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Introduction
Article: The importance of Believing in the Abundance You Deserve
Book Review: Creativity for Life by Eric Maisel
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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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