Susan's Story

Why did I write this book?

It wasn’t until a landslide destroyed her home that Susan gained first hand awareness of the traumatic effect on all aspects of her life in the face of a catastrophe. There are the physical realities of displacement, the emotional fears and grieving for what has been lost, and the mental challenge to find solutions. Recovery takes time and can be a roller coaster ride emotionally for months and years. Fortunately, Susan felt blessed with a strong support system to get through it and was able to find the people who would stand with her during that difficult time.

Fascinated when the process to rebuild after the landslide paralleled the steps of a creative process connected with the power of the mind, Susan set out to describe it. What happened next led her to greater depths of understanding as each next step and the corresponding life lesson was revealed.

This book came out of crisis, but you don’t have to be in a crisis to benefit from it. All of us face situations where we may not have a clear sense of the steps required to rebuild our lives.

Follow author Susan Sherayko through her own journey, gaining insight into fundamental success principles along the way.

As you travel along with Susan, how do you transition from one phase of your life to another? How do you allow yourself to grow from what you have learned from the past?

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WHAT PROBLEMS DO YOU WANT TO SOLVE

Has something happened and you feel lost as you face change or catastrophe?

Are your emotions exposed on physical, financial and emotional levels? Are you afraid? Resistant?

Do you lack a plan? Are you unable to articulate what you want or why?

Do you want to create something but feel paralyzed by a looming gap between where you are and where you want to be?

Do you have a burning desire to be more creative, but don’t know where to start, how or what to do?

Do you lack belief? Are you afraid that your dreams are beyond the realm of possibility?

Do you begin many creative projects but never complete them? Do you set many goals, but achieve few?

Are you troubled by lack – of time, energy, relationships, money? Support systems and associates? Discipline? Persistance? Organization? Effective strategy?

Are you stressed? Frustrated?

Do you lack self confidence? Are you losing sleep?

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WHY WILL THIS BOOK HELP YOU?

question Have you purchased many books and programs and studied them, but never put any of it into practice?

Have you hit a creative brick wall and don’t know how to get over it?

Rainbows Over Ruins presents the creative process you need to use to change your life.

Flip your thinking. Ask the right questions. Think inside out and create the life of your dreams using the power of your mind.

Choose to engage your own creativity. Realize your dreams. Accomplish your goals. Choose rainbows over ruins.

Together, the book Rainbows Over Ruins and accompanying workbook find where you are and define where you want to be and then help you put together an individual, customized plan to get there.

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THIS IS ALL ABOUT YOUR CREATIVE THOUGHT PROCESS

pastel When you understand the process, you can overcome the problems that are stopping you. You can get out of your own way and create a better reality.

Benefit from what Susan learned about the creative principles. Apply them for yourself and save yourself a great deal of time, money and suffering to get your desired results.

Focus on the primary thing that inspires you within the context of all areas of your life. The creative success principles guide you as you define the essence of your goals and deliberately set out to create and achieve them. The principles help you identify and resolve the contrasts in your experience.

Work on a plan once you know your purpose. Develop the power to take action.

Whatever your circumstances, you can improve them. It may not be dramatic. It can be simple, even mundane. It may work overnight or take a fair amount of time. You may not even recognize what is happening. What’s important is to find the one thing daily that lets you feel the way you want to feel when you have your goal. Feel the essence of your dream now.

Is knowing the How-Tos of success always enough?

man-2 The short answer is no. Sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees.

Lifelong conditioning, outmoded beliefs and bad habits make up the paradigms that rule our current existence. That’s why you need to connect with others – family, friends, guide, coach, mentor, support group or mastermind group – to move beyond wishing to accomplish a new goal.

And it cannot be just anyone. You need to have what Noah St. John calls a loving mirror to give you unconditional support and help you reflect your greater value to others because we cannot see it for ourselves. When you work with someone who supports you like that you gain the power of understanding your value and become who you really are with much less frustration

What are the benefits and value of my approach for others?

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“When I finished my first studies, I realized that I wanted to provide more to others than an intellectual presentation of success principles. I wanted to be able to say that I had seen it work myself.”

I set out to use the conscious methods that enable anyone to improve their results and accomplishments. These success principles, centered on the art of thinking, can be learned by the conscious mind, however, something additional is required to eliminate the negative thought habits that become obstacles in the path of our success. The very things that block our success block our creativity.

“Becoming aware of what stops people from getting out of their own way to actually complete the process is another key to success. Once they know, they are able to focus on their vision with the self-discipline to persist in taking effective action based on their plan.”

Did it work when consciously undertaken? You can see for yourself. Read Rainbows Over Ruins and you’ll find an inner resource to draw upon and an example of the creative principles at work. The creative success principles guide you as you define the essence of your dreams, deliberately set out to create and achieve them, and begin to apply them for yourself.

Use her materials, listen to her share her personal insights on the process or work with her to discover its value in your situation.

“My goal is to:

* raise your awareness of the power of the mind and techniques that enable you to use it,

* provide guidance to help you get out of your own way to get the results you desire and improve the quality of your life.”

To truly utilize our innate abilities, we have to do more than just name the components of the mind and discuss their qualities intellectually. We also need to claim them and tame them through our own use.

Inside you will learn how to:

Accept where you are even as you envision an improved future;

Live life and feel the essence of what you are creating now.

Become your dream in your mind and take action in the outer world through your daily conscious choices.

Persist even when such activity flies in the face of outer circumstances.

Collaborate with your subconscious mind by asking only positive questions and be amazed by the arrival of new resources and new directions beyond what you ever imagined.

You can choose Rainbows Over Ruins.

Click here to discover how it is possible to create the life of your dreams using the power of your mind.

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You Should Probably Dream More

May 30, 2016

Over the past few weeks, as Home & Family took the show on the road, I visited Dollywood, the theme park that Dolly Parton developed. Surprisingly, the treasure that I took away from the trip is that we should all dream more.

Approximately 30 years ago, Dolly Parton made an announcement on TV that she was going to give back to her community by building a theme park. Everyone took it as a joke. The reality was that Dolly was serious. Her entire career was a combination of incredible talent, inspired by her roots – family, faith and the Great Smoky Mountains. Her songs like Tennessee Mountain Home captured the heart and soul of its people and contributed to her success – so she began to dream her theme park into existence.

She found an old, existing theme park near her home town of Sevierville, Tennessee, went into partnership with him and began to build. She found joint venture partners and sponsors who helped her. I think Dolly would call this “putting wings and feet and legs on your dreams.” Thirty years later, Dollywood is a prominent theme park, boasting some of the best roller coasters in the country according to roller coaster enthusiasts. By holding onto her vision as a way to give back to the community, she now employs approximately 4000 people and the entire region has benefited financially as outside attractions pop up in the surrounding areas.

There is a great deal of visual dreaming apparent when you see Dollywood. It’s as if Dolly sings from her soul and imbues it upon all that she touches. First, she didn’t build a theme park on a parking lot. Instead, she preserved the natural topography, including a brook that runs through the park. Ducks are part of the ecosystem – and in the evening as the park is closing, they emerge from their watery nooks to sleep on the walkways throughout the park. The mountains are an exquisite backdrop to the amusement space.

She must have thought fondly of the people who lived in poverty stricken Appalachia as she grew up. Dolly’s songs and music emerged from this humble background. She uses what she appreciated to build her businesses. She plays the mountain instruments, like guitar, dulcimer, and autoharp. She sings their stories. She brings their history to the public eye with theatrical presentations, displays and museums throughout the park. The blacksmiths, potters, candle makers and glass blowers that populate Craftsman’s Valley in the park now are reminiscent of those times and she has kept the artisans at work for the past 30 years.

Of course, food plays a big role at the park where traditional Southern cooking dominates – from taffy to cinnamon bread, turkey legs to fried chicken sandwiches and, of course, the story of stone soup. The classic “Stone Soup” is retold as an example of how Dolly’s mom provided special attention to her children through their contributions to the stone soup in hard times.

Even faith gets its due within the park with the presence of an old chapel, moved onto the property. This chapel has a real chaplain, a member of a resort chaplains association, and provides regular Sunday services to all who wish to attend. Peter and I spent a few moments taking in the classic old church as we celebrated our 30^th wedding anniversary at the park.

As Ms. Parton said on our TV show, “one dream leads to another.” Her dream of a theme park led to one of a resort hotel where people could stay when they came to visit Dollywood. She must have dreamed of its grand entry and magnificent picture window that opens upon all the outdoor pool facilities.

Dolly calls it their “watering hole,” just like the ones she knew as a child. From the staircase leading down to it, you are high above it all and view the mountains rolling away into the distance. Rocking chairs are an ever present reminder of times spent out on porches at night. In her desire to make the hotel family friendly, she even provides bunk beds in the rooms next to the main beds, as well as refrigerators and microwaves (on request). There is a camp for kids near the indoor pool. Even the lounge echoes its Appalachian origins in the moonshine mason jars collage behind the bar.

Ms. Parton believes in the power of dreams and actively educates people to dream more. Obviously, the name Dreammore Resort echoes her feelings, as well as her favorite inspirational sayings hung in all the corridors of the hotel, the dream box on display in the lower lobby, and the multitude of butterflies woven into the carpeting and other places. When she speaks, you hear the message loud and clear. “Love one another more. Dream more, care more, do more and be more.”

On yet a deeper level, Dolly Parton carries her history and her vision into the contributions she makes to the community. Her father could not read or write, inspiring her to create a literacy project called Imagination Library, in which every child in the area receives a book when they are born and every month thereafter until they go to school. The program has grown to include the entire State of Tennessee and beyond. Dreaming comes from imagining and books can help us imagine.

Dolly has also worked with the American Eagle Foundation for 27 years. To her, saving our national symbol from extinction was a way to honor and appreciate the wildlife in her roots. Today, visitors to the park can see injured bald eagles recuperating on the slopes above them, contribute to the breeding and preservation of the species, and get to see the beauty of an eagle in flight as we did when the eagle Challenger flew overhead during our stage show. It is an incredibly moving experience.

Dolly Parton has mastered the ability to manifest her dreams as she incorporates her roots and her values into her music, businesses and philanthropy. She might say it more simply. Standing on stage, she seems so genuine – raised in faith, building upon her roots and making a difference in the lives of others. She is truly an inspiration and a reminder that we should all dream more. As Dolly puts it, a dream is a wish plus work – and you can make that happen.

All of this came about because Dolly Parton had a dream. The best thing I can ask for you today is that you dream more and learn to do the tasks that lead you to their expression.

To Your Success,

Susan