Another interview

I interviewed Graeme Warring from Australian Karaoke Distributors Pty Ltd. He concisely answered my questions "What is karaoke?"
"What do you consider is the most important thing that people need to know about karaoke?"
"What do people need to get started in karaoke?"
and "Where can people find out more about karaoke?
I like YouTube's new editing function that allows me to cut off the unwanted start and end bits off the video.

Family get together

I had a choice of events to attend on Sunday. I chose to attend a family get together with my sister's family because it would be my first opportunity to meet several members her partner's family. I am glad that I did as it gave me the opportunity to enjoy talking with these people.
As I am still just starting off in my new business, I love sharing my experiences with other people, especially those who would already like to know more about me. I also feel grateful for what several of these people shared about their lives and for giving me the opportunity to enjoy learning from them. For me, I now feel so alive being away from the isolation of my previous career.

A supportive community

A few years ago I attended "Personal Success Intensive", a seminar run by Success and You. I enjoyed being with people who are committed to me getting what I want in my life. I then went on to do their "Life Design" seminar. After those programs, I have been able to attend their monthly "Success Club" meeting where we can meet up, support each other in achieving our goals, network, have fun and share with each other what is going on for us. Many of the members of Success Club are life coaches who are trained and experienced at having people achieve what they want in life. While I am more committed to being a counsellor than being a life coach myself, the input from these life coaches assists me immensely in building my counselling business to better serve my clients.

Sharing our strengths

I was walking along Oxford street back into Sydney and an Aboriginal woman asked me if I had any spare change. I thought for a moment. I was a bit short of money as I had stretched my budget in my attempt to move extremely rapidly into my new career so I said no and began to move on. In fact I was feeling hungry from my attempts to make my food budget last the next three days. I stopped, reconsidered and went back to the woman who was now sitting at a table. I asked her if I could sit down at the table and talk with her. She said yes. I told her that I am facing financial difficulty too. I shared with her about the financial challenges I was facing. She said "If I had a hundred dollars I would give it to you. However I don't have a hundred dollars. If you go to Wayside Chapel on Monday and see Father Long he will be able to help you." On Tuesday after completing all the things I had planned for Monday and for Tuesday morning, I walked from Glebe to the far end of Kings Cross and experienced the Wayside Chapel. They assisted me respectfully, lovingly and with great care. I was asked if there was anything else I needed. A shower? Clean socks? Anything? The only thing was a shower and I much better after it.

Time to dust off the cobwebs

After several years of neglect I believe that it is now tome for me to again update my blog.
I have at long last moved on from my old career as an electronic technician where I mainly worked on my own. I was being paid $20 per hour and while I attempted to do the job well, it was not fulfilling for me. The way I managed to get through each week was to take each Wednesday off work and do building maintenance as a volunteer at Bridge Church. Over the last few weeks I have had very little work in my old career and I have been working extremely rapidly into starting my new career as a counsellor, coach and workshop facilitator.