[Helpers] Just comments to your answers and some answers to your comments. TIME ZONES and Chats

[Mystress Angelique Serpent]

At 05:30 PM 4/19/2005, you wrote:


>Just comments to your answers and some answers to your comments.
>
> >Here are a few suggestions for topics for you chats that I like.
>
>   ??? Interesting topic, but most of my students already have too much
>empathy.
>I was not thinking of teaching them Empathy...LOL..only having a chat
>and teaching them how to deal with their empathy.

   Right. It is Karma Vampire games.

>   I found the back-pack,
>yoke excercise that you shared extremely useful for myself and my clients.
>I couldn't remember the name of the chat.  hee hee!

   Karma clearing 101.

> >Grounding
>
>    This is interesting, never thought of having a chat about grounding.
>See, I assume everybody already knows about that. I assumed everybody knew
>about karma clearing too, and it was the biggest chat...
>
>There are many people out there that just figure grounding happens
>naturally.
>I WAS one of them.  I now know that it is a concious choice that you have
>to facilitate until it becomes automatic.  I just wonder how many don't know
>the specifics of not grounding and how do accomplish it.  Your grounding
>meditation is extremely effective.

   Yeah, it works OK as a webpage.
   I mostly make chats about stuff that is not clear on a webpage... 
although sometimes, about stuff I thought was clear till there came questions!

> >Meeting your Guides
>
>   " ??? FST students do not have "guides" just heart voice and DB. Heart
>voice is part of the heart opening chat, and DB often won't show up on
>demand."
>Hmmmm well...then I'd say your students ought to know that.  I believe
>I got that title from one of the FST lessons, no?

   That would be "Testing your guides."
   Most seekers who have been playing around with channelling, new age 
stuff or Wicca have a few "guides" that are just well dressed parasites. It 
is also for making sure you hear the genuine heart voice, and not an impostor.

> >Witness State
>
>    Gets taught as part of the chakra levels workshop... does it need a
>separate chat?
>
>No, not unless someone requests it.
> >Trip to the void
> >Karma Clearing 101
> >Vampire Games Level 1 and 2
>
>    Also soul travel.
>Vampire games level 3: karma vampire judo.
>Understanding chakra levels.
>
>
>
> >You mentioned that you should start holding FST chats or drop offering
>them.
> >My thoughts on this is.  Offer them by request only and charge $20 no
> >exceptions for
> >anyone that is interested that is a FST member.
>
>    " Sounds good... except maybe chats are part of tuition? Hmm..."
>
>Yes..that would be nice to have it part of the tuition.  Maybe see what the
>reaction is when you post it as such.  It would be a way for you to bring
>in a little more funds for yourself and not be a tremendous drain on your
>FST memebers.  I honor your choice in this.

    What I meant was, if I am promising member only chats on the on the 
course intro and registration pages, and not specifying that there are 
additional costs, then the fair assumption is that the $88.88 includes the 
member-only chats.
    However, I cannot remember if I did...

    I love making money, it is a goodness but part of that abundance magic 
is strict integrity, even if keeping an agreement costs me in the short term.

    I think, scheduling a few member-only chats per year, with no topic but 
letting people pick my brains would be fine.  I may decide to raise the 
price of the course when the update is done, right now I am undecided.

    I think the current price is very low, but maintaining the school does 
not take too much time, normally,  and it works as great advertising, my 
FST students are my best clients even with the 20% discount they get.

   The $50. optional payment is an experiment, too...  Not sure if it is a 
successful one... but I'll stick with it, for now.

> >The first date that is active is April 20th which is a KSN meeting. That is
> >on this Wednesday night.
>
>    Yup, tomorrow.
>
> >  So if you send out an announcement of this
> >you could do it tomorrow and be ahead of the game.
>
>   You are going to post the announcement of your workshop Wednesday night,
>right?
>Or was I supposed to do that?  I'll be happy to remind you, if that
>is my purpose. ;-)

I was hoping to post the new chat schedule at the same time.   It needs to 
be done, doesn't matter who does it. If you can take over posting them, 
that would be great, I'll even give you an email account with the domain 
name if ya want.

> >Mystress,
>Im beginning to think I am dyslexic when it comes to time
>zones too.
>What times have worked before for you?  Maybe we should stick with that.
>Dates for Chats are as follows:
>
>April 25th 4:00 PM est

   Why do you keep writing them in Eastern Standard time? It is confusing 
me. Or do you mean estimated time?

>  April 27th 4:00 pm
>
>May 9th 4:00 PM est
>
>May 11th 12:00 Noon est
>
>May 23rd 4:00 PM est
>
>May 25th 12:00 Noon est
>Conversions are as follows:
>I am open for your suggestion of a different time for the chats.
>
>IF you hold a chat so that Europe/France can be online, you could hold it at
>noon in Canada...
>then it would be  9PM in france.  Atleast that is how I read it.
>See below I have listed each date and the time zone they would be held in:

   This stuff makes my brain melt. GNC, UTC BBC OME~! What? Don't tell me, 
I do not want to know. Just decide, and write it up as a schedule.

    I know NYC is 3 hours ahead of my time (except when I get confused and 
think it is 3 hours earlier, and don't ask me what other cities are in the 
same time zone, coz I dunno!)...
   and so I was thinking that my previous, average 6pm PST time was kinda 
late for them, 9pm is late for working folks... and,  how much earlier can 
I make it, without it being too early for the westerners who might have to 
work till 4:30?
    Does it even matter? I know many of my clients are self employed, or 
professionals who can decide their own work times.

   I don't know. You decide, make the schedule according to the parameters 
I gave you in a previous email, and choose what topic will be held when. I 
do not care about the details, I just need to know when to show up in the 
chatroom and teach.
    Go ahead and arrange a chat schedule for the entire year, and we will 
post it month by month and change it as we need to.

   I think druid has me scheduled for some long sailing trips this summer, 
but just because he has told me many times, does not mean I know when they are!
    I live in the moment, and I just don't plan my life that far ahead, 
life is what happens while we are busy making other plans. Editing a 
schedule is easier than making one from scratch every time.

   Noon is early for me, but if it is only a couple of times a month, then 
I can deal.

   I can also go the other way... very late at night.  I am often up till 
4am. So if it is 2am PDT, what time is it in Sweden and Japan? Thailand? 
Indonesia? Since they are on the other side of the planet I guess it would 
be afternoon but the same day or the next?

   Figure it out, but don't tell me the answer.  Just write a schedule, in 
Pacific daylight time.  I will copy it into my daytimer and if there are 
conflicts then we will make changes.

   My life is busy, but it is not very scheduled. Most projects are ongoing 
or never ending, like web maintenance, writing, and email.
   Sessions get scheduled, but I usually try to complete an appointment 
within a week of being paid for it, otherwise I might forget and that would 
be unethical by accident.

   I take appointments afternoons and evenings weekdays. I usually don't do 
sessions on weekends unless it is the only time the client has available, 
or if I am behind and catching up.

    I have a funny idea of being available on weekends to have some kind of 
a social life, and sometimes going fishing with the druid. Usually, I just 
work at my computer all weekend, unless there is a fun Sabbat.

    Beltaine coming up, May long weekend. I am making a funny sight-gag 
robe out of a "Korean mink" polyester queen size polar fleece blanket with 
a sun, moon and stars pattern on it.  The blanket arrived today, got it on 
ebay. The robe will be very funny, and warm. May is cold for camping.

    I usually only do 3-7 sessions a week, an intense week would be ten and 
some weeks, like this one so far, only one ...  Mostly because I have not 
yet responded to my website emails.  To do that my brain has to switch 
gears from book-writing, list management and helper-supporting...

   My ADD is not so much a lack of focus, so much as an inability to easily 
shift focus, especially between a creative activity and a logical one.

    Like when I was a commercial artist. I would get myself into creative 
mode to start a project, then start and realize I needed to be in 
math-geometry mode to measure every thing out, especially spacing lettering 
and cutting wood to size.
    That is hard, switching to numbers is a rusty lever, so often I would 
go do something else for a while, like laundry and come back to it later.
   While in math mode, I would often measure, label and cut pieces of 
cardboard to use for measuring later, when back in creative mode. I do the 
same when sewing, make a custom measuring stick  for hems and such, because 
creative brain does not do numbers, and counts on fingers.

   So writing something creative, like chat workshop topics is easy, 
done...  but switching gears to choosing dates, times, time zones, getting 
it all straight in an email and writing it all in my daytimer is ... 
something I am likely to err at, even if I do take the time to switch gears 
into numbers... and doing so now,  would mean time lost switching back to 
what I am presently working on... assuming I regained the thread of it, 
sometimes I forget where I was at and have to start over!



>IF these time slots work for you...

   I dunno.

>and they seem to be understandable ...

  nope, not in my current brain.

>let me know and I'll
>set them up on the announcements.

  just do it.

>Let me know what you think..

I dunno. I think you should just do it as you feel.

>or what someone else thinks lol!  hee hee! I'm
>lost too!  But
>the times above feel right to me this time.

   Go with your gut. :) Please, spare me the decision making process.

>Sue