My Personal Testimonial ~ Every now and again we meet someone who truly speaks to our heart… both personally and educationally.  Pam Brossman is just that kind of person.  We met online via a webinar she hosted on online video marketing.  Pam is not only an expert in her field, she is also a teacher, mentor, all-time encourager and truly an inspiration to all women (and men) she comes in contact with.  Pam Brossman is honest, authentic and IS truly the real deal.  She sincerely cares and wants to help as many women entrepreneurs as she can to prosper and live their ultimate dreams ~whatever they may be!

Pam is launching a NEW Mentoring Magazine for Women Entrepreneurs and it is my honor and privilege to announce it here.

Pam Brossman, CEO of Social Media Woman Magazine is launching a brand new mentoring magazine for women entrepreneurs called SheExperts.

It will be full of video training materials, strategies and tools.

Pam says: “No fluff, just video training you can use in your business right now.”

I Did Not Want You to Miss It

The first edition is free and I did not want you to miss out.

The amazing Lisa Sasevich, who has made 10 million in the last 3 yrs is on the cover and has contributed a fabulous training tutorial for you too.

The magazine was to launch on April 29th, but it has been delayed a few days, until sometime next week.  HOWEVER, YOU CAN opt-in NOW by clicking the link below to make sure you get your copy.

http://www.sheexperts.com/shemag

The training content in the BRAND NEW SheExperts Magazine is exceptional. YOU are going to simply love it.

Don’t forget… The Magazine launches next week, so keep an eye out for the first FREE launch copy BEFORE it goes on sale in June for $7.97.

Once again, sign up here for your FREE copy! http://www.sheexperts.com/shemag

Thanks for reading,

Roz Fruchtman
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I created this video earlier this  year for a class I took with Bob The Teacher aka Bob Jenkins ~ Simple Video Velocity 3, the virtual class.

I took the long/wrong way around to create this, but it was a lesson well learned.  Nonetheless…  the result is one that all of us need to consider from time to time, especially with Thanksgiving right around the corner!

Please do take a few moments (it is NOT long) and have a look see.  For me… It speaks volumes and is an instant mood elevator…

I hope this video brings you the same joy and peace it brings me each time I see/read the poem, in whatever format it might appear.

Would love to hear your thoughts.  Please share your comments in the Comments area below!

Love and Hugs,

Roz Fruchtman

UPDATE:

After some trouble shooting I found that the backups I scheduled were scheduled to upload to the server and began to accumulate, thus eating up all the available space I had allotted myself for this blog.

Before giving myself more space/web storage I wanted to find out “exactly” what the issue was, how to fix it and how to prevent it from happening in the future.

Once I found out I had gone over my allotted web space, I began to remove things like:

Spam Mail (even if you are not using the online mailbox, spam mails seems to find its way into it and every now and again one had to remove it.

Even removing the mail did not make much of a difference.

Somehow I found my way over to the folder that was housing the backups and once removing most of the backups the problem was solved.

I believe @ithemes BackupBuddy can now be programmed to limit the backups that remain on the server so these things do not happen.  I remember learning that in a class, but neglected to set it up properly! ;)

Experience is the the best teacher! ;)

ORIGNAL POST BELOW…

This is a test post.

I am attempting to upload a new theme and for some reason it won’t upload here, but I’ve uploaded it this afternoon to 2-3 other blogs.  So it seems to be a “site” specific issue.

I’m just testing now until it is fixed to see what I can and cannot do here.

Roz

I’ve not written for the last few months.  It’s been a journey and to be honest it was much too painful to share UNTIL I got my thoughts to where I could write from peace and NOT from anger!  Sometimes it’s like that, but luckily NOT too often! 2010 was a year of HUGE personal growth and decision.

While 2011 looked bright and shiny and felt like the year of rebirth, life took a turn and I was ill for the first two months.  I’m on the road to recovery in body and spirit with new ideas and goals from what I learned during this time!

I BELIEVE

I truly belief that God sometimes puts us in situations so we can learn and walk in other’s shoes ~hopefully on a temporary basis!  This happened to me back in 2006 when I had a sudden retina detachment.  The recovery period allowed me to see how some who are visually impaired live on a daily basis and how they are treated.  This made me more considerate, compassionate and helpful.

UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL

This time, it was dealing with the uncertainty of what was happening to me physically and the reality of how fragile life really is ~and that it could end at any time! I knew this… however, this stuff happened suddenly and I got to experience “up close and personal” just how quickly things can change.

I learned in a hurry, how to appreciate life more and realize what is really important.  Furthermore I vowed to ALWAYS put myself first as far as my health and well being ~both physically and spiritually!  I’m believing in 100% recovery, but I did not always feel that way!  I’ll do my best to use the fear I felt to keep me on my toes!

Stay tuned… I’m hoping my journey will help others!

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Roz Fruchtman
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Happy New Year to You and Yours!  Looks like we made it to yet another year, AND AM I HAPPY we did!!!

OH MY… All Those 1′s

Somehow… This year seems so much more exciting.  Perhaps it is the allure of all those 1′s ~ 1/1/11 or 1/11/11 or better yet 11/11/11  factor.  WOWEE… what marketers WILL do with this!

MY WISH FOR YOU, FOR US

May this year be your/OUR best year yet and may you/WE obtain all your/OUR goals and dreams.  May your/OUR blessings be so abundant they are too many to count!

NEVER GIVE UP, JUST GET BETTER

You CANNOT fail if you do not try!  You also WILL NOT be successful if you do not try! You will ALWAYS WONDER if you do not try! If you try and give up too soon, you may be walking away when success is right around the corner.

Making adjustments to those things which are not working is NOT giving up… It is GETTING BETTER!  I say this to you as much as I say it to myself.  There are some things I’ve been doing for years which have not served me well.  I complained bitterly, but I NEVER did much about it.  Why?  Perhaps I was afraid of what would happen, yet I knew what I was doing was not working. JOIN ME… TAKE CHANCES, MAKE CHANGES…  New opportunities are in the wings, just waiting for us! Things can ONLY GET BETTER! If not, WE’LL JUST TRY AGAIN! Giving up is NOT an option!

DO NOT LISTEN TO THEM

Just keep in mind… Marketers and sales people are trained in emotional marketing.  We all do it.  DO NOT LISTEN to the things YOU KNOW are meant to make you feel bad and purchase products YOU KNOW you will NEVER use.  DO LISTEN to the things that ARE TRUE!  YOU DO know the difference!

UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN

May your dreams be plentiful and your blessings be too many to count.

COMMENTS

I would love to hear your thoughts and comments on the subject.  Please type them in the Comments Box below. I look forward to sharing with you. Let’s create a “community of encouragement and inspiration!”

Say Thank You

Let’s make it a point to “Thank at least one person a day!”

THANK “YOU” for taking the time to read this.  I hope you will click on one of the buttons below the post to share it with others!

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LUV & HUGS,

Roz Fruchtman
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I received an email earlier today from Jack Canfield.  The article included discussed the process of Journaling.  I felt it that important I wanted to repost it here via the permission granted in the email. I could not have said it better myself, besides, I’ve had my own issues with Journaling.

Oddly enough when I did journal, upon re-reading at a later date, instead of celebrating the growth and accomplishments, I only saw and felt the pain.  Thus I ripped the journals to shreds thinking “who wants to keep pain?”  It’s all about mindset… I am sorry for those actions today, but understand my actions.  I call that growth! ~Roz Fruchtman

Use A Journal to Inspire Yourself into Action
by Jack Canfield

By keeping a personal journal, you enter a sacred space. Here, you are safe from judgment and free from daily duties and cares. Here you can dream, discover, and dare to create new ways of being in the world.

Use a journal to directly reinforce the teachings of The Success Principles, and other personal learning courses.  Create a laboratory for personal transformation as you put the principles of your course into action each day. Do this by including sections in your journal for inspiration, intention, action, and growth. 

Receive Inspiration
 
Writing captures guidance from your deepest self before it disappears.  Inspired ideas can rise to the surface of your mind in a classic “aha!” moment. This might be a solution to a persistent problem, an idea for a breakthrough goal, a powerful image, an energizing affirmation, or another sudden spark of insight. No matter what form the inspiration takes, record it in your journal.

Write about your challenges as well. Note the moments when you are not functioning at your peak—times when you feel bored, tense, angry, afraid, or sad. These feelings are clues to areas of your life ripe for transformation. In your journal, describe the discomfort in detail and how you reacted. Look for patterns. Also brainstorm new options for responding. Sometimes a moment of inspiration lies just on the other side of a tough emotion.
 
Form Intention
 
Statements of intention contain blueprints for action. This kind of journal entry offers a way to stay positive and on course, directed toward the new results you want to attract into your life.
 
As with writing affirmations, keep intention statements focused on what you want. “I intend to effortlessly double my income” is more effective than “I intend to stop worrying about paying my bills each month.”

Also release the word try. A statement such as “I will try to save at least 10 percent of my income each month” conveys something less than wholehearted commitment. People who continue to overspend can rationalize the result by saying, “Well, I am trying.”

A more effective option comes from Yoda, the gnomish guru in the Star Wars film trilogy: “Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”

While you can fill up a journal with statements of inspiration and intention, consider adding inducements to action as well. Even the most jaw-dropping insight or motivating statement of intention can fall flat when this element is missing.

Take the intention statement mentioned above: “I intend to double my income while working with joy and ease.” That’s a solid place to start. Now, pave the way for action by packing your intention full of details. Include specific goals such as “I will call fifty new customers this week” and “I will include ten new products in my next catalog.” 

Celebrate Growth
 
Use a journal to make your own growth visible to yourself. Record the results that you experience by using The Success Principles and the Law of Attraction. Whenever a new outcome shows up in your life—whether subtle or significant—capture it in your journal.

Be specific. As your income increases, note dollar amounts. As your network of clients and job contacts grows, include names. As you resolve conflict with key people in your life, describe the words and actions that produced these breakthroughs.

Writing offers a way to lift your eyes above the steady march of daily events. When immersed in the details of work and family responsibilities, you can easily overlook change that is already manifesting in your life. Use a journal to regain perspective and literally rewrite your life.

Seeing the evidence of your personal growth recorded on the page, before your own eyes, can instantly raise your emotional vibration. And that opens a path for the cycle of inspiration, intention, action, and growth to begin all over again.

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Are you “stuck” in this area?
Send Jack Canfield your most pressing question about this topic, then join him for his monthly:

Ask Jack Canfield Tele-Clinic on November 3rd
http://www.AskJackCanfield.com

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Jack Canfield, America’s #1 Success Coach, is founder of the billion-dollar book brand Chicken Soup for the Soul©and a leading authority on Peak Performance and Life Success. If you’re ready to jump-start your life, make more money, and have more fun and joy in all that you do, get your FREE success tips from Jack Canfield now at: www.FreeSuccessStrategies.com

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COMMENTS:

I would love to hear your comments.  Do you Journal?  Do you keep the Journals?  If yes, why?  If no, why? 

In humble gratitude,

Roz Fruchtman
http://www.SayItWithEcards.com

Updated: 10/28/2010

I’m struggling lately making some life changing decisions.  I know what I don’t want, but I’m having trouble implementing what I do want, in fact I’m not sure anymore what that really is.  There are some things that must be removed from my life in order to clear the way for the new!

My point…  My attitude is being affected by finances.  I’m far from crying poverty with all the hurt out there.  I’m a lot better off than many, so I do my best to always look on the bright side of things:  “Like saying, it could have been worse IF this or that happened, etc., you know what I mean!”

Getting back to the paper plate issue.

I should have said:  “Do you RINSE your paper plates?”  It would be ludicrous to wash your paper plates with dish detergent, when you can use a regular plate and do the same  action and SAVE money, cause you could wash the SAME plate over and over and over UNLESS you dropped it and it broke!

When I wrote the earlier post below I had a lapse and was confusing being economical with being cheap or stingy.  It’s a mind set issue, but I’m seeing the light.

Just wanted to share!

I INVITE YOU to comment below in the COMMENTS area.

Roz

— Original Post 10/16/2010 —

I’m really curious…
Do You Wash Your Paper Plates?

In today’s economy most of us are doing things we might not have done before or even thought of doing until now?  I often wonder if it age, or is it the economy or am I becoming more frugal or worse yet stingy and cheap.  No one wants to consider themselves a tightwad. ;)

Lately I’ve been asking friends and relatives this question:  “Do you wash your paper plates?”

To clarify, I am talking about the “heavier” paper plates, the ones with a coating on them, the ones that will hold moisture ~ the real thin paper plates go in the trash first time out!

To my surprise…  everyone I asked said yes… they will rinse off a paper plate that is pretty clean except for a spot or a few crumbs.

What was more interesting after I realized I was not being cheap, were the various reasons people were washing their paper plates.

• to save money of course
• to save the environment
• less paper or Styrofoam in the landfills
• less dishes to wash

SOOOOOOOO… “DO YOU wash your paper plates and if so, what are YOUR reasons?

COMMENTS

I would love to hear your thoughts and comments on the subject.  Please type them in the Comments Box below. I look forward to sharing with you. Let’s create a “community of encouragement and inspiration!”

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For a while there “I could NOT see my own Blog entries!”

Read the full story here:
http://rozfruchtman.com/2010/10/16/roz-says-every-adversity-is-an-opportunity-to-learn/

For the last few days I’ve been having “viewing” challenges with this Blog ~ http://www.RozFruchtman.com

It all started when I created a Blog entry, published it and THEN decided I wanted to CHANGE the title and Permalink URL!

There was a little bit more involved in this, but from then on “I” could NOT see my blog when I clicked the TITLE link to go to the archived post or comment page.  I could see the Blog in FireFox, but NOT in IE7.x where I was working.

This went on for a few days, with me researching and asking others if they could see the Blog.  I myself was able to see it with no problem from my laptop which has IE8.x.

My two good friends Judith Tramayne ( @JudithTramayne on Twitter ), and Micki Wingate ( @EclecticAcademy on Twitter ) shared their precious time trying to help me resolve my issues.

Every Adversity is An Opportunity to Learn ~ YES IT IS!

We were not sure if this was an Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) issue or a WordPress issue or just an issue on my system.

It seemed odd, that ONLY I could NOT see MY Blog and everyone else could.  Odd indeed!

Judith found a Scan on the Microsoft Website that “searches for and fixes Internet Explorer issues.”  NOTE: The Scan “does not” do anything you do not want it to.  You DO have choices. The scan is from Microsoft Automated Troubleshooting Services, AND… Judith used it first! ;)  Go here to check out your own Internet Explorer ~ mine was for Internet Explorer 7.  Check your version first!  THAT WAS NOT the issue for me and did not fix my WordPress problem.

Next Micki suggested I “disable ALL plugins!”  We were on to something here.  As soon as I disabled ALL the plugins I was back in business.

• My blog showed up and began to work normally.
• My blog loaded faster and all seemed well again, except I had no plugins ~ YET!

NOW the fun began… I started to “enable” the plugins”one-by-one!”  Each time I enabled a plugin I checked the Blog (oh, and I updated the plugins too).  For some odd reason the Sexy Bookmarks Plugin was the culprit, it was no longer working properly.  I have no idea why as it works on all my other Blogs with no problems.

Here comes the good part… 

Now that I could not use Sexy Bookmarks I got to try the Sociable for WordPress 3.0 Plugin by Tom Pokress!  YIPPEE… It does EXACTLY what I want and I’m in seventh heaven. 

I still want to know what is going on with Sexy Bookmarks and why it suddenly stopped working properly.  I’ll be contacting my webhost to see if there were any changes made to the server.  The really odd part is that ALL Blog Posts made BEFORE I tried to “change the permalink url” still worked fine with Sexy Bookmarks enabled!

I would truly love to hear your thoughts on this issue.  I’ll update as well when/if I ever find the answer.

COMMENTS

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Say Thank You

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Roz Fruchtman
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A week or so ago I decided to take 30 days to evaluate what it is I want to do and how I could fix or eliminate  those things that are not working for me.

It’s been about 10 days so far and I have not even begun to evaluate ~ thus the 30 days will be extended.  REMEMBER: This exercise was to “eliminate ALL stress and ALL pressure while making life-changing decisions!”

The first week was taken up with personal business that needed taking care of.  Ordinarily I would have been stressed just taking the time, but since I’ve “given myself the gift of time” it was not stressful at all ~a little wasteful, but not stressful. 

One day was spent waiting around at a government office to have some information updated.  Just as it was my next “the computers went down!”  Since it was a long trip, I decided to hang around a bit, but they never came back up and I had to return two days later.  At which time I waited some more and when called I was told I had to come back late November.  While it was wasteful in one area, it was informative in others.  AND… I even got to get out and enjoy the wonderful New York weather and get some much needed exercise.  SEE… “I’ve already begun to put a positive spin on a negative situation.”  Just that demonstrated TO ME… I was beginning to think differently. 

The past few days have been taken up with horrendous activities like: Watching TV, eating, sleeping and doing a repeat performance a few times a day ~with a little computer time in between. Don’t ya just feel sorry for me? ;)  The point is, I have not even begun to evaluate anything except the fact I’m tired and ”I just want to re-learn how to just be!” I can’t stay at the computer for more than a little while without feeling like I need to escape!  For me… just feeling that is odd.

THE GUILTS

It’s interesting…  Since I am taking this vacation of sorts “at home” I’m feeling guilty just lounging around.

IF I were away at a resort I would just veg out on a chaise lounge with NO guilt.  I wish I could figure out why relaxing when away at a resort is ok, but relaxing at home is not ~This IS VERY IMPORTANT!  What have “I done to myself?”

Adding blogging each day would just recreate the pressure I’m trying to remove. 

I DECIDED NOT TOO

To eliminate any stress of “having to do ANYTHING at all” I’ve decided NOT to blog each day.  I’m  just taking notes and observing the journey.  So far “I’m just being!”  That’s not a bad place to be, but I still do not feel up to doing much more!  Thus… I decided to write this blog post to eliminate the stress of breaking the promise of blogging each day, besides some things really are personal!

COMMENTS

I would love to hear your thoughts and comments on the subject.  Please type them in the Comments Box below. I look forward to sharing with you. Let’s create a “community of encouragement and inspiration!”

Say Thank You

Let’s make it a point to “Thank at least one person a day!”

THANK “YOU” for taking the time to read this.  I hope you will click on one of the buttons below the post to share it with others!

LET’s CONNECT

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LUV & HUGS,

Roz Fruchtman
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