This day-long  event features three well-known keynote speakers and entrepreneurial advocates: Barbara Winter (author of Making a Living Without a Job), Paul Mladjenovic (author or Micro-Entrepreuership for Dummies), and Tama Kieves (author of This Time I Dance!: Creating the Work You Love). 

Additionally, attend four breakout sessions and choose short seminars on topics of interest to small business owners and entrepreneurs taught by local self-employment experts who have been in the trenches themselves.

Come meet your tribe of fellow entrepreneurs on June 1 and find out how you can become your own boss!

Paul is the the author of Stock Investing for Dummies, Precious Metals for Dummies, and Micro-Entrepreneurship for Dummies, his latest released in April 2013.

May 31: The $1,000 a Day Consultant

May 31: Ultra Investing Using a Options

June 2:  Succeed as a Micro-Entrepreneur: Turn Your Spare Time & Interests into a Successful Business!

June 1: The Un-Job Fair–Don’t miss Paul’s keynote speech at the 4th annual daylong event for entrepreneurs (and aspiring entrepreneurs!).

June 2: Buy Sell & Profit on eBay: Create Second or Full Time Income Stream

June 3:  Zero Cost Marketing

June 3:  How to Generate Passive Residual Cash Flow

Do you ever feel like giving up? Would like to have a more loving relationship with your mom or your partner or child? Do you feel like as soon as you get one problem solved, another one pops up? Do you ever feel overwhelmed with your emotions? Are really tired of being stressed out? I am so happy to tell you there is a way to free yourself if you really want to.

The Loving What Is  class shares four questions that can be a doorway to your peace. Hundreds of thousands of people are finding freedom they couldn’t achieve during many years of therapy.

The Basics:

Step One: Recall a stressful situation. Feel the emotion. Relive it. Identify the thoughts you were thinking in that moment. Write the thoughts down.

 Step Two: Is it true? Choose one of the above thoughts. Ask your heart—is it true? Slow down and really contemplate this. Ask and wait. Allow that deeper part of you to consider. Find a simple “yes” or “no”. Notice if your mind wants to go into a story and defend the thought with a “but…” or “because…”

Step Three: Can you absolutely know it’s true? If you answered yes to the first question, check in again. Are you sure? Have you missed anything? Give “no” equal time and see if it’s possible the answer is no. You may have believed the answer is yes for your entire life…

This is not positive thinking. The answer must be really genuine.

Step Four: How do you react/what happens internally to you when you believe that thought? Relive that moment and notice in that moment what emotions do you feel? How does your body feel? How do you treat yourself and other people? This is not about what you should or shouldn’t do or feel or think. It’s just noticing what does happen when you believe that thought…

Step Five: Who would you be without that thought? Close your eyes and imagine yourself in that exact situation without the stressful thought. This might take a little time. Slow down. There’s no hurry. It might help to notice who you were (what were you experiencing) right before you thought it…You may experience a real sense of freedom and compassion if you allow yourself to go there. Let your mind open. This work is about experience…not a mental exercise.

Step Six: Turn the original thought around to the opposite. There are many ways to do this. One example is: “He doesn’t listen to me” can be turned around to. He does listen to me, I don’t listen to him, or I don’t listen to. me. Look back in the original stressful situation find three specific examples of how the opposite is true. You may not find these right away.

Slow down. Wait for the answer to show itself to you. This Work is meditation. Let your heart look and answer.

Going deeper: You can absolutely do this work on your own. It can also be really helpful to work with a partner, in a class, or even with a Certified Facilitator. There are many ways the mind can trick us and keep us stuck in old beliefs. A group situation can also show us we all have the same stressful thoughts and we are not alone in the thinking or the questioning. To experience The Work and learn more I warmly invite you to join with me at my (Joy Schultz) next class, Loving What Is: An Introduction to the Work of Byron Katie. Saturday, June 8, 10am-4pm. You can also visit www.thework.com to see videos of The Work in action..

Comments.about this class and instructor Joy Schult:

“Joy is absolutely wonderful…very intuitive. I feel more comfortable applying The Work to my life and putting the questions into action.”

“Joy was open and humble and helpful.”

“The class was well organized, interesting, and instructive.”

“Joy was very kind and helpful.”

Whether you are already employed in the nonprofit world or are looking to beef up your resume to get hired, we have a variety of classes that can help you reach your goals.

Coming up this month and next:

On May 11:  Fundraising & Event Planning for Non Event Planners  can really get you thinking about what kinds of events you might host for an organization to raise money. Class workshops specific ideas and discusses pros, cons, and how-tos.

On May 16: Nonprofits in Colorado: Resources and Practices  find out what you need to know about starting or working for a nonprofit specifically in the State of Colorado. Students have said this workshop saved them hours of research, and brought up issues they’d not considered.

Have you heard about crowdfunding? On May 23: Crowd-Funding 101: Get Funding for Your Dream  explains how you can raise the money for a big project or idea through the community. Bring your big idea, or just your curiosity, and find out more.

Just how do nonprofits stay afloat financially? On June 12: Finances and Nonprofits: A Layman’s Guide to Financial Statements  gives you the inside scoop on money  in the 501 (c)3 world.

Browse all nonprofit classes.

And while you are planning your summer, be sure to pencil in all Lynn O’Connell’s nonprofit workshops in July. Lynn comes from Alexandria Virginia and has decades of experience in the nonprofit realm. Her workshops are the center of CFU’s nonprofit program and the Certificate for Nonprofit Leadership and Administration.

If you simply need a crash course overview of in all the different possibilities of marketing on the web, Jennifer will lay them out for you in 20 Ways to Market on the Internet on May 6.

Perhaps you already have a website and are hoping to understand your visitor traffic. One of the biggest tools today to analyze your website’s performance on Internet searches, social media referrals, traffic, and more is a Google Analytics.  There’s a lot to understand with this complex, free tool from Google, and Jennifer Croft is a great guide. Join her Google Analytics class on May 7.

Similarly, have you googled a keyword your business and not had it come up on the Google search engine? Join Get to the Top of Google on May 8 and learn strategies to help get your business on the front page of Google search result—which is the only place that counts.

If you’ve not yet started a business, consider joining Jennifer’s intensive weekend workshop on Business Start Up Boot Camp on May 18 & 19 and learn the best strategies to turn your dream into a reality. Jennifer has started and successfully run six businesses. Come benefit from her experience.

See what students have said about Michael and his classes:

• “Very helpful interactive class.  [I got] a better understanding of how listings work.”
• “Great information–lots of individual advice.  Very dynamic and passionate about topic, very knowledgeable on topic.  {I got] lots of useful info on SEO and changes to make to increase ranking.”
• “Enthusiastic, helpful, engaging, knowledgeable.”
• “Great, very good…lots of ideas.”
• “Well-informed, good presence.”
• “Learned mostly what I’ve done wrong on my website–which is a good thing!”
• “He did a great job and was very helpful.  I received a lot of helpful topics and how to start and change up a website.”

Read what students have said about Cheryl:

• “She was amazing!!  I love how she could connect the information that the class gave her.  It helped me to understand more about life coaching & how it works.”
• “Fantastic.  Great energy–strong self-awareness and excellent class management!”
• “Wonderful. Cheryl not only taught me about the possibilities of life coaching, she modeled it.”
• “Cheryl was excellent.  Moved through difficult material quickly and hit main topics.  Made herself available for questions.”
• “Awesome, enthusiastic, encouraging, creative.  She made everyone feel safe expressing…very personalized.”
• “Excellent…[I got] clarity that will help me move forward.”
• “Very evolved…learned lots of great, realistic examples.  Very knowledgeable with lots of good experience ideas.”
• “…was knowledgeable and bold enough to address real issues…[I got] new ideas about my old habits and tools to improve the relationship I am in.”
• “Wonderful teacher who presents the material in an engaging style.  Really seems to care about her students.”
• “Extremely knowledgeable, friendly & fun!”

We had 11 pioneer thrifters who look for everything from Scottie dog collectibles to anything that is worth something in storage lockers. Several people have left over treasure in their home from past generations but the next generation is not interested, so how do you dispose of it with love and respect and maybe a little green stuff–the green stuff that lines our pockets to buy ice cream and the green way to treat the earth?

Making extra cash from the casts off of society, finding the value of an item and balancing the trash output of an affluent society are several reasons that shopping at thrift stores and all the rest of the sellers of the gently used products has become so popular during the “recession” and continued as the economy improved a bit.

Our class learned about numerous consignment stores in the Denver area and the internet avenues on which to sell were touched on. (Take the eBay class at CFU!)

The field trip to the Stapleton Goodwill exceeded all our expectations and students were excellent shoppers!! I wanted to talk them out of a couple of their finds as we went through the UN-shopping section of the trip, but I managed to control the hunter instinct. People poured over the jewelry case with Carrie and clothes sections with me and the Scottie collector scored with several home décor items. ARC is another of our favorites and we will go there soon.

I found a handmade shoeshine kit of wood that I will take to a re purpose/re make store to sell…can’t wait to see what they can do with it. I also found two Chico tops for spring to take to one of my favorite consignment stores.

Carrie and I hope you can join us some Saturday when we offer the class. It is always so much fun to see people who enjoy themselves as much as we do and hopefully make a little spending money.

The next session of Make Money from Thrifting is 4/27--join us for the fun!

P. S.  Remember that people do find items at thrift stores on a regular basis that are worth LOTS of spending money.

Those who attended Karen’s class earlier this year had overwhelmingly positive  things to say about her presentation, style, and sense of credibility.

Karen was a guest on the Greg Giesen show on MileHighRadio.com on March 11. Listen to the show:

Karen Storsteen, M.S. is known for her rare combination of talents as a psychic-medium, psychotherapist, executive coach, management consultant, and public speaker.  She has found missing people, helped solve crimes, grown and turned around businesses, and provided insights and loving support to improve relationships, careers, health, and personal well-being.

CFU is fortunate to have teachers like Nancy who care deeply about enriching the lives of others.  See what students wrote about her February 2013 class

• “[Nancy is] compassionate, caring. [From her class I got] self-knowledge, understanding–motivation.”
• “Good at including everyone & respectful of each person.”
• “Attentive, engaging, patient, compassionate.  [From her class I got] self-discovery, clarity….Now I know who I am!”
• “She was organized, caring and knowledgable.  I learned more about my numerology.”

You can find Nancy’s classes in the Metaphysics category in the Self and Personal Growth Section of our course offerings.