In the beginning
The first thing that we at Lily the Pink Ministries tried to do was to run some workshops. This was seen as being something that we could do with our limited resources. We even thought that we would be able to persuade some other people to help us pay for them. This proved to be a huge learning experience. It was not as easy to attract an audience as expected. it was not as easy to attract funding as expected. It was not as easy to organise as expected.
We had an organisation a volunteer or two and some bills to pay so what could we do? We put adverts on the web site. We tried to sell the remainder of the books and DVDs. We tried putting a donation button on the web site. One problem very few people came to visit the site and even fewer responded to these efforts of raising money. Only thing for it was for Susan to keep things going by herself.
Chapter two
In the What is stopping you from blossoming e-book it talks about the idea that success comes from being willing to practise. It also says that there is no problem failing as long as you working out why and then doing something about it. You need to find ways of overcoming the obstacles in your path. In fact often you need to learn from your mistakes in order to be successful. If you did not make mistakes then you would not realise how much progress you had made when you finally succeed. At the moment we are putting the principles found in the ebook of “What IS stopping you blossoming?” into practise. We are proof that these principles actually work!
Chapter three
Money money money that is all that people seem to be talking about in 2011. Something to do with an international debt crisis that seems to be getting worse not better. Jobs going. No money to buy what you want even for food and fuel for some. Time to think about how to respond. Bridge2Riches is born first a book and then a course on how to move from financial collapse to financial security. There was that book title that came in a dream in Scotland about Making Money in the Parlour. That sounds like a good name for a project to support and encourage micro-enterprise.
Epilogue
How will it all work out in the end? The dream of Lily’s Place was to provide for all the needs of those who were in mental distress apart from finding them somewhere to live. The idea at first was that it would be possible to find grants and other funding. These always were hard to find and have got harder after we started. Only answer has been to become self-sufficient and sell products and use the profits to fund other activities.
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