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The one in which I take my own advice.

By on November 28, 2011 in Business Development, Spirituality, Success
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It’s always time to take your own advice.

If you don’t honor the advice you freely give, why in the heck would  you expect anyone else to heed your well-intentioned musings?

This place, here, is about knowing yourself.  Because when you know yourself you are much better equipped to make wise choices.  In making wise choices (for yourself) you influence change.

If there’s something you don’t like – anywhere – you can sit on the couch and grumble.  You can hang at the watering hole (or water cooler) and whine or you can make a different choice.

The thing is, sometimes, when in the heat of the moment and the other guy is letting his opinion spew all over your world and telling you how to raise your kid,  you don’t make the best choice.

Sometimes it feels better and easier to crab about the weather, the job or the idiots you have to work with.

What’s your advice then?  If you were helping your newly-college-graduated-niece deal with workplace issues what would you say? (Your truest advice always comes from your highest self).

It’s so easy to place blame.  Or to look the other way.  Or to decide before you start that it’s too hard.  But what’s real?  What do you most want and how can you get there?

Spend your energy giving yourself your best advice and then choose to heed it.  That’s what can get you through.

 

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Wrapping October

By on October 27, 2011 in Business Development, palmistry, Personal Development, Universal Laws

Even though it’s pouring today, I’ve so enjoyed this month.  Despite the sadness of losing my dear feline companion Emma I’ve had great, sweeping happy days and nights.

October is a time for regrouping, tending to soil in our gardens and hearts and minds and removing anything that is no longer serving us.  All in preparation for a slower, contemplative winter.

In the days of Internet and electricity and constant connection it’s easy to forget our tie to nature.  The Earth calls us to rest and rejuvenate in Winter.  The deep rest we need requires that we prepare carefully to enjoy our down time.  It calls us to go deep and really reflect on what is most meaningful to us.  Most world religions have a winter ritual that calls for endings and new births.

The endings must happen to allow the birth of energy.

This month I’ve been clearing out old thought patterns and old ways of doing business.  I’ve also been clearing out closets, bookshelves and my diet.  It feels remarkable to see so much that I’ve held onto for so long simply flutter away.

Some things are easier to let go of than others, of course.

I had a bit of fear around ending my incredibly low-priced offerings.  I was afraid that I’d alienate people who needed me.  I knew, intellectually, that raising my rates and phasing out low-ball offerings was a smart business move, but my heart and my head weren’t in it together.  My heart really wants to help everyone.

My life school is SERVICE. 

This means I might be a tad prone to turning myself into a servant if I’m not careful.  When I reflected on this year I realized that I’d been so hell bent on serving everyone that I’d nearly forgotten to serve myself too.

I’ve spent years reminding my clients to take care of themselves and to only serve from a full cup of energy and love, not a depleted, empty shell.  Still, I was doing it myself.

That’s when running your own business pretty much sucks.

My coaches and advisers were doing their best to get me to take my own advice, but I was pretty stubborn.

Finally, in October, everything gelled. 

Maybe it was the shift in the season.  Perhaps it was a culmination of the shifts in the Earth.  I simply needed the time to be right to let go of what wasn’t serving me and my business.

I haven’t made major changes, I’ve shifted.  I’ve created a series of more than 36 intensive, deep learning experiences for students of life and palmistry.  I’ve given up the need to fit everything I do into one tight little box.

When I let go of the little box and the prevailing “rules,” I opened up to birth new ideas and the energy necessary to put them into action.

October is a glorious time of year.  A time to mourn the passing of those beings and things we’ve loved and to reflect on what it will take to create new life in the coming days.

I hope you’ve had a great month too.  I’d love to hear what you’re being called to release – share in the comments, won’t you?

 

 

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Slow Going

By on September 19, 2011 in Business Development, Personal Development, Spirituality, Success, writing
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It’s been slow going on the front end-public face of this site, eh?

The miraculous thing is that I’m giving myself permission to take as long as it takes to move forward with this web presence project.

I’m also giving myself permission to write more essays and insights and stories and musings.  That’s the way I work and the way I think and the way I heal.  It’s a lousy formula for marketing and selling stuff though.

Tough noogies.

The Divine Intelligence  has been giving me much food for thought lately, and I’ve been writing about it in my personal journals but not sharing it – because that’s not what business people do.  And heck I love being a person of business.

Still my truth is this — my life and my business are connected.  There is not one part of me that can stand without the other.  It’s impossible for me to move forward in business if I am not applying what I learn in my life and spiritual quest and vice versa.

While I’m a big believer in signs, I’m also a believer in reality.  I don’t go hunting for signs at every turn (that just makes me think of John Nash and his beautiful mind) but after facing challenges or confrontations a few times I’m smart enough to sit back and look for the sign in the challenge.  That’s where the healing begins for me.  I’m hoping that you might benefit from that wisdom too.

Here are the recent messages I’ve received/reconnected with:

  1. I came across my notes from a reading back in 2007 with the gracious, wise and oh- so gifted Vernon Mahabal .  He noted that the years leading up to my 49th birthday were to be spent focused on learning and writing.  He specifically stated, repeatedly, if my notes are any indication, that while business is fine for me during this time frame, it is on the back burner. Today I’m 46 years old.  This says to me that I have a ton more learning to do before my new teachings are to be launched.  Back then I hoped he was wrong.  I sufficiently shut out his wisdom enough to beat myself up about not having “time” for learning and building a big business.  Now I feel at ease and am prepared to spend the majority of my energy learning and teaching (that’s one of the ways I learn best).  From there, the business will grow.  Not the other way around.
  2. I was gifted an extraordinary trip with 3 girlfriends to a very small village and lovely resort in Mexico.  For some reason before the trip I was all stopped up and stressed.  I worried about it being Mexico (the State Department isn’t keen on Americans being there), I worried about flying home to the States on the 10th Anniversary of the attack on the Pentagon, World Trade Center and more, I worried about not running my business effectively.  In short, I was a basket case.  I couldn’t shake the feeling of not wanting to go.  When I resolved to go and finally arrived I was still antsy.  Then I took off my shoes and walked on the gold-flecked beach and heard a small voice that insisted, “You are worthy of gifts. All you have to do is say yes to receive and you will be completely worthy.”  Ahh. Gracias.
  3. My sweetheart owns two cars.  I have one.  He got the second car because his first one died.  again.  The engine needs to be replaced.  His second car runs, but needs some serious work to be 100%.  He’d been driving my car (the energy efficient one) to and from his workplace about an hour and a half from home.  When I returned from Mexico he called me from work to say that the car had died.  I went to get him and we’ve been living on borrowed time with his second car since.  The thing is, over the 4 years we’ve been together he’s had car troubles, often leaving me at home in a fairly non-bus-metro-friendly neighborhood without a car.  I sat one morning in meditation and asked about this.  The answer?  “Until you are clear on your destination the vehicle doesn’t matter.”  Yes, my Higher Self talks like this — leaving as many questions and possibilities as there are answers.

So  now, I look at these three pieces and know that my work is to pay more attention to my big WHY here on Earth.  To learn more about the mysteries of interconnectedness of Earth and Nature and Guides and Angels and intuition and to write about them in a way that makes sense for helping others connect with their big WHY.

I’ve always known that the difference between Excellent and Exceptional was tied to the WHY and that the goal for each of us is to focus on our destination with unwavering faith.  I’ve gotten a bit away from that in trying to massively grow my business.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m in business.  And I’m still working with the most amazing, gifted women on the planet and will continue to do so.  The money however is not the driving WHY in my life.  The ability to be a pioneer and a sage and impart ancient wisdom in new and unique ways to helps others — that’s the WHY.

In the coming weeks and months I promise to share what I learn with you and give you all the access you can handle to the ancient tools that can help you in a modern world.  Sound good?

If any of this resonates with you – share your story in the comments – okay?

 

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A Life Worth Living

By on August 19, 2011 in Marketing

Things have been a little topsy-turvy of late.  I’m having lunch with my astrologer today and maybe I’ll find out it hasn’t been just me feeling this way.  What I’m finding is that miraculously I’m slightly better at dealing with the curveballs than I was 6 months ago.  Every year my capacity to relax into the flow of whatever is happening gets better.

I still start out like a rock in the middle of the river, trying hard to hold my place and prove my point.  This summer I’ve realized I change the stance sooner than before.

That feels good and useful.

All the wild things happening in my life (and the world) are just things.  I have the opportunity to decide how to react to them.  Everything.

That’s the gift we’ve been given as humans.

It’s so easy for me to get distracted and blame and worry and use excuses.

Still it’s more fun to ask what it would take to be exceptional despite all the challenges.

What about you? Any hints about dealing with craziness?  How do you remain exceptional in a world that wants you to be ordinary?

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