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Greg Dixon, Chief Enabler for Your Dream Projects

Greg Dixon, Chief Enabler

There is a reason why the word “Unlimited” is in the company name Shared Visions Unlimited Publishing.

There are a only few things I haven’t experienced or done in this lifetime, like giving birth. Including past lives, then not much at all.

That is reflected in the range of projects I have done over the decades.

My business card most accurately could say,

Does Stuff

Most of what I have done is on my YouTube Channel.

Chief Enabler

Puddle Splashing

I have a lot of skills and tools to enable implementation many different things.

I also can be an enabler of both good and bad habits:-)

As the driver for a group of students, I probably should of been telling the girls to not run through the big puddle.

Instead, I am in the puddle too!

Not growing up any time soon.

Shared Visions Unlimited Publishing

My main company focuses on helping people publish and market books, online courses, memberships, and story productions, often collaborating with Betty Withrow.

Betty is a writer, writing coach, and ghostwriter in Monterey County, California.

Sometime it seems like we are publishing a book a week. We encourage authors to consider creating courses and multimedia programs related to their books.

I teach and offer an approach to publishing called The Golden Publishing Sales Machine.

Total Traffic and Conversion

Betty Withrow and I collaborate with Roy Dickan, John Waller, and others to provide comprehensive marketing for businesses and entrepreneurs.

Our current clients include the dental practice and real estate investing niches, though we can help most businesses.

Some Past Projects

Almost all of the following projects started with someone, asking :

‘I want to do X, can you help?’

Many times I was able to help.

  • “How to Coach Baseball to Kids” video course for Rocket Norton.
  • Websites for various promotions and companies (hundreds). Many of those I inherited from people who stopped returning calls to my client or never completed the project.
  • Online assessment systems for Human Resources (decades, millions of dollars).
  • Driver for Rocket Norton’s Town Car Service. I am now once removed from every major actor from the last forty years).
  • Also once removed from most top musicians, copywriters, and marketers in the world.
  • Many theatre and concert promotions.
  • Cancer benefit concerts.
  • Art in the Garden and other arts events in North Vancouver.
  • Urban Farming projects.
  • Food Rescue projects, including video productions.
  • Capturing and publishing personal stories.
  • Video capture of events and keynote presentations.
  • Many online courses and membership programs.
  • Quirky music videos done for fun with zero budgets.
  • Doing video interviews of pioneers in the Natural Health Industry.
  • Helping authors publish their books. Rocket Norton’s Lost In Space was the first one decades ago. Sometimes it seems like Betty Withrow and I and I are submitting a book a week for print and electronic publishing.
  • Online Summits.
  • Music concerts where I helped organize, provided sound, did multi-track audio recordings, and recorded with multiple video cameras.
    Much of that is on my YouTube channel.
  • Hundreds of hours of video of Unity services, including Unity of Vancouver and Unity of Nashville.
  • A video documentary for Lynn Valley United Church.
  • Travel articles, photography, and videos.
  • Technical documentation.
  • Software design and engineering.
  • Organized and showed in Art Exhibitions.
  • Drove through the Grand Canyon in a snowstorm (there is a story there!)

Everything is Figureoutable

Although I have done and learned a tremendous amount of things, I would make a LOT of money if I got paid for what I did not know.

I have joked that the name for that is Consulting.

My main superpower is that I am a Zen Master of search and can read and understand things quickly.

As Marie Forleo’s mother liked to say, Everything Is Figureoutable.

The book is good. Check it out on Amazon.

What is Your Dream Project?

What do you want to manifest into the world?

I may be able to help or point you in the right direction.

Let’s talk about your dream projects.

When JOY Is All The WHY You Need

Old Road

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken is something of a lament about what that road might have brought rather the road taken.

I am currently reflecting that for myself and perhaps you are too.

Do you love what you are doing now?

Are you having success?

Was there something else you wanted to do?

The word ‘Why’ can be a double-edged sword.

While it can provide clarity, it can also be used by well-intentioned friends, parents, teachers, counsellors, life coaches, and people with selfish agendas that steer you in the wrong direction for you.

Usually, it is not their fault and it is not your fault. Often your inclinations are still forming and not ready to withstand questions from you and others.

Questions like:

  • Why do you want to do that?
  • Are you qualified?
  • Is that a responsible decision?
  • That won’t work!
  • Have you thought this through?

Especially for pursuits such as art and music, the road to success is not as clear as it seems with more ‘practical’ choices such as getting a regular job, learning a trade, becoming qualified to do something that pays.

No matter your choice, you will do better if you are sincerely interested enough that your interest and love will carry you through the tough times.

And often the thing that is hard to rationalize is the special gift you have that will bring you joy and abundance.

Marie Forleo

Stay on your game and keep going for your dreams. 
The world needs that special gift that only you have.

Marie Forleo

The Case for Joy

Joseph Campbell

Follow your bliss.
If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living
is the one you are living.
When you can see that,
you begin to meet people
who are in the field of your bliss,
and they open the doors to you.
I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid,
and doors will open
where you didn’t know they were going to be.
If you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else.

Joseph Campbell

Abraham Hicks also teaches that our main mission as humans is to align with the vibrations of joy to unlock unlimited abundance. There are hundreds of video clips on YouTube like this one:

The main approach is to pay attention to what makes you feel good and be grateful.

Daily Gratitude Brings Joy

What Gives Me Joy

Here are the things I have enjoyed for decades.

  • Being in nature appreciating things like the quiet, moving water, wind, and the beauty of creation
  • Arts and Crafts
  • Travel
  • Visiting galleries, museums, and historical sites
  • Music of all genres
  • Writing
  • Video and Photography
  • Sharing Stories
  • Volunteering

As I read this, I am doing some of the things as part of my life and business, but not all.

I will make some adjustments.

Abraham Hicks says that everything you need is in front of you now, and that is true for me.

Doing everything on my Joy list can be done for very little money.

A motorhome or van with room for a bed, stove, cooler, laptop, and stuff to make art and music is all that is needed.

A little money for gas and food and a few other expenses and I’m golden.

That is one of the reasons I like having remote clients and am learning how to trade.

You may have much more ambitions goals for your life.

What would you love to be doing that you are not not doing now?

What changes can you make today to align with your Joy?

By the way, Abraham Hicks would say that JOY is ALWAYS the WHY you need:-)