Empowering men to embrace a woman's full emotional expression

I see so many men having difficulty with a woman's emotional expression.
I have attended men's groups, and some men have colluded with others in criticizing woman's behaviour.
I would prefer to see men's groups where men support each other in being courageous and emotionally strong enough to be there fully present for their women, especially when their emotional support is most needed. By doing this, they can create more satisfying enjoyable relationships, and healthier environments for children to grow up in.
I am beginning to create a community project where both men and women make the commitment to support men fearlessly embracing women's full emotional expression.
I am looking for people who want to be part of the team to develop and run this program. I need to choose a domain name for the main website and to network providers of resources and material to be linked from it. I envision people who are committed to having men embracing women's full emotional expression being proud to wear the QR code that leads people to a website www.0z1.org which displays clearly on mobile phone web browswers, and leads people to the possibility of this project. (I wanted a short domain name so the QR code will be small.)

World Internet Summit

I attended all sessions of the four days of the World Internet Summit in Melbourne. I went there to get tips for getting traffic to my websites. Each of the presenters sold powerful tools for profiting from the internet. I was amazed by how extremely powerful most of these tools are. Yet for me right now, I see what Rich Waterman spoke about to be the first step for me. Mindset, working as a team, having a coach, having a mentor, accountability partners and outsourcing. The power of working as a team rather than doing it alone.

I have left my telemarketing job

As I have not achieved the minimum acceptable performance standards as a telemarketer in this job, I am no longer employed there.
I happily thanked my team leader for training, coaching and encouraging me when I was there. I also thanked him and the company for having given me that great training and experience in talking with people and having them take action.
I look forward to now spend more of my time and energy applying what I have learned in my own counselling and coaching business.

I am back in Kew again

Back in the same room on the top floor at the back of 244 High Street. I was cramped in Richmond and I now have plenty of space.
I no longer have the fridge - I can use the one in the kitchen however I do now have a wired internet connection which is much more reliable than the wireless one I had last time.
My address again matches the address on my business cards and I love the view over the park that I see through the window.

Telemarketing

I am quickly catching up on my own personal development after many of years of living in social isolation.
I am being employed as a telemarketer, and every day I speak with hundreds of people over the phone.
I am amazed at how, in the few days since when I started in this telemarketing job, I have massively improved the quality and depth of the way I interact with family, friends and other people in my life. I and am shocked to discover how very little connection that I have had with other people in my life, even in my recent past.
Hour after hour I gain insights into dozens of individual people's lives.
I love the gracious way so many people speak to me, a complete stranger who has a name and is speaking on behalf of a charity.
I feel so moved as I hear of how much people are willing to stretch themselves to give to so many causes.
I feel so sad as I hear of each health challenge that various people share with me about. Right now all I can give them is some empathy for a brief amount of my time, and to pray that they will soon do better. I believe that the best thing that I can do for them is to stop them from wasting their own time and mine in commiserating, and wish them a brighter future.
It makes no sense to me that many people are incredibly articulate on the phone and would love to support the charity, yet are not being creative enough to think of ways of working around a physical disability. No. I have driven a maxi taxi in Brisbane and seen more than enough people who do amazing things in life despite their disabilities. I do know it is hard and I do realize that I know little about their circumstances, yet I also know at least a little of the huge difference between those who keep being victims, and those who are willing to go beyond that.
I look forward to becoming a better communicator so I can more effectively communicate what I am offering. For example the times when I am offering even those who have little or no money an opportunity to still support the charity that they want to support. Instead of asking for their money, all I am asking is for them to allow me to send them a book of twenty raffle tickets to sell to family and friends over the next few weeks.
Wouldn't instant transformation from poverty consciousness to prosperity consciousness be absolutely awesome!
The greatest highlight is the enthusiasm with which some people are so willing to support the charity.
Right now I am wondering what it is about nursing homes that causes people to be unable to give? Do we need to burn those places down and free the inmates from their confinement so they can again live in the nurture of a loving family and the richness of the interaction with the wider community? I am seriously thinking of changing my own giving programs to include more charities that support home care.
I do know that one of the costs of telemarketing is the annoyance that it causes to some people. Yet for now that is the way that it is and to me the benefits far outweigh the costs. Yet the costs may be nowhere as great as they seem. Some people love to have something to complain about. The weather, the neighbours, and the fact that somebody had the gall to disturb them by uninvitedly ringing them. I know that they will not thank me for giving them something to complain about, and I also know that they are probably enjoying passionately complaining to a lot of people. No matter what I do in life, many people will upset themselves with their expectations that I don't. All I can do is to continue to do what I believe is for the greatest good for all concerned, and courteously give all those who are negatively impacted by my actions my empathy and understanding.
Some people have unrealistic expectations. They think that having an unlisted phone number or placing their number on the national do not call list will stop them from receiving phone calls from charities. I do my best to briefly and simply explain that that the action will not achieve the outcome that they desire. Another expectations is that, before I have heard that there is actually a human answering the phone in reply to my "hello", that I identify myself. I consider that it makes sense for me to wait for at least "hello" before doing that. Otherwise the communication tends to get totally out of sequence.
Some people just hang up. Others communicate more, allow myself to identify myself and who I am calling on behalf of and then tell courteously me that they are not interested. Many are not so courteous, and I understand that my call may be an unwanted interruption. I certainly do not always respond courteously to all people all the time. Especially when I am tired or stressed.
A huge number of people are too busy. They are time poor, a common malady in our society. I have suffered it in my own life and still do. What is each person busy doing? Maybe each of us are wasting at least some of our time, or at least not using our time as effectively as we could.

I love being back in Richmond

I am enjoying being back in Richmond again. I went to the gym and was amazed to see the market in Gleadell street where the Richmond Recreation Centre is.
I had forgotten about the Saturday street market, and was excited to see the van where they sell delicious fresh fish at an affordable price. After my workout, I went there and was enthusiastically welcomed by Frank and the others there. They wondered where I had been the last few years. They gave me a very generous amount of trevally fillets for my $5 and I happily went home to have one for my breakfast. It was so delicious that I went back to get more. There was a man playing Hotel California on his guitar next to the fish shop and I had tears of joy streaming down my face as I experienced that abundance of affordable delicious fresh natural food, the atmosphere of the place, seeing the familiar faces and hearing the familiar voices of the stallholders. I also got some affordable delicious fresh broccoli and a $1 punnet of juicy delicious ripe strawberries.

Why is it so hard for people to lose weight?

There are several reasons why people find it such a struggle to lose weight. One is the lies that make you fat. The misleading and the misinformed opinions about how to lose weight, much of which is given to us by innocent well meaning people.
The other is our subconscious need for a protection mechanism because of our fear of being vulnerable. Weight does work as a protective mechanism. For security, big bouncers are employed to ensure that there is no fighting or trouble at social functions. Even though some of those big guys couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag, nobody ever attempts to fight them because of their size. And rarely does anybody fight in their presence.
However our fear of vulnerability may be totally unfounded. It is wise to really deal with fear. If you are fearful, you are far more likely to attract the very thing that you fear. Often our fears are unfounded. They may just be based on something that happened in childhood when we truly were more vulnerable, yet if we were to face that same situation today, we would have the knowledge and the strength to easily deal with the situation. On the other hand if there really is a threat to personal safety, it may be far more healthy to deal with that risk rather than carrying around all that extra weight.