Happy 4th of July 2015

Wow, it's hard to believe that it's going to be the 4th of July, 2015, already! I am sending this blog out to wish everyone a very happy and safe 4th of July!

I'd like to share my thoughts on "Independence Day," since I come from a very military family.  My father was in the Army, my brother was in the Army, I had two other brothers in the Navy, one in the Air Force and a very close family friend who was a Marine.  Though all served during peace time, except for my father, the sacrifices that they had to make daily while an active member of our armed forces was tremendous.

From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank my Dad, his Dad, my brothers, and all of the military that have come before them and those who have yet to serve.  Thank you for standing up for the values of the Constitution of the United States and for defending our freedoms - I honor all of you on this day!

Recipe For Manifesting Part.2

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In my previous blog, "Recipe for Manifesting Your Dreams, Goals and Desires," I pointed out the importance of the energetic footprints of words, thoughts and feeling tone, when it comes to manifesting and creating the life of your dreams.  In that blog, I also touched base on the fact that WE are also responsible for creating what "we don't want" in our lives.

As promised, the discussion today is about creating what we "don't" want in our lives, in an attempt to get you to realize just how powerful your thoughts truly are, and how your thoughts contribute directly to the results you have in your life.

In my webinar series, "Release Your Fears - Reclaim Your Life," I delve deeper in order to get to the heart of the matter in regard to this subject matter. Participants of the this coaching series spend more time here in order to focus on "paying attention to what they are paying attention to."

You see, what most people do not understand is how societal conditioning has played a big role in the current placement of our lives.  We have been conditioned to feel like failures when we make a mistake and/or attempt something that doesn't necessarily go as planned. In this instance, we should use these experiences as a learning lessons, experiencing them fully, absorbing them, and going for them again, but what happens all too often is that many people walk away and give up. 

A sad but blatant example of this is seen in failed relationships today. This experience now almost always equate to never loving again; walk away from love. Failed passions? Walk away from passion.  People walk away from their dreams, believing themselves to be failures, when the reality is quite the opposite.

In essence, our fears and uncertainties crop up, and this is but one example. We become afraid of "losing this love," and low and behold, the relationship is doomed before it ever gets to truly be expressed and experienced.  We have other thoughts too, that create a void in our energetic creative footprints.

When you consider the hardships and obstacles Albert Einstein had to overcome in order to succeed in his lifes' works and ambitions, it should make this discussion enlightening to the point that we will begin to investigate within ourselves if we have abandoned dreams and/or ambitions simply because we failed at an earlier attempt. 

Here are some facts I want this audience to consider: 

1. Did you know that Albert Einstein failed his University entrance exam and had to reapply a year later?
    
2. Did you know that he was considered a slow learner as a child?
    
3. Did you also know that Albert Einstein's greatest breakthroughs came from visual experiments performed in his head, rather than the lab?   

Mr. Einstein's visions included a Universe full of photoelectric cells, television, nuclear power, lasers, space travel, semi-conductors, etc., etc., etc., and I am sure that during his pursuit of these many experiments, he faced any challenges and learning lessons.

The next items on the recipe for creating the life of your dream is "tenacity" and "vision."  After all, you can't create a destination if you do not know where you want to go.

Look at your life and ask yourself, what thoughts have I had that have contributed to the the life I am currently living? Have they been empowering thoughts? Or, have they been self-defeating thoughts?

That's all for today's blog, folks.  Stay tuned for the next recipe card, where we will continue to learn about manifesting the life of your dreams.

Until then, remember the 3 L's: Live, Love and Laugh. These too, are ingredients of the recipe of life!

Coaching for your success!

Mai Calev
MaiCalev.com

P.S. Let's turn up the volume on this discussion - let's hear from you now. What dreams or ambitions have you given up on? 

Full Lotus Moon, by Tara Sutphen

Full Lotus Moon

By Tara Sutphen

The Full Lotus Moon (Chinese) at 11* Sagittarius will culminate, June 2, 2015 9:21pm PST/12:21pm EST/0:21am China (Farmers Almanac). 

This Sagittarius Full Moon is all about looking for contentment, no more fragmentation in your environment. Make good choices and settle your mind, settle your stomach. You have been given opportunities to learn, stop allowing trite misconceptions, deception and unloving beings into your personal sphere. You have been given these opportunities many times to alleviate your suffering. It is not a time to carelessly fling what doesn’t serve you aside, only its time to make the necessary boundary. As you now must take a high road and not the low road. The philosophy of an awakened mind is to be mindful, to learn from your mistakes, to not judge harshly, to elevate your vibration of existence. Take time to study new things and to gain expertise. You gain great wisdom through thoughtfulness, always treat others with grace. 

Goodness is when we become conscious of our greater self. When we extend ourselves we become much more in our lives. We all know what bad is…what immoral is…what unhappiness is…so when we ‘cast our will’ to start living an authentic life, we become present to our innate good will – not only to others but to our own self. 

The first step of living an authentic life is using your intuition – Know it, Feel it, See it and Hear it…

Journal Questions:

Paragraph+ for each question.

What could you change that can make you more Authentic

• Compassionate acceptance of yourself 
• Compassionate acceptance of others
• Spending too much time on others and not yourself
• Spending too much time on yourself and not on others
• Forward movement toward positive activities
• Forward movement toward negative activities

Who or what brings you luck

• Family
• Friends
• Job
• Career
• Money
• Beauty
• Health
• Harmony
• Things
• Strangers

What is your personal philosophy, write a few sentences on how each situation makes you more Authentic

• Creating a solution
• Creating plans
• Giving Hugs
• Offering Smiles
• Saying nice things to people
• Waving here or there to people
• Enjoying a color
• Enjoying nature
• Enjoying architecture
• Complimenting your kids
• Complimenting everyone

Its nice to think we can remove all the masks and rip away The facade as those fakey moments, those moments of inner upset when we squelch who we really are… We want to be accepted as our self. You are not the only one, many people hold back. Some people don’t allow others to know the real them. That shouldn’t be any of us…time for a real and amazing life. Step it up, the universe is asking us to be brighter and centered.

—– “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” ~Ben Okri  Nigerian Author

Recipe for Manifesting Your Dreams, Goals and Desires.

For those of you who know me, you know that when I say I AM a powerful manifester, that I AM telling the truth.  For those of you who do not know me personally, you are just going to have to take my word for it so please, read on.

For whatever it's worth, my daughter is a powerful manifester too!  Anyone can manifest and materialize anything they choose for their life and into their life.  Anyone can even manifest and materialize things they don't wish to bring into their life, as well and I will dig deeper into this statement next time.  Awareness is the key.

You see, manifesting and materializing are really only words.  And, like all words... they have meaning, THEY - HAVE - POWER! Words also have an energetic vibration attached to them. The energetic vibration of the words we use, create a magnetic pull into our lives. These words (or the energetic vibration attached to them) create an awareness within our subconscious mind and our physical bodies at a cellular level. It would be extremely useful for all of us to learn to use highly charged words in our vocabulary.

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It's not just words though, however.  Thoughts, too, have an energetic footprint. It is within these energetic vibrations and footprints (though they do not stand alone) that manifesting and materializing occur.

So now, let's link these two together, to introduce yet another concept and item needed (though the recipe for manifesting has many items in it - these are but a few) to learn how to manifest - consciously.

Words + Thoughts = Feeling Tone

Feeling tone.  What is that?  Well, feeling tone is the excitement you feel when you fall in love, the butterflies in your stomach.  Feeling tone is the joy you feel when you learn of a new birth into the family.  Feeling tone is the amazement and wonder you have when you see something so beautiful that it takes your breath away. Get the picture?

There are several items on the recipe card for manifesting, these are just a few.  If you remember nothing else from this post remember this one thing: "Like energy attracts like energy," and words, thoughts, feeling tones, and more go into creating the life you desire!

Coaching for your success!

Mai Calev, Life Coach

www.maicalev.com

Taking The High Road

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Taking the high road. How often has this advice been given to each of us when encountering an ordeal that would negatively impact the situation if we chose to do the lesser? We all know these words have literal meaning..e.g., as in driving, walking, or running, up on the high road.  Metaphorically, the meaning gravitates to our actions, our character, and our integrity, our self-discipline when challenged with a negative issue or circumstance. Let’s talk.

Unfortunately, we all find ourselves from time-to-time faced with the dilemma that is to the contrary of positive development: closing business deals, building wealth, bridging gaps in relationships only to have your actions being misunderstood, and so much more.

The high road is that space in our minds that we must go to if we choose not to be agitated and impacted by those who choose not to walk the high road. To be descriptive, it is that place where no one nor anything is allowed entry. It is the peaceful stillness that we all possess that only we control and navigate to when faced with negative, contrite behaviors. This too, is quite challenging and here’s why;

At first, we will always want to revert to traditional conditioning (old and lesser behavior patterns) when challenged with less than favorable situations. In my coaching practice, I have termed this as “LVEC” (Lower Vibrating Energy Challenges).

An example of this would be found in the following scenario:  The arrival of the monthly banking statement. Hark! An error in deposits has been noted. A call to the bank elicits help from no one.  At this juncture, which way do we go? What road will be chosen to handle this matter?

By going deep within ourselves, we can choose a higher conscious awareness. We can ask our Higher Selves if we truly need to deal with the situation at this moment. Is the likelihood of a negative outcome possible if we choose to deal with the matter at that moment? If yes, why? Can this matter be placed on our calendars to address at a later date?

Before even attempting to reconcile the matter here is something that can be practiced, energetically, we can create a vision and hold a space for the matter to get worked out easily for the highest and best good overall. Being consciously “aware” impacts everything on a variety of levels.

Personally speaking, since practicing the principles that I teach others in my life coaching programs, my life has gotten simpler and it flows with grace and ease. Opportunities and doors have opened up to me in ways unimaginable.

How we view challenges and moreso, how we choose to handle these challenges reflect in every facet of our lives. The one thing we will always have control over is – our choices. Choose the high road.

Coaching For Your Success!

Mai
Maicalev.com

Senate Government and Environment Passes HOA Omnibus

Hello readers,I thought I would pass on some very interesting information that I received from the Arizona Association of Realtors, The Capitol Insider, regarding the most recent legislative updates for HOAs. Informative reading!

Senate Government and Environment Passes HOA Omnibus

This past Monday, the Senate Government and Environment Committee listened to testimony and voted on SB 1482: homeowners' association’s amendments; omnibus. The bill reintroduces the protections for homeowners and tenants against homeowners associations that was passed by the legislature in 2013 and signed by the governor, but ultimately challenged in court based on the “single subject rule” of the constitution. 
In committee, the Arizona Association of REALTORS® and a representative from the Arizona Association of Community Managers spoke in favor of the legislation. Additionally, as a result of the numerous stakeholder meetings that took place during the interim, all stakeholders involved in the process signed in support of the legislation and no one signed in opposition of the bill. The bill did not receive any questions from the senators on the committee and resulted in the positive vote of six ayes, zero nays, and one not voting. The next step for SB 1482 will be the Senate Rules Committee where it will be determined to be constitutional.
Provisions of the bill as it relates to rental properties:

• Permits an owner of a condominium unit and planned community’s owners to rent their property, unless prohibited in the declaration, and requires the owner to comply with the declaration’s rental time-period restrictions.
• Allows an owner to make a written designation to the HOA, of a third party to act as the person’s agent with respect to all HOA matters relating to the rental property except voting in HOA elections and serving on the board of directors.
• Specifies that a HOA notice to an agent regarding the property constitutes notice to the owner.
• Prohibits a HOA from requiring any tenant information other than: the name and contact information for the adult tenants, the lease’s beginning and ending dates, a description and the license plate number of the tenants’ vehicles, and a government-issued ID that confirms the tenant meets the communities’ age restrictions, if any.
• Permits a HOA to charge a maximum fee of $25 for the permitted disclosures to be paid within 15-days after the postmarked request.
• Authorizes the fee to be charged for each new tenancy, but not for a lease renewal.
• Prohibits a HOA or managing agent from assessing, levying or charging any other fee or fine or otherwise imposing a requirement on a rental unit or property any differently than on an owner-occupied property.
• Prohibits a HOA from:
  • requiring an owner to provide the HOA with a copy of the tenants rental application, credit report, lease agreement, rental contract or other personal information;
  • requiring the tenant to sign a waiver or other document limiting the tenant’s due process rights as a condition of occupancy;
  • restricting or prohibiting an owner from serving on the board of directors based on the owner not being an occupant of the property; or
  • imposing on an owner or managing agent any fee, assessment, penalty or other charge that is greater than $15 for incomplete or late information regarding the information the HOA is permitted to request.   
• Stipulates that any attempt by an HOA to exceed either fee, voids the fee.
• Specifies that a HOA can acquire a credit report on a person in an attempt to collect a debt.
• Establishes that the requirements and restrictions within the bill, do not prevent a HOA from:
  • complying with the Housing for Older Persons Act of 1995;
  • restricting, in the community documents, the residency of class two or three registered sex offenders; or
  • the enforcement of such residency restrictions.
• Permits an owner to use a crime-free addendum as part of a lease agreement.
• Requires owners to abate the criminal activity of the nuisance property.

As an agent, I make it a point to ensure my Buyers are well aware of the HOA rules prior to purchasing a home because it all figures in to their happiness and respect for me as an agent. And isn't that the way it should be?

To Your Home Buying Success!

Mai
maicalev.com

Current Stats for Metro Phoenix, AZ

Well, depending on what side of the table you are sitting on, this information can be viewed either way.  For a short while, at least the previous 2 months, I have been telling my clients and customers that we were in what I believed to be a "balanced" market.  The stats that the Arizona Regional Multiple Listing Services just released confirmed that my belief was right, but the speculation now, is that we are going to move into a "Buyers" market again - at least here in the metro Phoenix, area. 

Some experts believe, and are touting, that 2014 is going to be the year that the real estate market corrects itself.  I am not as optimistic.  Not because I am a negative Nellie.  It s because the employment stats, coupled with all of the new lending regulations are going to cause havoc in the market... at least initially.

The following stats are based on year-over-year "yoy" or month-over-month, "mom" stats for the years 2012 - 2013, and then January 2013-January 2014.  You can call me with any questions you may have if you need to.

The "yoy" number of sales are -17.1% and "mom" -19.6%

New inventory "yoy" is up (this is good news for Buyers) +10.7% and "mom" +79.5%.

Sales prices are up "yoy" 17.8% and "mom" 16.5%.

With an average of 79 days on the market.

If you would like to find out how much your property is worth, go to www.gr8realest8.com.

If you are in the market to purchase commercial or residential properties in the metro Phoenix area, I am here to help - simply email me at maicalevnumber1realtor@gmail.com or call 602-334-3269.  I am here to assist you with all of your real estate needs.