Aloha Everyone,

Can you believe that 2009 is almost over?  Where did the year go?  While I’m at it… where did the decade go?  I was a senior in college when the ball dropped on 2000 and we made it through that technology disaster without so much as a hiccup and now 10 years later I have a wonderful husband (whom I was with in 2000), two amazing boys, a home business that allows us to live where we want and do what we want and I live in Hawaii!!!  How amazing is that?!?!

I want to focus for a minute here on 2009 and my business.  As most of you know, I struggled with an online business for 6 years before finally starting to break through in the last quarter of 2008.  Well, 2009 exploded my business and that is why in July we were able to realize a dream we had held inside since March 18th, 2001. 

That was the day we first step foot in Hawaii!  Hawaii is a place that you can’t even imagine!  Your most vivid dreams, closing your eyes and imagining the most amazing things on earth cannot prepare you for what you feel when you are here.  The ocean air, the spirit, the mood that surrounds and overtakes you is something you long for again and again. 

While you may dream about packing up, giving up everything and moving to this place that gives you an inner peace and blankets you with love, deep down you don’t really believe it could happen to you.  That your greatest, your most vivid dreams could come true, you still hold it there just in case.  Thanks to everything I experienced with my business in 2009, I was able to sell everything, pack up our family (including 3 dogs… no small feat to get them to Hawaii ), and move to Hawaii.  Thanks to my business, I now live in the most amazing place on earth!  True, I haven’t visited everywhere… but Hawaii is our eutopia.  Everyone has a eutopia… have you dreamed about yours lately??? 

At the beginning of 2009, I was earning right about $5000/month online and I was exstatic!  At the end of 2009, I’m earning 5 figures a month… yes, 5 figures a month!!!  If you had told me 18 months ago that I would be living in Hawaii and earning 5 figures a month I would have looked at you like you were crazy!!!  If you would have told me that I would have my own products teaching others what is working for me I would have thought you were nuts!  I am excited about where I have been and where I am going!  I had the most amazing year of my life even though we have been in the midst of the worst recession most of us have ever witnessed!  And I am still moving forward.  Once the momentum starts, it doesn’t take much to keep it going :)  I’ll be releasing my newest project in January, I can’t wait for this!  My business just keeps building… it truly is amazing!

What is important for you with regards to what I have done this year is that you can do this in 2010… you have the ability to change the course of your life and start going in the direction you want to be going in!  You can do this!!!  I KNOW YOU CAN!!!  Do you know how I know you can?  I know you can, because no matter where you are right now, all you need to do is start taking small steps in the right direction.  Make 2010 your year by simply taking one step at a time!!!  Do something, anything, I don’t care how big or small it is, every single day, that will take you in the direction you are dreaming about.  If you do this, if you take small steps and just keep going… do you know what will happen? 

Momentum will start to build… yes, slowly at first, but just keep going.  The momentum will grow and grow and grow!  You won’t see it at first… in the beginning, you will need to believe in the steps you are taking.  You will need to stay on course and continue to take another small step and another and another.  Some brick walls may try to get in the way, but just keep going.  Go around them, bust through them!  Then something amazing will happen… that momentum will break through!  You will start to see the results, you’ll start to witness them firsthand!  That’s when the exciting stuff starts to happen… and then you do more, your small steps turn into big steps!  You do what you need to do, then rinse and repeat!  You get excited all over again!  The momentum starts to grow exponentially and you are now heading down a path that you had dreamed about but never fully let yourself believe you could do it.  All of a sudden, it will all start happening! 

BUT…

You must start with the small steps… you must get the momentum started!  You must lay out a plan or find a plan from someone else, and start following it… never wavering… always moving forward!  If you do this, you will forever change the direction of your life starting with 2010!  Make the commitment, start taking the steps, build the momentum!  That is exactly what I did in 2009, make 2010 your year to achieve your eutopia!!!

Hau’oli Makahiki Hou 2010!!!

Best Wishes,
Shannon