Spring

With the energy getting stronger and stronger. What are you  planting for Spring? It can be actual seeds in your garden or in your life? What have you set out to accomplish! Are you actually taking time to invest in your own future. This does not mean actually paying to go to school. Knowledge can be acquired by simply picking up a book, watching some videos. Or taking some online seminars.

Some people might be focusing on getting out of debt. Removing toxic people or work environments from our lives. Getting rid of clutter around your home. Whatever you want to change in your life. Just remember you do have control over bringing in some of that change. Just by taking action, whether its showing immediate results or not. You have started to participate in your own life and initiate change.

Not sure how to tackle money issues, libraries exist for that reason. Librarians are a resource too! Many people think that Librarians just shelve books. They have more training than you think. They are trained to access other resources online and within the library network. They can recommend books that are focused on your very problem.

Many people don't even scratch the surface of the resources around them. The libraries exist as a storage for resources and knowledge that is available to all. This is the equal and level playing field for those without money. It is the spring board to help you find some of the missing pieces in your education and help build a foundation for your ideas and dreams. It houses more than books on mysteries and romance novels.

When they say knowledge is power! Nothing could be more true! If you have dreams of creating a better future for yourself. This is one place to start, the staff at the library can also help you rind non-profit resources for your business to help with the next steps. This why expanding your network of people around you is so important. Poor people don't have the knowledge to help other poor people leave poverty. Same with Middle class! Once you have the road map out of your own limitations you can create so much more.

Your start to have choices, you start to see those dreams materialize. They lead to the road out of your limited world and open more opportunities for yourself and your family. So as the weather warms up. What will you plant this year?

Penny J. (MN, USA)
Raven Hawke, Llc
info@ravenhawke.net
www.ravenhawke.net

Poverty

To each person that word means something different. It depends on the country you grew up in and how it was viewed by that culture. It has a smell, feeling and taste. To some it might be sadness, violence, insecurity?

It might feel like a simpler time, depending on your memories if they were happy or sad? Certain foods in an instance can trigger memories or feelings of happiness or sadness. The taste of certain foods are reminders as well. Those that are visual, will find things that annoy them on sight.

These reminders can be just enough incentive to make sure that we never go back to a time like that without a fight. Here's the funny part, poverty can be a person growing up in a middle class home. It's all about our frame of reference.

To some people poverty is about money. To some it's about not having enough family or friends. See it's all very abstract. That's why logic isn't always the truth. Poverty can be synonymous with stress, pain, shame, violence and the list can go on.

Some of this is brought about by constantly comparing our lives to others. Some of it is just a brutal reality check when whats going out is more than whats coming in. Some of it happens, when things are beyond our control. For some this will be a temporary stop on the journey of life and others will feel like their life has hit the longest drought on journey.

Others make a game out of it. They have learned how to make it work for them and content with what they have and no intention of changing themselves. While others look at it as something dirty and abhorant and can't find ways fast enough to dig themselves out of it.

The important part about these journeys is not to Judge yourself but try to reasses what you've learned and see if different choices will change the results?

Penny J.
Raven Hawke, Llc (MN, USA)
www.ravenhawke.net
info@ravenhawke.net

The Best Romance

The Best Romance

Wouldn't it be great if Parents taught their kids to get to know themselves.

I think it's still interesting that there are so many children's books where they push the happily ever after thing complete with Miss Charming or Mr. Charming.

This is one of the reasons we have so many divorces in this country. Most people have no clue who they are?

They don't know if they're even happy?

They think that being happy is having another person in your life? It's one of those Card moments.

People have never been told the truth that you can still be lonely with another person.

So they go rushing into another relationship, like this will finally be the answer.

It's only after several of these failed results we learn that we need to actually take some time out for ourselves and get to know us. It's like secretly we don't like ourselves. We're so afraid that if we get to know ourselves, we think we won't like us.

Once you take the time to get to know yourself. You find more inner peace and calmness than we ever imagined. Even if you find things that you don't like about yourself. You can choose to change or not. After all it is your choice.

You start to learn your likes and dislikes.

You learn what people you like or don't.

Your life starts to change and you start to take back your power.

Amazing things start to happen, you become more happy and less angry.

You also find out if you hate your job or even like the people you work with?

You start to take adult steps to make the changes in the areas of your life that make you unhappy. Instead of being angry and thinking that your miserable so your going to make everyone around you miserable!

Once you've discovered the greatest romance with yourself. You start to smile more and have more positive things happening to you.

Penny J.
Raven Hawke, Llc (MN,USA)

www.ravenhawke.net
info@ravenhawke.net