Greetings!

We are tickled “red” to be launching our first ever Wednesday Café, 12 noon to 1 pm ET, on Valentine’s Day - February 14, 2007!

To join in the fun, just sign up in the yellow box on the right!

Typically Valentine’s Day is a day to think about the special people in your life: your spouse, your loved ones, and your friends.

I’d like you to remember one other special person this week… You.

That’s why I invited fabulous guest, author, personal empowerment trainer, and inspirational speaker, Beverly Sastri to join us. (Beverly’s site is: www.PowerSourceNow.com.)

Beverly is the originator of “Create a Life You Love” workshops. She teaches people how to channel their personal power, how to connect with their souls through feelings and intuition, and how to use the confluences and clues that everyday life presents to manifest their dreams.

My husband, Greg, and I took Beverly’s live workshop nearly three years ago, and in the space of one summer, our lives changed forever.

As we started taking the classes, we realized that the lives we were living at the time were very different than the lives we really wanted. Unknowingly, we had stopped dreaming altogether and had cast off our dreams as unpractical whims that were better saved for retirement, if ever. We were going through the motions of life: marriage, house, jobs, etc., but we were really living a watered-down, mediocre version of life that just wasn’t satisfying.

With Beverly’s guidance, we shifted from a mind-driven, reactionary approach to life to a soul-driven, pro-active approach to creating the lives we wanted for ourselves.

We realized that the house, the jobs, the cars, etc. were not what we really wanted and were actually standing in the way of our dreams. So over the past two years, we have sold our home and moved to a modest apartment, traded in our cars for older, less-expensive ones, and sold off most of our possessions. This has been amazingly freeing and has provided time, space, and energy to pursue the lives we love.

And so here we are today:

This week, I’m launching Total Business Fitness, a learning community for women in small business. The structure and design of the business, and what it stands for, comes from the very essence of who I am. I cannot think of a more fulfilling way to work and live than to do what I am doing right here, right now. The seed for this business was planted that summer at Beverly’s workshop.

And in less than 8 weeks, my husband Greg is embarking on his lifelong dream of hiking the Appalachian Trail. He’s taking 6 months off of work to hike a physical, as well as spiritual, path. Right now he’s getting his gear ready and planning the logistics of his hike. (If you want to read more about Greg, go to http://www.thruhikerguide.com/.)

We credit Beverly for giving us the keys to living purposefully and consciously. It’s very fitting that she’s my first guest on Wednesday Cafe — we might not be here without her!

So, I hope you’ll join us for what may be a life-changing and powerful call on Wednesday Café. We’ll be “popping the virtual bubbly” and toasting our maiden voyage! It’s going to be fun!

See you soon!

Michelle

Again, to join us, please sign up in the yellow box on the right! Thanks!