The Road to Peace

All things first begin to form in Thought. Thoughts move into CONVERSATION and then progress into ACTION. Every great leader in all aspects of life started with a single thought, a divine inspiration. Over and over I hear statements like “thoughts become things”, “we are what we think”, “where attention goes energy flows,” and ‘“change your thoughts and you will change your world!” The same process applies to creating Peace on Earth. In years gone by, we have had an abundance of inspired leaders plant the seeds for the growth of Peace throughout our planet.

We have had amazing people pioneer the way by fearlessly standing tall in the belief that not only can we all live in harmony but we are all connected, our fundamental needs and desires are all the same. Throughout time these mentors have started the conversation about the possibilities of PEACE. Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy are just some of the dedicated Legends that helped to highlight the necessity for Peace.

Even though these phenomenal people have passed on; their Intention to make this world a better place still exists. All over the world people are talking, lighting candles, and living their talk of Peace. People have gathered together physically and in thought to connect into the collective consciousness in order to fulfill the objective of bringing about Peace on Earth. A great person in my life once told me that, “All things can be solved in conversation! ALL Things.” Are you being included in this conversation?

We have created a group on facebook called, “Celebrating the PEACE of Legends!” http://groups.to/peacelegends/ All sorts of people in our past and present are creating a medium open to all interested in contributing to the REVELOUTION of Peace. It is not a movement because a movement will come to an end at some point. This Peaceful revelation will transform the earth as we know it.

I am writing this note today with the intention of helping you understand that the universe does not choose the qualified, it qualifies the chosen. You do not have to be a prophet, have a huge network, have barrels of money or become a martyr in order to make a difference. All you have to do is join the conversation. So weather you join our facebook group or any of the other great groups, attend a prayer rally, or light a candle in the name of Peace, this is your invitation to become a part of something much greater than anything we have ever known. Become Peace with in and as the Law of Attraction suggests that like attracts like by turning to Peace we receive more of the same. Please know that uniting in Peace and peaceful actions you are changing your world. Be the Change.....

Peace begins with me.

In all Humbleness.
Namaste,
Marcia

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Customer Service is NOT Just a Department!

It is very important to know that… we Don’t know…what we Don’t know! This applies to everything from why someone may have cut us off on the highway, or why someone may be known as “the grumpy old man” , or what a person was doing just moments before returning an item.

WE don’t know..that perhaps the ‘rude’ person that cut you off in traffic, may be on their way to deliver a baby. The man that everyone refers to as grumpy, may be that way because he lived a very hard life, perhaps his pension fell through and he has to work as a crossing guard to pay his rent.. because he just lost his house. Or perhaps this elderly person had his drivers license taken away because his eyesight is failing, so every morning he rides his mobile cart across the bridge rain or shine.. just to get out of his house…or to go to the cemetery everyday without fail.. to visit his wife who passed away 15 years earlier.

My point with all of this is… our perspective makes all of the difference. When we see the entire picture and all of the events as a whole, our educated response will more often than not be completely different than it would have been when we only held partial information. With a different perspective, we would be able to show more compassion, love and understanding rather than rudeness and abruptness.

Saturday morning, my husband , a couple of our kids and I were at the retirement home in the city to visit his grandmother. She turned 90 in January and is holding on to this life until we are all ready to let her go. She was suffering from cardiac failure; she was still holding on. We visited for awhile even though she can no longer speak, we touched her hand, looked at pictures, sang to her and all held her probably for the last time. With tear stained checks we left about an hour later.

Since we were in the city, we went to a couple of stores to get ready for our son’s 5th birthday. While we were there, we brought some things back to the store for our sister in-law. The box was so heavy that my husband had to carry it in from the truck. We had the receipt, the cashier circled the items and rang it into the till. When she asked for the credit card that the items were purchased with.. we never had it, since the items were not bought by us… so I suggested applying it back onto the card (since they have the number on the receipt)..or store credit. The cashier called her supervisor to ask if that was alright.. she told her supervisor what was happening…and then she turned her back to us and whispered something in the phone. After hanging up the phone, she said…”we just can’t do it…it is store policy!”

Store Policy… what happened to the days where the customer is always right. When did corporations grow this amazing sense of entitlement? Without customers… there would be no corporation….so why are customers treated like cattle. The process of returning items is already inconvenient…now this time…it means that our sister in-law is going to have to make another hour long trip into the city..with her 2 – 5 year olds…and her 1 year old… while packing a box that is too heavy to carry… and start all over because she has the credit card that matches the receipt…all for $16.00.

Perhaps knowing that I was just visiting our dying grandmother may have made the difference .. in creating some compassion. Or knowing that we drove an hour to get to the city… or that my sister would be packing 3 little children after diving another hour to get to the store may have helped. Having retail management experience in my background, I know that there is always something that can be done to please a customer…. Because word of mouth is really everything, it is in the ‘stores’ best interest. How do you ever measure the implications of a person’s actions..or non-action. This $16.00 could cost the company the thousands and thousands of dollars that I would potential spend in this store over my lifetime… or perhaps the hundreds of thousands that my family might have spent… not to mention the millions of dollars of my readers.

Maybe this perspective would have made the difference. Perhaps looking past my glasses to see the tears that I held back for our Grandmother… What if..everyone that was in an industry of service..treated the customers like they had all come into the store after saying their last goodbye to someone they loved. What if..we ALL interacted with compassion, love and understanding?

Since we just don’t know, what we don’t know..what if we made “Customer Service” the attitude of gratitude… appreciation for the customers that come into our stores because without them… we would not have a job to begin with!

Most Humbly,
Marcia
President..Stock Harmony


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Climbing the Mountain to Reach my Goals...

A couple of days ago, I had the privilege of accomplishing one of my first summer goals... climbing to the very top of the mountain that I have looked at every morning out my office window since September when I moved here. I am sure that on the grand scale it would be considered a small mountain; however after hibernating all winter behind a nice warm keyboard, it was a monumental task to say the least.

My husband and I set out on our trek early on the bright sunny Sunday morning. Fashionably dressed in tank top, shorts and hiking boots, I was grateful to head out of site and into the woods. Even though the day prior I had hiked ¼ the way up the same mountain, with a couple of my children, I was determined to see where the rest of the trail would lead us. Since that part of our journey was 95% straight uphill… we decided it would be best to leave the children home.

As Brad and I made it to the point where I had ended the day before, I could not help but feel my body disagree with my current decision to go further. My back started to hurt and my feet felt every degree of incline in our progress up the path to the top of the timbers. Even with spotting a couple of locations where Bears no longer lingered, we kept going…until, my husband said, “Stop.” In fear I ran closer to him wondering if he might have to use the can of bear spray on his hip, all the while thinking about the jokes of how its true purpose was to ‘pepper the meat’ before the bears had their dinner and that bear bells were really just ‘dinner bells.’

My husband very carefully leaned over and moved some ferns from their resting place onside of the mountain. As I was about to ask him what the heck he was looking at, he said, “I don’t believe it!” I was expecting the worst when he pointed to… a frog! A frog ½ way up the side of the mountain with no visible water around. Once my head slowed back to pre-bear-attack thinking, I was able to be shocked as well.

Beyond all reason, there should be no water needing creatures in sight let alone a Frog! Since my mind works in symbols and analogies, I could not help but compare my mountain climbing adventure to that of the adventure of creating Stock Harmony. The mountain that we are on… is the world markets, current business ethics & practices. Every piece of deadfall and root blocking the trail…are the obstacles that we have had to overcome to get to this point in our climb to launch Stock Harmony. The beautiful flowers and foliage along the way… are our friends who are offering kind advice and encouragement. The massive fallen trees that were now visibly becoming one with the earth… symbolized the corporations that once stood mighty and proud, only to be blown over by winds because their values (roots) were not strong enough to hold them in this economy. The bear droppings & stinging nettle… well, you guess that one… The 95% slope that we are climbing to get to the top is the hard work and dedication that it will take in order to achieve our intention.

Two hours, two sunburns, sore knees, scraps, stings and uphill perseverance later, we were standing at
the very top ridge of our mountain overlooking the entire valley and our house. Even though my body was not happy for the majority of our trip, I was extremely grateful that I did not give in…and I achieved what we set out to do. Now I can look out my window every morning and think to myself, I did it, I made it to the very top! (of this peak)

As I sat there in the moment, in wonder of our accomplishment, I took in the majesty around me and again reflected. …even though, we have climbed to the summit and pre-launched Stock Harmony, as I look around, there are even higher mountains to climb…but this trip has helped given me the prospective and strength that I will need, when I climb the other mountains that are waiting for us to get to the top of them as well.

The journey home helped me appreciate the other 5%..the 5% that had now become, my new uphill.
Everything, which was previously uphill, had now become my downhill… and now my knees screamed at me every step of the way. Even though we saw that a bear had crossed our trail we thankfully never did cross his path! We made it home safely even after we misplaced the trail and got to climb over hectares of deadfall. (We even saw another frog!) This just helped reassure me that I was not in spry enough shape but it was also a good idea to withdraw my nomination to be on the television show ‘Man tracker.’

As I gaze out my window this morning looking at the mountains before me, I am not only thankful for the obstacles in my life to that I have had climb up to this point…but for the ones that are yet to come… because I know that I CAN…and so can YOU!

Most Humbly,
Marcia

President, Stock Harmony
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Are YOU Ready for Integrity in Business?

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I have dedicated my life to the pursuit of excellence and truth on all levels and continue to lead the way with one of the most forward thinking businesses that will inspire the change that we are looking for. We are offering YOU the opportunity to use your voice to inspire the not only the positive changes that you would like to see in the corporate world but also nominate key members of our board and management team.In exchange for sharing with us, we will "Share" with you in the form of FREE shares. Your input is important... we want to know what is working right now?.... what changes can be made to the corporate world that would make a difference?...what tools do you find most effective through your current investing practices? etc...

Stock Harmony will provide all of the tools and utilities necessary in order to support and build successful symbiotic relationship that facilitate growth in the company, the investor and in the markets. Stock Harmony will be your all inclusive platform to gather and share information, openly communicate with the company management as well as potential new investors. We offer Real time Quotes and an investor forum, Proxy Forum, Live Web Meeting & Virtual AGM’s, Investor Marketplace, Company Showcase, news release platform, online brokerage companies . Find in-depth market research and information on emerging public companies not available elsewhere.


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This will be the new playground for businesses to highlight all that they are creating. It is thee place to showcase rather that spending thousands on trade shows that only last the weekend, this is the opportunity to promote themselves 365 days a year to a worldwide audience.

I look forward to working together to create the change that we want to see.
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In order to start promoting Corporations, Business, Investors, Authors and Coaches that are currently working on creating "SOLUTIONS," we are proud to announce Stock Harmony's new radio station...Stock Talk Radio
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This week we will be doing our first Stock Talk Radio show... We are excited to announce our two hosts...

HOST :Marcia Johnson
President of Stock Harmony www.stockharmony.com

Stock Harmony will provide all of the tools and utilities necessary in order to support and build successful symbiotic relationship that facilitate growth in the company, the investor and in the markets. Stock Harmony will be your all inclusive platform to gather and share information, openly communicate with the company management as well as potential new investors. We offer Real time Quotes and an investor forum, Proxy Forum, Live Web Meeting & Virtual AGM’s, Investor Marketplace, Company Showcase, news release platform, online brokerage companies . Find in-depth market research and information on emerging public companies not available elsewhere.

Share with us and we will "Share" with YOU! We are seeking your thoughts about the changes that YOU would like to see in the world markets... what do you think is working, what would YOU like to see improved? Who would YOU like to see leading the way? What companies do you know of that are over coming the "recession" to succeed in today's economy? In exchange for YOUR input...we will give you free shares ! www.stockharmony.com


HOST: Simon Black
International Man CEO & "Doug Casey" writer of Investing Without Boarders

He is constantly traveling the globe looking for the best opportunities, meeting with interesting people, and living free. He will share his boots on the ground intelligence with you, including global macroeconomic insights, financial investments, and internationalization strategies.

Marcia will be interviewing CEOs, Analysts, Authors, Presidents and business coaches. She will be exploring business solutions...how corporations are succeeding even though times are tougher than ever.

Simon is looking forward to speaking about anything that he is inspired to during his world travels.

Early this week Marcia and Simon will host an introductory show together. From there, I will be scheduling shows like crazy.

***If there is a corporation that you would like to suggest for an interview...or that you would like to know more about, please let us know and we will do our best to learn more about them.

Looking forward to learning and growing financially with YOU.

Most Humbly,
Marcia


President of Stock Harmony
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Let Go of Yesterday!

“When we carry yesterday’s thoughts into today, we are programming tomorrow to become just like today.” Marianne Williamson

The present or the “Now” is our point of power. By thinking about the past in the present we allow the future to be the same as our past. However…we do have the ability to create a miracle in the present which will open up our present to endless possibilities. We have the ability to stop thinking yesterday’s thoughts which therefore re-programs our future. When we dwell on our “story” or the circumstances that we are experience we allow more of the same thoughts, feelings and actions to recreate themselves over and over again until we decide to change the pattern that we have formed.

Here is a little test that you can try…for a minute simply stop everything… just think nothing and then come back.
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During that time of reflection what were you thinking? I know that I said to think nothing..but you were thinking..probably something like…”ok think nothing,” “How do I think nothing,” “nothing” “Nothing..hummm oh crap I have to switch the laundry,””this is dumb,” “ I forgot to do something at the office,” or “I need to make a phone call when I am done reading this,” “I am getting fat,” “Why am I doing this?”

Ok, so after thinking nothing… who was in your head ? Who was the one there observing the nothing thoughts that you were thinking? Who was the one that you were talking to? …
Right, it was YOU. You are the constant in all that you think, you are always the observer to your thoughts and your inner monolog. Thoughts are always there…so I ask? How many of the millions of thoughts that you have every single day are positive? Why do we hold onto core beliefs about ourselves that are negative and self destructive? These beliefs become our subconscious inner chatter… those thoughts came from something that we once heard either said about us or to someone else and then we adopted them for ourselves… those thoughts clip our wings and keep us small.

(Read this next paragraph as though..you are the author..) When I keep grasping onto the past, I remain in the same lesson and thoughts …and it feels as though nothing ever changes. To simplify things in my mind..since I am the keeper of my own thoughts..I have decided to take the position that everything happens from either a place of Love..or a place of fear. By asking myself what the lesson is for me, I allow myself the opportunity to learn the lesson and move on instead of being blindly stuck in the same lesson over and over again. Since the more times the lesson comes into my life, the more pain it creates. When I ignore the simple whispers of the lesson..it comes back to me bigger and louder until I take on the lesson.

The one constant that follows me into every relationship..is me. Therefore if I have the same type of relationship over and over..and sometimes over again… this leads me to believe that I am the reason. (notice..I never said ..”I am the one to blame,” ) I obviously have something to learn here..therefore it is up to me to “get it,” or… I will have the same lesson re-gifted to me over and over. The package may be different and the wrapping a little brighter…but once I open it up…hopefully this time…I can see the same lesson with fresh eyes; the eyes of perspective and the ability to see the same old thing in a different light.

Knowing that I am the director on the stage of my life …gives me the power, the power to choose, the power to decide the person that I will be..in the moment of NOW.

What do you think?

Most Humbly,

Marcia

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Beyond the Secret Live Radio Event

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We are so very excited to let you know that the Eaupening group creator is interviewing one of the Beyond the Secret Star's tomorrow!!!

What is Beyond the Secret?
The movie that provides the tools necessary to successfully apply the Law of Attraction in your daily life...to not only benefit you and your family but to apply it in a way that benefits society as a whole...

“Guard your thoughts …what flows into your mind flows out as results.” #quote Beyond the Secret

So…we have something for YOU to think about… The Stars are talking…and they are talking to us!

Join Marcia as she interviews Mark Moffitt from Beyond the Secret! You can also call in and ask your questions about anything that inspires you as well as this exciting new movie! Call-in Number: (347) 826-7390

Upcoming Show: 5/13/2009 12:00 PM (Mountain Time)

Inspired By YOU on Planting Seeds for Peace Radio ...with Special Guest Mark Moffitt
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• Mark is a Life & Business Coaching Mentor, co-producer and stars in the feature film “Beyond the Secret”, has appeared on Fox News and runs multiple projects impacting every corner of our globe. Mark began his work in this field as student, and has since attracted partnerships with some of the most acclaimed teachers of our century. Mark is a business partner of Bob Proctor and Paul Martinelli, a Certified LifeSuccess Consultant, and serves as a Training Coordinator for the most elite certification program for Life Coaches, Business Consultants, and Platform Speakers.

You can set a reminder for the show now at:
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