Live Your Dream Life with Passion and Purpose

I haven’t posted about biz in quite a long time. I’m working out how this is going to emerge for me, but I felt inspired by two ladies who make my heart sing and wanted to share.

When I was a marketer, my ‘specialty’ was helping companies grow very fast. The truth is… I wasn’t really a marketer per se, I was more of an aligner. I just helped people feel good in their business and then their businesses would take off. I didn’t know it back then, but I do now. Not sure what I’ll do with this info, but it seems important as it keeps making appearance after appearance!

One of the things I notice about people who love their businesses is that they love the people they serve. Not only do they love the people they serve, but they also love themselves enough to be true to who they are. In all that they do, you can see ‘them’ in everything. Here are two examples I thought you would like to see (below). There’s no disconnect between what you see and what you get. For me, Tracy Porter has been my model for being true for a very long time. She definitely marches to her own drum! What a love she is.

If you’ve never met Tracy… she used to be a model and appears in all of her catalogs alongside other members of her beautiful family…she has four boys (that are amazingly adorable), her sisters, mom and dad, and of course her sweet husband.

Everything Tracy does is romantic, lovely and inspiring. Ultimately, everything Tracy does is very her – very True You! These goodies (above) are what you receive when you order something from her company.

The I Love You gum box is full of Chicklet type peppermint gum. Her radio show… Inspiring Women to Be True to Themselves… to me, Tracy has been a shining light for me to do the same. I often would say, “If Tracy can be fully all that she is, silly, zany, creative and successful… so can I!”

This gives true meaning to Marianne Williamson’s quote:

“And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Tracy has written in the dedication one of her books, Dreams from Home, “For my brother, Danny, who assured me ten years ago that my paper, scissors, and glue would never fetch me a career. (KMA)” She added a little heart to the KMA, but when I saw that… there was something in me that awakened… Yes, I can!

Tracy, you have inspired me to let my own light shine because you shine so brightly – thank you! I realize now how powerful it is to be a living example of what we most value and believe in. I’m there!

I received this envelope a month or so ago. How yummy would this be to receive in your mailbox? Violette’s little picture with bubble saying, “Hi Tina!!” felt like a treasure dropped off by the heavens. Inside, I found this wonderful postcard (see at the top… with the cover of her book).

Inside, the book was tucked into a cellophane envelope with this stamp on it… can you see what it says? Art heals…Play More Have Fun… Oh yes, I was delighting in it so much. And, yes, I’m just like you… I have so many crafty, creative ideas and then it takes me a month to take the photos to put them up here! So what… better now than never. I am constantly writing in my head, so the writing is done, it’s just catching up with my inner artist here in the world.

Violette’s artwork is so ‘her’… even the lettering is her. This book rocked my inner artist. Violette’s passion for creating spoke loudly to a part of me I had not been playing with fully in a very long time. Since I received this, I’ve created three paintings and I am creating some more as gifts. Thank you, Violette, for inspiring me and other women to unleash our inner eccentric!

Here’s the back of the postcard for her book. I bet if you order a book from Violette’s site, you might receive a love-filled envelope, too.

Thank you to my darling husband who resized all of these photos for me so it would be super easy to plop them in here! I keep telling him he needs to do a blog class! Once I embraced blogging, then everything got infinitely easier! Oh, and more tools showed up to make it even easier! Such a deal! If you want Mark, a.k.a. Disco, to teach you how to blog easily and effortlessly… let him know at mark [at] tinaferguson.com.