A fun week of card sending

I thought it would be fun to list the cards I've sent so far this week.

1. BIG birthday card to our younger son.

2. BIG birthday card to our daughter.

3. Five motivational post cards to folks Bruce is coaching to grow their Team
Beach Body business.

4. A thank you card to a business associate in Las Vegas.

5. A SendOutCards prospecting card to a local veterinarian.

6. A SendOutCards prospecting card to a small business marketing specialist.

7. A Welcome to SendOutCards and our team card to the county's District Attorney.

8. A batch of St. Patrick's Day cards to our friends.

9. A birthday/St. Patrick's Day card to a local friend.

10. A thank you card to a local super salesperson who is recommending SendOutCards to her team of sales reps.

Whew! Not bad for a fun week of card sending!

What you put out is what you get back, so be sure to keep the positive energy moving out and be ready to accept it back into your life!


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Fat City Cards Delivers!

Our SendOutCards distributorship, Fat City Cards (www.FatCityCards.com), delivers what people want!

People Want to:

1. Make Money - With SendOutCards you can create what can become a lucrative side income stream for yourself and your family.

2. Save Money - Send a card with stamp for only $1.04. Stop making trips to the card store and the post office.

3. Save Time - Create and send a personal card with gift in less than one minute.

4. Easy Process - Use the online Contact Database to store all your contact data. Use the campaign card feature to send hundreds of personal cards with a few keystrokes.

5. Feel Good - Experience more feelings of happiness, generosity, well-being, thoughtfulness when you send cards and gifts of appreciation. Never forget a birthday or anniversary again.

6. Smart Decisions - Others will want what you have with SendOutCards.

7. Bigger Network - Join our team and connect to an international company with a culture of teamwork.

8. Popularity - You'll make and keep more friends and clients by sending more personalized cards and gifts.

9. Health - A business and lifestyle based on giving is good for your health.

10. Comfort - Use SendOutCards wherever you have Internet access.

See for yourself at www.FatCityCards.com.

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31 Tips to Master Your Ideal Life

Here's an excerpt from my first book, 31 Days to Personal Mastery: Manifest Your Ideal Life. For 30 more helpful tips to move you in the direction of your ideal life, go to our 31 Days Books site.

#3 – Exercise Your Positive Feelings
When you decide what you want in your ideal life, the fastest way to manifest it is to put yourself in a state of “Feeling Good”, as if you are living your ideal life right now.
One would expect any person’s ideal life to generate a lot of positive feelings, such as joy, love, excitement, pleasure, fun, satisfaction, gratitude, happiness, enthusiasm, wonder, expectation, awe, generosity, passion, compassion, enjoyment, and inspiration, just to name a few.
If you’re used to approaching your life from your “mind” rather than from your “heart”, faith in the power of positive feelings might feel like a big stretch.
Before you can make your ideal life a reality, become a master of putting yourself in a “Feeling Good” state. If you consciously practice feeling happy, excited, generous, and ready to receive, then you’ll soon be much more aware when you aren’t in a state of feeling positive.
Track your positive and negative emotions for one day. You’ll probably be amazed at the ratio. If your right brain is willing to give this exercise a try, but your left brain is asking for proof that it’s worth your time, then read Positivity by Barbara L. Fredrickson, PhD, who shares how increasing positive emotions to a 3-to-1 ratio over negative emotions is the key to manifesting with emotion.

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Get to "Yes"!

If you answer "Yes" to one of more of these questions, don't waste one more day of your precious life going in the wrong direction and missing out on what could be yours after just two private telephone coaching sessions!

* I would like to be more aware and open to new possibilities.
* I would like more clarity in what's most important to me now.
* I would like to live with more ease, energy, and confidence.
* I would like a tool for better decision-making for the rest of my life.
* I would like more joy in my life.
* I would like to be creating what I want in my life, not what I think I can have.


The Passion Test One-to-One Consultation can get you to "Yes" to all of the above statements.


I would be honored to be your Passion Test Facilitator.


Register here.


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Testimonial from a Passion Test Client

Here's a heartwarming testimonial I recently received from a client
who completed the Passion Test One to One Consultation.

“Marge, I am so thankful that you are
a part of my life’s journey…

You are GREAT at what you do! I can’t wait
to throw open my arms, and let the Passion in!
I’m excited about the possibilities!

Gratefully,

Sandi Justice”

February is Relationship Month. The Passion Test is a wonderful process
to improve your relationship with yourself and make sure you're on the path to fulfilling your life purpose.

Just this morning my husband and I made an important decision by weighing the factors against each of our top 5 passions. It's so true that if every time you're faced with a decision, a choice or an opportunity you choose in favor of your passions, you will have a passionate, joyous life.

When two people in a relationship complete The Passion Test, it's like receiving a user manual for what is most important to each person. If each person then commits to honoring each other's passions, more relationships will stay intact and thrive!

Please visit my Passion Test Web site to learn more!

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The Ring of Kindness

The ring of kindness that's created when one greeting card is sent is pretty amazing.

The person who sends the card gets a great feeling. The person who receives the card shares in that feeling. And everyone who observes the act of kindness gets their share of good feelings too.

This latter group can consist of the card designer, printer, mail person, and anyone who sees the card displayed after its opened or just hears about the fact that it was received.

One little piece of paper can have a huge impact in circulating positivity in a negative world.

Do your part and send a card today on me!

Click Here.

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Living an Extraordinary Life with Shakeology

Oh no, the bag's almost empty!!!

In the last few weeks, I've made a complete diet turnaround, and as a result am starting to lose a few pounds! This is all thanks to Shakeology, the most nutritious and delicious meal replacement product you can imagine.

Here's a link to check it out in great detail.

All I can say is that when Bruce and I stared at the bottom of the bag today, we started to plan how we would ration the remaining Shakeology until our next shipment arrives. It's going to be tight!

I need to get on my own monthly home delivery now that we've tried it for a few weeks and are both certain that we want to maintain this new regimen with Shakeology for lunch every day.

This is the biggest improvement we've made to our lifestyle in the last year and we want to share it with everyone we know who wants to eat better and lose a few pounds without any effort.

Check it out and pass this on to those you love!




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Improve Your Vocabulary

If you like this sample vocabulary building tip, then get 30 more in my ebook, 31 Days to Personal Mastery: Improve Your Vocabulary, at our Quantum Results Coaching Bookstore.

SAMPLE TIP

#16 Word Games
For the four decades of our marriage, my husband has only beaten me at Scrabble® three or four times, and when he prevailed he didn’t let me forget his victory! Scrabble is a classic word game developed in 1931 under the name of Lexico. This popular word game combines crosswords and anagrams, and is one of the best ways to have fun and build your vocabulary at the same time. Playing Scrabble on a regular basis can not only help you grow your vocabulary and definitions, but it’s a fun social activity you can play in person, online, in schools and tournaments, and with friends an family of all ages. It can jump start language abilities with youngsters and stimulate brain usage with the elder generation. It’s portable, doesn’t require any batteries, and comes in a variety of languages and board editions. Plus you can buy Scrabble software, video games, playing cards, workbooks, dictionaries, and strategy books. You can create a lifetime career of mastering just this one word game!

While I’m enthusiastic for the unlimited vocabulary building opportunities with Scrabble, there are other equally challenging and fun word games available in a variety of formats – board games, books, videos, software, cards, and periodicals.

The point is to find interesting word games to stretch your vocabulary, even with abstruse words that you only use in game-playing. The language confidence you build in the word game arena will carry over into your reading, writing, and conversation and boost your overall success.

Anagram – a game in which players add or transpose letters to create words


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Do Yourself a Favor in February

Last evening I attended a Business After Hours with our local Chamber of Commerce folks.

During the event one of my Passion Test clients approached me and told me how excited she was that she had taken a bold step in the direction of her passions by enrolling in a Master Gardening class. I was so happy she shared her good news with me and it just reinforced the power of this simple process.

I LOVE coaching people through the Passion Test. Do youself a favor during February, the relationship month, and check out taking the Passion Test either by yourself or with a partner.

You'll be glad you did!

Sending Positive Messages Into a Negative World

Today I received an email message from a new friend and fellow coach, Jennifer Tinsman (www.QuantumTrackCoaching.com).

"Good Afternoon, Marge and Bruce,

I just wanted to thank you for the wonderful and fun card you send with the lovely Marge and I on the front! I really got a kick out of it."

We love getting messages like these because it motivates us to send out even more positive messages with SendOutCards greeting cards each day.

Over the next 5 years SendOutCards will become an international household name because:

1. It's a product that everyone needs and it costs 1/5 of the conventional retail cost.

2. It's a feel good product for the giver and the receiver.

3. It's fun and easy to use - you can include photos, graphics, and your digital handwriting and signature.

Want to try it yourself?
Be my guest...Click here and let me know what you think of SendOutCards!

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Save Time and Calories with Shakelology

It used to be the case that around lunch time I'd wander into the kitchen to see what to pull together for a quick lunch break. My lunch would usually turn out to be a peanut butter or cold cut sandwich with some fruit and cookies. I'm not a calorie counter but of course I knew I was not having the healthiest lunch possible.

Ever since I started to have a Shakeology drink for lunch each day, I've eliminated all guilt about my lunch diet. In fact, I now consider my Shakeology drink to be my healthiest meal of the day.

The best part for me is choosing which frozen fruit to throw in the blender along with the Shakeology powder - raspberries, bananas, strawberries, blueberries - it's a fun and colorful process!

Lunch takes a lot less time, is way more delicious and nutritious, leaves me with more energy in the middle of the afternoon, has fewer calories, and relieves me of having to invent a meal in the middle of the work day when my mind is on many other things.

I love to cook and can now save my creative efforts for dinner. There are no complaints in our household with this new diet plan. In fact, we are both looking forward to shedding a few more pounds!

This video sums it up for me and I hope for you too!

Click below for a quick testimonial.

What's Shakeology?

I didn't expect to start the year with a daily nutrition shake. Now that I'm using Shakeology each day, I'm extremely impressed with this one-of-a-kind nutritious meal replacement

After just about 10 days using Shakeology, I'm now an avid fan and see myself continuing to use it as a convenient, healthy meal replacement shake each day! I feel better and have already lost a pound.

I want to tell all my family and friends!

Check it out!

After watching the video, please contact me to get yourself started on Shakeology today!

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Welcome to our SendOutCards team!

We want to welcome Joan and Mike Loch (far right) to our SendOutCards team. Joan and Mike own the Crescent Moon shop in the Cotton Exchange (www.crescentmoon.com) in downtown Wilmington. Also joining us in the photo taken at The Basics restaurant in Wilmington are Holly Kenney and Linda Thomas who are friends and colleagues in SendOutCards.



And Tom Rechichar, of Pristine Pressure Cleaning (www.pristinepressurecleaning.com) in Southport, NC is our newest SendOutCards customer.

Welcome Joan, Mike and Tom!!

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How to Succeed as a Network Marketing Professional

Network Marketing is not only here to stay, but it’s here to thrive in the next decade. The current economic conditions have created a perfect storm for unprecedented growth in network marketing businesses, according to Dr. Ray Jewell, founder and senior economist of Highview Management, Ltd.

We have had experience with network marketing in several companies. Here are six key lessons we’ve used to contribute to our success in this relationship-based business.

1. Commit to Personal Development
First, you must establish your “Why” or your big dream for deciding to grow a business with no or few limits. Find a heart-based, compassionate “why”, in order to grow your desire to help hundreds and thousands of people through your leadership.

Commit to reading books, listening to CDs, and watching videos related to personal growth and the network marketing industry. Keep strengthening your self-image as a professional network marketer, i.e. someone whose life is changing for the better and who has the opportunity to help others do the same.

2. Be a Product of Your Product
Whatever product you’re sharing through your network marketing business, be an avid, knowledgeable user of your product. The one caveat here is to not wait to begin prospecting until you know every detail of your product, company facts, and compensation plan. You’ll be most excited right at the beginning of your new venture, so start marketing your product and business opportunity.

Every word you say and thought you think about your company affects your belief in your success and your ability to share the power of your business opportunity to others, keep your thoughts and words about your company positive, even if you have to address an occasional glitch.

3. Be Coachable
The person who sponsored you is not responsible for your success in network marketing. Hopefully that person will be available to get you off the ground and flying in a matter of a few short weeks. Find other company leaders that resonate with you and listen to their training calls for a broader perspective.

No matter how much smarter you think you are than your sponsor and other company leaders, use only those methods that promote duplication. Set reasonable expectations for how long it could take you to achieve a certain team size or level of compensation. Typically, after a three to five year period of marketing, sponsoring, coaching, and leading others, you will enjoy a growing residual income stream.

4. Stay Plugged In
Network marketing company events drive business growth. Attend as many national, regional, and local events as possible. Stay tuned to online forums, video broadcasts, training conference calls, e-mail announcements, blogs, and three-way calls. You’re in business for yourself but not by yourself.

5. Focus on Activities, Not Results
Success in network marketing is more a matter of working consistently than working long hours. The presentation skills you develop in the beginning are the same ones you’ll use when you’ve grown a large team.

Once you start to sponsor others, do not try to manage anyone. Your job is to get folks started; you’re not responsible for their activities. You can only manage yourself.

6. Keep Meeting New People
If your network marketing business is in a slump, the best cure is to go out and meet more new people. That’s the lifeblood of any network marketing business.

Focus on building relationships and listening to people’s dreams, without prejudging. Look for ways to help people, get their contact information, and continue to follow up to educate them on your product and company. Your job is to share and sort people, not to sell or convince anyone. Network marketing is not for everyone; you are looking for the right people.

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How to Guard Your Mindset

In her smash #1 New York Times Bestseller (and now smash movie starring Julia Roberts), Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert travels the world to find her life purpose and peace of mind. One of my favorite passages from the book occurs as she recounts her experiences in a meditation ashram in India, where she has finally learned to quiet her mind. She writes, "I repeat this vow about 700 times a day: I will not harbor unhealthy thoughts anymore."

Elizabeth pictures the harbor of her mind as an open bay, which she must protect in order to keep strong. In her mind, she creates strict maritime laws as to who may enter her harbor (her mind) and takes responsibility herself for upholding her new protective laws. I believe we all have a lot to learn from the image of the harbor and its governing laws, as far as guarding our own mindsets with all our personal power. Let's take a look.

Elizabeth's first mindset law: "You may not come here anymore with your hard and abusive thoughts, with your plague ships of thoughts, with your slave ships of thoughts, with your warships of thoughts- all these will be turned away." How often are you at war with yourself in your own mind? Are you ever hard on yourself? What about harboring reoccurring thoughts that weaken your mindset and destroy your healthy thinking.

Elizabeth's second mindset law: "Likewise, any pamphleteers, mutineers and violent assassins, desperate prostitutes, pimps, and seditious stowaways - you may not come here anymore either." Do you let others think for you? Do you screen the "stuff" that affects your thinking each day? Do you allow yourself (your mind) to be bombarded by the negative media, those less consciously aware than you, or information that is simply irrelevant to your life purpose.

Elizabeth's third mindset law: "Cannibalistic thoughts, for obvious reasons, will no longer be received." Ah, yes, it's so easy to doubt ourselves and lose confidence in our ability to hold our thoughts firm on what we want.

Elizabeth's fourth mindset law: "Even missionaries will be screened carefully, for sincerity". Especially be watchful for those who say they have your best interest at heart, when in fact, they have hidden or even not so hidden agendas.

She concludes: "This is a peaceful harbor, the entryway to a fine and proud island that is only now beginning to cultivate tranquility. If you can abide by these new laws, my dear thoughts, then you are welcome in my mind - otherwise, I shall turn you all back toward the sea from whence you came."

Elizabeth Gilbert leaves no doubt that she, and she alone, is in charge of the thoughts that enter and stay moored in the harbor of her mind. Let's all take a clue from this wise woman who traveled the world to learn how to take charge of her mind. (Note: If you read the book, you'll find that as a result of quieting her mind, she is able to connect to her heart and soul to a depth she had never previously experienced.)


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Help, Fun, and Love in 2011!

On January 1, 2010, we learned a simple New Year's game, which involves selecting three words to describe what you want to create in the New Year. My three words for 2011 are Help, Fun, and Love.

Based on those words, which came from my heart, I hope I have an opportunity to work with a lot more clients this year with the Passion Test One to One Consultation.

This is true for several reasons. First, I'm able to help people move forward in their lives; second, me and my clients have a lot of fun with the process; and third, me and my clients strengthen our love in many directions.

Help People Move Forward

People decide to take the Passion Test for many reasons, including they want to experience something new, they're looking for clarity, they feel stuck, they're tired and want more drive and energy, or they're just generally unhappy and know there is something more for them in life. I love it when people have the courage to reach out and ask for help from me to get reconnected to what's most important to them at this point in their lives.

Have Fun with the Process

Those who know me well know that I like to have fun in whatever I'm doing. While I take my responsibility as a Passion Test Facilitator seriously, I keep the interactions between me and my clients fun and interesting.

Bruce often exclaims that I laugh often and loudly (he loves it!) during my Passion Test phone appointments with my clients, which tells me I'm giving my unique self to my clients and we're both enjoying the process.

Heart Connections or Love

One of my gifts is that I instinctively know when someone is communicating from their head and not from their heart. I can help my clients connect to their hearts very quickly because I'm trained to gently guide them there.

The Passion Test is not therapy, it's a simple, yet powerful process to identify your most important passions and align your life with them going forward. Your passions lie in your heart, the source of all love.

It's a loving process for me to help my clients get clarity on what truly is most important to them and to help them trust that discovery and act on it.

Every time I administer the Passion Test to get a client to that heart connection they've been seeking, I strengthen my own connection to my passions in the process. I'm grateful to my clients for continuing to reinforce my connection to my own heart and to their hearts.

I've been certified as a Passion Test Facilitator for a little over a year now. During the past 14 months, I've had the privilege of administering the Passion Test to dozens of interesting people of both sexes, all ages, and across continents.

What I've found is that the more people I take through the Passion Test, the more I'm motivated to continue this practice. My dream is to create a global reach with my practice as a Passion Test Facilitator, and I'm off to a great start.

I'm ready and willing to work with as many clients as possible in 2011 as their Passion Test Facilitator. That opportunity will make 2011 the best year ever - filled with opportunities to Help, Have Fun, and expand Love!


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The Power of the Unexpected Thank You Card

In the quiet week between Christmas and New Year's, we received an unexpected thank you card from our friendly neighborhood booksellers at RBR Books in Leland, NC, Clif and Laura Bridgers. The card simply said:

Hi Bruce and Marge, Thanks for stopping by the shop on Sunday! It was good to see you both. All the best to you both! Clif and Laura

The fact is that we often stop in to say hi to Clif and Laura and, when needed, buy our books and games from them.

This card was special to us because of how it made us feel.

We felt honored that Clif and Laura would take the time to send it to us during their extremely busy and important retail season, that they would send it to US - just two of the many happy customers who visit their store, and that they would simply say Thank You to us for being their friends.

It all adds up to our favorite piece of mail yesterday.

Thanks, Clif and Laura, for understanding and acting on the power of the unexpected and heartfelt card. You made us feel appreciated! We look forward to seeing you again soon!




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Best Picture Plus 2.0 card!

I want to congratulate our friend, Maran Banta, for her creativity in using SendOutCards Picture Plus v. 2.0 to create this stunning holiday card!

It's personal, festive, friendly, and attractive. I love the photo on the front and the use of the dark background on the inside to highlight the white text. It's just so well done and gives me ideas on how to design our card for next year.

Thank you, Maran, for your inspiration!!

Happy New Year to you and your family!!

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For This We Are Thankful

This photo says it all! We had a great Thanksgiving with our older son Rich, and our daughter-in-law, Megan and our younger son, Pete, and his girlfriend, Hailey.

All six of us enjoy cooking so there was no end to the fun in the kitchen!

We love getting together with family...there is no better way to spend our time than this, and yes, we are extremely grateful that we had such a nice Thanksgiving!

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I'm Following My Heart to Financial Freedom

I'm so grateful to have found a business that's totally in alignment with my passions. Every day I work so hard (just kidding) sending cards and gifts to some of my favorite people! My work has truly transformed into play.

This is what I recently posted on my Facebook wall and it's just the preface to what I want to share on this topic.

First, I'm so grateful to have found a business that's totally in alignment with my passions. SendOutCards is designed to meet two needs: 1) helping people reach out in kindness every day and 2) giving people a vehicle to create financial freedom. Here's how this business is a match for my passions.

My first passion is loving and creating and having fun with Bruce. We do that every day in our relationship and we share the bonus of growing our SendOutCards team together. You grow a large and healthy team in network marketing with a lot of love, creativity, and fun!

My second passion is loving and playing with our kids, grandkids, and friends. One of the ways I build and maintain those important relationships is by regularly sending cards and gifts to our kids, grandkids, and friends.

My third passion is enjoying excellent and balanced physical, spiritual, and emotional health. Among my goals for following this passion is to vibrate high with passion, compassion, excitement, and expectancy. Another goal is to attend at least one personal development seminar per year. I'm happy to share that with SendOutCards I'm always enthusiastic about my activities and I look forward to the annual Treat 'Em Right personal development seminar run by the company's founder and CEO, Kody Bateman. Kody rocks!

My fourth passion is helping millions of people to become senders of cards and for those who wish, to create financial freedom. As our SendOutCards team grows, both of these goals are being realized.

My fifth passion is to live a fun life of financial freedom and abundance. Well I certainly am having fun each day and already enjoy a life with an abundance of love. The financial freedom is in the making with our SendOutCards business.

So this is why I'm grateful to have found a business that's totally in alignment with my passions. Sometimes I just have to pinch myself and revel in the fact that I understand and value the majic of this alignment. It keeps me grateful, focused, and knowing that I will fulfill my destiny.


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