Verity's Blog

A wise & brave young girl...

There are three types of unheard people: people who cannot speak due to a disability. People who are afraid to speak in case of looking "out of place". And there are the people whose voices are not deemed important and therefore ignored in their community.

Through the CHAELI CAMPAIGN we aim to open ears and eyes, so that those people who are unheard or are afraid to be heard, have a chance to voice their opinion and claim their place in their community.

          Chaeli Mycroft (11years old, future owner #982 )

The Chaeli Campaign is a Non-Profit Organisation that mobilises the mi nds and bodies of children with disabilities. Started by  Chaeli, her sister and friends (between the ages of 6 and 12 at the time of founding),  they raised R20 000 in just seven weeks to purchase her motorised wheelchair. Youth hath no speed as a young girl mobilised! 

I am proud to help sponsoring the monthly costs of them having their own house to run the charity from. You can support them here...click to help

Crazy Sexy Cancer...

A friend of mine sent me this link the other day and I was blown away by this story. To think that when life gives us lemons we always have the choice to make lemonade!  The word crisis can be divided into two words - cri (fear) and sis (opportunity). So, basically when we are faced with fear/danger at that very moment we have an opportunity. I am so inspired by this story of how a woman has taken a serious crisis in her life and turned it into an opporunity - not only to do things differently, but also to allow herself to 'heal' in ways that medicine could make possible for her.

Check out CRAZY SEXY CANCER and be blown away by how we really do get to choose our response to the cards life deals us...

Notes from the universe

I subscribe to an awesome site www.tut.com that sends me daily personalised notes from the universe! It is really great, because when I joined I had to fill in my goals and dreams and then every now then one of the notes has my big goal included in it. I love it when Mike Dooley's (creator of TUT) mails pop into my inbox as they always put a smile on my dial. 

I thought I would share this one cos I loved receiving it...

Having a dream......................................................... Courage. Visualizing your dream................................................ Persistence. Physically moving towards your dream.......................... Guts. Letting go of the "cursed hows"................................... Wisdom. The look on your friends' faces, Verity, as they      watch you on "Entertainment Tonight".................... Priceless. Yeah, that ought to light a fire -      The Universe

Meeting Robin Banks

I got to meet motivational speaker Robin Banks when I was hanging out with my great friend and fellow speaker Bruce Muzik the other day. It was quite an experience to be in the presence of two seriously energetic and positive people - highly infectous I can promise you! Bruce and I had just come back from him talking & me singing at a convention in Gordon's Bay and Bruce told Robin all about my Lucky Packet Project and the work I am doing. Being the visionary man he is, Robin whipped out R150 and bought a future copy of my album without even having heard me sing! He is Future Owner #1050!!!

To make the meeting even more magical, he has invited me to talk and sing at one of his Mind Power lectures and then who knows, maybe I can be an 'inspirational singer' at his courses! I feel very priviledged to be getting to work with some of the best speakers in the world - John Demartini, Lisa Nichols, Bruce Muzik and now Robin Banks.

Yay!

R100 pm can create a miracle

I have pledged R100 per month to help this incredible iniative that is run by children. You can help them too...  PLEASE SUPPORT THIS MIRACLE ... AND SEND OUT TO YOUR FRIENDS TO SUPPORT.

YOU  could be instrumental in making a miracle happen in 14 days for The Chaeli Campaign. If each one of you is able to get 10 others to support this initiative they will meet their goal of getting 400 supporters in the 14 days needed to secure 18 Culm Road, Plumstead, Cape Town (D-Day is 21 May). The Chaeli Campaign is able to issue Section 18A tax certificates for all donations made. They’d love to have you on board!!

The Chaeli Campaign is the only Non-Profit Organisation in South Africa founded by children. Chaeli Mycroft is cerebral palsied and also has a degenerative neuropathy that is affecting the muscles in her arms and legs. She, her sister and three friends (between the ages of 6 and 12 at the time) started and ran 'The Chaeli Campaign' to raise money to buy Chaeli a motorised wheelchair, which cost R20 000. They managed to do this in just 7 weeks now they need your help to get 400 people to pledge R100 per month for them to get their own home / office...

Download 14_day_ind_pledge_form_01052007.doc

YOU  could be instrumental in making a miracle happen in 14 days for The Chaeli Campaign. If each one of you is able to get 10 others to support this initiative they will meet their goal of getting 400 supporters in the 14 days needed to secure 18 Culm Road, Plumstead, Cape Town (D-Day is 21 May). The Chaeli Campaign is able to issue Section 18A tax certificates for all donations made. They’d love to have you on board!!

Download 14_day_ind_pledge_form_01052007.doc

On Meeting Demartini

This is me sharing about how I got to meet Dr John Demartini and what I learned from saying 'screw it just do it'!

Taking a chance...

Recently, Dr John F Demartini (The Secret) was in SA running his Breakthrough Experience and promoting his new book Heart of Love. I headed off to one of his public talks with some friends and was blown away to see over 800 people turn up to listen to him. He is one hell of a speaker who really moves and inspires people and it was great to soak up his story and energy. He spoke often of us allowing ourselves to shine and be the best we can be, and I kept thinking 'man, I should be singing to these people, they would love my song Shine!'

So... after much deliberation, I mustered up the courage and joined the queue for his autograph after the talk. I must have let five people in front of me as I tried to work out what to say to him. What came out as I handed him a book to sign was 'Hi Dr Demartini, I am Verity and I am a singer and songwriter. I think that you should have me sing at your talks...' At this point he looked at me like I was a bit strange so I continued... 'you tell people to shine' he nodded (indeed he does), 'I have a song called "Shine" that I think will complete your message...'

At this point my palms were sweating. What the hell am I doing was running through my head... He took a moment to take it all in and then asked if I had a CD. Aha - 'I don't' I said 'but there is a piano over there and I can play it for you if you like..'

Well I played and sang Shine for him and when I finished he turned to his agent and asked 'How soon can she start singing at my talks?'.  The gamble had paid off, and the next day I was in Khayelitsha with him singing at his youth development workshop there and again the following week at his Young Adults Inspired Destiny Course. What an experience that just goes to show that you have nothing to lose by stepping out and asking!

New Energy...

I just returned from a much needed long weekend up the west coast in Paternoster. It was great to leave the buzz of Cape Town behind and get lost for a few days in some slow time. I often find that when I step away from the craziness of my life that when I come back things seem flow so much easier.

I am feeling super motivated today about going forward with my project and looking to try some really 'out the box' approaches to raise the last R200 000.00 I need for the recording budget. Something clicked in me yesterday that if my life depended on raising the money in the next 30 days I would make a plan. I was having a conversation with Dr John Demartini and he challenged me to put on the pressure in the project - and that has put a proverbial firecracker up my a*%#s! I guess it is easy to be complacent when there isn't an immediate threat, yet under pressure I would probably achieve incredible results. So, I am upping the pressure in my mind to get things moving faster. No concrete ideas yet but a very strong sense of committment to make it happen....

SA Blog Awards - pls vote!

Hi all,  my blog is up for Best Music Blog for the SA Blog Awards 2007.It is incredible to think that I started this blog as a way of keeping all my future owners informed of how my album project and music is going and here we are at a point where you can vote for it as best music blog!  It would be awesome to win so please take a moment to vote.

Thanks!  Verity

Miracles so far:

Well, I am getting clearer that the only way to keep moving forward with excitement and conviction is to look back along where you have come and give thanks for everything that has gotten you so far already. Last week my team and I spent a few hours writing down all the miracles around this album project...

We are grateful for....

1. Verity's family sponsoring 3/4 of the website to get things started

2. World-Wide creative taking 1/4 of the cost and doing the project on risk

3. Accountants offering to do the project on risk and for setting up the companies

4. Educor for making Vee an ambassador and giving her bursaries to award & help others

5. Educor for paying for posters and flyers, etc, full sponsorship

6. Awesome people that give prizes to give away

7. AV Network for doing a R20 000 job for R2000 for the Lucky Packet promo DVD

8. Donna McCallum buying a CD and becoming Verity’s Fairy Godmother

9. Colin Jowell for sending an email to springwise that was send out to 88 000 people around the world

10. Bob Lynde buying 120 cd’s at Kirstenbosch