Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Quote of the Day -- " Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. " ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh This Week's Prize Draw -- Don't forget to enter this week's draw! * Email me at: ldbrummet@yahoo.com with the word "prize" in the subject line for a chance to win one (or more) of these prizes: Self-help book by Kim Barnes: Construct Your Conversations: Strengthening Relationships - & - Shelley Seal, book: The Weight of Silence , about the plight for children in India -- Positive Eco-News -- Positive Eco-news contingency show today due to technical issues with our switchboard. Learn about e-waste, battery recycling, lead and mercury... Discover several new eco-resources, new eco-technology AND tips on cooling the home and office from summer's heat. Check out the archived episode at: Conscious Discussions talk radio by clicking on the hyper-links above. Find Dave & Lillian Brummet, excerpts from thei...

-- Quote of the Day -- “ …I am always referencing back to the gardening experiences with my father when I was very little… It was phenomenal to me that you could take this little tiny seed and there was already this momentum …and it would begin to germinate and to grow. And this is truly how we function in life. We plant a seed – the seed is a thought, an idea that we sow, or put into action. …The earth is very healing, the more we have our hands in the earth, our bare feet in the ground, …this not only helps to cleanse our energy but also to listen to the one true voice so we begin to process the things that we do… and begin to just listen. You know, it is a meditative process. …When we would plant carrot seeds we couldn’t see what is going on beneath the ground, and you would just have to know the maturity date and pull them out of the ground. …And I was thinking how frequently something is going on underneath the surface …and yet is it something that we deliberately planted? Are we ...

-- Prize Winners -- & New Prize Draw -- Congratulations to Judy & Kathy who are the winners of last week's prize draw for Rick Glaze's novel: Middle Fork - &- Dawn Menge's children's book: Queen Vernita's Visitors . This week we have the following prizes available: * Email me at: ldbrummet@yahoo.com with the word "prize" in the subject line for a chance to win one (or more) of these prizes: Self-help book by Kim Barnes: Construct Your Conversations: Strengthening Relationships - & - Shelley Seal, book: The Weight of Silence , about the plight for children in India Find Dave & Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, information about their radio shows & free resources & articles at www.brummet.ca

-- Announcements -- - A Book Inside blog has just published an article about book promotion and this included information about Dave & I :) Check it out at: http://abookinside.blogspot.com/2009/07/are-you-expecting-too-much-from-your.html - The New Book Review Blog also posted a blurb about our recently released book, Purple Snowflake Marketing on June 30th at: www.thenewbookreview.blogspot.com - The Sharing With Writers Blog posted a wonderful piece on Authors Read radio - http://www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com -- Saving Energy in the Kitchen -- The kitchen, with all its appliances, gadgets and heat, is a real hotspot for potential energy saving. As the oven uses the most energy and creates a vast amount of heat while cooking foods, it is a good place to start. For instance, when baking cookies use two trays. While one is in the oven baking, the other one is prepped with raw cookies – ready to replace the tray in the oven with no wasted heat and some time saved. When we bake...

-- Chatter -- Well, I do feel a bit burned out in the brain so I think today I will start off with some yoga, walk the dogs and finish turning one of the 3 compost bins that we have... leaving the office work for the heat of the day and the evening. As many of you are aware, the release period of any book project is a huge endeavor. No matter how much planning goes into the release, there are always moments of scrambling and panic over technical glitches - which could be anything, really, from an image that isn't working to a link that goes nowhere...until things get ironed out over the first few days of a release. Pre-release announcements, press release production and direct contact mailings have been the focus of our office for the last 4 days or so. And at the moment I'm approaching burn out, lol. So I'll take a few hours to get some other things done, and be back in the office clattering away on the keyboard this afternoon. ...If you want to check out the new release ...

-- Random Prize Draw -- Email me at: ldbrummet@yahoo.com with the word "prize" in the subject line for a chance to win one (or more) of these prizes: (deadline is July 5th, noon - pacific time) Rick Glaze's novel: Middle Fork -&- Dawn Menge's children's book: Queen Vernita's Visitors (book one of a series) Find Dave & Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, information about their radio shows & free resources & articles at www.brummet.ca -- Conscious Discussions Radio -- Kim Barnes is the founder of Focus-Link - providing workshops and personal training in communication strategies. Her education includes a Masters in Health Service Administration & a Bachelors in Nursing. She is the author of Construct Your Conversations: Strengthening Relationships, which examines how words impact our feelings, affect our conversations and influence our relationships. Kim has also written several articles on communications and women’s health issues. ...

-- Quote of the Day -- “… It is really easy for folks feel depressed and powerless but the answers are right in front of us in fact they are within us. And we have to recognize that we alone control our responses and our emotions as opposed to what is happening in the world around us around us. And we can take immediate action to change things for the better, we have that power. There are five steps to getting control of our lives… The 1st step is – get a grip. Realize that worry and fear only make things worse. Breath, when we get stressed, our breathing gets shallow…making us mentally confused – and then let it go… recognize that there is something bigger than you and it will work out. …Then think gratitude …there is so much to be grateful and when you can count your blessings the problems around you seem less significant. …The 2nd step is to get real – this is where you alone control your responses, emotions and your destiny… Realize that you can choose to be happy no matter what ...