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Some Renovate Your Body (RYB) Brisbane News

As you know, the Bald Man and I (and a few others) are heading to Brisbane on the 22nd of November to conduct a one-day RYB workshop at Rydges. When we announced the $195.00 program we also announced that anyone who booked and paid in full within the first seven days would receive a thirty percent discount. That ‘deal’ ended last Wednesday. However, since that time we have received more than twenty emails from people who are desperate to attend but were hoping to get the discount – due to their current financial situation.

While we have these types of requests periodically, we’ve never had so many in such a short space of time. Giving these people the discounted price following the cut-off date only presented one major problem for us; the folk who have since enrolled and paid the full price ($195.00). So… in order to be fair and transparent we have made two decisions for this program only:  (1) We will keep all ticket prices to the discounted price ($136.00) and (2) The people who have paid the full price since last Wednesday (fifteen of you) will be refunded the difference. We hope that this makes it easier for some of you to get along.

A Brisbane Meet-Up

Johnnie and I will be jetting into the thriving metropolis of Brisbane on the Saturday night before RYB (Nov. 21) and being as we get bored easily and can’t be trusted on our own, we thought we’d organise a meet-up for anyone who wants to hang out with us for an hour or two, consume a (hot) beverage or six, share some laughs and possibly inhale some type of decadent cake. This invite is open to all me-dot-com readers; not just those going to the workshop the following day. Now, you Scaredy Cats who are already trying to figure out why you can’t attend, why don’t you get uncomfortable, do something different, get out of your box, come along and meet some cool people? And me. If worst comes to worst, you and I can eat our own bodyweight in cake. We will meet in the foyer of Rydges at 9.00 pm (Cnr. Grey and Glenelg streets, Southbank, Brisbane). Put it in your diary!

A New Addition to the Team

One of the challenges of creating, growing and maintaining a high quality free personal development resource such as this one is the sheer volume of hours that go into taking an article from an idea in my head to a published work on this site. That includes coming up with an overall concept, planning the article, writing, proof reading, title, finding the right pictures and editing. For example, yesterday’s post is around two and a half thousand words in length and the finished product took me more than ten hours to complete. Over the last few months it has become apparent that I need to be more structured with how and when I post articles here at me-dot-com. Apparently exhaustion is a bad thing. Who knew? Being as I can’t inspire or educate anyone if I’m dead, I’ve decided to back off a teensy-weensy bit with my writing workload and give myself a little breathing room. I have decided that I will (typically) post three times per week here at me-dot-com and see how that goes. Now, rather than having too many days with nothing to stimulate your brain, I have decided that on some of my ‘off days’ I will invite a few of my very clever friends to share a lesson or laugh with you. Hopefully both. They will be my guest writers and will be part of our team. I have already enlisted the services of one of my friends and she will be here to share with you tomorrow. Her name is ‘CJ’ and she is a very clever, talented and creative girl with a gift for writing. Her role here will be less about motivation, inspiration and education and more about asking questions, telling stories, being provocative and stimulating conversation. I know we’re all a little resistant to change but I want you to make my friend welcome. You were the new kid once right?

Mother Mary

As most of you know, my mum had a recent battle with bowel cancer and she is now doing great. When I shared her story here, the lovely Mary was inundated with cards, letters, emails, flowers and gifts from awesome people (you) all over the globe. So cool. Some of the letters were incredibly beautiful and moved the ‘Old Darl’ to tears. Anyhoozle, being as she’s not much of a computer geek she has asked me to share a brief message with you (handed to me on a piece of paper).

Hi Everyone. I would like to thank you all for your beautiful cards, flowers, gifts and well-wishes. I am sure your care and support helped in my recovery and it certainly made me feel very special. Thanks again, it was appreciated so much.   Mary Harper

Loretta Competes at the Olympia

As many of you know, the very lovely Loretta Watson is a RYL graduate and regular here at me-dot-com. She’s also one of the best figure competitors in the country, an inspiration to many of you and this year we’ve been keeping an eye on her competitive progress. As some of you know, she recently won the Miss Victoria and came second in the Miss Australia competition. Those results earned her a ticket to the Natural Miss Olympia Competition; the biggest competition of its kind on the planet. Two weekends ago, competing against twenty of the best bodies from all over the world, Loretta came in fourth; missing out on third place by one (lousy) point! Congratulations Watto. And yes, that’s her pictured above on stage at the Olympia (back to camera).

T-Shirts

I keep forgetting to give away some me-dot-com shirts for your teaching and mentoring efforts last week with our “I Give Up (Almost)” post. That was an amazing response and I for one, learned plenty. Thanks. I want to send a token of appreciation to Darby O’Connor, Kate and Adrijana. If you guys can email Johnnie your postal details and shirt size, we’ll send you your very own craigharper.com.au Tee.

Enjoy your Thursday xx