Hi Ariel and Shya,
I had an interesting experience today that I thought you might appreciate. Completely by accident I have started cleaning houses for people to make a little extra money. I am enjoying it because it is flexible, and I make much more money than I ever have before! I started with one person and the word spread and now I have 5 clients.
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Right now I’m in the Bavarian Forest and it’s a cold but crystal clear day outside (autumn is already in the air). I’m here in Lower Bavaria working as 1st Assistant Director for a new German movie. My job includes setting the shooting schedule, tracking daily progress against the filming production schedule, arranging all logistics on the set, while maintaining a working environment in which the director, the cameraman, the actors and crew can be focused on their work & have fun doing it.
Right now I’m in the last preparation stages for this movie – we are starting to shoot in 6 days – and everything is amazingly different than it used to be at the movies during the last years. Though I still have lots of things to do, plan & organize till next Wednesday, I’m really calm, very structured and get things done in nearly no time. Even the things that are still unclear don’t make me nervous and it really feels like this relaxedness of mine is like a spark jumping over to all my collegues and my director. Though huge obstacles for our movie appear every day out of nothing, we deal with them calmly and without fear and in a couple of hours we have a solution for these new challenges.
Love and thanks again,
Benedict
Just the other day, commuting from the place I live outside of Hamburg to my office in the city, I was so caught up in my thoughts that I left my everyday survival bag on the bench where I had been sitting. Whilst I had gotten onto another line to get to where I was heading, my bag surely had already caught somebody’s attention and brought that person what he or she might have considered their lucky day: amongst other things, my bag hosted an iPodTouch and 160 Euros in cash. I was pulled back into the moment abruptly and felt a hot rush going all through me when I realized what I had left behind a few minutes ago.
Now I was onto getting the most important things done (blocking all my cards, temporary I.D.) so I could still go on my vacation as planned, two days later.
After returning from a lovely week in the mountains of a region called “Montafon” in Austria, I had already been busy compensating for other things that were lost two weeks earlier. When I suddenly realized that I had missed something.
Valerie, whose company created Ariel and Shya’s website, contacted me because they couldn’t bill me for the Premium Excellence Club on my credit card information. Oops, you don’t just block the cards, you let people who charge you on them know 
And that reminded me of a brief encounter with Valerie a few months earlier.
While looking at the Transformational Moments blog I noticed that entries from people had category tags but that there where no categories to click on and see all the entries that shared that same tag. So I let the webmaster know and Valerie answered me and she indeed created those categories to click on, immediately. I was happy I could help and I was impressed she got it done right away.
In this new situation she was giving me the chance to come full circle. For once with completing to compensate for my lost everyday survival bag by giving her the new information. And then with Valerie herself by doing so promptly. The way we exchanged was neat, too. She had suggested that we could Skype. I used Skype a few times some years ago but it wasn’t on my computer anymore. Great – I also had the chance to reinstall it and get my account running again and we had a great little video chat the next day.
No, not happy about loosing my bag. But happy about what came after it. With this little story I finally stopped dragging my feet about participating in the blog. Thanks for all the other posts and also to everybody who speaks on the workshops or the video mini sessions or the conference calls or the Q&A’s or the radio shows.
Hi All,
We are having a BRILLIANT time in Cambridge. We are even starting to sound a bit like the Britts 
Our course this past weekend was so profound. By Sunday afternoon people were spontaneously popping into their brilliant selves. It was inspiring to see and be a part of the fun.
If you are available or have friends in the area, don’t forget to come and invite folks for our talks in Cambridge tonight and London on Friday evening. By the way, many of you have indicated that you are coming to one or both of these events and if you are, don’t forget to register! Here are the links:
Cambridge for Wednesday Night (tonight):
http://www.josephcloughtrainings.co.uk/personalsuccessgroup2.html
London College of Spirituality for Friday Night:
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Hi Everyone,
I am proud to share with you an article I had the privilege to write for New York Resident magazine:
“Tranquility in Midtown Manhattan”
Ariel & Shya advertise in this magazine and asked me to write an article in the June issue! I wrote it the weekend of the last course, Transformational Time and Project Management. When I sat down and saw all the things I wanted to say, it was so easy – and really fun – to write (much easier than I had thought it would be).
The article is about my experience of taking Ariel & Shya’s workshops and the wonderful results I’ve experienced (and continue to experience) in my life.
Thanks to Ariel & Shya and everyone for your support in making this happen. Enjoy!!
Love,
Val
Dear Transformation Community,
A couple of weeks ago, I was in the Key Food grocery store by my house and as I was leaving, I noticed on the bulletin board a dazzling ad that caught my eye. It was for a housecleaning service. It said, “I will make your place sparkle!” with a very nice font. Below is the ad for you to take a look at.
The funny thing is that for quite some time now, I’ve been thinking about getting my place cleaned by someone. I’ve been resisting cleaning my place myself and I just thought it would be easier to pay someone to do it. But I resisted even doing that with thoughts of “Why should I pay someone else? it’s my place. It’s not that big. I should be able to do it myself,” etc. Anyway, the one thing I couldn’t resist was this ad. It was like it was meant for me! So I called the lady Nancy and she came over and she cleaned like a demon. She did a great job and she was very professional. (more…)
Dear Friends,
10 days ago, I thought it would be a nice idea to send my mother some flowers at Mother’s Day, May 9th. So I went in the Internet to my online flower shop and checked Mother’s Days flower bouquets. They were beautiful, but nothing really touched my heart. So I checked the other offers, and suddenly a stunning bouquet of a dozen large red roses popped up. A beautiful heart shaped tin box with filled chocolate was attached. It looked just gorgeous! Then my little voice in my head started: “No, this is something for lovers, not for moms.” And then I saw, they are only available tll April 30th. Ok, enough resonable reasons to forget about it. I looked for something else, and one minute later I jumped back to the roses. They looked so incredible precious and beautiful. (more…)
Yesterday afternoon, my lovely girlfriend Ali was sitting outside on her porch and much to her delight and surprise she witnessed the following. (In her words): I live on the corner of a busy intersection in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I was locking my bike up and suddenly, behind me I heard a loud symphony of car horns. I turned around to see that all four stoplights were frozen on red, and rush hour traffic was quickly backing up. On the corner stood a young boy watching the madness. He calmly walked out into the middle of the street, Razor Scooter in tow, and began to direct the traffic. Confidently he allowed one car at a time to pass, all the while grinning from ear to ear. I sat down to watch this young boy, not older then 8, transform this chaotic situation into a manageable one. This continued for over a half an hour until a worker came to fix the stop lights. The young boy graciously thanked the worker for showing up, and then hopped back on his scooter and rode away. I felt fortunate to witness such an amazing sight! He saw that he could help, and he did; no hesitation! It was truly inspiring!
Alexandra and Shea
Minneapolis, Minnesota
It all started in Costa Rica. Actually it started just after the completion of the Kanes’ Costa Rican Adventure 2010, which was the best ever, by the way. Although I was inspired and really wanted to go again in 2011, I had hesitated to sign up for Costa Rica next year, because I didn’t want to register without letting my 16-year-old daughter Ayla in on my decision first. This past year, when I had let Ayla know I was going, she had pouted for a week or more because I hadn’t consulted her before committing to go. I had actually hesitated before telling her because I was afraid she might disapprove!
On the way to my room to get my luggage before heading home, I ran into Ariel and Shya on one of the beautiful covered walkways and we started chatting. When I outlined my dilemma, they pointed out that what I was actually doing was to ask my daughter for her permission to go to Costa Rica again and that it is I who is the mother who needs to say what’s going on – not vice versa. They said that I was trying to be Ayla’s friend instead of her mother. It was not long before I discovered how true this really had been.
Hi Friends!
