Bill suggested I share this...

[scotslad]

Hi, I've been on here quite a few years now, and after an exchange with Bill, he suggested I share this wee introduction to the "real me" on the forum. I do this not for an ego rub or to do a me. me. me. (more of a you, you you and paying it forward), but also I hope it resonates with you and helps to share my own journey (to date) in the hope that it resonates with you and your current situation, and dare I say it. It is amazing what you can achieve when you take a step back from the struggle, fear and limitation and look at yourself in the mirror and "touch your nose" as you remind yourself you're "not a human being, but a human becoming."

It's approx 12m long, so grab a coffee, and if you know anyone facing a hard or difficult decision at the moment, feel free to share the link. TY and thanks Bill. (You rock - all of you.) Onwards and upwards ;)

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[Pam]

What a wonderful world of synchronicity. I have been struggling with making decisions. You have a wonderful way of making this information accessible to anyone, whatever their belief systems might be. What a heartfelt testimony. Now is the time for everyone to have access to the principles that operate our reality. Thank you so very much for sharing yourself with us.

I have to admit I am very intrigued about your business with kelp. I have had wonderful benefits from consuming some of the wonders of the sea and sea weed is the main one. I live near the water and use kelp when I am composting to fortify the soil and have amazing results.

Wonderful thread!!! Very inspiring!

[jaybee]

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That was a great presentation and very inspiring - thank you so much for sharing - :thumbsup:

[DeDukshyn]

 
Decision: A selection based on a consideration.
Choice: A selection made after a consideration.

The first one traps you into a selection based on a "reason" - you become a slave to the "reason". Others can manipulate you into your selection after dictating or planting the "reasoning" into you.

The second allows you to select freely - you can choose to use the "reason" if you want, or, you can choose out of desire, out of love, out of intuition or instinct outside of the "reason" freeing you from the potential manipulation - the other robs you of these choices.

Make choices, not decisions. :) Be free.

[The Moss Trooper]

" But more importantly, I wanted my wife's dream........ Of living by the sea to become true ".

That's the bit that got me.

That is some story you've lived through there Fraser, and an inspiring Ted talk. What a great message you have, and in these times, needed more than ever.

Onwards and upwards indeed........ Onwards and Upwards.

Before you choose, decide.

[Sue (Ayt)]

Thank you for posting this, Scotslad. Decisions, and choices...
Sometimes it can be hard when faced with a decision with only two not-so-great potential outcomes, like, both choices being intimidating and scary.

Guess this is where belief and positive expectation seriously come into play.
(think I'm talking to myself here, as I am in need of a pep-talk)
:rose:

[Harmony]

Just wonderfully and beautifully done, thank you so much :heart:

[heretogrow]

Thank you so much for this, Fraser! I will use your inspiration to fulfill a lifelong dream that I have put on the back burner because I have felt the need to be responsible for everyone’s well-being, while neglecting my own. I may have to wade through the waters of being a little selfish to accomplish this, which will no doubt take me out of my comfort zone. You have helped me to see that sometimes a difficult decision may be necessary to fulfill your life’s purpose. Of course I will not stop caring for those who depend on me. I will just count my dreams as important and not neglect them.

As Pam said, such synchronicity and just what I needed at this stage of my life. Thank you!

Much Love,
Julia

[Ewan]

Very impressive and inspirational Fraser, and the applause at the end from the audience was very spontaneous and real. Well done.

What is the name of your kelp company, assuming you did not sell it on when you got into Martech?, so I can look that up. Thanks.

[arwen]

Wonderful!!!! (And I have to admit I am totally smitten with your charming Scottishness, it is SO endearing.) :bigsmile: :bearhug:

An excellent presentation, communicates directly, clearly, and engagingly. With heart and soul. Inspiring. And thanks to Bill for asking you to post this wonderful human sharing. Just beautiful! Thank you so much. :star:

[Lunesoleil]

Before even reading with the translation, I wanted to talk about challenges. Have a challenge, any challenge and you will gain victory over yourself

[scotslad]

@Ewan, The seaweed business was 20+ y ago and was acquired enabling me to go on a series of adventures, (some I might share in another post ;) ). The interesting thing about the products was the seaweed was fucus seratus, and all the natural goodness, trace elements etc were not lost using a process called "cryobroyage" via a french manufacturer based in St Malo, France and freeze dried instead of being lost through dehydration when heated as used by most manufacturing processes in the health and beauty industry.

The flagship product was TLG which helped a condition which had been misdiagnose for over 40 years helping a situation called "EKBOM" syndrome, otherwise known as restless legs syndrome or "Fidgety feet" which apparently affects 1 in 5 arthritic suffferers or those with deep vein thrumbosis on long haul flights or who cant sit for a period of time.

I once looked at buying a seaweed factory on the western isles (stornaway) who had the crown rights for harvesting the saweeed round the island, but that was another adventure ;)

The commercial seaweed market (worth $17bn pa)is expected to grow to $30 bn by 2027 and even toyata wanting to run cars from seaweed. The industry is full of larger cos and pharma consolidating and buying small independents, in order to dominate the market.
afterall seaweed has amazing healing properties and ironically is used in everything from ferililser to cosmetics to icecream.


Its a shame, but prevalent across many industries, Big pharma consolidating and diluting, even eliminating the efficacy of key products or ingredients to protect their positioning and control in the marketplace over the many people who could benefit from nature's food and energy in so many ways, after all many hospitals are now using seaweed infused bandages ;)

[Ratszinger]

I had a bit of trouble understanding some of it but managed. Thanks for this. Very nice! You are correct and hit the nail on the head about there being something about writing things down. I've not told many people about this but as it turns out when I left home in WV where I grew up on the WV/MD border 40 feet from the Potomac River I could not wait to get out of there. I had plans or so I thought. The thing was I had no conscious idea of what those plans were I just wanted out of that town. It was not much of a life I saw worth preserving lets just say that and that I knew there had to be better somewhere. So when I left I left it all. For years I just called, visited over the phone going in maybe, maybe once every five or seven years to visit. Sadly later it stretched out even futher in spans of time.

Anyway to make it short as possible on one of those trips my mother told me she had been in the attic recently and found all my grade school homework and papers I did. I didn't recall doing them at all until pulling some of it out and once I began inspecting what I wrote about I was completely floored. I kid you not my wife was also and we both sat there nearly in tears at the prophetic way I predicted my life and wrote it out in my grade school papers. Somewhere up there in the gray matter I recalled it all and proceeded to act it all out.

I wrote a paper about San Antonio, TX I had no memory of doing. When I joined the Air Force they sent me to San Antonio, TX. I wrote all about Lewis and Clark and the "Mighty" Mississippi River, the Cahokia Indian Mounds, the Arch of St. Louis even just after it had been completed in 1965 and I know that from my paper! Ha! In the Air Force once school was over in TX they sent me to my permanent duty station just 20 min. from St Lou and the Arch and the mounds. I lived right along the Mississippi River!

I wrote about Robert Wadlow and Alton, IL and my wife's parents lived there and her dad was the assistant dean of the dental school I went to after separating from the service in 1984.

I wrote later about the Navajo Indians and the Grand Canyon, many things about the lost gold strikes of Arizona, and when we both worked for the Indian Health Service guess where the only openings were for positions? Fort Defiance, Arizona on the Navajo reservation. (one of the most rewarding and spiritual journeys of my life)

Lastly there was a paper at the very bottom all about Frank Phillips and Bartlesville, and how Phillips 66 gasoline and oil biz began and by this time I'm actually teary eyed now writing this. I live in Bartlesville now and funny as it may seem when we moved here we didn't consciously know any of that. I had no idea I had all that inside of me but every last thing I wrote about hand of God happened in pretty much the order they were there in that stack for me to see that day. The entire family saw this as we read and all of us were like whoa! My sister said, "I always knew you were from another planet but holy cow" that is unreal!

Anyway, write down your desires he is not kidding here and about any of the rest of it either. I believe I saw someone mention light beings here. I hope it was here. Forgive if I"m wrong. I've learned from the light beings that have helped me deal with cancer and although not always reached, or not always responding I appreciate how they work and why now in a way I didn't before. Each time they have helped me, these holy presences have come here embraced me and taken me off to a higher place and it's an overwhelmingly great feeling and experience for us but I feel a much more comfomforable and safer place for them because they don't wish to be shrouded literally in a cloud of negativity getting trapped here or dragged down themselves. Due to these experiences as I already shared I know there is much more to this 'school' than we all know and that it's so easy even after these experiences to fall back into the same trap they fear even after being lit up by one of them and their holy embrace.

Again thanks for sharing Scot. Very moving.

[scotslad]

thanks all, feeling tad humbled by all the nice and touching comments. approx a year since I did the Ted Talk, and a lot happened since ;) I continue to evolve as a I embrace, create and live my vision ;) cheers.