Brummet's Conscious Blog

Our New Place Yes - we found a fantastic "tiny-home"! Thank you - by the way -  for your patience during this transition of moving our home and studio to new locations :) We fully expected to easily find a smaller home, but found that in reality it was a more difficult task. It seems even the retirement communities cater to people with larger tastes and vast wallets. The places that had 55+ community living outlets were either out of our price range, had nothing available or didn't allow dogs. Well, our dogs are precious and they are coming with us. There's no debate about that. So we started to get real anxious...  Will we find a place in time?  What if we cannot find a community that accepts dogs? Luckily one of our former neighbours went through a similar life-event - they sold their house that was across from us and moved into a 55+ adult only mobile home park. Ironically the park owner was rebuilding an older trailer located right across from our friend's. Wh...

Oh, The Stress Of It All Well - we found a buyer for our home and had less than 5 weeks to both find a suitable home and move into it. Once we signed that contract it was weeks of sleepless nights, restless tummy, fretful mind, sweaty palms and frazzled hair. Was I stressed? ...You bet I was !!!  Many of you already know that I suffer from an anxiety disorder; stress affects me physically causing rashes and vomiting, and I easily fall into depression. With moving being one of the most stressful things a person can go through, I knew I would have to use more than a few tranquilizers to get through the storm to come.  By using calming, meditative music and occasionally some blues or 70's music during the day I was able to greatly reduce the stress I was feeling, and the dogs love to nap to music. To quiet the mind at night I've begun listening to short audio books via YouTube - these are especially helpful on those sleepless nights.  Long showers helped ease the physical ac...

Christine Innes is the powerful force behind The Corporate Escapists - a place where entrepreneurs share life experiences, stories of building up their business, failures they may have had and the solutions they found for them. She and I met back in May of this year when she invited me to participate in her interview series. ...And so - I am sharing the link to that interview with you today. I hope you have the time to check it out: https://www.thecorporateescapists.com/content-library/lillian-and-david-brummet-in-the-realm-of-making-a-difference ~~~ Find the Brummet's Books @: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0845RLK1X Find Them Online via: https://taplink.cc/brummet https://linktr.ee/LillianBrummet ~~~

A Little YouTube  :) Entrepreneurs struggle to shut down monkey chatter thoughts that rattle the mind and cause sleepless nights or cycles of "should have" and other such energy-draining thoughts.   Discover tips in this 3.45 min video:  https://youtu.be/4MzWTu4Rbdw   Find the channel at:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRY2pD6ma5iJTG3iBUHXnvw ~~~   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 ~~~   

A Little YouTube This series helps #entrepreneurs, members of the media, small #business & self-employed individuals discover ways of making a difference while creating a solid image & increasing networks.  #1: https://youtu.be/NwXZxotPEVQ   ~~~   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 ~~~ 

Changing it up at work Changing it up at work: This 2.47 min. video was inspired by Dennis Hudson of We Are Game Changers project, who invited us to join in - offering advice for budding entrepreneurs.  https://youtu.be/5ToJ49WYLRs ~~~   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 ~~~ 

Making A Difference:  Entrepreneurs can make a difference in the world - locally, regionally or globally! By telling others of your activities, surrounding businesses are incentivized to also create positive change. People are more willing to work with, collaborate with or shop at your business because people want to support businesses that are making a difference in the world.  https://youtu.be/xcJX0NCmh1o ~~~   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 ~~~ 

A Little Youtube Have you visited the Brummet Media YouTube Channel ?  Here is a video we produced recently: Prioritizing - Agonizing, But Necessary Entrepreneurs often struggle with the act of prioritizing.  It can be an emotional experience - setting aside something you are involved in or keyed up about, only to take on something new because it has taken precedence. Deadlines, opportunities, schedule delays all play a role in this difficult aspect of running a business.  Drop in this 8 min video https://youtu.be/xb6NM2oWbuo ~~ Visit the Brummet's   Main Website Find them elsewhere online  HERE   ~~

Social Media 101 for Entrepreneurs There is no denying that social media outlets are valuable tools to use in your marketing activities. However, the key to success for business owners is to sensibly plan the time they spend on social media.  You will need to consider the kinds of social media you will be using, what could be announced and how often to post. Pacing out social media activities avoids over-saturation of the market. Keeping the content fresh can also be a challenge. Ask yourself: Is there a way to run a fundraising campaign for a worthy cause? Is your office willing to collect items for the food bank? Perhaps you have decided to set up recycling bins for items like batteries and light bulbs and returnable beverage containers that your clients can also use. Or perhaps your office can set up a contest. Maybe your work place has had some improvements or a new mural was painted on the building. Perhaps you can get a project happening with your contacts. Maybe you can put ...

Quick Tips for Business Success :  • Be tenacious.  • Don’t make anyone work for anything; provide everything they will need so that they do not have to ask for it.  • Be prepared. • Have draft communications written for various types of interactions that you commonly have going on. You can tweak these drafts to target the person you are connecting with, and having this draft will save you a great deal of time.   • Be polite. ~~   Visit the Brummet's @:  http://BrummetMedia.ca   ~~

-- Quote of the Day --  “Perfect valor consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.”  ~ John Kennedy  -- Recycling Made Easy -- A lot of businesses are becoming aware of the importance of recycling, and may also be aware of how much money they can save with this one simple action – however they may not have efficient systems set up, enabling their workers to participate. The first step to setting up efficient systems is to fully understand the recycling programs that are available to you. Schedule one of your employees, or a summer student helper, to put in a couple hours of research starting with the city website where links to recycling and reuse programs will be listed. Have a list of manufacturers and suppliers that you tend to use and ask that staff member to find out if any of them have take-back programs. For instance, the printer manufacturer may have an end-of-life program ...

 -- Quote of the Day --  “Champions know that success is inevitable;  that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback.  They know that the best way to forecast the future  is to create it.”  ~ Michael Gelb -- Conscious Discussions Talk Radio -- * Airs live @ 10-11 AM (Pacifc)  - Chat room open for live listeners - all episodes are archived indefinitely within moments after they air live, and are available for you to listen to later on at any time of day. Sign up via itunes for the Conscious Discussions Radio show: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id262138144     Jim Beach – author and entrepreneurship expert - believes that anyone can be an entrepreneur especially after they learn that entrep...

-- Note: -- I am taking the day off from hosting the radio show, I need some time to just relax today. -- Positive News --  I'm a big fan of bringing beverages with me whenever I leave the house - typically water in a stainless steel reusable bottle, but I've a half a cupboard filled with other types of bottles that I reuse regularly including a few old juice bottles. We also have a couple old water bottles in the back of the Jeep that I keep filled with purified water for either the dogs or a vehicle emergency. I've taken water, juice, ice tea and warm drinks in the winter on trips, hike, walking the dogs or even to the garden. I take them when we go shopping or when I have an appointment in town. This way I am less likely to purchase refreshments, saving money and reducing the amount of waste I produce.  Still, despite these efforts, occasionally we'll have a pop bottle or someone visits and leaves a bottle, or we'll pick litter up and in...

 -- Quote of the Day --  “You must be the change you wish to see in the world” ~ Mohandas Gandhi  -- Conscious Discussions Talk Radio --  * Airs live @ 10-11 AM (Pacifc)  - all episodes are archived indefinitely within moments after they air live, and are available for you to listen to later on at any time of day.   Sign up via itunes for the Conscious Discussions Radio show: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id262138144   Positive News today - as you may already be aware, this segment airs every 2-3 weeks here on this radio program and focuses on highlighting inspiring stories, resources, technology, inventions and more - Today we’ll be talking about: green business Access the live (10-11 AM Pacific) or archived episode: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/consciousdiscussions/2013/02/03/positive-news ...