Imagine Your Reality

This weeks radio interview is with Barbara Saunders from SECP.

What’s Your Cause?

While I spend a lot of time in this newsletter focused on writing articles about businesses and how a business can grow, or about writing and how to build a marketing platform, I also think it’s important to sometimes look beyond the professional and focus on the service aspect, specifically what causes you support.

What is your cause? What is a social, environmental, political, or economic issue you believe in that requires some form of activism and participation, in order to create some changes in the world? Having a cause can help you find some clarity for your life and your goals, because the cause provides you perspective outside of yourself, your clients, your family, and friends. It connects you to an issue that touches or effects more than just the people you know, and may sometimes effect more than just people.

I have a few causes that I believe in and focus on. I believe in contributing time to taking care of the environment, whether it’s planting trees and other plants or pulling out invasive species. I believe in teaching people about economic activism through networking, and how that can be used to promote genuine change and collaboration. And just recently I’ve started researching information about African Elephants, because I want to donate some of my finances to help out elephants.

What’s your cause? What do you believe in? What can you do to support your cause?

Upcoming Classes:

How to Use a Blog to Promote Your Business

When: Tuesday, April 14 2009 6-8:30pm

Where: 1562 Se Tacoma St. Portland or 97206

Cost: $75.00

You’ve heard of blogs, online journals where people write about different subjects and can sometimes use them to market your business, but how does it work? In this class, I’ll explain what a blog is, how it can promote your business and how you can automate it.

In this class you will learn:

• What a blog is
• How to set-up a wordpress or blogger blog
• How to use feedburner to automate your blogs
• What blog directory sites to get on to promote your blog
• How to get your blog entries onto Twitter
• How to use blog widgets with your blog
• How to let people subscribe to your blog by email
• How to make your blog professional and tasteful

How to use Linkedin and Biznik to promote your business

When: Tuesday April 21st 2009 6-8:30pm

Where: 1562 Se Tacoma St. Portland or 97206

Cost: $75.00

Linkedin and Biznik are two of the more popular social networking sites available to professionals and entrepreneurs, but often I hear that people aren’t sure how to use these sites or how they will get you clients. I was once even told that someone thought that Linkedin was just another job hunting site. In this class, I clear up the confusion about these sites and show you how to automate them.

You will learn:

• How to set up a profile on Linkedin and Biznik
• How to use the Status update on Linkedin
• How to use the Question and Answer forum on Linkedin
• How to use Biztalk on Biznik
• What the groups feature is and how to use it on Linkedin and Biznik
• Why the recommendation/compliment can be helpful for growing your business.
• Why writing an article/putting on an event can be useful for raising your visibility.
• The protocol for inviting people into your network

How to use Facebook and Twitter

When: Tuesday April 28th 2009 6-8:30pm

Where: 1562 Se Tacoma St. Portland or 97206

Cost: $75

Facebook and Twitter are two social networking sites which are increasingly becoming prominent in the social media world, but how can you use these sites to grow your business, and is it really worth your time? I’ll explain how to use and automate these sites, so you can grow your business and still have time to live your life. In this class you will learn:

• How to setup a profile on facebook and create a fan page for your business.
• How to create an event listing on facebook.
• How to balance between personal and professional on facebook.
• What twitter is and what tools to use to make twitter useful.
• How to set up an rss feed from your blog to twitter via twitter feed.
• How to automate your status updates to different websites so you only have to update through twitter.
• The etiquette for using Twitter

How to use Plaxo, MySpace, and i-list

When: Monday May 4, 2009: 6-8:30pm

Where: 1562 Se Tacoma St. Portland or 97206

Cost: $75

When people hear about MySpace, they may think of teenagers and rock bands, but did you know that Seniors and Baby Boomers are increasingly using it? Learn how to use MySpace to reach that part of your client base, while also learning about Plaxo and how you can automate your presence on it. I-list is a site which allows you to list events on Facebook, Twitter, and other sites, as well as promote those events to your contacts on your email. In this class you will learn:

• Learn how to set up a profile on Plaxo
• Learn how to automate Plaxo
• Learn how to set up a profile on Myspace
• Learn why MySpace is for more than just kids and why you may need to use it to grow your business.
• How to post a blog on MySpace
• How to use i-list to announce your events to craigslist, facebook, gmail, twitter, and other social media sites.
• How to set-up a profile on i-list.

RSVP Taylor at imagineyourreality@gmail.com or 503… to sign up for the class.

Cost per class is 75 USD. Total cost for all four classes = 300 USD. If you sign up for all the classes, when you first RSVP me, I’ll give you a special rate of 250 USD for all four classes.

This week I interviewed Intimacy Coach Angela Wilkinson about what intimacy is and how to achieve it with yourself and other people in your life. Next week I will be interviewing Kare Anderson of Say it Better Coaching.

Money and You

With the economy sliding into a depression, money is obviously one of the biggest concerns on anyone’s mind. Even in the best of times, money is usually a concern, because it is our survival ticket. We pay money for almost everything we acquire. Money is the both the life blood of a business and the life blood of a family. At this time, we can’t really live without it.

Lately I’ve been reading The Analects by Confucius and one of the points he makes is that people will spend three years studying for a salary, but that studying for a salary is not a good reason to study. I agree with his perspective. Doing anything for money ultimately treats money as an end goal and in the process makes it more important than anything else in your life. At the same time, the main purpose of money is forgotten. the main purpose of money is to facilitate a means to an end. In other words, money in and of itself only has value when it is used to secure goals that enrich our lives. If you work all the time and hoard your money, is it really useful? This isn’t to say you shouldn’t save money or have some put aside for hard economic times, like the current ones. But the point Confucius makes is applicable to this time as was in his. Studying with a salary in mind ignores the potential unhappiness you may feel doing that job.

The same is true for business owners. Getting into a business solely to make money is usually an equation that leads to unhappiness. People can tell if you are or are not passionate about what you are doing. And that dictates whether or not they will spend their money.

The relationship you cultivate with money is about attitude. Lots of people have written about how important it is to have a healthy attitude about money and it is important to have that healthy attitude, but part of finding that healthy attitude involves recognizing that money isn’t an end in itself. Study for three years for something you are passionate about and that passion will show up in the quality of work and consequently manifest in the money you earn.

Review: Guerilla Marketing by Jay Conrad Levinson

This is a must have book for anyone who’s starting or running a small business. Levinson includes tons of tactics and strategies that any small business owner can benefit from and best of all can personalize to their own advantages. I have lots of pages dog tagged in my copy, because I know I’ll be referring to them again and again and again. I also like Levinson’s style of writing; he makes readers instantly comfortable with the concepts, while also urging them to incorporate those concepts into how they do business. You can’t go wrong with GuerillaMarketing…what you can learn is how to make your business successful while spending as little as possible.

5 out of 5

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Cutting Down on the Clutter

During the holiday weekend, my wife got the urge to start de-cluttering the house. She looked around and she told me, she saw lots of stuff. It’s easy to acquire stuff, but once you do, you get cluttered, and she decided a good de-cluttering was needed. Before I knew it, I was also starting to de-clutter some of my own stuff. I picked out books I no longer needed, cleaned out some of my old clothing and otherwise let go of some knick knacks that had no discernible purpose for me. The house felt larger after it was done and I felt less weighed down by stuff.

How about you? Do you feel like your life is cluttered up? Is there anything you are willing to let go of? How would it feel to have a life or a place that doesn’t feel cluttered?

Reminder

My Free Teleclass, Three Methods for unblocking Your Creativity is coming up this Wednesday. If you’re feeling blocked when you try to exercise your creativity, then this the class you’ll want to take!

Three Methods for unblocking your Creativity

When: Wednesday July 9^th, 2008

5 pm to 6 pm (PST) 8 pm to 9 pm (EST)

Are you feeling uninspired in your creatively lately? Do you feel like your source of inspiration has dried up? In this class, I present three methods for unblocking your creativity so that you can get in touch with your muse, and get your creative juices flowing.

If, after the teleclass is over, you don’t feel you’ve learned anything about how to unblock your creativity, I’ll buy you and two of your friends a cup of coffee.

To join this class, register online

Also, if you live in the Portland Metro Area, in a little over two weeks I’ll be starting up a bi-weekly class series at The Guiding Tree at 4831 SE Division St, Portland, OR on Opening Yourself to Wealth. If you’re feeling the economic pinch, and want to get in touch with your wealth or you’re ready to claim your wealth this series of classes will provide you the map you need to find your way to wealth!

Sign up for all four classes now and and get a 25% discount on the total cost of the classes. You’ll only pay $90 (Save $30). If, after the first class, you don’t feel you’ve learned anything about wealth and are dissatisfied, I’ll refund you your money, except for the 20 dollar non-refundable fee.

Open yourself to wealth to manifest the life you want to live! In this biweekly course, I will show you how to open yourself to wealth so you can manifest a successful and happy life.

First Class: What You Think Is What You Produce

The thoughts you think and emotions you feel are powerful tools that you use everyday to determine your wealth or lack thereof. You will learn how to consciously take your thoughts and emotions and turn them into wealth generators that help you find opportunity in every situation you are in.

Come prepared to:

• Turn a scarcity mentality into a prosperity mentality

• Manifest your emotions into energy in motion that propels you to success.

• Recognize how your thoughts can sabotage you with reactions

• Create actions that enable you to find success.

Second Class: Naming Your Wealth So You Can Claim It

What is wealth to you? In this class we explore what the definition of wealth is for each of us. Wealth is more than just having money. Wealth involves discovering your quality of life and in this workshop we will name our wealth and claim it.

Come prepared to:

• Define what wealth is, so that you can name it, to claim it.

• Discover what a quality life means to you.

• Assess the sources and relationships that either bring wealth into your life or take it from you.

Third Class: Organizing Yourself to Success

In this class, we build on what we learned in the first couple of classes and focus on how to organize ourselves to create success. Organization begins in the mind, and ultimately manifests in the world around you. Organize yourself and find success.

Come prepared to:

• Create a statement of action to manifest your wealth.

• Use meditation to organize your thoughts and emotions.

• Develop a system for organizing your resources that works for you.

Fourth Class: Disciplining Yourself to Success

We look at the principle of “Where the Attention goes, the Energy Flows,” and apply it to our own routines to ask the question, “What can I do to generate the wealth I want to manifest in my life?”

Come prepared to:

• Direct your attention to maximize where your energy goes.

• Creatively develop a routine you can follow each day.

• Come away with a plan to manifest your wealth into your life.

Pay $90 if you pre-register for all 4 classes.

To register for the classes, call the Guiding Tree at (503)-239-7458, call Taylor Ellwood at (503)-869-0163, or register here.

Each day, in many different ways, we communicate. Sometimes we know we are doing it and other times we might be surprised at what we’re communicating. Communication is about more than word or even body language. It’s also about your emotions and your attitude. If you go into a communication situation with a poor attitude or a scarcity mentality then that is exactly what you will manifest in your situation. The reason for that is because the scarcity mentality is brought into the conversation and all it looks for or manifests is what the person doesn’t have. A person with a scarcity mentality will generally have a negative outlook about life and miss the opportunities that are available or drive them away with the negativity they exude.

Approaching a situation with a positive attitude or abundance mentality will inevitably influence the communication toward producing more abundance. You can tell when a person has an abundance mentality by the way the person acts in a conversation. S/he is asking good questions, is generally upbeat and is somebody you want to be around. This person definitely wants to manifest abundance and doesn’t let anyone get in his or her way.

I believe in the axiom that where the attention goes is where the energy flows. Where you put your attention is where your energy goes. If you put your attention into a scarcity mentality then that is what you get. If you put your attention to an abundance mentality then that is what you will get…Mind you, just having a good attitude won’t cut it. You have to be willing to go out there and look for opportunities and do the work, but if you have an abundance mentality about, you will find that opportunities come to you easier than if you approach a situation with a scarcity mentality.

The saying that you can win more bees with honey then vinegar also applies. What is it you are communicating to people? Are you communicating your scarcity, what you don’t have, or why a situation doesn’t work out, or are you communicating your abundance, appreciating what you have and also being open to letting more manifest into your life?

Remember that how you approach a situation determines what you get out of that situation…will it be abundance or scarcity?

If you missed my radio interview yesterday with Bandora, go here to listen to it now.

I’d also like to thank Bandora for a wonderful interview with excellent questions

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Workshop Reminder!!!

June 7th, 2008 from Noon to 6pm

Come to The Guiding Tree at 4831 SE Division St, Portland OR 97206 for the follow workshops offered by author, innovator, and life coach, Taylor Ellwood:

Body Consciousness: A new paradigm for embracing your body and living your life

In this interactive workshop, we will combine reflective internal meditation with breathing practices and path working techniques that will leave you feeling connected to your body and revitalized in how you live your life. If you’ve felt dis-ease or unhealthy, this workshop will offer you a new paradigm about your body and what it has to tell you about the healthy life you can live. Even if you feel healthy, come to this workshop and get in touch the consciousness of your body.

Come ready to:

• Connect to your body and appreciate it for the miracle it is.
• Listen to the consciousness of your body to learn how to live healthier Work with your residual body image to help you pinpoint how you can change your relationship to your body.
• Learn a meditation that you can use to talk with your body at any time.

Breathe Easy: Simple techniques to energize your life with breath

Each breath taken offers you the potential to live a full life. In this interactive workshop, we’ll learn breathing techniques that will help you feel more energized and aware of your body’s health. When you leave, you will know how to use breath to both relax you and dissolve internal tension and stress.

I will show you how you can even change negative behavior patterns into positive life affirming outcomes.

Come ready to:

• Dissolve internal tensions and blockages Identity and change negative behavior into positive outcomes Breathe easy and enjoy life with renewed vigor Learn how to empty your body of negative emotions and revitalize your energetic self.

Become Who You Want To Be: A Workshop On Identity and You

Have you ever wanted to be someone else? Or have you wished you had more confidence in what you did or felt more focused in achieving your goals in life? How would you feel if you could create a new identity that would let you feel that confidence? In this workshop, I’m going to introduce you to an innovative method where you can create a persona and become that persona when you need it. I will show you how to identify key attributes that will help you define the persona that you create. You will use those attributes to create a Neuro-Linguistic Programming anchor which you can then use to invoke the persona when you need it.

Energize your life: Techniques for creating change in your life

Your energy is your life. If you feel drained after a long workday or being around certain people this workshop is for you! You’ll learn the principle that where your attention your energy flows. We’ll try on some energy work techniques you can use to maximize the energy in your life, while also safeguarding it from energetic leeches and other potential problems. When you leave this call, you will come away with new skills you can use to energize your life everywhere you go.

Come prepared to:

• Learn how to sense your own energy and other people’s energy.
• Adapt yourself energetically and emotionally to your environment.
• Protect yourself from energetic leeches, drama llamas, and anyone else who makes you feel drained.
• Recognize where your attention is going and your energy is flowing so you can reclaim your energy for yourself.

Total cost for the day: $80

Total cost for your sense of health, well-being, and abundance: priceless.

To register call (503)-239-7458 or call (503)-869-0163 or contact us here

Today is Memorial Day. In the US we take the day to honor the troops who have protected this country and done their duty. Today I would like to just say thank you to the troops who do their duty. Even in cases, such as the Iraq war, which I think is wrong for us to be in, I still am thankful that our troops are willing to risk their lives.

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Article: Breaking your projects down with Chunking

In Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), there is a concept called chunking. In chunking, a person takes information and either breaks it down into manageable parts (i.e. focusing on the details, or breaking down the information into smaller pieces so that it makes sense in relation to the big picture), or takes a detail and asks questions to fill in the big picture around that detail. Chunking can be a valuable tool to use when you want to understand the different layers of a project. However, chunking can also be used as a method for organizing how you approach a project.

Read more?

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Interview with Everyday Joy Radio -5/26/08 9pm EST 6pm PST

Tonight I will be interviewed about manifesting joy through your health and wealth.

Show Description: “Join as we continue to learn how to live in a state of Everyday Joy with special guest Taylor Ellwood as we discuss abundance and wealth in joy. Taylor is a certified whole person design life coach who specializes in health, wealth, and creativity coaching. He believes that health and wealth are intimately connected to each other and that by applying creative solutions all of us can realize the health and wealth we deserve.”

Also people can call into this show to talk with Bandora and myself: 347-327-9379 and or go to http://www.blogtalkradio.com/everydayjoy/2008/05/27/everyday-joy-wealth-and-abundance and join the conversation in the chatroom.

Table of Contents

Wealth and Your Attitude

Book Review: Sell the Feeling by Larry Pinci and Phil Glosserman

DIY Planner

Upcoming Workshops

Article: Wealth and your Attitude

I recently wrote a post about wealth on my personal journal. In it I wrote about various people, places, and other parts of my life that made me feel wealthy. The one thing I didn’t write about was money, not because money isn’t a reality in my life, or even a form of wealth, but because having money in and of itself does not make a person wealthy. It’s what you do with the money that determines the wealth it generates for you. A person can be technically rich, and yet live a miserable life. Is that person wealthy? Not really. The satisfaction a person feels with his or her life is what generates wealth.

Don’t get me wrong though…having a sound financial plan, and good attitudes about money is an important cornerstone of wealth. In fact your attitude, in general, is what really determines the wealth you manifest in your life. If you’re a chronic complainer, always looking at what seems to be going wrong, then no matter how much money you have, you’re still not wealthy. In fact, chances are you’ll end up sabotaging yourself in some manner unless you change those attitudes.

The attitude you apply to your life is a good barometer of what is happening to you internally. If you feel unhappy on a consisten basis, try figuring out what makes you unhappy. By figuring it out and changing it, you can change your situation and your attitude, which in turn can help you start finding other opportunities for happiness and wealth.

The attitude we apply to life determines what we get out of life. If you consistently find yourself looking for the negative in everything, then that’s exactly what you’ll find. Some of the work I do with my clients involves helping them reframe their negative attitudes into positive outcomes, by showing them how they can take a situation that seems to be negative and change the motivation for that negativity into a desire for a positive outcome. Look at your motivations and ask yourself what emotion or desire is fed by that motivation. For instance if you find yourself saying:

I don’t like working at this job because it takes time away from pursuing my art.

Look at how the negative is emphasized over the positive. A solution isn’t offered in the above sentence. But if you reframe that sentence and your way of thinking, you change your attitude and encourage your abundance in life.

I will find work that allows me to pursue my art is a much a better sentence and way of thinking than the previous example.

Next time you find yourself feeling negative, try looking at how you think about and phrase a situation and see if changing that around can help you change your attitude and increase your awareness of opportunities that manifest wealth.

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Book Review: Sell the Feeling by Larry Pinci and Phil Glosserman

The authors utilize a story based approach to explain how successful sales works. The story format is a useful way of sharing ideas. At times though it can work against the message of the authors, particularly as they try to sell readers on going to their website. I suppose they might argue that it’s good selling, but at the same time, it also can work against what they really to explain. There’s the occasional little contradiction as well, but overall the explanation behind how sales works, and steps you can improve your sales makes the book worth a read or two. I know it reminded me of some of the skills I have at my disposal that I sometimes forgot I have. The stories and illustrations provide good examples of the principles involved and that can make it helpful for someone trying to learn how to sell.

4 out of 5 stars.

DIY Planner

D*I*Y Planner is the brain child of one Douglas Johnston, a Canadian who went and created his own planning form solutions after being disenchanted by what was on the market. These forms organize time, thoughts and projects. Giving back to the internet community, he published them for free under a Creative Commons license. They have been downloaded over 800,000 times in the past few years. The website is a community that launched in 2005 to bring people with a passion for productivity methods, creativity, and sharing their experiences. We offer the latest D*I*Y Planner forms, as well as free forms created by our members; a forum of extensive topics ranging from specific productivity types to personal creative endeavors; and a large library of articles written weekly by a talented blogging staff. Our articles range from sharing experiences with productivity to incorporating writing and art into your everyday life to product reviews. D*I*Y Planner is a non-profit project, with a part-time volunteer staff.

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Upcoming workshops

June 7th, 2008 from Noon to 6pm

Come to The Guiding Tree at 4831 SE Division St, Portland OR 97206 for the follow workshops offered by author, innovator, and life coach, Taylor Ellwood:

Body Consciousness: A new paradigm for embracing your body and living your life

In this interactive workshop, we will combine reflective internal meditation with breathing practices and path working techniques that will leave you feeling connected to your body and revitalized in how you live your life. If you’ve felt dis-ease or unhealthy, this workshop will offer you a new paradigm about your body and what it has to tell you about the healthy life you can live. Even if you feel healthy, come to this workshop and get in touch the consciousness of your body.

Come ready to:

• Connect to your body and appreciate it for the miracle it is.
• Listen to the consciousness of your body to learn how to live healthier Work with your residual body image to help you pinpoint how you can change your relationship to your body.
• Learn a meditation that you can use to talk with your body at any time.

Breathe Easy: Simple techniques to energize your life with breath

Each breath taken offers you the potential to live a full life. In this interactive workshop, we’ll learn breathing techniques that will help you feel more energized and aware of your body’s health. When you leave, you will know how to use breath to both relax you and dissolve internal tension and stress.

I will show you how you can even change negative behavior patterns into positive life affirming outcomes.

Come ready to:

• Dissolve internal tensions and blockages Identity and change negative behavior into positive outcomes Breathe easy and enjoy life with renewed vigor Learn how to empty your body of negative emotions and revitalize your energetic self.

Become Who You Want To Be: A Workshop On Identity and You

Have you ever wanted to be someone else? Or have you wished you had more confidence in what you did or felt more focused in achieving your goals in life? How would you feel if you could create a new identity that would let you feel that confidence? In this workshop, I’m going to introduce you to an innovative method where you can create a persona and become that persona when you need it. I will show you how to identify key attributes that will help you define the persona that you create. You will use those attributes to create a Neuro-Linguistic Programming anchor which you can then use to invoke the persona when you need it.

Energize your life: Techniques for creating change in your life

Your energy is your life. If you feel drained after a long workday or being around certain people this workshop is for you! You’ll learn the principle that where your attention your energy flows. We’ll try on some energy work techniques you can use to maximize the energy in your life, while also safeguarding it from energetic leeches and other potential problems. When you leave this call, you will come away with new skills you can use to energize your life everywhere you go.

Come prepared to:

• Learn how to sense your own energy and other people’s energy.
• Adapt yourself energetically and emotionally to your environment.
• Protect yourself from energetic leeches, drama llamas, and anyone else who makes you feel drained.
• Recognize where your attention is going and your energy is flowing so you can reclaim your energy for yourself.

Total cost for the day: $80

Total cost for your sense of health, well-being, and abundance: priceless.

To register call (503)-239-7458 or call (503)-869-0163 or contact us here.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Article: The importance of Believing in the Abundance You Deserve

Book Review: Creativity for Life by Eric Maisel

Upcoming Workshops

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Introduction

This weekend I had the opportunity to present my class on breathing easy at the body Mind spirit Expo, in Portland, OR. I had a small group of people show up, but given that I had only registered the class on Tuesday of the week before and it was a 10 A.M., I was really impressed. We had a great time. What I enjoyed the most about the experience was sharing my skills with people who wanted to learn more.

The Importance of Believing in the Abundance You Deserve

On Friday I landed a job. I’d been job hunting for a little while, since my contract at my previous job got finished. While my ultimate goal is to be come self-employed as a life coach, I still need to maintain a viable income while getting more clients. I’ve mostly been focused on building my life coaching business, but I did put aside a few hours each week for job hunting. Yes, only a few hours.

While conventional wisdom argues that you should treat job hunting as a full time occupation, I find it to be too stressful and demoralizing to constantly on what I don’t have. That doesn’t encourage abundance; in fact, it encourages focusing your mental attitudes and beliefs on what you don’t have, on creating a poverty mentality. I know, because last fall that’s what I created for myself when I couldn’t find a job right away and spent a good amount of each day trying to find a job. I kept apply to a job and saying to myself, “Why aren’t they contacting me? Can’t they see I’m the perfect candidate for them?”

So this time, instead of spending lots of time job hunting, I job hunted for a few hours each week. I found jobs I wanted to apply for, applied for them, and then stopped thinking about what I didn’t have, and focused on the abundance I do have in my life: A warm home, food, a loving wife, really good friends, an excellent city to live in, and my life coaching practice. Also every Thursday, I do an abundance ritual where I thank all that is for what it I have and also do a specific affirmation for what I want. Each morning I also do affirmations of what I want to manifest in my life that day. I spent my time doing things to build my coaching practice up as well as enjoying having time to catch up on sleep and enjoy the beautiful day out. I trusted that abundance would come to me if I was willing to invest myself in enjoying what I already had and wouldn’t you know it, that was exactly the case!

If you’re in a situation where you want more wealth and abundance, look at the attitude you’re bringing to the situation. Ask yourself the following questions:

Am I inviting abundance in my life?

Am I thankful for the prosperity and wealth I do have?

Do I feel I deserve the wealth I want?

How do I feel about wealth?

How do I define wealth?

Do I have to work for happiness, or can I enjoy what I already have?

Answering these questions can help you figure out what your attitude toward abundance is. Once you’ve figured that, consider how you can change the attitude (if it’s negative) to a positive attitude, or if it’s a positive attitude, look at your actions and ask yourself how those actions generate wealth in your life. Recognizing how you generate wealth will help you find more ways to generate it. For me, focusing on what I considered really important, getting my life coaching business off the ground and spending time with my wife and friends outweighed worrying about not having a job. Even in a time where the word recession is being uttered a lot, I didn’t focus on what I didn’t have. I remembered what I do have, and focused on the what I wanted to obtain and knew I could obtain. I job hunted for only a couple hours each day and used the rest of the day to learn new skills and keep my spirits high. Now I have a job again, which lets me work at home, and provides me enough time to continue manifesting my life coaching career. If that’s not abundance and wealth I don’t know what is!

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Book Review: Creativity for Life by Eric Maisel

The author presents a fairly detailed and good overview of the artistic personality and the challenges that the artist faces, both in terms of internal challenges via the personality of the artist, and career challenges that can also occur for the artist. The author also includes exercises at the end of each section that can the artist can use to help him or herself out by answering some good questions. Additionally creativity coaches can also use the exercises to help clients.

A couple problems I found is that the exercises weren’t really integrated into each chapter. The writing is also fairly dry, which occasionally had me feeling that I was slogging through the book.

Overall, I’d recommend this book as a resource to both creativity coaches and artists who are looking for some understanding and help.

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Upcoming Workshops

FREE Teleconferences

Wednesday April 30th from 7pm to 9pm (PST Time)

Making Your Financial Attitude Work

Financial management is treated by many as an intimidating task to be dealt with as little as possible. However it doesn’t have to be that way. In this workshop, we explore some common attitudes people have about money and financial attitudes and then I show you techniques and strategies you can use to organize your finances and actually have fun learning about how to make your money work for you, instead of working for it. We’ll explore the role of individual choice and show that individual choice plays a larger role in how you handle finances than the broad economic trends. To Register click here or call Taylor at 503-869-0163

Monday May 5th

5 p.m. to 6 p.m. (PST time) 8 p. m. to 9 p. m. (EST Time)

How to get your book published and what to do once it is published

You’ve got some great ideas and you have friends who tell you that you should write a book. But is that all there is to the writing industry? In this workshop, I’ll offer you my perspective as an experienced writer and editor for a small press company. We’ll explore the importance of promotion, marketing, and of course writing. If you want to get a book published, come to this workshop to learn what to do to get your book ready for a publisher. You will also learn what to do once the book is published and available. To Register click here or call Taylor at 503-869-0163