Totke Remedies: Keeping

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

What’s Keeping You Down?

A lot is written at this time of the year reminding you to be grateful for what you have and thanking God or your Creator for your blessings. Yes, it is good and important to be grateful and set aside one day per year to express that gratefulness but what about the rest of the year? Most people miss the vast difference between being grateful and living a life in gratitude.

The definition of grateful is having or showing the desire or reason to thank somebody for something. For example, at Thanksgiving families express gratefulness for the past year and look forward to the year ahead. The definition of gratitude is a feeling within of being thankful, appreciating and acknowledging all there is in your life and in your surroundings no matter how poor or opulent.

When you feel like you are settling for second best or always pursuing “stuff” you are experiencing a non-gratitude attitude which can result in a feeling of overwhelm, unhappiness and great discouragement – or all three. The chains of “always wanting more,” “self-doubt” and “second guessing oneself” are paralyzing. A gratitude attitude breaks those chains, frees and empowers you.

Identify Toxic Thinking

A Feng Shui lifestyle is more than just the location of your home or office and the placement of your belongings. A Feng Shui lifestyle also includes balance in your thinking, emotional well-being and a gratitude attitude. Out of this balance emerges the future you wish to create.

If you are constantly wanting and seduced by unending materialism, too much television, the mystique of endless hours on social media, food cravings and eating, the latest electronic gadgets or non-stop sports, there is little or no room for a peace-filled non-wanting balanced life that comes from a gratitude attitude.

Tear Down the Walls of Seduction

Where do the walls of seduction lie in your life? What areas seduce you into thinking “if you only had more,” “if they only treated me better,” “if my family was in contact more,” if only my home was bigger or in a better neighborhood,” “if only I could lose weight” or “if only I had more money”? This type of negative thinking creates blockages in your life and prevents you from finding joy, being at peace within, and living happily in the moment.

Key areas of seduction that cause such blockages include:

• Home – too small, wrong neighborhood, outdated decor
• Personal appearance and image – too heavy, too thin, not tan enough, not enough clothes
• Family and children – never call, take advantage of, unequal relationships
• Hobbies – too few, too many, too time-consuming
• Money – too little, poor investments
• Career – too few promotions, too little prestige, too demanding, not challenging enough
• Friends – too few, too many, unequal relationships
• Social media and technology – always in contact but never connected

Isn’t it time for you to tear down the seduction walls that chain you down and prevent you from having a gratitude-filled joyful life?

Unchain Your Future

Create a new thought loop. The easiest way to unchain your future and experience a lifestyle filled with gratitude, joy, freedom and to create a better tomorrow is to stop limiting yourself to your internal negative thinking. Get rid of that constant negative loop that says “I can’t,” “nothing goes my way,” “it’s someone else’s fault,” “I don’t know if I made the right decision,” or “what if tomorrow is worse?”

Replace those negative thoughts with gratitude thinking such as “I will take responsibility for the way I feel, the choices I make, the job that I have, my relationships and my time; and am grateful for what I have.” You can also use the first few lines of the Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr.

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Choose to awaken each day with a grateful heart. A gratitude attitude permeates the heart and soul and is a way of life. Use your senses to find gratitude in every waking millisecond.

• see beauty and abundance in your surroundings and within
• hear the joy of birds in the country, a dog in your yard or bustling city sounds
• taste the food on your table, a snowflake falling or the salt spray of the ocean
• smell the fragrance of a newborn, fresh laundry, newly blossomed flowers or baked goods
• feel joy where ever it appears, a birthday cake, leftover meatloaf, the hug of a friend whether virtual or in person

A life lived in gratitude is empowering and will shout joyfully in appreciation for all that is good in the world which makes room for all the blessings yet to come.

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Monday, May 20, 2013

***Reading Tarot as a Business—Record Keeping for the Sensitive Entrepreneur

This is the fourth in a series of articles designed to be a handbook on what is required to be the entrepreneurial psychic, the sole practitioner who owns his/her own successful psychic business.

So now our psychic businessperson has her (or his) skill level perfected, and has done market research by listening to the people she is serving well. She has framed an ad describing what she really does best from the clients' point of view. She is answering her phone and doing her sessions with the end in mind of staying in business by honestly delivering to the client what the client has come to her for. She is successfully avoiding clients she cannot serve in this manner. This is a so-far solid beginning.

Basic record-keeping things required for success as a sole practitioner in a service business are:

*A toll-free telephone number,
preferably one that is catchy, easy to remember. It can spell your name or your company name or even a word; it can have repeating numbers in a pattern. Calls come to me from people who called only once ten years ago because my phone number spells my company name, which describes me; and the caller, when asked 'What brings you back after all these years?' says 'I remembered the phone number.'

*A record-keeping system: The Day-book
Buy one of those full-sized 4-person appointment books with the time listed down the sides. In these columns you will write the name of the person you have served; the telephone number they called from (even if it is a hotel); the amount you billed along with the elapsed time if that is applicable; how they paid (and when if that is a different day). This book is your complete record for all the business of each day.

On the bottom of that page, or on a separate loose page you leave in the book (or ideally on the opposite page of an eight-person appointment book, which is more expensive), write each of the phone numbers that called you for each telephone line you have (even crank callers and wrong numbers), when they called, and who called. Ideally, also write each number YOU called, who that was, and when you called it. Some of those entries also appear elsewhere in that day-book, if the person had a session.

So your entry for a client who did business would look like this:

Esmeralda Pascua........408-000-0000.......7:15-7:45, 30 $100.........Approval #__(4-5-10)

You will put your telephone records somewhere near, or attached to, this book. You will bless yourself for this when someone disputes a credit card charge: As a telephone merchant, you have to document your transaction in detail in order not to be cheated out of income. Some banks are unreasonable.

When you 'settle' or 'batch out' your trans-machine, attach each of the printouts the machine does, to the day it is for. Now you can prove you charged what was appropriate, all on one neat record.

*Record-keeping system: The Customer-card
And buy some paper and some lined 5x8 index cards. Write the customer's name, address, telephone number, etc. and credit card information (or however-they-pay-you information), their email address, etc., on the paper. Turn the index card printed-lines out, blank side in. Scotch tape these two together at the top. Now you have a customer card with the name on the front to alphabetize, and the financial information conveniently on the flip side. Inside, you attach the customer's copy of the trans-machine tickets, overlapping one another showing the amounts.

This is all the record-keeping you need do. Psychic businesspeople often do not keep records, which will sooner or later be a problem. This system allows the businessperson to photocopy the customer card and the page of the day in question for proof the client DID call you, and how long you were on the telephone with him/her. This system also allows the entrepreneur to deliver to a tax accountant orderly records if, as is true of most Tarot readers and psychics, she is a stranger in the land of math.