Take a Walk … Find some Truth!

The world of furniture is pathetic at the moment.  The question is whether it will recover or not.  The answer is OF COURSE, it will.

I’m a student of cycles - in fact, I’m fascinated by them.  I’m really rusty in what I know so here it is in a nutshell.  Everything is a cycle - there are very long cycles - 500 + years, there are business cycles, growth cycles, real estate cycles, planetary cycles, sunspot cycles … you get it.  The other thing hooked into this is the reality of "entropy", which means everything is fighing against the natural decline/decay of things. 

Healthy and proactive people and businesses know this, and reinvent themselves BEFORE they begin their decline.  They follow an "S" curve.  This means they grow, they plateau, and either begin their decline or reinvent themselves and begin a new "S" curve.

Yesterday I took a walk up my street and remembered about cycles and "S"s.  I made a loop.  I "worked hard" at walking up a hill, and I was thinking the entire time that I’ll get to the straight part any minute, in fact that was my goal.  And the straight part was easy … then I went down a steep hill, which was a slight bit of work.  Then, I naturally ended back at the straight part again.  

So I thought, hmm … just like life.  We struggle so to "grow up".  All of the sudden we’ve reached the plateau and walk along at a leisurely pace.  And then decline.  Maybe the deline part is the "fighting of the inevitable" and after that is the acceptance of it, so we just walk along evenly, till the end.

Ok, reality check.  Where am I?  The answer is - it’s all relative to what aspect of my life I’m inspecting.  Health wise, I’m in the first plateau.  Business wise, I’m climbing up the hill.  Age wise, I’m fighting the decline.  The good news is that I just started the decline (at least I’m claiming that to be fact.  The way I see it, I’m half-way to my goal of 110 years old.) 

Where are you?????

Imprint, Cluster, Coffee … The Code

This morning I had an experience that gave me great clarity into the concept of “imprinting” and The Code.  My cat is so naughty, as I trained him not to get on my bed but if you EVER give him an inch he’ll stretch it quite far. 

So, he was sitting on my bed looking straight at me the second I opened my eyes, not 5 inches away.  As frustrated as I was, this was an aha moment.  I thought, maybe that’s what it’s like for a newborn baby.  Maybe not the first second out of the womb, maybe when he/she is all swaddled … and all of a sudden he/she ”sees”. 

We don’t even know what he/she sees.  Perhaps “seeing” means the totality of the senses at that very moment - the 1^st aroma, feel, touch, taste, sound - a birth moment. 

That’s the moment of the imprint that is registered at the very deepest level of consciousness.  At least that is the Mom/or mom-like figure that a baby first experiences.  Was it good, was it bad and does this “drive” the baby with a sense of earth/time vs heaven/eternity?

The Code is about imprinting - getting to those “birth moments” of concepts and things - tangible and intangible.  Clotaire Rapaille is a man who does extensive work around the world trying to crack the code so that marketing can get to the deepest part of why consumers buy - his book really helped me to develop this website to be “on code” or at least, “code-friendly”. 

Also, one thing I’ve also tried to do on my own is to use “Clustering” as a means to unlock our own codes for things that are important to this Website - Health, Beauty, Home, Happiness.  Clustering helps us see things from a multi-sensual and multi-dimensional kind of way.  Clusters can be used for Self-Therapy, Artistic Endeavors, and as a part of the Matrix development of your Dream Home Profile^™.

Coffee !!!! - I’ll reveal my Cluster for coffee and then write about it.  It’s really strange …

Is this babble or profound?  Not quite sure.

 

The Trees will “Getcha”!

This is a morning that many only dream of.  I’m on the porch of my “dream home”.  Behind me are the woods that are filled with birds and they’re singing … wait out of the corner of my eyes are 4 white legs, and for the first time ever here is a deer that’s just ambling down the side of my yard.  I’m not kidding he/she just stopped and stared at me and my cat for 2-3 minutes.  I’ve seen their tracks but not in person - WOW!

I needed this morning moment to remember why I go to work.  There are trees in these woods that back up to a state park and probably are hundreds of years old. 

Trees are silent teachers and they SAY that I’m very small, and they help me see that work problems, and life problems are very small compared to this VAST universe.

I work at a job and in an industry that is in MAJOR transition - Home Furnishings.  Much of my work in Dream Home ReSolution© is not only to help women all over the world create the home of their dreams, but to offer a way to ReInvent and ReVive the dying-as-we-know-it Furniture Industry.

Problem for me is how to get someone’s attention so that I can do this one ‘little” task.  Since it’s a who you know world, I’m at a disadvantage.  I just don’t know who I need to know.

So here’s my list - the “Who I want to know” people “Who need to know me”:

Warren Buffett - he’s doing very well in furniture (an old man who has young heart and mind - he appears he has taken a fresh approach to furniture buying & selling approach )

Bill Gates or someone who can bring him the vision - Microsoft has Surface technology needs to give this to homeowners

Here are the “Celebrities” I want to meet to for help in “The not-so-famous Celebrity Makeover”. 

Naomi, Wynona & Ashley - I love them all and I respect them because of what they want for women.

Gene Simmons - He’s a major entrepreneur and he loves women and would love it if all women were all happy, healthy, sexy & beautiful.

John Rich - he is a Visionaire Extraordinaire - in fact he produced Jewel’s latest release.

Oprah - well she is the vehicle that will bring life-changing makeovers to women all over the world

Thinking about John Rich - wow - he gets it.  “It” being the operative word and being the whole point of this website… Anyway, I just found out that he produced Jewels latest release, which has a song that that I’ve chosen as the theme song for this website - not so much for the story about leaving or not loving another person, but for the message from the chorus.

“I’m gonna love myself
More than anyone else
Believe in me
Even if someone can’t see
The stronger woman in me

I’m gonna be my own best friend
Stick with me till the end
Won’t lose myself again
never, no
Cause theres a stronger woman
a stronger woman in me”                           

If there’s just one single message that I am trying to convey through my writings and speaking endeavors- it’s about finding and having “IT” that makes it possible to be a stronger woman who loves herself and counts on herself rather than depending on others for their happiness.