Over the past couple of weeks, Barry and I have been slowly moving into our new house… on Monday the movers are coming to take all the big stuff, but we thought it would be easier to take things bit by bit.

Like the old saying… how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

But this represents more than a physical move for us…

It represents a move of, not just the body, but the mind and soul as well.

We’ll be able to think more clearly because of the expansiveness of the space inside our house.  My office will no longer be in the bedroom, but in its own separate room, and Barry’s won’t be in a tiny den but part of our large open-concept living room area.

We won’t feel claustrophobic anymore when we spend 24 hours a day under the same roof… and if we do, we can always step outside into our beautiful yard.

And that’s why we’re also moving the soul… because we have a nice private fenced-in back yard with a full deck, complete with glass patio set, and an English-style garden where the birds come to eat the seeds I put out, and I’m going to put a meditation bench that will allow us to sit and enjoy the surroundings in peace.

All in all, it’s a very inspiring setting to spend our time — living, working, playing, and creating.

Like any change, of course, there are elements that are scary… but the powerfully inspirational parts far outweigh the scary parts.

It fits in perfectly with a new package we’re launching next week, that teaches people how to get out of their comfort zones and achieve the change they want as well… it’s called the Renegade Growth Pak, and yes, it will definitely help you grow too!

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As you probably know by now, there are TWO very important elements required to achieve what you want in this journey we call life; and those two elements relate to the two sides of you: spiritual and physical. Inner and outer.

Neither is better than the other, because like the rest of the Universe, we operate in total balance.

Sit and meditate or visualize all day, without DOING, and you won’t get results.

Work your butt off all day, with no understanding of your beliefs, purpose, or the importance of down time to nurture your inner self, and you won’t get results.

At Life Without Limits, we go out of our way to offer you both… and for little or no monetary investment (because we know you still have to invest the time, AND we love to over-deliver on value)…

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Well, for the past several months Barry and I have been looking at EVERY house in the local market that fell within a certain price range.

But we’re picky… we need somewhere we can live and work together 24/7, since we work out of the home. We need a place that has room for two offices (we work separately because when one of us is on the phone, interviewing someone or chatting up business associates and JV partners, or recording audios or screen-capture videos, both of us need to be able to concentrate, and not be interrupted).

And of course, we also need someplace with a separate bedroom for the baby that’s both near our bedroom, and my office, so he/she (we’re now affectionately calling the baby Mango instead of Peanut since that’s about the size he/she is) can get immediate attention when required, and when not sleeping right beside me.

We need a nice yard, where we can work outside if we want, or get some fresh air while still having privacy, or meditate and connect with nature… and we need to be away from noisy streets for sanity, and so we don’t have traffic noises in every recording we do.

We also need room for our home gym and our video studio. We need a big walk-in closet (yes, NEED, or else we have to live in an uninspiring mess). And we need modern bathroom and kitchen facilities, with a double sink in the master (because that’s what we’re used to) and granite or tile counter tops in the kitchen, including an island in the middle (because that’s what we like).

Yup, we need the perfect house… but we want this champagne-grade house on a beer budget.

And finally we found it… or, perhaps, it found us…

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Since I’ve been pregnant (or at least, since I’ve know about it at 6 weeks) of course I haven’t been drinking any wine — even though in Europe pregnant women drink it without consequence, and in Canada they used to say a glass “every now and then” was okay — because here in the U.S. it’s Zero Tolerance (no alcohol for pregnant women).

Actually they’re just being safe, because some studies have shown it takes much more alcohol than a glass of wine every few weeks to cause problems — BUT since they “don’t know” how much is safe, they just say “none at all”. Better safe than sorry, and I’m fine with that, even though I feel they’re probably being over-cautious.

But I really have missed my wine — not so much for the alcohol, but because I enjoy the taste, I enjoy the antioxidant health benefits, and I enjoy the ritual of sipping a fine beverage from a fancy glass.

Enter my savior… Sutter Home Fre (alcohol-removed) wine!

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May 15 is Bloggers Unite for Human Rights day… where the call is out for bloggers to “use their space to make the world a better place”.

There are many human rights issues that deserve to be talked about. My personal issue though, is with the way journalists have often been treated, and now — through expansion — censorship of the internet.

Barry made a great post on his blog about Net Neutrality that is a good place to start on that topic. If you publish OR consume content on the internet; if you like to be able to go to whatever sites you want, regardless of what ISP you choose; if you actually want to receive emails that you subscribe to; then you need to care about Net Neutrality.

And of course, this is just an extension of the censorship that has been going on in mainstream media for years. The internet is the media of the people — anybody can create a video, audio, article, e-book, or nearly any kind of content and distribute it online, including very professional “radio” and “TV” shows that are webcast or podcast rather than broadcast… and is in essence “the medium of all media” in the way that you can mimic any other form of media online (be it print, TV, radio, or anything else).

The true “journalist” — even in mainstream media — really believes that they are working for the people, and publishing our “right to know” for the good of all. But true journalism doesn’t really exist in mainstream media, try as hard as the reporters might.

Yes, journalists around the world are being wrongfully jailed, tortured, and even killed for publishing (or attempting to publish) stories that certain countries want to censor and keep under wraps. Those governments don’t believe that people have the “right to know”…

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Today I went for another acupuncture session, and this time we’re focusing on the sugar allergy. Wow, I’ve been avoiding sugar for many, many years, and although I don’t plan on going crazy on the refined stuff, I’m so happy to be ridding my system of all sensitivity to it — because it’s in almost everything!

Yes, I can remember many times when I thought I was avoiding sugar, only to feel like crap afterwards and knowing that some of it snuck in… restaurants in particular love to put it in every sauce, dressing, marinade, or just on the grilled chicken breasts that are supposed to be pure.

Now, I just finished my 6-hour avoidance of sugar like after every treatment (the food changes, but the procedure stays the same) and that’s the last time I HAVE to (rather than CHOOSE to) avoid it.

So anyhow, the number of needles went down again… I just ended up with two in the back of my neck. And I enjoyed the treatment a lot, because this time the doctor asked “out of the blue” if I’d been getting headaches (well, he actually got that message from my body, but it seemed to come from nowhere).

I admitted that yes, I had been getting them quite often over the past week or two… and that I used to get them a lot, but they had greatly subsided except for very recently.

So he gave me an acupressure treatment on the back of my head and the sides of my neck, where it was so tender that it hurt like heck for him to press, but felt good at the same time because I could feel the pain melting away. I call that a “good hurt”.

One of those instances where it’s true to say, “No Pain, No Gain!”

It was almost as good as getting a full massage… which reminds me, I’m due for another one soon!

Except this was a bonus massage, because it means that sugar will no longer be an issue for me. Sweeeeet!

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Well, it’s been Doctor Week around here… four appointments for various things all squished into three days.

The last appointment was at the Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinic in Medford (the biggest city around here) where they did some specialized Ultra-Screen tests for our baby, since I’m an “older” mom (meaning over 35).

Finally we got to see Peanut’s face, seen here in the ultrasound printout… a whole lot different than the small “bean” I saw a month ago!

We’re still not sure if it’s a boy or a girl, but bets are coming in on both sides.

It was quite an interesting experience though… besides the fact that we also saw the baby in 4-D (a picture is on the next page), we discovered that we have a larger-than-average baby — which wouldn’t be an issue except that it meant I couldn’t get the blood tests that were supposed to be part of the special screening.

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Saturday evening, Barry and I took an impromptu drive through Colonial Valley, a nearby little oasis of wildlife that we had never visited before, but had heard all about the beauty.

And it was almost as good as going to the zoo… maybe even better, because we got to see animals in their wild habitat, calmly co-existing with humans (as well as a few that were domesticated, and also co-existing with humans).

The first deer I saw, bounding along the grass towards the road we were driving on, prompted me to gasp in delight — which scared the heck out of Barry, who was driving.

Right beside him were three more deer, casually grazing beside the road. We drove by slowly, and I took a couple of pictures from the car.

Then we came across the herd pictured above — nine of them all together — and I had to get out of the car to get closer for this picture, with one of them looking right at me.

By the end of the drive we had seen 16 deer in total… all within about the span of an hour or so. Who can say they’ve gone out for a casual drive and seen 16 deer within an hour? I was pretty impressed by the whole thing.

In fact, when Barry said whoever saw the next deer would be treated to dinner, I manifested the 16th one almost immediately.  I looked around, then straight ahead, and said, “There it is… crossing the road up ahead.” And there it was.

But it wasn’t just about deer…

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A year ago this weekend, Barry and I were at the System Seminar in Chicago… and met face-to-face for the first time ever.

We had been working together for over 6 months by that point, and had just had a major success with the launch of Masters Of The Secret…

And we had been friends for over a year.

As business partners, we had done our fair share of arguing (hey, two ambitious, driven people who are passionate about what they do are bound to clash from time to time)…

But meeting in person allowed us to see that there were elements of each others’ personalities we had never noticed or given the other person credit for before.

Hanging out for the whole weekend — shooting video interviews together, attending sessions at the seminar together, eating meals together, and one night even exploring why “Chicago, Chicago is my kind of town” with a trip downtown to a jazz club and The Second City comedy show — cemented that we really were good together, both as friends and business partners.

But something else happened that weekend that was totally unexpected…

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Brennan Kingsland of Shepherd’s Haven Sanctuary, a private animal rescue shelter, left me a comment earlier that brought me to her blog…

And I saw a video she had posted there that really had some impact.

If you ever think you “don’t have enough” or “everybody’s better off than you”, this video will help you realize that’s not necessarily true.

And yes, it’s set to a cover of an old Tears for Fears song I used to really like, so that won points for me too.

But while it’s important to appreciate the fact that you’re probably richer than 75% of the world (according to the video), it’s equally important not to let that lull you into a comfort zone.

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