by Sue Rasmussen, Guest Expert

“…we wanted the things in our lives
- our home, our cars, our clothes, our diets, our finances –
to be small enough and few enough and simple enough
that we could easily take care of them ourselves.”
   

Elaine St. James

Simplify Your Life

As you may know, I have moved a lot in my life (30-plus moves).

I’ve also been extremely fortunate to experience living in many different kinds of homes, in different states and different countries. I’ve lived near the ocean, in the mountains, near lakes, on the prairie, and in the desert.

I’ve lived in everything from very big homes down to tiny studio apartments with barely enough room for three hangers in the closet.

And here’s what I’ve learned:

I absolutely LOVE living in much smaller spaces.

Yes, big fancy homes are nice. They are impressive. They certainly say something to the neighbors.

But are they delightful to live in? Are they easy to take care of? Are they inviting, welcome, cozy, charming?

Here are just a few of the joys of the (much) smaller home:

• You can clean it (yourself!) in about half an hour – especially if you’ve been reading my other articles about clearing out clutter
• You don’t need nearly as much furniture, so you can get what you really love
• You can’t accumulate too much stuff…there simply isn’t room
• Your heating and cooling costs are much lower, not to mention your mortgage
• You actually USE the space in your home, rather than just looking at it (people tend to want to spend time in cozy nooks or warm corners of the kitchen rather than the big open formal living room)
• You get to be very creative in how you use your space
• You can decide not to have guests or host big dinners if you choose
• You won’t waste space in the house…either in soaring ceilings or rooms you rarely use
• And you won’t have the worry and stress that often come from owning and maintaining a large home (you may not even recognize the high level of stress until you’ve let the large house go)

And because you spend so much less time maintaining your (much) smaller house, you can spend more of your time enjoying your life.

If you want to simplify a lot of areas of your life all at once, moving to a smaller, charming, easy-to-care-for home is one great way to do it!

Sue Rasmussen
“Making Room for What Really Matters,” Unclutter-organize-transform.com

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Ferdinand “Grampy” Emond with Nance on the left, Baeth on the right at “the building,” 1972

My grandfather – Grampy – owned a building in Plymouth, Massachusetts that the family simply referred to as “the building.” Sometimes – “Main Street Extension.”

The building had three main floors and a basement. The building serves as a metaphor for the core drives of my personality and still stands as a legacy to my grandfather and his father before him who brought the building into being and nurtured it with loving care for decades. The building was my grandfather’s Life Purpose expressed in physical form.

The basement of the building contained a small movie theater. The street level made room for shops that went in and out of fashion as time passed. The second story housed my grandparents’ apartment and rooms that they rented out to sailors, factory workers and transients. The top level was a wood-floor ballroom with windows along the entirety of two opposite walls. I spent a good deal of my childhood alone in that ballroom, dancing among the dust balls and worn out folding chairs.

Grampy Biz Lesson #1: The Outer IS The Inner

“The building” represents four of my deepest passions: movies, business, real estate and dancing. What I find amazing is that these interests feel a part of my DNA, inseparable from who I am and how I express my essence in the world; an inheritance beyond measure. My grandfather embodied his passions through his work; he and the building were one. When he sold the building, his health went into decline and he never recovered. He died of emphysema and a broken heart not long after. I viewed his death as a reminder to keep engaged with one’s purpose to the end – to never ‘retire.’

Grampy Biz Lesson #2: Always Pay Your Taxes

Oh, how he bitched about Uncle Sam. Every time April rolled around, we were all gifted with Gramp’s IRS diatribe. But he always paid, always with a little glint in his eye. Mumbling, he said, “The more taxes I’m paying, the more money I’m making.” Pause. “Bastards.”

Grampy Biz Lesson #3: Make Life Work For You

My grandparents invested some of their hard-earned money in a sweet little cabin on a cliff overlooking the Plymouth Bay. My mother now owns this cabin and rents it out. (Real estate just keeps on giving.) We spent idyllic weekends at the cabin, eating salami, Portuguese bread and drinking Fresca. My grandfather, a carpenter by trade, an entrepreneur by design, turned a coat stand into an outdoor shower for my sister, Nance, and me to frolic in during the lazy summer months.

There was so much joy at the cabin that my grandparents hardly went anywhere else to vacation. Either they were working at the building or relaxing at the cabin. My mother encouraged them to travel with their money, but they always resisted. They’d found a life that worked for them and they worked for it, day in and day out, but never forgetting the pleasures of food, family and celebration.

I miss my grandparents in a way that is unlike any love I’ve ever known. I ache for their wisdom in my ears and their kisses on my cheeks. I feel them in my consciousness – as close as my awareness of their memory. They weren’t perfect people, with their own dappled pasts and personal agonies, but they knew what mattered and they made the most of what they had.

I dedicate this issue to beloved grandparents everywhere and the legacy they leave. When I become a grandparent, I hope I can give as much as they did while asking for nothing in return. They loved one another and everyone that crossed their path. That’s perhaps the best business advice of all. Love. And if you don’t feel loved, give more love. What everyone wants is the same – connection: to one’s purpose, one’s Self and one another.

And if you don’t know your Life Purpose? Well, I can help you with that by reading your hands! You can order a hand analysis session with me right here!

Bring your hand questions to our NEXT FREE Life Purpose Master Mind TeleClass on Thursday, March 17th at 5 PM Pacific. NOTE – the LPMM is now FREE.  Unbelievable! Join the hundreds of members who are committed to living their Life Purpose FULL OUT in 2011 and BEYOND!

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As you may know, I am in the process of finalizing my divorce from my beloved friend and business partner. We plan to continue our friendship and business partnership into the future. While there has been a good deal of sadness and grief for both of us, I didn’t expect to discover so much about love and intimate relationships in the process!

Since Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, it seemed like a good time to share with you three truths about relationships that I’ve discovered that most people, myself included, don’t particularly enjoy facing.

1. When a relationship ends, you don’t only lose your partner

I forgot that some people still operate from that tribal mentality where it becomes necessary to take sides in a break up. This happens not only in love relationships but in friendships and business partnerships, too. It’s unfortunate that grown adults feel a need to employ this tactic, but so be it. I’ve lost some friends and a few family members in this process. Who knows? They may come around but it’s been very painful – for not only have I lost my husband as ‘my husband’ but I’ve lost others, too. This I did not expect or plan for. It’s so out of my sphere to end a relationship with someone just because someone else does that I forgot that in this day and age, others do.

My advice? Honor your integrity and emotional freedom. Don’t take sides and respect the history of your relationships and the time it took to build them to a place of trust. Have 10 years of relating to someone met with silence is a bit dramatic and silly. At first, I was sad. Now I wonder what the relationship really was if it could be discarded so easily. This is where you best friend comes in and says, “Oh, it’s their loss.”

2. Our culture enshrines our instinctive nature (for good or ill)

Marriage vows, religious rites, jealousy, vengeance – our culture celebrates all of this and more – in film, television, print and conversation. Maybe you don’t celebrate instinctive enshrinement, but take a look at what you just ‘believe’ without examination.

Someone asked me recently, “Why did your marriage end?” I said, “Because it was complete.” When you end a business partnership, people don’t say to you, “Oh, that’s so sad. Did you attempt business partnership therapy? Could this biz partnership have been saved?” We understand that life is fluid. Business partnerships, friendships – and yes, marriages, come to a natural conclusion. Some last a lifetime and some barely get off the ground before they come crashing down.

BUT in our culture – and in the most of the world – there is this idea that you ought to find a ‘life partner,’ settle down and get married. And that is wonderful – IF it’s right for your soul’s evolution. But never a good idea if you feel pressured or like you ‘should.’

I wouldn’t rule out getting married again. I loved being married to my husband. And as we dissolve this marriage, I love him still, our partnership taking a new form better suited to the people we have become.

What I don’t like is the assumption that if someone is single, divorced or getting divorced, that they suffer from some sort of dysfunction. I think the whole concept of marriage needs to be turned upside down and seen as a choice of two souls to go on a committed, monogamous journey together. In my own experience, my ability to feel safe emotionally, sexually and intellectually requires this level of boundaries – with or without a marriage certificate.

However, if I’m not going deep, deep, deep with one person, I feel free to structure my intimate partnerships in ways that feel good to me and the other person. I am at choice, rather than being driven by my instinctive biology.

3. Don’t take yourself or the other person for granted

I am one of those people who can tend to give too much and forget herself. You could call it a form of taking one’s self for granted. It’s the opposite of someone who thinks only of their own needs and pleasure and about as healthy. As I’ve learned to love myself fully – my feelings, my needs, my shortcomings, my failings, my successes, my desires – I find that I am much more able to help those around me in a way that is balanced with healthy boundaries.

In my marriage, we slipped into a routine. We took each other for granted. This creates insensitivity on both sides. Going forward, I have made a commitment to respect everyone and everything in my life with gratitude and appreciation every day because I now realize there is no guarantee it will be there tomorrow. I thought, “I’ll never get divorced” and here I am. Wake up call!

Bonus Tip: My friend, Matthew Walters, who works with my dear friend (and now his wife!), Orna Walters, said this: “If you are a FIZZ, you need to partner with an EMO.”

Translation? Well, I’m a FIZZ – bubbly, outgoing, life of the party, called to the spotlight. Orna is a FIZZ, too! Matthew is an EMO – sensitive, quiet, emotionally introverted and introspective.

Two FIZZES together? Big fire and the aftermath of a big fire. Two EMO’s? Nothing gets done, except staring into one another’s dark, eye-linered eyes.

Yes, I’m exaggerating. But that little tidbit of advice made my day and explained so much to me about why my intimate partnerships soar or sink – and how to choose the right partner for my FIZZY self!

Okay, gotta run and do some more unpacking. Matthew and Orna will be here for dinner in about three hours! EMO and FIZZ time!

And if you don’t know your LOVE style and Life Purpose? Well, I can help you with that by reading your hands! You can order a hand analysis session with me right here!

Bring your hand questions to our NEXT FREE Life Purpose Master Mind TeleClass on Thursday, February 17th at 5 PM Pacific. NOTE – the LPMM is now FREE. Unbelievable! Join the hundreds of members who are committed to living their Life Purpose FULL OUT in 2011 and BEYOND!

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Today’s article will be short because I just moved back to Los Angeles and I’m surrounded by boxes in various states of unpackedness.

I’m currently sitting on the opposite side of my desk, with the monitor turned toward me and my keyboard on my lap because my awesome fix-it man, Enrique, is installing custom-made screens in my new home office and he needs to stand in the space where my office chair usually resides. The phone has been ringing non-stop – and in my conversations today, I negotiated two contracts, set up the lease on my office down the street from my home where my tech team will work full-time, set up a new customer management software account, talked with my Facebook manager about optimizing my fan page, approved the designed on a new web site and finalized the first two modules of our Online School – which will be coming your way in just DAYS now! That’s what I did today. And, oh, yes, writing this newsletter to you after my early, but leisurely morning hike!

A friend said to me recently, “Baeth, I like hanging out with you. You are so productive.” For example, while talking, I’m unpacking. I’m tossing some laundry into the machine on the way to the fridge for my raw food lunch, then back to desk to do some more stuff.

Are you getting stuff done for the forward progress of your Life Purpose or are you distracted by NON-ESSENTIAL activities: endlessly sorting, organizing, cleaning, vacuuming, email ‘clean up-ing,’ Facebook-ing and the like?

You know why you’re doing that – right?

It’s the #1 Thing Holding You Back From Living YOUR Life Purpose…

…Your Life Lesson, of course.

Let me tell you a bit about mine. Mine is “emotional authenticity” which is the ability to express what I feel – regardless of the expectations of others. And guess what I’ve discovered? Many people in my life – hopefully not you – think I’m this really evolved person who maybe had it easy as a kid and life comes easy and that basically, I shouldn’t ever act like a lower animal with a shadow side. That’s hilarious to me, but there it is!

Because people are sometimes disappointed in my humanness, they withdraw their love. Now that I’m older and have discovered love will be withdrawn whether I present perfectly or not, I’ve learned it’s okay to express what I feel and ask for what I need. Since I’ve gotten back to California, I don’t know what’s gotten into me, but I am asking everyone, clearly, for what I want – with an OPEN, rather than SCARED, heart.

And what’s amazing is that people are saying, “Yes.” And sometimes, they say “No,” and I say, “Can you do better? Can you at least try?” … and they say, “Yes.”

In fact, just today, I was told that something I wanted done online was pretty much impossible. I said, “Well, that just can’t be. If you want my business, you’ll make it possible.” The phone rang 15 minutes after I hung up – and my request was suddenly as possible as my faxing back a one-page request form.

SO… the questions I pose to you today are these:

1) What is that YOU do that holds you back? (In my case, it was letting things slide and saying “okay” to everyone so as to not make waves. It backfired – a lot. And there’s that resentment thing, too, to watch out for.)

2) Are you willing to change this behavior (caused and directed by your Life Lesson)?

3) What would be possible for you if you changed this behavior? For example, my theme this year is creative expression and completion coupled with METRICS. So I am measuring myself both in terms of the projects I complete and all manner of numbers: income, expenses, negotiations, opt ins, opt outs, conversions, pounds. I am MEASURING everything so I can see where I really stand. The clarity feels good – and it’s making me be clear with others in my life as well. Surprisingly, everyone benefits when even one person asks cleanly and clearly for what they need.

And if you don’t know your Life Lesson? Well, I can help you with that! You can order a hand analysis session with me right here!

Bring your hand questions to our NEXT FREE Life Purpose Master Mind TeleClass on Thursday, February 17th at 5 PM Pacific. NOTE – the LPMM is now FREE. Unbelievable! Join the hundreds of members who are committed to living their Life Purpose FULL OUT in 2011 and BEYOND!

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When I need guidance, I write to the Universe. My perception is that I am both connecting with my higher self and something mysterious and unexplainable simultaneously.

As my divorce finalizes (I’ll share more on this in the coming months. Please – no condolence emails J. It’s good for both of us – and we’re still doing biz together!), I am preparing to move to my soul’s home – Los Angeles, California. In the midst of my packing, I found some old journals.

Today, I want to share an entry with you that explores some of my thoughts about the mind and belief as well as the necessity for knowing what you think and believe fully in order to live your Life Purpose with intention and joy. Come with me and discover the ultimate secret of your mind.

Journal Entry: 29 September 2004

Baeth: Universe, what was my scariest prayer?

Universe: The day after your wish for death, the day you got down on your knees and prayed: “God/Universe/Whatever/Whomever, if you show me my Life’s Purpose, I will forever be your humble servant,” you made the ultimate prayer and traded in your nihilistic attitude of a meaningless Universe for a mind set of meaning and fulfillment.

You knew there was no turning back.

You knew there would be pain, loss, betrayal and lots of eating crow.

But you also knew that this ride, though fraught with terror, was a far better alternative than the previous pain you’d endured – the pain of self-judgment, self-denial, self-betrayal and self-inflicted martyrdom. You DECIDED – catch that? – you decided that you could believe anything you wanted – so why not believe in your highest good and the highest good for all the planet and her inhabitants great and small?

Why not believe that you are not your past, your ancestry, your DNA, your gender, your failures,  your successes, your dreams, wishes, hopes and fears but instead that you are an instrument of divine grace put here on Earth to remind everyone who would dare open their hearts that they, too, are instruments of divine grace, a paint stroke off the Universe’s infinite brush, a rush of color and vitality, unique and timeless, a part of the grand scheme, singular in all history?

Why not?

Why not indeed.

So, dearest, you discovered the ultimate secret of your mind – if you can believe whatever you want to believe, all belief is at once meaningless and crucial.  This is an example of paradox and duality.

Beliefs are what people live, fight and die for. Occasionally, they fight for water or territory or meat, but mostly, the human battles on the ground are graphic out-picturings of the “right/wrong” debates in their heads.

As long as you are right, and I am wrong, we are at war. However, if you follow any line of argument to its end, you will arrive at the opposite point of view.

For example, you say, “Take guns off the streets. No one should have a gun but regulated officials.” So laws are passed and guns are taken off the streets; now only ‘officials’ can have them.

One day, the officials decide they don’t like how certain citizens are behaving – maybe these citizens are protesting outside the state house or writing angry letters to the editor about how they now have no means to protect themselves against their government instituting martial law. These naughty citizens are arrested at gunpoint and held without due process.

Eventually, this injustice reaches critical mass and people join together to overthrow the government – though many are shot dead in the process since they have to fight the government’s guns with sticks and stones, bows and arrows, clubs and knives.

A new government is eventually organized, granting citizens the right to bear arms so that they can ‘never’ again be dominated by an unfriendly government that does not have their best interests at heart.

And round and round it goes. Once you realize that any absolutist stance immediately includes its opposite, you are on the road to spiritual freedom. The ability to live in all possibilities allows you to see that nothing is black or white. Even the night sky has stars of light and a reflective moon; the day casts shadows as the Earth revolves around the sun. Light and shadow work together.

A capacity to hold paradox allows you to perceive the gray and embrace your own contradictions, thus developing a rare quality, a very rare quality indeed – the ability to laugh at yourself and accept who you are. When you truly love and accept yourself, the world is your playground and your teacher, your lover and your friend.

You are safe anywhere, able to chat with pauper and prince, to dance like no one is watching and to snort loudly while watching Bugs Bunny re-runs.

What trips most folks up is thinking that their opinion, as fragile as a paper bag in the wind, is who they are. An opinion is an opinion – and opinions are necessary for developing a strong, healthy personality. But opinions are not mantras to live by.

A mantra, such as, “I do my conscious best, regardless of the expectations of others,” is a spiritual intention designed to support an individual on her life journey. “I hate coffee,” is an opinion that might change the minute she lands in Italy.

Go forth dear child, and find your spiritual roots but be careful in living and dying for ‘beliefs’ that are really just opinions or hand me downs from others. Honor the place beyond right and wrong and you will come home not only to your own purpose, but understand your purpose in relation to the evolution of humanity’s collective purpose.

Bring your hand questions to our NEXT FREE Life Purpose Master Mind TeleClass on Monday, January 31st at 5 PM Pacific. NOTE – the LPMM is now FREE.  Unbelievable! Join the hundreds of members who are committed to living their Life Purpose FULL OUT in 2011 and BEYOND!

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My beloved client, Kim DeYoung, showed up in Tucson for one of my private VIP programs after her initial hand reading revealed her Life Purpose (from her fingerprint patterns) is: “Successful Passionate Creative in the Community Spotlight.” Her purpose means that Kim gets results when she steps on stage and shares her creative products and services with a community.

The combination of fingerprints that appear on her right thumb (“Success”) and left index finger (“Passion”) create a common combo called “the big shot.” According to the Word Detective blog, the term refers to 19^th-century, large caliber guns that could take a big shot. This term has morphed into meaning an important person. Today’s big shot makes an impact in the world and has influence and power.

You may be a big shot, too. Let’s find out if the 3 sure fire signs of the big shot apply to you.

Sure-Fire Sign #1: You Play SMALL SHOT

There are lots of big shots lurking around, hiding out in the shadows, playing “small shot.” How did Kim play small shot? Bear in mind that BIG SHOT means doing BIG things in a BIG way, not small things in a tiny way. But big shots play small until they just can’t stand the frustration of low results one day longer. Kim was trying to pick up clients one by one by one. This approach is akin to an elephant trying to fill its belly on a handful of peanuts. A tasty snack, but no satisfaction. She was deeply frustrated that her efforts weren’t leading to success. When Kim realized she need ed to create both an online and offline community to share her work with, not only did her frustration go away, but her results picked up quickly.

Sure-Fire Sign #2: You Are Concerned With Being TOO BIG and Showing People Up

When I confronted Kim about this, her Life Lesson reared its Medusa head and said, “Well, what will I tell people when I change course?” Kim’s Life Lesson is “emotional authenticity.” She is learning to express herself authentically regardless of the expectations of others. I said, “Uh huh. I realize that you are speaking from the illusion of your Life Lesson, but nevertheless, who CARES what anybody thinks? Who are you REALLY explaining your choices to?” Hmmm…. a hush fell over our conversation. (Mind you, this is the SAME conversation that comes up again and again – that’s the nature of our lesson – it’s our lesson for LIFE. We simply get more skilled at nipping it in the bud before it escalates into a full-blown melt-down.)

“Kim, if you weren’t concerned about the opinions of others and you decided to think really, really BIG, what would you do?” I’m paraphrasing Kim’s response here when she said, “I would help metro-moms connect, create and succeed – both at home and at work.” How? “By bringing them together in various venues and helping them discover their own power and magic so that they can grow businesses that give them more fun, more income, and more time with their kids.” Now that’s a benefit-laden offer – especially if you’re a metro-mom. (A “metromom” is a suburban or urban mother who is a fun, forward-thinking new or established business owner seeking to create extra income working from home, on her own terms.)

Sure-Fire Sign #3: When You Seize The BIG IDEA and Decide To Make It Real, You Become Unstoppable

Once Kim got over feeling she owed anybody an explanation, she realized she wanted to create a business membership association with over 2500 members in the next six months. Yowza! She left Tucson with her big shot plan in her hot, big shot hands. In less than 3 weeks, she had her web site in the design phase, the copy being handled by a copywriter and mailing list research underway to find the metro-moms seeking the community and connection that Kim, BIG SHOT KIM, is so talented at providing.

She told me, “I don’t have the energy anymore to pick up the phone for appointments – unless those appointments support my larger goals. I’m focusing on my metro-mom “Great Women Gatherings” and building my association and direct sales team. That’s where my heart is.”

There you have it. A former small shot comes clean and decides to play BIG.

Your Purpose Mentor’s Weekly Assignment:

What is your BIG SHOT goal for January? Instead of making resolutions, how about sitting down and writing out how you want to FEEL about your business in 2011 and what BIG SHOT actions you would need to take to have this great FEELING?

This Life Lesson appears on the left ring finger. If you possess this lesson, you are terrified by the prospect of rejection – especially by peers. Because of this, your biggest tests will show up in work and love relationships. Familial and friendship dynamics may be less fraught with the danger of loss of approval because you less actively seek the approval of these individuals with this particular lesson. (If your lesson was ‘family out of sync,’ however, family and friendships would be the more intense environments for growth.)

In some cases, the fear of rejection can be paralyzing, causing you to delay on important decisions, commitments and opportunities. If this becomes a pattern, you may find that you are quite disgruntled and prone to complaining, creating drama or wallowing in chronic negativity. Your joie de vivre and overall life satisfaction may dry up.

The flip side of this lesson is exuberant innovative creativity. When you express your innovative self and share your innovations with others, you are free. The shadow side of this is that not everyone loves a rabble-rousing shape-shifter who wants to shake up the status quo and blaze a trail. But who would you rather be, a maverick or a mouse?

The truth is, with this lesson, you are here to discover that you are highly creative and innovative. In daring to share this creativity with the world, you are going to ruffle some feathers, burn some bridges and break some bonds. But the reward is the ability to handle criticism without resorting to cavalier bravado, apathy or shrinking away and melting into the furniture.

You have to watch out for another insidious pattern with this lesson: making yourself indispensible. By being able to cater to and solve the problems of those around you with speed, innovation and startling ease, you may overlook what YOU most want to create. This will lead to resentment – but, you may rationalize, at least you have your peers around you. Life can be harsh sometimes, asking you to choose between creative integrity and keeping a relationship that has become co-dependent.

Remember that, in fact, while you are unique and irreplaceable as the divine soul you are, you are very much interchangeable in the world of most of the people you know. Just knowing this may make it easier to put your creative innovations first. Dare to be a maverick and your real peers will find you while the sycophants, co-dependents, haters and users will just fall way. Some may cling on and give you a fight, but risking that is better than being paralyzed and pissed off.

The choice is yours: claim your inner DaVinci or suffer a Walter Mitty existence. The American Heritage Dictionary defines a ‘Walter Mitty’ as “an ordinary, often ineffectual person who indulges in fantastic daydreams of personal triumphs”. Hmmm. I know the kind of person I want to be.

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