I sort of began to wonder if I was too busy that I didn't sense or commune with the angels enough. So a few moments before I was to send them on I asked for a sign that they were here and maybe that I was going to be okay. As I got prepared for the last ritual which was to sent them to my friends, I felt the same warm feeling and presence I felt when they first arrived.
After that I had the most profound thought come to me. Let me go on a tangent for a moment.
April 3, 2013, one of the most wonderful people to ever bless my life, my mother-in-law, passed on back over to Ancestor Land. After her passing, I heard many things such as songs and poems and I would look them up. One of those is the footprints in the sand poem. I read it and felt comforted by that poem.
A couple of days ago I made my first visit to my mother-in-law's home and went to the room where she passed and where many of her things are and just sat. I then began to look through everything just to savor the room because I know after a while, it will look different once we get rid of her things. What do I find? I found the footprint in the sands poem in a card and it even had a key chain with footprints on it. I was so pleasantly surprised that I didn't know what to do! Of course, I brought the card and key chain home with me so that I can remember her as I feel that SHE is the one that put that poem in my mind.
Well, this morning I was feeling like I didn't know if the angels were even still here before I sent them to my friends. As I went to the door to send them on I heard that that poem reflects my relationship with them. Even when I think I am alone and they are not here, remember the footprint in the sand poem and know that the angels walk with me and even carry me unbeknownst to me.
I have tears in my eyes thinking about this. And something that I just noticed, I gave them a piece of cake as an offering but couldn't get it on the small altar that I made for them and sat it on the Footprints in the Sand card. GOT IT! This is probably the most profound revelation that I received in these 5 days.
Giving thanks for this remembrance and now I shall walk in it and know that I am supported by the Universe always...even when I think the only footprints that I see are mind.
GRATEFUL!!!!!
Tirra-Olufemi
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Friday, May 24, 2013
Last Day with the ArchAngels
Today is my last day with the ArchAngels being in my home. The number one thing I will say that I have noticed is how much more balanced I feel within. There are just some things that money cannot buy.
I am actually going to do more work with the angels, ancestors and orisha as well as the goddesses as a result of this awesome experience. What I think is that things are being put into place for more to happen that we desire...meaning that I have seen some neat things happen but the presence of the angels has been subtle. I just feel like ground work has been laid with the number one thing happening: I am balanced.
I am eating healthier, cleaning my house more consistently, logging off FB sooner....all the things that I know undermine my success...they have changed for the better.
Thank God I know I have perpetual access to the angels because I am going to work more with my non-physical help.
Giving thanks!!!!!
Thank you ArchAngels!!
Olufemi
I am actually going to do more work with the angels, ancestors and orisha as well as the goddesses as a result of this awesome experience. What I think is that things are being put into place for more to happen that we desire...meaning that I have seen some neat things happen but the presence of the angels has been subtle. I just feel like ground work has been laid with the number one thing happening: I am balanced.
I am eating healthier, cleaning my house more consistently, logging off FB sooner....all the things that I know undermine my success...they have changed for the better.
Thank God I know I have perpetual access to the angels because I am going to work more with my non-physical help.
Giving thanks!!!!!
Thank you ArchAngels!!
Olufemi
Lessons from being an independent fitness instructor
As time passes I become more and more clear just how special being an independent instructor is. When I worked in a gym, it was all about hoping that I impressed enough members to choose my class. My job was to show up and wow the people. At the first facility in which I taught, I learned how to teach. I went from zero fans to MANY fans of my classes.
Teaching at the second facility was a very different game because there was lots of pressure to have at least a certain number of people in the room and to increase numbers so that the gym made money. So I treated my classes as if I owned them. I cared deeply for my classes and did all I could to be an instructor who people chose regularly as part of their gym routine. I also became super powerful at teaching due to attending lots of trainings and applying what I learned in my classes.
The crazy thing is that I felt like I had a ceiling over my head. I worked at the will of the gym owners and so no matter how many creative ideas I had, I never felt like I could make any of them happen in the gym without a hassle and with little profit. BUT, it was there that I became masterful at teaching as well as super resourceful at learning how to teach better and better with each passing year. The proof was in having jammed packed classes and a fan base that was truly humbling.
So with that I decided to go independent and at least give myself a chance to create something great that belonged to me. I knew that I would never make any real money as a gym instructor and making money is important to me.
Since going independent, I have learned so much. First of all, numbers matter but only after quality has been in place. I have not come close to having the numbers that I had at either gym because now I am more than a fitness instructor, I am a business owner. This first 6 months has been spent learning how to do what I have never had to do so regularly: Find students. Also, I have had to create a method of operating to keep myself organized on the administrative side of a fitness business.
There is no question that I am at the least a good teacher. I teach well AND I help people get results in their health and fitness. So what use to be important which seemed to only be the number that I wrote in the gym instructor book has now evolved to something totally different. I am being stretched into the person who I know I was born to be. When people come to my classes and see small numbers, I no longer fret. I smile and know that this is the best process that I have been part of in the fitness world. I have built so many classes and know that I can do the same with this one. I just need time and time I have.
But more than growing myself as a fitness instructor, I get to grow as a fitness professional as well as a small business owner. As Maya Angelou once wrote, "I wouldn't take nothing for this journey." I am so excited about the success that lies ahead of me and give thanks the process has been a little slower than I expected because now I truly get to watch it unfold.
Giving thanks this morning. I love that I get to live my destiny in this way. <3 br="">
Teaching at the second facility was a very different game because there was lots of pressure to have at least a certain number of people in the room and to increase numbers so that the gym made money. So I treated my classes as if I owned them. I cared deeply for my classes and did all I could to be an instructor who people chose regularly as part of their gym routine. I also became super powerful at teaching due to attending lots of trainings and applying what I learned in my classes.
The crazy thing is that I felt like I had a ceiling over my head. I worked at the will of the gym owners and so no matter how many creative ideas I had, I never felt like I could make any of them happen in the gym without a hassle and with little profit. BUT, it was there that I became masterful at teaching as well as super resourceful at learning how to teach better and better with each passing year. The proof was in having jammed packed classes and a fan base that was truly humbling.
So with that I decided to go independent and at least give myself a chance to create something great that belonged to me. I knew that I would never make any real money as a gym instructor and making money is important to me.
Since going independent, I have learned so much. First of all, numbers matter but only after quality has been in place. I have not come close to having the numbers that I had at either gym because now I am more than a fitness instructor, I am a business owner. This first 6 months has been spent learning how to do what I have never had to do so regularly: Find students. Also, I have had to create a method of operating to keep myself organized on the administrative side of a fitness business.
There is no question that I am at the least a good teacher. I teach well AND I help people get results in their health and fitness. So what use to be important which seemed to only be the number that I wrote in the gym instructor book has now evolved to something totally different. I am being stretched into the person who I know I was born to be. When people come to my classes and see small numbers, I no longer fret. I smile and know that this is the best process that I have been part of in the fitness world. I have built so many classes and know that I can do the same with this one. I just need time and time I have.
But more than growing myself as a fitness instructor, I get to grow as a fitness professional as well as a small business owner. As Maya Angelou once wrote, "I wouldn't take nothing for this journey." I am so excited about the success that lies ahead of me and give thanks the process has been a little slower than I expected because now I truly get to watch it unfold.
Giving thanks this morning. I love that I get to live my destiny in this way. <3 br="">
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Change is good....though not always easy
Today I ponder my new life as an independent fitness instructor. This has been a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. I did not know just how much we are energetically connected with the way that we teach.
I didn't expect people to leave the gym where I previously taught to follow me to my new location. They found me at the gym so I expected them to stay. I will say that I have had to work to loose my attachments to the people who took my classes at the gym. Many say they miss me but never come to my independent class. I actually have no problem with that but now feel like for the first time that I have to forget all of that. Life at that gym has to be laid to rest and now I must look toward the horizon to find people who want to take my Zumba classes at my new location.
Also, how I made money as a gym employed instructor is totally different from how I have to approach making money as an independent instructor. Honestly, I feel so much more creative and excited about the possibilities of where I can teach and how I can teach.
Making the transition from where I was to where I am has not been expected. I didn't know that my entire consciousness would have to shift in order for me to be successful as an independent instructor.
So this morning as I think about me facing this new horizon called independent instructor, i.e., business owner, I feel so happy to be free to be more creative and to find new Zumba Fitness friends. I am thrilled that I get to be the fitness instructor who I always knew myself to be but couldn't blossom fully on a group fitness schedule.
With that I accept that CHANGE IS GOOD. It is not always easy but change allows one to know more of who she is. Giving thanks for this new place in my life's journey.
Be Inspired!
Tirra Olufemi Hargrow,
Independent Licensed Zumba Fitness Instructor
I didn't expect people to leave the gym where I previously taught to follow me to my new location. They found me at the gym so I expected them to stay. I will say that I have had to work to loose my attachments to the people who took my classes at the gym. Many say they miss me but never come to my independent class. I actually have no problem with that but now feel like for the first time that I have to forget all of that. Life at that gym has to be laid to rest and now I must look toward the horizon to find people who want to take my Zumba classes at my new location.
Also, how I made money as a gym employed instructor is totally different from how I have to approach making money as an independent instructor. Honestly, I feel so much more creative and excited about the possibilities of where I can teach and how I can teach.
Making the transition from where I was to where I am has not been expected. I didn't know that my entire consciousness would have to shift in order for me to be successful as an independent instructor.
So this morning as I think about me facing this new horizon called independent instructor, i.e., business owner, I feel so happy to be free to be more creative and to find new Zumba Fitness friends. I am thrilled that I get to be the fitness instructor who I always knew myself to be but couldn't blossom fully on a group fitness schedule.
With that I accept that CHANGE IS GOOD. It is not always easy but change allows one to know more of who she is. Giving thanks for this new place in my life's journey.
Be Inspired!
Tirra Olufemi Hargrow,
Independent Licensed Zumba Fitness Instructor
Archangels are here
My friend asked me if I wanted to participate in an opportunity to invite angels into my home. Now personally, I walk with the unseen entities that exist. I call on them whenever I want to do so, which is daily. But I do think there is power in participating in a group or community type event or sharing.
So I said yes. The Archangels arrived yesterday and will be here for 5 days. They include: Uriel, Michael, Gabrielle, Metatron and Raphael.
When they entered into my home, I felt a super tingly feeling all over me. My house felt so warm and peaceful.
Throughout the day I felt a warm sensation in my chest. It felt like I had taken one of my herbs and it was stuck in my esophagus. I feel a warm radiation when that happens with my herbs but after I thought about it I knew that I had not taken any herbs. TWICE I felt the warm sensation in my chest area and eventually figured out that it was the angels.
Last night one of the lights in my house flickered off and on several times. No question to me that it was the angels.
Right after the angels arrived I got a super inspirational idea which is answer that I have been searching for for a while: How to market all that I do. SOOOO, I will create that.
I got word that a particular financial situation is looking brighter. I got word on a potential business lead.
I am hearing that it is important for me to walk free...to let it all go and I will have all that I desire.
Giving thanks for the Archangels.
So I said yes. The Archangels arrived yesterday and will be here for 5 days. They include: Uriel, Michael, Gabrielle, Metatron and Raphael.
When they entered into my home, I felt a super tingly feeling all over me. My house felt so warm and peaceful.
Throughout the day I felt a warm sensation in my chest. It felt like I had taken one of my herbs and it was stuck in my esophagus. I feel a warm radiation when that happens with my herbs but after I thought about it I knew that I had not taken any herbs. TWICE I felt the warm sensation in my chest area and eventually figured out that it was the angels.
Last night one of the lights in my house flickered off and on several times. No question to me that it was the angels.
Right after the angels arrived I got a super inspirational idea which is answer that I have been searching for for a while: How to market all that I do. SOOOO, I will create that.
I got word that a particular financial situation is looking brighter. I got word on a potential business lead.
I am hearing that it is important for me to walk free...to let it all go and I will have all that I desire.
Giving thanks for the Archangels.
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