From Ning to ZNG
Posted on Jul 20th, 2008
by 
Mother Mary
Mother Mary
Okay, kids, so if ya won't click over to check out my 45 day challenge at Ning, I guess I'll just have to bring it here to you...Here's the excerpt from my brand new blog there that made me t hink of y'all.
Hold the drum roll...
45-Day challenge here I come, but first I need to deal with and settle this monkey business first. I've tried "once and for all" many times with "it" when I am about to step onto an accelerated growth path, and the monkey always comes back, distracting me, trying ts best to steer me off course...It tells me silly things, why, it even lies and disguises them as truths.
This monkey business has got to cease so I can get out from under this bushel and let my light shine, shine shine! I've discovered a secret for dealing with the ego, I mean, monkey and the monkey-mind-syndrome----give it bananas. Why, give it and all its friends bananas too! So here ya go, monkey, have at the bananas, not me, and leave me to my challenge, thank you very much!
My challenge is to create, manage and promote 2 additional streams of income that will allow for me to eventually be successfully self-employed alongside my husband doing work that I love and feel passionate about. Within this goal are many objectives which I will flesh out later). I will strengthen the development and promotion of 2 family businesses:
Business #1: Through Laughter Yoga, as certified LY leaders, my husband, Keith and I help bring more health, joy and peace to the world through laughter. We've been offering free LY sessions in our community for more than a year and the paid gigs are just beginning to come our way. It is my intention to take LY more into the corporate world and plan to do just that. I am in the negotiation stage of our first corporate gig as I write! We will always offer free LY as community service through our monthly Laughter Yoga Social Club, which is one of over 5,000 in more than 60 countries around the globe. We need to build our own LY website through .mac and market up a storm!
Business #2: As descendants of 2 relatively well known artists (Theresa Bernstein and William Meyerowitz), my husband and I are aspiring curators of some of their works. We have a small collection that we'd like to share with the world and sell to lovers of art. We've invested in a website that we are preparing to launch but due to our busy schedules & lack of website building skills, we've not made huge progress. Perhaps by the end of this challenge, the website will be launched. This is the project the monkey messes with most, can't ya tell?
The woman behind the mask is just me and all my complexity as a human being. Now this human being is also a human doing, so please wish me well as I do the do-be, be-do dance! And join me anytime...Thanks.
Ho ho, ha ha ha,
Mary
This monkey business has got to cease so I can get out from under this bushel and let my light shine, shine shine! I've discovered a secret for dealing with the ego, I mean, monkey and the monkey-mind-syndrome----give it bananas. Why, give it and all its friends bananas too! So here ya go, monkey, have at the bananas, not me, and leave me to my challenge, thank you very much!
My challenge is to create, manage and promote 2 additional streams of income that will allow for me to eventually be successfully self-employed alongside my husband doing work that I love and feel passionate about. Within this goal are many objectives which I will flesh out later). I will strengthen the development and promotion of 2 family businesses:
Business #1: Through Laughter Yoga, as certified LY leaders, my husband, Keith and I help bring more health, joy and peace to the world through laughter. We've been offering free LY sessions in our community for more than a year and the paid gigs are just beginning to come our way. It is my intention to take LY more into the corporate world and plan to do just that. I am in the negotiation stage of our first corporate gig as I write! We will always offer free LY as community service through our monthly Laughter Yoga Social Club, which is one of over 5,000 in more than 60 countries around the globe. We need to build our own LY website through .mac and market up a storm!
Business #2: As descendants of 2 relatively well known artists (Theresa Bernstein and William Meyerowitz), my husband and I are aspiring curators of some of their works. We have a small collection that we'd like to share with the world and sell to lovers of art. We've invested in a website that we are preparing to launch but due to our busy schedules & lack of website building skills, we've not made huge progress. Perhaps by the end of this challenge, the website will be launched. This is the project the monkey messes with most, can't ya tell?
The woman behind the mask is just me and all my complexity as a human being. Now this human being is also a human doing, so please wish me well as I do the do-be, be-do dance! And join me anytime...Thanks.
Ho ho, ha ha ha,
Mary
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45 day challenge
September 2008 
awesome! you go girl!
I wish you success in achieving your goals. If you put your thoughts into action, you should be able to realize both goals. I love the way you've silenced the monkey mind (which so often creates obstacles) by feeding it bananas. (Great images!!!)
thank you for offering this and adding to the richness of possibilities in life.
have you search for our friend M. at Ning?