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Have you noticed that the energy of the past few weeks has felt heavy, fraught with miscommunications and technical glitches? One of my Platinum members, gifted Astrologer Lisa Zimmerman (who’s ramping up her business big time with JV’s, teleseminars, VIP days and more — I am so proud of her!) described it as a time of “cosmic chaos and conflict.” Lisa, I hear ya on that!

I’m glad to say that within just the past 48 hours, this feels like it has shifted. In fact, this may be really sappy to hear but I’ve been on a bliss cloud the past couple of days.

Whether you believe in astrology, numerology, tarot or any of the esoteric arts, there is something to be said when things just don’t seem to be going right for many people, all at the same time, which begs the question: what do YOU do when the moon and stars collide instead of align?

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What most often stops women from making a big shift in their life is the fear of hurting someone’s feelings. In my business, I’m affectionately known as the “Velvet Hammer” because of my soft-but-tough stand with my clients. But personally, I worry as much as any gal about hurting someone’s feelings.

What I’ve learned is to NOT let that stop me from making a decision that is right for me. Here’s what I do: When I feel myself contracting, not wanting to upset someone, I always ask a powerful question my mom, Kailash (an awesome coach on these kinds of sticky situations!) taught me. The question is:

“What is it YOU really want?”

I then answer the question, without fear of upsetting anyone. In that moment, I have found my truth and from there, can respectfully and compassionately have a conversation or take action from a place of authenticity and power, rather than from guilt or worry.

Relationships are tough but they get surprisingly easy when we come from our place of truth, no matter what.

Every gal I know indulges in comparison. The thing is, do you use comparison to pull yourself forward…or to pull yourself down?

When I’m at my best, I’ll use comparison to inspire me to take a big leap forward. The feeling is one of curiosity and my internal conversation is gentle, with my higher self helping me see new ways of doing something, or sparking an idea that, until that moment, had been lying undiscovered within me.

On occasion though, my shadow side will pop up and use comparison as a weapon against my self esteem and sense of self-worth. When this happens the first thing I do is first become AWARE that it’s happening. Then, I ask myself:

“Where is it that I am not stepping into my power, what am I not giving voice to or where am I not moving forward authentically?

It’s never about what the person you’re comparing yourself to is doing more or better than you are. I believe that when comparison sparks negative, self-depreciating feelings within us, it’s a signal that we’re denying our truth. A part of us intuitively knows this and gives us a choice: use the comparison to pull us down into our shadow side, or, use the comparison for our highest and greatest good.

I know which path I choose, and I bet you do, too.

Something happened a few days ago that I feel compelled to share with you.

An employee that I had to fire a few weeks ago refused to return a company asset that I had paid for. Weeks have gone by, the asset was never shipped to me and when I asked her again for it, this time, she flatly refused to return it.

I admit, my initial reaction was shock and anger, followed quickly by hurt and “How could she do this?” But after about 20 minutes of emotional drama I cooled down. What helped was asking these questions:

Has what she’s done really damaged me in any way? Can the item easily be replaced? Is spending time being upset, hurt and angry more important than investing my time in working on my business, where I get the joy of serving others?

By shifting my perspective I was able to refocus my thoughts, breathe out negative feelings, and move on with my day. While I can’t agree with her actions I CAN choose not to invest any more energy into the situation. I HIGHLY suggest you do the same this week — let something go and move on to what it is you are REALLY supposed to focus on.

I bet you’re familiar with the phrase, “Sh*& happens.” The thing is, when… er…stuff happens, many women entrepreneurs feel they’ve been taken off course. They allow their plans, their dreams and their actions to take a back seat as they deal with the event that caused the disruption.

When stuff happens you have a choice: Do you match the level of intensity with your own high drama reaction? If so, then you’re allowing external events to hijack your life, your business and your emotions. The event consumes your attention, demanding you talk about it, repeat the story of it to as many people as you can find who will listen, think about it to the point of obsession and use it as a reason for not getting anything else accomplished.

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Did you know that when you worry that you may not be able to “handle” growing your business, or that if you doubt you’re “good enough” to raise your fees, that you’re actually swimming upstream, against the current of a universal principle, which is the principle of 1ncrease?

Many of us have been taught that it’s wrong to want more: more money, a bigger house, more clothes or more time off. Yet, to want more is as authentic and natural to us as breathing.

Expanding, growing or increasing is a natural state of all living things: plants, animals and people. The thing that’s important is to recognize the difference between wanting more as a way of self-medicating, or as a way of trying to fill a hole within us of not feeling good enough, versus wanting more simply because we want to enjoy the abundance, the gifts and the beauty that life has to offer.

As long as you are clear on the difference, you have no need to ever worry about being greedy, shallow or fixated on keeping up with the Jones’. It is your natural, authentic state to want — and to have — more. I recommend releasing the internal chatter that you “shouldn’t” want more, and instead, give yourself permission to feel the effortless abundance of simply allowing more into your life.

Okay, I’m going to be REALLY candid here…for years I’ve said that drama is something I only want to see on the page or on the big screen. Meaning, great for entertainment but thank you, no, not a part of my life. I prefer simplicity, peace, order and beauty to the chaos, upset and mess of drama.

So far, so good. Until a couple of weeks ago when I realized that me, the UN-drama queen actually creates her own form of this in her life. Ugh. Personal realizations like this are painful in the moment of awareness, but powerful for creating lasting, heart felt change.

Since that moment of realization I’ve made a list of how I create drama in my life. I included everything from how upset I get when one of my horses has a health challenge to how, at times, I’ll let other peoples’ priorities trump my plans, then get stressed with the need to catch up.

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In a teleseminar I taught today, I spoke about how one of the ways to create a 6 and 7 figure business is to make sure you have clients with big enough goals. The reason is, it’s tough to grow a high end business if your clients think small.

One of the reasons I’m successful is I dream big, then create my life and business as if that dream is real. Before I know it, it IS real. Not only am I impacting my life for the positive, I’m helping my clients believe that what they want is possible for them, too. Which is why so many of my clients quickly accelerate their 1ncome, their confidence and their vision of what’s possible for themselves. They take action they never thought they would take.

But you can’t just “dream big.” You have to see it, smell it, feel it, want it, desire it, hunger after it, thirst for it, taste it and be willing to become who you need to be in order for the Divine to hand it to you. If that sounds tough for you then you’re not likely to ever really get what you want. If, on the other hand, you read again what I just wrote and say, “Oh, YES!” then I have good news for you: You’re likely to experience the reality of your dream in a heartbeat. So, start preparing, okay? ((-:

When I decided that I was going to add a fifth horse to our equine family, I knew two things: 1) that I was going to invest in a horse with a lot of training, which meant he would come with a hefty price tag; and 2) that until I felt I deserved to spend that kind of money, the right horse would not find me.

To prepare, I began to shop online, researching Spanish horses in today’s market. At first, I dismissed the really highly trained, more expensive horses I saw, thinking, “That’s out of my budget.” But the truth was, the budget I had set was based on worrying what other people would think if I spent more.

The classic, “who am I to ____________” syndrome, right?

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