My new Muse, Audrey McClelland

Over the past few weeks, a phrase has come up repeatedly in my life. 

"When the Student is ready, the Teacher will Appear"

The reason I love this expression is that 5 years ago I would have had NO CLUE what this meant, and I would have had no capacity to have understood it.  If that makes you laugh, perhaps a little bit at yourself too..then consider the fact that our life timeline is a comedy of errors!  Mistakes I made in my twenties, as I look back on them now, I cannot imagine having not known then what I know now! And when it comes to my two children, aged 10 and 3...there are many moments I find myself repeating a mantra in my head that basically says, "remember their age".

Recently, alongside some college friends of mine, I co-created a Social Group here in Rhode Island.  we call this Group "Conceive, Believe, Achieve!" or CBA for short.  It was the "thought" that sprouted to the thing...and therein produced the teachers!  I was delighted when my friend Sam Lemay first suggested that we attempt to find out if there was any interest in such a group by using the website called (meetup.com).  We did just that, and on the first day there were 25 members!  Our first physical meeting happened a month later in Warwick RI and it had 20 guests!  Our goal is to revolutionize the course of common life by empowering others to conceive of wonderful goals and then go out into their communities in the true spirit of giving and living and achieve great things (for themselves and others).  I am proud to be a part of this group and to write their blog.  You can follow and join at:

www.meetup.com/cbagroup

and read our blog at:

www.cbagroup.blogspot.com

So how does CBA Group connect to my new muse, Audrey McClelland?  I am glad you care to know and I am glad to share it.  I love synergy...synergism...synchronicity and symbiosis.  All of these and the Law of Attraction are working in my life right now.  I feel ready for full expansion.  I want this blog that I am writing today to be read by people all over the world.  I would like it to be the inspiration for others to make their mark.  Being an individual is a quality most of us cherish.  I no longer do.  To me, being an individual is a way of separating ourselves from our friends, family and community and I no longer want to separate.  I want to connect...in greater ways then ever before.

At our first meeting of CBA, I had a conversation with an acquaintence I have known for many years, Armand Albuquerque.  As I explained my vision for the future of my business (I am an entrepreneur), he remarked that it sounded like I want to "Brand" myself.  He was right, that was precisely what I want to do!  I do not want to brand myself for the sake of being so in love with myself that everyone needs to know me.  I want to Brand myself because this is the way to a full and complete life and there are many opportunities to make the Right impact and really empower others.  If along the way I am able to earn what I need to support my family too, then I have achieved the highest I can ask of my goal and I will not want for more!

Following this discussion, I began to work on this "brand" idea.  I regularly meditate as it is, and each day I go through an exercise of visualizing where I want to live, because a move to a new home is imminent in my lifetime.  I now am working on visualizing what my brand would be...what is my life about?  What are my talents, interests and favorite business pursuits and how can I assimilate all these into one place like a website?  How do I circulate my website or promote it?  How do I earn money with it?  How do I inspire people with it?  What can I use my writing for?  What is the right format?  I have many questions that need answers...as you can see.  But as we discussed in the introduction to my blog today, "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear".

Yesterday afternoon, I found myself discussing my vision with another college friend, Alberta Lemay (Sam's wife and co-founder of CBA).  She is an extraordinary woman who has no idea how much I admire her.  Years ago, when we were college students, we did all the fun stuff together.  Today, she is a successful hospice nurse, mother of two and a business woman with great vision!  It was more refreshing then a cold lemonade on a hot August afternoon talking with her yesterday!  She shared ideas that I had thought of and it occurred to me that I was not alone in my thoughts or beliefs about HOW people should live and WHAT they should create.  Berta offered me something others had never done...woman to woman inspiration!  I now have a vision for she and I to go forward and inspire women in all walks of life to believe in their dreams!

Finding friendships like the ones I have with Berta and with Sam and with our fourth founder, Bob Coderre, is both surprising and empowering.  But to go further, my daily visualizations, meditations and new career direction have given me something new...a MUSE.  A real-life, already accomplished, mentor to learn from.  This morning, in the Saturday edition of The Providence Journal newspaper (free copies are thrown on my lawn once a week), I found an article about a woman who both impressed and inspired me, showing me how what I want to do can be done!  At first I felt a twinge of jealousy because she is already established and successful at this, but as is true of every business model, if it works-it can be reproduced!  I realized then and there that with imagination, confidence, knowledge and a Certain Plan ( a very specific vision), I will be able to accomplish the same thing she has.  This person is Audrey McClelland and she has created her Brand.  Audrey McClelland has a home-based Blog/Website business that creates income to support her family, and frankly, her family are the FOCUS of her Blog and ultimately contribute to its success.  This is my exact vision and dream for my life...to do what she has done.

I encourage everyone to check out Audrey's link below:

www.momgenerations.com

and I would like to express my gratitude that her story was told.  The article was written by Jenna Peletier of the Providence Journal.  I could not have asked for a better Saturday, and I now plan to become a regular subscriber to The Providence Journal.  I would be sad to see publications like newspapers lose their circulation to "All web" news in general.

I hope that one day, my brand...my business model, will inspire others.  For now, I have a lot of work ahead of me and I am ready to start!  My sleeves are rolled up, I have a plan, I have supporters, I have my community..here we go!  First things first...off to meditate to create the vision and later, to allow my THOUGHTS to BECOME...THINGS.

For now, my practice site for my business model can be found below.  Any advice on how to improve on it would be gratefully accepted!

www.angelofavonlea.web.officelive.com


~namaste~