Imagine Your Reality

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

I’ve officially decided to make this blog my newsletter. I’ve been watching the figures and noticed that only one person signed up for my newsletter, but a lot more people are reading this blog. A newsletter is usually e-mailed to people who want to read it. But a blog is also useful for a similar purpose. The added benefit is that the reader can comment on the blog. So welcome to my newsletter!

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The Importance of Manifesting a Better Career

I want to share a story with you, one which I hope will inspire you to manifest your imagination into reality.

I decided to embark on the journey of becoming a life coach, because I realized I deserved more than a 9-5 work day, 5 days a week, with a likely possibility of overtime added in. I was unsatisfied with working for someone else, because I never felt like I had the full freedom I needed to manifest my imagination into reality. I realized if I was going to manifest a satisfying career, I had to take charge of my life and seize the possibilities I saw around me. I knew I couldn’t escape the reality of having to do some kind of career to manifest a living, but I felt that if I had to do that, it should be something I wanted to do, instead of a career I settled for.

What about you? Are you manifesting a satisfying career that challenges and invigorates you? What opportunities do you want to manifest in your life? What is holding you back?

These are the kinds of questions to consider if you find yourself in a career situation you dislike. Each moment of your life is precious, something which can never be replaced. Since your career takes up a lot of that time, it’s important to make sure that time is spent in a way that empowers you and makes you feel its worth it to be giving your time to that job.

Remember you are only as limited as you allow yourself to be. All the resources that you need to manifest your life into the reality you want lie within you, waiting to be tapped. If you don’t feel passionate about your job, ask yourself what is keeping you from feeling that passion. Is it the job itself, a co-worker, something else occurring in your life? What could you do to change that situation, that will empower you and provide you satisfaction?

Answering these questions may not be easy, but they are worth answering, because they can provide you opportunities to find out what you reality want and get you started on developing a plan of action that transforms your current situation into a situation where you win and enjoy life.

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Taylor Ellwood

http://www.imagineyourreality.com