I had the very good fortune recently to be introduced to one of California’s foremost stone sculptors, Patricia Bengston.

I’m particularly pleased to have met her because she’s a shining example of a Daring Dreamer – someone who doesn’t take Normal for one minute, who bucks the odds to live her Deepest Dreams – not because of any rebellion, necessarily, but because it’s simply who she is and what she does.

I hope by seeing this example of someone who really lives her passion will help you live yours, too. Don’t let the of the numbing, everyday trance that surrounds us that says, “get a job, be norrrrmaallll…” overtake you!

I was really taken with her work. I love the raw, mythical quality of it, and how she allows the stone to be stone, rather than trying to make something pretty-pretty out of it. It’s stone: heavy; plain; figured; textural; translucent; eternal; even humorous.

I love how her forms give you an inkling of a story, but not much more than will tickle your own frames of reference and put you on the beginning of a path to create your own stories from the images.

Below is one of the pieces I loved the most. Although these are all maritime themed, not all of Bengston’s works are. See more here: InternationalAssociationofWomenSculptors.com.

Here’s what she has to say on her site: PBengtson.com

“As a seeker of knowledge, with ten years of landscape and (color) field painting in 1972, I returned to finished my education, to find answers in my search of the ‘unknown’.

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Every few months last year I was invited to deliver a teleclass for GlobalTeleclass.com. I’m grateful that I was invited again for this February – here are the details for not just my teleclass next week, but all the others available to you for zero cost.

On GlobalTeleclass.com you can get a fantastic array of FREEbie teleclasses by the very top Health, Personal Development and Sales & Marketing leaders.

If you want a boost in your business, a way to create better health for yourself or someone in your family or circle of friends, or want to find out how to increase your confidence and self-esteem, here’s where to find the best of the best: GlobalTeleclass.com

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Kate Beeders, Business Success Coach, uses MTT/EFT and LOA tools to get her clients out of the mud and into success. Listen in as she tells us about the hell-trip she transformed into “I can do anything I want!”

Kate shares with us what she does to increase her success; a couple of new business tips; and how the revelation “that I really could change my thoughts” has completely changed her life.

You’ll be inspired to hear how she left “safe corporate America” to live the life she chose, and how she is creating her independence; why climbing Le Gros Piton in St. Lucia was such a pivotal experience for her; and what she will be doing in the next 12 months – it’s NOT your “regular” goal!

Kate helps people eliminate whatever obstacles are blocking their success.  The powerful technique she uses is a Meridian Tapping Techniques (MTT/EFT). Kate combines the Law of Attraction with tapping to get optimum results.

Her radio show, “Tapping to Success with Kate,” can be heard on 1120 AM (in Boston) and also can be heard/seen live over the internet.  Kate’s show can also be heard on Energy Talk Radio in San Francisco and Spirit Bond Radio in the UK. She has articles published on emofree.com and selfgrowth.com.

I invite you to check out her website: SuccesscoachingwithKate.com, and you can either click on the logo to the left or CLICK HERE to listen to this week’s Daring Dreamers Showcase with guest Kate Beeders (approx 25 min).

In my experience as a Business Success Coach, professional Artist, published Author and Radio Show Host, I’ve found that in order for me to live what I dream, I’ve had to be daringly and sharply decisive, unwaveringly committed to my success, and lovingly relentless about holding my Vision.

I found that, when I got really clear about who and how I want to be, what I want to do and how I want to do it, if I follow a very specific path using very specific steps, I can do pretty much anything I want. Who wouldn’t want that? Want to know how?

There are 6 Crucial Keys, and I want to share them with you.

I’m passionate about you living your Dream! I want you to stop dithering and complaining and blaming and wasting your energy on shame, guilt, resentment or envy. I want you to stop thinking so much and wondering what other people think of you and wondering if… and how… and when…. I want you to start just doing it. NOW.

How much time do you have left on this planet? None of us knows, and it can go in a nano-second. Will you be delighted with what you’ve done? Or disappointed?

Keep reading, because I’m going to give you the site where you can get the recording!

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My friend and fellow EFT Expert, Stefan Gonick, has done the EFT/energy practice world a huge service. Here’s the note I got from him this week – read it and jump on over to his new sites, especially if you are a practitioner and want to share your articles, and if you are a newbie and want to read the forum!

New Free EFT Resource Sites:
1. EFT and Energy Psychology Article Library and Newsletter
2. EFT and Energy Psychology Forums and Practitioner’s Corner

EFT and Energy Psychology Article Library and Newsletter
I have created a new free, self-service EFT article library. At this site, you enter your own articles using a built-in word processor-like editor, and your articles are published immediately without waiting for approval. Your articles will then be sent out in a weekly newsletter similar to the one on Emofree.com. Each article has an author bio section where you are welcome to provide a description of yourself and have links to your sites. I invite you to add all of your articles to this new library: EFT Articles

EFT and Energy Psychology Forums and Practitioner’s Corner

I have also created a new EFT discussion forum site. This is a community where people can ask questions about EFT and experienced EFT practitioners can share their expertise. This is an excellent way to get greater exposure and new clients.

I am running these forums with a very open policy regarding posts. In these forums tasteful self promotion and marketing is allowed. These forums are also based on trust, so posts are displayed immediately instead of waiting to be approved. The forums are still monitored so that spam or inappropriate posts will be deleted if necessary. EFT and Energy Psychology Discussion Forums

I invite you to join these forums! As is typical with a new forum, there aren’t that many posts yet, but there are already about 100 members and growing. There will be lots of posts as the ice gets broken.There is a special Practitioner’s Corner forum for practitioners to share questions and concerns about their practice and the future of EFT.

Warm regards,
Stefan

I want to wish you one of the most awesome, fun, heart-saturated and outrageously profitable year possible!

Can you feel how the energy has shifted? Only three days ago it was like slogging through cold wet dirty snow about to freeze around all my cells. Today and yesterday I’ve been so energized I can hardly sit still.

If you want that and don’t have it yet, imagine my hand reaching to yours and giving you a whole big bunch of it! Take it and breathe it in – my love to you!

It’s not just a full moon right now, but a full BLUE moon (the name given to the second full moon appearing in a single month), and someone told me there will be an eclipse on top of it! No wonder the increase in energy!

I’m making a wild left turn this next year. It was such a profound experience to almost leave the planet last March, and to take all the rest of the year to recuperate and get my strength back fully, that I am radically changing directions come 2010. I haven’t quite got all the details lined up yet, but will let you know next week – I want you to come along with me!

So – see you next year! Have a delightful turn of the year – please stay safe and sound but do have a baudy time celebrating….

aloha -
Angela

A SURPRISE GOODIE:
President Obama visits my favorite beach! Watch the video HERE. Wonder if I’ll see him thee – or in a cortege as he traipses through Kailua!

DO YOU HAVE A BLOG? Here are a whole bunch of great blogging tips for 2010.

Chaney Weiner lost $30,000 and looks at it as a gift. Find out why, and what he heard the night before he moved all the way across the country….

Do you thank goodness for your so-called ‘goofs”?

How do you trust yourself after making such huge “mistakes”?

Chaney Weiner is an inspirational and transformational speaker and Founder of the Wealth Mastery Success Program.

He’s had 20 years of work and study from various disciplines that include fitness, psychology, communication, physiology, and neuroscience, and how to apply these disciplines into every day life in order to live an inspired and magnificent life.

Chaney is also a facilitator of the Demartini Method which was developed by Dr. John Demartini.

Chaney inspires people worldwide to achieve wealth in each of the 7 areas of life by discovering their own uniqueness based on what is most important to them, while reducing any fear they may have so they can live a magnificent and extraordinary life. You can find Chaney at WealthMasterySuccessProgram.com

Click on the logo to the left, or Click HERE to ind our interview–listen in and see what daring thing Chaney’s going to do in the next 12 months!

Eileen Williams is a blogger, radio show host, and frequent TV guest for the “Feisty Side of Fifty.”

Eileen’s passion is to reach as many over-50 women as possible to celebrate our remarkable history, our awe-inspiring futures, and just plain hoot and holler as only the menopausal can.

Eileen is a contributing author to Chicken Soup for the Soul in Menopause; and she specializes in working with women in the throes of midlife and mid-career transitions and assists them to create personally rewarding and meaningful futures.

Forget “over the hill,” celebrate your peak–Listen in and enjoy hearing how Eileen went from corporate to creative! Click HERE.

When I was a child, I admired the fact that my mother was a professional artist.

She painted stark watercolor land and seascapes, inspired by the windswept beaches, watering holes and harbors up and down the New England coast.

She was also often commissioned to do pastel portraits of our friends and neighbors and their kids. I remember going with her to the portrait sittings and playing with the siblings of the kids who were sitting. We were all bored, and made fun by creating our own portraits. That’s where it all began for me.

I wasn’t such a huge fan of her portraits, but I loved how she could get across the idea of a glassy day in Bar Harbor, Maine using one swipe of her brush, the freedom of a gull in the air with only a squiggle made perfectly, freely just-so. Because of her, I started drawing at age six, and never stopped.

I used to pore through her art history books, study her sketches, snitch any old art materials it looked like she’d abandoned, and practice on her scraps of paper.

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In my experience, one of the most precious things that help make your life as great as you wish it to be is an unshakable support system. Whether that consists of your family, friends, co-workers, business team or a great coach, that support is essential.

These are the people (or person) to whom you can go and feel safe, and by whom you feel loved and uplifted.

With them, you can open your heart, let your hurts fall out on the floor for examination and healing, without any judgement or criticisms or you-should-haves.

They hold your hand and support you with massive amounts of love as you be with that pile of scary stuff, deal with it, and decide what to do next.

They stand by you as you transform your circumstances, attitudes, thoughts, or situations into working for you, so you end up feeling good, so you feel open and delighted again.

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