leap of faith to become what I must … someone who helps people make their inner rockstar shine.
Too many people live in fear, because they expect failure, expect someone to condemn or blame them for whatever comes, failure or success. Too many do not like themselves, too many people hate themselves. How do I know?
From 1994 to 1997, I disliked myself. From 1997 until 2004, I hated myself, hated my reflection, hated essentially everything that was me. With a “failed marriage” and a miscarriage in part due to I had all but stopped eating until the day I realized I was pregnant, I blamed myself. I absorbed all the negative comments people would freely hand out.
The jobs I took reflected my mindset. Employers who called me stupid, made me into the scapegoat for higher ups, letting clients scream at me for things the boss did. Blamed for stealing money when I wasn’t getting paid my wages. Then using my credit cards to pay for bills, because I was told I wouldn’t get the several thousand owed if I left and was warned “your dog is alone when you’re at work.”
“Friends” recommended guys to date. The results: the one with stalker tendencies, the one who shoved me into a wall at a club, the one who sexually assaulted. Fortunately they showed their colors early. Then there were the seemingly nice guys, the one who wanted to be the father of my children, while he got engaged to another, the ones who were only dating me as a diversion between one girlfriend and the next.
I could blame my friends for setting me up. I could blame the guys for being jerks, idiots and all the other terms… but the truth is… IT WAS MY FAULT.
The jobs I accepted, the marriage failing, the men, even the “friends” who weren’t there when I needed them WERE ALL MY FAULT. Now this comes from someone who was blamed for everything for a number of years and believed it. But there’s a difference in taking this blame.
There was a choice.
When my ex-husband said that my family and friends didn’t care about me, I should have said yes they do. When he and his dad ignored me, I could have said, when you ask me a question, listen to the answer or leave. The bosses blaming me, I could have said, “I was not here when the problem occurred” or “You over promised the client” or “You said you could do it, when you can’t explain to me what the client needs”- “YOU tell the client or I will. I will not have the client attack me for you.”
What is the worse thing that would happen? My marriage would end? Oh wait, that happened anyway. I would quit or get fired. Oh wait, that happened.
What about the men you dated?
Honestly, the stalker, I knew after the first date, but I went out twice more. The guy that shoved me into a wall, my “friends” were headed to Dallas, and I didn’t want to go. “He’s safe & he’ll take you home,” they said. The men that just dated me as a diversion, I was so desperate to go out, I went out with them, even knowing that they weren’t interested in a long term relationship, just hoping they would change their mind. Even the last, I should have ended it two years before, when he moved.
It’s my fault my business has not gotten started before now. Then again, I needed to grow. That long road helped me realize what I must do. When I first wanted to start a business making money was. my only goal.
Let’s be honest, no longer employed means need to make money. But I am here to blaze a path. To guide people away from what I went through, or help shorten the journey through hell.
Yes, Hell.
When you can scream in the mirror “I HATE YOU” and you do not believe you deserve anything thing but hate, then that is hell. That hell is why I NEED to help people.
As someone who’s always been guarded about my private life. Remember the “Well your dog is home alone” above and the ability of bosses, “friends” and others to turn my private life against me.
The biggest phobia was not the 12 interviews, the web-show, the 12 hours, any of that; those were minor. The biggest fear is that now it’s time to be public about my past. But that just it… my past. And that past is why I am here.
But here I am. Better, stronger, happier, and I LOVE ME! And I LOVE YOU!
Are you ready?
The trail blazing begins…
~ MJ LoveRockstar
Follow me on Twitter @LoveRockstar
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Some try to tell me,
Thoughts they cannot defend,
Just what you want to be,
You will be in the end
~~ Nights in White Satin ~~ Moody Blues
Some try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend:
Sunday, went to my old church. I’ve attended a few times recently after several years absence. This Sunday they ask about my past job. They want me to be church bookkeeper. “We’ll have to work on her.” Well, I am no longer a bookkeeper, nor a tax preparer. The priest tells me about the newer computer they have. I don’t do bookkeeping, not for fees especially not for free.
This is followed shortly by “So what do you do now?” I am a consultant and writer. “What do you write about?” or “What kind of consulting?” Starting some Mastermind groups, helping people find the love within and build their business. They look at me like I am crazy. If I answer the writing question, I get a similar look.
My accounting degree was because “you’re good with math” and “you have to get a degree so you can get a job.” I didn’t believe in jobs at 7, yet a job pays bills was the logic. Accounting is not math. Employers didn’t like ideas that were creative. Men that called me pretty, didn’t like that I was smart. Is it that strange that my fingernails are long, I like paintball, SciFi, cartoons, roses, and being treated like a lady? But I pretended to be assimilated.
This has been my problem for many years. For 5 years I have wanted to build a business online, yet the offline world looks at me like I am crazy. Twitter and Facebook are helping me build an online circle that helps me know that I can succeed with what my heart desires. My seemingly random tastes are not that uncommon. Besides which I learned how to break out of the mold & swallowed the red pill. I know the truth.
Just what you want to be, You will be in the end
So while they look at me strange, it pushes me farther into the truth. For over 30 years I have complied with what the majority wanted and expected of me. People called me shy as a kid, when I was introspective. Yet, I believed their label for years. I assimilated. Problem is I am not a Borg. Yes, I am a geek by referring to Matrix and Star Trek, still not a Borg.
I am the one and only me. A geek teaching people how to love themselves. Labels are confining but I like geek. In that thought a joke came up, Love Rockstar, it sounds contradictory and makes me smile. I like it. I wrote a flaming letter to my church. Because I will be me, not a shy little bookkeeper, but the Love Rockstar with varied crazy tastes and not afraid to share hugs.
Love
~~MJ
Love Rockstar
Last week I wrote an emotional blog. To all those who left comments. Thank you. Those both touched me, and helped me realize I am on the right path. Yet, even as I was asking forgiveness for not having done anything, I am still trying to forgive myself. 12 years later, and have not forgiven myself for having lost my only child… Also for the 5 or so years I’ve tried to build a business online, and haven’t yet. Change does not happen over night, no matter how much we want.
A caterpillar is a butterfly in waiting. Thus is life. Thus it is with you, with me, and with everyone in the world.
This week my focus changed. Well, has and hasn’t. After years, I resolved to make it without a j.o.b. when the tax season ended April 15th. (No income since then) Yet 2 days ago, I saw an ex-co-worker, tax training starts in July. A horrible wake-up call. A COLD HARD deadline, just one month away. Goal was to make money before training starts.
The desire to RUN AND DO is almost overwhelming, but when I run like that, I do it blind, and make a big mess. So I created a review site this week. Http://info-wizards.com/tattoo. Then started writing articles for another site. But this is still scrambling, un-focused, so I silence myself, and attend a mastermind (Thank you Kim Burney).
Define your goal, your need: Ok. To tell the tax office I will not be training, I need $1000 a month, and will need to grow even more before October. But I need time to study with Bill Hibbler & Ann Collins, finish a book, attend masterminds, help others, visit Montana, and attend seminars.
Define your niche: Repeatedly said here, that all I ever wanted was to write. It’s not really true, helping people has always been first. That’s why I started telling my history. Others have survived worse, but, maybe, just maybe someone will be helped by what I say.
And people keep asking “What do you do?“ Author isn’t me. Writer isn’t either. “Helping YOU Find the Love Within” feels like me.
Then my heart opens wide when I think about leading some Mastermind groups. In talking to my group, it’s part of what I need right now, to learn more about others and myself. Soon I hope to have a couple Mastermind groups, including one about “Finding the love within.”
So are you ready to join my mastermind groups? Seriously I am looking, contact me if interested. Yet it stirs my heart, leaves me with time to finish my book “Find the love within” (working title) and start on the next. Somewhere in the course of the week, I decided to embrace a joke. I now own http://LoveRockstar.com No, I haven’t decided what to do with it yet.
Love,
MJ
NEXT WEEK…
At my church “Some try to tell me, Thoughts they cannot defend,”
But as for me “Just what you want to be, You will be in the end.” ~ Nights in White Satin, Moody Blues
