Welcome back. Boy the time does fly!! It’s already the end of April and we are still experiencing great and amazing things in our lives. We are living more and more into the Law of Attraction and I love the thought of sharing this journey with all of you.
Keep the feedback coming, we truly appreciate all the comments and stories. We have been fortunate to surround ourselves with an incredible network. Thank you for sharing your light with the world.
Now, I said last week I would share with you what happened at our first Mastermind group with the Quantum Leap members, but first I need to mention what Dale and I do from a business stand point for any of this to make sense. Therefore, I am going to share with our readers next week what happened at the first Mastermind group meeting at our house on the 9th of January 2010. Today I am going to catch you up on our businesses as I have promised to share this with all of you at the very beginning.
You already know about some of VSI through the last few weeks of posts. We have an experiential training division that works with fears and anxiety around all areas of life. And we have a technical training division that focuses on education in embedded operating systems, specifically Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0 training. That’s what I do. Dale, my husband, runs our retirement company that takes mansions and turns them into retirement community style living in luxury. You can read more about it here: www.aspeninvestgroup.com. It’s an amazing company taking a holistic approach to retirement.
At this time in our lives we had these two business defined, Aspen completely defined and VSI was coming into focus more and more, just not in the way I had imagined. More on that in two weeks (the forming of VSI). What an amazing journey it is to birth something new. Through our coaching only have we set up the structure to be a success in our field of genius. We are so grateful for the amazing mentors we have had in our life. We share what we have learned through our unique gifts and coaching style in our one on one coaching that we offer. Contact us at www.valsorter.com for more information and pricing. (mention this blog for a special rate)
Since we had started walking through a business plan in a company that we were forming with some friends, we started the same process with Aspen Investment Group. We knew we had a lot of work to do, but we believed in it and knew we would be helping people in a big way, filling a need in society and making a larger difference. This would be the creation of our legacy. We wanted to create within our company a retirement our parents would enjoy as well as a retirement we could look forward to.
After putting together a 3 page proposal for people to look at we decided to show it to our first ‘real’ person. Before this we had showed it to two people and it was purely on a ‘what are we missing’ standpoint.
Dale went to someone he had known through sprinklers and felt like he needed to share it with him. I was so very excited. Dale at this point had really started to show excitement around what we were doing. He was finally on board and we are moving faster then we ever could imagine.
I have to explain briefly that Dale has always been amazingly supportive of me. And I do need to emphasize the ‘me’ portion of that. He’s never really approved of the vehicle, but he always supported me in knowing I could do it if I wanted to.
We had been to NWA and everyone we told about what we were doing had such great feedback for us. We met so many people that recognized the need also and wanted to hear about it and find out more. We were blown away by the positive response to our new venture and looked forward to sharing it with more people. We got some great contacts and already talked to people that wanted to invest.
Here’s the weirdest part, I’d never talked to people about investing money like that before and crazy enough, I really still haven’t. People would tell us they were interested long before we even got to the point of saying we were looking for investors. We were overwhelmed at the response and I felt we were ready for that move, I knew we needed to learn more about the basics and quickly. I then asked ‘how do we learn what we need to know and verify what we have already learned as soon as possible?
So Dale went to Boulder and met with John. John has over 30 years of experience in real estate and works for a prestigious firm and is managing partner of it in the Boulder area. He’s a successful guy, needless to say, and Dale thought very highly of him. Keep in mind Dale is going to John to ask him for some feedback on the idea. He is the first ‘real’ person we had shown the idea to. Dale got two sentences into his presentation and John threw his hands in the air and said ‘I’m in!’.
Dale and I are still amazed by that day, what happened and where we have come as a result. That conversation brought two amazing mentors into our lives. They introduced us to a spiritual path that I have been searching for my whole life and they have guided us on some very important business decisions that have saved our family in so many ways. I’ll share more about that in two weeks in the founding of VSI.
Needless to say I firmly believe that great coaching is what is needed to be successful. I journaled about this back in August of 2009. It’s amazing how far we have come in such a short period of time. We are still only just beginning to understand our true power. John and his wife introduced us to Mile Hi church at this time as well. We attended our first service there on January 6th. I had just met the both of them and I loved them! What great people, what amaingly supportive and incredibly nurturing beings that just want the best for us.
John calls me disarming and loves my passion. I have enjoyed getting his feedback on what we are doing and having someone to ask guidance and questions about life. It’s nice to ask those that have a life that is more like the one you would like to have. John has it together and he is willing, for whatever reason, to help us climb the ladder of success. It’s such an amazing journey.
More next week on our Mastermind Group, how we attracted the people in our lives that we needed to help us in the areas we asked.
Until then, love and light.
Val
