Hi there

You might not know that in February 1930 the Planet Pluto was discovered... or that it is "Be Humble Day" on February 22nd.  It may be of no interest that the Chinese year of the Rat begins on February 7th or that it is "Responsible Pet Owners" month. 

Did you know that National Organ Donor Day falls on the very day that hearts are touched, torn and teased throughout the world?   Yes, it seems the only day of significance is St. Valentine's Day.

"It's never too late to be who you might have been" The famous words of George Eliot, are laced with irony in this month filled with either gratitude or regret for love.

Honoured as one of the greatest authors of all time, George Eliot has a very sad love story to tell.  If I shared it with you, you would assume it was a tale of someone battling today's trials and tribulations and not that of a woman born in 1819.

A woman?

Yes, George Eliot was born Mary Anne Evans and never published a word in her own name; and all for the sake of her two greatest loves, her writing and her "husband".

Mary Anne was born in a time of male domination and dared not risk writing novels as a woman; so she masked her identity and became who society needed her to be in order to be a success.  Sound familiar???

To make matters worse, she fell in love with someone who, in everyone else's perception, was the wrong person.  George Lewes was married to a woman who had 4 children from another man.  Not only did she betray George with the children, but she also lived with this other man and would not accept a divorce from George due to the scandalous attachment. 

When two lonely hearts found each other, even though one heart "belonged" to someone else, excommunication from family, friends and society was inevitable.  Even though Mary Anne was isolated and alone, barring the man who loved her, she created some of the greatest masterpieces known to English Literature.  She knew that no-one would read a word written by her hand due to her "spiritual marriage" and so George Eliot was born.

If you had to ask her formula for the timeless classics she created, she would proclaim it was the love she received from the man who cherished, nurtured and believed in her.

How many of you are a modern day Mary Anne Evans?

Who has to mask their true feelings, wishes and desires in the hope of either doing or having who you love? 

Worst of all, who is not as brave as her and has walked away from who and what you love for fear of excommunication?

The irony of it all is that a truer word was never spoken by someone who did not have the courage to take heed of her very own wisdom... "It's never too late to be who you might have been". 

Is the ultimate gift not to be true to yourself; to be real?

To be loved and accepted for who you are and what you choose?

My wish for you this Valentine's month is to find the greatest love of all... that of self.  I'd go as far as buying a gift for yourself, wrapping it and shedding a tear of joy when you open it.

Happy Valentine's Day...

Personal Development Seminars, courses and lectures

Please contact me on +27 741 JODENE (563363) or email me at manifest@jodene.co.za if your are interested in any of the courses below

Love, Loving, Loved

My dear friend Graham will be hosting a dinner on February 26th as I share with you the mysteries and majesty of self love.  Over a three course meal we will explore the misconception of love, the gift of love and the reasons why it hurts through good and bad times.

I will expand on the power of manifesting and creating anything and everything purely through the energy of love.

The dinner and talk will be R200 and will begin at 7pm.  This is a great time to share with someone who loves you.

One Day Seminar - Thanks to the Universe I'm all "F 'ed" up
This seminar will be run from the Liban Conference Centre in Woodmead on Saturday 16th February from 9:30am to 4:30pm.  The cost of the day is R750 per person and includes lunch and course notes.  Payment secures your place.

Please go to my website for further information on the course.  www.jodene.co.za

If you would like further information on any of the above events or would like to reserve your place, please email me or contact me on +27 741 JODENE (563363).

VALENTINE SPECIAL
If you share this course with someone special, you each pay R500.

Contemplate this...
You are being loved the way you intrinsically believe you deserve it

Law of Attraction: Assistance with "Thanks to the Universe I'm all "F 'ed" up
On Visualisation

Visualisation and meditation have the slightest difference depending on the depth of collective consciousness you want to explore, however what I am talking about is the mere use of intention and attention in order to manifest.

As you drive through the streets you are seeing houses you wish to live in, cars you want to drive and adverts for holidays you want to go on.  That is visualisation in itself.  Now you just have to give the intent and attention in a positive way.

Never wish and put the image at a distance!!!  Imagine yourself driving the car, picture yourself parking it in the elaborate house and see yourself climbing onto the plane to your holiday destination.  It's as simple as that... well nearly!!!  The key is to come from a space of believing in yourself and not wishing with envy.  Envy breeds envy, hope breeds nothing more than hope... but belief breeds abundance.

Try this exercise for a few weeks...
Be it something regarding material gain, health, love or success; take a moment a day to see yourself there.  You don't even have to close your eyes.  Just believe that you can have it, be it, fix it, gain it, create it, change it, live it...

Take note of the things that catch your eye and take the hope or distant dream and bring it into your reality.

You might not get it tomorrow, but something inside you will change and the path that gets you there will be the prize.

Share your story
Although you might think that the changes you create in your life or the manifestation you created are insignificant, there might be someone who just can't seem to get it and your story would be their sign from the Universe.

Share it with me and make a difference to someone... who knows, you could change a life.

Greg's View on the World
I find it interesting just how adaptable human beings are when forced to be. "Necessity breeds invention", my mother has always said.

This was pointed out to me while listening to a radio talk show recently where a caller was marvelling at how people had already adapted to the rolling power outages in the country. There are many examples of this. We like to look at Zimbabwe and ask how people can live there. And Iraq - how do they survive? But people do... just as we are.

Why is it then that we resist change unless it is thrust on us? I recall Eskom and environmental groups pleading for us to save electricity or to find alternative sources for years now. Have you responded to the call? To the extent that you should have? My point exactly: now because there is no electricity everyone is on a drive to save power and you can find them in shops buying solar garden lights and telling everyone how they now switch their geyser off during peak times. If we're so brilliant at adapting why didn't we adapt years ago to save this ailing planet?

In the same way I can ask why we don't change our life's direction when things are not going well. When plagued by disease or illness why don't we listen, take stock, and do things differently? Adapt while you can... don't wait for the power to go out in your life.

I will soon have my website up where I will provide more information on how you can save electricity but, in the meantime, I encourage you to trawl the internet for resources and to read informative publications like Men's Health Living where the environment is always given its due.

Hints and information can be found at:
www.702.co.za/power/power_report.asp
http://www.eskomdsm.co.za/

All you have to do is ask...
I was posed a very interesting question the other day.  Someone wanted to know the positive that I had found in load shedding and judging from the tone of the question it was laced with certainty that it would be an impossible question for me to answer.

I will not be negative and I know that everything is attitude, so although I bear the frustration, my business is being effected, my sister got stuck in traffic while trying to rush my nephew to hospital and my father is challenged daily as he lives off oxygen; I have found a positive.

This country has united three times... twice was thanks to World Cup Rugby wins, which lasted no more than 48 hours, and the third is now.  We give way to each other in peak hour traffic with no increase in traffic accidents, and we have been forced to show equality and courtesy in business, in the streets and at the local grocer.

We all have something in common and we can all see this country through each other's eyes for once.  I don't care if this scenario doesn't work for anyone else, but when the waiter can only offer me water or orange juice and he can see my desperation for coffee... the laugh we share together is light in itself.

I can't emigrate, I don't even think I want to... my family is here, it took me seven years to build up my business and most of all I love this place.  So I have decided to search for the good and not to give up... because I don't fail and neither does the country I live in.

In love and LIGHT...
Jodene & Greg