It takes a vision, lots of determination, energy, courage and hard work to start you very own magazine. It is not for the faint hearted but once you got your own publication up and running there are numerous rewards.

One person who took the plunge is Sirrka Wolke, founder and editor of “Tribe Magazine”. You can find it at www.tribemagazine.com.au

Sirrka says: ”I love success and abundance, I just didn’t want to sell-out to get it. There is no point following a path to riches if you are not able to enjoy the riches when you get there. Or the journey itself. Life doesn’t start when… It is now. So I figured I had better be doing something I love today! ”

Sounds like good, yogic advice to follow. We all should take note and take action and live accordingly!

Tribe Magazine is available for free online and offline. To find out more and to get past and current editions, go to: www.tribemagazine.com.au

Here are some of the rewards you get when you have your very own publication:

• you control the content
• you can state your own opinion, use your own ideas, nobody tells you what you can and can’t write
• you don’t need to alter or “water down” your content to please anybody else
• you can counter all the fear mongering and gloom and doom of the main stream press
• you can educate your readers so they gain knowledge to make informed decisions
• you are in a unique position to empower people
• you control the advertising that appears in your magazine, especially on the children’s pages
• you can get your own and other children/teenagers involved in writing and contributing and teach them valuable skills
• you can get direct feedback from you readers and interact with them
• you can build a community around your magazine
• you can grow your content according to what your readers want and the feedback you receive

These are some of the points we covered in our interview today, if you would like to hear more, listen to the show here:

Sirrka has made a special offer to our listeners: You get 20% off your first lot of advertising in Tribe Magazine when you mention that you found Tribe Magazine through our show.

She has also a passion for children being involved in creating the magazine, so there is a special section devoted to children. Contact:

junioreditor (at) tribemagazine.com.au to find out more. (Replace (at) with @ and leave no spaces).

Tribe Magazine has a distribution of 30,000 copies and is distributed around Sydney and the Southern Highlands. It will keep growing and hopefully will go national in the not too distant future. Have a look at the online version I think you will find it interesting.

Sirrka is a woman of many talents and has also written a book “FitKid7 – 7 Simple Steps for a Fit and Healthy Child”. She also created a Cd for Children so they can go to sleep easily. (Adults love it too!). You can find both of them here: www.fitkid7.com

She also started a little service where she sends you an uplifting and motivating SMS daily. You can find more information at the Tribe Magazine website www.tribemagazine.com.au

Till next time

Connie

Your Yoga Partner

from

www.yogainahurry.com

It seems that the quest for happiness and fulfilment is as old as humanity itself.

One Buddhist blessing contains the words “may all beings be happy”. Happiness is an emotion and we are driven by emotions even so we would like to believe that we are such rational human beings. The Self Help Industry is booming, lots of people are aware that something is amiss in their lives but they just don’t know what. Nearly everybody seems to be searching for something. We live in a time of unprecedented wealth and technological advances that even our parents wouldn’t have dreamt of – at least in the so called developed world – and yet there seems to be increased unhappiness and more suicides than ever before.

One intriguing healing method is called the MEM or Mace Energy Method, named after Dr. Mace. My business partner Charly and I talked to Sherrie Hatfield who has been practising MEM for a number of years. You can find Sherrie and more information here http://www.themacemethod.com 

Want to go straight to the source? Dr. Mace’s website is www.macemethod.com 
Dr. Mace has written a fascinating book:

What makes the Mace Method of dealing with emotional issues so attractive?

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