This is how the 70s got rollin'

Jimi - Live at the Filmore: December 31, 1969 (Audio Track Only)

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Christmas Morning Song

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Buy This Book

My Sister-in-Law gave me this little book last month – The Go-Giver A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea.  I must admit that I don’t read “self help” books, and it sat on my nightstand until the day before yesterday.  This quarter has been so rough, that I thought what the hell, it couldn’t hurt.

Not only do I not read self help books, I don’t recommend them either.  But in this case I’m going to make an exception.  I strongly recommend buying this little book.  In a nutshell the book offers five basic principles to practice in business to ensure success.  It is told in story through a guy named Joe, an ambitious young man having trouble meeting his quarterly quotas.  In desperation, he seeks out the help of a “spectacularly successful” consultant for his secret to success.  In actuality Joe is seeking this consultant’s clout in order to close a huge deal, in order to meet his quota.  The consultant agrees to meet with him the following week and give him daily lessons.  Over the course of the next week, Joe learns these five basic principles:

 

The Law of Value – Your true worth is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.

 

The Law of Compensation – Your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them.

 

The Law of Influence – You influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people’s interests first.

 

The Law of Authenticity – The most valuable gift you have to offer is yourself.

 

The Law of Receptivity – The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving.

 

I won’t elaborate on these principles you’ll have to read the book for that, but I will share with you a couple of thoughts.  First, if you’re reading this book to become a successful business person, you’re reading it for the wrong reason.  These five principles are life principles. If you live your life by them, then success will naturally follow.

 

Second, it occurred to my as I was reading that Che Bella truly follows these principles because that’s how we live our life.  At least that’s what I like to believe.  After all, “A House of Love with no Limits” is our mission statement.

 

Third, ask George Bailey about the Go-Giver.  He lived his life following the above, although he had to have an angel named Clarence make him realize it.

 

And lastly, as if to validate it all I received this email this morning:

 

“How funny, Lisa just called (finally) to let us know that she got the flowers.  She spent 10 minutes talking about how beautiful and unique the flowers were.  Most importantly, she spoke very highly of how special you made her feel.  I must apologize for giving you the wrong hospital and applaud your amazing efforts to locate our special friend.

 

In an economy such as this, it’s refreshing to work with a business that is devoted to impecable customer service.  I will highly recommend, as will Lisa, your flowers to anyone in the area looking to send flowers. 

 

Thank you, thank you, thank you for your beautiful flowers.  Happy Holidays.

 

Melissa”

 

Pretty cool, don’t you think?

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The story of Amalthea

We recently received a gift from a friend of ours - a room spray called Cornucopia.  In the inside of the top of the box was the etymology of the word Cornucopia.   I quote verbatim "The Cornucopia (latin: Cornu Copiae) literally Horn of Plenty, and also know as the Harvest Cone,  is a symbol of food and abundance dating back to the 5Th century BC.  

In Greek mythology, Amalthea raised Zeus on the milk of a goat.  In return Zeus gave Amalthea the goat's horn.  It had the power to give to the person in possession of it whatever he or she wished for.  This gave rise to the legend of the cornucopia."

La and I did not find this out until much later, but it was a serendipitous discovery.  T's name came from the Unicorn in Peter S. Beagle's book - the Last Unicorn.  We read that book when we were 17 years old....

Quite a few years ago.

Anyway, we were quite touched when we opened the box and read the above.  It's not every day Amalthea's name comes up  like that.

Oh and by the way, the day Amalthea was born,  a new moon was discovered on Jupiter - the name...

Amalthea.

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Human Flower Project

I've added a new link to the Blogs of Note section - The Human Flower Project. It's mission: "The Human Flower Project is an international newsgroup, photo album and discussion of how people live through flowers. We report on art, medicine, society, politics, religion, and commerce. "

It's a very informative site detailing how flowers affect just about every facet of our life. Check it out!

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December Floral Classes

We had so much fun last month that we decided to have to floral classes. One for Hanukkah and the other for Christmas Centerpieces. Here's the details:

Hanukkah - Sunday December 14. Class begins @ 1:00 pm. Registration closes Monday December 8 or if we fill the 6 seats available prior to the registration deadline.

Christmas - Sunday December 21. Class begins @ 1:00 pm. Registration closes Monday December 22 or if we fill the 6 seats available prior to the registration deadline.

Prepayment of $75.00 is required to secure a seat. You can register either online or giving us a call at 619.232.3193. To register online click here. In the "Order Description" type in floral class and in the delivery date field enter the appropriate class date.

As the online ordering feature is accustomed to floral orders it will add a delivery charge and CA Sales Tax, but not to worry we'll take care of the manually so your card is charged the flat class fee of $75.00.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

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