Hello Holiday Festive Love Bugs!!!

We love this time of year as it creates the space to reflect upon how grateful we all are with the previous year’s blessing & simultaneously create our game plan to make the upcoming year even more impactful!

For us that means ways to sponsor more children; to reach our goal of a child in every country of the world & assist others in their dreams of personal & financial freedom as we have grown to achieve.

Ideas to dream even bigger is what we strive to inspire; Follow your Heart toward the Freedoms you dream of in your life!  Martha Stewart in her efforts to do the same as a Lifestyle guru!

ALWAYS…Lots of Love! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

Heart of Freedom family

Adam, Kara, & Skylar

Here is a great article from a newsletter we subscribe to with Darren Hardy of SUCCESS magazine.

Martha Stewart’s Inspiration Mixes Sweet, Entrepreneurial Lemonade

The Martha Rules: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Build or Manage a Business

Lifestyle guru and media mogul Martha Stewart embraces inspiration where she finds it, emerging with sweet lemonade despite her share of sour lemons.

The article can be found here as well;

http://www.success.com/articles/2079–martha-stewarts-inspiration-mixes-sweet-entrepreneurial-lemonade?utm_source=Listrak&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=http%3a%2f%2fwww.success.com%2farticles%2f2079–martha-stewarts-inspiration-mixes-sweet-entrepreneurial-lemonade&utm_campaign=Martha+Stewart%27s+10+Rules+for+Success&utm_content=Seeds-NL-20121218

FREE Movie “Awakening!!”

What to do after you saw the movie “The Secret?” “The Secret” opened up a lot of people’s minds as to what the successful people of the world did to make the shift after they had an “awakening” and soon went on to live the lifestyle of their dreams. They had a moment and a shift in consciousness, an “awakening.”

The movie “Awakening” starts where the movie “The Secret” left off. It is the path toward abundance & prosperity consciousness toward your greater life. Your dream lifestyle and true purpose. The path toward not only creating your dream lifestyle but how to pursue and live it!

We hope you enjoy “Awakening” as it was monumental toward our path to living the lifestyle of our dreams and we KNOW it will do the same for you!

Cheers to YOUR Success & Abundance,

Adam, Kara, & Skylar
HEART OF FREEDOM FAMILY

Life Balance by Design? Is it possible? Is there enough time in the day? What are my passions & what is my purpose? Am I living my dream life?

The answer to all these questions is…..What are YOU waiting for & why not? When you start to make excuses about why you should put things off that are important to you then you are not living YOUR life balance by design. It takes commitment and dedication to wanting a better life for yourself. It takes a conscious effort in examining what is and what is NOT important to you in your life.

To know what is important in your life you must also examine what is NOT important to you in your life. By eliminating the people & activities that consume most of your time that you do not care about will free up the space for you to live YOUR dreams. the dreams that you feel in your heart and in your soul. Not others dreams or what is expected of you; what YOU feel in your heart.

LIFESTYLE BALANCE BY DESIGN

1. Body
2.Mind
3.Spirit/Soul

1. Body

Do you love your body? Why not if you don’t? Do you know what miracles it produces each and every day? Your body is your temple so take care of it. What food and drinks you put in is what you see on the outside. Muscles and your heart are meant to be used and exercised EVERYDAY! If not your body goes into atrophy & not in sync with its natural functions. We recommend at least 30 minutes a day of some type of exercise & get outside & breath fresh air if you can!

2. Mind

Your mind is a muscle too & what you put in is what you think and feel outwards. Sound familiar? Yes just like the Body, the Mind requires daily input of healthy information. We use continuing education & personal development to constantly create forward thinking in ways in which we can constantly grow & become better selves personally & in all relationships. We recommend a minimum of 30 minutes EVERYDAY as well! It becomes like a cleanse of all the bad media, press, advertisements, & over stimulus of the world we live in today.

3. Spirit/Soul

We refer to out spirit and soul as connecting to our uplifted selves. What do you do that is your passion in life. That makes you feel better after every time you do or engage in it? For myself it is surfing, playing basketball or baseball, flying airplanes, playing at the beach or park with my daughter, traveling with my wife to unknown destinations. For others it can be an array of things from cooking to being connected at church. The point is to align with and find a piece of it EVERYDAY as well.

Write it down! Yes write it down and make yourself accountable. Reward yourself after a week, a month, and then it can to become your lifestyle. Everyday do the minimum of each and watch your life sore into the greatest abundance.  You and others you come in contact with become more grateful for all you do have in life. You will want to GIVE more than you ever thought you could to others less fortunate. Most importantly you will want to LOVE all and every-thing you are blessed with in your life.

Cheers to ABUNDANCE! Cheers to the BEST life YOU have ever lived!

Carpe Diem!

Adam Stone – Heart of Freedom Family

My Dearest friends Adam & Kara Stone…”Heart of Freedom Family,”

Inspired by your “Family Giving” page & the ’Our Winning Lottery Numbers’……. I Did!

Welcome officially to fall. It’s a lovely morning, fresh and cool, bright and green; the coffee is even more delicious than usual with raw milk that I’ve gotten from a local farmer. Fall is officially here, and I want my first fall email to be positive and happy. And it’s going to be.
One week ago today, I sat at this same table writing in the rain until my wife came out, and then I sobbed against her breast, breaking down and telling her I couldn’t take it any more. It was cold and pouring rain that morning. We went on to take a hike in the pouring rain but I remained with a lifeless spirit; I couldn’t snap out of the depression brought on by sleep deprivation and my feelings about my job, this city, and the life I live here. In fact, I went on to get a headache that day that pain relievers couldn’t alleviate, until I realized I was getting a migraine. By afternoon, I was in bed with a cloth over my eyes and holding my head in my arms. Finally, I decided maybe I should smoke some marijuana and see if that helped. I remembered that while studying ayurvedic medicine at the Benares Hindu University in India a few years ago it was prescribed for headaches. (In fact, it is grown in the BHU medicinal garden and used for treatments) So, I found the glass jar I’d been keeping in storage for almost two years that contained ‘Royal Crown’ grown by a friend in ‘the mountains above a western coastal surf town’. I went out to our travel van, the “Mothership,” and sat on the couch in the rain and loaded a tiny bit into my little glass pipe, lit it, inhaled, held it in, exhaled and relaxed. Then something wonderful happened–a change in perspective.

It’s not that the headache instantly went away (it did go away gradually), but what instantly happened is that my eyes ‘saw’ the world around me and my mind stepped out of its patterns and began to see life freshly and from a new perspective. And this is what happened next: I sat there feeling so good in the chill air and watching the rain outside the windows, and then I began to really see the mothership for the first time in years, what an amazing vehicle it is and how it had been my dream for years to own such a car.
And I suddenly imagined that I had just landed in New Zealand and some stranger met me at the airport and took me out to the parking lot and showed me this van and said, “Step on in and look at it.” In my fantasy, I stepped into the van and there I was, sitting in my dream van! It had a bed, a stove, fridge, sink, storage, stereo, solar power; it was a home on wheels. It was beyond my wildest dreams–truly a dream vehicle for a traveler in New Zealand. The guy said, “Do you like it?” I said, “I would die to have a van like this to travel in! I can’t believe how cool it is; it’s my dream come true.” He said, “It’s yours. Here are the keys. Take it; you can have it. Take this van and go explore New Zealand; it’s all yours.” I couldn’t believe it; it was like winning the lottery. I couldn’t quit smiling; this was truly unbelievable, I just landed at the airport and some stranger was giving me a dream van. “It’s yours, you can use it the whole time you’re in New Zealand; go ahead.” I couldn’t quit smiling stupidly; I was stunned. I owned it? He gave it to me? This is MINE?!!!

He left and I sat there staring at my van with fresh new eyes, imagining what it would have been like in New Zealand if I had had  van like this. Unbelievable. I was going to get to take this van and go explore New Zealand? This was absolutely unbelievable.
Then the guy came back. “Oh, one other thing I forgot to tell you. The van comes with 25 thousand dollars cash, spending money. Here you go; it’s yours.” And he handed me 25 thousand US dollars. I was completely in shock, smiling like a fool, experiencing waves of joy. This was absolutely unbelievable. This guy had just given me a dream van, a van I had dreamed about owning my whole life, then he gave me 25K dollars spending money to go with it. He said, “It’s yours. Go enjoy your life. You’ve got the van and the 25 thousand dollars. It’s all yours. You can do anything you want. Go have fun.” And he left me to sit there in the rain, in my new van, with 25 thousand dollars,  completely stunned, at the New Zealand airport. I had an entire country to explore and plenty of money and the best van in the world. The van had surfboards on the roof, wetsuits; it was fully stocked and provisioned, had a guitar, clothes–this was too much to believe–it was a dream come true; it was unbelievable! How could I be so lucky? This was really my life’s dream come true! To say I was completely flabbergasted was an understatement.
He left again, and I sat there in my van, looking out at the rain, in shock, vibrating with happiness. This was really almost a miracle. My dreams come true. All I had to do was start driving. But then he came back once more.

“Oh yeah, one more thing. You get the van, you get the 25 thousand dollars, but you also get one more thing. You get a beautiful wife who loves you and a beautiful baby. They’re yours forever. Enjoy your life; goodbye.” He left and there I was in my dream van, with 25 thousand bucks, and more importantly than any of the rest, with the one thing I dreamed of my entire life–I had a beautiful wife who loved me and who I loved, and I had a beautiful baby. It was my wildest dream, my life-long dream, come true. And all we had to do was drive.  I sat there literally vibrating with joy, with tears of happiness in my eyes, my absolute wildest dreams had all come true in a moment in  a parking lot in New Zealand. I had been given a dream van, 25 K, and a wife and child, and we were free to go travel and enjoy life. Nothing to stop me, just turn the key and go. This was the wildest, most beautiful fantasy of my life. The dream I’d always dreamed. I sat there vibrating, overjoyed, almost overwhelmed with joy. And then I said to myself, “This is no fantasy; this *is* my life. You do own this van, you do have 25 K saved up, and you do have a beautiful wife who loves you and a beautiful baby. Your wildest dream *is* true!!!!”

I realized that I *do* have everything I want, my wildest fantasy is my reality. And all I have to do is get in the car and drive. The only difference between my fantasy and real life is that in New Zealand, I would have to drive 20 minutes to get into the kind of nature I dream of, and in the US, I have to drive 1300 miles west, then 800 miles south and even then it’s not like New Zealand. The coast of Cali is populated and developed and Baja is a desert. So, the only difference is the location, but a plane ticket or two can fix that. But the fundamental truth is that all I have to do is turn the key and drive 1300 miles and then south for 800 and we can be living on the beach and surfing. And that is the reality. No one holds me here. I have the dream machine, I have the money, I have the family. All I have to do is decide and go. All I have to do is exercise my free will, volition, and follow my dreams again.

That was a revelatory hour or two in the van.  My wife came in and I tried to tell her my insight. I held her and we loved each other and cried with joy at our luck. We *are* free. So, once the baby is born, we go, we go, we go! Because we won the lottery, the cosmic lottery!

Avanti! To nature, to living, to life, to freedom!

-Inspired Reader

Our love story starts and ends from a place that matters most in this life; from the heart! It starts with living a fulfilling life of abundance of traveling the world, being connected with other meaningful relationships, and always connected with family and self.

The journey before finding true love becomes an exploration of self. Self worth, self-love, self-respect, self-confidence, and self-meaning. The connection and person to become is one that has EVERYTHING to give to someone else in order to love completely. In this journey there is no external or internal pressure to find anything less than true love. One would be satisfied with their current situation and a true love would only come to increase the abundance in all aspects of their life.

This true love would have been on a similar endeavor themselves. They would carry a similar value based life of the recipient to only be a benefit to their life as well. Though they are happy and full of love in their life, your love as the true love would add the final and most important element to the highest abundance in their life as well.

Then unexpectedly it would happen when you least expected. Then the path of relationship would find new peaks and catapult your abundance to the highest level of happiness and satisfaction. And it did. And it does. And it always will!

Are you thinking that there may not be someone out there for you? Are you losing hope & feeling frustrated with your past experiences? Or have you also found a selfless love that grows indefinitely?

Whatever your case may be, working on becoming & being a better you is always the answer. When you are firing on all cylinders and vibrating to your highest vibration you attract like energy. A great example is that Kara was 35 years old when we met. She had not given up on love but patiently knew it would manifest from her living from her heart & enjoying her life. I was living in a similar vibration. Heck I was dressed as a leprechaun in a St. Patrick’s Day parade when we met!

The point is enjoy who YOU are! Whatever your situation of love, never stop growing as a person, following your dreams, & living your true purpose and passion.

The universe will, and always does, answer!

The most beautiful things in the world are not seen nor touched. They are felt with the heart.
— Helen Keller

Lots of Love! Cheers for now!

Heart of Freedom Family

After 33 years the La Scala restaurant in Jamestown New York has burned down into nothing but ashes!

What does the owner, Mike, to do as EVERYTHING he had poured his heart & soul into for the last 33 years was gone!

I had the privilege to have a heart-to-heart with Mike in Jamestown NY about overcoming such tragedies in life, what he has learned from experiences, & his keys to success as he has rebuilt another BIGGER & BETTER restaurant after the fire.

Here is his story;

BUILT ON TRADITION AND FAMILY

Back in 1977 La Scala was born. And at the age of 13, based on the wishes and command of his mother, Mike began working in the restaurant. He started by washing dishes along with his brothers Kevin and John Foley, and soon after, he began prepping food.

“I worked under a lot of great executive chefs over the years and learned a lot from them,” he said. “Then at one point, my mother told me that the cooking was my responsibility, and I just kind of took over.”

It was understood that a restaurant is about providing a customer more than a meal.

“Every single person who comes through the door, whether for a meal with their family or as a guest at a wedding reception, better leave there feeling more than satisfied, or we haven’t done our job.”

MIXING THE OLD WITH THE NEW

In November 2008, a fire completely destroyed the old La Scala restaurant, which was just across Fluvanna Avenue from the new location.

The fire that completely destroyed the building and rekindled twice after the 13 fire companies that fought it thought it was extinguished.

In April 2009, Mike acquired the building which has since become the new La Scala restaurant, and through the renovation process, he has tried to maintain the best of the old place while integrating some new and exciting features.

“During the renovation process, I asked my customers what things they missed most about the old restaurant,” Mike said. “In addition to the food, they all told me that the cozy, comfortable atmosphere was something they appreciated, so we worked to give the new place that same, intimate feel.”

Anyone who hasn’t been in the new restaurant might not know that the building was gutted, rebuilt and adorned with luxurious fixtures and soft lighting. In the main dining room, the full-service bar is equipped with all the staples one would expect from such an establishment, and the wine list has been expanded to include more local and Italian wines, many of which compliment Mike’s dishes, which are inspired by the foods of Northern Italy.

It is decorated in the same style as the central dining room and the walls are covered with murals by local artist Helen Gilbert.

FOLLOWING HIS PURPOSE & PASSION

Mike never questioned quitting or letting go of his family tradition. Mike is a man living in Purpose & Passion. La Scala restaurant was the core of who he is and always has been. He was willing to fight back from devastation and 100% loss. Not only fight back but build a BIGGER & BETTER restaurant at that.

In the videos Mike shows how he took the re-build one step at a time. Day by day he put one foot in front of the other until; reaching his determined goals. Mike is a humble man but with a lot of pride as is felt when dining at his restaurant.

LIFE LESSONS FROM THE TRAGEDY

Change can be difficult when moving toward accomplishing your goals and desires in life. But is it if you are living on Purpose & Passion? Mike did not blink an eye when asked about if he was going to recover from his tragedy.

Our goal as the Heart of Freedom Family is to inspire others to live out their purpose and passions in pursuit to living a lifestyle of YOUR dreams. For us it is to live life as a vacation and leave a legacy on this earth of helping children & those in need. In essence making the world a better place & having a good time while doing it!

What is your Purpose & Passion? What legacy do you want to leave behind? Are you focusing on your obstacles or the ACTION STEPS toward your goals? Rome was not built in a day & neither is YOUR life! But brick by brick, layer by layer, with one foot in front of the other, your true DESTINY awaits. What are YOU waiting for???

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

~Eleanor Roosevelt~

Lots of love & gratitude ALWAYS,

Adam Stone

Heart of Freedom Family

What is Law of Attraction? 

Law of Attraction is essentially a belief or theory, that “like attract like,” and that by focusing on positive or negative thoughts, one can bring about positive or negative results.

 Can Law of Attraction work for you?

It’s time for the “mainstream” and  “sleepwalkers”  to WAKE UP!! The alarm clock is ringing, they keep hitting snooze, and in the meantime, the life they could be living is passing them by.

Day after day, millions of people go through their lives wishing and hoping and dreaming that things could be better, with absolutely no knowledge that it is they themselves that perpetuate their own dissatisfaction.

It is not just the “Heart of Freedom Family” or the “gifted few” who create their realities. It’s not just for those in the metaphysical community. It is all of us! Every single one. However, there are a few who have awakened to this knowledge, and make creating their reality a daily event…manifesting whatever it is they want in their life with seemingly no effort!

Meanwhile the rest of the world looks on in wonder and disbelief. They assume that these “fortunate few” are among the referred and easy to use term “lucky.”

To be honest, the whole thing generates some anger in me. The problem is that we are “dumbed down” by society throughout our whole lives under the pretense that we are actually being intellectualized. The “scholarly” tell us that metaphysical topics like reality creation are pure fantasy. Science insists on measurable evidence of everything before it will acknowledge such claims as fact.

However, it’s really not that difficult to comprehend. Even the most skeptical people should be able to grasp a few simple concepts like:

- Everything in the Universe is composed of Energy, including you and me. Even our thoughts are Energy. Check out the Niagara Falls in the background our video!

– Through Energy, everything in the Universe is connected.

- The Universe creates without effort, and in abundance. Just look around you. Trees, rocks, air, planets, etc. all were created without stress, effort, or over-analyzation. The Force you choose to believe initiated the creative process doesn’t matter. They are all there and were created effortlessly.

- You ARE a part of the Universe and through the power of thought, have the same creative power that manifests everything you see. The only thing that limits your potential is your own belief system!

Everything that occurs in your life is interpreted BY YOU. You add the meaning, you add the emotional response, you add EVERYTHING. It is your thoughts that literally take the energy “data” and transpose it into your reality. What you consider “real” is nothing more than an agreement that you’ve made with yourself (and no doubt many others in some cases).

This is how our reality has been shaped. This is how we have learned what is possible, and what is impossible. We learned it from OTHER PEOPLE. The problem is, these other people (family and friends perhaps?) have their OWN limiting belief systems which they ALSO consider “real”.

So human limitations spread like a virus, and we don’t even realize what’s happening.

As discouraging as this is, many of us ARE waking up. I personally feel it my sacred duty to shake people out of this “intellectual trance” that limits them and show them what is truly possible.

So what IS the difference between those who cruise through life in a seemingly perpetual state of bliss, with everything they want coming to them with no effort, and the rest of the population working at jobs they hate for the sake of doing the “responsible” thing, hoping that SOME DAY they can live the lives they hope for?

The difference is that these people know their purpose, know WHY they absolutely HAVE to fulfill that purpose, and commit themselves to never stopping until they realize their dream. They may or may not have thrown the accepted definition of “responsibility” out the window. The only thing that matters ultimately is that they now live lives they love, following their passions.

You see it is our PASSIONS in life that tell us precisely what we are to do. When we follow our passions, our life lights up. We give off incredibly powerful energy which attracts our desires to us. That means people, money, objects, careers…whatever we want that is in line with our purpose. The Universe WANTS to provide those things we want most. It is only our own limiting belief systems that stop fulfillment from occurring.

So can Law of Attraction work for YOU? Are you the Captain of your own ship?