Say “yes” to yourself!

Aunt Mabel has given you her favorite tea set, you have a house-full of your parents’ things that you’re desperately trying to incorporate in your already full home and a friend has given you a whole box of magazines she’s saved just for you.

Meanwhile, you have to finish that quilt you started 30 years ago and eat everything on your plate too - think of the starving children in ……(you fill in the gap).

Are you feeling bogged down yet? Wondering where your dreams went?

Let’s make it really simple: Say “yes” to yourself.

1. Once someone gives you something it’s yours. This means you get to decide what you’d like to do with it. Put it on display somewhere, use it, re-gift it, donate it. To act as if the giver still owns it and can determine what you do with it is giving that person a lot of power over your life. It’s just a thing folks.

Say “yes” to yourself.

2. Other people’s feelings are not your responsibility. It’s good to act with the intention of doing no harm, but let’s face it, sometimes people will be offended when you say “no” to more stuff. Many people in our society have put a lot of meaning on ’stuff’. They are their stuff. So it can feel personal to them. And that is their stuff folks.

Say “yes” to yourself… even if others don’t like it - they’ll get over it!

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5 seriously misguided myths about passion!

These 5 myths about passion will catch you unawares. I know they have me…..and more than once! And in the end they become your excuses for staying on the busy treadmill of life until one day you wake up and say: was that it? about your life.

If you’re ready to choose to live your life to the full, have no regrets, and experience the unstoppable energy of someone connected with who they are and what they’re here to do…..then it is well worth questioning these common assumptions I’ve collected from clients over the years.

1. My passion should be big and earthshattering: perhaps it will be, but maybe not. Your passion of any size and will light your fire and lead to what’s next. The important thing is to uncover what you’re most passionate about and follow the breadcrumbs. Passion will change your life. Passion is energy and your passion is worthy of your attention.

Feeling passion for something, that’s a good sign you’re on the right track. You’ll be coming into alignment with your deepest self and it means you’ll be doing what you’re here to do - and who’s to say how that will impact yourself and others? You expressing your true essence might be the one thing that causes a huge ripple effect out into the world. It may not be as loud as flying to the moon or discovering the cure for cancer, but it will likely be just as impactful because that’s what you’ve been put here on this earth to do - to contribute to the whole. And you are an important part of that whole picture.

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How to get beyond the money to what’s really important and have money flow anyway!

What am I doing wrong? I’ve read all the books. I’ve watched the Secret, and I’m still not attracting what I want.

I’ve heard this question a lot lately.

Recently I asked a client about her intention for the next 12 months. She told me “I’d like to make $100,000″.

For most people, a whole pile of money is not enough to keep them motivated for long. I encouraged her to check in with her heart and ask herself what would really make her heart sing and what was behind the desire for money.

A few days later, she connected with a desire to rebirth her art career on a big scale. She talked about stepping out of the shadows and being highly visible. She told me how alive her art makes her feel and how inspired she gets. I could feel the passion and excitement in her words.

She feels inspired and energized because it’s part of her purpose. This is part of what she’s here to do.

When you’re living your purpose, there’s something amazing that happens. The Universe steps in to support you in a big way. You start attracting all the people, circumstances and resources you need.

My client thought the money would bring her what she wanted. And it was easier to go for that, although not easier to attract it when that’s what you’re focusing on.

Going for passion, inspiration, creativity and recognition means stepping into her power. It’s scary…… and exciting.

But this is the thing with the Law of Attraction….

You need to be someone who’s energy is high enough to attract more of what you really want. And a great way to do that is to feel passionate and inspired about your life. And do what brings you joy, and do what you are here to do.

So where the heck do you start?

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Lets rev up your passion…..

Happy Tuesday!

You know, I love sharing life changing
strategies with you.

Are you ready for something amazing?

Next Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 4pm PT (7pm ET) you’re invited to a FR*EE call: “The 9 Essential Steps for connecting with your truth and living once again with passion, purpose and prosperity” - the most powerful and inspiring information I can possibly share with you right now.

This FR*EE call is via phone from anywhere you are, you’ll get the recording afterwards, and you’ll need to sign up so make sure you get everything.

I really think if you’re going to listen to one call right now, THIS one should be it!! Bold statement I know, and I’ll tell you why:

• Do you sense there’s something missing?
• Is money not flowing as well as it could?
• Have you been struggling to figure out what the heck you’re supposed to be doing with your life?
• Do you find yourself wondering if you’ll ever recover your passion for anything?
• Would you like a step-by-step strategy for bringing more passion, purpose and prosperity into your life?

It took me a long time to connect passion with my work. And even now there are times when I lose passion for what I’m doing. I feel lost, off track. And I’ve discovered why this is a good thing, and how to reconnect with my passion.

This is what I’m so excited to share with you. Your passion is waiting for you, and it’ll change your life. If you are ready to connect with your juiciest YOU, if you are ready for passion, purpose AND prosperity to flow for you, I encourage you to be on this ONE TIME call where I’ll share these simple, and life changing steps with you.

I’ll be sharing the full story of my journey to living a passion filled and inspired life - the good, the bad and the ugly! And you’ll see how easy it can be to use this step-by-step bullet proof process to reignite the passion in YOUR life and experience breakthroughs that are truly life-changing.

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed with all the things you’d like to be, do and have, this call’s for you. It can be simple, elegant and easy to have passion, purpose and prosperity flowing as you’d like them!

If you’re ready to stop having your overwhelm and frustration keep you stuck living an uninspired life, if you are ready to feel that amazing energy that comes with feeliing passionate, inspired and on track, then this call’s for you.

I hope you’ll say YES to that part of yourself who yearns to live an inspired and passionate life, doing what you’re here to do….. know that the moment you commit - even when it’s committing to giving yourself the gift of a FR*EE call, you set in motion powerful shifts for yourself.

You’ll get the most by being on the call, but even if you can’t be there you’ll receive the mp3 to listen to and if you do that within 24 hours you’ll get all I have to share with you. It will be worth your while to give yourself this 75 minutes, I promise!

Ready to go for it?

Please register here for this FR*EE call on Wednesday, June 10 at 4pm PT (7pm ET)

With much passion,

PS. This call can change your life - please bring pen and paper. The very process of writing while listening anchors the information in your body.

Register Here Now: The 9 Essential Steps to Connecting with your Truth and Living once again with Passion, Purpose and Prosperity

Using Passion to Attract What you Want

There’s one ingredient more important than anything else in attracting what you want. One ingredient that will have the Universe sending what you need faster than the speed of light. Without this your goals and dreams lie languishing in some far off recess of your mind. 

That one ingredient is passion.

Four steps for using your passions to attract what you want now!

1. Know what your passions are : this can sometimes be scary. What if you got what you most wanted? Take a deep breath and when you’re ready to delve deep, take some quiet time to ask yourself: what do I love doing, what do I gravitate towards, what do others acknowledge me for, what inspires me or lights my fire?

Then using the phrase: When I’m living my perfect life I am…..
Make a list of 5-10 things, each starting with a verb. For example… living, being, enjoying, creating, riding….. etc.

2. Find your top 5 passions : which are the five most important ones. You can have all your passions in your life, but five is a good number to focus on.

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Magnetize your Passion

What are you passionate about?
What would you just love to be, do or have?

You get what you put your energy, focus and attention on. You don’t need to know how any of it will happen. When you’re feeling passionate about what you’re doing, and passionate about what you want, you attract people, events and circumstances to support you in creating your dreams.

Passion is part of the Fame & Reputation area of the Bagua – and the element associated with it is Fire. It’s directly opposite the Career and Life Purpose area – these two areas are closely related.

What lights your fire? What makes you feel so passionate you can hardly sit still?

For example: being of service to others, creating something, meditating regularly, being with inspiring people, feeling connected with your higher self, being by the sea, traveling the world first class, spending lots of time with your family, determining your own hours, being with animals?

If you’re having trouble allowing yourself to dream, begin with what you don’t like and turn that into what you’d feel really passionate about: ‘a messy and chaotic home’ might become ‘living in a home that inspires and nurtures me’.

It’s really easy to not go for what you want. I’ve talked with a few clients recently who have wanted something so much they don’t want to really feel it in case it doesn’t happen.

What kind of message is the Universe getting from this?

The more you can feel your outcome the greater the chance of it coming to you.

This is why Feng Shui is so important. Ideally you’re surrounded by energy that inspires you and nurtures your dreams. Just imagine living in a chaotic environment surrounded by things that are not important to you vs. living in a home that inspires you and reminds you of what you are most passionate about.

Don’t you think you’d be more likely to be living your life on purpose in the second scenario?

One of the big myths about passion is that you should feel it all the time. In reality, you grow beyond your passions - they might change completely or you might be ready to reach for another level - but those periods where you may be feeling frustrated, hopeless and lost have a purpose - it’s time to reconnect with yourself and what really juices you so you can be more of who you are.

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Blending vs Juicing

I get asked about this a lot - and I’ve always felt blending was best because it uses the whole fruit or vegetable - but I haven’t had any proof.  Now Victoria Boutenko, the green smoothie queen shares her research.

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Blending vs. Juicing

A chapter from Victoria’s up-coming book “Green Smoothie Revolution”
After I published my first book about green smoothies, I have received many inquiries from my readers asking whether blending was preferable to juicing. I also heard that some nutritionists were concerned that blending might accelerate the oxidation of the food. I was very curious to find the answer for myself and decided to seriously research this question.

I conducted a simple experiment. I chose potatoes for my experiment because it is easy to observe the process of oxidation in potatoes. You probably remember an instance when you left a slice of raw potato on your cutting board and observed it turning brown within several minutes. That is why my grandmother used to put peeled potatoes in water, to prevent browning or oxidation.

First, I peeled two potatoes so that the color of their peel wouldn’t interfere with the results of my experiment. I then juiced one potato in a twin-gear juicer and blended the other one in a Vita Mix blender with one cup of water. I placed both cups of fluid on the table and took a photograph of them. I was taking photographs frequently for two days. The potato juice started to turn brown within a matter of minutes and became dark brown by the end of the first hour. The blended potato stayed almost white for two days. The top of both liquids, which was exposed to the air, turned dark almost instantly. I repeated this experiment three times with different kinds of potatoes and various shapes of glasses. The results were the same.

It was clear that the juiced potato oxidized much faster than the blended potato. Since I am not a professional scientist, I decided to seek the opinion of someone with the appropriate expertise. I went to the local university and consulted with Gregory T. Miller, professor of chemistry of Southern Oregon University. After researching this matter, he wrote the following:

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7 Steps for reinstalling passion on YOUR hard drive

Doesn’t take much in this busy world to wake up one day feeling helpless, hopeless and overwhelmed. There’s no way you feel inspired about anything. You might even start having fantasies of running away and doing something completely different. Not that you know what that is - but it sounds good, and you know there is more waiting for you……somewhere.

Running on empty…. feeling uninspired…..that’s no place to be creative from.

Are you ready to play a bigger game? One fueled by passion?

7 Tips for reinstalling inspiration on YOUR hard drive:

1. Just say no: this is one of the biggest challenges for my clients. He might be upset. She might not want to be friends if I say no. I’ve already agreed to do it. I’m the only one who can do it. They’re expecting me.

The world might stop and I’ll be all alone living on the streets with no-one to love me. Stories are just like that - a little crazy sometimes.

One of my clients had agreed to attend a dinner to support a sick friend but as the time got closer she realized she was feeling a lot of anxiety because she had so much to do before a trip abroad. She knew she would sit there at the dinner not wanting to be there and feeling stressed. But it was really hard to cancel, fearing letting her friend down, not to mention messing up the numbers at the six-person dinner party. However, she did cancel. She honored herself, and her sick friend and the others understood. In fact she was probably a good role model for her friend - teaching her it’s OK to honor yourself before wearing yourself so ragged you become sick.

Lesson: if it’s not right for you, it’s not right for the other person either (whether they realize that or not). Listen to your heart and make space for inspiration. My client has created the space she needs to really connect with herself - even as she prepares for her journey. Honor yourself and everyone benefits.

Take a look at your calendar - nothing is written in stone. What can you drop that would give you a sense of relief?

2. Clear your head: now you’ve said no to a few things and freed up some space. Here are some ways to clear your head.

Morning pages - from Julia Cameron in The Artist’s Way: write 3 pages of stream of consciousness writing each morning. Don’t think, don’t edit. Write anything at all for 3 pages. Better out than in - you’ll be surprised at what surfaces. Just today, something I thought I’d dealt with more than 5 years ago surfaced in mine. I can only imagine how that’s been impacting me for 5 years - under the surface. Morning pages are truly magic pages.

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Green Skies and Purple Cows…..Connect to your Creative Muse

You were born to create.

Each of you has some gift to express that adds to the whole. And it’s for you to find your voice and do what you’re here to do.

This creativity I’m talking about goes way beyond whatever you do to make your living. Sure you create in your work to varying degrees. And beyond that is something waiting to be expressed through you.

For a long time I believed that creating web pages, programs, ebooks, even writing this newsletter - which are all creative acts - was enough. I’m creative. I write. I even take photographs for my newsletter - isn’t that enough?

I’ve come to realize it’s not. When I was a photographer I worked long hours taking photos for clients, spent many hours in the darkroom, felt exhilarated by what I was doing even. And part of the reason I got burned out and changed to another career was that I didn’t honor my creative muse. I made no space for exploring the art of my life - the art that rises from my deepest, rawest self. Art that was my personal expression, separate from what I did in my day (and night) job.

May Sarton says: I have written novels to find out what I thought about something, and poems to find out what I felt about something.

There is a reason both children and creativity come together in the Children & Creativity Gua. This area is about birthing the self. It’s about play and joy and being an artist - all those things children naturally are until they’re told the sky is not green and the cow is not purple. And then years later, even in a creative business, they search for fulfillment in the midst of busyness, having forgotten where their creativity really lives.

Inner Feng Shui Tips for Connecting with your Inner Muse

1. Learn from Yoga: in yoga the restorative poses are the most difficult. Why? They’re the ones where it looks like you’re doing nothing. You may be lying with your butt against the wall with your legs up the wall. You may be folded over a bolster with your head touching your knees. And you stay like that for many minutes. They’re the hardest because you’re so used to being busy and doing something.

It takes a certain stillness to discover what’s wanting to be expressed.

To connect with your muse and restore your SELF takes being present, being in your body and just being. And this is a scary thing for most of us. It’s that nothingness - “Shouldn’t you be doing something?” the voices scream.

Action Step: Start small. Take some time to ‘be’. Thinking, day dreaming, doodling - they are all part of the creative process and will start exercising that creative muscle. Discover what you’re thinking and feeling. Just for you. Schedule it if you need to! Read the rest of this entry »

4 Feng Shui Tips to get yourself Unstuck

Is something not flowing as well as you’d like?

One easy way to shift your energy is to look to what’s happening in your environment. Everything in your environment is speaking to you. What is it saying?

Before you do anything, connect with what you’d like to see happening in your life - your outcome. This is why I have clients set a powerful intention before they do anything - whether it’s for a coaching call, a decluttering session or something much bigger in their lives.

An intention gives you a strong focus, and it also gives the Universe a clear message about what you want. In addition, Feng Shui with intention is 110% more powerful.

So, what is it you’re passionate about creating in your life? That’s what to focus on as you embark on this journey. Once you know this you’re ready to go.

Here are 4 places to start:

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