VividLife Recommends- Upcoming Social Media Boot Camp for Authors
December 6, 2011 by VividLife Editorial
Filed under •-Headline, Classes and Workshops, Events, Social Media
If you are an Author or are considering writing a book, then you really want to check out this upcoming webinar offered by LileStyle Productions, LLC.
It’s a Social Media Boot Camp for Authors!
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 from 2pm – 3:30pm Eastern (11am – 12:30pm Pacific)
During this webinar you will learn Why Facebook and Twitter work and how you can use them to build an audience and keep them engaged with you and your message.
Here is an overview of the presentation:
1. Understanding how people interact with Facebook.
2. Why Facebook works to drive engagement with your message.
3. A brief tutorial about setting up your Facebook Page.
4. Understanding how people interact with Twitter.
5. Why Twitter works to drive engagement with your message.
6. What’s with Google+ and whether you should be putting yourself there.
7. Why it’s important to listen to social media.
8. Learn how to use promotions and advertising to build up a following.
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About your Presenter:
When Angie Lile was in the second grade, she was constantly writing sentences during recess time…
“I shall not talk in class”
“I shall not talk in class”
“I shall not talk in class”
Even at a young age she was embracing her love for communicating messages. It’s no surprise that Angie has found her way into the hearts of some of the world’s most profound spiritual authors which have given her the responsibility of amplifying their messages to people all over the world.
Using the video skills she acquired from the New York-based Food Network coupled with her years of social media expertise, Angie has grown her business to include many more writers, while she continues to expand on her social media training.
Each year Angie attends Social Media Seminars led by the World’s most successful Social Media leaders in Industry Marketing. She has learned Twitter tactics from Guy Kowasaki and some really great Facebook strategies from the experts who handle Hallmark, Southwest Airlines and Sprint.
Many hours are spent each day pouring over social media news about trends and disasters, making her a literal Maven on the subject. All of her friends agree that if you mention Social Media in Angie’s presence, you might not get her to shut up!
Along with managing accounts for several authors and for VividLife.me, Angie has provided Social Media advice to some of the world’s top Authors including: Neale Donald Walsch, Author of Conversations with God and other New York Times best-selling books; Hay House Author Doreen Virtue who has written over 20 books about Angels and Spirituality; and Ghost Whisperer’s Producer and World Famous Medium, James Van Praagh just to name a few.
Here is what Neale Donald Walsch has to say about Angie’s expertise:
“Angie Lile knows the Social Media world inside and out, making it not necessary for me to. I have been able to focus on my life’s work, knowing I’ve got Angie behind me. Using the combined tools of CWG’s wonderful insights and Angie’s remarkable expertise, a wide and continuously enlarging audience has been able to be satisfied in their search for this message. When I was young, those with something to say had to find their audience. Today our audience is trying to find us. Angie’s genius is to render my message easily findable and visually accessible. All I have to do is source the material. For me this is heaven, because I don’t want to have to know all that Angie knows in order to get done all that I want to get done. Do you suppose that ‘Angie” is short for ‘Angel’?”
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READ: The Hidden Power of Belief
September 29, 2011 by Chris
Filed under •-Feature, Insights, Inspired Business, Law of Attraction, Law of Attraction, Meditation, Metaphysical, Motivation, Personal Growth, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Media, Spiritual Guidance, Spiritual teachers
Your Beliefs Create Your Reality
The first thing that we know about ‘beliefs’ is that you create your reality within the parameter of the beliefs that you hold within your own consciousness. This is a fancy way of saying that all of the beliefs that you hold, mostly unconsciously, create a window through which you create a constrained and limited version of yourself. Some people may argue that they are creating exactly what they want with no limitation, but this is usually the minority and many of these individuals simply do not like to be told that they have limiting beliefs. The truth is that everyone does. The power is in becoming aware of this fact.
Here is the trick; every single belief is ultimately a limitation in your consciousness. That’s right, a limitation. A belief is formed to help you cope with reality as it is, not reality as you want it to be. In other words you create, take on, or accept beliefs because you are (at the time) unable to create your own reality exactly the way you want it to be.
For instance, you may have dreams of running a business, being an actor, flying an airplane, or being an entrepreneur. However, unconsciously within you is instilled the belief that you need to get a college degree in order to become anyone of worth. So, either one of two things happen. Either a) You go get the degree only to find out that it doesn’t necessarily mean that your life goes exactly the way you want it to (because you encounter other beliefs along the way) or b) You don’t get the college degree and subsequently sabotage yourself via the fact that your worth is subconsciously associated with whether you do have a college degree or not. Now, you have one unconscious strike against you that is registered in your subconscious mind saying, “I am less worthy and less likely to succeed because I do not have a college degree.”
Knowing who you are
Most of us just aren’t born knowing who we are and what we want to do in life. What happens to people along the way, especially for those of us who aren’t born knowing what we want to do, is that we begin to absorb more and more beliefs into our psyche. We read studies, watch documentaries, and read books that portray limited versions of ourselves. We continue to absorb all of this disinformation into our psyche until we get to the point where we firmly believe that life is a certain way. Eventually it gets to the point where we are looking to outside sources to tell us who we are.
At this point, we no longer know who we are. Instead of the childlike innocence of creative imagination, we have a strict, limited version of how our reality is supposed to be. Worse, now we rely upon the very sources of disinformation that put us here to continue to guide us through our now, very limited reality.
Every time you rely upon a ‘study’ to tell you who you are you are in the process of giving away your personal power. I’ll tell you right now that no one and I mean NO ONE who ever became famous or incredibly rich did so by conforming to the mass consensus beliefs on the subject. In fact, most of these people are those who made their own rules and lived outside of the box, way outside the box.
When you begin to realize the power of who you are and that you hold to create your own life then you will begin to see the futility in prescribing to mass consciousness beliefs. All mass consciousness beliefs are constrictive and limiting.
Pay attention to that which you wish to become
In life we are constantly bombarded via the media with massive amounts of limiting ideas and beliefs. Big pharmaceutical companies pay for massive amounts of advertising to insert fear based beliefs about made up diseases into the consciousness of the people of the planet. Big oil companies pay hundreds of millions of dollars to insert belief systems about different companies and types of gas that are better for the environment. Fast food companies pay out massive sums of money to insert the belief that certain types of food are supposed to be a cultural way of life.
How many beliefs are really yours?
Have you ever wondered that? How many beliefs that you have in your consciousness did you actually consciously choose to accept as your belief? Probably around 1% of them; the other 99% were inserted subconsciously. I’m sorry to have to say that to you, but it is most likely more true than anyone knows.
Sow what do we do?
Pay attention to what you are paying attention to. That’s a good first step. In other words, do you automatically turn on the TV when you get home? If so then you are probably being programmed to a certain degree. However, if you turn on the television with a specific show in mind, then you are less likely to be programmed. Any television viewing has limited, subconscious programming involved. However, the more conscious your choice is in what you watch and why, the less likely chance you will have of being subconsciously programmed.
If you are a regular purchaser of fast foods then it is quite possible that you are doing so because you have been programmed to. I’m not judging you for the fact as we have all been subjected to massive amounts of programming that are designed to create unconscious beliefs within our subconscious. Rather, I’m saying that it is time to take back your mind. Part of the taking back is waking up to what you are doing and why you are doing it.
Meditation
For those of you who know me know what my number one cure for just about everything is, especially limiting beliefs. Meditation has been a tried and true technique for thousands of years in its ability to help you take back the power of your own mind. Meditation, done consistently, can help you to get to the root of your limiting beliefs deep within your subconscious mind. From consistent meditation you will be able to, slowly but surely, unravel the layers of beliefs, ideas, and emotional patterning that has been serving to keep you rooted in the same reality over and over again.
Meditation has the ability to begin to deconstruct the limited version of reality that you have been projecting out upon the world and thus living. With consistent meditation you will begin to notice that, over time, your reality almost appears to physically deconstruct itself, resulting in something new that you have never experienced before. But, it takes time and the commitment to change, the commitment to become a conscious creator. That time is yours to spend however you want to, but I ask you to consider who’s mind your mind belongs to…
Christopher A. Pinckley
Author of Reality Creation 101
Anger and the Gang (Rudeness, Sarcasm, Cynicism and More)
July 24, 2011 by Gina
Filed under •-Feature, Forgiveness, Health & Well-being, Insights, Social Media
Anger and the Gang (Rudeness, Sarcasm, Cynicism and More)
Recently, a debate was sparked on FaceBook when I posted this question/statement as my status; “Being rude to people is nothing more than deep down anger; what are so many people so angry about? Do not engage and simply smile”. The post was in response to something I read about being rude and why people choose to put negative energy like that into the universe. I was surprised by the reaction of my declaration that rudeness was tied to anger; it actually made people kind of, well, angry.
What was most shocking was the level to which things escalated and how quickly it got there. Why does my, or anybody else’s, opinion really matter? Why the need to furiously defend why we believe what we believe to the brink of nastiness? To me, the answer is very clear; it’s ironically all about anger. I am not trying to uphold my statement, for me personally it is the truth and that is all I need. However, I feel the topic is so vital that it requires explanation.
So what exactly is rudeness? I guess it is probably very different things to each and every person based upon what types of behavior you are willing to tolerate. As a mother of 3 young children, I will tell you that kids can be socially rude and that it has nothing to do with rage, usually just innocent inconsideration. That being said, I have seen many parents react with total outrage to their little ones lack of social graces; which of course turns the minor, laughable gaffe into an uncomfortable mess that teaches the child nothing about their manner’s related faux pas and leaves them feeling hurt and confused.
The rudeness that hangs out with anger usually comes in the form of snarky or cruel sarcasm, disrespectful attitudes, offensive responses and extreme impoliteness. We have all experienced a person of this sort and many of us engage right back because that type of energy can be contagious. It happens everywhere every single day; at sporting events (even children’s sports), in school, at the office, at home, at family gatherings, etc… It has become an ugly habit in our society, to treat each other poorly, and it must stop. We have become so accustomed to rudeness that many do not even recognize it any longer.
The amount of cynical and unbelievably hurtful things people say daily is staggering; but because they wrap it in supposed humor and tie it with a ribbon of “just joking” that makes it okay? It truly does not; anger is anger and just because you are smiling or laughing when you spew it does not raise the vibration of negativity it delivers once said.
I am often amazed at what people find humorous. People actually pay money to hear others mock, tease and ridicule other countries, certain types of people, the opposite sex, entire occupations, and the list goes on depending upon whom it is they fear. When you are putting people down, jokingly or otherwise, it is based in fear and insecurity and those are just part of Anger’s gang.
It seems that many people only consider anger to be in the form of irate arguments in which there must be yelling and screaming. While that is definitely true, it’s far from the extent that this emotion covers. Anger comes in lots of forms and when it builds up over time, it can spill out as insolence, defensiveness, cynicism, anxiety and more. Countless statements are relayed daily that most assume are not said in anger but they are absolutely based in it. When you aggressively defend your beliefs in a conversation or sarcastically joke about the lifestyle choices of another or refuse be kind to a waitress because he/she made a simple error or post a cynical comment on a blog about a news story; you are indeed playing with anger. Maybe it’s not the driving force behind your actions because you don’t necessarily feel mad, but make no mistake that acting in this manner is a bi-product of anger; you just might not be aware of it.
Every time we are annoyed, irritated, enraged, infuriated or simply upset over something or somebody; it is stored within our being. Even when we have supposedly gotten over the matter, it remains. Releasing toxic emotions through meditation, chakra cleansing, yoga and other spiritual means is a beneficial way to ensure anger does not foster and bring its friends along (rudeness, sarcasm and cynicism) to take over; sometimes we don’t even realize when it happens.
So how can we distinguish anger and the gang from truly humorous and witty repartee? It’s actually quite easy; how does what you or somebody else says make you feel? Not just on an emotional level, but within your intuition. What message are you receiving when you hear a friend tear down another friend with a sarcastic, joking statement? Really listen to the words, the tone and ask yourself what reason there is to speak this way? If it truly is just to be funny, than you would not need to do it at the expense of another; judgment is judgment even when it is humorous. Needing to bring others down to make yourself feel better denotes insecurity and an annoyance over not measuring up in some way. It’s never really about just cracking a joke.
Then there is the art of debate; when does conveying an opinion cross into anger territory? Another easy answer, when it becomes defensive. Conversing with others and talking about why we believe something is fine, even healthy. However, needing others to believe what we do and judging them when they don’t does cross a line into unhealthy. When I hear people debating or see it online I can always tell that it starts friendly and then there is a turning point where cynicism rears its ugly head and the only goal is to slaughter the opponent with an even wittier and more hurtful retort to vehemently defend our point. Why the need to demolish the beliefs of others? It’s all about insecurity and the anxious need to control. If your goal is not to convert nor condemn but merely to convey then you will simply state your stance and never feel the need to defend it; only to define it. Once you begin using the language of justification, anger has stepped in.
When faced with these tactics, it truly is best not to engage. Participation is degrading humor, gossip, cynical debate and rude exchanges will only exacerbate the negative energy surrounding these behaviors. When we choose to ignore or walk away, we end the cycle and restore positive energy; when we do not, we become part of the anger. Awareness is vital and will help you determine if anger or one of his buddies has come for a visit; best to not let any of them in and politely shut the door.
Unresolved Issues
July 21, 2011 by Brandon Krieger
Filed under •-Feature, Health & Well-being, Personal Growth, Social Media
It’s 5:00am in the morning and I’m having problems sleeping due to there is just so much going on in the world. So many people are stressed, worried, confused, upset and just feeling things are getting worse. When I talk to people all these unresolved issues are coming up for them. In fact they are escalating to the point it is dragging them deeper.
My training has given me the opportunity to be able to take an outside perspective and really see what is going on for me, as well the people around me. Everyone I talk to knows there is something changing, things are not the same be it in the world or in just their lives. It could be career, finances, relationships, health issues, energy vampires, time vampires…etc. If you don’t know the term “vampire” think of someone sucking your energy or taking all your time. We all have come in contact with these types of people, some latch on and some you’re able to get away from.
As you can see and I think we are all in agreeance that things are changing. Change can only happen when we make room for it. Now if you have unresolved issues guess what, those are the first things that have to go. You have to make room for change and the unresolved issues are going to come to the surface. If you deal with it they are going to go away, but if you suppress it for a bit, it will come back even bigger. The more you suppress it the bigger it’s going to grow. If you let it get to big it will consume you and affect all areas of your life. Trust me on this, I coach people internationally and see it time and time again. In fact when I was going through my divorce that was my unresolved issue and it kept coming back stronger and stronger. Until I just Man’d up and dealt with it. It was one of the hardest most frustrating, tiring challenges I had to deal with. Guess what? It’s over and it hasn’t come back.
I am sure you’re asking ok if I have an unresolved issue how do I deal with it, here are some recommendations I would tell people.
First you have to see how big the challenge is, are we talking about cleaning the garage or are you going through a huge life changing divorce. Depending on the situation you will need more help. If you feel you can deal with the unresolved issue be respectful to it, don’t get upset and keep emotion out of resolving the issue. Emotions just complicate things and will cause more frustration, especially if you get upset/angry. Have a plan of action and do your best to stick to it. The plan might not go perfect but if you get 80% through the process you can always go back later and resolve that 20%.
Now if you find that it is taking too much time/energy and you’re losing the battle, call in reinforcements. This is when you ask for help. Now here’s a warning, the more personal the issue the more pride “Ego” you’re going to have tied up in it. Let your ego go, tell it to go sit in the corner and ask for help. Ask friends, family…etc and if the situation is to big call in the big guns, the Professionals. This way you resolve the issue without getting sucked in and dragged further into it. Remember the goal here is to get your unresolved issue resolved, not drag them on. Trust me when I was going through my divorce I didn’t do it alone. I had my lawyer, 2 really good friends with me through the whole ordeal and my family behind me helping me through the divorce. I called in everyone, trust me if I had to do it again. Which I never hope I do, I would even call in more people to help resolve the issue even faster.
Here are some guidelines I would recommend and just to recap what I said above.
1) Be kind and compassionate while going through the process of resolving your unresolved issue
2) Don’t let your emotions get involved, set out a plan and implement it
3) Tell your Ego to take a seat in the corner, you need to deal with this Unresolved issue and you need to call in reinforcements.
4) If you find it is dragging you down and you just can do it alone, CALL in THE PROFESSIONALS
Remember life is about growth and community, if you’re not able to grow because of an unresolved issue call in the community to help you.
Love & Chi,
Brandon Krieger HLC, ITIL, PPS
Social Technologies Coach, Twitter Doctor & Professional Speaker
For more information contact me at info@knssconsulting.com or visit us at www.howtotwitterdoctor.com
How The Twitter Doctor Was Born
July 2, 2011 by Brandon Krieger
Filed under •-Headline, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Media
Good morning Everyone,
It has been a while since I wrote for Vividlife.me I have been growing through some growth and transformation over the last 5 to 6 months. It has been hard but rewarding.
So many of us are having this issue be it with our relationships, business, health…etc The one challenge people keep coming to me with is they are stressed about certain aspects of life and they want to change. The biggest two are Business/career and finances that I have been coaching people.
They are not happy with their boss, the job is not providing them personal satisfaction and they are looking else were…etc Then on top of that they are struggling with finances and trying to do multiple things to make money. A few are working a full time job, trying to build a business on the side and trying to keep their life in balance while struggling with money.
I know how these people feel I was there only a year ago really trying to find what was working until I decided to focus on what was right in front of me. Doing some market research and listening to the people I was coaching. I found out that these people had similar challenges and needed a simple way to get out of it because if it was complicated it would just add to the mix.
Being an IT guy from the past I saw how Social Marketing was helping people build their businesses online, how they were getting more exposure, attracting more clients and the revenue was increasing but there was a specific way to do this. To many people were failing but the ones who weren’t there was a patterns. One of the patterns was that these people was these successful people weren’t using Social Marketing to pitch their products/services they were using it to build relationships, to meet more people and really connect. To me this was brilliant because they were getting in front of 1,000’s of people per day for FREE and people were feeling the connection.
This is when I started doing this with my Twitter @Brandonkrieger (if your reading this follow me) and I saw a little growth, than a little more to the point I was averaging over 100 new followers per day and growing fast. This was amazing because now I had people I could connect with but I didn’t go back to my old ways of business. I started building Business Friendships and what happened was my business started to grow because I asked what people needed. When they needed my help I treated them like a friend and helped them. If it was a quick question I would answer it for them if it was something in depth I would have them contact me via e-mail. Now if it was something that I couldn’t answer quickly then I would have them book an appointment explain to them why. Which at this point they saw what I was doing on line and understood that if I could answer it quickly I would but they knew their question was in-depth and they needed more of my time.
This was an amazing break through but it didn’t stop there the questions started to become how did I build 34,000 followers and how could they do the same. Then I started to realize that people needed to learn how to use the Social Marketing tools properly especially Twitter. I started Coaching a few people and then a few more, to the point now that it has become a full-time business and I have an e-book coming out in the next 2 weeks keep posted at http://www.howtotwitterdoctor.com .
Now you know how the Twitter Doctor was born.
For more information follow me on Twitter @brandonkrieger
Love & Chi,
Brandon Krieger HLC, ITIL, PPS
Social Technologies Coach, Twitter Doctor & Professional Speaker
For more information contact me at info@knssconsulting.com or visit us at www.howtotwitterdoctor.com
