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Jan. 13, 2015

Hello Everyone I Am Here to Motivate You Into Action:

It's already Jan. 13, 2015...wow.  It's never too late to make New Year's Resolutions which are nothing but goals so don't forget to DO YOU IN 2015.  Make sure you write down a list of things that you want to accomplish in 2015.  Remember "It's Time To Come Clean in 2015" which means it's time to be really truthful about your life.

I am so busy at this point in my business that I don't know if I will be able to keep up bi-weekly posts.  My first writing event in Austin was cancelled on Jan. 10, 2015 due to the weather but that did not discourage me!  Would you believe the entire city of Austin closed down on a Saturday?

When I held these writing events in Atlanta, I had audience participants come all the way from California and Texas because they were ready to take action -- so I hope people did not come that far for the event.  Now I know better and as a speaker and trainer, I will stay away from winter months to set up events in the community.  

What you need to understand is writing a book is not only a hot topic but it is one of the most sought after careers out there.  However, I am very passionate about teaching my audience about their health because "You Can't Be Wealthy - If You Are Not Healthy" and "Your Health is Your Wealth."  If you have not put your health first then you are probably setting yourself up for failure in 2015 so don't forget to check out "Cathy Harris 12 Steps To Wellness." 

Just like most of you I am running out the gates to accomplish my New Year goals.  As an Empowerment Speaker, I don't really set too many New Year goals anymore but I set projects.

At one point a few years ago I would write down 10 to 20 things that I wanted to accomplish throughout the year.  But now since I have accomplished most of my goals at this point in my life, I now have projects. 

My first project of the New Year was to set up a new website  -"DearCathy.com" www.DearCathy.com with a new title "Advice Columnist" and new blog - http://www.DearCathy-AskCathy.blogspot.com -- so I could be in a position to answer even more questions. 

At 58 I really would like to delete some of my pages on my websites at www.cathyharrisspeaks.com but in order to be in a position to influence even more people in the world, it was important to put up this new page and new blog. 

However, at my age, I realize clearly that I have 40% of my productive life still left ahead of me, so therefore, I need to keep building and keep helping others.  With a home-based business like my empowerment and publishing company, AngelsPress.com, I can run it until I reach 80 years of age.  It's great to have a business where everyday seems like a vacation.

  

Pros and Cons of Home-Run Businesses

There is a great satisfaction of being your own boss.  But should you work from home?

PROS:

1. Freedom: When you work at home you do enjoy a lot of flexibility to set your own schedule. You don't have to punch a clock.

2. Low Overhead: You don't need to spend money renting a space.

3. Control: Many entrepreneurs have children and find working at home helps them fit their kids into their working day.

4. Time: Folks who work at home save a lot of time. The commute is short because they save a bunch on gas.

5. Lifelong Gig: If you choose to work at home, you can continue working through your senior years. You might never want to retire.

  

CONS:

1. Lack of Discipline: You might find you miss the structure of a job. Too much freedom for some is unproductive.

2. Loneliness: Many who work "home alone" find it lonely. Feedback and camaraderie might be more up your alley.

3. Lack of Support: You'll be a one-person show calling all the shots from handling sales to playing mail room clerk. There are no typists, bookkeepers or receptionists to turn to on a daily basis.

4. No Regular Paychecks: One must have enough capital saved to make it through the often lean start-up phase.

5. No Benefits: In the U.S. healthcare is outrageously expensive. It's a shock when you explore your options.

The same posts on the DearCathy.com website will also be on the new blog at http://www.DearCathy-AskCathy.blogspot.com -- where you can forward the questions and responses to family and friends along with social media websites and even make a comment.  Let this be the year where we learn to share more information with each other so help me spread the word on the new website.   

I am excited about this project and it is COMPLETE!!!  I will try to answer a new question every day so feel free to email me your questions at AskCathy@DearCathy.com and check the page and blog often to stay updated on all the great information that will be posted there.

My other two projects that I am setting up include to record more audiobooks, 10 at least.  I went walking the other day in the park close to my home in Austin and I listened to "How To Write A Book: The Complete Guide to Writing and Selling Your Own Paperback and E-book" by yours truly (ME) and I can't believe how great it sounds.  

I did a great job on that audiobook so for those of you in a position to download the audible.com app and listen to audiobooks on your phone, laptop, desktop, or mini-pad -- then do it!

This is a great way to get aboard the information highway.  I had walked for close to 3 hours and did not even realize it because I was listening to the audiobook on my phone.  I also have the PHYSICAL audiobook if you would like to order it. 

It's on two CDs so the total cost is $20.00.  To buy the physical audiobook - "How To Write A Book: The Complete Guide to Writing and Selling Your Own Paperback and E-book" send $20.00 by paypal.com to my email info@angelspress.com or send a check, money order or cash to my address at Cathy Harris, P.O. Box 19282, Austin, TX 78760.

Another project include to put together more youtube.com postings at "Cathy Harris TV".  Again I want to thank everyone for helping me spread the word on my business and don't forget to DO YOU IN 2015!!!  

If you have any type of question feel free to email me at AskCathy@DearCathy.com or call anytime Monday - Friday - 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. central for a FREE 15 minute consultation to discuss your health or business ideas.

 "When We Help Others Succeed - We All Succeed." 

Cathy Harris How To Write A Book 90 Day Program

Do You in 2015

Dec. 30, 2014

by CathyHarrisSpeaks.com, Empowerment & Motivational Speaker

Too many of us are stuck in places and have not come up with definite plans of action to get unstuck.  As everyone prepare for a comeback from this mini-depression in 2015, my advice is to DO YOU IN 2015.  First you need to come totally clean with your life then figure out what will truly make you happy.

As most of you know through my business, AngelsPress.com, an empowerment and publishing company and as an Empowerment Guru, I often tell my audience to feel free to ask me any questions so that my advice can help them move forward.  A reader recently asked me how could she get national magazines to take her freelance articles. 

My response was to DO YOU IN 2015.  Because of the economy, most or many of these national magazines are about to go out of business.  Over the past few years, we have watch the quality of many of these magazines reach an all-time low.  These magazines have always catered to their advertisers who don't always have a positive message.

Essence Magazine is now white-owned and the quality of their articles have really deteriorated.  After 63 years Jet Magazine has gone from print to digital only so why are you trying to get your articles in national magazines when they are struggling to hang on by a thread?

I do believe, however, that every black household need to have a digital and paper subscription to BlackEnterprise.com.  

 Technology has changed everything and we have not seen anything yet.  Since we now live in a new digital age, national magazines that have not changed their format won't survive.  So therefore, my advice to you is to DO YOU IN 2015. 

Since you have been gifted or been blessed with the ability to write -- then you have one of the best talents in the world.  Many people won't be able to start a business in this lifetime or express themselves simply because they don't have the ability to put their words on paper.  Not everyone can write especially since that took cursive out of most schools.

Being able to write means you can become a 'voice for the voiceless.'  So get your own audience instead of trying to get the audiences of these national magazines.  There are billions of people in the world so carve out your own niche.

A niche is a place or position suitable or appropriate for a person or thing.  As an Empowerment and Motivational Speaker who continues to conduct extensive research and who has access to a large amount of information, I specialize in 'Self Help' and 'How To' information. 

I put this information out to my own audience in the form of articles, books (e-books, paperback books, and audiobooks), newsletters, radio shows -- The Cathy Harris Show, youtube.com postings Cathy Harris TV, teleseminars and soon webinars, and empowerment seminars and workshops at www.CathyHarrisSpeaks.com.

My advice to you is to stop running behind these national networks and create your own network.  With all the social media networks out there -- Facebook.com, Twitter.com, Linkedin.com, Instagram.com, Pinterest.com, Ning.com, Yahoogroups.com, Google hangouts - just to name a few, there are billions of people waiting to get your message so DO YOU IN 2015. 

At one time I was just as guilty as others.  When I initially became a whistleblower, TheCathyHarrisStory.com, in 1999, and because the media was the best outlet for a whistleblower, I ran behind civil rights leaders to help me keep my story in the media.  

I also ran behind media entities to help me tell my story -- until I became a civil rights leader, a freelance writer and a syndicated columnist and started writing my own line of articles to tell my own story. 

No one knew my story better than me so it was important that I told my own story initially in my first book in 2001"Flying While Black: A Whistleblower's Story" which has been revised into two books "The Cathy Harris Story: A Whistleblower's Victorious Journey to Justice" and "The Failure of Homeland In-Security: The Government's Dirty Little Secrets from an Insider" under my own company, AngelsPress.com.

Most people spend their entire lives running behind these national networks which have readers that have literally put their lives on hold.  According to experts, over 95% of people are drifting through life and 5% is making something turn up.  So you need to decide if you will be in the 95% or the 5%. 

I am definitely in the 5%.  Get your own audience and get out there and educate people.  Even though I think it's important to form business alliances and strategic partnerships, it's important that you start off by DOING YOU.  

Many people are so desperate to be a part of something -- that they get involved in negative networks, for instance, many African Americans join groups dealing with Network and Multi-Level Marketing (aka Pyramid Schemes). 

As everyone prepare to make a comeback from this mini-depression, what we need right now is 'everyone on deck.'  Everyone with the abilities to educate, inform and empower need to get off the sidelines or come out of the shadows and create their own empowerment networks.

We need mobile training centers, empowerment institutes, non-fiction book clubs, Let's Read Campaigns, etc. and every home, car, and office must literally become a learning center.  

In your home it's imperative that you listen to FREE teleseminars, low-cost webinars, teachings on social networking sites especially on YouTube.com (Cathy Harris TV).

It's estimated that most people especially our youth watch at least 7 to 8 hours of TV everyday.  If you are not looking at discovery channel, animal channel, history channel, financial shows and other empowerment networks on TV -- then there is no reason that your TV should be on. 

Every child need to have their own reading devices versus TVs.  Amazon.com, the largest online book publishing website, have tons of FREE e-books.  

In your car you need to listen daily to empowerment audiobooks while you drive -- instead of 'booty-shaking' music.  Unlike in the past, there are very few positive radio networks out there and you can't expect the ones that are left to offer good educational shows.  It's never going to happen!

If you work in a workplace and you get 30 minutes to an hour for lunch then sit in your car or another quiet place and read books (e-books, paperbacks, audiobooks), listen to educational shows or youtube.com postings.  

Only 3% of Americans have library cards so it's imperative for everyone to get back into the library.  Go to the library at least once or twice a week and find out what your public library has for you in books (ebooks, paperbacks and audiobooks), CDs, DVDs, recycled magazines, newspapers, etc.

Just some of the ways everyone can educate themselves in a new field include -- 2 Year Community Colleges; 4 Year Colleges and Universities; Technical Schools; Adult Education Classes; Online Internet Courses; Correspondence Courses; Unemployment Offices; Small Business Administration (SBA.gov); Small Business Development Centers (SBDC); Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE.org) - just to name a few.

People learn differently but 'self-education' will be key if you plan on turning your life around.  If you are a detail-oriented person then you might do better reading books and other material to learn but if you have a hard time focusing, you will probably do better asking questions and taking notes at community classes, seminars and workshops or even listening to educational radio shows, teleseminars and webinars from your home.

Mainstream media monitors internet radio and other social media networks for their stories so these are great ways to build your own national network.

There is no white horse coming to rescue anyone.  You are the white horse -- so that person in the mirror (Y-O-U) can be your 'best friend' or your 'worst enemy' so don't forget to work on you first.  

The goal is to "Change Your Food and Change Your Life."  Because foods affects every area of your life from your mood, to your behavior, to your happiness and your enjoy quality of life -- make sure you are getting your daily dose of good, natural and raw nutrients in your diet while you clean up your environment by going totally natural from head to toe.

Then implement the 12 steps into your life at "Cathy Harris 12 Steps To Wellness" which came directly from my first health book " How To Take Control of Your Own Life: A Self-Help Guide to Becoming Healthier Over the Next 30 Days (Series 3)" -- so read that book.

Once you work on you -- everything around you will change.  You will be ready to live a balanced life and your brain will finally be in syn with your body and life will hand you all types of possibilities and opportunities for living a great life.  But first and foremost you have to show up in your own life and take back control of your own life and DO YOU.

You can read more empowerment blog posts at "Cathy's Purposeful Life Journey Blog."  Cathy Harris is an Empowerment and Motivational Speaker, Non-GMO Health and Wellness Expert, Business and Self-Publishing Coach and the author of over 20 non-fiction books.  She can be contacted through her empowerment company at Angels Press, P.O. Box 19282, Austin, TX 78760,http://www.angelspress.com, email:info@angelspress.com.  She is available for health, business and self-publishing seminars and workshops at www.CathyHarrisSpeaks.com.

Book Trailer - The New CEO

Cathy Harris 12 Steps To Wellness

The Cathy Harris Story

Dreams Derailed - Are You Ready to Get Back On Track With Your Dreams?

Sep. 15, 2014

I haven't written a blog post for a while due to my move from Tampa, FL to Philadelphia, PA to Austin, TX. This week's blog post is entitled "Dreams Derailed."

With all the despair and hopelessness in this country at this time, I want to inspire everyone with my tips on how to get back on track with living your dreams. Many people have gotten off track with their dreams and don't know which direction to turn. 

Sometimes it's because of their real lack of desire to change their lives. For some reason or another --, people are afraid of changes especially as they age but this is especially the time that everyone should think about how they will live the rest of their lives.  

Change in itself can bring about true happiness and I am living proof of that.  In January 2013, I left Atlanta, GA after 20 years in search of a new home and environment since my neighborhood had become a crime-infested area and I wanted a new group of customers and clients for my business, Angels Press (http://www.angelspress.com).  

After living my dreams by being on the road for an entire year and traveling to 15 states with "The Cathy Harris Empowerment Tour" -- which was a "National Humanitarian Tour," I finally realized that I wanted to settle down in Austin, TX, where I will be building new business empowerment networks in Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and other surrounding areas.

Many people have gotten off track because of the people they have allowed to come into their lives. Many times it could be family members, relationships, friends or associates that will keep people from living their dreams.  

Remember, other people won't see your dreams so it's important for you to protect your dreams by getting "co-dreamers". So surround yourself with people who will help protect your dreams.

No matter what has caused you to get off track, getting back on track will be about dedication, commitment, self-discipline, and will-power.

A great philosopher once said, "You are what you think about all day long" -- so first for you to move in the directions of your dreams, you need to protect your thoughts. Anytime a negative thought creeps into your mind, you need to replace it with a positive thought.

The great philosopher also said, "Change your thoughts and change your life." So again what you are thinking about all day long -- you will become? If you think about poverty, hunger, and disease -- then that is what you will manifest in your life. If you think about being happy, energetic and full of life, then that's the type of life you will live.

When you get out of bed everyday your goal should be to walk in the direction of your dreams and the best way to do this is to be positive. The best way to stay positive is to turn your brain back on by eating natural, fresh, raw, organic foods (eat from the land); Turn off the stove because heat depletes nutrients -- and juice, blend and steam green foods (the darker the green the better), which builds up your body and releases serotonin in your brain which makes you feel good; Take 1,000 to 2,000 mg of Vitamin D-3 everyday, which is the mood vitamin; Get at least 20 minutes of sunlight everyday which will help your mood; Take 2 tablespoons of Omega 3 Flaxseed Oil everyday, which is good for your brain, skin, hair, nails, PMS/Menopause, prostate, etc.; and engage in a regular exercise program which releases endorphins in your brain which makes you feel good. 

Also, get plenty of sleep every night by going to bed at the same time every night. Don't forget to clean up your environment by going totally natural from your head to toe by using only natural products on your body and natural products to clean your house with.  

Once you turn your brain back on, you will not believe the opportunities and possibilities that will present itself in your life. You will be able to see your entire life in a new light and get back on course with moving in the directions of your dreams. Good luck!  CathyHarrisSpeaks.com