Get inspired by The Quote Effect

First is about Davina Haisell’s new eBook The Quote Effect.  This is a beautiful compilation of inspirational quotes made by 33 bloggers (yes . . . including yours sincerely).  It’s done very nicely with pretty pictures and introduction to each blogs.  And it’s free.

Thank you, Davina, for your great work!

My eBook Stop Craving Sugar!

Next is about my own eBook Stop Craving Sugar! A lot of people have helped me edit and promote this eBook.  (The link takes you to the dedicated sales page where you can read some of the testimonials.)

I really love this eBook myself.  I’ve put in a lot of thoughts, research, and my heart into this eBook.  It addresses the tricky and baffling problem of sugar cravings not just with the nutritional understanding but with the mental, emotional, and spiritual understanding.  The nutritional part is well written, but the real glory is in the spiritual part toward the end.  It’s written so beautifully that I myself get moved every time I read it.  And I’ve read it at least 30 times by now.  (That’s what takes to perfect the editing, you know.)

Please check it out.  I also offer affiliate programs to promote this eBook, so if you know someone who blogs about healthy eating or personal development in general who may be interested, please let me know.  Thank you.

New tagline for Yes to Me

I just keep updating my tagline for this blog.  I know.  Because I keep growing.  Yes to Me started as a way to share my adventures as a new entrepreneur.  I soon realized that, in order to achieve success as entrepreneur, we need the foundation of healthy spirituality within us.  So Yes to Me became more and more about spirituality.  The tagline got officially updated last November to “Spiritual Healing and Growth for Greater Success”.

With the recent realization about light ascension, I’m updating the tagline to “Lightworkers’ Empowerment & Ascension”  The issue of ascension is still widely unexplored, and I’m learning more and more each day as I work in the Akashic Records.  So stay tuned!

I also updated my greeting on the sidebar and About page.  Please celebrate the continual rebirth of this blog and myself (which I think is the critical part of light ascension) ^_^

My question for you

If you can start your life anew today, who do you choose to be?  I’m not asking you if you want to be Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt.  I’m asking you the qualities you desire for yourself and for your life.

And what does that new you choose to do today?

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action.  Because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.  If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost.  The world will not have it.  It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it compares with other expressions.  It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.” — Martha Graham

Today I am grateful for my freedom and for the coming spring.  I’m grateful for my spiritual gifts as well as the gifts of others they bring to this world.

Yes to Me is one year old!  So this is a special celebration edition of my gratitude report.  Thank you my readers, thank you my subscribers, and thank you my fellow bloggers.  (Photo by Mr. Greenjeans)

My Spiritual Make Money Scheme

My business is doing pretty well, and I started writing what I believe to be the secret of my success so that you can learn from it and make money yourself.  And I typed and typed and . . . realize it’s really worth to be published as another independent post.  So here, let me just quickly share my business’ January financial record to give you an idea of how my 9 month old service is doing.

I wanted to insert the screenshot of my Paypal statement, but I can’t figure out how to, so you just have to trust me.  Here is the breakdown:

Gross revenue: $6205
Paypal fee: $214
Expense paid through Paypal: $193
Revenue: $5798

This is before tax and overhead.  The expense I paid through Paypal last month includes donation and web design work.  So these are not ongoing overhead.  My ongoing overhead is very low – they are internet and phone connection, web hosting, e-junkie seller account fee – well under $100 per month.  I may have incurred some other expenses (I haven’t really worked out the numbers yet), but you get the idea.

Pretty good for a new business, huh?  (Did anyone say recession?)

And here is a preview of my next post on abundance and spirituality:
The shortcut to abundance is to develop your spirituality so that you see abundance instead of lack.

Do you see lack?  Are you afraid your needs may not be met?  Or are you enjoying abundance?

Yes to Me blog growth

Here is a quick summary of this blog’s journey of this past year:

First post on February 4, 2008:  Why I Couldn’t Become An Entrepreneur Earlier
I started Yes to Me to share my adventures as a new entrepreneur.  With me as an author, however, it couldn’t avoid the spiritual flavor . . .

First post of Interview With Successful Entrepreneurs series with Christine O’Kelly
Like likes the like.  She may not realize how spiritual she is, but her interview nonetheless emphasizing the inner working of entrepreneurship . . .

Dodging The Many Forms Of Psychological Manipulation
This is one of the most popular posts, drawing traffic from SEO even now, 10 months after its publication.  Wish all my posts performed this well!

Soul Shifting And The Light Ascension Of Maybe 2012
By far the most commented, perhaps most controversial post so far . . . There have been so many questions that I had to give up responding to each of them individually and wrote another Q&A post.  And I wasn’t even attempting to be controversial – I was trying to help some people.
The second most commented post is Living Your Life Purpose

Again, thank you, thank you, thank you!

My anniversary gift to my readers

I wrote an eBook titled Stop Craving Sugar! Despite the title that reads like a headline of a women’s magazine, this is not only about nutrition, not only about emotional eating –  it addresses the issue from all four levels of our existence, physiological, emotional, mental, and spiritual.  Yeah, spiritual, too.  Everything we do is spiritual, including eating.

I asked some of my friends to read the eBook and here is one of the reviews:

“As a registered holistic nutritionist, I can truthfully say that Akemi has done a fantastic job of putting this eBook together. It is a yummy work for the body, the mind and the spirit. You will explore the truth about what you are feeding your body, what you are feeding your mind and how these influence each other. After reading this eBook you will realize that you have the ability to stop fighting sugar cravings and start living well.”

– Davina Haisell, RHN, Vancouver, Canada

I will be building the sales website and finalizing all the sales details this coming week.  But the book is ready, and I’d be happy to give away the copy to five commenters of this post.  Please write your comment below by Monday and if there are more than five commenters, I will do the drawing and contact the winners by email. (The eBook will be selling for $29.)

And today I am grateful for the sunlight, for the trees that I sense to be waking up soon, and for my wonderful spirit guides.  Hope you have a great weekend!