Learn the Art of the Aligned Entrepreneur

Learn the Art of the Aligned Entrepreneur: Finding More Ease and Joy with Your Business

I’ve been working with Stephanie Wood for several years since I discovered her Body Knowledge System, and have come to see my body, and how she affects all areas of my life including my business, in a new light.

Stephanie is now launching a new program, and I commend it to you!

This is what Stephanie says:

Are you honoring your business the way you honor yourself?

Is your business a hobby or a real profit-making operation?

Are you hoping that being spiritual gets you off the hook for taking practical steps in your business?

Learn the Art of the Aligned Entrepreneur: Finding More Ease and Joy with Your Business

Many people hold the dream of having their own business, and of doing that business in a new way. You want to create your business as an expression of yourself, your dreams, and your unique way of being in the world. And, you’d like to thrive and profit as well.

Being successful in business and sharing your unique contribution requires more than following your bliss. If you don’t fully understand the essence of being an aligned entrepreneur, you risk struggling to get your work out, being overwhelmed by fears and doubts, or simply working a lot harder than you want.

WEDNESDAYS starting January 27th and ending March 3rd, 4pm Eastern (US), 9pm UK.
Fees: $199 for six, 90-minute live TeleClasses
Full details here

Lest we Forget – thoughts from Bob Mason on Remembrance Day

This was sent to me by my good friend Bob Mason and is very appropriate for today.

Lest we forget – a story of three brothers

In 1915, three brothers Ernest, Harry and George Maywall walked from Attercliffe to Edmund Road Drill Hall and joined the KOYLIs (Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry).

For the next two years they trained, at first living in tents on the moors high above Sheffield, then in leaky wooden huts that they built themselves.

Why this didn’t break their spirit no one has ever been able to work out but like all the Pals Battalions as they became known, they were some of the finest troops ever put into the field by the British Army.

The three brothers were eventually posted together to the KOYLIs 2nd Battalion in Flanders. In 1917 they went over the top in one of the battles in the countryside that surrounded Ypres in Belgium.

Sometime during the battle a shell landed near the hole where the three brothers were sheltering. All three were wounded and were taken to the St Julien Dressing Station.

Here Ernest died and is buried in the cemetery that stands on the spot where the dressing station was in 1917.

Harry recovered from his wounds but had shrapnel in his body till he died in 1962.

George had no physical wound but the blast from the shell gave him what was then known as shell shock and now is called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD for short. He spent the rest of his life in and out of hospital with mental health problems.

Last year my wife and I realised that no one had ever visited Ernest’s grave because my parents generation thought that going to Bournemouth was going ‘foreign’ so going to Belgium would be like going to the other side of the world.

Living where we do, getting to Belgium is not a problem at all on the ferry from Hull so we booked a holiday in Ypres.

St Julian Dressing Station Cemetery wasn’t hard to find as it is just 2 miles outside Ypres. Like all War Graves Commission cemeteries it is immaculate and the local people make sure it stays that way.

We found Ernest’s grave and left four poppy crosses one each for Harry, George, Mable and Lillian (Lillian is my Mother). We felt that somehow we wanted to bring all five siblings together again.

At 8pm that same evening we were privileged to attend the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate in Ypres.

We had no idea what to expect other than the Ypres Fire Brigade sound the last post on Silver Bugles that were donated by the Royal British Legion for them to use.

As 8 pm approached and the traffic was stopped, a hush fell over the hundreds of people lining both sides of the road that still passes through the gate.

As the bugles rang out echoing round the memorial, the hair on the back of my neck stood up and many in the crowd were openly weeping.

It was as though the hundreds of thousands of men and women who had died within a mile of where we were standing had come to stand with us as we thought about their sacrifice.

It was the most moving experience of my life and there is no doubt in my mind that we WILL remember them.

Travels of a Container – the BBC Box

The BBC sent a container round the world for a year to track how these amazing “boxes” make today’s global trade system work.

Today it is back in the UK, and it’s journey is tracked on its own website here .

It’s hard to think of an invention (apart from the pneumatic tyre) which has influenced our lives more than the container!