Imagine Your Reality

I am Thankful for:

Doing my very first radio show yesterday! You can listen to it here. See below for details about the next radio show.

Being interviewed by Al Anderson for the Ascending Way show. You can listen to the interview here.

Having a beautiful day out and a good opportunity to get a healthy walk in.

My local library

I Consciously commit to:

Continuing to do my radio show

Continuing to serve my clients to the best of my ability

Continuing to believe in my mission

Continuing to appreciate what I’ve been given and earned.

What are you thankful for today? What can you consciously commit to?

Upcoming Radio Show

My next show will occur on Tuesday September 9th at 8Pm Pacific standard time.

Subject : Change your Re-Action to Action!

Summary: Sometimes, whether we intend to nor not, we sabotage ourselves with our reactions. A reaction is a pattern of belief or emotion that causes us to act in a particular way. In this show, I will show how you can change your limiting beliefs and reactions into actions that help you manifest your imagination into reality.

Listeners can call into the show at: (646) 652-2830

Upcoming Workshops

Complementary Teleclass
When: Tuesday September 16 6 pm to 7 pm (PST)
How to get your book published, and then market and promote it.

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

Complementary Teleclass
When: Thursday September 18 6pm to 7pm
Finances 101

What is your attitude about money? Do you work for money -or do you make it
work for you? In this simple workshop, we explore how your family history
shapes your relationship to your finances today and learn to win control of your
finances back from your circumstances.

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.

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.

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.