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Please consider writing a review on Amazon.com

This is easy and also gives you a link on Amazon! To write a review on Amazon, you have to be registered with them. This means you have to have ordered something from them in the past. Just go to the book’s Amazon page, by clicking the link or by typing Sheri Gaynor, Creative Awakenings into the book search field. Scroll about halfway down and click on “Rate this item.”

Write a short honest review (fewer than 250 words) with a catchy title (5 stars always appreciated!). It might be useful to write it in a document first and then copy and paste it into the Amazon site. It would be helpful to other readers if you pointed to something in the book that is particularly valuable information for you.

Most of all....Thank you for purchasing a copy of my book. As always your time and support means the

world to me! Let's inspire a Creative Awakenings movement!

~Sheri

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Email: sheri@sherigaynor.com

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New book tour date confirmed. March 19, 2009, 7:30 pm Books and Books, Bal Harbour, Florida. http://ping.fm/5xZzI

The winner of the Creative Awakenings book giveaway is Phoenix! Congratulations to you and thanks to everyone who participated!

Stay tuned. noon MTN I will be pulling the book giveaway winner from the hat! http://ping.fm/UXtkT

Staying positive in difficult times.

©2009 Sheri Gaynor, From Week 2: Tilling the soil, the inaugural Creative Awakenings Dream Circle

I woke up this morning thinking about a question that came up during last nights FANTABULOUS LIveChat on the FAMM network. We had 58 + wonderful creative women on our chat. You can still read the chat transcript here. Look for "Watch Replay." 

During the call someone asked, "How do you stay so positive when thing around us are so difficult," or something to that effect. I took me a minute to answer, as I really wanted to think about that. I have not always been this person. Really, I have not. I used to be largely fear based and pretty dang pessimistic. There were actually days I felt like Pig Pen from Charlie Brown with my very own personal dark cloud. It took a lot of hard work, some wonderful counselors and an ability to claim responsibility for how I showed up in the world, to begin to shift my way of thinking. Is it true that we attract what we put out? I don't know, but I finally realized it actually felt a heck of a lot better to show up and face each day as a clean slate. 

The other thing I do-and this is CRITICAL-is limit my diet of negativity. In ALL ways. No more drama thank you very much. I am just over it. No can do. Lived that way for far, far, far to long. There is a BETTER WAY! This means...I limit and choose what I watch on the television and movies. Life is scary enough, don't need to see more horrifying photos from the latest plane crash in Denver (last nights offering). I don't need to watch cop shows that offer women as victims of every atrocity known to man-no pun intended. I limit what and how I read the paper. I scan. Read bits and pieces, just enough to stay informed and not crumble amidst fear and scarcity. I also surround myself with friends who are doing the work and showing up every day. Of course there are times when the proverbial S--T hits the fan, but what I have noticed is that even when that happens, I no longer REACT. I find a place of calm inside me to weather the storm. NO DRAMA! WHOOOO HOOOO! 

There are some wonderful magazines out that can help you realize that although our media chooses to focus on all the horrendous things happening in the world, there still is a lot of GOODNESS out there as well. People all over our country and the world are using their gifts to attempt to make this a better world to live in. Here are a few of my readings: ODE magazine, Pink Magazine, and a lot of amazing on-line blogs written by people just like you and me. 

I hope this helps. Last night gave me an idea. I would like to start a little column...Feisty  Females wanna know...or something to that effect. I will post something about it later this week. Would you be willing to post your questions as they come up using Creative Awakenings? I think that could be really fun. I felt like a modern day Ann Landers last night. It was a blast! What I loved is how many women said they realized they were not alone in their thoughts or questions. How 'bout it! That is what it's all about! 

Stay tuned: NOON MTN. Last nights winner from our Live Chat will be announced. 

Would you like to host an interview on your blog? I would love to visit. Give me a holler: feistyfemales@gmail.com

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