My beautiful day actually started last night. 

My Grandma (who’s in her 80’s) gave me a call to wish me a Happy Birthday.  We talked for about 30 minutes, and shared some laughs.  I told her some stories about some of the things we are experiencing with our son, including his broken [...]]]>

My beautiful day actually started last night. 

My Grandma (who’s in her 80’s) gave me a call to wish me a Happy Birthday.  We talked for about 30 minutes, and shared some laughs.  I told her some stories about some of the things we are experiencing with our son, including his broken finger and his distress with it.  Can’t play video games as well with a broken finger you know!

Then I check my Facebook accounts (I have two…private and public) and Birthday wishes were filtering from friends and family around the world.

I hopped out of the shower, and my birthday gift from my husband and son was sitting on the bed.  It was something I really REALLY wanted…one of those hand held blenders.  Mine pooched a long time ago, and I just didn’t get around to getting another one.  This one’s pretty fancy with multiple speeds, and looks heavy duty! 

I’ve been paying more attention to nutrition with my quest to bring my body into balance this year.  I’ve been enjoying reading Nourishing Traditions and learning a lot.  Quite fascinating actually.

My husband took me out for a scrumptious breakfast after our workout.

The sun is shining, and we are supposed to get up to a balmy -13C today (which is quite beautiful after yesterday’s -38C with the wind chill).

All in all it’s been an absolutely FANTASTIC day!

And, as the tradition with just about everyone on the internet, I do have a Gift to share with you too.

If you head on over to http://welcomechanges.com/products-services you can use this coupon code (happy) to get 44% off of anything on the site.  That includes all the digital products (the whole TWO of them…Juicy Bites of Welcome Changes Ebook and JOY Journal Audio Program) and the coaching packages as well.  After all, it’s my 44th Birthday.  A Banner Year!

I am grateful for all the many blessings my life is filled with, and I’m reminded on a daily basis how beautiful my life truly is…even with all the bumps, curves and potholes. 

Love,

Velma

PS ~ The Coupon Code of “happy” will be valid until midnight November 30th, so don’t wait too long to take advantage of it.

PPS ~ This is the first time I’ve offered a coupon on coaching packages too.  You could save over $1100!  (It will give you 44% off of the monthly payment plan for 6 months as well.)

An after I published PPPS ~ I goofed…it won’t work for the subscription, but if that’s what you need, I’ll still give you the 44% discount. We’ll just have to process this another way.

He’s looking forward to the Easter Bunny coming too.  He doesn’t get a lot of candy, and he’s OK with that.  When the Easter Bunny comes to our house, he hides [...]]]> Easter Break is coming.  We received the notice in our son’s backpack.   Six days off, plus off early on Thursday.  He’s tickled.

He’s looking forward to the Easter Bunny coming too.  He doesn’t get a lot of candy, and he’s OK with that.  When the Easter Bunny comes to our house, he hides plastic eggs with change in them.  He’s hoping for lots of Loonies!  (For those of you who don’t know, that’s the Canadian $1 coin.)  He has such fun, and so do I watching him zip around the house looking for the plastic eggs.

Easter also seems to make Spring official.  Daffodils are at the flower shops, and maybe even peaking up in some gardens too.  (I don’t have any, but I’m looking for signs that my transplanted rose bushes survived the Winter.)

Spring is all about New Beginnings too.

I’m ready for it!

I have made some decisions, and I’m ramping up to make some more decisions.

One decision I made was to ease up on the Welcome Changes Radio schedule for the summer.  There will be no shows for the last week of July and the last two weeks of August.  I felt this would be much more kind to me than trying to pre-record shows, which would require me essentially doing two shows in one week, just to have one pre-recorded show.  That’s a lot of work!  Besides, if I’m not kind to me, how can I expect anyone else to be kind to me? I have to set a good example. 

I made a decision to launch a group coaching program in May called “Joy Made Easy…and Fast!” which will be a six month program, limited to 8 individuals.  If there is enough of a response, I’ll create two separate classes.

I also made a decision to close the doors on “Joy Made Easy” Community Coaching.  The program didn’t work out as I had hoped.  This is okay with me.  I received a lot of clarity from this experience. 

I’m flirting with some other decisions, including researching fermented foods, and possibly incorporating more raw food into my diet.

Anyway, enough about me and my decisions.

The question is, are you ready to make some decisions?

Have you already made some decisions?

Are you flirting with some decisions?

If you are flirting with decisions this may be of value for you.  I’ve created an Easter Break Special with two of my favourite products.  Juicy Bites of Welcome Changes, and JOY Journal Audio Program.  I’ve reduced their prices both down to $19.  That’s an $8 savings on the ebook, and $14 on the audio program.  The special is ONLY available here:  http://welcomechanges.com/easter-break.

This special is only available as long as that page is live, which will be until April 16th.

Remember, don’t go to Juicy Bites of Welcome Changes or JOY Journal Audio Program.  If you go there, you’ll be paying full price. 

Go to http://welcomechanges.com/easter-break and you’ll get the special price of $19 each.

Now, I must look for some elbow, knee and wrist pads so I can learn how to Rollerblade.  That’s another one of my decisions. 

Have a FANTASTIC day, and a Fabulous Easter!

I got SPRING FEVER!

Dream BIG!

Velma Gallant
The Queen of JOY!
Host of Welcome Changes Radio

PS ~ If you’ve made some strong decisions and you’d like to plurk (play+work=plurk) together to make it happen, visit here:  http://welcomechanges.com/products-services/private-sessions/.  Request your interview to begin the process.

We’ve put up the Christmas lights on the outside of our house, and decorated the tree.  There are presents [...]]]> The holiday season is upon us!  It’s only a few more weeks until our Family celebrates Christmas.  Whatever holiday your family celebrates during this time of year, we wish you the utmost Joy and Love.

We’ve put up the Christmas lights on the outside of our house, and decorated the tree.  There are presents hiding throughout the house.  I’m crafting some very special gifts for friends and family.  My grocery list is growing with ingredients for Christmas baking.  I love this time of year.

I’ve presents over the past few months that are just “perfect”.  I love it when that happens.

Giving from my heart, and receiving Joy as their faces light up.  That’s what it’s all about!

All too often as we are getting ready for this time of year, self-care can fall to the wayside.  Please make sure you take loving care of yourself physically, emotionally and spiritually.  Don’t let your daily practices fall to the wayside completely due to being “busy”.  Don’t justify letting yourself get run down.

Just a little reminder, for you and for me.

As many of you may already know, December 15th will be the last Welcome Changes Radio show for 2009.  This will also be our 100th show as well!  We’ll be celebrating!

Join Erika Morrell and me as we talk about Love!  We’ll be sharing many gifts throughout the show.  You should see the list that Erika sent me!  Oh don’t worry.  I now how to keep a secret.  It’s taken many years of practice, and although I can almost explode with excitement, I’ll make it through without bursting!

Lastly, I do have a gift for you.  25% off any of the following items:

JOY Journal Audio Program

Juicy Bites of Welcome Changes ebook

Living Abundant JOY Audios (digital only)

Simply enter the Coupon Code “HOLIDAYS09” to receive your discount.  This coupon is valid from today through to January 4th, 2010.

EnJOY your Holidays!

Dream BIG!

Velma Gallant
The Queen of JOY!

PS ~ We’ll be back “on the air” at Welcome Changes Radio January 12th, 2010.

Today, in interview Nance Ellis for Welcome Changes Radio, we spoke about those thoughts that keep us from knowing and accepting that we [...]]]> At the beginning of the year I shared an article called “Breaking News: Are You Spamming Yourself?”  It was a really cute article that shared how our thoughts are often Spam!

Today, in interview Nance Ellis for Welcome Changes Radio, we spoke about those thoughts that keep us from knowing and accepting that we are divinely perfect.  Those thoughts can truly be like Spam–a program that was installed when we were younger keeps sending out those spam messages!

Nanice offered some really great insight regarding those messages we send to ourselves that are not of service. 

The audio will be available shortly for you to download.

One of things that I use to replace those spam messages with empowering and valuable messages is my JOY Journal.  Today is the last day for you to get $10 off the program.  Just use ANNIVERSARY for the Coupon Code at http://joy-journal.com. 

Stop spamming yourself and install your JOY Programming!

Dream BIG!

Velma Gallant
The Queen of JOY!

PS ~ The ANNIVERSARY coupon code will also work for Juicy Bites of Welcome Changes, which can be found at http://juicybites.com.  Yes, you can get $10 off of each, as long as you purchase them separately.

It’s been up.  It’s been down.  It’s been easy.  It’s been difficult.  There have been times where I’ve wondered if we’d make it.  Other times I knew we’d be together forever.

But [...]]]> It’s a special day for me today.  10 years!  We’ve made it!  It’s a wonderful milestone, and definitely worth a celebration. 

It’s been up.  It’s been down.  It’s been easy.  It’s been difficult.  There have been times where I’ve wondered if we’d make it.  Other times I knew we’d be together forever.

But really…what’s that all mean?

It means throughout the 10 years I’ve let my thoughts hang out in our past, my past, our future, my future.  In reality, through those 10 years, there’s only ever been Today.

Today is yesterday’s tomorrow, and tomorrow’s yesterday. 

Do I really want to be consistently hanging out in tomorrow’s and yesterdays? 

What about today?

(If I keep this up, I’m going to confuse myself!)

Today, because that’s all there really is, has already started out wonderful.  After walking our son to school together, we went for coffee at the local Tim Hortons.  OK…he had coffee and I had green tea.  Whatever.

Anyway, as we’re sitting there chatting, a really nice couple started up a conversation with us.  What was supposed to be a 45 minute coffee turned into a 2 hour visit with a new set of friends!  It was wonderful.  He’s a “realist” like my hubby, and she’s a “polly-anna” like me.

We knew that moving to the new community was the next chapter in our lives, and we both have been missing our friends “back home”.  (Yesterday-Thinking)  We both knew, though, that we made our life in Claresholm as wonderful as it was, so it was up to us to make our lives here wonderful too.  (Tomorrow-Thinking)

Today, we really started moving in that direction.  It’s amazing how things start to happen once you make the decision.  I love meeting new people.  We’ll probably see them tomorrow at coffee too!

Makes me think.  If Yesterday-Thinking helps to create positive and valuable Tomorrow-Thinking, that’s a good thing!  Using them as a tool, rather than trying to live in them is worth it.

I can really get of on tangents!  Marriage to Yesterday to Tomorrow to Today to Coffee!

That’s OK.  I’m really a Bite Thinker.  Inspirations come to me in bites a lot of the time.  I find it easier that way.  I can chew on them, savour them, appreciate them, and if they feel right, own them.

That’s really what Juicy Bites of Welcome Changes is all about too.  It’s full of bite-size awarenesses, lessons, inspirations (whatever you want to call them).  The official sub-title is “Create Balance and Joy Through Change One Bite at a Time”.

There are 80 Bites, all nutritionally balanced to nurture your mind, body, spirit and emotions.

It’s not a book you have to read from cover to cover (but if you want to that’s OK).  It’s not a book you print out either.  That I definitely recommend.  You open it up, scan the table of contents, and when one of the Bites jumps out at you, you click it, and then read it.  It takes just 5 minutes (or less). 

Are you playing with beliefs?  What about goals, or visioning?  Perhaps it’s forgiveness or trusting your intuition?  There are bites for each of these and more.

Have you noticed something about the tools I have created?  They’re all quick and simple!  I believe simplicity is valuable.  I also believe that quick is too!  I knew that if it takes too long I won’t do it.  Life gets busy!

I think I’m not only the Queen of JOY, but I’m the Queen of 5 Minute Tools too!

All these 5 minutes tools are what got me here…to 10 years of marriage.  All the challenges we went through created the marriage I’m appreciating today.  And, I’m appreciating these tools that also helped make it happen. 

Maybe, just maybe, these 5 minute tools can support you too.  Whatever it is you’re playing with right now.

http://joy-journal.com

http://juicybites.com

And don’t forget to use the Coupon Code ANNIVERSARY to get $10 off of each of these.  If you want $10 off of both, you’ll just have to make each purchase separately.

I’m off to have a wonderful lunch with my hubby.  We deserve it! 

Dream BIG(GER)!

Velma Gallant
The Queen of JOY!