Your Life is a Canvas and Webinar Info

Yes, your life is a canvas. You are the artist and creator of your destiny. Paint it with style and expression, depth and color.


 One of my favorite quotes is, "It's never too late to be what you might have been." Who's in charge anyway? YOU are!!! Be who you are! Do what you love!


I am a mentor, teacher and lifestyle coach. Too often, I see women and men who feel trapped in a job they no longer like. Inner and outer voices tell them they can't do more and be more. I'm here to tell you... DO NOT LISTEN TO THE WRONG VOICES!!


Yes you can do it!! There is always a way to make your dream a reality. Just take one step in that direction. Do it today and never look back. Color your day with promise and possibility.

We have scheduled a Staging Crash Course Webinar for partial certification credit. It will be September 29th and October 27th from 7:00 to 8:30ish. September still has a few spots open. Student grads and registered students are $20 and RE Agents are $50. All others are $70. It is money-back guaranteed. E-mail for payment details. becky@beckyharmon.com.


Happy Fall, you all.

September Business Update

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*If you are interested in a possible staging career or you wish to enhance your existing decorating or staging business, you are invited to attend our Staging Crash Course webinar showing some of our latest projects including a $2,000,000 house. Sign up for Sept. 29th or Oct. 27th from 7:00PM to 8:30PM Limited space available $20 for our grads $50 for agents or designers $75 for anyone else Recent Staged Living Room in an exclusive neighborhood: *The demand for certified stagers is accelerating exponentially. More and more of the agents are staging all their listings... especially the younger ones.  One of our real estate investor client/students just sent an amazing testimonial on August 25th... "Becky, I've been meaning to drop you a note and let you know how successful your staging course has been for us. We had two houses, a 4BR 2-1/2 BA and a 3/2 rehabbed and ready to go. We put them on MLS on a Saturday and I staged on Sunday. We had offers on both houses on Monday and signed contracts by Tuesday. Presto! It was worth the price and being so successful so quickly helped boost my confidence! Thanks so much! Melissa Sargent" Riches 4U2 Investments, Inc. *Sandra Millis of Southern Comfort Redesign, just got good news that her 2nd staged oceanfront condo sold in record time... around 30 days. Way to go Sandra!! www.scrjax.com *Anyone interested in jumping on the Staging Business Fast-Track program needs to speak up now. We have a few spots left in our Labor Day week Online Certification Class and 2 spots in our September 3-day local class. Our 3-day class dates in September changed to accommodate several people... the 15th - 17th, Thursday through Saturday.

*Our popular new Online Staging Certification Class is offering a BOGO-Buy One Get One- for a short time only. You must register ASAP. This 7-hour class is still at the introductory price of $750. If you bring a friend, they are free. So basically, it would be $375 each. Wow! This is for our September class. E-mail for details. becky@beckyharmon.com The class includes 7 DVD's, 5 CD's, a new space-planning kit and comprehensive manual. An added bonus is an additional professionally produced DVD of an actual staging job. We also include a power point CD showing the best of our before-and-after pictures. Both extra products are worth $225. The class has a money-back guarantee. If you decide the class was not for you, your investment will be refunded but you can keep the bonus products. Read more about the online class: http://www.transform-us.com/online-home-staging-training.htm

HAPPY 4^th of July! I love this holiday. What a great opportunity to be with friends and family to celebrate our national birthday. Hope your day was full of fireworks and sparkle.

We love what we do. I am so thankful for 5 years of teaching new business owners how to stage and redesign homes across America. We have de-cluttered thousands of over-pillowed and under-decorated homes everywhere. We have thrown out thousands of “dead” silk ivy plants and dust-caked ficus trees. We have beautified personality-starved, lifeless homes and added color plus style back to neutral, beige America. We have earned our cape and super-hero status.

When I started, many well-meaning voices suggested that it was probably a fad and not worth the investment of time and money... certainly not worth leaving a thriving interior design job that I loved. But they were all wrong.

You must learn to fight for your dream and not let the voices of discouragement defeat you before you even start.

When I started in Interior Design many years ago, one of my co-workers, a super-star, prima-donna designer told me that I was not cut out for this business. I obviously felt a wave of fear and doubt. As it turned out, I was inspired to prove her wrong. My long commute gave me an opportunity to listen to CD’s on success.

Business owners all need to fill their spare time reading and listening to motivational media. Some of my favorites:

Brian Tracey

Zig Ziglar
Jim Roan
Les Brown
Joel Osteen
John Maxwell


I will end by saying how much I appreciate all of you who faithfully read my newsletters and love the business of Staging, Redesign and personal motivation. I salute all those working in this wonderful industry. I still keep pinching myself when I wake up in the morning… a wonderful family, many great friends and I get paid for doing something that I love.

June 2011

Grand-baby Abe

The weather was glorious for the Memorial Week-end. There continued to be an East breeze and the outgoing tide left plenty of space for all beach activities... swimming, surfing, fishing, reading, sleeping.


We experimented with the new kayak and decided the calmer waters of Huegonot Part and Ft. George may suit these inexperienced paddlers better. I'll let you know how we do.


On our very first kayak adventure at Hanna Park last year, a live mullet jumped out of the water and down my t-shirt. My scream reached into south Georgia. I'm sure the fish was as distressed as I was. Do mullets have ears?

DREAM SEEDS

Are you a possibility thinker? You can be. It's just a matter of choice. Not big choices, mind you. It's the small daily choices that determine our destiny.

Is it really that simple? REDESIGN YOUR LIFE is my continual theme song. I'm a work-in-progress, a perpetual renovation project. I should post a permanent sign on my forehead that says, Beware--- CONSTRUCTION ZONE.

I love this (slightly modified) quote from Oprah:

“As we begin to recognize ourselves for who we really are---thinkers, leaders with limitless potential to transform not only ourselves but also the world around us---chaos in the car, at home, or at the office becomes the exception and excellence becomes the rule. When we speak, we’re the first to hear our words, to feel their impact. What we say and think manifests itself as the life we create, one choice at a time. And when we fill our lives with things that uplift us, we become a product of that environment. We want to give the world our best, and we want the best in return. Maintaining a gorgeous home and organized office is about respecting the very important person who lives in it…YOU.”

We recently returned from a St. Simon's Island biking trip. It was a small goal on my Vision Board. I believe there is power in putting an image that represents a wish where you can see it every day.

We LOVED the island and experienced it more directly from a snail's pace beach cruiser. The bike trails are well marked and the community is totally accomodating to all these obnoxious ametuers. 

This was the view from our room at the Ocean's Inn Resort. St. Simon's is about an hour north of Jacksonville near Brunswick, Ga.

~Happy Trails to You,


Until We Meet Again~