Well, here we are with the end of the year hol­i­days rush­ing in on us. I am not sure if it is just me and all the things that have occurred this year or if it is really affect­ing all of us the same, but I find myself on a daily basis wondering:

What if.….?
Why didn’t.….?
Could I have done more?
Would it have made a dif­fer­ence?
and a thou­sand other ques­tions that I just can’t seem to grasp tightly enough to mud­dle through and find the com­plete answers.

Now, before you all start becom­ing depressed, I want you to know that for the first time in my 53 hol­i­day sea­sons, this year is one of my hap­pi­est and leaves me with an inner peace that I had not felt before or if I did it wasn’t as notice­able. To be hon­est, this year because I have finally made the com­plete and total com­mit­ment to pur­sue my dream and to finally step out of my safety zone and extend my hand to oth­ers as I always wanted to do but was ter­ri­fied of the unknown and even the related fears of past rejec­tions, I have found myself much more able to cope with prob­lems, and even have found a peace that makes life so much more bearable.

Is this from a bot­tled or spouted “walk this path” direc­tion. The answer would be, “NO”. What it is stem­ming from is that for the first time in my life, I am lis­ten­ing to my heart and doing what feels right for me. I enjoy help­ing oth­ers and I love learn­ing and to be cre­ative. Build­ing web­sites and learn­ing all the things that are required to build a busi­ness. For many years, I have lis­tened to oth­ers, tried walk­ing in their foot­steps or where they were demand­ing that I should be. Believe me it doesn’t work. What it does is cre­ates a neg­a­tive image of the real per­son you are.

I am not say­ing, drop what you are doing, stop work­ing and play. What I am say­ing is believe in your­self because even when you think you are alone in your dreams and that no one cares, you would be wrong. Henry Ford gave light to this by say­ing that if we believe we are wrong or we believe we are right, we are right either way. I have finally made the choice to be “right for my own life” and this web­site, the oth­ers and with more to come and all of my com­ments and soon to be newslet­ters are the ben­e­fits that you will reap because of this decision.

What are you thank­ful for this com­ing hol­i­day sea­son? What ques­tions do you have in your heart and mind? Is it some­thing that another can help with or would just a word of encour­age­ment help to make each day eas­ier? What­ever is in your heart and mind, I hope you will all real­ize the thing I am most thank­ful for this sea­son is all of you. I am so very, very happy to meet and learn from each of you and to know that maybe some lit­tle word I have spo­ken will help some­one find their dreams or a lit­tle peace. That shouldn’t be a hol­i­day sea­son goal but for the very first time in my life, I am truly happy with the direc­tion of my life and part of that is all of you.

Instead of wait­ing until the real launch of the hol­i­day sea­son, I wanted to share a few things with you all as a form of a gift from my heart to yours. No, I am not going to spout direc­tions and moti­va­tional or demand­ing com­ments at you from this page of my website.

I can­not under­stand why giv­ing must wait for birth­days, anniver­saries, grad­u­a­tions and hol­i­days. It is never the wrong time to let peo­ple know you care and are think­ing of them even when you have never actu­ally met. I have decided to bring the begin­ning of all the plans for Heart­felt Global and all the sis­ter sites to my read­ers here before any­thing ever reaches any­one on the out­side. There­fore, before any­one learns of the new sites, or what they will con­tain, I will bring posted com­ments here to this page for my read­ers before they happen.

I also, want to share some gifts with all of my read­ers who mean so much to me and as I can find no other way to do this, I am going to add gifts to this page that I hope will help each of you on your way to your dreams.

Keep watch­ing this page for new gifts and even if they are not posted on a daily basis, I plan to post what would equal one gift or more per day from now until after the New Year. Then, instead of expect­ing or even accept­ing gifts on my own birth­day on Jan­u­ary 11, I want to give you all gifts from me to you. On my birth­day, for one day only, I will do sev­eral things that I have never done, but it will be only for my read­ers and I will be adding an extra spe­cial “Birth­day gift from me to you” that will be equal to $1,956. Which is the year i was born. You see, I never could under­stand van­ity either and why women are afraid to admit their age. If we lived the years and sur­vived why not admit it?

Any­way, I am going to go and put together the first 7 gifts for this week for you. These gifts maybe be help­ful home hints or encour­age­ment, or even pro­grams and infor­ma­tion to help you build your busi­ness, but I do promise each and every­one will come from my per­sonal library and I hope will be as use­ful to you as they have been to me.

Take care, and remem­ber Santa isn’t the only one with a bag of tricks. Happy hol­i­days and may you all have happy and glo­ri­ous holidays.

Mary Kell­ner Coon
(makingmagic)