Today my niece is flying in from NY. She is what I call a “Princess.” Ashley Melinda Morales (I know, its a BEAUTIFUL name lol), is my 16 year old niece. Being the first niece I’ve ever had, she was spoiled from the moment she was born. I truly fell in love the moment she came into this world. It was at that moment, that I knew what love was. No matter where I lived, and I’ve moved plenty, she was the one person that I spoke to regularly (other than my mother) to ensure that our bond would only grow as time passed. Who would think that as a teenager, she would still seek me to tell her secrets to or would seek me when she needed company? I hear stories of how once children become teens they forget about their parents or aunts and uncles. With Ashley, this does not hold true. Our bond simply grows. As she gets older, I can only hope that I am the type of role model that she needs. I hope that through me, she can find and appreciate the great things life has to offer and that she grows into the amazing woman I know she will be.

I hope that Ashley’s time with me is relaxing and rewarding. She will soon be starting school. I hope to help change some of her outlook on life and help her begin an AMAZING school year!

Ashley’s room is ready. I hope she truly feels like a princess while visiting. Her bed with tons of pillows, her flatscreen TV, dvd player, comfy sofa to read or watch TV from,  her stereo and her stocked refrigerator with water and diet coke are just some of the amenities her cozy room has. I’m sure she will be able to keep entertained, even at the times when I am working. I’ve gotten her a course to teach her how to speak Japanese, which is something she’s been very interested in years. She’s very excited to start. I hope that she truly enjoys it.

Ashley is also going to meet Denise for the very first time. I know sometimes she may feel a little jealous because Denise is so close to me in distance, therefore, can see me more than she does. Hopefully, she will see how a person like me has soo much love to give and that no one could ever replace her.

Pray, Live and Laugh often…Love your life!

I’ve been determined to make some changes in both my business and personal life. This last week we’ve spent some time with like minded people and kind of picked their brain. Great internet marketers like Kris Mainieri, Joey Kissimmee, Jani Ghaffor and Alex Malave. It’s great listening to their ideas and their advice on how to make our day more productive so we can be focused on the tasks we need to accomplish. I’m hoping my husband can find a way to become more focused on one product at a time. I get worried that he over does it sometimes. One must include some “downtime” in their life to be more productive. During your downtime, you may think of better ideas for your project or of a new project all together. Sometimes its great to step aside and just breathe. Too much work and no play makes you wonder how or where life passed you by.

I loved what Alex Malave said he does every 2 weeks. He gets away from his home and goes to see some friends for the weekend. Friends that know nothing about internet marketing and are not even the slightest bit interested. He gets away and leaves all his work at home. This gives him time to just “BE” without the pressure or work even coming up in conversations. This is something that I doubt Omar could do since he’s soooo passionate about what he does. But “MAYBE,” just “MAYBE” I can convince him that going away every 2 weeks to see friends on the west coast of Florida would be something good for both our business and our relationship (not that there is anything wrong with our relationship). But sometimes one just needs a break from the hustle and bustle we call “life.” There he can spend some time with his cousin and I can spend time with either my family or my best friend. Something that I need every now and then.

I’ve named this post “Have No Fear” because I believe that when people commit to making changes, sometimes the fear they have of change may get in the way of accomplishing those goals. Making some positive changes in your life can be scary, but reminding yourself that you should have no fear, may just encourage you to move on and continue until you’ve reached your destination. I’ve started on some minor changes and am moving to bigger and better things. When you try to make too many changes at once you tend to burn yourself out and then you can just get discouraged and give up. I am at a point where giving up is not an option to me. If you want to have different results in your life, you must do different things.

I’ve put all my personal goals to the side to help my husband with his business. It’s been so long since I’ve worked on anything for MY online business that I wish to start creating, that now I am seeing how important it is to me to actually complete it. I’ve figured.. with planning and a schedule, I can accomplish both my tasks for my husband and tasks for myself. My husbands business remains my first priority but I have to have some of me in my daily routine as well. I just have to have NO FEAR and have the faith needed to accomplish it all. I am sure, with due time I will be able to get these things done. Wish me success (not luck, one creates their own).

Pray, Live and Laugh often…Love your life!

Sometimes people need to make some changes in their life. It can be something as simple as some new decor for your home, a change in your diet and exercise or maybe something in your business. I myself feel that this is a time for change in my life, both personal and business. I’ve changed some of the decor in my bedroom, started eliminating some of the unnecessary things I have in my home and today I started my new schedule.

I was in my bed by 1am, which those of you who know me, knows that is EARLY for me. I tried to wake up at 8am but I accidentally hit dismiss instead of snooze on my alarm and woke up at 9:20am. No worries. So far, I am feeling great. I’ve gotten some work done, went jogging with BOTH my dogs (not an easy task) and am working on my daily “To Do” list (and blogging was on that list).  I am also a firm believer that your attitude will also determine if those changes will work FOR you or AGAINST you. What I find is working for me today is the daily “to do” list instead of a “to do” list that has no time frame or dates stamped on it. For a long time, I had a “to do” list that I seem to look at and get discouraged. I looked at some of the tasks as “school work” instead of looking at them as stepping stones to achieve our goals or my dreams. So having a new perspective is really helping me. It’s funny, cause I recall at one point in my life I taught people how to create and achieve goals and here I am, several years later, finding myself trying to get back to that. Where did I lose that? Well, I can only say that I am truly happy to rediscover the true magic of creating goals.

I’m blogging about my changes in hopes that it will also help me continue to want to make these changes work for me. Its kind of like when you tell someone you are going to do something, you find yourself wanting to do it because you’ve spoken it out loud.  So here I am telling my readers about my changes.. now I have to continue my new routine and make it work for me.

The positive attitude is not a problem for me at all. I try to look at everything in a positive light and try not to get stressed out. I know sometimes my husband thinks I take things too lightly while he is the one that worries. I just feel like you should….

“never borrow from the future. If you worry about what may happen tomorrow and it doesn’t happen,  you have worried in vain. Even if it does happen, you have to worry twice.”

(Not sure who wrote that but I found that quote somewhere).  Life is just too short to live it angry or worrying. You should live everyday to the fullest. By all means, I am not trying to say that people should stop working so they can go traveling all over the world. I am just saying that life should be enjoyed. When you have a moment, stop and smell the roses, take a walk at night with your loved ones and savor the moment, take a break from work and use it to either walk over to your spouse and give them a kiss for no reason (for those of you who work from home) or call your spouse so they know you were thinking of them. Maybe buy your wife or husband a rose (the men can get roses too) when you are at the store just so they know they are loved. These things are important in life (well that is my opinion).

You should always remember that you are right where you are suppose to be. God would not put you in a situation that he knew you couldn’t handle. Accept the challenge, think of a plan and work that plan out to overcome the challenge.

Pray, Live and Laugh often…Love your life!

A couple weeks ago I spent 6 days in NY. My best friend, after almost 2 years trying,  is having her first baby. I couldn’t be more thrilled for her. The baby shower that myself, my mother and my sister had worked so hard in planning, was a huge success. We had a blast! Friends whom we hadn’t seen in years came to show their love. Some people didn’t show up, but we had fun and enjoyed the time with those who did. Unfortunately, I did not get to even taste the food as I was going from one place to the other from table to table trying to make sure everyone was being cared for. We had some small setbacks at the last minute, but nothing that we couldn’t overcome.

The following day we enjoyed some poolside fun with family and close friends, on Monday it was pretty much the same thing, until my first attempt to get on a plane and come home to my fabulous husband who could not attend. Why was this an attempt to get home? After rushing to the airport in fear that I would miss my flight, I get there in time. I even had time to check in my bag. Which was nice. Once at the gate, they mentioned that our flight was “delayed.” Ok, I thought, I would had made my flight either way. So I sit down, open my laptop and start killing some time.  Within a couple minutes they start boarding the plane. On my flight home I had a connecting flight to catch, so I was a little concerned. Once on the plane, they made us site there for over an hour. By this time I am wondering if I can get off the plane right now. I would much rather get stuck in NY where I can sleep in a bed and spend a little more time with my mother, then spend time either sleeping in Atlanta’s airport, or having to get a hotel for just a couple hours sleep.

About 10 minutes after that thought crossed my mind, the pilot announces that due to the weather conditions, we were going to be delayed and he was not sure how long, that it could take a couple HOURS!! “WHAT?” I thought. Now I was definitely going to miss my plane. So I call my sister and have her pick me up from the airport. Mind you, I couldn’t get my luggage back, so I was off to spend a day without any clean clothes, only what I was wearing. At least, I went back to moms, had some food waiting for me, and some of my friends who were swimming in the pool. After my frustrations settled down, I thought… I am right where I am suppose to be. If God didn’t want me to be here, then he would have had me on my way home.

Regardless of the attempt to go home, I had a great time visiting. But unfortunately for my loved ones, my trips to NY are very few. NY WAS my home. But living in Florida for several years now makes me dread my visits. I love the people there, but I hate being “there.” Not sure if that made sense to everyone.

Below is a picture of my “Inner Circle” as I like to call it. This is the original group that has been friends for ages. This is also the first picture in YEARS that we have ALL taken together. Usually, someone is always missing from the picture. We made it a point that no one was leaving without us taking a picture. We took several, but this is by far my favorite.

You can see more pictures from my trip to NY here

I finally arrived home a day later than expected and was soo happy to see hubby waiting for me when I got off the plane. It seemed like ages since I had seen him. Regardless of how much fun it is to go away and spend time with my family and friends, there is simply no place like home and nothing better than running home to the person you love.

I’m grateful for my husband and for the life he has been able to provide for us. He is amazing!!!

Well, that’s all I’ve got for today. Sending best wishes to all my readers. Have a great weekend!

Live and love life!!

It’s been over a month since my last post. I am a TOTAL slacker when it comes to my blog. Hmm I wonder why is that? Well, the last few weeks have been extremely busy. My main challenge that I have been experience is my printer.. so I figured I would share it with everyone in this post. I guess my life can’t be bad if the thing that stresses me out most is my printer huh. I have to say that I love the life that my husband has worked so hard to provide for us, where the thing that stresses me is as simple as a printer. Well, back to my printer.. it seems like our wireless printer is always challenging me in some way or another.. one minute it’s the connection between one of my laptops and our printer… hire someone and BAM, it’s fixed. Then, printer is working great for a entire day and BAM, I’m not able to print. Who do I turn to for this huge dilemma of mine? Yup, my brilliant husband. So within just a few moments it is up and running again. Oh how I love him.

A day goes by and BAM, it’s not printing. Is there something wrong with me? I wonder. UGH, this is a test… a test of my patience skills, which I have been trying to master for YEARS!!! Ok so now it’s working again and what happens? Black ink is not printing. Which means that my gmail inbox is piling high with emails that are labeled “print.” Hmmm what to do? “HUBBY!!!!!!” I scream. Hubby comes and “poof” it’s working again. The magical hands of my husband. But then it goes on a spritz, one moment black ink is working and the next it isn’t. So, I finally figured out how I can get it to print without disturbing my very busy husband and BAM, it’s printing. I am a happy camper. My inbox is getting cleared up by printing all the documents I need and archiving them. NICE!!!!!!!!!

“UGH, not again,” I think to myself. The printer has stopped printing because there is no BLUE ink. Umm. “ok, that’s simple,” I think to myself. Just print in black and white. NOTTTT. My printer won’t allow me to print if there is no blue ink.  So, I can either, waste time trying to figure out how to get it working, disturb my very busy husband to figure it out for me, google it, which goes back to wasting my time or just buy more ink… hmmm I’ll just buy more ink in the morning and save everyone time and stress. Hmmm… my printer, we have a love hate kind of relationship.

On a different note, I am super excited. I leave for my trip to NY in a couple days. I’m excited to see some of my friends that I haven’t seen in YEARS! Not to mention my family. I have cousins that I haven’t seen in ages and are now old enough to even drink. There’s going to be tons of fun and lots of laughs. The only person missing is going to be hubby.

I understand though that he is about to re-launch our main product Internet Selling For Newbies.  We’re very excited about this launch and know that it’s going to be HUGE! My husband has work extremely hard to give the best value ever to his customers. I know they will all be pleased. Well, that’s all I got for now, I will be posting pictures from my NY trip when I return.

Live and love life!!

Our Trip to London and Bristol was AMAZING! The sites just driving on the “motorway” as they call it (aka Highway), took my breath away. It was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. I just couldn’t have imagine what that experience would be like.  While in Bristol we met up with some friends and met new ones there. Robert Puddy took all the speakers to dinner at a castle, like a real one. I was officially impressed. But then again, being in another country experiencing all the new things was impressive. The castle was definitely the icing on the cake.  It was a trip that I will tell my children about one day.

I soo look forward now to discovering even more places. Omar and I will hopefully be doing AT LEAST one international trip per year. Ok so he doesn’t exactly know that yet but that is what I want lol. Wishful thinking.  Such an experience should be explored by everyone. Life is way too short not to experience all the greatness out there.

To See more pictures from our trip check out my album on Facebook:
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May was a very exciting month for us. About 2 weeks after we returned from our long London trip we were on a plane again and headed into California, yet another place I had never been to.  Here we went to Frank Kern’s List Control Event and partied with our friends at night and during the day partied via pool side and VIP. That’s just how we get down. lol

To See more pictures from our trip check out my album on Facebook:   
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Mike Filsaime was a fabulous host and it is always great seeing someone who will forever be a part of our life. Well, that’s all I got for now. May everyone enjoy as much as they can in their life.

I finally booked our tickets to London. I am sooo excited! I’ve said it a thousand times… I LOVE traveling (way more than my husband). I figure… do it now while we have no children, cause later on, it will be a little more difficult. Then again, knowing me, I’ll just travel with a babysitter. lol

We are meeting some great friends there. I’ve never traveled internationally so this is a big deal for me.  I can travel once a month if you let me.  I love staying in nice hotels and going to nice restaurants. I especially love when we’re treated like VIP with an entourage of internet marketers. I just love the lifestyle. We’ll be in Europe for 11 days. I am hoping that we can return next year.. hmm maybe for our anniversary it will take us to Paris.  My husband is a smoker so it is harder for him to be on a plane for such a long period of time. So our connecting flights always need to be with plenty of time to go out for a smoke. I can understand, being an ex-smoker.

Anyways, I am going to take soo many pictures. I’ll look like the only tourist and proud of it. Will keep you posted!

Love life and live it to the fullest!

We’ve got plans to have a BBQ next weekend at our office in Orlando. We’re looking forward to spending some time networking and having a workshop with other marketers in and out of the area. One thing I love about this business is the people we meet. We’ve built some great friendships from people in the internet marketing industry. It’s great to know that when we go to London next month that we have friends there.

On the 23rd I get to see my nieces.  I try my best to see them at least once per month, however, sometimes I can’t because work needs my attention.  I hope that one day they’ll move closer so I can see them more often.

On May 1st we plan to be getting on a plane to London. This is extremely exciting for me. I am going to be the only tourist taking tons of pictures of everything. We’re meeting up with a lot of Omar’s online friends. He’s very excited to see them face to face finally.  In January he met his long time online buddy Adeel Chowdry in Las Vegas and I wish I captured the moment with my camera. He was very happy and it made me happy to see him that way. I can only imagine when he meets one of his mentor’s John Thornhill in person. I know he will be thrilled.

I LOVE to travel. If it were up to me I would travel somewhere new every month. However, Omar isn’t as thrilled as I am.  Well, that’s all for now.

“You can have everything you want if you stop wishing and start doing something about the things you were wishing for” —Marshall Sylver

It’s been a busy couple of weeks. Working hard to achieve all that we’ve planned for 2010. I’m hoping that I get to see Bristol in May. However, I am understanding towards our business goals and know that we must prioritize.

I’m reading Getting Things Done and am enjoying it.  I love when I accomplish things on my list. However, the first night, when I started reading the book, it made me lose sleep. All night I was just thinking about things that I’ve been meaning to get done. So now I think I am on the right track, which means I get my sleep now!

I am in the process of trying to learn a new video software so that I can help my husband more with his business and am excited about it.  Organizing my day and updating my calendar are things I actually enjoy. Pretty weird huh?

I had the privilege of speaking to my niece today for a LONG time. I planted a seed in her head to help her get motivated about being self employed. Why is it that children are taught…. do good in school, graduate from college and you’ll get a good job making good money? Why not teach the children how to make money and be self employed? Or how about teaching them on how to hire employees for their business? Why do our schools teach history and yet fail to teach our children how to save money, balance their check books, manage their credit etc.? All these things are what they need to know when they are older.

When I was younger, no one taught me about building credit because it was going to be one of the most important things needed in the world, saving money or how to be a boss of a business I own.  Instead it was always what I have to do to get a good paying J-O-B!! Ugh!!  When and if I have a child, I will teach them how to be self employed!  Well, that’s what’s on my mind today.

Voxflair launch was a success as we have known it would be. We’ve had soo many people taking advantage of what VoxFlair has to offer and hope that the training we provide there is very helpful in every way to their internet business. We know that we will continue to make Voxflair better and stronger so that we can help many people trying to replace their income and working  from home.

I had the privilege to spend time with my two beautiful nieces. Tayla and Briana are quite the characters. We had a blast. It felt so good to see my niece Tayla push herself to achieve the obstacle she had in front of her in a form of a rock wall. At Andretti’s Thrill Park she wanted to climbed that wall and hit that buzzer. On her first try, she got about half way, then yelled, “I can’t do it!” I continued to cheer her on and encourage her saying, “yes you can, you can do it, lift your right leg a little bit there’s a rock there.” But still her fear and her lack of belief got the best of her and she let go of the wall.

When she got down, I pulled her over to me and looked at her in the eyes and told her…. “If you don’t want to do it, that’s fine! But don’t say ‘YOU CAN’T’ do it. You can do ANYTHING you set your mind and heart to do. Believe that you can do it and you will climb that wall and hit that buzzer. But don’t say you can’t do something. Can’t isn’t in my vocabulary.” Then I said.. “but you don’t have to do it if you don’t WANT to”. And as I tried to take the hat off of her she looked into my eyes and asked, “can I climb the wall again?” I said, “sure.”

Tayla hit that buzzer over 5 times. It made me soo happy that although she was saying how much in pain her muscles were in, that she knew that she could accomplish something if only she believed and had that drive. I hope that she continues to challenge herself and push herself to achieve her goals for the rest of her life. I truly hope that what she experienced at Andretti’s Thrill Park on February 20th, 2010 would be something she remembers always. I hope it pops into her mind every time she is trying to accomplish something that seems so out of reach for her.

Briana, a very loving child who wants to see all the beautiful things life has to offer. Briana loves dogs and especially love when they lick her all over her face. Children say the cutest things. Here are a couple of things that Briana has said on her visits to my house…

* When my dog is licking her face, she opens her mouth. I said, “BeeBee close your mouth Juliet is going to lick you in there”. Briana (aka BeeBee) says… “That’s ok, I brushed my teeth.” LOL

*Eating ice cream Briana puts a ton of ice cream in her mouth. I say, “BeeBee don’t put so much ice cream in your mouth you’re gonna get a brain freeze.” She says, “No I’m not, because I’m from Brooklyn, we don’t get brain freezes.” LOL

It means soo much to me that I get to enjoy their company now since they live closer to me than before. It’s nice to hear them telling me that they just “LOVE” coming to my house to see me. I only hope that they would one day understand that the pleasure was all mine.