– David Horowitz

David is a longtime friend and partner in helping to create a world that works for everyone. He’s actively engaged in his profession, community and family.

Two decades ago David’s life began to be positively changed by The Experience.

Now David has stepped up to sponsor the workshop in his hometown of Phoenix from August 20-23.

What this means to you and your friends is that you can participate in this amazing transformational program for only $250 (there are a limited number of spaces at this price – regular cost is $475) and $100 of your tuition goes directly to support a more empowered community through the Human Rights Campaign.

It’s a win for everyone!

When I asked David why he wanted to make this generous gift to others, he said:

“The Experience presented me with all the essential tools for personal and professional success. In a safe and loving environment, I was able to examine and release the obstacles I was putting in my own way.

It’s like I’ve seen the best movie ever, and I want to share it with everyone I know.”

What kind of a difference would “releasing the obstacles” and having “all the essential tools for personal and professional success” make in your life?

If you are like most folks, a lot. And The Experience is truly a gift that keeps on giving– for 2 decades in David’s life (so far), and 3 decades in mine.

At $475 The Experience is a remarkable value, perhaps even under-priced.

If you can even FIND a program of this quality with a 30+ year track record of success, offering personal attention to each participant, taking place over a FULL three days with a follow up evening (includes dinner), and including all program materials, you can easily expect to pay twice as much.

At $250… well, just don’t wait too long to register. Those discounted spots are limited in number.

For more information and to save your space The Experience, simply visit my website CLICK HERE

Your future is what you make it – take charge and start living your dream today!

Love,

Honey Ward
P.S

You have two opportunities to add The Experience to your life this summer:
Santa Fe – August 13-16 or Phoenix – August 20-23

Imagine releasing YOUR roadblocks to success and replacing them with time-tested tools and rich experiences for an even brighter and happier future.

You can do it, we can help. Sign up now and the process begins!

I envision a just and peaceful world, in which all people achieve their full potential and live with love, respect and compassion.

Honey Ward
www.ExperienceYourPower.com
www.HappyHealthyWealthyWise.com (blog)
www.facebook.com/honeyward

1236 Vallecita Drive
Santa Fe, NM 87501
505.988.2000

Resources to live more powerfully:
* The Experience
When you’re ready to live at 100%!
August 13-16, 2010 Santa Fe
August 20-23, 2010 Phoenix

* The Intensive
October 14-18, 2010 Santa Fe

* Vision 2010 December 28-January 1
Sunrise Springs Inn Santa Fe

* Success Coaching for Your Personal & Professional Life
You can achieve your dreams and I can help!

* Customized Coursework for your business or organization
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Just before crossing the Hanalei River, and at each of the one-lane bridges on the north shore, is a simple sign, “Local Courtesy is 5-7 Cars.”

As a result, a mannerly ballet takes place; 5-7 cars cross from one direction while others wait patiently, and then 5-7 pass from the other side.

Even if there are 10 or more cars waiting, only 5 or so will go before the line halts for the other side to have its turn.

It’s simple, instructions are clear, and everyone plays by the rules.

If only “driving” our lives could be as simple as crossing a one-lane bridge in Hanalei!

Instead, there are few simple instructions, most of them aren’t written out, and sometimes the ones we learned along the way don’t work anymore (if they ever did).

When we find ourselves in a situation (opportunity or predicament, depending on our point of view), too often we are clueless about what to do next.

Nobody ever taught us simple tools for getting out of feeling (or being) stuck, sad, or depressed, yet they exist.

If it feels like we keep hitting the same brick wall, having the same arguments, feeling the same frustrations, what the heck do we do?

When life is going “OK” yet we yearn for more, to feel more powerful and to know our lives make a difference, where is the handy signpost to lead the way?

If we have managed to create a life of abundance, what steps do we take to maintain and build on that accomplishment?

I know the solutions may feel out of reach right now, and promise the answers to these questions, and much, much more, are available to you at The Experience.

In addition, you’ll tap into your own power, and your ability to have more love in your life – first, love for yourself, and then for everyone you encounter (past, present, and future).

In fact, love for life itself!

That is truly a key to your happiness.

Keep opening your heart and mind to new opportunities that add to your joy and satisfaction in this lifetime.

Aloha,

Honey Ward

P.S. The early-enrollment discount for The Experience Santa Fe expires this Thursday, July 15. Be sure to register by 7/15 to save $100!

P.P.S. Sponsored discount price for The Experience Phoenix is for a limited number of spaces.

Register NOW for best pricing on these life-changing events-CLICK HERE

I envision a just and peaceful world, in which all people achieve their full potential and live with love, respect and compassion.

Honey Ward
www.ExperienceYourPower.com
1236 Vallecita Drive
Santa Fe, NM 87501
505.988.2000

Resources to live more powerfully:

* The Experience
When you’re ready to live at 100%!
August 13-16 Santa Fe
August 20-23 Phoenix

* The Intensive
October 14-18 Santa Fe

* Vision 2011 December 28-January 1
Sunrise Springs Inn Santa Fe

* Success Coaching for Your Personal & Professional Life
You can achieve your dreams and I can help!

* Customized Coursework for your business or organization

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Please Mark Your Calendar for this Thursday, July 8.

We’ll start promptly at:

2pm Hawaii, 5pm Pacific, 6pm Mountain, 7pm Central, 8pm Eastern.

If you are not in one of those time zones, I trust you can do the math and know when to join us!

Save this number – you’ll need it to join the call:

218.862.1300 (you’ll pay normal toll charges if your phone plan includes those).

Conference Code 664612.

Experience Facilitator Honey Ward & Experience Phoenix Sponsor David Horowitz will be sharing the tools we use every day to create a more powerful and joyful life.

Who is this call for?

Anyone interested in having more resources to create and enjoy a more successful life will benefit.

If you’ve already taken The Experience, you’ll gain something, too.

Please invite friends and family to be on this call.

Lines are limited, please call in a few minutes early to make sure you can get in.

Questions/situations/stumbling blocks you want to be sure we cover?

Email them in advance to HoneyWardEmpowerment@gmail.com

This teleclass will be filled with value, and it comes to you at no cost !

I look forward to sharing this special time with you.

Love,

Honey
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I envision a just and peaceful world, in which all people achieve their full potential and live with love, respect and compassion.

Honey Ward
www.ExperienceYourPower.com
1236 Vallecita Drive
Santa Fe, NM 87501
505.988.2000

Resources to live more powerfully:

* The Experience
When you’re ready to live at 100%!
August 13-16 Santa Fe
August 20-23 Phoenix

* The Intensive
October 14-18

* Vision 2011 December 28-January 1
Sunrise Springs Inn Santa Fe

* Success Coaching for Your Personal & Professional Life
You can achieve your dreams and I can help!

* Customized Coursework for your business or organization

I recently got tragic news – Mark Woodland, an Experience graduate and friend of many years had died suddenly at his home in Phoenix.

When I spoke with Art & Elaine, Mark’s parents, one of the first things Art shared was a sentiment received in a friend’s note about the love we leave behind signifying the value of our lives.

Art told me he remembered hearing that message in the song “Everything Possible” during their 1989 Intensive workshop. Written by Fred Small and sung by angel-voiced Bill McKinley, we still include it today.

You can imagine how touched I was, knowing a song from a workshop two decades ago would still resonate with the Woodlands, and would soothe them in those early hours of grief. That conversation has stuck with me in the weeks since.

Mark’s memorial service included wonderful stories of laughter and travel and friendship, and I kept hearing a thread of connection that included The Experience–

Fred, who enrolled Mark in the workshop ages ago, Andy, the last person Mark himself invited, other rich friendships from throughout Mark’s life, all strands in a network of love.

It got me to thinking…

None of us knows how much time we have, and if LOVE (of yourself, of others, and life itself) really IS the answer, what’s the best way to access that, right now– to really live it, to feel it in our hearts and share it in the world?

I know the workshops that moved and inspired the Woodland family, then and now, are a tried and true way to accomplish that.

They will help you, remind you, even teach you more of what it means to live a life of love and contribution. They also help folks “just say no” to the drama and hurts of the past, and embrace a vision of love.

So in memory of Mark Woodland, and the sacrifice we honor in the U.S. on Memorial Day–

From today until next Wednesday, June 3, we’re having a LOVE sale!

This means The Experience & The Intensive workshops, the Vision 2011 year end spiritual retreat, and one on one Success Coaching are all available at unprecedented discount pricing (most even lower than “at seminar” or the early enrollment offers on the website), so you can easily choose to say YES! to having more love, passion and power in your life.

If you’re ready to start creating a happier and more successful life, or you have friends or other loved ones with whom you’d like to share this gift of love, now is the time.

I won’t take time here to describe all of these remarkable opportunities; please read in detail about each of them at ExperienceYourPower.com , and imagine how much richer your life will be when you’re operating from love, at 100% capacity!

If you are just venturing into this high quality transformational work, please start with The Experience.

Click on links below to explore each option…

The Experience – full price is $475. Your investment is only $300 when you enter LOVEEXPERIENCE in the coupon section.

The Intensive – full price is $895. Your investment is only $650 when you enter LOVEINTENSIVE in the coupon section.

Vision 2011 – full price is $1475-1075 (depending on the lodging option you choose). You save $200 when you enter LOVEVISION in the coupon section.

Success Coaching – full price is $1,995. Your investment is only $1,395 when you enter LOVECOACHING in the coupon section.

You must remember to enter the coupon name for the savings, so you please jot down the ones you want right now, before you read all the details on the website.

Please let me know if you have any questions and remember the LOVE Sale ends on June 3!

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This weekend we honor those who have passed, those who served with honor, those who understood the power of their lives was a connection to something larger than themselves.

Please use it as an opportunity to remember the power of YOU, the force you are in the world – and to share the love in your heart!

Thank you.

Love,

Honey

P.S. Reviewer prices for workshops are already reduced- everybody has the opportunity to save!

I envision a just and peaceful world, in which all people achieve their full potential and live with love, respect and compassion.

Honey Ward
www.ExperienceYourPower.com
www.HappyHealthyWealthyWise.com (blog)
www.facebook.com/honeyward

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Resources to live more powerfully:
* The Experience
When you’re ready to live at 100%!
August 13-16, 2010 Santa Fe

* The Intensive
October 14-18, 2010 Santa Fe

* Vision 2010 December 28-January 1
Sunrise Springs Inn Santa Fe

* Success Coaching for Your Personal & Professional Life
You can achieve your dreams and I can help!

Unfortunately, the photo captions didn’t make it to print–
Top one is V-Day Founder Eve Ensler and Roshi Joan Halifax with me, while the bottom one features Sandy and me enjoying a sunset dinner in Maui.

INTERVIEW

Thanks to Nicholas Snow (ActionEqualsLife.com), actor, activist and Experience graduate, for highlighting our important work.

If you are a graduate of The Experience, how has it impacted your life?

If not, what can you imagine achieving if you add this workshop to your personal repertoire?

Love, Honey

In Praise of Idleness

by Alexander Green

Americans idealize hard work, duty, industry and self-sacrifice.

We know this, in part, by how many terms we have for those who lack these qualities: loafer, idler, shirker, slacker, goof-off, deadbeat, bum, goldbrick, layabout.

As children, we’re taught that idle hands are the devil’s workshop. Idleness is synonymous with laziness – or worse.

But other cultures take a different view. The Japanese have the highly ritualized tea ceremony. The British have afternoon tea, a relaxing half hour with Earl Grey, cucumber sandwiches and genteel conversation.

Mexicans dispense with tea altogether and just take a siesta. (As the Spanish proverb says, “How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards.”)

Successful lives are not always measured by achievement. Too much time at the grindstone can leave us culturally impoverished, spiritually indigent. We should know how to cultivate leisure, to use it to rise to higher levels of grace and intellectual repose.

No sensible life is without periods of indolence. Besides, idleness can be a noble attribute, a virtuous pastime.

Consider that culture itself is a byproduct of leisure. Idleness leads to contemplation, creativity and inventiveness. These, in turn, resolve themselves in literature, poetry, music, philosophy and art.

Downtime is an energizing force, too. It clears our heads and gives us strength. Without it, our concentration is diminished, our immune systems are stressed, our reasoning skills are diminished. We get tired and cranky.

Idleness reflects our status as free men and women. It is an expression of liberty. True idleness is not doing nothing. It’s being free to do anything.

Yet in today’s society, indolence is hard work. Family will poke and prod you. Colleagues will try to motivate you. Even a night on the town comes crashing down when your companion utters those lamentable words, “I really ought to be going. I need to get an early start.”

Yet work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

Aristotle said, “The great-souled man will not compete for the common objects of ambition… He will be idle and slow to act.”

Mark Twain – whose characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are among the most resourceful loafers in all literature – once wrote, “I have seen slower people than I am – and more deliberate… and even quieter, more listless and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.”

Ronald Reagan, a master of inactivity, once remarked, “It’s true that hard work never killed anybody, but I figure why take the chance?”

Yet, once ingrained, it’s hard for many of us to break free from the Calvinist work ethic, to return to that natural and blessed state of inactivity. In short, we feel guilty.

But we shouldn’t. One can even argue that idleness has a divine sanction. In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” (Matthew 6:28-29)

Hebrew sages even taught that when you are first welcomed into heaven, a record is revealed to you of all the many times in your past when you could really have been happy and enjoyed some moment but failed to do so. And then you are called to repent of each and every one of those moments.

The best lives are not lived in a hurry. Why pursue wealth if not to purchase a bit of leisured contentment? After all, the great end of living is the true enjoyment of it.

Winston Churchill understood this. British historian Paul Johnson recalls the time as a boy when he met the Prime Minister in October 1946:

“He gave me one of his giant matches he used for lighting cigars. I was emboldened by that into saying, ‘Mr. Winston Churchill, sir, to what do you attribute your success in life?’ and he said without hesitating: ‘Economy of effort. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.’”

And with that, he stepped into his limo and pulled away.

Carpe Diem,

Alex

http://www.spiritualwealth.com/

I am so grateful for the beautiful and loving birthday wishes; they have filled me right to the brim with joy.

We are home, enjoying the winter wonderland of Santa Fe, and getting back into the swing of work and now the holidays.

Speaking of the holidays — please do yourself a favor and don’t get caught up in overdoing; overspending, overeating, overdrinking, you get my drift. Commit to making it a conscious and joyous time for yourself and those you love.

Here’s a brief process you might find useful (do not practice while driving) …
Find a quiet space.
Allow your eyes to close.
Take a few deep breaths.
Begin to envision the rest of the month the way you’d like it to be– see what is happening, who is there, what are you doing, where are you?
Are you volunteering?
Entertaining at your place?
Visiting others?
Shopping/wrapping/giving?
Attending parties?
Enjoying quiet time at home?

Pay attention to what pleases you, what brings you joy.
Continue to breathe deeply as you see and feel the richness of the holidays, the way you want them.

When you are ready, open your eyes and begin doing what it takes to create and enjoy the holidays you envision.

It won’t happen by accident, so stay conscious and bring it into being.

There was some problem with the discount coupons referenced in my last message. If you have been thwarted in your attempts to register for anything, I apologize for your frustration. Please give it another shot– everything should be working A-OK now.

We have only 4 spaces remaining in Vision 2010, a truly magical way to begin the new year. If that speaks to you and your heart, be sure to snag a spot in the sacred circle for yourself.

Holiday discounts are still available for:

* Vision 2010
* The Experience
* The Intensive and
* Success Coaching

BUT ONLY THROUGH TOMORROW, DECEMBER 11.

Prices, discount coupons, and loads of details are easily found by clicking here: www.ExperienceYourPower.com

And you are welcome to review programs you have been a part of in years gone by.

Now is the time to make a fresh start for 2010, to open to new possibilities, to add to the beauty and quality of your life, and even to share gifts that last a lifetime with those you love.

Please visit www.ExperienceYourPower.com for details and remember to enter the coupon on your registration page to receive the instant discount.

If you have any questions that remain unanswered by the website, please give me a call, 505.988.2000.

Let YourSelf Remember — among the most important gifts you have to give this holiday season, or any season, is your love and kind attention.