Margo Arrowsmith's Bucket List

1. Boy, helping 30,000 people with 90,000 problems was a big job! But the EFT and Business course I created along with the EFT Gym and weekly training calls made it possible. Lots of people made lots of money! Yea!

2. My mentoring was harder. Its a real trick to get these girls to feel that they deserve and can get success in their lives. I had one girl in mind; worked really hard to get her to almost graduate, then weeks away from graduation she moved in with some guy, wouldn't tell anyone where she was and dropped out of school! Broke my heart and her grandma's.

I persevered and found someone else. The day that she also dropped out of school, I was so discouraged. I was ready to give up, but shortly after I got home, I got a call from the first one! After a year 'on the run' she had moved back with her grandmother, gone back to school, graduated and was planning on going to Wake Tech in the winter. Talk about the universe giving me what I needed at that moment. Anyway, she wanted to get counseling from me again, so I put her back on my list! I had to be careful, because she is still skittish about success, but she is coming along! Oh, and I haven't given up on the second one, but she is really a tougher case. We have to be real here.

3. The third is harder. It involves making businesses and going international. I started by making connections with Heifer, and groups that are helping third world women start businesses. They were interested in my concept of having these businesses connect around the world. The American group is going well, and we are talking about what country to go to next. I am thinking India, but we will see.

1. I wanted a horse so badly when I was young, but it was not to be. However, I was able to get one recently. I wanted some continuity, but I really didn't want too much responsibility. After researching, I decided to lease a horse, and share the lease with someone else. Its really better for the Mariah, the horse, and easier for me. I have as much as I want and she gets plenty of exercise and the leasors take care of all the work! When I went to the beach to ride, they hooked me up with someone who let me rent the right horse for me!

2. Years ago at the church I belonged to I participated in two groups. The first was working with the Wednesday night youth group, the second was "Blessings of Life", where we ministered to Death Row inmates.

Since there were so many of us doing both, we got the kids to write occasional letters to inmates. Some of them took it further and actually started regular correspondence as well as visiting. I started to make a documentary about this, but it was woefully under funded, so I had to stop. Not bad, really because I had the film when they were young, and now, of them and their parents talking about how it has affected their lives.

3. I always had a dream of building just the right house and I wanted it green. I wanted solar panels, heated and cooled floors and all the other green things. I had a plan that was perfect, except that it didn't have a nice loft. I added that as my meditation space.

It had its glitches, but I managed to stay cool and have fun doing it. It has an outside garden courtyard and well, its wonderful!

I love reading books at the place about which it was written. It was a thrill to read The Piano on this beach where she came to New Zealand, having to walk from the boat to the shore.

1. My daughter has a second family who hails from Columbia, she and Joe have traveled there a lot and she says she prefers it to Europe. Well that convinced me. I decided to plan a trip to Bogota and then to see Peru. I wasn't sure about climbing Matchupechu or taking the bus as it is quite a climb. I researched and found a trip that combined walking and riding! It was great!

2. I had always wanted to go to Australia and New Zealand. I have a friend from New Zealand who came to a seminar in Chapel Hill that happened on four weekends over the winter. I like to travel, but seemed crazy to me! It was for EFT training, but still... so I decided to see both island countries at the same time! I saved frequent miles to go first class (it is an almost 24 hour trip!) and that was a great decision. It was a little difficult to coordinate the walking tours in both countries, but I am glad that I did.

3. This was actually two trips, but since both were cruises to frigid places, I thought that would be best, rough it by day and luxury at night! Wow, this was unforgettable.

I have also done a lot with the photos I took, and have expanded my native photography talents to quite a portfolio.