If nobody’s ever shown us, and we’re too scared to set goals, how can we achieve our highest potential?
Or is that too scary too?

Maybe you’ve attended a Big Success Event with famous headliners, hoping that some of that success, that magic, that How-Did-They-Do-It will rub off on you. But you left feeling emptier than when you arrived..

So you’ve probably seen my Facebook posts about Serious Abundance Seminars. And you’ve probably read my emails about our annual event.

If not, you can read about this extra joyful part of my business with my dear friend, mentor and business colleague, Dr Rosemary McCallum, right here:

You may know that I have a rather sad and depressing past (character building). I never dwell on it, but I do feel it’s important to share that I haven’t always been the positive energy centre that I am today.

Tracy Bartram & Rosemary McCallum

I was a broken down, rock bottom addict.

This inner work saved my life.

I truly believe that in order to create what we want in our lives (health, serenity, strong relationships, that perfect job, abundance, physical fitness, mental health, creativity, spiritual fitness and yes, money) we need to surround ourselves with the right energy.

It’s impossible to create abundance and joy if we are constantly thinking thoughts of lack and negativity. I grew up in a home like that and it’s taken YEARS to change my attitude.

I’ve been working on changing my failure/loser/self-loathing D.N.A for half my life!

For the past 8 years, I have been working with one of the best metaphysics teachers in the business.

I now teach what I’ve learned over 20 years with her, the wonderful Rosemary McCallum, in our joint venture, Serious Abundance Seminars.

We formed this venture 4 years ago and some of our participants have been to every one of our events since then and grown so much! It’s a privilege to watch them develop.
As part of what we do, we facilitate a quarterly goal setting community. We meet, set ,share & review our goals, support each other and commit to accountability with like-minded, loving people.

Newbies are made extra-especially-welcome because we recognise how brave it is to come to something new, where you won’t know anyone.

But you will!

You’ll know ME! You’re a valued person & part of my community!

You’ve hung in there with me, through the thick and thin of changing radio stations, email programmes and even husbands!

I would love you to join us…

You will devote three-and-a-half hours to thinking about & planning what you want, for the next 90 days, in all facets of your life, with a truly supportive bunch of peeps. They are all so lovely.

You can read all about it here and book now. It’s only $57, including supper.

When was the last time you took time out, with professional help, in a serene environment, and planned the next 3 months of your life?

Come on, you know you want to be there.

I’ve got you thinking now.

So think about this -
You deserve to be there.
You deserve some support.
I am living proof that this stuff works.

You’ll go home with new tools and can-do at-home processes that will enhance your life so much.
You’ll meet people who will tell you how their lives have changed since the first Manifesting Monday in November last year.

Purely by committing to, sharing, and focussing on their goals for the next 90 days.

So, pass this up and suddenly it’s August. And I’ll be inviting you to the next Manifesting Monday. And if you’re not there this Monday, will you be able to say to yourself in August ‘Wow! I created …….. for myself! What a thrill!

What would you like to create in the next 90 days?
- Fitness?
- Letting go of an addiction?
- Better relationships with your loved ones?
- A new lover?
- That job you jump out of bed for each day?
- A rejuvenating time out?
- More abundance?
- Serious Abundance?

Come and play, let your inner child out, at Serious Abundance Seminars’ Manifesting Monday, next Monday night May 21st.
In the city.
Easy to park.
Or catch the train. It’s in Flinders Street.

What are you waiting for? I would LOVE to see you there!

Head over to the Manifesting Monday page now!

Love

Tracy xx

P.S: The Law of Attraction is absolute, just like the Law of Gravity. That’s why you’re reading this now…

Save the date!

This year the Serious Abundance Seminar weekend will be held on August 24 – 26.

So please put the date in your diary and we’ll tell you all about it once the programme is confirmed!

We have managed to shave $$$$ off the investment this year!

We’ll tell you all about it soon!

Welcome to our series of fast, hard-core goal setting workshops, designed for you to get real about creating a year of SERIOUS ABUNDANCE in 2012 on all levels. Jump in! You know you want to!

Where: Medina Executive Northbank Melbourne

550 Flinders Street
Melbourne VIC 3000

Parking is available in Downie Street, next to the Medina. Or park under the Medina for the special rate of $10.

Time: 6.45pm for 7pm sharp. Ends 10:30 pm

Facilitators: Tracy Bartram & Rosemary McCallum.

Investment: $57.00 per person

Please select from the dates below or pre-book for all Mainfesting Mondays for 2012 for $150
(a saving of $21).

IMPORTANT: After your payment has been processed by Paypal, please click the link that says, ‘Return to Serious Laughter Pty Ltd’ in order to complete your registration

Monday, May 21st 2012
$57

Monday August 20th 2012
$57

Monday November 19th 2012
$57

Monday May 19, Monday August 20, Monday November 19th 2012 – Book all 3 and save $21
$150

Share the benefits of Manifesting Monday and the Serious Abundance Community with someone you really care about and give them a head start to their own goal setting.

Numbers limited, reserve your place NOW!

IMPORTANT: After your payment has been processed by Paypal, please click the link that says, ‘Return to Serious Laughter Pty Ltd’ in order to complete your registration. Full details will be sent to you once you have completed the second step of registration.

For further information, email Tracy Bartram on tracy@seriouslaughter.com

Rosemary McCallum & Tracy Bartram
Founders & Facilitators of Serious Abundance Seminars

I must admit, I am a late convert to the joys of the op-shop. The opportunity shop.

For overseas readers, the charity store.

My English Mum used to call it the Olly Olly shop. I never went in one as a child. There was a real shame attached to going into op shops in those days. Only poor people went in op shops.  If only my parents had spent more time in op shops, we wouldn’t have been poor people!

My girlfriends have been trawling op shops for years. I could never understand why. ‘Why would you want someone else’s junk? But now I’m older and wiser, and an avid recycler, and I now see the true beauty in finding a treasure that nobody else wants, for a song.  I love to shop, and I love to bring beautiful things into my home. But I loathe crass commercialism and having things that everyone else has. I am in nesting mode and I am getting ready to  leave one home and move into a place closer to the city after 8 years in the country.

I’m being gentle with myself and hunting through op-shops, looking for treasures that I can take into my new place, to baptise it, so to speak, and give me a sense of creating a new space, a new creative and nurturing home as I leap into the next adventures in my life.

So, seeing an  Op Shop sign as I drive through an unfamiliar area is always an excuse to stop and have a quick rummage and have a chat to the lovely, elderly (mostly) ladies who give up their time to staff these fund-raisers for the local communities in which they live.

I like to spread my donations around, so I’m not always taking my stash to the one store.  I like to give to the Animal Liberation Op Shop in Burwood and I love the Salvos – what wonderful stores.  But sometimes I’ll go into unchartered waters and today I was in the Epilepsy Op Shop in Kew.

Not the sort of place you’d generally head to for a fun time, admittedly.  Let’s face it, you’re not going to inspire a bunch of mates to meet you there for a rummage.  But I felt compelled to see what it had to offer.

Never been there before.  But I was on a role! Driving through Kew, I’d already snaffled a silicon cake ‘tin’ for $5 and a gorgeous green vase for a few coins and a chat with the boisterous senior citizen in charge  - always the high point!

But at the epilepsy op shop today, I met a young man, around 20 perhaps, not much older than my son.

I asked him why he was there – in a cold, dark op shop on a lovely sunny spring Melbourne day.

“I don’t know.  I just felt I needed to do something”.

He told me he was studying commerce at Melbourne Uni and in that one sentence, my heart was lifted.

Here was a young guy, a Gen Y? Or a Gen Z? A young bloke giving up his time to be in an old  op shop with an image problem. Not a hip young Salvos. A dusty old blast from the past op shop that smelled like 1950s. I bought a heart shaped necklace for $6.

And I left, knowing that I would write about him, just because I wanted to share how wonderful I felt after meeting him.  We only exchanged a few sentences.

But actions speak louder than words.

He volunteers his time every Tuesday morning, and he’s a full time student.

He impressed me.  And I though about his parents, and how proud I hoped they would be knowing that they had raised a son who has a sense of duty for his community.

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Someone has influenced him. And if it’s not his parents, then I send blessings to the adults who have inspired this young guy to be a shining example of the New Age.

Be of service. Open your heart. Offer to help. When we do this, our whole lives change. I’m living proof.

Meeting this young man today made my day.

And I came home with some great booty for under $20.

Life sure is good!

Lindsay Le Compte, Chief Executive Officer National Electrical & Communications Association, 75th birthday celebrations, Sydney 2011.

I get a lot of emails.

I’m on a lot of mailing lists.

A lot of my time is spent reading emails from enlightened beings walking this earth.

And then, I spend time laughing at Wal-Mart people. Or demotivtional posters. Or recently,  gag-inducing, damnautocorrect emails, which make me laugh so hard I nearly pee my  pants.

I love a good laugh.  Lucky I’ve made a career out of it!

But mostly, I love personal development stuff that really makes sense

I really am hungry for knowledge and in particular, hungry for knowledge on the human condition.

In 2007, my dear friend Sally took me to India to Osho’s ashram.  We’d been talking about going there for years.

Those Sanyasans really know how to meditate and it was one of the best trips of my life.

And so I ended up on Osho’s mailing list.

I don’t always read the dead guru’s musings, but today I did. And I’m glad.

Because it makes so much sense about neediness, and men wanting to be mothered, and their fixation with boobs.

so I thought I’d share it with you.

I hope it makes you think.

And do a little digging into your own psyche.

We all have a lot to heal.

And when you’ve had a read of this, check out http://damnyouautocorrect.com.  It’s hilarious! But please, read Osho first xxx

http://www.osho.com/main.cfm?Area=Magazine&Sub1Menu=HaveATaste&Sub2Menu=TheOtherMyself&Language=english&CFID=387012&CFTOKEN=85507051

Namaste

Tracy ‘Prem Shakti’ Bartram

Today, I was totally and utterly thrilled to attend my first ever fashion parade at Melbourne Spring Fashion Week for the label I adore, TS14plus.

Those of you who know me well are aware that I am a 6ft1″ Amazon and until I discovered TS, I used to cry in changing rooms.

Not only because nothing fitted me, but because I felt forgotten.

The average Australian woman is size 16, which means many, many  of us are smaller than that, and many are much larger.

I have been wearing TS exclusively for years and seriously, the label has changed my life and the way I feel about myself.

I always feel sensational in this label, whether I’m having a normal work day, or presenting to corporate clients, singing with my band or MCing an official awards night interstate.  I do all of these things wearing TS14plus.

www.ts14plus.com.au

This blog post was not meant to be an informercial, but I am so passionate about the label and how it has helped empower so many of my friends and colleagues, that I will continue to shout about TS from the rooftops.

So, today, I was invited to attend their inaugural MSFW parades at the City Square, Melbourne.  Excitement!

By the way, I’m writing a book, in the middle of a property settlement, managing the smooth movement of my son to another school, looking at new places to live and juggling my band, gigs and sanity… so I was a little tight on my arrival, thanks to the rain, and Hoddle St.  Don’t get me started on Hoddle St…..

So – I walked in, and the parade hadn’t started. Yay!!

There was a gatekeeper.  A gaunt woman wearing a headset, a sour expression and a clipboard. (Not on the TS team).

Yep, you’ve met her too.  She has clones.  She feels important.

Hi! I’m Tracy Bartram.

We’re about to start a parade.

Yes! I know! I have a reserved seat! Can I just sit down?

No.  You’ll have to stand.

It was then that I smelled her breath.  Like a dying camel.  Louise L. Hay says bad breath is due to

‘stinking thinking’.

Or, poor personal hygiene…

I backed off.  I had to.  Call it survival instinct. Seriously, her  breath was a lethal weapon.

I stood up the back (where I could see perfectly and loved the whole thing!) and totally enjoyed

watching the TS models strutting their stuff. I even got a little choked up, I was so proud.

All the TS team was thrilled! The models were thrilled! The audience was thrilled!

And afterwards, I couldn’t help it….

As I was leaving, I walked up to Camel Woman and leaned into her ear.

I said, excuse me… Two words.

Breath Mint.

And I walked away.

God forgive me.

I am evil to the core.