June News Update

Hello Team. Wow, what a response to yesterday’s post. You guys are generous, pretty darn smart and very kind. Lots of heart-felt, practical and invaluable advice. Thanks. I spoke with Mandi – she was somewhat emotional and pretty overwhelmed by how much strangers can care. Unconditional love and support – pretty cool huh? Anyway, a little me-dot- com news for you, as you head into the weekend.

RYL… the Next Bit

Yep, it seems that Renovate Your Life – Part two is set to become a reality in the not-too-distant future. Such was the success of – and positive response to – our recent two-day program that we have been inundated with requests to run a follow-up program. This program was always going to happen but with such interest we have decided to bring the date forward a little. While we are set to announce all of the details (cost, booking info, available places, program content, etc. ) next Tuesday, I can give you the scoop that the program is to take place October 9 – 11, 2009 at Anglesea here in Victoria. Not far away at all! Stay tuned or email Johnny if you simply can’t wait. And yes there will be a special deal for previous RYL participants.

CH-dot-com Meet-ups

For those of you who don’t know what a meet-up is (in blogging terminology), it’s simply a face-to-face get together for people who frequent a particular blog - such as this one. An informal gathering and a chance for us all to step out of the blogosphere and to spend a little time together in the realm of the three-dimensional – talking, hanging out, sharing, buying me cheesecake, encouraging people, making friends, drinking coffee and having fun. With real people and everything. Crazy I know. Our next meet-up will be in Melbourne on Saturday, July 4 (very soon) at Marlo’s – a cool cafe near the Harperdome – @ 11am sharp. Johnny and I will be there along with a few of our RYL team. It will go for as long as we want it to and there is no charge (just your coffee, etc.). I will be announcing a Sydney meet-up in the next week or so and if there’s enough interest, we’ll do most Australian capitals before the end of the year. The address for the Melbourne meet-up is: Marlo’s – 268 Centre Rd. Bentleigh. Love to see you there if you can make it along.

New Book

The very lovely Em from Jem Publishing (in Tassie) and Yours Truly are putting together a new book which will be a compilation of brief Life Lessons – mostly coming from the popular posts on this site. Being a book that doesn’t need to be read from front to back (that is, in order of pages), it should be the ideal book for the person who needs a periodic injection of motivation, perspective, insight, humour, direction and reality but isn’t necessarily an avid reader. Now you don’t need to push anyone to read my articles on line, you can just put a book in their hand. It should be out by December. Ho, ho, ho.

Enjoy your weekend Boys and Girls and I’ll leave you with one of my fave quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.”

Ciao x