Female: Let us talk about then step two, we are not going to go through all the seven steps here but I do want to talk about a few of them that I think will give you some good ideas about some things to be thinking about for your own life.
Step two, activate your vision. So obviously we create the big picture, and then we start to do something. I work with lots and lots of people to help them create some ideas and really do things that they have strong feelings about and it seems to be so hard for people to take the first step and do something.
And I am going to ask you this, and I know, if anybody is great at this, you are. Once you have an idea and you to take an action, you take the first step, whatever it is, and you feel better.
You do not have to worry about what is going to happen three weeks down the road or three years or this is the stupidest, who do I think I am to want this in my life?
What I want to say to you is if it is in you, it is for you to do. I have a client who is a great cookie maker. Who can be? Do you think I can do another Debbie’s cookies or famous whatever it is?
Her cookies are out of this world. So I told her, get out and do something with this. I want to tell you a personal story about my life and this will help to tell you a little bit about why I believe in this so much and maybe, Chris and I can be in a way to be a role model.
I have to tell them about Marva. Who do I look like? I have been in the seminar business for a number of years, for years, people would say, you walk just like Martha Stewart, I said what am I going to do? Be an impersonator for Martha Stewart. You know what, if I had done that, 20 years ago, I have no idea what my life would be today.
Here is what happened. As you know, people who write self help books generally do it after they have experienced adversity in their life, have they not?
You heard about the ones, where I was homeless or I lived in a room that was 2x2. The truth is, after some serious adversity in my life, it gave me the real desire to do something and create something about how does one really find abundance because frankly, I was looking for it again and I really wanted to be around the ideas that helped me continue to move that way.
What happened was, had after I experienced a number of loses, marriage, kids, stock markets
Chris She was not that pretty then.
Female: Let me tell you, those were really difficult days. And so, I finally said, you know what, now that I have lost everything, I really did. I lost practically all of my assets that I had spent my entire life trying to be safe and trying to build up things, and do all the right things and never really have that much fun.
Once it all went, I finally said, you know what I am going to do? I am going to have fun. I am going to start doing Martha.
I had no idea that it would ultimately end up on this really Jerry Campbell Show, television, radio, by being Martha Stewart. This is why I feel so strongly about it because I always felt that, not that I could be, I have all those gifts and talents that Martha Stewart has but I did not look like the woman and I sounded like her.
So what I did was the first step I did was I had somebody take some pictures of me and I found out that there was this really good, celebrity photographer in Hollywood. So what did I do, called him up, and we did a number of shoots at various locations.
Chris: That sounds like fun.
Female: We did it outside Kmart. We did it in Kmart and then they threw us out, but we had some really good takes and then I just started finding out about agencies that promote impersonators.
Low and behold, I started getting all these calls. I started doing company events, sale events, trade shows where Martha is showing them I have got to tell you why I think this is the best dog food in the world, whatever.
And I tell you, I kept growing so I tell the stories because frankly people are more interested the fact that I am a Martha Stewart impersonator than the fact that I was involved in writing this book. But the point is, it
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