Imagine Your Reality

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

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

Workshop at the Body Mind Spirit Expo

Oregon Convention Hall B Room 2

777 NE Martin Luther King Blvd, Portland, OR

10AM to 11AM April 19th

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.

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

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Read my latest article in DIY Planner on using bullets in your planner to inspire your creativity!

Workshop at the Body Mind Spirit Expo

Where: Oregon Convention Hall B Room 2 777 NE Martin Luther King Blvd,
Portland, OR

When: 10AM to 11AM April 19th

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.