Thursday, November 29, 2012

The Beginning is Near!

The Mayan Calendar ends on 12-21-12
There is a massive spiritual awakening happening in this trajectory toward the Mayan prophecy of the "End of the World" on December 21st. The people in my circles do not consider it to be an ending, but a new beginning - a time of extraordinary opportunity, as we choose to live our lives by replacing fear with love and gratitude. By living life this way, we're able to create businesses from our passions and live fully, adding value to the world around us. By living this way, we eliminate scarcity, fear, greed, jealousy and all negative emotions... replacing that empty space with the inverse - contentedness, love, gratitude, and generosity.

By living with in the positive realm, the quality of our lives is drastically increased, as is the world around us. Our health improves, our concentration improves, our relationships improve, and new opportunities begin to appear. We become well-tuned with our passions, and with our place in the universe. We are not phased when life puts hurdles in our way, but see those hurdles as opportunities for growth. We begin to collect amazing people in our life and a vibrant energy forms that begins to propel our actions and ideas toward a magnificent fruition... we are in sync; choosing joy in the face of adversity.

Everything is energy, and according to the First Law of Thermodynamics, energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed. Whether we live in the positive or negative, that is our choice. I am a living example of someone who transformed a severely negative life into a fantastically positive life, and so it can be done. It is not necessarily an easy feat, but nothing worth doing, is! Nothing in life is free; but the reward for making this change is greater than can be imagined.

Using all my life's experience, I envisioned and created a simple method for people to make a great income from their ideas, vision, talents, and passion, called IDEABASH.  I know for certain that it will become a vital tool of success as our world sinks deeper into this economic meltdown, and our ideas are more needed than ever. I encourage new ideas; I encourage people to create value for the world around them; I encourage personal wellth; I encourage community building.

This is my contribution to the New World that is about to begin. Let's make this fascinating time unforgettable and supremely relevant by pledging to live our purpose!

Blessings of Love, Gratitude and Success,




Wednesday, November 28, 2012

No New Ideas?

In a conversation today, my colleague stated that there is no originality left; there are no new ideas.  OUCH! I agreed that there has been a de-facto culling in the music industry for years - the music we are given easy access to is all rehash. (As wonderful as she is, have you noticed how close Adele's style is to Amy Winehouse?) However.... if you go out to hear live music, you will find that there is a lot more happening than what's presented on mainstream radio, and this is where the true creativity lies. There are many great musicians out there who've been on the scene for a lifetime, creating, innovating, collaborating, and their uniqueness is shunned by the industry. I could give you a very long list, just of musicians in NYC! And what about artists, authors, software designers, architects? The same thing applies. It is extremely difficult for people to get exposure for their new and different ideas, and increasingly, people have been programmed to reject new ideas.

Generally, the same is true no matter what business you're in.... the mainstream will present new versions of old ideas while obfuscating the true innovators. I won't get into the "why" of this right now, but you can see it happening in our education systems, our workforce, and our media. People are being programmed to be content with less freedom and less choice, and I, for one, am not jiving with that agenda!

I believe that we haven't yet scratched the surface of what we're capable of, as humans. In general, (perhaps with the exception of our genius heroes, ie Einstein who was quite big on playing music as a means of processing his theorums.....) we tend to use a mere fraction of our brain's capacity. Spiritually, I think humanity is moving forward at a nice pace, but creatively we need to step it up a couple notches. There are so many things you can do to break out of your routine and get the creative juices flowing, and here are some of my favorites:

1. Take a class at your local community college in a subject that interests you.
2. Try a new restaurant that serves food you've never eaten before.
3. Join an online community specializing in something that interests you.
4. Ask your librarian for a new and exciting author.
5. Try a new color or style in clothing.
6. Initiate a conversation with someone while waiting on line about a subject that interests you.
7. Travel someplace you've never been.
8. Learn to play in instrument, or take voice or acting lessons.
9. Start keeping a journal.
10. Study a different language.

The point here is that you need to activate and "work out" the creative part of your brain, and when you do, you'll find that new ideas pop out ALL THE TIME. We all have the capacity for invention and creativity, but if you don't use it, you lose it.

The best of all lives is when your work/income stems from your own ideas. People who give life to their ideas are the most fulfilled, in America and around the world. (http://www.forbes.com/sites/haydnshaughnessy/2012/09/07/who-are-the-happiest-workers-in-america-and-who-is-getting-happier/).

IDEABASH.org is designed to help people step into this kind of life, to help people become entrepreneurs and business owners; to simplify and economize the start-up process. We're about inspiring and promoting countless new ideas! It's my belief that ideas are the currency of the future, and we must encourage people to innovate and educate and evolve as fast as possible.

So, do we live in a world where all ideas have already been created? Absolutely not. We've only just begun!! 


Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The Science of Gratitude

"Gratitude" Crystal from
the work of Masaru Emoto
In my work with IDEABASH, It's been very important for me to encourage people to include blessings of LOVE and GRATITUDE in their correspondence with the people who they purchase products from. Masaru Emoto is a Japanese researcher who discovered that water responds to stimulus as much as you or I do; and the repercussions from this research have shaken the world. The most profoundly beautiful crystals he creates are when LOVE and GRATITUDE are spoken and prayed.

The people who are already familiar with this research implicitly understand my request of this blessings, but I take the time to educate people who are hearing of it for the first time, for a very specific purpose.

If you're sending paper money, or if you're sending a payment electronically, there is energy attached to that money. If you do nothing, then the money retains whatever energy it has.... which can be positive or negative. But if you take the time to sit and meditate on your payment, infusing it with your wishes and prayers that it travel with LOVE and GRATITUDE and SUCCESS, then you are changing its energy to the positive, and when the person receives it, the balance of positive energy in their life also changes. Imagine all 4,000 people who purchase your product sending you these blessings with the money you receive - it's POWERFUL!

On Thanksgiving, someone posted a link to a magnificent article called The Neuroscience of Why Gratitude Makes Us Healthier, written by a guy named Ocean Robbins, and I was just floored by the fact that someone has taken this research to an even deeper level. In the article, he states that "If you invest in a way of seeing the world that is mean and frustrated, you're going to get a world that is, well, more mean and frustrating. But if you can find any authentic reason to give thanks, anything that is going right with the world or your life, and put your attention there, then statistics say you're going to be better off." I concur!

Gratefulness is directly related to Happiness! I immediately renamed Thanksgiving "Gratitude Day" and insisted that my family go around all day thinking of things they're grateful for. By dinner time, the love was flowing like a stream in the spring! Not that people were necessarily unhappy earlier in the day, but it was a kind of neutral energy.  When my 8 year old boy offered to help me do the dishes, I knew there was some magic in the air!

We need to practice Gratitude every day. Whenever you feel your energy slipping, remember all that you have to be grateful for, and see how you feel.

I'll finish this blog with another wonderful quote from the article: "There's an old saying that if you've forgotten the language of gratitude, you'll never be on speaking terms with happiness."

Blessings to you and yours,

Meg Montgomery, Founder
http://ideabash.org

Friday, November 9, 2012

IMAGINEER Your Own Successful Future!

Barack Obama's Win is a Win for Entrepreneurs!
With the reelection of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States, entrepreneurs can count on the culture of growth that has been true these past four years, but the stakes are changing and it's important to prepare for the future to ensure your business success.

Entrepreneurialism, more than anything, is the best answer to dealing with the "financial cliff" of our national debt, because entrepreneurs have the freedom to turn their ideas into business opportunities, thinking out of the box, evolving the process as they go. We are the creators of new jobs, new ventures, new directions! And if you are a social entrepreneur, if your business is designed to help and empower others, then you are especially important in this transition to an economy that is fueled by innovation, community and higher ideals. It's up to you to remain educated, inspired and focused on what's important, and what works.

Pay close attention to the changes in Internet Marketing. The recent changes in SEO marketing as played by Google are just the beginning; the infancy of this marketing format is over, and small businesses are no longer the darlings. We must create alternative ways to distribute our products and services that do not drain our bank accounts, our time, or our energy. The balance of power is being redistributed! Marketing in general is transforming from the realm of greed to the garden of INVITATION and EDUCATION.


To that end, I have imagineered a cutting-edge distribution system using the concept of COMMUNITY BUILDING, teaching new and existing entrepreneurs to develop a powerful online/offline list and create a generous income for their products with a value of up to $25. My system is called RESILIENT NETWORK MARKETING, and the business is called IDEABASH. It's a pay-it-forward network in which you empower up to 5 entrepreneurs by purchasing their products and sending them blessings of love, gratitude and success, so that you in turn may be empowered by thousands of other entrepreneurs who purchase your product and send you those same blessings. There are zero marketing costs, and it features only a token start-up cost.

IDEABASH Products can be physical or digital, for instance Music, Videos, Courses, Info Products, Clothes, Textiles, Artwork, Blueprints, Inventions, Toys, Gadgets, Prepared Food... and much much more!! The only limit is your imagination! All products must not be under license, and must adhere to our Code of Ethics.


IDEABASH.ORG taps into the proven mechanisms of the $30 billion/year network marketing industry, but rejects its "vulture capitalism" tactics. As the founder of IDEABASH, I earn money the same way that everyone else does - by selling my products. I offer the option of an IDEABASH-hosted subdomain to make the sales and distribution process easier for members, and the earnings from those subdomains will go right back into the investment of a superior back-end experience. As IDEABASH grows, this will include an Amazon-style online store for all IDEABASH products, free marketing resources, crowdfunding opportunities, community services, educational webinars on business-related topics, and much more.


The intent of IDEABASH.ORG is to Blast the world with a Tsunami of Positive Energy, Inspire an Avalanche of Ideas, and Create a Global Society of Successful Entrepreneurs.

Come take a look! And if you have any questions, we'd love to hear from you.

Blessings on your journey....


ideabash.org

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

The Era of the Entrepreneur

"Litre of Light" project in the Philippines brings
non-electriclighting to the poorest neighborhoods
Change equals opportunity but business as usual won't reveal these opportunities to you. It's up to you to turn on the "ingenuity" switch, and create a new cadre of ideas and processes in order to take advantage of the cutting edge opportunities that are available to charge your business, your life, and the world around you.

People the world over are busy creating hope and change out of thin air. Illac Diaz, a social entrepreneur in the Philippines, has turned salvaged plastic coke bottles into indoor lighting in the poorest neighborhoods with his "Litre of Light" enterprise. The first person to come on board IDEABASH creates amazing holistic, organic skin care products, helping people to escape the cycle of poisons in their daily lives. People all over the world are turning their ideas into fabulous businesses that improve quality of life.

There's one issue that consistently plagues people, however, and that is "how do I get the capital to research my ideas, or get my product out to the public?" It's difficult to get grants and loans, extremely difficult to find the perfect distribution channel, and most families don't have "the wealthy aunt" who can loan needed funds to start a project, as Richard Branson had to start his Virgin Empire.

To solve that problem, IDEABASH.ORG is an organization that helps people around the world to "earn while they learn" at all stages of the entrepreneurial process. It comes down to entrepreneurs supporting each other, sharing their ideas, and creating a vast network community. To begin with, IDEABASH teaches the basics of business building, using the powerful model of Network Marketing to build a viral, exponential-growth community. Once our new members have mastered the basics, we then teach higher levels of achieving higher levels of financial success with their products, using the concept of "wellth" building.

The IDEABASH.ORG model is holistic, empowering, requires a small pay-it-forward investment, and stresses the importance of bootstrapping. At first you will learn the power of the system, and then, using our tools, teach it to people who might benefit from it, using tools we have available. It becomes a chain reaction of entrepreneurial empowerment, stretching a wide net around the world.

If you're looking for new ideas on how to get your business started, come visit us and find out how IDEABASH.ORG can empower YOUR business in this flourishing new Era of the Entrepreneur!