Brummet's Conscious Blog

Writing must run in the family ! Proudly supporting my brother (author - Gary Towne ) and sister-in-law (Kiki Hui Wang - translator) who produced this book - it features work produced by their illustrator/artist friend Raymond Chow 😊 Find this Vancouver art book at: https://www.amazon.ca/Richmond-380-Through-Artist-bilingual/dp/1039182739 ..I believe this may become a series featuring a variety of Vancouver art (BC, Canada)  

For me - the term Entrepreneur brings to mind freedom and responsibility.  It means we have the freedom to make decisions  ...and the responsibility of making things happen  – because no one else will, we are on our own.  Therefore we have to be: Strong enough to be independent.  Self-disciplined enough to follow through. Tenacious enough to pursue dreams, despite the aching fear.  Flexible enough to bend around obstacles.  ~~~     Follow & Find Books:   on Amazon Visit:   Drum It With Brummet Blog Subscribe:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~

The Recommended Resources series has been published on this blog since we transferred it from the Brummet's Muse biweekly newsletter that ran for 6 years or so, many years ago. When we closed it down, we decided that we just had to continue this series here on this blog and have been doing so now for nearly 2 decades. With this series, Dave and I have the pleasure of sharing some great resources which can include  - positive impact organizations and events - citizen science projects  - links to helpful articles, amazing resources & exciting interviews It would, of course, be fantastic if you see a way to connect with them, thank them for their work, network with them, share the sites or get involved in some way. ** Want to see a non-profit listed here? - Send us a  FaceBook   or  LinkedIn  message. Pets for Life Society Alberta : This charitable, non-profit supports quality of life for companion animals including finding homes, helping with spay/neuter ...

Are you Ready??? Well you may want to get that cuppa and settle in for this emotionally charged, yet inspiring discussion that I had with the host of the Overcoming Adversity podcast, Michael Allison.  Michael met with me almost a year ago to discuss one of the first books we wrote, Towards Understanding, and overcoming a variety of challenges including my own inner judge and critic,  entrepreneurial burnout, anxiety disorders, and multiple personal losses. YouTube:  https://youtu.be/ OndBaZkkLM0 Spotify:   https://open.spotify. com/episode/ 2qsv0csU8T50KDEgi6pXwr Apple:   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-82-overcoming-self-sabotage-to-actionable-transformation/id1680104061?i=1000660548286   ~~~     Follow & Find Books:   on Amazon Visit:   Drum It With Brummet Blog Subscribe:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~

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...

Creston community complex receives a solar roof upgrade !  Kudo's to the Creston Community Complex recreation centre for installing 96 solar panes on their roof to help improve energy efficiency and reduce pollution.  Learn more about this project HERE There are many ways to reduce pollution and improve energy efficiency - signing up for the RDCK Regional Energy Efficiency Program (REEP) through the RDCK website is one of them.  Alternatively, check out the Trash Talk - It's Easy To Be Green book series on Amazon. ~~~     Follow & Find Books:   on Amazon Visit:   Drum It With Brummet Blog Subscribe:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~  

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...