Live Into It!

Do you love the unknown? If you want to live into the life you’ve imagined, it requires embracing the unknown and stepping outside of your comfort zone.You can do it! I can show you how…

With a business background from Notre Dame University, a Master’s of Science in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, a solid Internet Marketing based training as well as years of Counseling, Clinical, and Health Psychology mixed with formal Corporate Experience working with CEO’s & Multi-Millionaire Entrepreneurs, you will learn the best of the best as I fast track you to your success. Together we MASTERMIND and tailor your personal strategy, map your plan, and then I work with you every step of the way as you manifest your dream!

As one client recently shared, “CC, every time I work with you, my batteries are recharged and I’m ready to go back out and accomplish my BIG VISION… My cup isn’t half empty or half full when I’m done working with you. It is filled to overflowing!” Wow! Thank you so much…

So if you are like me, and love the unknown, sign up for a FREE Get Acquainted Session ASAP, and let’s see what we can do for you and your vision…

http://www.LiveIntoIt.com/appointment.html

With Love & Light… :)CC

Christine N. Cibula, M.S.
Online Entrepreneur & Business Development Consultant

What is the one thing we all have in common that brings everyone who does it joy?

Wouldn’t it be great if we danced our way to world peace and love???

Live Into It… :)CC

Christine Cibula, M.S.
Business Development Consultant
“Live Into The Life You’ve Imagined…”

You never know what will happen when you are living into the life of your dreams!

Live Into It… :)CC

Christine N. Cibula, M.S.
Business Development Consultant
www.LiveIntoIt.com
“Live Into The Life You’ve Imagined…”

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Never stop learning…

At any given time I’m reading a handful of books, studying from carefully chosen mentors, and doing my own research on the topic of the day that seems to rock my world.

Today I tuned into a teleseminar from one of my online marketing mentors, Howie Schwartz. The guy is BRILLIANT. Plus, he’s a total sweetheart…

As I was on the call, he mentioned someone typed in NAMASTE to him. He got a kick out of it and encouraged everyone listening to look it up for themselves for a more personal experience of the true meaning. He mentioned how he’d been doing Yoga and had changed his eating patterns to green tea and live foods. Funny thing, because I’ve done the same in just the last month…

It is Saturday, Fourth of July weekend, and I’m chilling so I found myself GOOGLING NAMASTE. I found the Wikipedia definition and noticed the hand symbol in the photos. Namaste is a term from India, which made me think a lot about Siddha Yoga, a form of yoga that I’ve done with great success in quieting the mind and getting centered. Whenever I think of what I have learned through Siddha Yoga, I am filled with love and gratitude.

One more thing. My sweetheart, life partner, and fiance Thomas Gorgas, Ph.D., has always told me that I need to be a teacher at the “School For Love“. He keeps asking me what I’m waiting for, and well, I don’t have a great answer. When I watched this video today, I felt it through and through. I needed to share it with you…

So on this Fourth of July weekend, I wish you love and light as you live into the life you’ve imagined… :)CC

Christine N. Cibula, M.S.
Business Development Consultant
www.LiveIntoIt.com
“Live Into The Life You’ve Imagined…”

P.S. Just in case you are wondering, nothing is more irresistible to MANIFESTING THE LIFE OF YOUR DREAMS THAN LOVE, no matter what you are in the process of manifesting. Love… Health… Wealth… At the core in all of it and each other is LOVE… NAMASTE…

This morning my fiance shared a beautiful story with me about a documentary he saw about 10 years ago about MOVING THE MOUNTAIN. Michael Apted’s 1989 documentary was about the pro-democracy movement in China that later escalated into Tianamen Square and the courage of one man captured in a photograph before he met his death standing up for what he believed in…

In the end, Thomas shared that we can move a mountain ONE SHOVELFUL AT A TIME.  He then said that it is like he’s heard me say before, “Focus on base hits instead of home runs…”

We don’t usually win at the game of life in one full swoop.  Sure, some people win the lottery and then proceed to lose everything they gained, because they don’t know how to manage it.

Most of us build wealth steadily with some rather nice growth spurts at times, what Dan Kennedy and Bill Glazer refer to as THE PHENOMENON.

We’re creating our EXTRAORDINARY lives, so we talk like this most mornings, noons and nights. We’ve got our vision boards. We have our daily goal cards and action steps.  We’ve mapped our plan.  We make a point to only watch, listen to, and participate in INSPIRATIONAL activities.

So back to my story… He said,”You know, it is just like Jack Canfield says in THE SECRET that you have to have faith as you move forward only being able to see 200 feet in front of you because you will eventually reach your destination. Of course, you need to know where you’re going…”

Which triggered this thought I’ve literally run back into my office to share with you this moment!

Last weekend we were celebrating my Dad’s 65th birthday AND my fiance’s birthday, because they BOTH SHARE THE SAME BIRTHDAY!

All joking aside about how we eventually marry our fathers (or mothers), we were on our way to a really amazing restaurant called the Canebrake. It happens to be in the MIDDLE of the countryside in the middle of a small town in the middle of somewhere that for a minute felt like it might as well have been #%&*! Egypt…

TWO important points. One is that since I run an internet-based business, I can do it from HAWAII like I did last summer and I can do it from OKLAHOMA where we are now to enjoy some time with family. So when you read this, understand we’re in Oklahoma right now. The second is that I have an older ML-430 SUV Mercedes WITHOUT a GPS tracker and I was using a Google MapQuest map.

We knew our starting point (Tulsa, OK). We knew our destination (Canebrake in Wagoner, OK). We made it, but not without some challenges…

We got LOST… LOST… LOST…

LOST #1: I had the map in front of me, but did not follow it. I was supposed to get off at the first exit on the turnpike but I got off earlier when we were just merging with the turnpike and got on Highway 51. I asked Dad if that was the right exit by phone and he thought based on what I was sharing that it was, but it turned out to be wrong.  Even so, I was looking for a street intersection, found it, and ended up in a neighborhood with no restaurant to be seen anywhere. We discovered we had gotten off the turnpike earlier than anticipated and had taken a smaller highway so we went forward, reconnected with the turnpike, and followed the map.

LOST #2:  We followed the map, but the map was WRONG.  At one point, the map said highway 51 merged into a street called CHEROKEE, and that we’d take our next right after Spencer.  Highway 51 did merge into Cherokee if you proceed forward and ironically at a point where Highway 51 makes a SHARP RIGHT that the map did not mention.

A short distance down CHEROKEE, we did find SPENCER, the street that was supposedly right before our next right onto the street where the restaurant is supposed to be.

But we never found the next turn to the right which was supposed to be our destination.  Instead we ended up going WAY farther forward and dead ending at a street that ironically had the same intersection signs as the first time we got lost (on both signs).  But clearly, the restaurant was not there.

(I had a mini-breakdown on the cell phone realizing we were stuck at night in the middle of the countryside in the middle of nowhere not knowing where to go.  I was panicked.  My fiance made the honest observation that I was being a,  “FRICKIN’ NIGHTMARE” to which I promptly replied, “HAPPY FRICKIN’ BIRTHDAY!!!) We laughed about this publicly at the dinner once we arrived and had a little champagne!

LOST #3:  Not trusting the final set of directions.  We got the right directions but since we had chased our tails so feverishly twice before, I was starting to lose it.  We gassed up and the attendant had no idea where the restaurant was that I was talking about. I was seriously consider going back home.

I turned around two or three times (much to the dismay of my fiance) before proceeding forward cautiously and finally making it to the correct destination.

Jack Canfield calls this phenomenon “CORRECTING COURSE…”   He shares that most of the time a flight has the correct destination locked in on its computer, but the majority of the time, the flight is correcting course to reach its destination.

So we arrived at this beautiful spa, resort, fine dining location and enjoyed a beautiful birthday celebration and had a perfectly wonderful night.  Never mind that it took our friends one hour to get there and it took us two and a half hours to get there.

We reached our destination…  Actually, everyone marveled:

1. We STUCK IT OUT until we arrived.  STAYING POWER PAYS OFF EVENTUALLY!
2. We were able to figure it out despite a WRONG map and without a GPS SYSTEM (…Guess what I’m getting for my birthday from Dad this year?…).

3.  We were able to enjoy and celebrate a ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY.

So the moral to the story is…

1.  KNOW WHERE YOU EVENTUALLY WANT TO END UP…  This is a critical key to your success and it is worth the time to get a clear solid and exact picture of where you are going. It saves a lot of time, headache, and heartache along the way.  Others in the group found it by actually going to the Canebrake’s website (better directions from the source) and relying on a real road map (yeah, the old fashioned kind that you keep in the car with you) instead of a Google or MapQuest map.

2.  STAY THE COURSE…  Despite being tested along the way, stay the course.  Correct course when you get off track.  Staying the course helps when you have a clear picture (not a foggy one, but a definite and clear focus) of where you are going.  It may take two to three times what you anticipate it is going to take before you get there, but you must stay the course in order to actually arrive.

3.  GO THE DISTANCE…  Remember that one of the Universal Laws is the LAW OF GROWTH.  If you retreat just before the seed sprouts, you’ll never see the flower.  In our case, we decided that even if we made it for dessert and coffee, we were going.  Turned out they had enjoyed appetizers and champagne and we were able to enjoy the remainder of the meal with them.  If we had given up, we would have missed a very special once in a lifetime night.

Live Into It…  :)CC

Christine N. Cibula, M.S.

The Manifestation Mentor

www.LiveIntoIt.com  

P.S.  And when in doubt, remember that one man can move a mountain one shovelful at a time…  This may not be ideal for fast business growth, but remember that base hits win the game steadily in lieu of home runs, and often times with a much better overall standing when it is all said and done…

Have you ever just met someone and had that instant connection where suddenly you’re talking about your families, your businesses and just about everything under the sun and you know you can trust this person implicitly?

For me that was how I felt when I met Fabienne Fredrickson. She felt like a sister. It was so cool. We chatted up a storm and I knew right then and there I wanted to work with her. That’s me, CC, on the left, Fabienne Fredrickson “The Client Attraction Breakthrough Mentor” in the middle, and my other awesome friend, Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero of “Red Hot Copy” on the right (check out previous blog entries to read all about Lorrie).

We were all together at Alexandria Brown’s “Online Success Blueprint Workshop” last November when we took that picture. But I met Fabienne the year prior in Atlanta, Georgia at the Bill Glazer and Dan Kennedy Info Summit. Come to think of it Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero and Alexandria K. Brown were there, too! I was actually assisting Ali when she had a mad rush of six figure sales the last day when she gave her onstage presentation. Isn’t it fun how that works?

Here’s ONE BIG HINT… Successful people all hang out in the same places. This is especially true in the Entrepreneurial and Infopreneurial world… Turns out Fabienne and Ali go all the way back to their early days living in the city of New York… Turns out Lorrie and Ali met at a speaking engagement where they were both scheduled to talk in LA in the leaner years.

Now here’s the REALLY COOL PART OF IT… We all learn from each other’s products, seminars, and services and send each other clients. Sure it is a great way to reconnect and have a great time with friends and write the trip off because its business, but you can be sure we wouldn’t spend our time there if the payoff wasn’t huge. Every entrepreneur is always looking at the bottom line when making these kinds of decisions.

After meeting Fabienne, I picked up her Client Attraction Home Study System. I was completely WOWed! To this day I still regularly open the system and work with it. If you don’t get Fabienne’s Ezine, sign up for it ASAP. It ROCKS!

I was so impressed with Fabienne, I began coaching with her. She is such a wonderful coach. I was able to fill my coaching practice effortlessly and easily implementing the systems she teaches. Now I’m moving my business to the next level…

This year, I’m attending her Client Attraction Workshop, because I want to totally immerse myself for three solid days in her system and fine tune myself. I am a big believer in repetition, because I find it helps me to fine tune myself year after year. Plus, I believe you get a heck of a lot more out of LIVE IMMERSION in an event rather than simply doing the home study version. Both have their place in my world, but live events are my favorite.

Fabienne’s giving away a ton of free information on a series of calls, the first of which starts TONIGHT! Here’s how to sign up and get your link, but be quick about it, because these calls are filling up super fast. The last call I heard Fabienne give I took PAGES of notes… Now that’s saying something! So here are the details… Be sure to let me know if you decide to join me in at Fabienne Fredrickson’s Client Attraction Workshop in April 2008! I’ll be in the front row (I signed up as soon as the landing page was put up on her site!) and I’LL SEE YOU THERE…

In the meantime, you can get a tremendous amount of information from Fabienne on these calls. I know I’ll be there, and I want to hear you on the line, too. You simply CANNOT miss all this great FREE CONTENT!!!!!

So, won’t you join me? The first call is on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 and you can sign up and get the details here now by simply clicking on the link below or type this adorable tiny URL into your browser (http://tinyurl.com/2k6lbv):

Fabienne Fredrickson’s Client Attraction Workshop FREE PREVIEW CALLS

I’ll see you on the calls!

Live Into It… :)CC

Okay, I just had to tell you. It’s back, but not for long! But HURRY, because she only releases * 147 * COPIES a year, PERIOD. You read that right, because she only wants this information in SERIOUS ENTREPRENEUR’S HANDS. Then it’s done.

And an insider secret? She’s getting interested in shifting her business in 2009, so with some of her programs, like Marketing Mastery, she’s announced that 2008 is the ONLY year she’s offering the program. And if you know Ali, you know she sticks to her word.

By the way, do you know Alexandria Brown, a.k.a. “The Ezine Queen”? If not, you’ve seen her before in my blog entries. Just scroll down and you’ll see she’s been my biggest ONLINE SUCCESS mentor. Actually, if she noticed the blip in my blogging, she’d be like, “CC! You were at my Online Success Blueprint Workshop last year and you don’t have a review up there???” I know. Time to get a move on it girl…

Truth is, I was there and the event was Ali’s BEST EVENT EVER. I’ve personally attended ALL FOUR of Ali’s **SOLD OUT** Online Success Blueprint Workshops. And you know who else was there? The list was LONG AND DISTINGUISHED…

Bill Glazer & David Neagle Presented. Lorrie Morgan Ferrero and James Roche were on Ali’s expert panel. Fabienne Fredrickson was in Ali’s Platinum group.

James Malinchek, Kristy Frank, Maria Forleo, Christine Kloser and many more were in attendance. This was no fluff group. We’re talking about movers and shakers in their respective fields of service.

Why were they there? Because they want to get this INFORMATION AND APPLY IT IN THEIR BUSINESSES. Plus, the networking opportunity is one added bonus.

So what’s all the buzz about?

ONCE A YEAR, Ali releases her Online Success Blueprint In A Box, which is the EXACT content presented at her LIVE EVENT in the Fall of the previous year. She only gives this LIVE seminar ONCE a year in the FALL, and she only releases her ONLINE SUCCESS BLUEPRINT IN A BOX once a year in the SPRING. She puts it out there for a short time and then pulls it again until the following SPRING. So this is one of those things that if you want it, you need to TAKE ACTION NOW.

She’s really shaken things up with the “big boys” of the Internet marketing world. Why? Because she’s so open and honest about what WORKS (and what doesn’t work) when it comes to using email, the Internet, and information marketing to transform your business.

Instead of dangling exciting “magic pill” solutions in front of you, or selling “the next big thing”, Ali tells it like it is. Especially at her SOLD OUT Online Success Blueprint Workshops, the most recent of which was just 2 months ago in Los Angeles.

The bad news is, you missed out! During the 3 full days, she shared her step-by-step, internet-based plan for dramatically increasing your business while working LESS. It was absolutely amazing, even for me, and this was my fourth time in attendance. Several of my buds were repeat guests, too, which simply speaks to the strength of the seminar and the information.

The GOOD news is, after hours of editing, polishing, and coddling, the brand new 2008 Version of her “Online Success Blueprint-in-a-BOX” is finally READY!

It’s the home version of the exact same program she taught LIVE a few months ago. You can see everything you get right now at http://www.LastEverWorkshop.com

This is Ali’s 2nd year of honing this program to perfection, and I can honestly and confidently tell you — there is NOTHING else out there like this! Her program is honestly changing lives. It changed mine by shortening my learning curve substantially.

Before Ali I had a dream but wasn’t sure how to DELIVER the dream because my target market was often housebound with personal illness. Most used computers to do their research, so the ONLY way for me to reach them was THROUGH THE INTERNET. Ali taught me exactly how, and now I’ve gone on to launch two more successful Internet businesses.

But don’t take my word (or even her word) that this stuff works. Ali has *dozens and dozens of client success stories* that will blow your mind! Real people like you and me making thousands or tens of thousands more each month because of Ali’s simple system.

Listen, you’ll want to jump on this FAST, because Ali is only releasing *147 copies* of this version of the program. You’ll have to see what I mean — get the scoop, see all those success stories, and reserve your copy NOW at http://www.LastEverWorkshop.com

(And TURN UP YOUR SPEAKERS so you can hear Ali’s personal message to you. Pssst… This is just one of the amazing techniques she teaches!)

Live Into It… :)CC

Christine N. Cibula, M.S.

www.LiveIntoIt.com

PS - When Ali released last year’s version of this program, it sold out within WEEKS! I was actually at a Mark Victor Hansen Mega Book event working at Ali’s booth and even getting up on stage to present her free giveways. I remember talking with clients about the special package she was offering there and sharing that she was going to pull the product for the year after the event, and she did! The people who missed out were totally BUMMED when the realized they’d have to wait until the fall to attend her workshop (in November) or wait another full year before the new version would be on the market. So please don’t delay - at least take a look at http://www.LastEverWorkshop.com

P.S.S. After the event, Ali asked me to become her Marketing Mastery Tele-Coaching Program Coordinator - an annual program that began on January 8, 2008. We were so busy launching behind the scenes, I got a little behind on my usual blog entries. This opportunity is too good to miss out on, so at least take a few minutes to go check it out.

P.S.S.S. If you were to ask me, “CC, if you had to drill down through every program you’ve been exposed to and learned from in the last 3 years, where would you tell me to lay down my hard earned cash in 2008 to master ONLINE SUCCESS including teleseminars, building a relationship with your people, how to monetize your website, etc.?” I’d say without hesitation, “…Ali Brown’s Blueprint!”

http://www.LastEverWorkshop.com

I’m super excited about going to Alexandria Brown’s Online Success Blueprint Workshop this week. We’ve got one heck of a line-up presenting to us including Bill Glazer! Yes, as in Bill Glazer and Dan Kennedy, who just recently released THE PHENOMENON and one of the featured speakers is Alexandria Brown herself! This is going to be a special treat. I have met Bill Glazer in person at the Info Summit in 2006 and Super Conference in 2007 and worked with his amazing team of people. I really admire and respect him and Dan Kennedy and I’m sure that Bill is going to deliver one heck of an amazing presentation.

Plus, Ali’s amazing Platinum Mastermind Members will be in attendance, and so I’m really looking forward to seeing some old friends and sharing our good news together about how our businesses have grown over the last two years as well as connecting with new members as well.

Then I’m super excited to meet David Neagle in person. I’ve done his home study course called JUST BELIEVE and he is going to be sharing his system in much more depth and detail about the process that allows you to believe in the power of your dreams. Ali has shared it was David’s techniques that helped her to manifest her beautiful million dollar beachfront home in Marina del Rey, California. So you can bet I’m excited to participate in his presentation.

This will be my FOURTH time in attendance! I’ve been at every single one of Ali’s events and for good reason. I can’t get enough of a good thing, can I? I’ve met some of the most amazing people at Ali’s events and we’ve become great friends. What’s more, they have incredible businesses and are really wonderful people.

There’s no replacing the exceptional value of a rocking Online Success Blueprint Workshop, but I can tell you the top 10 things I’ve learned from Ali in the last 2 years that have had a profound impact on what I do daily in my business.

Top 10 Things I’ve Learned From Alexandria Brown

1. Cooperation gets you a lot further than competition. Ali has done an amazing job of collaborating with her colleagues as well as bringing in special guests. I recently heard an interview with Ali where she was sharing that in the beginning she was concerned about competitors. Ironically, in the interview, she was interviewing another colleague who shares her niche and she pointed out that upon further inspection a joint venture was much more appealing as long as they could respect each other’s differences of opinion. Turned out to be a smart move as the interview was a “hot topic” and complimented her products very nicely.

2. Appreciate your peers and colleagues. One thing I absolutely love about Ali is that she gives credit where credit is due and openly shares her appreciation at events. At last year’s OSBW, she handed me the microphone to share how we had come up with the idea and created her most recent product “Workshop Marketing Secrets” which is an amazing product I highly recommend if you want to put on workshops. Then when Ali presented at the Dan Kennedy and Bill Glazer Super Conference in the Spring 2007, she stood on the stage and talked about her virtual team and in a room full of hundreds of people, she pointed me out at the back of the room. But it’s not just me. She publicly honors and promotes her friends and colleagues with openness and sincerity. That is one of the things I really love about Ali the most.

3. Growth can be exponential and it requires challenging yourself to reach new milestones. Ali steps up to the plate. She announces a workshop for 30 people, designs it and sells it out, kicks off an amazing weekend and celebrates her birthday on a yacht with all of her friends. Each workshop has practically doubled in attendance and has SOLD OUT. She’s willing to put herself out there for what she wants, and the beauty is that she gets it!

4. Take good care of the people who take care of you. It would seem this one goes without saying, but how many business owners treat the people who take care of them the most and the best like what they do isn’t valuable? When in fact, the people who take care of you are the most valuable. Ali seems to recognize this and takes good care of the people who take care of her.

5. Play with the big boys. There is no point in standing back and shrinking in the world. Take up you space and fill it to overflowing. Despite sometimes being “the only girl” in a sea full of men, Ali holds her own and plays with the big boys. What’s more, they really seem to love her for stepping up to the plate like that and putting herself out there.

6. Surround yourself with successful mentors and participate in a mastermind group. If you try to reinvent the wheel, you will take approximately the same amount of time as the original inventors did. If you participate in a mastermind group, one will have road-hugging wheels, another will have an engine and a wealth of knowledge about mechanics, another will understand hydrolics and pressure, another will have a connection to companies that represent drivers and the next thing you know you’ll be driving in the Indy 500. You get the picture.

7. Invest in yourself. Success rarely occurs in a vacuum. As small business and social entrepreneurs we need to continue learning and networking. Life in the shoebox of our home office (no matter how large and elegant the home office may be) is still life in a shoebox. So I highly recommend you invest in yourself, with one caveat. Invest in products, services and seminars that are in alignment with your business vision.

8. Take care of yourself. There’s only one you. I see a lot of people invest all their energy in the outcome of their business but completely neglect themselves in the process. Some have no family or personal life to speak of while others have noticeably let themselves go.

9. Success is in the follow-up. Take time to get to know the people who are attracted to you and what you do. Stay in touch. Find out what they most need. Meet their needs. Stay connected because they will want to work with you. As Ali says, “The fortune is in the follow-up.”

10. You are in the business of “marketing your business” no matter what you do. This is the final and BIG KEY! Ali taught me that my business is really not the thing I do for a living. Instead, my business is marketing what I do so that potential clients learn about me and get to know me, so that when they are ready to move forward I’m their first choice. The business of an entrepreneur is marketing your business.

I’m off to pack and get ready for this week’s Online Success Blueprint Workshop. If you are looking to take your business online or you have an online business that is just kind of plodding along, I highly recommend you rearrange everything in your schedule and pick up one of the last few seats for this event and you can even bring your life and/or business partner for half off once you’ve registered!

You won’t want to miss it! Live into the life you’ve imagined…

Live Into It… :)CC
Christine N Cibula, MS
The “Live Into It!” Expert
1-on-1 Business Coaching

Here’s a super fun video clip (C) 2005 from the love of my life, my fiance and life partner, Thomas Gorgas, Ph.D.. He is the Founder & CEO of Amakua Video, LLC (www.AmakuaVideo.com) a Hawaii Corporation specializing in Internet Commercials, award-winning DVD production and documentary production.

Here’s a cute picture of us taken recently while we were in Hawaii together this summer… Isn’t he HOT-T-T-T in his Save Our Seas Rash Guard? We sell them on www.GetFitWithAloha.com in case you want one for your sweetheart… Mine looks really good on me, too. An awesome choice if you want to match and see each other easily in the ocean. But I digress…

My life with Thomas is one of the dreams in my life [a loving relationship with my best friend and a fulfilling family life] that I’ve lived into, and I am grateful for my life with him and the kids every day… This is a “just for fun” video on Pumpkin Carving for Halloween. We hope you enjoy… To get an update on how things are going in San Diego, you can read my short update below.

The last week was harrowing with over 500,000 evacuations in the County of San Diego alone. California wildfires are a norm with the Santa Ana winds this time of year, but what we saw two years ago in 2005 with the Cedar fires and this year in the 2007 fires, we’ve certainly seen our end of global warming effects that Al Gore shared so eloquently in An Inconvenient Truth. Qualcomm Stadium was the refuge that reminded way too many people of the blessings here by comparison to Hurricane Katrina’s Superdome horror, but to our surprise, evacuees were back home on Friday and The Chargers won over Houston, Texas 35-10 in a home game on Sunday. We’re back to life as usual here in San Diego even though we’ve been warned that on Friday the Santa Ana winds will be picking back up again and to have our bags packed and ready to go as well as our cell phones plugged in for reverse 911 calls. The system worked beautifully and they got to people with 15 minutes or more time before the fires reached their homes, which was amazing under emergency conditions like that for a city our size. One final note, THANK YOU TO OUR FIREFIGHTERS and EMERGENCY CREWS and POLICE DEPARTMENT, but most especially TO OUR FIREFIGHTERS… Wishing you some rest this week and a Happy Halloween…

For some this is a time of new beginnings. For others it is a time to be grateful for what has been Remember, live into the life you’ve imagined…

Live Into It… :)CC
Christine N. Cibula, M.S.
The Live Into It Expert
www.LiveIntoIt.com

This is too funny, so I had to share. A couple of days ago I shared the little business lesson of the Black Phoebe bird… Well yesterday, I made myself some lunch and went to sit and relax near the outside patio in the living room, and there he was again, sitting on one of the four chairs where I had been sitting outside the day I first saw him. We made eye contact for quite a while and then he headed off to do his thing.

The thing I find so interesting is that we spent about 10 minutes looking at each other, and in nature, that is quite a long time. I even went in search of some bird seed in one of the cupboards and came back to him and he was still there. He primped and stretched his wings to show me how beautiful he is. I think he really understands how much I appreciate him, which is a sweet human-bird or bird-human connnection. Gotta love his staying power…

Well, this morning, I was upstairs and kept hearing this bird song. When I found the illustration of him on the Internet, I listened to the Black Phoebe bird song, so I recongnized it. In wonderment, I went to the window, and from upstairs, I could see him sitting on the same spot on the chair again, with a huge fat worm in his beak. He was literally sitting there singing about it, holding it in his beak, looking toward the living room and waiting for me to witness it.

I called to him from the upstairs window, and he looked up at me and then he turned around few times, cocked his head up at me, and sure enough, he gobbled it. He fluffed his feathers and pushed out his chest nice and strong and kept cocking his head looking up at me in the window. He is such a special little birdie - an unexpected blessing who keeps putting a smile on my face and teaching me by example. I keep thanking him for my daily little lessons learned.

It reminded me that sometimes we need a witness to share in our experiences and to celebrate our success! Otherwise, it doesn’t always feel real. Or somehow it can feel hollow or less special.

It makes me think of my little brother in the summertime when he’d be doing water antics and calling across the pool, “Christine! Watch me!!!” Or when he’d be playing video games saying, “Watch this… Christine… Check this out…” The connection to what we’re doing often involves a witness.

I’m really blessed, because I’ve got the biggest cheerleading squad I could have ever hoped for in my life… My vision board in my office has love notes from the kids and Thomas reminding me to stay the course, go the distance, dream big, and be happy. Thomas tells me daily how proud of me he is and encourages me to keep going, even when I question myself. And we all do. Its natural.

My mom, Katherine Cibula - Madam Vice President & Most Valued Player (MVP), is always giving me feedback and cheering me on… Celebrating everything with me every step of the way…

Even as I write this, my MVP popped into my office this morning to share her AquaLogix workout with me. She’s so excited with her newfound discovery that she came into the office saying, “I want you to see my happy face… I had the best time today.” She laughed and even cried happy tears, because this experience is a confirmation of her living into her dreams here in California. We all need a witness…

My little brother is encouraging and sends me financial spreadsheets. His undergraduate degree in Business Finance & Japanese from Notre Dame University and MBA from Stanford Universtity gives him quite a foundation and I’m grateful for his guidance.

Dad says keep going… He belives in the power of my dreams and has always encouraged me to do what I love doing…

Lifelong friends who have no knowledge of the business per se encourage me all the time and have fun seeing me live into my dreams, even when the going has been tough. Somehow they seem to get I’m in this for the long haul and doing whatever it takes to make it work.

Friends who do have knowledge of the business, like Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero, Fabienne Fredrickson and Alexandria Brown encourage me to keep going through their enthusiasm, guidance and by their shining examples. It helps to have Ali say, “CC, you are so talented you should be a multi-millionaire. You’ve got everything it takes and I believe in you… I know you can do this!”

So yes, we all need cheerleaders, support and a witness as we live into the lives we’ve imagined… I believe we need it even moreso as Entrepreneurs because so many people don’t really get the life of an Entrepreneur and what it really takes in order to succeed in our own small business enterprises. One of the best places I’ve found is my personal coaching and mentorship connections with the people I admire and respect in our community.

So today, I encourage you to stay the course, go the distance and know I’m pulling for you as you live into the life of your dreams…

Live Into It… :)CC

Christine N. Cibula, M.S.
The Live Into It Expert
www.LiveIntoIt.com