Love & Sequins #5 Is Live!
[ 18 September 2009 ]
Ooh la la! It has arrived! This morning I put the sparkling finishing touches on the most recent instalment of Love & Sequins, my personal guidebook to being a love letter to the universe!
Digital copies of it are whizzing all over the world as we speak, arriving with a puff of glitter into the inboxes of international playgirls, continental sweethearts & psychedelic disco ghouls across the planet!
Love & Sequins #5: FINDING HAPPINESS & MAKING IT STAY — Choosing joy, making magic & devoting your life to love, adventure & deliciousness!
In it, I talk about filling your life with enchantment, how our words create our world, surrounding yourself with incredible people, rising above your critics (boo hiss!), dismantling troublesome patterns, how to really make yourself happy & a bouquet of breathtaking mantras to literally transform your life! (No kidding!)
Clocking in at over 11,400 words (!!!), it is the most comprehensive chapter of Love & Sequins so far! In a delicious new format with yummy pictures & good-lookin’ formatting, it’s definitely the most enjoyable, useful & fabulous instalment yet!
I’m extremely excited about it, I think the content is super-practical & inspiring! It’s perfect for anyone who finds their moods sometimes get the better of them, if you’ve been wallowing in a case of the doldrums or if you just want to bring more happiness into your life!
The timing is ideal too for those of you sliding into winter or poking your heads out into the spring sunshine!
You can snap it up for $12! Otherwise you can subscribe monthly for $10 (& you’ll get the back issues you missed), or you can buy them all at once for $7 each!
The back issues are pretty wonderful, too! You can pick ‘em up here!
Love & Sequins #1: LEARNING TO LOVE YOURSELF — Self-adoration, manifesting your ideal persona, channelling your inner Marie Antoinette & everything in between!
“This podcast has been tremendously helpful. It has indeed resonated deeply in all of the tiny crevices of my being where I’ve been hiding my hopes and dreams and instead allowing myself to be swallowed by fear and doubt. I couldn’t agree more that we all know that self-confidence and self-love are the root of success, of living the positive inspired lives we all dream about. And yet, until now it escaped me that I could practice at being confident. That I could slowly develop these skills over time. I had a huge a-ha moment – of course it won’t happen overnight! Of course it’s about making small changes, adjusting my mindset and perceptions in the moment… Thank you for letting your own light shine as it has given me permission and inspiration to do the same. I’m deeply grateful.” — L.
“Dude. I’m just listening to your podcast now. Honestly, I was a little apprehensive because I’ve noticed your content on iCiNG has changed a little. This is the stuff. SIGH! RELIEF! CONGRATULATIONS. Don’t ever forget how much the ‘nonpareils’ have their hearts out there for you. Me included always always always. You’re just GOOD, you know? Substantial and full of perspective, dripping with sticky as honey vocabulary. Plus your voice is so badass.” — S.
Love & Sequins #2: THE SMART GIRL’S GUIDE TO BUSINESS — Taking control of your life, finding your passion, loving what you do & making mad bling!
“Thank you so much for your inspiration. it really gave me the kick up the bum that I needed. I was always afraid to take a creative income path, for fear that my talent was lacking. I still have these insecurities, but I realise that right now, while I’m young, enthusiastic and motivated is the very best time to give it a shot. If it doesn’t work out, then I’ll try something different. if it is a success, then maybe it will give me the confidence to try some other more innovative ideas.” — V.
“I am writing to you in regard to a project that I started as a result of your lovely site. I guess you could call me one of your inspired non-pareils. Wikifashion began as an idea around one year ago and I never really had the “chutzpah” to give it a go until I purchased your podcast on “being your own boss”. I fell asleep listening to that podcast every night for a week, taking it all in and furiously scribbling down notes. It was so groundbreaking for me and every word that you spoke really resonated with me. Thank you for inspiration and words of wisdom.” — M.
Love & Sequins #3: LOVE, SEX, THE GALAXY & EVERYTHING — From falling in love to co-habitation, & all the beauty & madness contained within!
“Gala, I loved this one! I listened to it as soon as you sent it. I’ve always been kind of a cynic when it comes to love, but I think I’m ready to let my guard down and take the plunge. The ‘love self-evaluation’ and ‘figuring out what you want from a partner’ parts stood out the most to me, and I’m definitely going to take the time to write and reflect on these areas. Thank you so much!” — D.
“This was supermegaawesome good! I like the way it flows and sounds natural… Like you’re whispering good advice in my ear! And also I was walking my dog while listening to this and 3 or 4 times I just burst out laughing at some of the things you said; a lot of strange looks! Please keep this up, they’re all super good and I really do owe a lot to you!” — V.
Love & Sequins #4: A GUIDE TO MANNERS FOR THE MODERN MINX — Etiquette, social graces & charming the pants off total strangers for the uninitiated!
“i just listened to this & it’s SO helpful, you have no idea. thank you, thank you, thank you! i’ve always been pretty socially awkward & it’s only gotten worse the past year or two & i’ve really been wanting to change that, but never knew where/how to start… i’m sure i’ll listen to it many more times :] & absolutely do the homework.” — M.
“Gala, you have truly hit the spot once more! I sat there nodding to myself, smiling with recognition, laughing out loud and thinking WOW this girl inspires me to change the world too as I listened to the 4th Love&Sequins. Thank you so much wonderful!” — A.
As always, sugarpuff, huge thanks to you for supporting me in this endeavour, being so encouraging & always inspiring me to be bigger & better!
Love & love & love,
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I think I may have to pick some up now that I have a paypal account- particurly 2 and 5. They sound perfect for me, the girl who wants to be happy and start her own business!
Gala!
I noticed the podcast seems to be love and sequins no.3 (about relationships) and not 5.
I read through the written stuff though and it looks awesome! Thank you so much… You are the ambassador of content, and with that a true inspiration!
martha — I know! I just emailed everyone again with the correct link. MWAH!
Heh-heh-heh, I am SO excited to get this in my inbox. A bunch of crazy fabulous but intimidating things have recently dropped into my lap [attending a climate conference with the governor of California!] and I am looking forward to some inspiring words to help me take on the challenge. :)
Hi Gala!
I just thought I’d drop you a note. I have been a long time reader and love your site! You are a big inspiriation. Keep up the awesome work and when I finally get some money, I’ll def buy Love and Sequins!
Love Katie
Great work, Gala. This is my favourite Love & Sequins yet. We could all stand to take your advice in this area. xx
I emailed the below to Gala the second I finished reading/listening to this Love & Sequins…even better was the lovely supportive magical email I recieved back from her, which made me smile hugely!!! and proves even more so that you recieve back what you put out there to others:
Thank you Gala for this one. It is your best yet and came at a perfect moment as the universe so decided.
I made a bet with a published author I met when I took one of her day classes back in May this year. The bet was that I would finish a draft of my manuscript by October 1st this year or I would owe her $3000. I have had this novel on and off for almost five years and it is dying to come out of me. I now have approx 12 days left for another 50 thousand words to poor out of me inbetween my normal routine of 9-5 office work (which I actually like) and gym and social life etc. As you can imagine that is a lot of words to get through in such a short period of time. Half the people I know are super supportive and telling me to go home and write write write and the other half are like are you sure you can do it? I ahve being procrastinating and pretty down for the last few weeks and struggling to snap myself out of it due to the daunting task I had placed upon myself.
If I want to be a successful author i ahve to walk the walk or in this case write the write! Your article said alot of things I already personally agree with myself but sometimes as you know we need a little reminder, a little kick in the pants from an outside source before we can reinforce this behaviour and actions in ourselves.
Starting today I will be happier, stronger person, set my goals and acheive them. I will be happy because I can be and I am going to take responisibilty for myself and my emotions and not blame it on anyone else.
Thank you a million…think you gave me the push I needed to acheive my goal and be happy in the mean time.
Im one of those drama people by the way that somehow when sucess or happiness is happening I feel I don’t deserve it so I self sabotage and create drama for myself. Im gonna seriously try to stop that now.
Thanks again! Stay magical stay wonderful stay powerful and never stop moving forward!!
I will definitely be purchasing this one! It sounds like exactly what I need right now.
You’re like a far-away fabulous free-spirited friend, a friend that I think everyone needs to have.
You are truly an amazing creature. I make myself some coffee, grab a cookie, settle down in front of the PC and go through your Week Ending Carousal, your TILT, throroughly enjoying myself for that half an hour. After that I’m all energized and inspired. ^^
I really love your website and I’m going to check out one of your podcasts one of these days. =) Have a great weekend.
x.
Hey Gala this format is yummy! the photos are ace and the podcast itself is sounding way smoother.
Much love! Very helpful.
It seems I only got e-mail 2: the correct link. I don’t get to take part in the happy pictures and the text version!
:’(
Gala! I think it’s funny that we seem to be on the same thought path. I recently decided to make a lovely little optimism blog and so I’ve been pouring through books about, literally, choosing joy, making magic and devoting my life to love.
Keep doing what you’re doing, Miss Second Half of the Same Coin (I’m a Pisces ;]). Clearly you’re on to something!
Yes, mine, please :)
I actually love heading into Winter because it comprises my birthday and Christmas (and this year I’m totally going to Disneyland) but the darker evenings always get me. So a guide to happiness is pretty much the perfect thing right now! When is it not the perfect thing? Anyway. I’m sitting in anticipation until payday :)
xx
Yay I just subscribed! I totally love your thoughts and will be damn please to be part of the circle. Thinking wonderful things and having a fantastic objective in view. I mean this is the magical dose that all girls and womans should have. You’re like a magnet of amazing things. And I can’t wait to get your voice in my computer! It’s going to be playing over and over and over again, till i get my mind set!
Thanks for being such an inspiration
lots of love
maz.
I’m so pleased to hear you’re all enjoying it so much! Makes me really happy. Mwah mwah mwah!
konekochan — Weird! Maybe it’s in your spam folder? What’s the email address you subscribed with? I will send you it again!
bums :( i could do with hearing this, but i have no money due to being too apathetic to work for the past few weeks XD vicious circle, what!
i will be buying this one when i get paid on friday!
sounds like it should be really interesting :)
Hi Gala – I’ve listened to half of it so far – it’s GOOD! It’s the sort of stuff people need to hear – common sense stuff, but things we often forget! Thank you!
Hello Miss Darling,
So I paid some hours ago for just this one episode and since I am doing this for the first time I don’t know the drill yet. How long will I need to wait for the magic link? Let me know, cos I am exciiited :-)
I’m so getting one of these eventually!
I can’t wait until my online account stuff gets all set up and worked out.
My mother won’t approve of course…but ooh I just can’t wait! :D
Wait, so if subscribe monthly, will i be charged like fifty bucks at once?
Or how does that work…? I’ve never really bought anything online :/
e-mail is mcf7245@sru.edu
I have gotten all other love and sequins from you just fine (they originally were sent to my junk folder but I fixed that). I didn’t get the e-mail on any of the servers I use (i go between 3). Quite odd.
Alex — Haha, I was asleep when your order came through! You should have it by now!
Taz — The monthly subscription is billed monthly, takes $10 at a time :>
Konekochan — That is totally weird. Okay, I am re-sending it right now! Tell me if it doesn’t come through.
Konekochan — I just got this back:
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
mcf7245@sru.eduTechnical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 5.7.1 Message rejected as spam by Content Filtering. (state 18).
Do you have another email address I can use?!
I am getting paid this Friday and this would be the perfect end-of-the-month treat for me, particularly as next week I am starting a new course at university and really need something to help me come out of my shell and get everything I can out of the experience! However, being not particularly internet-savvy, I was a bit apprehensive about getting a paypal account and signing up to buy things, particularly ones which are in a different currency (I’m British and use pounds instead of dollars). How would that work? Do paypal automatically change the currency or would I have to do that myself? I know it’s probably a silly question but I like to know what I am getting myself into before I get myself into it! Anyway, if I can work it out, I am very much looking forward to listening to your podcast – if it’s even half as inspiring as your everyday posts, it will be well worth every penny :] x
Emilie — Yup, Paypal will automatically convert it for you & let you know what it works out as in pounds! xo
Gala,
What is the link to purchase this installment on its own? The heart link only leads me to option two.. clever marketing perhaps? b/c i did find myself thinking “ahh, well, i could just sign up for ‘em all.”
xo
angela
Angela — If you reload the page the $12 heart should show up… But the link is thus! www.paypal.com/nz/cgi
Oh & if that doesn’t work, which it might not, since it is encrypted, you can always just Paypal $12 to galadarling@gmail! Mwah!
5 things I love about Love and Sequins: making magic happen. (In no particular order)
1. The name. Love? sequins? Magic?! Brain-happiness overload!
2. Waiting for them to come. As the end of the month nears I get rather excited for the next one. I think overtime about all the lovliness that will be tickling my ears very soon and I’ll be completley honest; you never dissapoint!
3. Your voice. I have serious accent envy.
4. The content. Of course! So much wonderfull advice, given in such a brilliant way. It’s almost like you perform your words, not just say them.
5. Lights, camera, Action! Putting this stuff into practise has so much enriched my life it’s impossible to sum it all up! As ever, I do believe a HUGE Thank You is necassary!
You are simply exquisite!
turns out i had more money in my account than i thought, i’ve just paid for it!
can’t wait to listen to it :)
Hi Gala, I have just ordered for the first time (#5). Does this come in through my inbox? I feel so silly. I just paid for something and I have no idea how I’m going to get it!
Vixxie — You are adorable. Thank you so much for your enthusiasm & encouragement! xoxox
Autumn — Yes ma’am! I send them out manually. You should have yours already!
I got it Gala! Thank you! I’ve been listening to it section by section so I can focus on one at a time and it’s definitely going to be helpful listening to “Taking Responsibility” before heading out to another day at work! Glitter and puffy clouds for everyone! :) Now, instead of dreading my work day I am excited for what I can create.
I’m listening to it right now!
There’s some great advice on there. Some of it is stuff I already know but when you’re having a bad time it’s really good to hear someone telling you those things.
I realised recently that I really need to start seizing the day and making changes in my life rather than waiting for things to happen.
I’ve started playing roller derby, I’m applying for new jobs in the field I actually want to work in and I’ve applied to do a distance learning course!! :D
x
meep. I realize that you send these out manually, so I understand if it takes awhile to get to me…but I saw other people were having problems so I just wanted to check…how long does it normally take to recieve the link?
Thank you so, so, so much for this. The part about taking resposibility really opened my eyes. It finally clicked as I was crossing the street. I literally froze, midstep, in the middle of the road.
And visulaising my ideal life has already worked a treat.
Thank you!
This is the best instalment yet, I can honestly say this is the best $12 you will ever spend.
I’ve been seeing a psychologist for cognitive behaviour therapy for the past 6 months to deal with depression stemmed from a number of problems of my own design and other uncontrollable forces. What gala has produced with love and sequins 5 is that 6 months of therapy all wrapped up into an hour long podcast.
Her advice about choosing how you react to situations is the most helpful life advice you may ever receive. Thank you. xx
Hey Miss Gala <3
I was wondering, I have just paid for all 12 podcasts, now how do I actually download them? do i just wait for them to come to my inbox? (impatient excited little monkey over here!)
thanks! and thank you for this wonderful website and for being you’re awesome self, I’ve got so much from you. You’re an inspiration and you rock :)
xxxooo
just got all five :-D
thank you lovely! x
hey gala!
i just wanted to let you know that we featured L&S #5 over at kind over matter today:
kindovermatter.blogspot.com/20…
i hope you are having the best of days.
xo.
jenn
ooh gala, question?
my mom’s paypal is how i payed…so does that mean they’ll go to her email address?
Taz — Yup! Just send me an email with your address & hers, & I will change it so that you get them instead :>
Hi Gala,
Just wondering, i paid for my podcast this morning and haven’t rec’d it yet, do I have to email you or anything to get the link??
cheeeeerz!
I share Nikkee’s question. (and am so excited!!)
same question!
only i payed for them at the beginning of the week
exciteddd!! :D
Same question again! I am so impatient! x
Same question! How do I download it?
And… same question again, paid for it a few hours ago, how long will it take to get to my inbox? (:
I bought love&sequins #5 a week ago and i’m so excited to receive it!!! i’m looking forward to getting it!!!
waiting for your email with the download!!!!!!!!!!!!
love, Francesca
Francesca — I think I’m caught up! If I didn’t miss you somehow, it might be in your junk/spam folder! Send me an email (gala at galadarling dot com) if you can’t see it there :>
I haven’t seen mine come through… can you confirm it’s there? Thanks, Amy
cry cry cry has anyone else had trouble listening to this – it only d/l’s like 5 minutes of talking for me,and then I can’t seem to save it into itunes without needing quick time pro :(
Natasja — I just emailed you! xo
I’m also having downloading issues. When it wouldn’t let me right click and “save the source” because of my lack of Quicktime Pro, I went to File then tried to “save page as”.
The download pops up on my window put it just says that it’s starting for forever and won’t ever do anything past starting.
I’ve also tried it in different browsers with the same outcome. :(
Is there anyway I can download it without having Quicktime pro?