Sharika Roland

You have everything you need right now. Even if you are stranded on a desert island you have everything you need right now. It all depends on what you are doing. If you are doing nothing much then you have everything you need. If you have a building to build then you also have everything you need. all you need is a brain. the rest is only imaginary. You think I need bla bla but you might not.

I used to sell art and I did not even have a car. I used to take the bus and go on appointments. I made sales and I did not even have anything but a borrowed projector and slides that people sent me.  To sell art I made the huge cash outlay of 100 dollars to mail out the marketing cards that I hand made. I did have a phone though so I was not that bad off. My husband laughs when I tell him the stories about how I would take th e bus to Seattle and go give a presentation to the gal the curates the art for Safeco Corporation. Up there in the big office building on the top floor I was talking to this woman who did not know that I had no money and took the bus there. She said it was nice to talk to someone who has such a thorough knowledge of the art world. I read a lot of art magazines and knew how to talk the talk. I bought a couple of nice suits from the goodwill. I looked the part. I had pearls and pumps. I was a businesswoman with my own company. they did not know the difference. Nobody knows anything but what you tell them. I did things that I did not know how to do on a regular basis in my life.

Once I worked for a lawyer and was his main secretary. I had a secretary and what I did was delegate all my work to others and I organized his desk and looked like I knew what was going on. I just helped him live. I can’t believe that I got away with that one now that I look back. But again people have no reason not to trust you till they know they can’t trust you.

Maybe you can do a job you are totally not qualified for but in the doing of it you learn then you are qualified. You can come in the back door all the time. So you see, you have everything you need.

The best time to start a new business is now. When everybody is moaning and groaning about how bad things are and how this economy is and how high the unemployment is they are looking down at their shoes.
If anyone has a new idea people will gravitate toward it like crazy. NObody likes to look down and anybody who looks up and moves will get noticed big time.

A new business is a ray of hope and that is what people want when things are seemingly bad and getting worse. That is when to strike and hit and run and go. Now now now is the best time. There is no better time than than now. If twenty people believed that , things would change dramatically overnight. Hope inspires movement and growth and that creates momentum.

The entire economy is built on a wave of people acting the same way. Everybody does not think this is a good time to move so no one does. Everybody thinks this is a good time to move and everybody does. Everybody is just you and me times a million. That is all just a bunch of folks who believe one thing or another.

New Business= Best time is now

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People that are expecting something to happen usually are right. People that expect things to go well are usually right. People that expect things to go wrong are usually right too.

What is the power of expecting?

I know for a fact that I am more likely to respond to somebody who is open and alive and excited about living than someone who is not. It is too much work to get to know someone who is not sitting there expecting something great to happen. I love being next to somebody who is looking at the door of opportunity and has wide open eyes in expectation of something big to walk right through that door.

Now my question is – is everybody else like me? Well what do you think?

Non-expecting people suck energy out of a room. Yup. And people jumping out of their skin with expectation are like a screaming energy source. Is that just for me?  Heck no, it is for everybody on planet earth.

Therefore go forth and expect great things and give what you got back to every body who has the extreme pleasure of knowing you!!

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You just never know when things will change./ Whatever is going on right now we think it will never stop. That is because there is a hint of eternal in every second.

Last night a friend died. He was here and now he is gone.  He was healthy and no one expects a 56 year old who is totally healthy to have a massive heart attack and be dead in five minutes.

Everything is eternally happening all the time.

We never expect things to change till they do and then we are shocked out of out wits. But it was there all along.
Therefore, don’t think you have forever now. Forever now could be forever then in one second.

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Was the depression a bad time to build a Grand Coulee Dam?? No it was the best time. It employed thousands of people and town was created that was not there before. And the electricity made there powered houses all over the country. From then on.

We got to visit there and had an inspirational time.

What a big idea, what a lot of cement. This is all before all the modern equipment that they have today. It is like a cathedral. It took several lifetimes to built them yet they were built.

We are a spoiled society now. We want everything now. We want everything to make money now now now. for the short-term gain.

Get in and Get out. Flip houses. like pancakes.

I like to think about the ideas that required so much vision and sacrifice that you who thought of the idea probably would  not see the end result.

Nobody  thinks like that anymore, We are getting to be more and more of a tabloid society,

Why am I going on about this and what does this have to do with what I usually talk about.???

Everything. Purpose that is beyond your life is a hard thing to think about. You want to have left something for others when you live. You want your art to last and have value long after you are gone. Whatever your art is. What a gift it is to see something that is still wonderful after years and years and years.