Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Authors Read -- Today on Authors Read radio we are featuring: Susan Hoekstra - an experienced senior manager and consultant who spent the past 25 years working with multi-sized, fast-paced, highly volatile companies in the manufacturing, distribution, membership services, franchise and financial services industries. Over the years, she has developed a penchant for developing strategic service initiatives that drive growth and value to clients, employees and shareholders. Susan is the author of the book “The Service Journey” and she’ll be sharing an excerpt with us today. -- Quote of the Day -- "Books are portable pieces of thought" – unknown -- Conscious Living Tip -- As many of my blog readers are aware, I occasionally share ideas & tips for concerned individuals who are looking to create positive change. You'll notice on the right side of this blog I've placed a link that lists new conscious living tips each time you visit the blog :) Today's tip: - Kit...

-- Prize Draw Winners & New Draw ! -- Congratulations to last week's winners: Radine who won a copy of the book "Construct Your Conversations" by Kim Barnes Lizanne who won a copy of the book "The Weight of Silence" by Shelley Seal This week's prize draw is now active; 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:: Susan Hoekstra's book, the service Journey - & - Dean Balderston's children's book (teaching children the tools to deal with abuse) titled: The Real Life Adventures of Anna and Saddie -&- a copy of Grooveyard's CD, Place in Time -- Conscious Discussions -- Join me, Lillian Brummet, in delving into the world of conscious gardening. Listeners with garden questions can email, use BTR's message center for future shows. I'll be discussing water conservation, trail use and more today. Join the live chat room to ask questions d...

-- Celebrating Household Managers - Society has grown so 'advanced' that we look down on those of us who choose to be nurturing Household Managers. Somehow this work force is seen as slothful folks who live off the work of others, or are incompetent in the workplace altogether. Society then contradicts itself by acknowledging the growing strain on the medical, policing and financial support systems due to increased stress, pollution and poor nutrition in today's civilized world. Worried politicians view our ever-growing need to import food as a potential disaster in the event of worldly catastrophes - and scientists tell us their numbers indicate we are actually overdue for a catastrophe. Society will 'tsk-tsk' at the children who have been raised by non-family members (including televisions and computers), because no one has the energy or the time to raise them properly. We have the audacity to be bewildered at the drop out rate in our cold and sterile public sch...

-- Brummet's Conscious Living Prize Draw Deadline Sunday, July 12th -- Don't forget to enter this week's Conscious Living Prize Draw! *Deadline, Sunday - July 12th (noon, Pacific) * Email me at: ldbrummet @ yahoo . com (remove spaces before sending) with the word "prize" in the subject line for a chance to win one of these 2 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 -- Win a Copy of Towards Understanding ( revised edition ) -- Check out this awesome contest hosted by Sharing With Writers Blog (by Carolyn Howard-Johnson) for Lillian's revised book of poetry - Towards Understandin g in e-book format - which has a new cover designed, as always, by Dave. The new revision includes five additional poems provides an ending that Lillian feels more comfortable with. Towards Understandin g was originally released in pa...

-- Chatter -- Well, I am starting the outlines for August's 14 or so featured guests on the Authors Read and Conscious Discussions radio programs, and will be consumed with this chore for about a week or so. The release of Purple Snowflake Marketing 's 2nd edition is going very well, although it would be even better if I could somehow split myself into 10 people! - lol - A gorgeous day here in BC, Canada - I've already walked the dogs and did a training session with them. Earlier I was able to clean the kitchen, answer some emails and did my yoga for the day. Now the office calls for my attention until around noon when I plan to take my first break of the day. Whew! Therefore I am keeping today's blog post brief, please understand my schedule is a bit constrained - or I'd have more here for you today. Do feel free to browse the archived blog posts here, follow the links we've made available on this blog or head on over to my site (www.brummet.ca) where you ca...

-- Conscious Discussions Radio -- Today’s featured guest: Certified life coach - Sandee Sgarlata, author of The Day After Tomorrow – the 1st novel in the Julia Monroe Series & a 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist for Young Adult Fiction. Today we will be talking about finding inner peace through forgiveness, also we’ll learn about the non-profit organization – Alliance 4 Peace Foundation . She also co-founded the 4give4peace organization . Sandee also has a radio program titled: Teens 4 Peace , which we will touch on if time allows. To access today's discussion on Finding Peace thru Forgiveness simply click on the hyperlinks here or look to the right for links to the Conscious Discussions talk radio show. -- Conscious Gardening -- Gardening season is upon us and soon we will be dealing with hot summer days and, in some areas, drought. An excellent water conservation alternative that gardeners can utilize is soaker hoses. Made from recycled tires, they can be lai...

-- Quote of the Day -- “ Time and patience are the greatest healers .” ~ author unknown -- Positive Eco-News -- From the Zero Waste San Diego Group: A new bill has passed that will enable cities to divert as much as 67 percent of their landfill mass through keeping organics in a composting system instead. Much of the organics being put into the system will come from hotels, restaurants, grocery stores and cafes. Other large contributors are everyday kitchen and yard waste from the residential contributions and city landscaping industry. The government is enforcing this through fines for municipalities that do not comply to the new regulations. In the short term there will need to be some investment into new waste management technology but in the long term the benefits are more than obvious and will also apply to the city’s budget improvements through the improved systems. Find Dave & Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, information about their radio shows & free resourc...