Finding time can begin with finding your heart. That might seem counter-intuitive, but think about it. So often, when we are busy, the connection to our heart feels fainter. That, in turn, can start a constriction that leads straight to urgency, frustration and feeling that there’s simply not enough to go around.
When you feel yourself tighten like that, don’t panic. Instead, know that you have found the perfect time to transform your world from the inside out!
Here’s how: BE gratitude.
This dramatic shift in consciousness generates instant fulfillment. It may sound unbelievable, but give it a try. ONLY when you experience how gratitude transforms your approach to life will you truly come to understand. You already possess EVERYTHING that you need in order to live with joy. And that is abundance!
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?
When you are in business doing what you love, it is natural to fall in love with your clients and their projects. When they put their projects out into the world and make a difference, you cannot help but feel proud of them. Their projects remind you of your contribution, the difference you are making and the important work you are doing in the world.
By the time they hire you they are ready for change. You don’t get attached to their success or rescue them into achieving. You believe in their ability and personal power to make a change in their lives. You hold the vision, believe in them, support them with your insights while they create their own ‘ah… ha!’ moments. You work in synchronicity and miracles unfold.
When they are excited about their work, about your relationship with them, they become a very important part of your life and that’s when falling in love with a client happens.
My friends Alan Hickman and Jan Stringer turned me on to this video today and I thought you might enjoy and benefit from it.
Like Vishen Lakhiani suggests in this video, I find that certain ritual practices in my life help keep me on a more even keel. The trick, when I find myself in a place of feeling crummy, is to remember to engage the practices!
Every August, I take a 3 day break from everything. It’s not vacation. It’s not family time. It’s specifically time to work on the long term goals and plans for my business. I like to do this in August, because the rest of the world is enjoying summer, family, travel. It means the phones are quiet, fewer clients need me to be accessible.
So I change up my routine and go somewhere I really enjoy being. I’ve tried the beach, but I enjoy the beach too much to work. What does work well for me is to go north to one of the remote serene lakes of Maine or New Hampshire.
The different environment allows me to declutter my head, calm my brain, settle down and really focus uninterrupted on where I want to take my business the next year.
Do you know what the “Golden Rule” is? Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you. It is about treating people with the same respect as you want to be treated.
Tikkun olam. A Hebrew phrase meaning “to heal the world.” Repairing the world through “acts of kindness.” That is the greatest work any one person can do.
This reinforces my value of friendship. As a result of social networking, I have had the opportunity to meet many wonderful people. Most of them I never would have met if I would have stayed in the safe confines of my office and physical community.
Many people connect with others to see how someone can help you. One of the principles concerning Law of Attraction is “like attracts like.” When I meet someone, my goal is to see how I can help them. When I offer to do something for someone, the offer is genuine and sincere. It is coming from a good place.
Yet I can’t help being surprised and thrilled when I get the message, for the umpteenth time, that when you’re connected to Source, when you’re plugged in to your Guidance, there’s always MORE and MORE and MORE … even if you’re already experiencing outrageous abundance, wisdom, love and joy.
But it makes sense, doesn’t it?
If you’re fully connected to the Source of all inspiration, energy, creativity, insight, wisdom, passion, love, and joy … well, there is always an endless supply. There’s always MORE!
In this video, I share a simple content creation system. I explain how to document your epiphanies in your format of choice (blogs, articles, videos, audios), then transfer them into other formats for distribution.
We all want clarity — clarity of purpose, clarity of knowing who we are, clarity around the offers we make in sharing our gifts with others.
There comes a certain point, however, when clarity costs:
Clarity costs time — we often spend so much time thinking about how to get clarity that little else happens
Clarity costs energy — we often spend so much time analyzing and reanalyzing what we’re doing (or not doing) that we have no energy left for other pursuits
Clarity costs money — spending so much time thinking and analyzing means little time for producing programs, products and services and less time for sharing them with others
For today, take pleasure in being unsure. Revel in the muddle. Embrace the gray.
And as you sit unclear about your life purpose, choose one thing you can to do generate extra revenue this month.
You don’t have to love it. You don’t have to want to do it forever. By doing it, you’ll learn if you enjoy it. . .or not. And then move on to the next thing.
Gaining clarity around what you do comes from DOING, not thinking about doing.
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.
