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Karen Kay


Last Updated: 7/2/2009

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Gender: Female
Status: Married
Age: 45
Sign: Capricorn

City: Jackson
State: Mississippi
Country: US
Signup Date: 1/1/2007

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Saturday, August 22, 2009 


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Working Mom with dreams of becoming an Internet Marketing Entrepreneur funds dream with innovative thinking, creativity and a little bit of help from her friends.

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Sunday, December 14, 2008 


http://www.squidoo.com/forchristmas

I found some fun and beautiful responses when I asked a simple question: "What do you wish for Christmas" It's really cool that no matter how many times we experience Christmas, it never gets old and always has a new and special way to Peace, Love and Hope.

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Saturday, May 03, 2008 

Current mood:  hopeful
Category: Life
Notice from Cubsfan:

Let's meet this Sunday, May 4, at 8pm SL Time (10pm Central, 11PM Eastern) at the Unoffiical Obama HQ (landmark below)

Let's organize something cool for NEXT WEEKEND!!!

See you soon!!!  GO OBAMA!

Unofficial Obama Headquarters in SL
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Saturday, December 15, 2007 

Current mood:  bummed
Hi friends,
 
I really need you to help me get more folks to
sign up for the Santa Sal Giveaway
(doesn't cost you anything),
so that my gift "Marketing in Second Life"
will still be available next week.  I have 4 optins
so far......and we have to have 25 by Sunday
to stay in the giveaway
 
http://viralurl.com/LifeTeamBuilders/Santa-Sal-/
 
Please click here and opt in. It's okay,
I trust Harris Fellman, he does occasional
product promotions where he'll send you several
emails in a few days, then you'll just get
an email every now and then in between.
 
I have personally learned a great deal from him!
 
http://viralurl.com/LifeTeamBuilders/Santa-Sal-/
 
 
Thanks so much for your help!
 
KK
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007 

Category: Religion and Philosophy
Happy Tuesday, July 3rd!

I have an urgent Message from Mr. Fire
(and time sensitive bonus if you help his friend)

The one and only Dr. Joe Vitale,

one of my favorite online marketing

gurus, sent out a plea on his

blog yesterday for a little boy

named Kirk, who needs our

help.

I'll let Joe tell the story, he's

much more eloquent than I...

http://blog.mrfire.com/health/kirk-loves-you/

He has a nice bonus for those of us willing

to help the little guy, too...but hurry cuz

they go down after tomorrow!

In fact, we are even part of the bonus!

Thanks in advance to all you wonderful

people....

And have a Safe and happy July 4th!

Catchya later,

KK
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Monday, June 25, 2007 

Category: Friends

Hey Everybody!

We only have 3 days to do this so listen up!

If you are a reader of this blog, we consider you part of our team.

We need your help quickly! Oh yes, you will be rewarded!!!

We have "adopted" 10 contestants in the Next Internet Millionaire contest,
and the voting ends on Wednesday....so we need your help now!

These wonderful people are taking an active part in collaborating with us,
and are excited to do it.

They are counting on us, and LifeTeamBuilders will Come through for
them...I am completely confident in all of you!

Here's what you do:

1. Go to each of these sites and vote "10" for
our adopted team members.

Jason Henderson: http://www.nextinternetmillionaire.com/show.php?id=103
Wes Wyatt: http://www.nextinternetmillionaire.com/show.php?id=156
Debbie Ducic: http://www.nextinternetmillionaire.com/show.php?id=1306
Jonathan Kraft: http://www.nextinternetmillionaire.com/show.php?id=770
Cliff Hammock: http://www.nextinternetmillionaire.com/show.php?id=658
Andrea Yager: http://www.nextinternetmillionaire.com/show.php?id=1232
Matt Adams: http://www.nextinternetmillionaire.com/show.php?id=664
Gail Greenberg: http://www.nextinternetmillionaire.com/show.php?id=1294
Christine Schaap: http://www.nextinternetmillionaire.com/show.php?id=105
Thor Schrock: http://www.nextinternetmillionaire.com/show.php?id=1249

Next, send me two things in your email:

2.. A short ad (about 50 words) promoting your business
3. Positive comments on at least one of the contestants including a link to YOUR website.

I will do the following for YOU!:

1. Post the first 5 ads i receive in an email update to my entire list tomorrow afternoon
send to karenkayweeks@gmail.com

2. Post ALL comments (with YOUR link) on their respective Squidoo lens,
which I am currently in the process of setting up.

Okay....now do that, and send this to everyone you know....

Go Go Go!

Time is of the essence!

Til tomorrow's update, all my best to you!

Karen Kay
http://www.lifeteambuilders.com

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Saturday, June 23, 2007 

Category: Life
  • LEADERS ON WHEELS
    A Team Building
    Approach for Online Marketers


    Karen L. Kay
    http://www.lifeteambuilders.com


    Now we have an even playing field. Anyone with internet access may now enter the business world. Millions of opportunity seekers join the race every day. Many fail, some succeed, others try and fail and try again until they make it. It is fun, challenging, frustrating, exciting, taxing, time-consuming, and often expensive; though most of us are hopeful we can make millions without spending a dime!

    Realistically, we can make millions without spending much, but we need to be smart about where we do spend: not only our money but our time as well. If you are in this business by yourself, my first suggestion is to collaborate with someone via joint venture, mastermind, networks, and the like. This report is about leveraging your time and efforts with others on your team. One person trying to carry the whole load is never plausible and soon exhausts himself. Two or more gathered together may accomplish exponentially more than they could apart, providing the team is using leverage.

    One leader or ten, the tools are the same:

    Support each other while keeping yourself in the growth mode
    Communicate with your team on a regular basis:
  • what you learn
  • what you do
  • what you want
  • how you can contribute
  • Most importantly, listen.

    Even if you think you know everything there is to know, you do not know what is on the minds of your teammates. They benefit from sounding off to you, you benefit from their growth. If you are a strong leader, you will know when to let some of the control go.

    Ducks in a Row

    When I was small, my Grandmother had, among other kid-sized treasures in her ancient toy basket, a wooden ducky on a string with her ducklings wobbling behind and making a quacking noise as they went. Each duckling sat on two wheels, with a link between one and the next. I remember specifically trying to get it to move without making the noise, and experimenting by pushing rather than pulling, or just rolling one of the wheels, but inevitably, the result was always the same. They all moved. They still quacked. I tried rolling it uphill and downhill and under things and over things. I ran with it to make it go fast. I crept up on it and barely nudged it. It worked, no matter what maneuver I used. Whenever one duck quacked and rolled, they all did. Participating in a synchronized team produces solid, duplicable results. Roll the back wheel and all ducks move. Mama duck, incidentally, did no more or less work than any other part of the toy. A well trained team need not depend on its leader to perform. Perfectly synchronized, all the baby ducks and Mama duck got to where they were going at the exact same time, every time, without fail.




    Cutting Corners

    One exception to the success of the duck toy was when I tried to turn it around sharp corners. To get it around a corner and make it still work, much more maneuvering was required. We grow faster and more efficiently when moving forward, or taking careful curves, rather than trying to make everybody move in a completely different direction. If you have built a list, your readers are in a way part of your team. They likely have grown to respect you for the information you provide, and expect you to continue forward with more valuable information. If you turn sharply in a different direction and try to sell them on super widgets when before you were building trust based on how to be a safe driver, it is likely you will need to guide them gently around a longer curve than try to suddenly stop the safety thing altogether.

    Center Yourself

    Good team leaders don't "lead the pack" or "take up the rear", but run side by side. The best way to gauge what is going on is to be "one" with your members, not above, or below. A lot of network marketing companies sell the business on the pyramid-type matrix. This is not an accurate picture of a high-functioning team. Rather than the familiar triangle with you at the top, picture instead the toy duckies without Mama Duck, each leading their own from the center out. Your team "network" is built both on those who support you and those whom you support, with those roles being interchangeable at any given time. By staying in the center of your team, you can access both those who need you, and those whom you need.
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    Wednesday, June 13, 2007 

    Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes

    By Karen Kay
    http://www.lifeteambuilders.com

    Oprah Winfrey has a philosophy she has shared with her viewers over the years, which I only recently heard about. She says, "the universe is always trying to get your attention".

    If you know anything about 12 step programs, you may have heard that you have to hit "rock bottom" before you can take even one step on the road to recovery. Oprah turns this whole idea on its head. Instead of waiting until the whole house falls around you, maybe you can get it when it's just a brick wall coming down. Or better yet, just one brick. Maybe even just a pebble will hit you, or you will actually see the storm before anything hits you at all. However, the best way to get it, says Oprah, is to get it in "the whisper". Here is what she said about this in an interview for the Academy of Achievement:

    So now my goal in life is not to have to hit the eye of the storm, but to catch it in the whisper. To get it the first time. ..... the one thing that has allowed me to certainly achieve both material success and spiritual success, is the ability to listen to my instinct. I call it my inner voice. It doesn't matter what you call it -- nature, instinct, higher power. It's the ability to understand the difference between what your heart is saying and what your head is saying. I now always go with the heart. 1

    Where do I find the whisper?

    Oprah goes with her heart. Many of us have heard the opposite advice, "Use your head"! The "still, small voice", angel on your shoulder, your conscience, whatever it is that guides your feelings. You have a hunch, an idea, a moment of inspiration....whispers, all.

    Think about what made you decide to pursue your current dreams and goals. If you are a reader of mine, I presume you are doing something you love. Where did that move come from? Did you get it in the whisper? Or did it take your house falling down?

    When you make your next move, any small task or step toward your goal, keep your whispers in tune with your actions. It is okay to be different, as long as it makes you feel right, and you will know, if you listen, if it is right for you.

    Keep a "whisper" journal

    Too many thoughts can cloud our task at hand. One way to keep your whispers from becoming a schizophrenic mess is to keep a journal. I have one I keep just for that. An idea pops into my head which I want to follow up on, I get it down in the journal so that I can come back to it later. (Aside: Mark Joyner's Simpleology 101 at www.simpleology.com takes this to a much deeper level)


    Your journal can consist of lists, one word entries, notes to visit a site, phone numbers, names, whatever it takes to jog your memory later when you can get to it. Your whisper is yours and yours alone. Do not look at it as something you intend to publish later, thereby adding unnecessary baggage to the issue. Use whatever is comfortable for you...your Day-Timer, Blackberry, or yellow pad...same difference. You get the whisper, you get it down. Then act on it before it becomes a storm => pebble =>brick => wall => etc.

    Confide in your Team

    I always bring it around to the team, don't I? Were you worried? Nah. I know you weren't. Here is a profound way to build trust and bond with your team. Let them in on your whispers! (Well, maybe not every single whisper....but the ones that can help them personally, or would pertain to the common goals you share). Your team is probably on your mind a large percentage of the time, so it is highly likely you will get whispers which relate to them specifically. Do not be afraid to share these with them. Let them know you think about them. If your whisper is a concern, let them know. If it is a curiosity, wonder with them. They will appreciate your thinking of them and exposing your personal vulnerability. Remember, as a leader, your goal is not to direct, but encourage them to emulate you, as their own best self emerges, and to take your leadership in as a way to help them find that best self.

    Find motivation in the whisper

    Maybe the reason we ignore these little messages so often is because it doesn't exactly knock us upside the head. No big deal, just a little whisper. Not even audible. Who cares, right? Would you rather come in with a Bang than a Whimper? The Whisper (Whimper) always comes first. You do care, and your inner voice need not ever be louder than can be heard between your own ears. It is your higher power/ higher self/ God who guides your actions. Get excited about little things, and small accomplishments for you and for your team. Set easy and short-term goals to support your big dreams. Let your team share these little dreams and work together in achieving them. Who can bring 3 new ideas to our next meeting? Do you have an object that motivates you? Post a picture of it on our team board.....etc.

    Project Whisper

    Your inner voice speaks and you are ready to focus on it. Now is the time for you to let the universe take your message out there. Project your whisper into the hearts and minds of those for whom it is intended. Allow the voice to speak through you, and develop the leader in you. Your whisper becomes part of your identity, and who you are is a project of your whisper.

    Karen Kay
    http://www.lifeteambuilders.com

    1. Academy of Achievement, Oprah Winfrey Interview (page 4/8)"America's Beloved Best Friend" retrieved June 12, 2007 from http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/win0int-4

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    Saturday, May 19, 2007 

    Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes

    Whether you are a team of one or hundreds of thousands, your team has a certain shape all its own.  Do you have control over how it grows?  The answer is yes. However, the key to a successful team lies not in the control, but in the willingness to let the team take on its own shape without your strict direction.

     

    Think of each member as contributing him or herself as a bit of raw clay.  As our team starts to meld into a unit, we may tend to try to force members to follow our own ideas as to how the group should proceed. The very terms "upline", "downline", "sidelines" etc. are in a way what lead to the detriment of the very freedom we seek as team leaders.

    What I want, as a team leader, is for everyone who so desires to become a leader themselves.  How can I do that if I try to dictate everything they do?  I have found that effective leadership is more in listening, and less in telling.

    One member may contribute a few small grains, another may be mostly liquid, i.e. the whole concept flows through them with no real substance.  Yet another may be that diamond in the rough.  The thing is, in order for clay to mold into an attractive vessel, each of these characteristics need to be present.  This keeps your team from becoming dry, or too stale, or without shape at all.

    What it takes to keep your vessel growing in shape is to allow yourself some vulnerability.  This is a delicate balance between hard and soft. Raw clay is sensitive, bendable, yet strong enough to hold together.

    Some "hardness", is necessary.  Confidence and a thick skin can keep a leader strong. Not allowing the team to form itself however can leave it cracked and brittle.

    There is no right and wrong when helping your team to find its shape.  This is a process that never ends.  The vessel is ever changing, growing, moving…and the less you interfere, the more beautiful it can become.

    Ask your members to emulate, not imitate, what you and other leaders within the group do….  To find the strength from whatever it is that inspires them in you. Be the best "you" you can be, and allow them to find the strength in their own being to get to the best contribution for the good of the team, ultimately, the betterment of themselves.

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    Saturday, April 28, 2007 

    Category: Life

    A band of four and five year-olds let loose
    In the Chuck E. Cheese playroom do not
    exactly bear the team approach to celebrating
     little Madison's 5th birthday.
     
    Scurrying under tables, dancing on the stage,
    stuffing their mouths with more chocolate cake
    than seems humanly possible in one bite...
     chasing after the guy in the Chuck E. suit
    who already has three other kids
     hanging from his arms and back.
     
    About this point, I am feeling thankful for a friend's
    advice to take a couple ibuprofen before the party starts.
    My son, who is four, is every bit as wild, if not more so,
    than the rest, and I keep a surly eye on him, having warned
    him that his chance of ever returning to this kindergarten haven
    rides solely on his behavior this evening.

    He is saved by the fact that he dearly loves Madison, and is
    ultimately more interested in whatever she is doing, which is,
    thankfully, being a precious and not precocious birthday girl.
    Once the sugar high is officially in full swing,
    we are informed that it is now "Party Time!"
    according to the massive screens around the room,
    and Chuck E. is joined by a waif of a girl dressed as a referee,
    who is apparently supposed to get these kids to follow some
    specific instructions involving clapping and stomping and
    shouting on queue.

    "Good luck, sister" I whisper under my breath
    as she spouts her verbiage: "When we say 'happy' you say 'birthday'"
    (clap clap clap, ...stomp stomp stomp)

    Of course only three people are paying attention. Madison's mom, me,
    and the guy in the Chuck E. suit. Everyone gets a quick,
    unheard lesson on how to do the birthday thing Chuck E's way,
    and I figure this "routine" is a requirement which must come with the package,
    but do not expect much support from the indiscriminate mass of
    children in the room. I was right. For about two minutes, they did this
    thing and nobody seemed to be paying attention.
    But, Chuck E. and the little referee girl persisted.
    They did not change what they did at all. They just kept doing it.

    "Happy Birthday" (clap clap clap). Enough of this persistence
    and the children finally chime in. For a full three minutes,
    this party is all about Madison and her day.

    She is ecstatic, glowing even.


    Her team comes through!
    .

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