A trip to England to visit family and friends Then a flight to Tampa, Florida, where we’ll chill for 2 weeks in Naples.
Then who knows? Maybe Miami or the Florida Keys.
9-16th January, we’ll be joining 300-400 other Internet marketers on a brand new cruise ship for a week’s cruise to Mexico, Belize and Honduras. Should be amazing!

Watch this space for news of new friends, great JVs (joint ventures), and fab food – oh yes, and probably a return to the diet for a few weeks!
Best wishes,

Vinden Grace

Certified Guerilla Internet Marketer

Visit Marketers Cruise Community

Well, I’ve just got around to updating our blog over on WordPress. This connects via my LinkedIn profile and I confess we’ve had such a busy summer that I had overlooked it! Slap on the wrists, Vinden Well, for more information on what Vinden Grace, Eve Grace-Kelly and Dunedin Consultants have been up to this summer and what’s in store, head on over there…. http://vinden.wordpress.com/

Regards,
Vinden Grace

I’ve written a number of books before, although mainly in the personal development arena, such as:

• Top Tips for A Successful Life
• Focus: A Tool For Greater Productivity
• Procrastination: Learn To Overcome It.

My latest book-writing venture is in real-estate / property. With over 30 years of experience, a property portfolio, real-world auction-buying, plus having lived through renovation of our Victorian country house, I have accumulated quite a bit of knowledge!

I’ll also be offering the advice of some top people in real-estate, such as agents / Realtors ®, builders, surveyors, developers, etc. More about the real-estate / property book’s contents will be revealed soon, but suffice it to say that it will help you to sell your home, containing crucial advice in this difficult world-wide market, so subscribe to stay in touch with developments and achieve a better price and a quicker sale for your property!

Vinden Grace

Virginia Park Sanatorium-Main building

Also, if you’re struggling to sell your home, we’ll have just the thing for you in a month ot two! We’re working on both of the above projects at the moment and will let you know here as soon they’re launched.

Happy holiday today to those in the UK!

We’ve visited lots of nice cities, while doing some work there often, come up with some potentially exciting business ideas, re-established some hugely important work-life balance and even booked a ‘working’ cruise for marketers departing from Florida in January 2010!

Business trips have taken us to:

• Frankfurt, Germany
• Dublin and Shannon in Ireland
• Paris, France
• London, Swindon and Oxford, England
• Florence, Italy

and that’s just the last few months!

Paris was fun as we commenced a restaurant review business while there www.restaurantsreviewedbyyou.com (site will be updated soon) plus a site for hotel reviews (www.hotelsreviewedbyyou.com), which is also at very early stages   Personalised content to come.
Our thinking is that we will review hotels and restaurants, but also allow others the opportunity to create their own reviews, both on the places we’ve visited and possibly others.
Should be fun! Yes-we love our food and wine …..

While in Paris recently, we took a tourist dinner and cruise along the Seine and do you know what, it was delightful! The food was much better than some sites (like Trip Advisor) led us to believe. (See our restaurant review site for more details.) Paris looked particularly lovely lit up at night and from a different perspective than one usually sees.

More updates to come soon….

Hope your summer’s proved fun and fruitful too.

Vinden

The UK-government is funding this great opportunity.

The Train to Gain Scheme is offering you the chance to get more from your training budget, e.g. to:

• Maximise Productivity, especially important in the current climate

• Improve Management Performance and your Organisation’s Efficiency

• Improve Team Performance

• Improve Team Self-Worth and Inspire Creative Thinking

See the following document for more information: free coaching.

Or contact us to assess your eligibility. You’ve nothing to lose and much to gain!

Quantum Coaching & Consulting: QCCgroup

Venue: Your training facility or an external one if your organisation funds it.
Location: London, UK & within M25 (or outside + travel & accommodation expenses)
Develop & motivate your talent… Without spending a penny!
Free coaching and workshops!

*This Very Limited Offer must be booked by the 4th of April, 2009.*

Examples of offer include:

• one-to-one coaching;
• coaching bites;
• career progression coaching;
• stress management;
• work-life balance, etc.

For more details, see this PDF document: http://www.qccgroup.com/QCC-C4L.pdf

Maybe you’ve heard people say “I’ll get to it tomorrow,” or “It can wait,” or I’m not in the mood right now.” If you’ve heard these statements or perhaps said them yourself, you are affected by procrastination, which affects a lot of people. It can drive you absolutely crazy and/or upset the people around you.

Procrastination is a complex psychological behaviour that affects many people. Some people deal with it to some degree, while others have a hard time with it. It can go hand in hand with perfectionism. It is a means of avoiding some type of action or task.

People who suffer from procrastination can suffer from stress, a sense of guilt, loss of productivity, and a lot of yelling at and from others! If you suffer from procrastination, you know your responsibilities, but you don’t want to act on them. You just don’t want to commit. Procrastination can be normal if is kept at in balance, but when you allow it to interfere in your life, it becomes a problem. In order to be able to escape from the grip of this unwelcome condition, people need to understand the whole concept of procrastination, including where it came from and why people get it.

Procrastination has both psychological and physiological causes. The psychological causes can depend on the situation or element the person faces. Such conditions can include anxiety, low sense of self-worth, and a mentality where the person gives up easily. Procrastinators have also been known to have a higher level of conscientiousness. However, this high level is based more on what they wish they can do, but can’t because perfectionism holds them back. In many situations the person simply feels out of control, and so may resort to delaying a task, or avoiding it all together.

People who suffer from procrastination are aware of what is happening. It can actually lead some people to depression or even suicide, and it can be involved with other kinds of dysfunction, such as Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD).

Although procrastination can be considered a behavioural problem, any other symptoms that are developed around this condition
can be treated with medication. Hopefully, once the indirect conditions are treated, the resulting effect can also lessen the occurrence of procrastination. Certain medications have been known to help a person increase his attention span or even improve his overall mood. Therapy can also be considered helpful, especially if the therapy can remove any underlying causes that created the behaviour, like fear or anxiety. The basic premise is that it increases the person’s ability to lead a normal life. This is why procrastinators should see a therapist or psychiatrist to see if there is anything beneath the surface that is causing their problems.

Those who are diagnosed as being procrastinators could find themselves getting addicted to such things as using their computer a lot, or using the Internet quite often. It starts with a compulsion to do something so as to avoid reality.  Sothey take part in some kind of activity like surfing the web or playing a video game. So, watch how much time you spend on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc. 

Procrastination is like diabetes – there are different types. One is referred to as the relaxed type the other one is the tense-afraid type. The relaxed type views responsibilities in a negative way and avoids them by doing other kinds of tasks.
An example of this is for a child to avoid doing his homework so he can play his video game. In practical terms, this is known as denial. Basically, the procrastinator does everything to avoid any situation that is not pleasurable. People who see these types think they are avoiding work but, in reality, they are simply trying to evade the issue.

The tense-afraid type is usually overwhelmed with a lot of pressure, and doesn’t have a solid concept of time. They are uncertain about their goals and may even have a lot of negative feelings. They often feel they can’t focus so as to complete their job. So what they do is keep telling themselves they need to unwind and relax. They want to take it easy for the time being and start anew the next day. The only problem is the next day brings the same results. This relaxing they do eventually places more stress on them because they end up getting too close to a deadline and have to rush to get the assigned work done. Then the person feels guilty for having delayed getting it done when they had plenty of time.

Unfortunately, they repeat the same thing over and over again. They go from trying to accomplish a task to failure and delay. They constantly put off plans and goals knowing they can’t complete them. The problem with this arrangement is that they can’t be depended on for anything nor can they be trusted. They become uncertain about their goals and this makes them feel awkward, especially when they are around people who have it together and are goal-oriented.

Procrastinators do have a rough time of it emotionally, mentally, and even physically. But as you can learn in our ebook, this problem can be controlled or even eliminated once you know more about the condition and how to get rid of it. The biggest concern is to acknowledge you have it and take steps to change your behaviour. By following certain procedures and guidelines, you may just find that procrastination can be a thing of the past.

Understanding it and getting clear as to its functions and causes will go a long way toward helping you to deal with it. It is just a matter of knowing where it originates. This is one way you can treat it. By knowing the source of the problem, you can take the correct steps to ensure that this problem will not raise its ugly head again.

If you are one of those less fortunate to have procrastination, you are not alone. Did you know that even children can become procrastinators? It is a behaviour problem, usually a learned behaviour. If you find that procrastination has taken over your life, this book should help you remove the resistance and get back in the flow of your life.  It’s for people who truly want to take action in key areas of their lives but, for some reason, they feel unsure,  stuck or demotivated (possibly because they’ve tried before and it hasn’t worked). And let’s face it, the world of online business is so vast, it can be pretty overwhelming!

There is always a motivating purpose behind everything you choose to do.  Master these and get greater control in your life, business and career.  When you’re back in the flow, you’ll also have a calm confidence when taking on new activities and an increased feeling of personal freedom and a lot more energy and time.

So, acknowledge the problem, stop procrastinating and act……  read this ebook now!

(or see http://www.beatprocrastinationnow.com/)

Further help can be gained through engaging with a Quantum Coaching and Consulting coach http://www.qccgroup.com.   We’ll help you identify how to get back on track with those activities that are in your own best interest. As well as the powerful techniques that we’ve put in this ebook, we’ll help you take self-improvement to another level.

Go for it!

Vinden

Hi folks and a very Happy New Year to you from Vinden Grace & Eve Grace-Kelly!

In these challenging times and with internet marketing technology getting better and more affordable,it’s fascinating to learn of an opportunity that enables us to increase our revenues, while utilising thetools we need for our business anyway….

I must admit that I’m always cautious of so-called ‘next big things’, but this does seem worth a look at least.

I’d recommend that you:

• Check out both links below.
• Listen to the video messages and grab a pre-launch position today. (It launches tomorrow!)
• Then share this with all your contacts.

There seem to be some very serious players involved in this.
(A guy who ran a company with Tony Robbins, plus Implix, the company behind ‘GetResponse’ autoresponders, etc, so they seem to have an interesting track record.
NB. As always though, please do your own research….)

This program is closing pre-launch in  around *30* hours…

If you have already secured your position, congratulations.

If you haven’t, I urge you to do so now:

http://dunedin.webprosperity.com/

When an opportunity like this launches, those who get in at the
beginning can make very nice returns…

(You can also go here to get more info:
http://blog.webprosperity..com)

So I’d recommend that you do not put this off because there’s very little time left.

So, what do you need to do?:

1. Secure your early position now:
http://dunedin.webprosperity.com/

2. Promote your own link if you can.

3. *Upgrade* on Tuesday, Jan 6th 2008

Once you do so, you’ll potentially be able to watch as your income grows for the rest of the year…

This appears to be very promising….

Here’s the link again:

http://dunedin.webprosperity.com/

Let’s make 2009 our best year ever

Get ready for Tuesday, January 6th!

Kindest regards,

Vinden

This was sent to me on New Year’s Day by the delightful Project Manager for our superb membership site software.

Thanks Nam Tran!

As Life / Personal Coaches, this really appealed to me and to my lovely wife, Eve Grace-Kelly. For those of you struggling to kick-start a project or get started with any goal, read on!

A story for the rest of your life

Several times my daughter had telephoned to say,
“Mother, you must come to see the daffodils before they are over.”
I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Laguna to Lake Arrowhead
“I will come next Tuesday”,
I promised a little reluctantly on her third call.

Next Tuesday dawned cold and rainy.
Still, I had promised, and reluctantly I drove there.
When I finally walked into my daughter Carolyn’s
house I was welcomed by the joyful sounds of happy children.
I delightedly hugged and greeted my grandchildren.

I told my daughter, “Forget the daffodils, Carolyn!
The road is invisible in these clouds and fog, and
there is nothing in the world except you and my grandchildren
that I want to see right now.  I don’t want to drive another inch!”

My daughter smiled calmly and said,
“We drive in this weather all the time, mother.”

“Well, you won’t get me back on the road until it clears,
and then I’m heading for home!” I assured her.

“But first we’re going to see the daffodils.
It’s just a few blocks,” Carolyn said. “I’ll drive. I’m used to this.”

“Carolyn,” I said sternly,

“It’s all right, Mother, I promise.
You will never forgive yourself if you miss this experience.”

So we went!
After about twenty minutes, we turned onto a small gravel road
and I saw a small church. On the far side of the church,
I saw a hand lettered sign with an arrow that read,

“Daffodil Garden —->”

We got out of the car, each of us took a child’s hand,
and I followed Carolyn down the path.
Then, as we turned a corner, I looked up and gasped.
Before me lay the most glorious sight.
It looked as though someone had taken
a great vat of gold and poured it over the mountain peak
and its surrounding slopes.

The flowers were planted in majestic,
swirling patterns, great ribbons
and swaths of deep orange,
creamy white, lemon yellow, salmon pink,
and saffron and butter yellow.
Each different-colored variety was planted
in large groups so that it swirled
and flowed like its own river with its own unique hue.

There were five acres of flowers!

“Who did this?” I asked Carolyn.
“Just one woman,” Carolyn answered.
“She lives on the property. That’s her home.”
Carolyn pointed to a well-kept A-frame house,
small and modestly sitting in the midst of all that glory.

We walked up to the house.
On the patio, we saw a poster.

“Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking”
was the headline.

The first answer was a simple one. “50,000 bulbs,” it read.

The second answer was, “One at a time, by one woman. Two hands, two
feet, and one brain.”

The third answer was, “Began in 1958.”

For me, that moment was a life-changing experience.
I thought of this woman whom I had never met,
who, more than forty years before, had begun,
one bulb at a time, to bring her vision
of beauty and joy to an obscure mountaintop.

Planting one bulb at a time, year after year,
this unknown woman had forever changed
the world in which she lived.
One day at a time, she had created something
of extraordinary magnificence, beauty, and inspiration.

The principle her daffodil garden taught me
is one of the greatest principles of celebration.
That is, learning to move toward our goals and desires one step at a time.

“It makes me sad in a way,” I admitted to Carolyn.
“What might I have accomplished
if I had thought of a wonderful goal thirty-five
or forty years ago and had worked away at it
‘one bulb at a time’ through all those years?

Just think what I might have been able to achieve!”
My daughter summed up the message of the day
in her usual direct way.

“Start tomorrow,” she said.

She was right.
It’s so pointless to think of the lost hours of yesterdays.
The way to make learning a lesson of celebration
instead of a cause for regret is to only ask,
“How can I put this to use today?”

The Daffodil Principle.

Stop waiting…..
Until your car or home is paid off
Until you get a new car or home
Until your kids leave the house
Until you go back to school
Until you finish school
Until you clean the house
Until you organize the garage
Until you clean off your desk
Until you lose 10 lbs.
Until you gain 10 lbs.
Until you get married
Until you get a divorce
Until you have kids
Until the kids go to school
Until you retire
Until summer
Until spring
Until winter
Until fall
Until you die…

There is no better time than right now to be happy.
Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
So work like you don’t need money.
Love like you’ve never been hurt,
and, Dance like no one’s watching.

Wishing you a beautiful, daffodil day!
Don’t be afraid that your life will end,
be afraid that it will never begin.

A very Happy New Year to all of our readers!

Vinden & Eve