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Living Your Dream is FUN!

Mandy — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:05:20 +0000

While we may not have the outer appearances of ‘wealth’ in some peoples’ book, we are rich in happiness since following (or is it ‘leading’?) our dream to focus on building our greeting card business and helping others do the same.

We know the wealth is on its way, and in the meantime, the income is coming along very nicely! It’s wonderful to be able to be able to pay all your bills on time without worrying about where the money is coming from.

We know we have a way to go in order to achieve our particular income goals (they are BIG!) but Wayne and I are having so much fun showing people how to send REAL greeting cards with their own photos and wonderful clip art, borders and layouts – I can’t STAND how much fun this is!

Call me – I’ll walk you through creating and sending out a beautiful, customized greeting card to a loved one. It’ll take about 15-20 minutes and you’ll love it!

Best, Mandy Wildman Porter
Successful Greeting Card Business Owner and Network Marketing Mentor

My Dream Lifestyle – By Diana Rosenfield

Mandy — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:48:31 +0000

Reading a book set in Japan, and caught up in the descriptions of the exotic foreign land, my five year old and I decide to plot our own journey there. Because we own our home mortgage-free, and because my husband and I make a living on the residual income from our artistic pursuits without the straight-jacket of a 9-5 work schedule, and because our children don’t attend school and are not bound to that schedule, we are able to plan and pay for the trip, and spend a good three weeks living in that culture.

At last we return to our home, reflecting that as wonderful as Japan is, nothing compares to the four walls of your own home. Only our home doesn’t have walls because it is a yurt comprised of a one-room canvas circle topped by a domed roof and the whole house glows with sunlight each day.

Outside our mountain home is a spectacular view of fiery autumn trees and a sparkling waterfall. All around there are fruit trees heavy with their fall bounty. The air is fresh, and we find ourselves at once invigorated and relaxed, inspired to leap into new artistic endeavors, pursuits of invention, or the swimming hole (respectively).

First, we must unpack from our adventure, and we do so quickly and easily because we have intentionally left the souvenirs in Japan, and didn’t bring many things with us. Drawers and baskets and racks for clean and soiled clothes are age appropriate and easy to manage, so all the children cheerfully dispose of the contents of their bags and quickly become engaged in the activities that have caught their interest. Even the baby seems eager to get to work.

The furnishings around us are sparse, wooden, and handmade by my husband with unique details and embellishments. Toys are wood, cloth, and wool; decorations wax, paper, and wicker. Beds are colorful hammocks, and bedrolls. Because we don’t have many possessions we can afford to spend time or money making or purchasing beautifully embroidered bedspreads and vivid mirrored cushions for seating. Every object is a delight to the senses.

A handmade twelve string rests on a guitar stand, always ready for a musician to pick up and play, but the rest of the instruments are downstairs, in the climate-controlled cellar we dug below the yurt.

There, one wall (hidden by a large tapestry) is painted white to provide a projector screen for when we watch movies. The other walls are hung with artwork. There is a computer that I use for writing and my husband uses for recording music. The kids use it for their own projects as well, and it sometimes gets used for ordering plane tickets for another inspired trip.

There is also a bed because this is mine and my husband’s bedroom where we get to have privacy every now and then to conceive another baby, always testing the famous pronouncement of “the more the merrier.” So far it has held out.

By Diana Rosenfield
www.WrapYourBaby.com

How Would Your Dream Lifestyle Feel?

Mandy — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:29:10 +0000

What would it look like, by the way, your dream lifestyle? How would it feel? Would you get up earlier than you do now, or later? Would you eat breakfast at home or go to a favorite place with your spouse and/or friends where everyone knows you?

What would you do with each day? Different things than you do now? Would you travel, play sports, eat out more, see shows, shop, spend time with family and/or friends?

What things would you be able to afford that are not in your budget today? Would you write a check, pay cash, or have your assistant take care of it (no need for credit cards when money’s no object).

Would you spend more time at your church, giving your time to charitable causes that touch your heart?

Maybe you haven’t given much thought to what living your dream lifestyle would feel like, and I hadn’t either until I saw the potential of SendOutCards.

Now, a year and a half later, I have had the opportunity to give a LOT of thought to my dream lifestyle because frankly, we’re about half way there.

If you are reading this I encourage you, I urge you, to take advantage of this opportunity to create your life the way you want it to be, and help others to do the same, simply by applying the power of sending heartfelt greeting cards to those in your life who deserve to know you’re thinking about them.

Once you get started, you will feel so fulfilled and so rewarded you’ll wonder how you could have tolerated struggling for so long when something so fun was available to do.

That is exactly how I felt once I really understood the power of this opportunity. I had the blinding realization that this was how I wanted to spend the rest of my life – helping YOU make a living through giving, one card at a time, and ultimately enjoying the lifestyle you so deserve to have.

With much love and care,
Mandy Wildman Porter
Card Sender, Business Owner