Brummet's Conscious Blog

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Make The First Move * Today's article was submitted by our monthly contributor Elise Smith (a.k.a Sheila) who has several books available on  Amazon . Elise invites our readers to reach out to her via  FaceBook . Today, she explains how our mindset can impact every goal we have. We have to make the first move. As long as we stand around on the edge of things, unprepared to jump in, the universe seems to take the attitude:  “ Well, you don’t seem very serious about this. Once you’re committed, then you’ll get some help. ” The moment we decide:  “ I’ll do this thing, no matter what! ”  ...we somehow tap into the genius, power and magic around us. Everybody who achieves in life, makes decisions to do so.   They say:  “ I WILL do it. ”   Those who proclaim: “ I’ll give it my best shot,”  “I’ll have a go”  “I’ll try”  ...will likely come home early.  We need to get serious if we hope to get results. It is best that we als...

   Quote of the Day ©BrummetMedia.ca "The most important thing for me is to have a general feeling that I used the time I was given to create a positive legacy… be it through writing, supporting others, donating, sharing garden harvests, greening our property and making a more eco-friendly home, or daily actions such as dedicated recycling… and so on. Part of being conscious includes self-sufficiency – not being reliant on aid programs, or living in heavy debt to others, looking after one’s health the best one can, etc. So I try to live proactively in my home life, but also in business – with the idea that what I choose to do now will have a ripple effect on the direction our world takes tomorrow. What I choose to buy now, whether I grow organically, what I choose to write about and blog about… this all has an impact on tomorrow." ~ Lillian Brummet ~~~   Discover Our Books on Amazon :  https://amazon.com/author/lillianbrummet  Find us online via these landi...

A Little Youtube Jannet from Australia wanted to know: "What were your biggest challenges with writing the cookbook - From One Small Garden ?"  Discover the answer in this 6.08 min. video:  https://youtu.be/_yUtSTC_Sho ~~~   Discover Our Books on Amazon :  https://amazon.com/author/lillianbrummet  Find us online via these landing pages:  https://taplink.cc/brummet  https://linktr.ee/LillianBrummet ~~~ 

Media Appearance I was recently a guest on the Caregiver Cast podcast, a service provided through the   Caregiver Lifeline Community . Host Mary Petrucci and I had an incredibly powerful & healing, in-depth and brutally honest conversation about caregiving & grief. We speak about the echoes of guilt, the exhaustion... we offer tips and discuss the benefits of delegating.  * Note : During this discussion when we touched on being OK with delegating I wanted to clarify one thing here. ...If you are going to delegate, be sure to do so only when someone asks you how they might help ....and always thank them, sharing how it helped you. Avoid repeatedly relying on someone possibly weighing them down, allow them to ask if they can help again and then share some ways they might do so. :) https://caregivercast.libsyn.com/grieving-while-caregiving-w-lillian-brummet   ~~~   Discover Our Books on Amazon :  ~~~   Discover Our Books on Amazon :  ht...

Local Food Movement  “Launching this BC Centre for Agritech Innovation will improve productivity here in B.C., meaning more food will be grown closer to home, leading to lower costs associated with transporting food. Simply put, this centre makes us a global front-runner in agritech.” The quote above is taken from this really interesting article about the growing trend, and the need, of purchasing food from local producers or suppliers that stock locally grown produced goods. Our menu plan has a huge ecological impact, it can be a positive impact - however - if we choose to shop locally.  Imagine an item grown from far away has to get loaded on a truck and taken to storage, then loaded on a truck and driven 300 miles (or whatever the distance is) to another storage unit where it is repackaged and distributed to the various stores. Much of that fossil fuel cost is reduced simply by purchasing from locally produced goods.  The other aspect of this shopping habit is that you...

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Recommended Resources With these  Recommended Resources  series I have the pleasure of sharing some great resources which can include  - positive impact organizations and events, citizen science projects and links to helpful articles. Creston Rotary Club fundraising, sharing, helping where they can. Visit:   https://www.facebook.com/CrestonRotaryClub/ --- Creston valley Public Library ... let's not forget to donate some time to our local libraries!! Visit:  https://www.facebook.com/crestonlibrary/ --- Creston Community Forest is an environmental conservation organization that protects and selectively harvests the surrounding forest while protecting the integrity of other resources. Visit:  https://www.facebook.com/Creston-Community-Forest-182939351900875/ --- ~~~   Discover Our Books on Amazon :  https://amazon.com/author/lillianbrummet  Find us online via these landing pages:  https://taplink.cc/brummet  https://linktr.e...

 A Little YouTube The Brummet Media Channel on Youtube has created a series based on the concepts laid out in our popular guidebook for writers:   Purple Snowflake #Marketing - How To Make Your Book Stand Out In A Crowd ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/1475204310 )  This is the 2nd video in this series explaining " purple snowflake marketing techniques ". In it, we focus on using the example of in person events. Learn to stand out among a snowstorm of your peers in this 10 min. video.   https://youtu.be/SfreohsP_Mg ~~~   Discover Our Books on Amazon :  https://amazon.com/author/lillianbrummet  Find us online via these landing pages:  https://taplink.cc/brummet  https://linktr.ee/LillianBrummet ~~~ 

Conscious Consumerism  Conscious consumerism alone has a major impact on the local economy, your personal health, budget constraints and the environment. It involves looking at the power of each dollar spent and evaluating how it can make a difference while benefiting your family. Sign into your favorite social networking sites and join local buy and sell, advertise, entrepreneur and local event groups. Doing so will expose you to small and home-based entrepreneurs producing wonderful products at great prices. You may find artists who carve beautiful house address signs out of scraps they obtained from a woodwork shop operating just a few blocks from you, who purchased their materials from a local mill. Each of these small businesses hires local people and buys coffee for their staff room and gas from local stations. With this in mind, it is easy to see that buying local is one conscious consumer activity that supports a sustainable community.  You may find great prices on ite...

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" A unique book that asserts the agency of consumers  can influence government and industry ."  ~ Yafit Rokach - Parks Quality Assurance (Canada) 

"...a slightly bigger-picture look at environmentally responsible actions such as picking up trash while walking, reducing energy consumption  and organic gardening."  ~ Scrap Magazine (UK) ~~~   Discover Our Books on Amazon : https://amazon.com/author/lillianbrummet   ``  Find us online via these landing pages:  https://taplink.cc/brummet  https://linktr.ee/LillianBrummet ~~~ 

Media Appearance I'm thrilled to announce that this motivational excerpt from the Purple Snowflake Marketing book was published on the wonderful Book-Shine And Read-Bows blog run by Steph Warren: https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2022/10/24/guest-post-authors-making-a-difference-lillian-brummet/  ~~~   Discover Our Books on Amazon :  https://amazon.com/author/lillianbrummet  Find us online via these landing pages:  https://taplink.cc/brummet  https://linktr.ee/LillianBrummet ~~~ 

   Quote of the Day ©BrummetMedia.ca "The most important thing for me is to have a general feeling that I used the time I was given to create a positive legacy… be it through writing, supporting others, donating, sharing garden harvests, greening our property and making a more eco-friendly home, or daily actions such as dedicated recycling… and so on. Part of being conscious includes self-sufficiency – not being reliant on aid programs, or living in heavy debt to others, looking after one’s health the best one can, etc. So I try to live proactively in my home life, but also in business – with the idea that what I choose to do now will have a ripple effect on the direction our world takes tomorrow. What I choose to buy now, whether I grow organically, what I choose to write about and blog about… this all has an impact on tomorrow." ~ Lillian Brummet ~~~   Discover Our Books on Amazon :  https://amazon.com/author/lillianbrummet  Find us online via these landi...

 A Little YouTube As many of our readers are aware we began the Brummet Media Channel on Youtube in February 2023, and it has slowly grown to over 4 dozen videos on 4 different playlists (genres of videos). We'll be expanding this channel as time allows so do subscribe and keep dropping in to see what is new.  Today I'd like to share a video we created in response to fellow Canadian Ann's question: "What is your favorite method for promoting your work?"  Discover the answer in this 5.17 min. video:     https://youtu.be/1EXGOkVb8XM ~~~   Discover Our Books on Amazon :  https://amazon.com/author/lillianbrummet  Find us online via these landing pages:  https://taplink.cc/brummet  https://linktr.ee/LillianBrummet ~~~ 

World of Writing - Author Interview Yet another memoir author joins us today to share their story in the realm of writing. As a licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of California (US), Caitlin Billings specializes in deep trauma therapy, is pursuing EMDR Therapy certification, and owns her own private practice.  Despite involuntary hospitalizations and an initial refusal to accept her bipolar diagnosis, Caitlin reclaimed her life and sanity, successfully establishing herself as a professional and a supportive mother to her gender-fluid elder child.  These days, Caitlin is speaking out about the deep-set need for perfection throughout society, especially on teens and mental health professionals, until people understand that your best is good enough and you are never alone. She aims to subvert societal expectations and pressures of idealism through embracing self-love and imperfection. Caitlin invites our readers to drop by her website or join her on FaceBook . *A note ...

Just For Writers !!    Watch for a new post in this series  around the middle of every month  !!  -- Answering Your Questions --  Pat from the UK asks: " How much of a story do you have in mind before you start writing it? " Watch this 8 min video now to discover the answer:   https://youtu.be/qA45az9wk1A -- Check out this mini interview with Dave and I on the Book Reader Magazine website:  https://bookreadermagazine.com/featured-author-lillian-and-dave-brummet/ ... and don't forget to consider sending in your query to this potential marketing opportunity for you. -- Visit the Brummet's Author Page on Amazon  :)  -- Nature is Tina's Muse --  This next link will take you to an interview we published in 2014 with author Tina Welling who talked about using nature as a muse, or stimuli, for her writing:  https://consciousdiscussions.blogspot.com/2014/07/world-of-writing-interview_12.html    -- How Writers Can Create Posi...