Friday, December 5, 2014

FINANCIAL FREEDOM FRIDAY'S - TIS THE SEASON TO BE FINANCIALLY WISE!


Tis' the Season to be JOLLY, not stressed, frustrated or depressed.  While we here at Epiphany Essentials don't personally believe in the Christmas "holiday" we do observe it and understand that important to many, however, again.....Tis' the Season to be Jolly.

 While this is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year it seems to have the opposite effect on many before and after the actual date of December 25th.

 The day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday, people are in lines waiting for hours to buy items, pushing, shoving, sometimes even trampling each other the day after Thanksgiving! For what? to save on deals for material items that mean absolutely NOTHING!

 The same goes for Christmas.  Parents, family, and friends stress themselves out searching for the perfect gifts to give/buy and often times people go into DEBT in order to ensure someone has a Merry Christmas.

 Gift giving is great, however, we here are pushing financial literacy.  Going into debt for the Christmas holiday and starting the New Year in debt is not wise or financially savvy.

 While it is too late here are some tips on how to have a Merry, Jolly Christmas next year without the debt:
  • Start a Christmas Fund, put away a certain amount of money when you get paid for Christmas shopping
  • Buy items when you see them on sale, you can purchase Christmas gifts at any time of the year
  • Set a budget and stick to it for Christmas gifts
  • Do not purchase ANY gifts using a CREDIT CARD
  • Cash is King, use it wisely
  • Buy realistic and reasonably priced items for your children so their expectations aren't too high if there is a year that you can do as much as before
  • Start shopping early, as early as possible as in item 2 buy things when they are on sale
Also please remember the best gift you can give someone is your time or items that will last them a lifetime.  Its always the thought that counts not the price of the item.

Think about giving unconventional gifts for Christmas:

  • Bank account (savings - start your children on the right track)
  • Life Insurance policies
  • Stocks
  • Bonds
Give gifts that will pay out, provide a return, and be useful for years to come.

There are 26 days left in this year, make it count!!!!!!

You may have experienced disappointment, lack, set backs, loss etc. Nevertheless, you are still here, life goes on, and you must Take Charge, OWN your Life, and be in CONTROL. ~ Epiphany Essentials Management ‪#‎DreamsToRealityEmpowermentEvent‬ Coming Soon

Namaste, Peace, Love, Joy, Abundance, Health and Vitality to ALL!
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Monday, December 1, 2014

MOTIVATION & MINDSET MONDAYS - MAKE IT COUNT

Today is the 1st day of the last month of 2014, Make It Count!!!!!!!

Even if, you didn't accomplish any of your goals as of yet......
Even if, you haven't accomplished all of your goals for 2014.....
Even if, you feel like this wasn't your year.......


Guess what????????

You can still make 2014 count.  THere are 31 days left to end this year with a bang and start 2015 off right!

How?

Start today, right now and get moving.  Slow progess is better than no progress.

Start small, as the saying goes you eat the elephant 1 bite at a time. 

Turn your large goals into smaller obtainable goals by laying out the steps and plans you choose to take to get closer to your goals.

If your goal is

Savings
Home Ownership
Real Estate Investment
Entrepreneurship
Raising a Family
Marriage
A New Career, Car, etc.

There are 31 days left in this year, make it count!!!!!!

You may have experienced disappointment, lack, set backs, loss etc. Nevertheless, you are still here, life goes on, and you must Take Charge, OWN your Life, and be in CONTROL. ~ Epiphany Essentials Management ‪#‎DreamsToRealityEmpowermentEvent‬ Coming Soon

Namaste, Peace, Love, Joy, Abundance, Health and Vitality to ALL!
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Monday, October 27, 2014

MOTIVATION AND MINDSET MONDAYS: TAKE CHARGE

It's been a long time, we shouldn't have left you without so great Motivation and Information to wake up to on a regular basis.  We here at Epiphany Essentials will admit that we allowed LIFE to get in the way of our ability to provide the quality, quantity, and content we worked so hard to bring to our faithful and loyal readers.

We did a rebranding in 2014, we fell off a bit and now it is time to get back on track.  What happened? Again, we here or I the editor, founder, creator, and owner like to call it LIFE.  I let life get in the way.  All was going smoothly and then some bumps in the road came.  I was side swiped, had to take a detour, and was also in a head on collision so to speak.  Did I stop being motivated? Totally 100% NO, as life goes on.  Did I give up briefly and walk away from tried and true methods that I know work? Totally 100% ABSOLUTELY......

As I began to get out of my funk and turn sh*t into sugar as I call it as I was surely given some lemons and had to figure out how to make the lemonade without a source of water nor sugar, nevertheless, I made it happen!  I began finding things and information to assist me.  Things also slowly started turning around.  Well, I can't really say things turned around....

When I changed my outlook I saw the things I was looking at differently.  There is opportunity in EVERYTHING.  There is a lesson in EVERYTHING.  Once we rid ourselves of the pity party and once again face adulthood rationally we find the lesson or the opportunity and capitalize on it.

So what happened to me?  I purchased a building, it was 50% occupied, I found a property manager to help me out as I did not want to deal with the tenants directly nor do I want them to know I own the building.  Things were going GREAT! The property manager (PM) was negotiating leases, collecting rental payments and had a handy man crew to help fix/repair things in the vacant units.  Then.....it happened.....the PM ran off with 2 rent payments from the same tenant.  Now the 1st rent payment (in cash) he collected, he claimed would be used to fix the kitchen sink in one of the units.  The 2nd rent payment the PM gave me the run around for a week before I decided enough was enough!  Not only that he had the keys to the units so now I have to "break into" my own property.

Once in the property I notice the sink wasn't fixed.  Well it was fixed half way and has been leaking for a month which has caused mold damage which means I now need a new kitchen cabinet!!!!!! Not to mention the cost incurred from buying new locks etc.  Fun, happy, happy, joy, joy.

Top that off with unhappy tenants having trouble cohabitating and doing the simplest things/locking doors.  Still needing to get more tenants and do minor repairs in the units to make that all happen.  This dream was slowly becoming a NIGHTMARE.

However, I had to remind myself, collecting rent is the minimum part of property ownership, you are now truly an entreprenuer and a manager and you must manage your investment hands-on!

Then, I read a few quotes that caught my attention and helped me put my situtation in persepective and I share them with you.

"When the universe is giving you what you want finally, it will also bring you stuff you don't want to see how you balance."

That quote was the final aha moment needed to get back up, dust my self off and move forward.  Once I decided to do so, I went back to positive affirmations, yoga, sun gazing, thinking success, I remixed my 2014 Chief Aim Statement and some great things happened:

  • I found a decent handy man, so far so good
  • I found a gentleman to maintain my properties lawn
  • I decided to put the $$$ necessary into fixing the units so they can be rented........and then........
  • I received an unexpected check in the mail, I called to confirm the bill was indeed paid in full and the check was mine
  • I received another unexpected chec in the mail
  • I remembered I had cash in my ShareBuilder account from some money I made off of stock investments earlier in the year
Things started turning around when I DECIDED no matter what to take charge............

Take charge, of what? My life, OWN every aspect of it. Do what is necessary to live my life on purpose.

You may have experienced disappointment, lack, set backs, loss etc. Nevertheless, you are still here, life goes on, and you must Take Charge, OWN your Life, and be in CONTROL. ~ Epiphany Essentials Management ‪#‎DreamsToRealityEmpowermentEvent‬ Coming Soon

Namaste, Peace, Love, Joy, Abundance, Health and Vitality to ALL!

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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Wellness Wednesdays - Sun Gazing

This post and picture is credited to the FaceBook account of

Mandela Sirius-c Naga August 15 at 12:31pm ·
As solar beings or children of the sun, understanding that we are solar powered and are to live our lives in accordance to sun cycles means all the difference for our melanin and conscious development. eating food pass sunset, at night, or in the morning is called break-fast because we are disrupting our natural melanin cleansing/detox/rebirth phases. this is why the ancestors would do their sun salutations/sungazing at sunset and sunrise because they knew our pineal gland/b...iological time clock was naturally in tune at these hours.
sleep is called the cousin of death, because everynight as we are internally imbued with melanin during our (melatonin cleansing) we enter our microcosmic death and rebirth phase that we call sleep(returning to darkness), and then we are reborn every sunrise!!! thus, our sun salutations "what most consider prayer" is the chakra/planetary alignment we go through to establish/enhance our protection/connection when we go into our "meditation" state at night as opposed to the typical calcified-low vibration sleep state which happens when ur out of sync with the cosmos, arent being uploaded, and are open to vampirism.

Be blessed and be a blessing,

Namaste, Peace, Love, Joy, Abundance, Health and Vitality to ALL!

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Monday, August 25, 2014

MINDSET & MOTIVATION - KNOWING vs. DOING

Knowing vs. Doing

Lately, I have found myself in a bit of a so called funk. I haven't had the motivation to do much of anything.  In no way, would I claim depression.  I haven't been a hermit or anything like that.  Its just my energy has been low and my will to leave the house unless absolutely necessary has gone out the window.

Nevertheless, I do practice what we preach here at Epiphany Essentials.  I have been doing positive affirmations.  I've started sun gazing, we will discuss that on Wellness Wednesdays.  Drinking water, eating healthy more often than not, breathing consciously and simply thinking positively for the most part.

However, I've had loss of apetite for many things beyond food.  I do realize that my thoughts dictate my feelings.  So, while I know better, I haven't been completely doing better!

This blog is about being human.  You can be the most positive, motivated person on earth. Doesn't mean you will be like that 100% of the time and that is OK.  It is alright to be human, it is alright to be, feel, and not it be deemed "negative" sometime. 

Its simply not ok to stay there!  Once you find yourself wallowing in those feelings for days on end and it turns into a week at the minimum you need to re-evaulate some things and seek outside help/counsel if needed.

The truth is your feelings are dictated by your thoughts.  So if you feel depression, you are thinking negative self-defeating thoughts way too often.  You have the power to change your thoughts and your situation, however, you most empower yourself and believe that you are in control.

So, we will leave you with a blurb from The Power of the Subconscious Mind



"What you affirm consciously and feel as true will be made manifest in your mind, body and affairs.  Affirm the good and enter into the joy of living."
 
 


Be blessed and be a blessing,

Namaste, Peace, Love, Joy, Abundance, Health and Vitality to ALL!

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Monday, August 18, 2014

MINDSET & MOTIVATION MONDAYS ~ Just Not Feeling It

What do you do when you're just not feeling it?  Feeling what do you ask?  Not feeling motivated, not feeling like being in a positive mindset?

First things first, you allow whatever you are feeling to be.  Yes you allow it, allow the emotion, energy in motion, to flow through and out of you.  Don't feel bad, don't get upset about your feelings allow the feelings to happen.  Just don't wallow on those feelings for too long.

What's too long?  Anything of 24, definitely 48 hours is too long.  Remember your feelings are governed by your thoughts.  So when you are ready to change your feelings, change your thoughts to thoughts of love, peace, joy, happiness something other than what you've already been thinking.

Remember to focus on what you want, not what is. Focus on the positive outcome you desire, keeping in mind the law of attraction.  Remember to channel your vibrations properly to continue to attract love, peace, joy, happiness and goodness to your life.

Today I read hugging trees and meditating under trees is great for us and has many health benefits.

So if you haven't been feeling it lately its OK, if its been more than 48 hours it is time to get back on track!

Be blessed and be a blessing,

Namaste, Peace, Love, Joy, Abundance, Health and Vitality to ALL!


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Monday, August 4, 2014

MOTIVATION & MINDSET MONDAYS ~ YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS

There are a few gateways to having a sound mind and healthy body - exercise, eating clean, drinking plenty of water, meditating, and reading.

Its amazing how many people struggle in life yet few of them read, feed their body the proper nutrients, and exercise.  Yet they desire wholeness.

What is being accepted is more people need mindset shifts than motivation.  Everything begins and ends with the conscious and subconscious mind.

Our August Book Club Book is The Power of the Subconscious Mind Complete and Unabridged by Joseph Murphy.

Over this month each Monday we will bring you excerpts from the book.  Feel free in joining us as we read and embark on this journey.

"This book is designed to teach you that your habitual thinking and imagery mold, fashion, and create your destiny.  For as a person thinketh in his subconscious mind, so is he.

Fill your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and goodwill, and wonder will happen in your life."

Be blessed and be a blessing.

Namaste, Peace, Love, Joy, Abundance, Health and Vitality to ALL
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