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HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Looking Ahead On the last day of each year, I look forward to getting together with a few friends to celebrate another year of life lived fully (or not), and the prospects of an even more fulfilling year ahead. We look back, capture the year’s highlights on paper and then share our accomplishments, challenges and growth in areas like health, finances, work and family. We give the past year a name (“2004: Year of Firsts”), honor it and let it go. Setting our sights on tomorrow, we have fun poring over magazines and clipping pictures and words to affix to our personal poster boards. These collages, sometimes called “dream boards” or “treasure maps,” provide a constant reminder throughout the next year of who we aspire to become, and what we choose for our lives. My eyes land naturally on my dream board as I glance at the wall across from my desk. In the center is a caricature of a mother holding a child, and just above are photos of my husband and me on the beach in Kauai. I’m glad to see family “front and center.” Although not planned, the left side of the poster seems more outer-oriented, while the right is more inner. On the left, “Writers who make a difference” is in beautiful script. EUREKA appears in bold red letters above a black inkbottle tipped over, pouring out a magnificent rainbow of color. “STRONG writing” anchors the upper left, over a muscular arm flexing while holding a pencil in hand. A huge red apple sits almost as tall as a tree at the end of a yellow-brick road, with the words: “The Fruits of your Labor Reached Epic Proportions.” What fun! Leaving the left side, my eyes journey to the right, where they land on the word “Charity.” Scattered around are photos that bring the words pasted there to life: “A Sea of Tranquility Right Here,” “Interior Journey,” “Perfecting Health” on the most delicious looking dish of fresh vegetables you’ve ever seen. Finally, my eye lands on the photo in the bottom center of the poster that shows the face of a smiling, kind-looking woman and the words “Quality Friend Time.” No wonder it was such a great year! What has your year been like? What vision did you have? What have you been looking at in your peripheral vision all year? (To the left of my Dream Board is a framed copy of the Revolutionary Agreements art poster; to the right is a calendar with beautiful scenes of the Rockies where I hike as often as possible. Above my dream board is a window looking into my husband’s office. That means that I look at HIM a good deal, too!) What did you set your sights on? How do you see life unfolding for you in 2006? If you were a magnet, what would you attract into your life? I hope you’ll play with me from wherever you are on Dec 31 or Jan 1 by having fun with your friends creating your own dream boards and a map to your personal treasures. And then may all your dreams come true. With gratitude,
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in Action Keep your stories coming! Send them to: newseditor@revolutionaryagreements.org. I created a “dream board” at Marian and Glenn’s house last New Year’s Eve along with some other friends. Creating it was a hoot. I felt like a kid again, with scissors, colored paper and glue. Looking back at it now, I see the magic. Some items I put there, not knowing why at the time, now make so much sense in hindsight. We are planning on doing it again this New Year’s Eve. Got glue? See you all in 2006 – and your great stories.
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Year of Transformation No one knew what the year would bring. Daughter number 3 is expecting a babe. Opportunity knocked in the early spring The editions went out, the writing went on, Falling leaves came and with it some stress I would have to move before the year-end In the darkest of hours I thought I was lost After that came my house in the sweetest of towns My focus was clear, I came out of the fog Christmas with family in a brand new home Six Days Left for Special Offer! To celebrate our current #1 standing in ConsciousOne’s “America’s Next Top Author” Program, we are making it easier for you to share Revolutionary Agreements with others through the end of the year. Buy three and GET ONE FREE—and personalized! Purchase three Revolutionary Agreements books by December 31 online at www.RevolutionaryAgreements.com and we will send you a fourth book for FREE. Simply email your receipt to freebook@marlinpress.com. (Your receipt and first three books will come from ConsciousOne’s “America’s Top Author” program, to whom you’ll be magically re-directed through the wonders of technology.) Your fourth book will be sent to you under separate cover. Why? So that Marian can personalize it any way you’d like, for whomever you’d like. Of course, we’ll pay the shipping for your fourth book. (When we say free, we mean free!) When you send a copy of your online receipt, please include the name of the person you’d like Marian to use in her personal note, and the address to mail the book. If you do not supply a name or address, we will assume you’d like it addressed to the person whose name is on the receipt. As I read this book, I thought of so many people I would love to give it to. Revolutionary Agreements is brilliantly written, very moving and important. This is what the world desperately needs as we attempt to find sanity and create community during these challenging times. –Marion Culhane, Co-founder, UN NGO Global Family, entrepreneur and life coach Revolutionary Agreements is the instruction book many people are hungry for. Such a gift it will become for millions. --Gale Arnold, Former Director, International Alliance of Social Architects
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