How to create a powerful morning ritual

March 5th, 2010 Posted in Raw Food, Self Care, Time Management & Productivity, Uncategorized | 6 Comments »

How you start your day is how it continues! What do you do in your first 30 minutes?

Do you start your day by leaping out of bed after hitting the snooze button a few times, rushing into the shower, grabbing a bite to eat and then out the door? Or running around taking care of someone else?

What would happen if you created sacred time for yourself each day? What kind of message do you think that would send out to the Universe about your intentions?

One of your greatest acts of self kindness you can do is to claim time for yourself first thing each day. Here are some simple ideas you might want to consider.

1. Write morning pages - this is a powerful head decluttering act. The idea is to write three pages of stream of consciousness writing, without stopping, editing, correcting - and just see what comes up - you’ll be surprised. Do this each day and you’ll be making space for creativity and all kinds of insights. This is my #1 morning activity. It will take 20-30 minutes.

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Procrastinating? 20 minutes is your friend

February 26th, 2010 Posted in Time Management & Productivity | No Comments »

Do you ever procrastinate?

Procrastination is the habit of not getting started, putting things off till the last minute. It results in missed opportunities. stress, and a life full of clutter.

These 7 tips for dealing with procrastination will help you take charge of your life. As you read these, think of something you’re procrastinating about right now and see how these tips relate - I know there IS something you’re procrastinating about!

1. Ask yourself: Does this project or action match my vision or purpose? Is it something really important to me? If not, why are you thinking about doing it?

2. What are you telling yourself? Are you saying you ‘have to do it?’ Telling yourself you ‘have to’ do something puts a heavy energy onto it, and who wants to do something they have to do?

Here’s the thing: You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do. You’re always free to choose. There may be consequences for not doing it, but you DO have a choice.

If you’re telling yourself you have to do something ask yourself…. is this for my highest good? If it is, great - reframe it as something you’re choosing rather than having to do. Words matter. And if it’s not for your highest good, don’t do it.

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Where are you settling for second best?

February 18th, 2010 Posted in Clutter Busting, Creating Change, Inspiration & Passion | No Comments »

Have you ever settled for being with someone who wasn’t quite right?

You settled because you didn’t want to be alone, or because you thought this was the best you could have, or because on some level you believed you didn’t deserve to have the love and support of someone who was just right for you?

I imagine we’ve all done that at some point.

How about in the rest of your life - where are you settling?

Take a look at the Life Wheel and rate each area of your life as to how satisfied you are - zero is not in the slightest, 10 is totally 100% satisfied.

Where you have less than a 10 is where you’re settling!

This is not an excuse to beat yourself up - just notice!

I shared this perspective with one of my clients this week and she immediately knew where she was settling. She and her husband have been busy renovating their home - a big and often frustrating job for each of them. And in their busyness they’ve been assuming this is it - get through this busy time then they could enjoy their gorgeous home.

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10 Feng Shui Valentines Day Tips for Romance and Passion

February 11th, 2010 Posted in Clutter Busting, Feng Shui Tips, Love & Relationships | 1 Comment »

I know for sure that in the final analysis of our lives - when the to-do lists are no more, when the frenzy is finished, when our e-mail boxes are empty - the only thing that will have any lasting value is whether we’ve loved others and whether they’ve loved us. – Oprah Winfrey

Whether you’re in a relationship, or ready to attract a new one, these tips will support you setting the scene for romance and passion on this Valentine’s Day.

1. Create an inviting sanctuary
What is your bedroom saying? Does it reflect who you are, and set the scene for the relationship you want, or is it a room you don’t think too much about because you only sleep - or try to sleep there? Stand at the door as if you’ve never seen this room before. Does it say “come hither” or does it say “go away”?

2. Make your bed the primary feature
What’s in your bedroom with you? Exercise equipment, desk, computer or television? This energy will conflict with the purpose of the bedroom - serenity, romance and renewal. If you really have to have some of these things in there, use a screen to separate the different functions.

3. Position your bed
The ideal bed position is as far away from the door as possible, and with a clear view of the door from where you lie. If you cannot see the door easily, this will set up an unconscious vulnerability that will affect the quality of your sleep and other aspects of your life. A solid headboard will support a strong relationship.

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5 Tips for getting out of struggle and into alignment!

February 4th, 2010 Posted in Clutter Busting, Creating Change, Feng Shui Tips, Law of Attraction, Self Care, Simplifying, Wealth & Prosperity, purpose | 7 Comments »

Did 2009 get you a tad twisted out of shape? Perhaps things are not flowing quite as well as they were? Things that used to work and seemed just fine, are no longer working. It’s definitely time for an adjustment!

This is the reality: it’s time to do what you’re here to do and express who you really are! The energy of the planet and the energy of 2010 is demanding it - we need you to be doing what you’re being called to do. And if you can’t hear what that is, it’s time to reduce the noise.

If you’re at all uncomfortable or struggling now, it’s only going to get worse if you don’t listen to what’s happening. If you’re a conscious being - which I know you are or you wouldn’t be reading this - your discomfort is a warning. There is something out of alignment and that something is inside YOU!

Now is the perfect time to do something radical, start a spirit based business, go out on a limb, do something completely different and perhaps even something that seems out of character. If you’re going through a mid life transition or any other kind of transition at the same time as the planet is going through its change, you have even more power behind you to make the shifts you need to make!

Remember, if you’re being called to do something, it means people are calling you! Whatever it is, it’s needed! Time to listen! And act!

You may not know what you’re being called to do. Whether you do, or you don’t, or you do but are not making it happen, here are 5 tips to help you on your way.

1. Be very honest with yourself about what is not working for you in every aspect of your life. Not for the faint of heart - this takes courage but is soooooo worthwhile. Even if you think you’re fairly conscious, as I do, you’re in for some surprises! Ask yourself:

  • Am I living the life I really want to be living - in all areas?
  • Does my work feed my soul?
  • Am I happy with my body and my health?
  • Is my home a nourishing, inspiring, sanctuary?
  • Is money flowing as I’d like it to be?
  • Have I found my voice and am I doing what I’m here to do?
  • Do the people I hang out with most, support me in living my dream?

When something is not working for you it’s because you’re out of alignment with who you really are and what you’d really like. You could be out of alignement in the actions you’re taking, the words you’re speaking or your environment could be so full of stuff it’s not supporting you in being the magnificent person you are. The answers to these questions will give you good stuff to work with!

2. Have a powerful vision or intention for your life - otherwise you’re just going to feel frustrated, stuck and off track, and will be going whichever way the wind blows!

Feng Shui done with intention makes it 110% effective, without, it’s only 10% effective. Same with life of course! You may not know what your vision is - but you could set an intention to be really clear about where you’re going - either way your vision or intention is going to be the focus which harnesses the power of the Universe and pulls you forward.

3. Look at your home through Feng Shui eyes: this is fun! Choose a room that’s bugging you - perhaps your home office, could be any room. Pretend you’ve never seen this room and you have no idea who lives here! Or perhaps take photos - it will give you another perspective. Then, ask yourself: what does this room tell me about the person who lives here? What is their life all about, or their business? Describe the person who absorbs the energy of this room?

Is this you? Is this who you want to be? Is this the business you’re building (if it’s your office you’re looking at).

One of the people on the call yesterday did this and told me that’s what decided her to do my program - she her office told her about the energy of her business was not what she wanted for it. This is a powerful exercise.

4. Use Clutter Busting as a portal for transformation and let go of what no longer supports you. You absorb the energy of everything in your environment - which is why your environment is either supporting you or working against you! If you don’t make changes in your environment it will hold you back where you used to be - and put you out of alignment with what your heart and soul is calling out for. This is what creates struggle.

Clutter busting is the most powerful personal growth tool I know because it creates an immediate shift in your energy which means you immediately start attracting higher vibration people, things, energy, circumstances - which usually translates into money! It’s Feng Shui 101 and Law of Attraction 101.

5. Get support! It’s all very well: you know your clutter is weighing you down, making you feel lethargic and keeping you from being the amazing, passionate, full of life person you really are! You know it’s zapping the very life blood out of you!

And the reason why it’s not always easy to let go of things is that everything around you is attached to you with an invisible energetic cord! Which means you need to disconnect from not just your stuff, but the emotions that keep you tied to it - and all this means clutter busting is one of the greatest acts of self care you can give yourself!

Get support from a friend, or get support from someone who can give you a step-by-step process to make it easy!

The changes you’re experiencing on the planet are speeding things up - it’s time to come out from under your stuff and get with the program! It’s only going to get more uncomfortable if you don’t. If you feel something is missing, or that you don’t quite have all 4 wheels on the track, use these tips to get things moving, You’ll love how it feels when you do! Woo Hoo!

What are you ready to let go of?

©2010 Vicky White - All Rights Reserved

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How much is clutter costing you?

January 28th, 2010 Posted in Clutter Busting, Creating Change, Creativity, Feng Shui Tips, Law of Attraction | 1 Comment »

Clutter is emotional constipation - it clogs up every area of your life and stops the energy flowing. It stops you living the life you are here to live.

You absorb and reflect the energy in your environment. If you’re surrounded by things, people, situations you’re tolerating at best, and gripping about at worst, then your energy is going to be pulled down. The Law of Attraction determines that the energy you put out into the world is what’s going to come back to you.

If money is not flowing as well as it might, this is how clutter could be costing YOU money: Read the rest of this entry »

Feng Shui of House Numbers: it’s no accident!

January 21st, 2010 Posted in Feng Shui Tips | 12 Comments »

There are no accidents. You subconsciously choose your specific home for a reason. Apart from the energy patterns in the shape of your home, you can also look at the numerology of your house number you discover additional energies that are supporting you, and energy that’s there to provide the lessons you need. The more aware you are of the energies impacting you, the more you can intentionally use them to empower you on your journey through life.

Each vibration gives you what you need. Here you can discover the energy you were unconsciously attracted to when you chose your home, present and past. Used in conjunction with Feng Shui you have tools to use in choosing your next home.

How to calculate the numerology of your home:

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Clutter Holds Your Dreams

January 14th, 2010 Posted in Clutter Busting, Creating Change, Detoxing, Feng Shui Tips, Law of Attraction, Raw Food | 1 Comment »

Under that busyness, the overwhelm, the extra weight, the piles of stuff in your home and the stuffed full garage, something is lurking. And it’s not just dust, lost keys and your past life.

If you have lots of clutter, you probably know what it’s like to want to run away. You don’t feel comfortable in your own home, maybe not even in your own skin. There’s no space to breathe. No space for passion or inspiration. No space for you! Just very stuck energy.

Clutter has a hold on you. As does your TV, your cell phone, your closet and especially your kitchen counter. Clutter has its grip on you, and on your dreams. There is no space in your head or anywhere else.

And where is your energy, attention and focus? On the overwhelm, the piles, the extra weight, the full schedule, right? So what do you get more of? Overwhelm, piles, weight etc. The Law of Attraction brings you more of what you focus on. For some reason the Universe gets the idea that’s what you want more of - or you wouldn’t be focusing on it.

Meantime, your dreams are lurking beneath your squeezed life force. They might have been there for so long that you don’t even remember what they are, or perhaps that you ever had any.

It doesn’t need to be this way.

5 Tips to loosen the Grip Clutter Has on Your Dreams

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How to make your intentions work for you

January 7th, 2010 Posted in Creating Change, Feng Shui Tips, Intentions | 2 Comments »

Everything about you is intentional now!

How do you know what your intention was? Take a look at your results, what you’re attracting. Either you set a conscious intention, or you settled for your default intention - you know the one, it’s what you just naturally attract. Sometimes it’s what you want, sometimes not.

You have the ability to create your life as you want it - and you’ll get feedback from the Universe pretty fast. Why not use this to create your year?

I’ve just taken a couple of days to get intentional about my 2010. You can do this too.

Imagine it’s December 31, 2010 and you’re looking back on what changed for you. What made your heart sing this year? What are you grateful for?

Take some quiet time to write about how your year was. This exercise is like the Order Book process - not only does it help you visualize what you’d like to have happen, but it also sets powerful energy in motion to start attracting those things to you. The more you include details and emotions in this the more powerful it will be.

Feng Shui Strategies for Success in 2010

Once you’ve written your gratitude list, choose one dream to focus on for now. The best is one that is both a wee bit scary and is also exciting.

When you consider this aspect of your life, which Gua could do with a boost of energy? It’s not always the Wealth & Prosperity area - they’re all connected. Perhaps it’s the Knowledge & Self-cultivation area to support you to learn the lessons you need to learn to make a shift in who you’re being. While a little goes a long way in Feng Shui, you can always add an enhancement to more than one Gua for extra support.

Next, look at the list below and choose an enhancement to support your intention.

You’ll notice the areas of the Bagua paired below are diagonally opposite each other – this means they are intimately linked, one supports the other. You can map the Bagua on your home and on each room. To find where these areas are in your space and how to map it, check out Bagua Map.

And here is a Bagua Map you can print and carry around your home as you see where the different areas are.

1. Connect with your purpose and your passion
The Career area (water) represents life purpose. And the Fame & Reputation area (fire) is about passion, visibility and integrity. Integrity is about living a ‘whole’ life, expressing your authentic self – the one with dreams and passions and things you are here to do in this lifetime.

Great enhancements to support you in these areas are:
Career – a water fountain, picture of water, anything black
Fame & Reputation – candles, anything red, stars

2. Connect with your spirit
Your outer life is a reflection of your inner life. This area is about balancing outer success with inner peace and being able to enjoy your accomplishments. The Knowledge & Self Cultivation area of the Bagua is where you learn the lessons you need to learn to connect with your Spirit. And this is connected with the Love & Relationship area where you are given gifts of other people in your life and learn from them – particularly difficult people. What are the lessons you need to learn?

Knowledge & Self Cultivation – a great place to meditate, have a picture of mountains, symbols of wisdom & knowledge.
Love & Relationships – pairs of things, letters of appreciation, symbols of teamwork

3. Address any negative beliefs and take inspired actions
Your doubts and voices telling you that you can’t do something are what stand in the way of achieving your dreams. It’s important to address these, and to have your ‘family of choice’ around you to cheer you on. The Health & Family area supports you in addressing unfinished family issues and creating a healthy and fulfilled life, living your potential.

The Children & Creativity area supports you to take inspired actions. Sometimes you don’t go for your dreams because you don’t know how to do it. You don’t have to know how – trust it will unfold as you ask your higher self and others for the next step. Take bite size pieces keeping your outcome firmly in view.

Health & Family – healthy plants, family pictures, symbols of good health
Children & Creativity – items associated with happy childhood memories, symbols of creativity such as children’s paintings, creative projects

4. Enlist the support of your environment and helpful people
Live with what you love, and surround yourself with symbols of where you are going, not where you’ve been.

The Wealth & Prosperity area represents abundance of all good things. Prosperity, good feelings, fulfillment, love, success. And every other area of the Bagua affects it. You reflect the energy of your environment so you want that energy to be the highest it can be. No clutter bogging you down, no reminders of things you don’t want in your life. No-one ever created anything without the help of others. The Helpful People area represents anything which supports you to achieve your dreams – workshops, mentors, books etc.

Wealth & Prosperity: Anything that gives you a feeling of abundance, anything you would like more of.
Helpful People & Travel: a globe to symbolize travel or global expansion in your business, pictures of anyone who is helpful to you.

5. Be in alignment with your authentic self
The Center is where it all comes together – your dreams, passions, beliefs, environment, actions and your outcomes. This is when attraction happens effortlessly.

Enhancements for the Center
Pottery and earth tones, meditation area, symbols of harmony and balance.

You don’t need to do something in every area. Start with an area that represents one of your big intentions for 2009 and place an enhancement there - with intention. Then stay open to attracting what you need.

Once you’ve placed your enhancement: what is one action you can take today to move you towards your intention? Even taking a very small step will set powerful energy in motion, supported by the enhancement you places.

If you would like support to discover what’s next and make it happen in the next 12 months, I’ll be sharing the tools I’ve used to create powerful shifts, in the Bring on Your Magical 2010 program. We begin next week!

Wishing you all the dreams you can dream of in 2010. May you live fully and passionately.

Read my comment below about what I got from doing this exercise.  I’d love to hear your insights or ah-has too.

©2010 Vicky White - All Rights Reserved

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What are you most passionate about?

January 4th, 2010 Posted in Creating Change, Inspiration & Passion, Intentions | No Comments »

I love the sound of 20/10 - not only a New Year, but also a new decade - and what better opportunity to really go for what you want!

I’m just putting the finishing touches to the Bring on your Magical 2010 program - this ONE TIME ONLY program starts in just one week and already those who have already registered are noticing things shifting in their lives.

So, what are you most passionate about? See my card above? This represents one of my top 5 passions - being location independent, especially in winter - ahhhh, somewhere warm! This is definitely next for me - if I had made this card last year, I’d be sitting somewhere a lot warmer right now!

I’m going to share with you the same process I used that led me to living ON the water, and just in the last 2 weeks, led me to buying my VW Beetle - by the way: I knew Oprah had good taste - just last night as I was looking for images to use on my cards I saw Oprah with her green VW Beetle in the O magazine - she has a convertible (for California weather no doubt), apart from that we have identical cars!

And I had no idea how I was going to live near water, or get any kind of car when I started!

You may be thinking you’re not sure what your dream is. Most people couldn’t tell you if you asked them – not specifically.

But that’s the really cool thing about the process I’m going to walk you through in the Bring on your Magical 2010 program – you’ll get super clear about your passions. That’s where it all starts!

Your passions are not far beneath the surface I promise you – but they often get buried in the busy-ness of life. 

IF you’d love to know what you’re most passionate about – and what your purpose here is – you’ll get that in the first week of this program.

I’ll be creating a safe space for your precious dreams to come forward and from there you’ll create your very own vision cards – which by the way, is the most powerful Feng Shui enhancement you can use because it holds so much personal significance for you.

I know it can be scary, especially when you don’t know what you might create, or how your life may change – but more than likely you’ll wonder why you didn’t do this amazing, exciting, inspiring, passion filled thing, years ago!!

What I’ve discovered is that the Universe is just waiting for you to open just a crack in your armor – enough for the light to get in as Leonard Cohen says! All it takes is a small opening so you can start receiving exactly what’s waiting there for you.

And how do you know what that is?

It’s whatever you can imagine – if you’re imagining it, it means it’s already in your energy field – and once you know what you’re most passionate about – imagining something awesome for yourself will be easy - so, are you ready to find out what’s waiting for you?

The Bring on Your Magical 2010 program is a very special program – you’ll be tapping into your Spirit and the energy of the Universe to attract what you want. 

Creating a life you love, is really just about getting out of your own way to discover what you are most passionate about, and then having the support to go for it! Easy!

If you’re ready to go for it, and discover what lights you up, juices your creativity, brings your spirit alive – This is a personal invitation from me to you, to join us. I’m very excited to find out what we create together. I’m ready with MY passions – and ready to help YOU discover yours. Come join us!

Warning! Do not participate in one of Vicky’s programs unless you are prepared for a transformation. I have found some amazing changes in my life during this program. I have shifted the center of my world from a place of “just doing the best that I can” to a place of having the power to create my life. This is such a powerful change that women should be warned before they participate. A world of thanks for helping me in this significant change, Vicky! ~ Jane Mack, TX

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When I followed my passion to see what was possible not only did I end up living ON the water, but I also got a wonderful community, which is something I had been looking for all over the world, all my life! Funny that - seems to be how it happens! We get a lot more than we thought possbile.

I’m excited to see what you set in motion for yourself.
PS. Forget the New Year’s Resolutions - they’re destined to appear again next year if you don’t do something different. I’ll lead you through the steps I take to manifest amazing things. Come join us to go for a magical year based on what you are most passionate about! Create your own vision cards and use Feng Shui to magnegize the magic so you can attract what you want in 2010.
Bring on Your Magical 2010