by Amy Ford | Mar 17, 2023 | Life Experience, Living Your Dreams, Mentoring, Self Care, Self Development, Self Improvement, Uncategorized
I seriously can’t believe it’s been almost two years. I have currently started a Podcast called “Amy Ford’s Podcast” and am using a Podcast Network, not sure if they have posted it on Amazon Music and Spotify yet. I also have posted YouTube Videos to my Amy G-money YouTube account. It’s interesting learning the ropes of how to correctly use all the equipment and formatting an SD card with either wav files or mp4 Video files; supposedly both won’t store on it. I am also learning to use the Podcast recorder. I have a variety of topics from Mental health, being an empath, learning good habits including exercising, doing Yoga, meditating, and taking up other hobbies as well as Journalling and Painting. I have topics such as Judgment Detox, developing good listening skills, being a Spiritual Goddess & Self-healer (lots of meditation and Spiritual guidance). In the last two years, I have attempted several Customer Service Jobs and really enjoyed one that I worked at for almost eight months until I have a meniscus tear in my left knee, not fun at all! I don’t think my knee will ever be the same and it’s taken a good six month to heal it partially. I still can’t go up and down the stairs the same. So anyhow, I really enjoyed my last Job. I also had to discontinue my Organizing Business as I knew it wouldn’t ever make money in the two years that I had it unless I had a team of people that worked with me. I could have advertised for other people to work with me, yet I would have had to increase my Prices for clients. Anyhow, lesson learned there.
I am extremely proud of myself for how far I’ve come. Other people may not agree, yet it’s taken listening to a lot of Great Podcasters, Life Coaches, Influences, authors, Licensed therapists; the list goes on, to get where I am today. I am proud of my growth. I am proud of the things I had to Let Go of that no longer served me. I honestly feel bad for people who still believe the old belief Systems. There’s nothing I can do about it to help the people I love to see the truth. Hopefully my voice can and will help others. I love to help and Serve people to see their true potential. I despise people who always look at the negative and worse possible scenarios. I despise people who say, “That won’t work!” to which I say, “F.U. to them”. I am a positive and optimistic human. It’s so sad when others don’t support your growth and outlook on becoming better. Those people want to stay small while still dreaming of making Big money and that’s all they may ever think of.
My mission and intention in Life is to get people to see their potential, talents, worth, etcetera. Oh, and I had almost thought of becoming a Life Coach, I that some of them make upwards of 10K and up a month. Eee! If only.
So I am going to try my hardest to come back and fill in on my Podcast Journey. I can’t wait to share of my Progress. I also will share my new Instagram account to my Podcast. Don’t forget to Love yourself, especially when you know no one else can love you better!!! <3
I seriously can’t believe it’s been almost two years. I have currently started a Podcast called “Amy Ford’s Podcast” and am using a Podcast Network, not sure if they have posted it on Amazon Music and Spotify yet. I also have posted YouTube Videos to my Amy G-money YouTube account. It’s interesting learning the ropes of how to correctly use all the equipment and formatting an SD card with either wav files or mp4 Video files; supposedly both won’t store on it. I am also learning to use the Podcast recorder. I have a variety of topics from Mental health, being an empath, learning good habits including exercising, doing Yoga, meditating, and taking up other hobbies as well as Journalling and Painting. I have topics such as Judgment Detox, developing good listening skills, being a Spiritual Goddess & Self-healer (lots of meditation and Spiritual guidance). In the last two years, I have attempted several Customer Service Jobs and really enjoyed one that I worked at for almost eight months until I have a meniscus tear in my left knee, not fun at all! I don’t think my knee will ever be the same and it’s taken a good six month to heal it partially. I still can’t go up and down the stairs the same. So anyhow, I really enjoyed my last Job. I also had to discontinue my Organizing Business as I knew it wouldn’t ever make money in the two years that I had it unless I had a team of people that worked with me. I could have advertised for other people to work with me, yet I would have had to increase my Prices for clients. Anyhow, lesson learned there.
I am extremely proud of myself for how far I’ve come. Other people may not agree, yet it’s taken listening to a lot of Great Podcasters, Life Coaches, Influences, authors, Licensed therapists; the list goes on, to get where I am today. I am proud of my growth. I am proud of the things I had to Let Go of that no longer served me. I honestly feel bad for people who still believe the old belief Systems. There’s nothing I can do about it to help the people I love to see the truth. Hopefully my voice can and will help others. I love to help and Serve people to see their true potential. I despise people who always look at the negative and worse possible scenarios. I despise people who say, “That won’t work!” to which I say, “F.U. to them”. I am a positive and optimistic human.
I seriously can’t believe it’s been almost two years. I have currently started a Podcast called “Amy Ford’s Podcast” and am using a Podcast Network, not sure if they have posted it on Amazon Music and Spotify yet. I also have posted YouTube Videos to my Amy G-money YouTube account. It’s interesting learning the ropes of how to correctly use all the equipment and formatting an SD card with either wav files or mp4 Video files; supposedly both won’t store on it. I am also learning to use the Podcast recorder. I have a variety of topics from Mental health, being an empath, learning good habits including exercising, doing Yoga, meditating, and taking up other hobbies as well as Journalling and Painting. I have topics such as Judgment Detox, developing good listening skills, being a Spiritual Goddess & Self-healer (lots of meditation and Spiritual guidance). In the last two years, I have attempted several Customer Service Jobs and really enjoyed one that I worked at for almost eight months until I have a menis
by Amy Ford | Mar 22, 2021 | Life Experience, Living Your Dreams, Mentoring, Perseverence, Resilience, Self Care, Self Development, Self Improvement, Uncategorized
So, I have another Blog/Chapter about what Living the Dream may have looked like for me, yet I had to add a Part II, so to speak. Recently, I was working in a Place of Business and this gentleman walks in on a couple of occasions and shouts out, “Living the Dream?” in the form of a question. I almost died because it was partly insulting in a way and partly funny in a way. I wanted to ask him what his dream was and how he was really living it, and I also wanted to say, “Dude, don’t insult us!” I’m rolling my eyes. I have had all sorts of dreams and have unfortunately had to Shift. What do I mean by Shift? I mean that I had to take a break because I was burning out or I just did not feel like what I was pursuing was really my ‘niche’. I have a Professional Organizing Business currently and it isn’t succeeding because I have a couple other really passionate competitors. I have had two really awesome young women really try to motivate me and give me their energy and advice to Keep going and how to be noticed. These women were great!
So anyhow, I am shifting again and trying to focus more on my writing. I am not sure how good freelancing will go. I have read things that say it’s a tough way to make money. I don’t have a lot of experience writing professional essays or articles in newspapers and magazines, YET!!! I would have to come up with my Niche and new material constantly. One of my favorite authors, Dr. Sherrie Campbell recently told someone she did an Interview with, that she lives by Life hacks. This woman is brilliant and a Light to me. I would say I am partially jealous of people who come up with ideas and Clarity about how to put their knowledge out into the World and do it with subtlty. I know I can get here, I just have to read more. I am laughing at myself because I have always known this. I just have to give myself more credit and really take the time to express the facts and my voice, not just have the mushy stuff out there.
My next steps are to stick to my writing, and living with discipline to Learn, Research, and grow my knowledge towards my Passions of teaching Yoga and also doing more Graphic design. In all of my Research, I didn’t realize that it really is difficult to get and retain Customers. It’s a constant to stay persistent. To stay true to my Passion. To stay true to my intentions. I believe. YOU CAN TOO! And just another side note, being in motion will hurt and it will feel uncomfortable. I can do it and so can you!
by Amy Ford | Sep 10, 2020 | Life Experience, Living Your Dreams, Mentoring, Perseverence, Resilience, Self Improvement, Uncategorized
I actually can’t believe I am about to say this, but it seems most of my Life I have felt too afraid to accomplish the small goals towards my Bigger goals and Dreams that I wanted. For instance, being a Small Business Entrepreneur, it seems nowdays that more and more Business are also Online Marketing and advertising. All of that can be used to explain at a later time, I suppose. The bottom line for me is that I have held myself back, given up, taken much longer than needed breaks, allowed others to persuade me not to go down a certain path on my way to the bigger path. Mostly I believe, I have held my own self back, yet it was easy for me to blame others. I needed a more supportive Group of people surrounding me. I needed people who maybe had the same goals or direction as I did or that knew how to get me to the final destination. Perhaps even a researcher or personal assistants, and even other people who could and would be assigned to certain tasks to help me get to a certain goal faster. I have seen this with other Authors I have followed. I needed a ‘Supporting Cast’ to be guided to the desired outcome.
When I see other people succeed, I often wonder how big a team they have working with them or standing behind them? There are so many successful people who have Businesses and who are branding and marketing themselves online. This is how I imagine other places of Business, celebrities, writers, Managers and leaders are. They all have to have a team of people, no matter how big or small.
Within the last month or so, during the Covid-19 Pandemic, I had a conversation with my sister explaining briefly my desire to have a ‘Supporting Cast’. She didn’t ask me what it is that I thought someone would do to help me out? No one in my extended or immediate family has ever asked me. The worst part is when someone has Limited Beliefs about what someone can do. It seems I will have to work on it alone, “independently”, assigning myself small goals and tasks to get me to the next step on my own!
Most of the people in my family have doubts about themselves, didn’t believe they could do something, or we just simply thought about something more than we took an action to accomplish it. It takes tons of Researching, learning, writing, and pure God-given talent and ability to retain information to be useful in the Real World, to be able to contribute to the World and others. It is completely sad when we judge ourselves and our abilities. When we don’t believe we are good enough. I am shaking my head a little. I believe that having Limiting Beliefs is a conditioned and learned experienced passed down from our parents and from other people who are negative minded, or just don’t have a belief that ANYTHING is possible or can be done if we believe in it strongly enough. People can be told repetitively that something may not work and then we REALLY, TRULY believe it; therefore never even giving it a chance or try.
I believe that when we have Limiting Beliefs, the next step is to really seek Validation and Positive affirmations from an Outside source. I have been advised not to seek Outside Validation. I believe it’s healthy to be given positive affirmations. It helps feed our subconscious into doing Greater things. I will tell you what!, the last 5 months have been phenomenal for me because I have found so much outside validation to get me motivated, pumped up, enthused, maybe a little more confident about approaching my goals. I have learned what to say to myself, how to talk positively about myself, how to deal with my emotions, how to build Resiliency, how not to listen to others’ negative opinions about whether I could or could not accomplish something. It has taken me a long ass time to Validate myself, as I could not ever get it from people who could not ever give it to me.
Perhaps include a Story about how other people had Limited Beliefs and where they got them from???
by Amy Ford | Jun 10, 2020 | Life Experience, Relationships, Self Care
I’m mostly writing this Chapter based on my observance of my mother and sister all of my Life. It’s been interesting to see them in their striving for Perfectionism. Things had to be done a certain way. They had to have things organized and put where they wanted. They had to have their dishes washed a certain way. They were major clean-a-holics. There could never be specks of anything on dishes. The list goes on!
OK, so I changed my mind, I have observed other people as well do things perfectly down to the wire it seems. When I have worked in the Service Industry, you have to be organized, take Sanitary and clean-up precautions. Everything has to be followed by procedure and by Policy. This keeps things neat and it provides a degree of comfort to Customers and other people. I will agree there is nothing worse than things not being clean. It’s the same as not washing your body once a week, at least!
Another example of someone being ‘tough’ on themselves: when I was in College, I was more focused than I had ever been in High School. I wanted to do well. I did not care if I received an A, as long as I knew I put in the time and effort to do the work. I felt a sense of accomplishment no matter what the Grade was. I did not strive to get A’s or seem to have to Prove myself to be the Best of the Best. I am often proud of others’ Successes whether they received Rewards and high achievement Awards, what matters to me is the work they put in and what they can use in the Real World to make their lives and the lives of others better. Here comes a judgment: I DO NOT LIKE PEOPLE WHO ARE TOUGH ON THEMSELVES, who believe they have to have it so Perfect down to the wire. Ack! Can you see me running flailing my arms? Maybe I need a change of behavior or thought on that. The people I admire the most is anyone in the Psychology field. Later I am going to mention my favorite Psychologists and some of my favorite LIfe Coaches and Spirituality Leaders that have helped me in tremendous ways! These are people who I believe did not have to be so tough on themselves and yet maybe in a way they have been.
by Amy Ford | May 10, 2020 | Life Experience, Self Care, Travel
I love the Ocean. I love water would be a better statement. I however do not like swimming in the Ocean, at least not deep. Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined taking a Boat or Catamaran or any other floating vessel out into the Ocean, yet I have had plenty of experiences to be out in the middle of the Oceans and Rivers. I have been to Hawaii. I have been up and down the Coasts of the United States. I have even visited a Natural Spring that dumped millions of gallons of water out in the middle of nowhere state of Missouri. I would have not ever found or discovered this place on my own. In fact, someone else had to take me and I try to tell people to go visit this place if ever given the opportunity. Travelling is an addiction. It can be a passion. It is refreshing and Life changing. You will meet people that you did not ever think you would and learn things from the places you visit. Travelling should be mandatory well over ever going to College. Some of my best learning has been through travelling.
I do have a couple of ‘different’ or favorite places to visit, including going to Day Spas. Yes, you heard me, Day Spas. What does a Day Spa have to do with travelling? I think that when people go on Vacations, that sometimes they frequent Day Spas and get massages, facials to help clear your skin and refresh and rejuvenate the wear and tear from working too much and too hard and the toxins that may get on your skin, to getting Body wraps, or having steam showers. Day Spas truly are a vacation. You do not even have to leave the City that you live in because most cities have Day Spas and I have been to some really good ones.
I am extremely grateful for the opportunities I got to travel. Three other places I didn’t ever dream that I would ever get to go, where to Victoria, Canada, British Columbia and Whistler-Blackholm Canada, which was somewhat close to Victoria, Canada. There was nothing as majestic as seeing the Landscape and how well people in Canada really love and appreciate their homeland and how well maintained it was. The scenery was better than anything you could ever see in a picture. You have to see it with your own eyes, and to me it was indescribable. I was able to ski the mountains in Whistler and was also able to tour the majestic Butchart Gardens near Victoria. My second favorite place I had the honor and pleasure of visiting was Maui, Hawaii. Oh my goodness, BREATHTAKING and most of the island to me smelled of tropical plants and fruit. Well, at least most of Maui did. The Natives were warm and welcoming and they seemed to really love where they were from, being an Islander. I would not want to live there for the long-term however because well, I’m going to be honest, I would totally get “Island fever”. People who have moved there describe it as ‘missing the mainland’ and I suppose after you explore the entire Island, one may become bored or miss exploring other places. This is just a matter of opinion though. There are still PLENTY of people on the Islands that LOVE it, cherish it and wind up staying for a while. My third and final place that I visited that I will not ever forget was Southern Italy. Wow! I felt like I was transported back in time like a couple hundred years back. It was amazing to see old structures still standing and some not standing. Italy had a richness about it. It also had a distinct smell to it as well, no matter where I travelled to while I was there. It made me appreciate what I had in America much more. I believe all my travels have made me appreciate something that I may have had, whether we lose something or are able to gain or add to our experiences. To me travelling just adds more Joy, experience and richness to our Lives. One can not trade these memories ever!!! <3
by Amy Ford | Apr 10, 2020 | Life Experience, Living Your Dreams
There is nothing in the World that is more calming yet scary than water. Water gives me a Sense of Safety and yet also signifies challenge. My memory of the first time I laid eyes on a Body of water was when I lived in the Country on the Potomac River in Virginia. There was nothing as peaceful and serene as the stillness of it and the sunrises and sunsets on it. My father had hung a swing on a tree branch and right above a slight incline that took us down to the dock and small beach on the water that was in front of our house. If you swung too high and tried to jump, you would surely roll down it. Luckily, neither myself nor anyone else who swung on it had the misfortune of falling off. The Country River house was the definition of every bit of Safety to me. For the most part, I had good friends and went to a good School and had good teachers.
Nothing can prepare a young ten year old to ever have to leave her Safety. My father had symptoms of a heart attack from having “Heart disease” which would lead to his first Bypass surgery and we were forced to move to the City. Things happened so quickly. Occasionally however, we did get to go back down to the River for a little getaway or to gain back some Serenity and Peace. So, when we first moved to the City; my mother, sister and father were all living together in a two-bedroom in one of my father’s apartment Buildings. One of my brothers was in College and the other was in his last year of High School, I believe, so they did not have to endure living there as long as my sister and I had. Luckily, about a year or two later (as my memory can remember), my father finally bought us a house in the City at a really good rate.
Our second home was fantastic. My mother put on many parties and events there. Her side of the family and friends of families of the Daycare my mother helped run for about nine years near our home would come over. There was not ever a dull moment in this house that I lived in. My mother kept that house running for a little over twenty years. It blows my mind to think about all that we lived through there. It is almost like a blur to me. I drive by it once or twice a year, and always see an image of my father walking away from me when I was twenty-three and had just started dating military men. I have to laugh, as I believe he was angry and jealous of the news that his first born daughter was choosing a different path in Life. I do not miss that home and honestly do not miss the Country home either. When people say, we start New Chapters, we REALLY do, and don’t ever look back!
Heaven has a different definition for each of us. My heaven was anywhere I may not have had to deal with not being seen or even heard. Heaven was getting away from gossip, conflict, judgment, false blame and guilt, and told I was not doing things good enough. Heaven was staying in my room in our second house listening to music, fantasizing about movie celebrities and writing in my Journal. Music was my Saving Grace. Music was my Lifeline. Music spoke volumes to me and it brought me so much Love, Joy, and comfort I needed during my Parents divorce. Heaven comes in many forms.
When I was younger living in our second family home in the City, I often imagined and dreamed of being able to “Get Away” or to travel more with someone; whether it be a male companion or friends. I had not ever imagined in my wildest dreams that I would actually get to have travelled all due to and thanks to meeting people in the Military. My first and only husband and I wound up doing ‘just that’. He gave me the opportunity to travel. Not that I had not already had the experience of travelling to Europe in 1997. I did not or had not met my now ex-husband until the following year after I had travelled to Italy to meet another Love interest I had at the time.
Beyond my wildest dreams Only like it happens in fairy tales, namely like in the book “Cinderella”, would I have ever imagined my first and Only marriage partner, ever buying me/us, a home. It was my third Heaven. Heaven defining a ‘home’, a Safe place to live. Some place I could remember forever. Call me a dreamer. Call me spoiled. Call me Selfish, yet We are all allowed to have our own dreams, whether it be a home or a dream of accomplishing something we’re proud at something we’re working towards. I am extremely lucky and fortunate to have had GREAT places to live. My heaven!
There are many, many other places I can say that were Heaven to me. Places I’ve travelled to. There is nothing that can make you forget the images and scenery you remember for a Lifetime. Pictures to me don’t ever justify what you remember in your minds-eye, NOT EVER!!!
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