Upcoming Release at Inspire Me Today!

On April 2nd, 2012 I will be the featured Inspirational Luminary on InspireMeToday.com, sharing my writings with the world. This FREE website is one to bookmark!  It's a real inspirational companion to the work that Jonathan Lockwood Huie does in the world, daily.

Inspire Me Today features the 'Brilliance' of a new Luminary every day. You can start your day with the wisdom of Sir Richard Branson, Alina Frank,  Seth Godin, Marci Shimoff, or one of hundreds more, now including me. I'm honored to be with such esteemed company!

To help you stay inspired, you can sign up to receive this 3 minute 'Today's Brilliance' pick-me-up each day by email, by RSS feed or as an iPhone app. You can even subscribe to it on the new Google Currents.

Please visit the site on April 2nd, 2012 and help me inspire the world. If my traffic and comments “break records”, InspireMeToday.com will share my content with millions of additional people too!  And perhaps you know that it is one of my life missions to inspire people around the world. I share that goal with the people at INSPIRE ME TODAY.  This is just one vehicle to help me continue to do that. I hope you'll check it out, leave a comment and share it with your friends.

From the folks at Inspire Me Today and from me, thank you in advance for your kind support. I know you're going to love InspireMeToday.com! Together we really can inspire the world.

Be inspired,

Mary Anne

Targeted Completion Dates

That's what I call them.  Other people call them "deadlines."  You can make up your own story as to why I do not choose to use that word.  I explain it in detail in my book, LIVE WITH INTENTION.

I am an artist.  Responding to visual cues comes naturally to me. Daily I enjoy looking at this miniature target. My tasks are grouped there in a way that makes sense to my concept of priority in the day.  It's fun, at the end of the day, to see how many of the targeted projects come off the board.  

Some days more remain than come off - because, as you know, certain tasks in the day, don't get written down or anticipated in advance.  Life spills over the edges of the best laid plans.  Yet another reason I call them targeted completions.  I aim.  Some days I get closer than others.  But such visual supports help me "up my game" and stay closer to the things that really matter.  There are some days my target board is replaced with a single poster of mine. It reads, "Remember what matters?  Do that."  

An exciting target that I'd love to share with you can be found at my friend, Dr. Deanna Davis's web site.  In fact, let me just share what Dr. Davis had to say earlier today...

An Inspiring Sale!

Hello!

 We have an exciting announcement to share! Applied Insight has just released the first in a series of new inspirational items to support you in living with intention and loving your life. The new division is called, "Applied Insight Presents," and our first featured collection is called "Illuminations" by world-renowned author and artist Mary Anne Radmacher.

 We are honored to be the exclusive distributor of Mary Anne's colorful new line of inspirational prints and affirmation cards. Mary Anne's work has been featured on Oprah, CNN, and CBS News, and in The New Yorker, and her phrases and art travels the world inspiring people to live with purpose, passion, and playfulness.

We are celebrating the release of this exciting new line of work by offering a 25% discount on all orders this week. To sweeten the deal just a bit more, all orders ship for only $3. What's not to love?

To view the whole collection online, please visit http://deannadavis.net/books-and-products-2/inspirational/ and use coupon code "Radmacher" to receive your 25% discount.

Why not treat yourself or someone you care about to a little inspiration today?
Thanks for the continued opportunity to inspire, engage, and learn with all of you!

Deanna Davis
Author of The Law of Attraction in Action, Living With Intention, and Laugh, Cry, Eat Some Pie
www.deannadavis.net

Here's What Brought To Our Feet During the State of the Union

Do You DESIRE TO INSPIRE?

I am thrilled to announce I am on the roster of twenty contributors to Desire to Inspire:  Using Creative Passion to Transform the World by Christine Mason Miller. In Desire to Inspire, readers will be introduced to twenty extraordinary women - writers, artists and entrepreneurs - all of whom share a unique example of how they create a meaningful life and, in turn, make a positive impact on the world. The stories and examples explore the roots of their desire to inspire and how they manage to pursue their passions in the midst of all the twists and turns life has given them. In addition to a beautiful collection of quotes, stories, and anecdotes, readers are given substantive, encouraging exercises aimed at supporting their own journey towards a meaningful, mindful life.

Published by North Light Books

Available November 2011

144 full-color pages, softcover

Pre-order your copy on Amazon today ~ http://amzn.com/1440310734

Are There Angels Hiding in YOUR Day?

Do YOU Want to KNOW the Secrets of Highly Successful Women?

Thanks to author Gail McMeekin, they aren't secrets any more.
THE 12 SECRETS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL WOMEN -
A Portable Life Coach for Creative Women is destined for its
second reading on a flight I'm taking.  This time I'll have a highlighter
handy. 

I actively avoid playing the game of "What if's?"  Yet I am compelled to wonder
how my business experience might have been different if I had had this book 25 years ago.
That is, indeed, a question that will remain speculative.  For sure, today, I have this book in my hand.  I anticipate it's going to continue to impact the ways I do business today.  I'm here to tell you that this old dog is learning new tricks thanks to Gail McMeekin.

"What Religion Are You?"

It was one of my first New York Stationery Shows.  The Javits Center overwhelmed me, as did the two floors of vendors waiting to ply their wares.  The show lay out encompassed more than fifteen times the square footage of the downtown core in which I conducted my business.  I was one of the largest employers in the small town I was from.  Here, I was clearly one of the smallest fishes in a relatively large stream.

My booth set up was simple and I finished a day in advance of the schedule.  No flashy pre-fabricated walls.  In fact, nothing flashy at all.  Just me and my work.  So the simplicity bought me an entire walk around day in Manhattan that I hadn't anticipated.  Most of the memories of that day are just ripped fragments of paper, the best falafel I'd ever eaten in my life, the burn on my thigh from resting on the stoop of a brownstone.  Among the shreds of incomplete memories is one vivid picture.

Wandering the streets of Greenwich Village.  Mired in thoughts of all the authors and artists whose footsteps I was inadvertently following...one door captured my attention.  Then and now.  In gilded letters on the glass pane of the door, just like a law office or an accountant, appeared THE CHURCH OF THE EXQUISITE PANIC.  I never wanted to know about the church than the thoughts that the name conjured up*.  And the name rose up in my experience whenever I was on the cusp of giving myself over, utterly, to some anxiety about a moment that was not "now."  Without tithe or formality I enrolled myself in the Church of the Exquisite Panic by resisting the temptation to inquire further.

That is, until today.  When I read Janet Conner's (author of WRITING DOWN  YOUR SOUL and instructor of the process of Soul Writing) newsletter declaring she has finally found her religion.  Perhaps someday, when I'm sauntering the hot May sidewalks of Manhattan I'll come upon a door that leads to Janet's religion, "The Church of the Exquisite Amazement."  Perhaps.  The great news is this, I'm already a member!

If you would like to read about Janet's journey, you may do so here: http://janetconner.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/i-finally-found-my-religion

*  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Delford_Brown