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I finally caught up with the show. You have to watch this show! She goes around asking wealthy people how they made their money.

Now, be warned, it is Joan Rivers and there is a lot of bling and flash. I did not care for going through wealthy people’s homes but the concept of the show is amazing.

The first person on the show is a lady. She is in her fifties, and she is divorced. Her husband left her to marry a 19 year old.

When she got divorced from a fabulous Bel-Air Doctor at age 46, she was flat broke. She went to makeup school and now she is worth $30 million dollars!

She then got into the cosmetics industries and she does not drive a pink Cadillac. She said she developed a line of cosmetics and she did NOT market to Nordstrum or Neiman Marcus.

She discovered that the fatigue makeup used by the US Army was not working out. The soldier’s were breaking out and having allergic reactions to the chemicals in the make up.

She then created a makeup line specifically for the military!

I could not sleep for thinking about this amazing idea. No, I am not interested in the make up market. But how innovative!

Did you ever think of the makeup that the Military guys use? Do you realize that is a market? She probably has no competition.

This lady had no work experience; no degrees; just her intuition and a drive to succeed.

Now, I do believe in following your passion. Absolutely! But you want to have some business sense about it also. Learn to monetize your passions. You owe it to the recipients of it. Imagine those soldiers and what they had to put up with before this amazing human being created the perfect product for them.

You also have an idea that no body else on planet earth has. You have a business idea that is the precise solution that someone else on planet earth needs.

Keep this in mind:

You have to believe that the Universe is friendly and supports you.
You have brilliant ideas.
You have the capacity to execute those ideas.
You have the capacity to monetize your brilliant ideas.

Now, what is your niche idea?

Tomorrow, I get to meet Carrie Wilkerson, the Barefoot Executive whom I have known online since last year but have never met her in person. Some of the other names that I am familiar with that I get to meet in person are Perry Belcher, Howie Schwartz, and Dave Lakhani

Guys, keep your ear to the ground. It is so important that you realize that opportunities about all around you and sometimes, all it costs is $8.00 for parking.

Why is this so important?

1. When I go to events like this, I meet lots of people who are doing many different things. I get energized by connecting with other human beings who are in the flow of their life purpose. Benefit to me: I get energized and focused.

2. In addition to meeting lots of wonderful amazing people, I learn so much. The Internet is my business home. Clients find me online and I use the Internet as my primary tool of communication with my community. Twitter, Facebook, email, newsletters ~ these are all communication tools and of course, there is the telephone. Benefit to me: I learn so many new things and I apply them.

2. It is an opportunity to be around like minded people. These are all people that are part of my community, my support network and they may not even know it. Benefit to me: I get tremendous business ideas.

3. You expand your mental concepts. Like the guy that hitched hiked from Nebraska just to attend this event or the Truck Driver who drove 13 hours from New Jersey just to attend this event. In my old life, I may not have appreciated that I may have something significant to learn from a truck driver. I would have treated them with courtesy and respect but I may never have sat down to have a non legal conversation with a hitch-hiker. I receive incredible  energy from such people as I see their determination and share and interact with them.

Benefit to me: I understand that members of my community may not look like me, yet they inspire me and I learn more and more not to judge a book by its cover.

If you have read this blog for any length of time, you know that I absolutely believe in the human potential capital. I love people as I see them as having an idea just waiting to get out there and help other people. I see them as precious and as having capacity within them to live extraordinary lives.  Benefit to me: I am with like minded people.

What opportunities are right under your nose that you are not connected to?

How do you connect with like minded people?

Who are the members of your community and how do you connect with them?

The distance between what you want and what you have is merely a feeling. The more you feel that what you have is here already, the quicker it actually manifests.

Let us look at some information that I recently came across.

Your feelings reside in your heart and it is all about pure love. So entering into an absolute space of love about what you want is how you draw it to you. In addition, your emotions are what you experience emotionally in your lower three chakras. When you combine powerful, focused, intentional thought to your emotions, you create powerful life changing feelings in your heart.

Gregg Braden, “author of The Spontaneous Healing of Belief” tells us that our heart is 5000 times stronger magnetically and 100 times stronger electrically than the brain.

I venture to say that almost all of us, when we have a problem or want to manifest a solution, try to think our way into a manifestation. We consciously or unconsciously think along the lines of: “If I could only figure out what to do, I would be fine.” “Who can I call?” “What can I do?”

Well, with the information about our heart’s electromagnetic field being so much stronger than our brain, then let us try and problem solve from the heart and not the brain.

Remember, in a forming embryo, the heart is the first organ to be formed. Not the brain.

What has our electromagnetic field got to do with anything?

The Hubble telescopes records the electromagnetic field of the earth and NASA has been observing and charting out the patterns of the earth’s electromagnetic field since before 1990.

Well, they discovered that a couple of hours after September 11, 2001, the patterns on the charts changed dramatically, and further research indicated that the grief and agony that everyone was feeling in reaction to the planes flying into the the twin towers in New York, the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania was so dramatic that it actually altered the earth’s electromagnetic field.

Furthermore, Lynn McTaggert, in “The Intention Experiment” teaches us about the focused and concentrated power of Intention as it impacts the physical world.

Realize that the first step to manifesting anything is to “want” it. This may sound ridiculously simple, but many people do not actually enter into the experience of “wanting” when they identify something that they would like.

The experience of “wanting” is about being fully, 100 percent OK with the having of the thing that you want. You cannot be concerned what others would think. You cannot have the vibe of wondering if you deserve it or any other type of cross vibe.

You just have to simply enjoy “wanting” and receiving in whatever it is that you want.

How?

Through the experience of heart-swell.

It is important to be around like minded people that are able to support what you want. If you are not around like minded people, then find a community online. I find it is a powerful experience to use Twitter to state what your intention is and you find that others support you.

So put your intention around what you want out there. Speak it out loud. Write it down. Call someone and tell them. Put it on Facebook. Put it on Twitter. If you do not feel safe sharing it, no problem. Keep it private or just keep your statement online vague and say something like:” I would love if well intentioned folks would give me some support around something I want.”

Let us get into the experience of heart-swell.

Sit in a lotus position or any other comfortable position. Many studies have shown that healers emanate concentrated levels electromagnetic activity from their fingertips. Hold your hands up and imagine the vibration of the thing that you want, flowing into your fingers and zapping your body. Watch it and feel it go through each and every single cell of your body. Your body has 50 trillion cells and each cell generates almost as much electricity as a double A battery.

You feel the vibration of the presence of the thing itself as it flows throughout your entire body and finally focus on the heart. Just breathe into your heart and imagine the entire electrical and electromagnetic capacity of your heart welcoming the “thing that you want” and taking it in and receiving it. Just enjoy it and really imagine every single one of those 50 trillion cells with that much electricity and magnetic capacity, drawing what you want to you powerfully.

Let all your thoughts drop down into your heart area and swell and add to what it is that you want. Really allow your heart area to expand with gleeful joy and appreciation that you are an amazing person and that you deserve anything that you want and you are well loved.

Give permission to every single cell in your body to fully receive in what you want. Deliberately and fully appreciate receiving it and experience gratitude on a cellular level. Let your heart swell with the fullness and richness of having what it is that you want. Open your heart up, literally and  receive it in.

If something comes up that feels heavy or misdirected, a thought like, “I do not deserve that” or “it will never happen for me,” do not counteract it. Just let the heart-swell consume the thought and soften it up and allow it to disintegrate and become minuscule and eventually nothing.

Do this several times to allow your experience to emotionally move you.

Ahhh, the joy of receiving!

Ahhh, the bliss of heart-swell!

Practice often and as many times as you think of what you want.

This is a super manifestation tool. Use it.

Enjoy!

The Inner Genius Zone Newsletter!

Are you clear about who you are?

Please forgive me for not getting this newsletter out earlier in the week. I had a busy week with those that took me up on my offer for a complimentary strategy coaching session. Make sure you do not miss out on your opportunity: http://www.budurl.com/accw

This week in the Inner Genius Zone we are talking about clarity.

The last couple of weeks, I focused on a couple of client profiles. This week I would like to talk about myself just so you can get a first hand feel for what the clarity process looked like for me as I transitioned out of the practice of law for 20 years. I do not mean to be egotistical by talking about myself. Think of me as another client profile because I was my first client.

Clarity is about getting clear and focused on who you are and what you want.

Every professional woman wants to get into the annual habit of taking stock around all six pillars of her life:

~Physical and body;

~Emotional life;

~Spiritual life;

~Financial life;

~Mental life; and

~Relationships.

Each of these areas have a sub area. For instance, in my mental life, I would look at my learning and my creativity. So do not leave out your creativity. In addition, I would look at my learning. Steven Covey calls it, “sharpening the saw.”

Now, I did not do this entire process for many years.

Once I became an attorney, I thought I had done all my hard work. I thought that it would now be smooth sailing so I focused on finding the best way to move forward in my career. I worked at a couple of jobs and after a few years, I started my own law firm.

I soon discovered that I was petrified of courthouses! Can you believe that? I get hives just driving past a court house. I had a couple of “disastrous encounters” in court and although the cases turned out ok, I did not! I developed this fear of litigation.

Well, now from coaching, I know that the fear was an indication that this was not the area to focus my career on. I discovered that I was not high functioning in an adversarial situation. Instead, I discovered I love transactions. I love bringing people together and helping them negotiate and create harmonious results where everyone got what they wanted. I was good at that. I really enjoy win – win encounters.

So I did it. For about 20 years, I worked as a transactional attorney. I was busy. I was an over achiever. I enjoyed owning a law firm of my own. With real employees and other lawyers. I enjoyed having clients that I served. I loved my freedom.

When I look back, I was not happy but I did not even know it.

Are you happy? Genuinely Happy? Do you have multiple belly laughs each day? Do you have moments of day dreaming about what is going fabulous in your life? Do you enjoy relaxing?

Well, I did not.

I just kept pushing myself further trying to make my practice a success. I gained weight. I got into debt. I divorced my first husband. I went to church and I went out for dinner with friends but I was not happy.

Then my dad died. I thought the world had come to an end. I was devastated. He was such a loving wonderful man. I love, love, love my dad. I still do. Then my mother died! Too much! I loved my mother. She was the smartest person I ever met. Brilliant Genius.

I felt that I lost my true North. I felt that I had no focus. I then came into the realization that I was unhappy; in a chronic way.

I got married again and my sweetie was by my side when I lost both my parents. He was amazing! If I ever complain about him, ignore me. He was with my mom when she took her last breath.

As I watched lives that meant so much to me slip away from me, I was able to begin to take stock of my life:

I was able to confront the fact that my work had become routine and non-challenging.

I was unfulfilled in my work life. As I started to look at my values, or should I say rediscover my values, I realized that my business was not crafted around my values.

As the economy declined, I got into so much fear about meeting payroll and keeping the business overhead. As I talked to my sweetie about it, he said, “Babe, the business is an albatross around your neck. What do you really want to do?”

I felt obligated to practice law because that education cost so much money, it would be a waste to not practice law. It felt like I was throwing away money. I made a choice to follow my heart instead of that limiting belief. Who knows, I may chose to practice law later. But, seriously, I really do not care whether or not I do.

My Sweetie pointed me in the direction of clarity.

I hired a coach and she helped me get clarity.

As I got clear about who I am and what my purpose is, I got clarity.

She kept asking me, “What do you want to do with your life?”

I realized that I did not feel that I was contributing to others in a significant way.

I realized that I had some baggage to unload like relationships, personal and professional where we no longer served each other.

I realized that I felt my business was not aligned with my spiritual values.

I realized that I had developed an unhealthy attachment to the label of “attorney.”

I realized that I expected that I would have reached a certain level of success by a certain age.

I realized that I did not define that level of success; others did.

Looking back, I was so blessed to have an amazing family and an amazing spouse that helped me see that I was unhappy and that the ball was in my court to create more happiness in my life.

When I got clear about my values, I could no longer hold on to the law practice as it was. I had lost the zeal that it takes to run such a business from a place of integrity. Integrity is one of my important values. This is what I discovered about myself.

I have very strong values around self expression.

I have to write everyday. I wish I can tell you how my fingers are flying as I type this. It is nothing for me to write my newsletters. They flow from my brian like water gushing out of a fountain. It just gushes out of me ~ easily and happily.

I love helping others.

I love helping others know their value and that what they want is valuable and wonderful.

I love reminding others that they are God’s children.

I love learning.

I love sharing what I learn with others.

I love putting stuff I have learned together.

I love talking to people and connecting with them.

Notice, these are core things in me that I can even trace back to my childhood? None of these things have anything to do with a $100,000 education from Georgetown University Law School.

When I got clear that this is core of who I am, I had to embrace me. It had nothing to do with practicing law. So, getting clear on who you are, has nothing to do with your educational background.

Today, I can tell you that I know who I am and I am completely and totally in love with myself. I like me. I like my company. I like what I do. I like how I spend my time and I like who I am. I love what I do professionally. The highest honor in my life is for a client to be unmasked with me and her heart is genuinely open and I help her see her beauty and her power.

Please do not get me wrong. I do not have any regrets about having my own law firm. It was wonderful and gratifying and I am proud of myself for what I have made with my life.

However, I am glad that at this time, I have chosen to look at what makes my heart sing and create a life around my purpose.

With clarity, you have the power of choice.

Gaining clarity helps you make choices wisely and remember that not making a choice is a choice in itself.

I made a choice to retire from law because I could not figure out a single thing that I really wanted to do as a lawyer.

I made a choice to work from home and not deal with the over head of the office.

I made a choice to be a life coach that helps executive and business boomers just like you get that clarity, refocus on their life purpose and create a powerful life.

I have done it and so can you.

As I discovered my Inner Genius, I got clear and I am living a much more fulfilling life coaching wonderful amazing people just like yourself.

How clear do you feel in your life?

Do you want to gain more clarity in your life?

What specific step are you going to take to gain more clarity?

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In this strategy session, we will talk about your goals and outline your course of action to accomplish these goals.

With the Inner Genius process, you will be amazed how you gain more control of your life and maintain emotional mastery over yourself. You discover your purpose and experience more happiness.

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Join me on my blog at http://www.AuthenticChangeCoach.com where we are having a wonderful time this past week exploring laughter and clarity.

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About Iyabo:

Iyabo Asani is a Business and Executive Life Coach, and founder of Authentic Change Coaching. She loves helping her clients discover their passions and create a purposeful marketplace presence by teaching them how to harness the energy of attraction and discover their Inner Genius.

Trained by Leadership University and the B-Coach program, Iyabo, brings a unique coaching perspective to the lives of her clients by loving them, believing in them and helping them create the space for miracles in their lives.

After twenty years of practicing law and being involved in helping clients resolve legal problems, Iyabo discovered that she was particularly gifted about helping her clients discover the energy patterns that led to the manifestation of the legal issues. Once the clients experienced epiphanies about the underlying energetic templates and patterns of thinking, their legal issues resolved themselves easily.

Naturally, her law practice flowed into a coaching practice as she crafted her coaching practice around her passions and purpose.

Please feel free to contact her at: htttp://kluane.org or email her at spake@mindspring.com.

Laughing Toward a Happy, Abundant, and Meaningful Life

In the beginning was the Word (logos, Jn. 1:1). Logos can be understood to mean “the word, speech, or conversation” such as when God SAID, “let there BE.”

Another long lost implied Greek definition of “logos” in this context is that it means telling a joke! Well– that idea makes me happy just to think about. It forces me to look at life from a different vantage. It causes me to consider how much the Lord God wants us to be happy. Even within this idea contains a hint of how life should be.
From original creation, God’s cosmic laughter still resounds. Can you hear it?

Laughing from the beginning shows that God unconditionally accepted us right off the bat. In spite of our mistakes and pratfalls. We were created for HIS pleasure (Rev. 4:11). Yes! God actually created us to freely be joyful — that makes Him happy too! The reason we get confused about the meaning of our lives is because we forgot that God gave us a choice to be joyful WITH Him. The spiritual  flash point of creation seems to be pleasure and joy (both for God and for us).

Augustine, John Chrysostom,  and Gregory of Nyssa (early church fathers) spoke of how God played a surprise joke on the devil when He raised Jesus from the grave. Since earliest times, Protestant Easter sermons started with a joke. The Greek Orthodox Church sets aside 24 hours of continuous joking and humor because of the joke of Resurrection.

The Greek Orthodox Church named Easter laughter “Risus Paschalis” (Segal 2001, 24). Dante’s most famous work was called the “Divine Comedy.” Dante told about how the nearer we get to heaven the wider the smile, and the greater the laughter.

Those who followed St. Francis of Assisi were so outlandishly happy about their salvation they were compared to jesters, street comics, circus performers and were known as “le Jongleur de Dieu” or the tumblers of God.

Laughter is the first thing that babies learn to do. The quality of our abundant life depends upon being able to laugh and find joy. Learning to laugh again is a major factor of greater internal enlightenment and vitality.

Most believers take life too seriously, they have the stoic part figured out – they think they need to be aesthetes to walk in God’s favor. There’s kids, careers, deadlines, pressures, degrees, disappointments, relationships, and endless demands. Do you view life as abundant or a prison sentence? Many of us may need a “Laugh track” to accompany our  life — just to recognize what is joyful.

As the saying goes, “Laugh and the world laughs with you. Frown and they think you’re a Christian!”

“We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk – and the next 12 years telling them to sit down and shut up.” Phyllis Diller

The first mention of  laughter in the Bible is when God told Abraham that he would be a father and Sarah, his 90 year old wife, overheard the conversation and laughed. Perhaps we know the story to well to see something else? What if the name Issac (Laughter) was chosen because Sarah’s laughter was from the astonishment of the promise? What if Laughter became his name to remember that moment of discovery? Surely her gladness was unimaginable. Her conception was a miracle.

This response caused a spiritual portal of release and acceptance of the impossible promise! Then, they named their son “Isaac,” and his name meant “laughter.” And Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me” (Gen. 21:6).

I like to think about the conversation in that family. “If I told you once, Laughter, I’ve told you a thousand times., quit the rowdy laughter, Laughter. Sit down and stop laughing – be still.” “Laughter, be serious.”

Now, imagine taking Laughter (the child of promise and hope) to the mountain to sacrifice him. Genesis 22:5  “I and the lad (Laughter) will go yonder; and we will worship and return to you.” Did he laugh all the way there?  Here, offering up Isaac (Laughter) by pulling a knife up to slay him according to God’s command is called “worship.”

The average Believer thinks of the Sunday morning “Worship Service” as singing music with your eyes closed and both hands in the air. But, the worship Abraham was talking about is “Shachah ” which means to yield and prostrate oneself in reverence.

It’s giving everything in joy, trust,  and expectation!

All the all the fancy music, all the processional banners, all the graceful dancers, and all the preaching in the world cannot make worship happen. But willing sacrifice with laughter IS worship. There was no promise of reward, no recompense – just do it. No wonder there was a ram in the thicket! It epitomizes the response to authentic worship!

Ask the Lord to show you how to worship in the dimension of joy and laughter -  allow His Love to spill out all over you. After all, God sits on His throne and laughs (Ps. 2:4). We’re sitting next to him on His right side.
Why would our latest revivals contain so much Holy Laughter? Because laughter heals us. Laughter spontaneously connects us one with another. People rarely laugh alone. it gives us a shared sense of understanding the world – the essence of the awareness of life.

I had a pastor friend who made me laugh. Sometimes I would fly long distances to minister for him – and he always was outlandishly funny. Laughing with that church made that place one of my favorite places to go. Laughter is a healthy response that provides us with a mini-vacation from stress and difficult emotional situations.

“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.” Mark Twain

Laughter is the great communicator. It is a witness of our faith, even in hard times. You can’t be unhappy and laugh at the same time. Laughter is a joy INSIDE – it is both a physical and an emotional experience. It is a magnet that draws others to us. It creates relationship bonding. It is contagious and often uncontrollable.

Great friendships are only as memorable as the history of laughs together!

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”

HEALTH – Countless advantages of laughter are said to help health issues. The August issue of Ode Magazine also tells us of some of the extraordinary health benefits of laughter:

People who laugh seem to have longer attention spans.
Immune cells become more activated. It helps us fight disease.
Laughter cleanses the body of cortisol. (Cortisol is the stress hormone that deposits fat in the abdominal region of the body.) Laughter eases anxiety.
It reduces chronic pain and these are as follows:
Laughing increases blood circulation. It pushes blood and oxygen though the coronary  arteries – reducing strokes and heart attacks.
Laughing is calming. It releases an endorphin rush that produce pleasure sensations. Endorphins reduce damage to the increases pain tolerance.
It adds higher levels of melatonin to breast milk of mothers and reduces fetal eczema.
It reduces inflammation thought to be linked to heart attacks, allergies, and arthritis.
It is an escape from stress and emotional situations.
It causes better respiration function.
It invigorates hormones called “catecholamines” that raise an alertness of our present moment in tim
It keeps us from becoming bogged down with the circumstances of life. Plus it burns more calories than worry. Laughter helps control stress.
Many cancer centers use laughter (old movies, etc.) as a coping and curing mechanism.
Gastronomical troubles are thought to be related to uncontrolled anxiety.
Stress is related to damaged endothelium (inner lining of blood vessels – arterial stiffening) that leads to heart attacks. Athens Medical School published results that confirmed the beneficial effects of laughter on arterial stiffness.
Japanese research shows that laughter helps stabilize blood sugar in diabetics.
Peter said in Acts 2:25-28:  “I saw the Lord always before me.  Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad (leaps for joy) and my tongue rejoices. –You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence.”

So try these experiences just for fun. Make the sounds.
EXISTENTAIL laugher: Subdued wary laugh in seemingly uncertain or inappropriate times.

GIGGLES: Contagious response.

CACKLE: Cartoon villains, comic scoundrels, and evil entities.

CONTEMPTUOUS: Scoffing ridicule at those in authority or power. Contemptuous, bullied, or scornful response to idea or person who is deemed worthless.

NERVOUS laugh: Awkward moments, nervousness.

SOCIAL laughter: General invitation to collectively relate socially.

CHUCKLE: Briefly acknowledge comprehension of joke, pun, or event

BELLY laughs: Involuntary explosive response. Guffaw, chortle, or snort.

We are told in Scripture to not be filled with foolish talk or crude joking (Eph. 5:4). While inappropriate  humor seems to be rampant these days, we want to laugh WITH God. We are told to not overly jest or mock, but it is wonderful to be happy, amused, celebrant, rejoicing, and smiling. God even laughs at the enemies of Israel (Ps. 59:8). Israel praised God for the gift of laughter (Ps. 126).

My friend, laugh joyfully at appropriate times and put your trust in the Lord  and His Word — nd you will have abiding  joy and a leaping up of the Holy Spirit in your heart. There is certain victory in Christ that is accompanied with eternal rejoicing and laughter.

Heb. 12:2 says, ” Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross.” Jesus could endure with joy because God’s people have the last laugh that never ends.
Selah –

The number one problem in the Church today is that believers don’t fully know our identity. Can we learn to laugh and be joyful over who God has made us to be.

It is all about energy!

I have had two clients this week talk about how frustrated they are about getting their small businesses off the ground. They are both highly educated women. One was laid off from her corporate job and the other is a retired school teacher who is trying to grow her small business to supplement her retirement income.

I was struck by how similar their stories are. They both are very talented and have very strong, clearly defined skills. However, they were both feeling challenged by translating those particular skills into a viable business that produces both sustainable income and emotional fulfillment. They both echoed the same sentiment:

“What is it all about?”
“What is the purpose of all this?”
“What is wrong with me?”
“Why can’t I get this right?”
“I have been so caught up in this, I have lost sight of who I am!”

Boy, I really felt for them because I have been right there in that same exact spot.

You see, when you are highly educated: MBA, JD, Ph.D, M.D., even a college degree, you have been programmed to believe that once you get your degree or degrees that the path becomes easier as you are clearly focused on what you want to do professionally.

However, gone are the days that all you need is a skill. The marketplace is changing drastically. Technical know-how to do a job is not all that will carry you forward and create success.

You really have to be convinced of your own value beyond just your skills and you have to enter into the heart of your clients to really propel your business forward.

These days, it is those that have a calling and hear the voice of that calling clearly that are able to navigate the marketplace and experience fulfillment and satisfaction in their work.

For both women, I inquired as to what was going on with their energy.

Energy?

Quantum physics says we are 100% energy. Everything is energy. The Dictionary defines energy as “the ability or capacity to do work.” It is “life force.” More energy equals more ability or capacity to do work.

Energy can never be created or destroyed. It can only be transmuted or changed from one form to another. Think of it this way: Water can change from liquid to steam to ice. The same matter but in different states.

Bearing in mind that matter is energy, energy is constantly in motion. It moves. Its movement is called vibration.

Vibration is the measurement of a particle of matter or energy as it oscillates  between states periodically.

When it comes to us human beings, I teach my clients that we are concerned with three types of energy: Receptive, Active and Magnetic.

You have to go through each of these cycles periodically both personally and in your business.

As I coached my two clients, we observed that both clients were in active energy mode. The only type of energy that their business was experiencing was active mode.

Please note: I firmly believe in taking action: Inspired Action, that is!

What is inspired action? After a time of being receptive and taking in what it is that you want, you act from a place of inspiration and deliberately use your magnetic energy to guide you and move you forward with active energy.

Often times, receptive energy is considered feminine energy and active energy is considered masculine energy. I have never heard anyone say it before, but I consider magnetic energy the glue that ties the other two energies together.

According to the philosophy, yin and yang are complementary opposites within a greater whole. Everything has both yin and yang aspects, which constantly interact, never existing in absolute stasis. (Wikipedia).

Understanding yin and yang also helps us understand our natural energy cycles. It is natural to be receptive and natural to be active.

OK, going deeper into energy:

Physical: If you do not have physical energy nothing else works. Our physical capacity has four components: nutrition, fitness, sleep and recovery or renewal.

Emotional: The quality of your energy. This is about your emotions. How you feel profoundly affects your energy.

Mental: Focus of energy is mental and we do our best work when we focus on one thing.

Spiritual: The energy of the human spirit. This the energy derived from the experience of purpose and from an alignment between what you say is important in your life and how you live. The better that alignment, the more powerful the source of energy available to you. ~ Tony Schwartz

The Spiritual energy is the “why” energy and the others are “how” energy. The “how” energies are fuel for the spiritual “why” energy.

Both clients were working hard and their energies felt as if they were drowning and spluttering in a swimming pool. A lot of active energy going on with no direction or focus.

They were functioning in the “how” of their business energy and not the “why” of their business energy.

When we discussed how nothing was going on with their receptive and magnetic energies, they immediately relaxed as they both could clearly see that they could not truly move forward without considering their magnetic and receptive energies.

I asked each of them to take some time off from the activity of work and reconnect with their vision of their business and the vision of their ideal customer.  That was their home work.

The ying and yang of business is this: You must care for your client’s needs from the heart for your client to respond to you and buy from you.

I have since received emails telling me that they are seeing gaps in their marketing activity and also opportunities for expansion. One client has seen an increase in the sale of her jewelry since the session that day.  She said she got in the space of visualizing her jewelry on the necks, arms and fingers of women in her city as she walked down the street. She saw the enhanced beauty of these women just because they put on her jewelry. As she walked, she vibed beautiful in high demand jewelry.

As these women reconnected with the vision of their business, reconnected with the value that their business provides to others and reconnect with their own personal value, they were able to take control of their lives and their business.

Now, I ask you, how is your energy around your business?

Are you taking into consideration all three forms of energy?

Are you nourishing your body, emotions, mind and Spirit?

Is your “why” energy clearly defined?

If you have issues around any of these issues as addressed in this newsletter, then please contact me at coach@AuthenticChangeCoach.com for a complimentary strategy session.

Hi there,

How are you?

Can you believe that in Georgia school starts next week? Why do I think it is too hot for kids to start school next week?

Anyway, I am just thrilled that  the two American journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling have been  reunited with family and friends upon returning to the United States with former President Bill Clinton, whose diplomatic trip to North Korea secured their release nearly five months after their arrests.

This is particularly thrilling to me because, since I grew up half way across the planet, family means the world to me.

This week, I am going to tell you about Monica and the struggle she overcame with her business and her kids.

My client Monica has a podiatrist practice in Florida.  To put it kindly, when she contacted me, she was overwhelmed. She hates to do her medical charts. She loves working with her elderly clients and really pays attention to giving them a lot of personalized attention.

However, the fact that she is not running her business at a profit has come to a head.
She needs to make a decision as to what her next step is. She contacted me depressed and lethargic. I noted her energy level because I was picking up that she was not enthused about her practice.

She charted out what she felt were her two options based on feelers that she had been putting out there and wanted some coaching around how to make the right decision for herself.  She felt her only options were going into partnership with someone else or
leasing a cheaper space, letting one employee go and keeping a more streamlined practice. However, neither option seemed viable to her.

I told her she had jumped a step.

This surprised her.

I asked her what she did before she became a podiatrist and it turns out that she had worked for seven years as a nurse. She also disclosed that she had been practicing podiatry for seven years and her two kids were seven and fourteen.

I asked her what she made of all the sevens and multiples thereof showing up in her life.

She said she had never noticed it.

When I asked her to reconnect with the vision she had for her life as a podiatrist seven years earlier, her slow, lethargic tone changed to one of animation and excitement as she talked about how she loved caring for her clients and loved seeing patients improve.

When she discussed what else was exciting in her life, she started crying. She said she felt pulled into too many directions.

She felt that she was not spending enough time with her kids. She constantly felt guilty about working so many hours. As it turns out, she felt angry with her business because it took so much of her energy. She had also spent a significant amount of time in the last couple of years seeking complementary healthcare options for her menopausal symptoms and hot flashes.

After a few sessions, Monica became acutely aware that the alternative medicine research she had done excited her immensely because she was using her left brain and “sharpening her professional saw” as per Steven Covey.

As I taught her the language of her emotions, she discovered that following her “feel good” always pointed her in the right direction of what she needed.

Over the next three months, she followed the things that made her feel good and learned to listen to that. She realized that she needed a major change professionally every seven years.

She got stuck there for a while as she did not feel she could let go of  her medical training that she spent many years procuring. Once she realized that this all or nothing thinking was not serving her, she realized that she could practice medicine without the HMO’s breathing down her back.

What does her life look like six months later?

• She does not work weekends so she feels tremendously reconnected with her children.
• She works on her Wellness practice two days a week. Her background as a nurse and podiatrist gives her a tremendous amount of street creds.
• She found a gig in a Caribbean Island where she goes for five days every six weeks and makes a chunk of money treating podiatrist patients there.
• She works one day a week for a traditional podiatrist where she transferred all her clients to.

I will admit that she had a hard time letting go of her clients. But after several guided meditations and more brainstorming, she was able to come up with this final solution to keep her hands on the pulse of her existing clients.

So, count it up:

• She eliminated her overhead.
• She worked to place her two employees with other doctors.
• The opportunity in the Caribbean fell on her lap out of the clear blue sky.
• She has actually seen her kids play soccer, basketball, baseball and she takes them to swimming classes at least once a week when she is home.
• As she pursued her alternative medical practice focusing on menopausal women, she was fed that part of her soul that needed to learn something new every seven years.
• She and her husband have date night at least once a week.
• She has connected with several old friends and is more sociable and outgoing.

All this from coaching for six months?

Truthfully, no.

It was all in her all along.

She merely needed someone to remind her of who she really was.

What thrilled me is when she cancelled an appointment with me and the voicemail said, “I have to reschedule with you because today I am spending the entire day with my kids, sitting on the floor, eating organic popcorn and watching movie after movie and I do not feel like doing anything else.”

I was thrilled to reschedule that appointment!

So here are my questions for you this week:

Are you so settled in your professional skills that you have not learned anything new lately?

How can you stretch your learning, professional or otherwise, this week and feed your left brain that has an unquenchable thirst for knowledge?
Do you realize that your feelings of overwhelm are an indication that you want to slow down and pay attention to what is important in your life?

However, most of us do not realize that our businesses also have energy. You see, your business is a living thing. Your business is not just an expression of your skills and talents. It has its very own life force and so it will be wise to look at its energy component.

Let us take a closer look at energy.

Here is what I know about energy. It is not much but it is all I know.

Quantum physics says we are 100% energy. Everything is energy. The Dictionary defines energy as “the ability or capacity to do work.” It is “life force.” More energy equals more ability or capacity to do work.

Energy can never be created or destroyed. It can only be transmuted or changed from one form to another. Think of it this way: Water can change from liquid to steam to ice. The same matter but in different states.

Bearing in mind that matter is energy, energy is constantly in motion. It moves. Its movement is called vibration.

Vibration is the measurement of a particle of matter or energy as it oscillates between states periodically.

When it comes to us human beings, I teach my clients that we are concerned with three types of energy: Receptive, Active and Magnetic.

You have to go through each of these cycles periodically both personally and in your business.

Inspired action is Active Energy.  After a time of being receptive and taking in what it is that you want, you act from a place of inspiration and deliberately use your magnetic energy to guide you and move you forward with active energy.

Often times, receptive energy is considered feminine energy and active energy is considered masculine energy. I have never heard anyone say it before, but I consider magnetic energy the glue that ties the other two energies together.

In Chinese philosophy, the concept of yin and yang is used to describe how seemingly disjunct or opposing forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, giving rise to each other in turn.  This is also the receptive and active energies at work.  According to the philosophy, yin and yang are complementary opposites within a greater whole. Everything has both yin and yang aspects, which constantly interact, never existing in absolute stasis. (Wikipedia).

Understanding ying and yang also helps us understand our natural energy cycles. It is natural to be receptive and natural to be active.

As humans, we require a complex set of energies to operate optimally. Each cell in our bodies are designed to do work. They have a specific function. Our energy is multi-dimensional and you have to use all four sources of energy to function optimally.

Physical: If you do not have physical energy nothing else works. Our physical capacity has four components: nutrition, fitness, sleep and recovery or renewal.

Emotional: The quality of your energy. This is about your emotions. How you feel profoundly affects your energy.

Mental: Focus of energy is mental and we do our best work when we focus on one thing.

Spiritual: The energy of the human spirit. This the energy derived from the experience of purpose and from an alignment between what you say is important in your life and how you live. The better that alignment, the more powerful the source of energy available to you. ~ Tony Schwartz

The Spiritual energy is the “why” energy and the others are “how” energy. The “how” energies are fuel for the spiritual “why” energy.

The key is to build your business around “why” energy and keep the “hows” functioning smoothly. Also, as you take Inspired Action in your business, make sure you are offsetting  it with being receptive and taking in support for your business. Coaching is a very effective way to activate your business receptive energy.

What is the energy of your business?

What is your “how” energy?

How do you experience receptivity in your business?

You see, from the time I was a child, I had the ability to perceive beyond my five senses of what I could see, touch taste, hear or smell.

I have always had the ability to see people beyond how they see themselves. It is so easy for me to see the value in others. This is the key to my love of coaching.

I do not care who you are and where you are and whatever you do, you have all the solutions to each and every problem you have ever faced within you.

My job is to remind you about who you really are.

In these times, with all the news about the economy and everything else that we hear, it is easy to feel down and look at the external circumstances as others interpret it. Your greatest problem is not the stress you are facing. It is understanding how wonderful and valuable you are.

Within each and every one of us as a unique, incredible human being that deserves all that you can imagine.

The Solution!

If we humans could just understand how much lies within us, we would be shocked and we would never look at problems the same way. We are incredible multifaceted beings with amazing resilience within us and we just have to learn to tap into our Inner Genius to create wonderful life affirming solutions.

Fear holds us back from achieving the things we want. We stop living because fear clouds our judgment and inhibits our wisdom.  Fear is a natural protective response. When our brain processes information that threatens our survival or our family, the fight or flight response is activated.  That system is still active in our lives although we do not live in the wilderness among tigers and lions.

Modern day stresses of financial issues, health issues, relationship issues, and work stress all trigger that flight or fight response. When our brain and entire body is flooded with the chemicals triggered during the flight or fight response, we are reactionary and not proactive. We are unable to call upon all of our wonderful resources within to create the life that we want.

This is the key point for you to understand. You have been unable to create what you want because your brain is flooded with the chemicals that are telling your entire body to fight back or to run. You are in survival mode. When last did you not feel that you should do something or that something just needs to happen? That is survival mode and you cannot create beauty, luxury and calm from a place of stress.

Please understand: Fear can be wonderful. It helps you when you are in danger. However, when you are not in danger, fear is not your friend.  Listening to the news and talking about how awful things are will trigger the flight or fear response in your body.

We know to turn off the TV and not read the news papers. We know to focus on what we want, not what we do not want. We know to use the law of attraction to our benefit. We know to make lifestyle changes that we know will help us.

However, we find it impossible to make these changes. Why? Because everything in your body is saying it is time to run or time to fight. Turn your body chemicals into your friend. Tap into your Inner Genus and create authentic change in your life. Easily and gracefully move from fear based reactions to proactively creating a lifestyle that nourishes your total person.

Your incredible Inner Genius has all the wisdom you will ever need for your life. The key to activating your Inner Genius is awareness.  As you dwell and live in the awareness of this space within you, you will thrive and prosper in every area of your life.

As you live from your Inner Genius, your energy becomes very clear and clean. Your vibration becomes naturally higher and you discover incredible capacity to manifest what you want. Living from your Inner Genius shifts your focus to what you want, not what you do not want and you thereby cause the Law of Attraction in your favor.

Your Inner Genius is the Intersection of five key components of you:

1.    Your left brain:  All the knowledge and reasoning you have accumulated experientially and academically. This includes your organizational and analytical skills.

2.    Your right brain:  Your creative, imaginative and holistic side.

One side of the brain is not more valuable than the other side of the brain although you probably have a tendency towards one side of your brain. It is important to note that the goal here is to have whole brain synergy. When you have both parts of your brain working in cooperation and concert you produce wonderful results.

If you are a left brained analytical person, make sure you take time on a regular basis to be creative and to appreciate music. If you are a right brained person, you may want to read more and listen to audio recordings more often. Activate your analytical side.

We all tend to be a little too rigid. The left brainers think the right brainers are airey fairey and are not smart and the right brainers can be rather condescending to detailed analysis and sequential thinking. However, both parts are in all of us and we honor our Inner Genius when we support both sides of our brain and when we are more aware of which side we are leaning towards.

3.    Your emotional heart: This is the center of your feelings. Your emotions are a guidance system. They are not who you are.  We tend to identify the sum total of who we are by our emotional expression. We say, “He is an angry man.” However, anger is an indicative emotion. Our negative emotions are there to let us know that whatever we have experienced is not positive and does not help us. However, many of us hold on to negative emotions and identify ourselves with those emotions. Our positive emotions are to us as sunlight is to plants and flowers. Our positive state is our natural setting. We are meant to be happy and to feel good. When we feel good, our bodies are healthier and others are happier around us.

Listening to your emotions and factoring how you feel and how you want to feel in designing the life that you want is a powerful tool.

4.    Your Somatic body:  This is your physical being and chakra system.  Your body is also intuitive. It speaks to you. You feel a lot of feelings in your body but you may not be aware of it. The Chakra system is an Ancient Sanskrit tradition that addresses the flow of energy in the body. Each of the seven chakras speak to where emotions can lodge in your body energetically. As you understand the seven chakras, you will understand the wonderful hidden messages that your body is communicating to you.

Your Chakras are corresponds to critical components of our lives that we may often overlook.

This is not an in depth study of the Chakras. However, regardless of your spiritual background, it is important to study the body and how it holds energy. Prolonged stress, fear and negative thinking have a negative impact on the corresponding Chakra. Allowing negative emotions to flow through the body and discharge is important to your emotional  health

5.    Your God connection:  This is your spiritual and non-physical consciousness. This is sacred. Regardless of your religious background, we can agree to this mysterious connection that we all have with Source, Universe, The Divine, God, Divine Intelligence and whatever name you may choose. Inviting the sacred into your daily life and tapping into that Universal Intelligence has to be a part of your daily life to design the life that you want.

In Conclusion

Now that you are aware of these various components of you, be aware that together, they want to communicate with you and help you create a life that is filled with goodness and wonderful things. As you gain awareness of all these parts of you, and deliberately engage them, you are living and creating from your Inner Genius.

As you meld your right brain and your left brain and seek whole brain strategies, check in often with your emotions, listen to your body speaking to you and factor in the Source component of your life, you will have amazing courage and abilities.

Remember, we have just described you: This amazing wonderful synergy of all those five parts. Keep your Inner Genius in mind when you want to create powerfully and raise your vibration. Pay constant attention to your Inner Genius. Do not leave any part out.

I ask that you contact me for a complimentary coaching session to further understand your Inner Genius and how to create an absolutely amazing life living from this place.

Here is to your greatness!