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Well, I must say I am more tired than inspired this monday. Unique LA was fun. I am super duper excited about some contacts I made there, over the moon. plus it's always nice to sell directly to the customer face to face..good energy and feedback always. I'll post some pics soon, but until then my list:

Big goals and plans

homemade pizza dough

shimmering leaves

grocery stores

organization

peacock feather ideas ( still)

Patrick's 40 day yoga bootcamp ( we started today at Golden Bridge, 6:15 am, 20 people, AWESOME)

paid bills

ocean air

cash money

strawberry shortcake 

what about you??? Yes I mean you.]]>
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So, I know monday is almost over, especially for those of you on the East coast of the USA. For my peeps in say Switzerland (Hi Nina!) I already missed the monday boat. Oh well. I am now posting my inspiration of the day. I aim to do this every monday, because mondays are the days we most need to be in touch with our inspiration right?! Here goes:

Peacocks

White Elephants

Dark chocolate covered pretzels

Chris Guillebeau (The Art of Non Conformity) @ http://chrisguillebeau.com/3x5/ 

Santa Mugs filled with HOT tea ( "wrong season" I know.)

Amen (the word , as in can I get an-)

Jumping Pictures (yeah, now and forever. PS ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS ;)

Deadlines ( Unique LA Craft show this weekend! Holla)

Eyesight

My pet - Mini Rose Bush ( yes, it is a plant)

Oversized Cabbages

Ok, your turn now!]]>
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So I've noticed a whole lot of Twitter guides lately and thought I would write one from my perspective as a culture junkie. I posted something on my Facebook about being addicted to Twitter and got quite a few responses that made me see how the point of Twitter is lost on a lot of folks still so these are my humble suggestions for making Twitter interesting and valuable for you. 

1. Get a Twitter Application

Download a Twitter app such as Tweetdeck. There are a few out there, but I use Tweetdeck and am very happy with it. It allows you to fully use Twitter and it is free to download. Do it now.

2. It's all about who you follow

Follow interesting people! This is the key. At first I was just following random people I found through other people's follow lists. This is a crap shoot and made my tweet stream pretty random and boring as alot of folks just tweet about their sales and really boring mundane things which are only interesting if you know the person, and maybe not even then. I have made some handy lists for you below to get started following some key people in all different fields.

3. Be interesting!

Be helpful and/ or interesting with your tweets. Restrain yourself from posting too much about whatever you sell. Here and there is ok, but don't pollute the tweet stream with spam. It is boring and will repulse most people, with exception of other spammers. The best way to gain followers ( and admit it, you want more of those right?) is to be interesting with your tweets! Don't sweat it though, let yourself get stream of conciousness, write poetry if you want, non sequiters, just be yourself. Posting about websites and blogs you like and find helpful is a really nice thing to do as well. 

4. Re Tweets

Re tweet other peoples especially interesting tweets, but don't make your whole stream re tweets. That is lazy. 

5. Replies

I personally find it boring when the person's whole stream is replies, and generally will not follow them unless they are just totally awesome anyway. You can tell replies because the tweet begins with @name and usually make no sense to you, as they were not replying to you....

6. If you need help with the basics

If you are brand new to it and want to read a good Twitter primer, here is a good website for that. 

Super interesting people and organizations to follow:

Funny people

http://twitter.com/Seth_Rogen

http://twitter.com/ThatKevinSmith

http://twitter.com/TinaFey

http://twitter.com/diablocody

http://twitter.com/jimmyfallon

http://twitter.com/pagecrusher

http://twitter.com/dooce

http://twitter.com/yeahdave

Super Famous 

http://twitter.com/Oprah

http://twitter.com/DitaVonTeese

http://twitter.com/Deepak_Chopra

http://twitter.com/MarthaStewart

http://twitter.com/johncmayer

http://twitter.com/jennyholzer

http://twitter.com/PerezHilton

http://twitter.com/davidblaine

http://twitter.com/ludajuice

Food people

http://twitter.com/evankleiman

http://twitter.com/marionnestle

http://twitter.com/seriouseats

http://twitter.com/ruthreichl

http://twitter.com/cakespy

http://twitter.com/thesmitten

http://twitter.com/aldenteblog

http://twitter.com/coconutlime

Smart people/ Wise people

http://twitter.com/skydiver

http://twitter.com/chrisguillebeau

http://twitter.com/tferriss

http://twitter.com/ev

http://twitter.com/MargalitWard

http://twitter.com/humanityhealing

http://twitter.com/zappos

http://twitter.com/chrisbrogan

Design world 

http://twitter.com/design_sponge

http://twitter.com/modishblog

http://twitter.com/nytimesstyle

http://twitter.com/NOTCOT

http://twitter.com/TOUJOURSTOI

http://twitter.com/StickersDonuts

http://twitter.com/DelightJenny

Hey and follow me too!

 http://twitter.com/jamilastarwater]]>
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Well yesterday was amazing. I actually really enjoyed my White Tantric experience which is not always the case. Its always powerful and very clearing but sometimes processing all the emotions and dirt that comes up can be very difficult. Very very difficult.  The past few I've done made me feel so much anger and rage, emotions I rarely have felt in my life, so you can understand that I don't always look fwd to the experience. To continue the bad metaphors from the previous post, meditation is like taking out the trash- sometimes it stinks on the way out but it's better to just do it than have it rotting there in your kitchen, you know....But yesterday I felt an empowered sense of bliss ( like every cell was dancing) and creativity. I was up writing until midnight which these days is highly unusual... I am so excited by all the opportunity everywhere..I have been in a winter time like creative slumber for years..and now its spring again, thank God. And for the first time ever I feel passion towards concrete goals! My goals up until now have been either to just get by or to somehow magically transform my business to being efficient and profitable, with out actually taking the steps to make that happen...Now instead of just wishing Patrick and I are actually doing it. I am getting the sense that this is the TIME TO DO IT and not just for 11:11 enterprises. No time to 'lose' ! Make those dreams happen! Figure out what the dream is in the first place.... Sometimes our lives get so clouded over and we have to really dig our way into some light and inspiration.....and then Grace happens and meets us on the road where we are, and takes us further than we could have ever even dared to dream.....no matter where you are today I hope that you are feeling the Grace and magic possiblities around every corner...because they are there if you look! Carpe diem.

This painting looks like this day feels to me . I hope your day has a golden glow too.]]>
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I never used to understand meditation. It bored me to think about it. Now I see it kind of like brushing your teeth, except you're cleaning your mind instead. It's something to do everyday or else you get the stink breath....Luckily with Kundalini yoga we have thousands of meditations to use so it's not one size fits all.. sit there with your eyes closed and be still....although that's good tooo...... more later, gotta go do the equivalent of a massive dental cleaning...White Tantric Yoga...fun!]]>
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