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Wealth and Your Attitude

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

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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.

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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.

NewsLetter April 14, 2008

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How to Plant Change in your Life

Subscribe to this Blog by Email!

Learning to Market: My Adventures as a New Life Coach

Book Review: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill!

FREE Teleclass – April 30th 7pm to 9pm Making your Financial Attitude Work for You

How To Plant Change in Your Life

On Saturday, at 9 AM I started planting bushes and tree saplings in Camas county. I had to clear aside some brush and long grass so that there would be sunlight for the saplings. I had to carefully dig the earth out. Once I had dug to a sufficient depth, I had to put a small mound of the Earth back in the hole, and then place the plant roots on the mound, spreading them out so that the plant would be able to grow the roots into the earth and not get tangled in its other roots. I then put my hands in the other dirt I had shoveled up and started packing it in around the plant. I had to make sure the Earth was evenly placed, in order to make sure the plant wasn’t washed away whenever it rained there next.

On Sunday, at home, I also did some gardening. We bought topsoil and manure. I placed two handfuls of topsoil and one handful of manure into a pot and then repeated until the pot was nearly filled. I then needed to create several holes where I placed seeds. I placed more soil on top of the seeds and then put the pots out on the roof, where we keep our garden. The plants will get lots of sun and water.

Both experiences can be used as a metaphor to examine the changes that we want to make in our lives. First we recognize that a change needs to occur. We clear out the underbrush of behaviors that could obscure or stop the change from occurring. We dig into ourselves until we reach the depth where the change needs to occur. We prepare ourselves for the change and then we plant it, making sure that we imprint on ourselves the necessity of the change. Then we pack in additional behaviors that can help us incorporate the change into our lives, and also make sure the change isn’t washed out by the occasional storm that hits a person’s life. Finally we support the change by giving it the sufficient stimulus and nutrients needed for it to grow and consequently allow us to manifest that change and bring us the health and wealth we deserve. Purposeful changes time and effort to implement. The payoff, seeing that change bloom and manifest results into our lives can only occur if we put the necessary effort into recognizing the need for the change as well as how to effectively incorporate it into our lives.

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Learning to Market: My Adventures as a New Life Coach

Now that I’m a certified life coach, my next challenge has become how do I market myself to potential clients. The last couple weeks have been good for me, in terms of laying down some of the groundwork for doing that, but this last weekend I got to thinking about how I am marketing myself and what’s really important to me. And of course how am I going to really market that? I can’t have too broad of a focus…and right now it’s fair to say my website does display a fairly broad approach.

At the same time, I do have varied interests and I think it’s important to play to my strengths. I’ve been thinking about those strengths and I’ve boiled them down to three areas: Creativity, Wealth, and Health. And I can tie all three of those areas together, because not only do I believe in living life creatively, I also think its essential to manifesting health and wealth in a person’s life. Be on the lookout for some changes to my website in the near future, as I plan to do some revamping to reflect a closer focus on how I can help people creatively change their lives to bring in the wealth they deserve and the health to enjoy that wealth!

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Book Review: Think and Grow Rich! by Napoleon Hill

This is a classic book written originally in the late twenties. It’s an excellent book to read if you want to learn some essential skills for growing a business or just learning how much your internal attitude effects the wealth you attract to your life. This book is probably one of my favorites on financial and wealth advice, because the author clearly demonstrate how so much of that potential for wealth depends on the person and how the person approaches not just wealth, but life in general. The author also explains the thirteen principles essential to success as well as how to implement them in your life. A must read for any entrepeneur!

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FREE Teleclass – April 30th 7pm to 9pm Making your Financial Attitude Work for You

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

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Taylor Ellwood

The Creative Health and Wealth Life Coach

Schedule a FREE half-hour Consultation that could change your life!
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One of the hardest challenges that many new and even experienced life coaches face is marketing. In Four Steps to Building a Profitable Coaching Practice, Deborah Brown-Volkman’s goal is to show these coaches how to build a practice by following the steps she details in her book. As a beginning coach myself, I definitely knew it’d be a good idea to read her book.

This book delivers a lot of good marketing ideas and more importantly coaching assignments that can really help a coach both define and begin to promote his/her practice. I’ve incrementally been doing the exercises and found all of them useful in defining and enhancing my practice. Also I really appreciate that the approximate time and cost is listed to give the coach an idea of what costs are involved.

What I’ve really found useful is that the book breaks everything down into a step by step approach. This is especially important when you first start a practice, because it can be overwhelming to contemplate how you are going to get your business off the ground. With this book, it makes it much easier to take off and grow your business.

One thing I did find odd is that while the author did focus on a variety of ways to promote she left out things like promoting via flyers and where it would be a good idea to do so. Still this is one book I think every life coach should consider buying. I know I’ll be using it for a long time to come in growing my own business.

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Taylor Ellwood

www.imagineyourreality.com

This is a must read book if you’re either aspiring to be a life coach or have an interest in NLP. Dilts lays out and explains in detail his NeuroLogical paradigm and the different levels within it. He also provides exercises that the coach or NLP practitioner can use in his or her practices that demonstrate how each level of the neurological paradigm impacts a client.

What’s really helpful as well is that Dilts shows how this paradigm relates to the coaching practice and the different types of coaching that can be done, depending on the NeuroLogical level the coach engages the client in. There is a nice balance between theory and practice, enough so that anyone who uses this book will get a lot out of it no matter what the use is for.

The only drawback to this book is a minor one, and it has more to do with the style of writing…This can be a fairly technical book to read. While Dilts does a good job of laying the concepts out, I suggest taking your time to read the book and expect to go back and reread it again. He presents a lot of information and it needs to be processed mindfully.

4 1/2 life coaches out 5 life coaches