Imagine Your Reality

This week’s radio show is with Marie Daniels from Meoutloud. We will be learning about communication and how to present yourself better. Next week’s radio show will be a half hour segment from myself about the concept of Giving to Get (an apt one to consider as it’s just about time for the holidays).

The Importance of Following Up

Whenever I go to a networking event or do public speaking, I always make it a point to follow up with whoever is new the very evening that I’ve met that person. I don’t wait until morning, because chances are if I wait that long I’ll forget to do it and worse that person may not remember me. Afterall with networking you generally only have a few minutes to make an impression. Even with public speaking, or perhaps especially with public speaking it’s important to follow up while someone has a good impression of you. You want to make your impression extend beyond the time that person met you or interacted with you, for as long as possible.

The other day, I was meeting with a potential client and he remarked to me that the main reason he met with me was because I had followed up with him so quickly. My following up with him told him that I cared enough to want to make a connection, regardless of what the outcome of that connection would be. Accordingly he was willing to meet with me and learn more about my business and how it might help him.

Whether you run a business or have written a book, or do anything else, it’s important to follow up. It’s true that with all the social networking sites and email that people get it can be easy to get overwhelmed. And of course you do need to know when to filter out the extraneous emails which aren’t relevent to your business. However, taking time to follow up is important. It can mean the difference gaining some business or fading into the background and letting someone else do business with your potential client. This is also true for authors. I can’t tell you how many times writing back to someone to answer a question really made that person’s day and likely helped me sell a couple books down the line.

No matter what business you are in, the relationships you create in that business are what makes it successful, or makes it fail. Following up can make a big difference and show people that you are reliable and consistent!

Upcoming Teleclass

Setting your Business Goals for 2009

When: December 22^nd from 5:30 to 6:30

Where: From the Warmth and Holiday Cheer of your own home!

How much: FREE!!

Register for the course at http://www.imagineyourreality.com/schedule.html or call me at 503-869-0163

It’s coming to that time of year when you evaluate your life and the direction its going in. It’s also an excellent time to evaluate and assess your strengths and weaknesses in your business as well as what goals to set for the new year. In this one hour course we will assess your strengths and weaknesses in your business so that you can set realistic goals for the next year.

WHO is this class for: Anyone who is a small business owner or is someone who offers a service and needs a client base to support that service.

WHY do I want to take this class? Because I will help you get clear on your goals for the year ahead, help you create a vision board, and also provide strategies that get you oriented toward growing your business this coming year.

How do I know this class isn’t a waste of my precious time? You’ve got my three free coffees guarantee. I will buy for you and two of your friends a free cup of coffee if you haven’t learned anything new about setting your goals for your business this coming year.

Register today at http://www.imagineyourreality.com/schedule.html

Right now there’s a lot of talk about the economy and how we’re looking at a period of recession. This talk is nothing new. In fact, for most of my life I’ve heard dire predictions and seen lots of people worry fruitlessly over the state of their finances and the economy. I can’t recall a time where the word recession wasn’t used and there wasn’t worry about an economic collapse.

I’ve always felt that it’s important to know how to handle finances and manage money. Right now, I am unemployed. I am running my life coaching business, but I am also looking for a daytime job. It is not an easy time to be looking, especially with the news about the bailout and other economic issues. Yet, despite how things have been going lately, I’m continuing to do my best to keep myself in high spirits. I look at as a simple choice really, as phrased in the excellent movie Shawshank Redemption: “Get Busy libing or get busy dying.”

I’d prefer to get busy living. Yes we live in uncertain times, but when haven’t we lived in uncertain times. The truth is that each and every day has it’s moments of uncertainty. The question that we need to answer is what we choose to do about that uncertainty. Do we let it get to us, or do we find ways to make the situation work for us?

Using myself as an example, I’m learning new programs, doing layout on books, writing articles, and working on growing my life coaching business. I am, of course, also applying for jobs, but most importantly, I’m not letting the situation get to me. It won’t solve any of my problems if I choose to worry about the economy or jobs. It will just make me depressed and cause me to feel like I have no control. Remember that while we can’t control everything around us, we can control our reactions and the choices we make.

So if you’re feeling down about the economy or worried if the next apocalpyse is here, just relax and get busy living. Apply for jobs, but also spend time doing things you like and doing what you can to improve yourself professionally.

Radio show for this week is the competition blues. It will be on this Thursday at 9 pm PST time.

When people think of the word failure, negative connotations are usually associated with it. In general, a person does not want to be a failure, because failing carries with it a stigma of that person not being good enough at whatever s/he failed at. And yet the reality is that everyday we encounter the risk of failure, and probably do fail at something, even if it’s something minor. I think, in this culture, it is easier to succeed then fail, because success is something we constantly shoot for. Failure, on the other hand, is something actively discouraged and frowned upon.

I think, however, that failure can be more than just a negative experience. While I wouldn’t go out of my way to fail, when it does occur, after my initial reaction, I welcome it, because failure is an excellent teacher. Failing at something can teach you a lot and not just about the mistake you’ve made. Learning what you did wrong is the most obvious lesson of failure, but you also learn how to fix the mistake, how to adapt the situation to rectify the mistake made and how to accept constructive criticism.

These are valuable skills, no matter what context they occur in. Whether you are apologizing to your partner, or working a little extra time to fix a mistake, or figuring out how to get that potential client to consider working with you a bit more effectively, these skills can help you grow as a person and as a professional. Failure does not have to be defined by what we haven’t accomplished or done right. Instead it can be help us define what we can do better, as well as learn how not to make a particular mistake the next time we have to do a similar process.

Failure is only a negative when we refuse to learn or adapt. At that point, failure becomes a negative because we’ve made the choice to let it define the situation and the self, instead of choosing to define it and the situation with the actions we take. So what actions can a person do to benefit from failure?

1. Be open to constructive criticism and suggestions. If someone offers a suggestion that can help you, be open to listening to it. Find out what you could do differently to ensure that the mistake doesn’t occur again.

2. Take a deep breath and center yourself. When you first realize a failure has occurred, it’s easy to react or get defensive. Take a deep breath and center yourself. Ask yourself what you’re feeling and acknowledge those feelings, but also ask if expressing them in a negative manner will benefit you or the other people involved in the situation. Do your best to listen to what others are saying and focus on what you can learn from what is offered.

3. Ask your self what you could do differently next time to avoid making the mistake. Also ask yourself what you can do now to rectify the situation. By looking at your process, you can learn a lot about how to change a situation into something more favorable, because you can account for where the failure occurred and look at possible ways to change the process to avoid that mistake in the future.

Failure can benefit you. It all depends on your attitude about it. While none of us want to fail, sometimes failing can teach us more than succeeding would. By doing your best to acknowledge how you feel about failing, but also accepting that it can happen, you can change a situation from a failure into a success.

Since I started my life coaching business up in April, it’s gone through a few changes. First I was a Whole Person Design coach, then a Prosperity coach, then a Creativity and Wealth coach for entrepreneurs and Professionals. And finally, I’m now a marketing and career coach.

Whew! That’s a lot of changes isn’t it?

And yet the labels, the map, etc, isn’t the territory. For every label I changed to, for everytime  thought I had my business nailed down and figured out there were other realizations, other questions. Who am I really serving? How can I help my clients achieve their goals? What is it I can offer to these people. What makes me happy when I’m doing it?

As I’ve asked these questions over the last few months, even as I’ve worked on my marketing plan, I’ve come to realize just how important it is to answer these questions. The answers are what informs your belief in your business and your clients. When I finally decided on being a marketing and career coach, with some focus on creativity I felt that I had recognized my strengths and how I could really help my clients reach their goals.

The territory is the answers to those questions. the map, the labels of different types of coaches shows just a bit of my journey. Reading my different versions of my market plan shows more information, but the deepest part of the territory is answering the questions:

How will I serve my clients?

What do I have to offer?

How can I help my clients achieve their goals?

Am I honoring my client’s agenda?

Am I honoring my time by putting it to the best possible use?

These questions and more have gone through my mind a lot these past few months. I think they can be answered, but I also know I will revisit them at different points in my journey over the years.

Today I’m a marketing coach who also specializes in careers and creativity. Down the line? Who knows…right now though I think I’m ready to settle into the territory I have found and be the best coach I can be.

Attitude Frames your Reality

On Monday afternoon, my downstair neighbors and friends were moving. They’d hired a couple of movers to help them move, but halfway through loading up the truck, the movers quit, because of some dust and cat hair agitating the allergies of one of the people. My friends were stuck in a bad situation and immediately asked us for help. Even though my wife and I were busy that day we both realized what a jam they’d been stuck in. We called friends and also got ready to help. Even after our neighbors were able to find two replacement movers we stayed on, just in case.

Now our friends/neighbors were pretty unhappy. But everyone who came and helped them move, also helped perk their spirits up. And throughout the time I helped them, I kept a cheerful attitude. Sure I could’ve been somewhere else, working on something, or doing something else, but right then my friends needed me. And I chose to have a cheerful attitude because I realized that attitude frames the reality you experience and display to others. By choosing to be cheerful, I chose to display a reality where a situation was working out, where my friends knew I was there for them, etc. I knew that by displaying a good attitude, I was framing my reality so that I could get the most out of the experience I was having. In this case, I got share in the fellowship of friends.

When you are in a situation that doesn’t seem very good, consider what your attitude about the situation is and whether or not that’s a factor in why you are unhappy with what’s happening. while you may not have control over everything, you do have control over yourself and how you handle what life provides you.

Book Review: Your Money or Your Life

Out of all the financial books I’ve read so far, I believe this one is the one that speaks most to my values and beliefs about finances. Instead of preaching about how you can have it all, the authors discuss the value of frugality and recognizing when a person has enough.  The authors have nine steps in their program and each step is designed to help you make your way to financial independence and intelligence by asking yourself what your really getting out of your spending habits, and also the way you live your life. The authors posit that it is entirely possible to retire earlier in your life provided you know how to live frugally, and I believe this is entirely the case. I’ve already been modifying how I spend money, thinking carefully about what the benefit is of buying a particular item, as well as what my overall goals are. I’m already noticing some effects and I’m willing to continue comitting to a program that ultimately could lead to satisfaction in terms of having enough time to really do everything that I want to do.

Workshop Reminder Open Yourself to Wealth

Open yourself to Wealth Pt 1 of 4: 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.

When: Tuesday July 29th, 7-9pm

Where: The Guiding Tree Holistic Community Center 4831 SE Division St, Portland OR

Instructor: Taylor Ellwood

Registration: http://imagineyourreality.com/schedule.html

Tuition: $30 for this class or if you sign up for all four classes $90 (a 25% savings!)

So WHO is this class for? Anyone who wants to improve the wealth in his/her life and is willing to explore the mental and spiritual mechanisms that are integral components to wealth.

WHY would anyone attend this class? Because it’s an excellent opportunity to learn how to claim the wealth you want in your life, while learning to recognize what has held you back from achieving that wealth before.

WHAT will you learn if you show up?

• 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.

Is this class a good use of your time? You’ve got my guarantee that if you don’t feel that the two hours you spend in this class helps you get clear on what is blocking you from achieving your wealth, I’ll refund you your class fee, minus the ten dollar non-refundable classroom fee.

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“I connect Creatives, Entrepeneurs, and Professionals to Wealth”

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July is tomorrow and you can tell because the heat in Portland has really ramped up! What about you? Are you ready to ramp up your Creative endeavors or business? Do you want your life to heat up?

Do you feel that you’re already making progress toward your goals, but could use a boost from a helpful resource?

Come work with me and I’ll help you ramp your life up to the next level!

Summer Special: If you refer someone to me and that person becomes a client and you are already a client, I’ll give you fifty dollars off your coaching. If you aren’t a client and you refer someone to me, I’ll provide you two free sessions.

Upcoming Teleclass

Tomorrow is the Complementary one hour Teleclass: Five Principles of Wealth. sign up and learn about the five principles of Wealth and how you can incorporate them into your life.

Five Principles of Wealth

When: Tuesday July 1^st, 2008

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

In this teleclass, I present five principles of wealth that are needed in order to build a successful foundation for wealth in your life. Becoming wealthy means learning about what wealth is and how you know when you have it. If you’ve ever wanted to be wealthy or simply wanted to know you were living your life to the fullest, this free teleclass is for you.

To join this class, register online

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Letting Go of Expectations

I recently caught myself thinking in a downward spiral about a relationship in my life. I’d been thinking some thoughts and feeling frustrated, and I suddenly realized I was on auto-pilot. I wasn’t really present or engaged with those thoughts. I thought them, but I didn’t really think about them. When I realized that, I stopped myself and realized I’d fallen prey to expectations.

Expectations are those persistent beliefs that a person, situation, or reality itself “ought” to be a specific way. When we have expectations we are limiting ourselves to tunnel vision. We can only see that expectation and what will happen if that expectation doesn’t occur. Consequently we can miss out on a whole lot of other things happening around us.

You’ll recognize an expectation when you find yourself focusing on how you wish the person, situation, etc., would just be the way you want it to be. The problem with this is that expectations don’t honor the people or situations we are in. Once you recognize an expectation, here are a couple of steps you can take to deal with them.

1. Listen, really listen to what you are thinking about a person or situation. If you can write it down. By being able to consciously be present with what you are thinking, you can start asking yourself what’s causing you to want this expectation, or what need is at the root of your expectation.

2. Once you identify the need at the root of your expectation ask yourself, what can I do to meet this need that honors that need AND honors the person or situation I’m in in a mindful and healthy way?

By being able to recognize your expectations and how much they influence your outlook on life, you can also start to change those expectations and be more open to the opportunities that life can offer you. Let go of that tunnel vision and start opening yourself to new experiences.

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Article: Degrees of Rightness

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Degrees of Rightness

Recently my wife had decided to grill a duck. She went out, got it setup, and started it grilling, and then came back inside to check on something else she was cooking. Within a few moments, I smelled something burning and told her. When she went outside, she found that grilling the duck was not turning out the way she envisioned. The fat on the duck had ended up charring the surface of the duck. Feeling really frustrated, she told me, she’d cooked the duck wrong.

While it was clear that grilling the duck hadn’t exactly worked out the way she thought, we did find that the meat, underneath the skin, could still be cooked. Although the fat had charred the skin, it hadn’t burned much of the meat. She was still upset however over “doing it wrong”, because she believed that everything had to be done absolutely perfectly in order for the duck to be a success.

I gently asked her if she’d really done it wrong, if the duck could still be cooked. She admitted that perhaps she hadn’t. I then asked her if she’d learned something new as a result of grilling the duck and she conceded she had. I asked her then, if she had learned something, had she really done anything wrong. She considered this and decided that perhaps she hadn’t. I suggested then that in each situation there are degrees of doing something right. For instance, you may not do something exactly right, such as grilling a duck, but you can learn something from the situation, and by learning from that experience, you are doing something right.

It’s very easy to focus on what we are doing wrong. But when we focus on what we’re doing wrong, we’re not present and open to what we’re doing right or how we can change the situation. And doing something wrong can sometimes spiral into feeling that who are is wrong, which has its own issues.

Learning to view a situation in terms of what you may have done right, or what you could do right next time helps you open yourself to the possibilities available to you in that situation. Whether you’re grilling a duck, doing a task at a job, or learning how to invest your money, each experience you have provides you opportunities to learn what you have done right and what you could do right next time. Instead of focusing on what went wrong, frame the context of the situation in terms of what you did right, and what you could do differently next time to build off the success you did have.

My wife ended up baking the duck in a hunter’s sauce and then using the rest for soup stick. The baked duck tasted great and she learned how to take the situation where she grilled the duck and turn it from an event of “failure” into a event of success where she saw the possibility of baking the duck and also learned that grilling a duck would probably involve taking different steps next time she tried it. By learning to focus on what she could do right, it no longer was wrong.

Every situation has a degree of rightness in it. It’s a matter of adjusting our perceptions so that we can find it and work with it.

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Upcoming Teleclasses

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Five Principles of Wealth

When: Tuesday July 1^st, 2008

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

In this teleclass, I present five principles of wealth that are needed in order to build a successful foundation for wealth in your life. Becoming wealthy means learning about what wealth is and how you know when you have it. If you’ve ever wanted to be wealthy or simply wanted to know you were living your life to the fullest, this free teleclass is for you.

To join this class, register online

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.

To join this class, register online

How to get your book published, and then market and promote it.

When: Wednesday July 15^th, 2008

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

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 teleclass, published author and life coach Taylor Ellwood offers his own experiences working as both a writer and a managing non-fiction editor for a small press. I’ll tell you of the importance of promotion, marketing, and of course writing. If you want to get a book published, come to this workshop.

To join this class, register online

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Article: The Value of Sitting with Pain

Workshop on June 7th from noon to 6 PM

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June is here! It’s nearly half way through the year and summer is starting to emerge. Is your year developing the way you want it to? Are you achieving your goals or on your way to achieving them, for this year? If life is coming together for you, then congratulate yourself and keep going. sometimes though we can use a little extra help and support to manifest abundance into our lives.

For June and July I’ll be offering a special deal! If you are a current client and you refer someone to me and that person starts a coaching relationship with me, I’ll take $50 off for that month. If you are not a client, and you refer a client to me I’ll give you TWO free life coaching sessions.

Are you ready to manifest your imagination into reality?

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One of the books I’m currently reading is Pema Chodron’s The Places that Scare You. Something that interested me is when she notes the necessity of feeling pain. I agree with her that feeling pain is a necessity. The reason I agree is because pain is a message, an indication of something that needs to be addressed. It seems to me that in many ways this culture attempts to encourage the ignoring of pain instead of sitting with it. Speaking only from my own experiences, I’ve many times tried to run away from pain instead of really face it.

It’s only been in recent years that I’ve started to change that behavior of running away. While I don’t necessarily welcome pain, I no longer try to avoid it or ignore it. Whether it’s emotional pain or physical pain, I’ve found that sitting with it helps a lot more because it allows me to not just feel the pain but also discover the message it has to offer me. When it’s physical pain, such as a headache for instance, it does hurt and it’s not fun to feel. By laying down and just being present with it, I can learn a lot. I can learn if the pain is from too much eyestrain or neck issue. I can also, by sitting with the pain, begin to actually redistribute the energy so that the pain lessens and eventually is healed. I can also then begin to work on the deeper sources of the pain, such as being present with my neck and working on feeling the pain and then dissolving it.

When it’s emotional pain (which sometimes can be linked to physical pain) it’s also important to just feel the pain and sit with it and really find out what you’re feeling. The first impulse is to re-act to the pain, but that impulse is really an attempt to avoid feeling it. Just stay calm…feel the pain, relax into it, and listen to the message it has to offer. Figure out what the source of pain really is, and then act on it, but not before.

When we feel pain, we need to accept it in order to move beyond it. While taking a pain killer might alleviate the obvious symptoms of pain, it doesn’t let us discover the source of it, which is important to really allow healing to occur. Sitting with pain can be a scary experience…it can put us in touch with our mortality, with the fear of being vulnerable or hurt, but sitting with pain can also empower us because it allows us to communicate with the body, instead of trying to control it. In that act of communication, we show the body that we are willing to listen, willing to change, willing to learn…the same is true with the emotional pain we feel. Communicate with it, discover the source of it, and work with it, instead of trying to repress it. When you can do that, you will really have created a cooperative effort with your body.

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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.

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I work with individuals and groups and can customize what I offer to meet the needs of an organization. Questions or comments? Contact me.

Taylor Ellwood

“I connect creative professionals and Entrepeneurs to abundance

Imagine Your Reality Life Coaching

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?

I realized something today. I was taking a teleconference marketing class on how get more clients and I realized that I still had a nebulous ideal of who my clients are. But as I got to thinking about it, I realized who my kind of client is.

My client is the person who tells him or herself that s/he should be happy with what she or he has or is doing, but struggles everyday to find any sense of success or happiness with what he or she is doing. My client is the person who tells him or herself that she or he is content, even when in reality she or he is actually dissatisfied with his or her life and doesn’t know what to do to find satisfaction. My client is the person who settles for less, but knows she or he deserves more. My client feels blocked, creatively, or in the ability to live life. My client wants help and sometimes she or he doesn’t even know it. My client chooses to just get by, but what my clients wants is to really start living life. My client complains about the circumstances in his or her life, but doesn’t know how to move past the complaints and start changing his or her life.

Know someone like that? Refer that person to my website at http://www.imagineyourreality.com

I can show my clients how to turn their imaginations into realities where they start living the life they deserve and stop giving up on themselves and their dreams.

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I’m now a certified hypnotist through the Hypnosis Motivation Institute. What this means is that I know how to hypnotize people. I plan on pursuing further education in hypnotherapy in the near future. This certification is another step in achieving my goal of being able to provide a variety of self-help servies to my clients so that they can benefit and change their lives.

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My latest article on DIY planner is on meditation and how meditation is used to organize your thoughts and plans, and how it can be used to help you use your planner efficiently.