Are You Cultivating Joy or Something Else?

“Inspiration from a Woman’s Soul: Cultivating Joy” is being published and launched today! It’s a beautiful, powerful & insightful book written by 38 real women (including me!) who are sharing our stories in the pages of this book www.CultivatingJoyBook.com.

Being part of this project was a God-send for me and one of the synchronistic and magical ways the Universe works. I had no idea that I WAS NOT Cultivating Joy in my life. It seems silly and unbelievable to say that now, but I truly did not realize how much cultivating, creating & making JOY in your life is a conscious choice and daily commitment. As much as I had already learned about myself, and life, over the last 10 years, somehow this most important, seemingly obvious element escaped my notice, has it escaped yours too?

Unintentionally, unconsciously, unwittingly, and automatically I took for granted that everything I was working toward creating in my life would inevitably BRING ME the JOY I was seeking. I didn’t knowingly BELIEVE that but that BELIEF lived and operated consistently in my subconscious so it influenced EVERYTHING in my life (thoughts, words, actions, etc.) without my knowledge or consent. I was fooled into “thinking” I was cultivating joy as I strove to live up to and in to my potential but secretly I KNEW I wouldn’t or couldn’t be truly happy, satisfied or joyful UNTIL I’d reached my potential, achieved my goals or lived my best life. I was totally focused on creating my life and the all elements of it, but I was not focused intentionally on creating and experiencing JOY. So I experienced moments of JOY, but it wasn’t an everyday occurrence or a natural state of being, it was sporadic and conditional based on what was happening and how well things were going. When I struggled to “realize my potential”, create the life, achieve the goals, or have the success I wanted, I assumed that meant I needed to be more intentional and focused on what I wanted so I’d be happy. It never occurred to me that if I simply FOCUSED ON CREATING JOY – I WOULD BE HAPPY!

Despite having a working understanding of the fact that you have Choose Joy and Cultivate Joy in your life I was still on autopilot with the biggest part of me plodding along thinking that once I’d accomplished my goals, brought my dreams and vision to life I’d be truly able to experience the kind of joy that I imagined came with that level of accomplishment. With all of the personal discoveries and epiphanies I’ve experienced over the last 10 years, I am stunned that it took me so long to truly experience this one simple thing.

I’m so grateful for this revelation! I am so grateful for this experience and all the experiences that lead me to finally and deeply understanding this most basic tenet of living a happy and fulfilled life! Just making this one shift in my life has opened up so much: a closer bond with my son, a huge shift in his behavior (for the better!), more completely ideal clients and MUCH MORE INCOME.

Now I ask you, take a moment to sit down and check-in with yourself. Are you feeling JOY daily? Do you live a JOYFUL life? Is your life mostly JOYFUL dotted occasionally with “pain in the pooper” moments? Or does life seem like a pain in the ass with occasional moments of JOY?

If you’re reading this and you’re inwardly rolling your eyes like, “yeah, yeah, I cultivate joy, that’s not my problem. My problem is I don’t have the life I want yet.” Then I’m telling you, (from personal experience!) you may get the CONCEPT of cultivating Joy but you’re not LIVING it. If you were living it, you would feel it, and it would feel good, – all the time – and your life WOULD BE the life you want and everything that comes with it.

Use the POWERFUL experiences and stories in the book, “Inspiration from a Woman’s Soul: Cultivating Joy”, to get you started. Every story in the book was written by a woman who, at some point in her life, “thought she knew” what it meant to cultivate joy and she shares her experience “living it” here.

www.CultivatingJoyBook.com

Weathering the Storms In Your Business – Are You Prepared?

For the past few weeks New England has withstood several feet of crippling snowfall from so many different storms we’ve stopped counting. Instead of measuring inches, we’re measuring feet and instead of predicting snow totals one exhausted forecaster predicted it would be “plow-able”. Conversations centered around Snow-maggedon and the Snow-pocalypse, speculation about its end and the hope of seeing blue sky and green grass.

In business as in winter, storms happen, but with anticipation, preparation and communication, a potential disaster can be transformed into a temporary inconvenience.

Maintaining inner strength is critical to the survival of your business.

In storms of this magnitude buildings collapse, budgets are overextended, tensions run high, systems break down, and revenue is lost. Maintaining inner strength is critical to the survival of your business.

Whatever crisis or “storm” your business is facing externally (weather-related, economy-driven, financial, etc.) it’s always the internal crisis that poses the biggest threat. When your business is your “baby” it’s a constant challenge not to internalize everything.

Your Thoughts Create Your Reality

The self-induced thoughts of fear, doubt and criticism are crippling. Your thoughts are the forefathers of your actions and decisions – YOUR THOUGHTS CREATE YOUR REALITY. So any battle that you fight with your own mind is much more challenging, frightening and REAL than anything you’ll face outside. When your bank account is empty and the creditors are at the door it’s real, and it’s scary. The most powerful tools you have at your disposal are your mind and your mindset. If you choose to feed your fear it will grow; if you choose to feed your belief in yourself that will grow too.

Opportunities & Miracles Are Only As Far Away As You Believe Them To Be

Big opportunities and financial miracles are always only as far away as you believe them to be. I’m not talking about sitting and hoping for magic to happen. I am talking about being the quarterback of your business and throwing a Hail Mary pass in the final seconds of a game. You with a clear vision, passion, desire, experience and well-conditioned emotional muscles creating an opportunity that can turn things around in an instant. Hail Mary passes are dramatic, they require faith, talent, trust and experience to pull off. And oh how glorious they are to watch! When the ball lands in the receiver’s hands you catch your breath and then scream at the top of your lungs. You know the talent was there all the time, but it’s the faith and trust required to take the chance that makes all the difference. It’s the intestinal fortitude required to stay focused amid the fear, the obstacles, and the drama that created the magic.

Here are 3 keys to weathering any storm in your business (and your life!):

1. Believe And Trust In Yourself
When you believe in yourself you can get through anything without letting other people’s opinions, comments or judgments infiltrate your belief in who you are and what you are capable of. One client I worked with was a “people-pleaser” regularly bullied by coworkers, up-levels & family. She knew she had something to offer, she was passionate about the business she joined and the products they sold, but she was constantly being told that she couldn’t make it. Her internal dialog made her a victim. We worked together to strengthen her emotional muscles, her ROAR Muscles™. She learned to trust her instincts and believe in her self; to validate and accept herself. Her confidence grew immensely with a shift in her mindset from bullied victim to peaceful warrior. The bullying stopped and she enjoyed being actively recruited by a number of successful multi-level marketing professionals who loved her energy and personality.

2. Stay Focused On Your Vision, What You Want To Create – What’s Important To You.
Remember your “why”, what’s important to you? Why did you start your business, what motivated and inspired you? Keep whatever or whomever lit that spark close to your heart, so you can remain inspired and motivated to continue moving forward. In the first few years of my business I experienced a lot of “dark nights of the soul”, money fears that were so intense I felt like my intestines were twisted like balloon animals at a kid’s birthday party. But I kept remembering the young woman I had been, the one who thought she’d always be ALONE, and I knew I had to find the strength to stand up for her and all the other women out there who felt like I had.

3. Build Your Strength from the Inside Out
Build your strength from the inside out so you can manage the emotions inside and the challenges outside – especially in times of crisis. A strong foundation allows you to stand tall, it’s true for buildings and it’s true for people. Strong core emotional muscles – ROAR Muscles™ gives you a strong foundation, the fortitude to persevere, the clarity and determination to stay focused on your vision, the peace of mind and calm to work through your emotions and the ability to execute even in the chaos of a crisis so you can move forward.

To learn more about YOUR ROAR Muscles™ and the tools and strategies you can use to keep you calm, strong and confident in any storm, go here to test the strength of your ROAR Muscles™ and here to access a powerful crisis management tool.

This blog post is part two of a three part series on Weathering the Storms in your Business. Yesterday’s post by Minette Riordon. Tomorrow’s post by Sandra Larkin will share her expert take on managing communications during a disaster. Come back here for the direct links to more great insights into how to anticipate, prepare and communicate any business challenges.

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Breakthrough Crippling Communication Blocks to Generate Sales & Income

• Put an end to frustrating one-sided conversations where you can’t articulate what you want

• Connect on the deepest levels with prospects, clients, team members and everyone in your life

• Discover the secret to forming a strong and instant rapport with people without using communication “tricks”

• Instinctively and automatically communicate in the way that’s most comfortable and understandable to your audience – without even thinking about it

If you’ve ever felt like the person you were talking to just wasn’t “getting it” you know how frustrating it can be. What if that person is a prospect, client, vendor or team member and that miscommunication is costing you money (out of your pocket or in lost sales)?

In this program you’ll:

• Be able to convey the benefits of your products and services increasing your potential for sales conversion and increasing your revenue.

• Easily understand the needs, wants and challenges of the person you’re talking to – while communicating yours – leaving EVERYONE feeling understood.

• Program your subconscious to pick up on these cues automatically – we balance you once and you can “set it and forget it”

This program is designed for Sales Professionals, Small Business Owners and ANYONE who has to build a rapport with people to make a living. It can be done 1 on 1 or in a group setting.

Do you:

• Do you love healing the bodies, minds or spirits of your clients, but never seem to have enough of them to pay the bills?
• Feel stuck and frustrated in your business?
• Know you have a great product/service but you are tired of giving it away for free?!

When you have a heart and passion-based business your business is a direct extension of who you are – including your unique gifts, talents and strengths, and your fears, anxieties and emotional baggage.  If your business is not as successful as you would like, not as financially rewarding as you deserve then something is out of balance.  And it can be corrected!

In this workshop you will:

• Create your own unique Energetic Footprint™
• Learn how your Energetic Footprint™ contributes to your success and struggles in your business and what you can do about it.
• Learn how to tap into your own internal guidance system to find the answers to your business challenges.
• Discover how your own Emotional Energy Centers (chakras) can give you clarity on what is keeping you stuck and focus on moving it out of your way.

Your body literally sends messages when you are off track, out of alignment. How often are you receiving them?  There is a way to decode them and I can show you how.  Once you understand how to read them, your Emotional Energy Centers can guide you to your ideal business.  It’s like having your own internal GPS, you just have to program it and I can show you how to do that!

Imagine what you could do if you were Fully Charged
and Directly Connected to your own Power Current?

Workshop 2.5 hours                                          

Bring paper and pen to take notes!

I created this program for the woman who has experienced an awakening and wants to pursue it or one who has been fighting off the feeling that there is more out there for you.

This program may be perfect for you if you:

• Know you are meant to do something other than what you’re doing now, but you can’t quite put your finger on it.
• Keep telling yourself that someday when you have the money you will figure it out.
• Have recently opened yourself up to the possibilities that you are meant to do more, but you have no idea how to explore it,
• Struggle with feeling you don’t have the luxury of exploring it.
• Are really frustrated with your current career (or lack thereof) and want to be your own boss!
• Find yourself wishing more and more that you could make that hobby a business.

How this works:

In this program we spend time exploring your unique gifts and talents.  What comes easily to you?  What do people come to you for?  What could you get lost in the middle of for hours without realizing it?  All of these are clues to your life purpose.  Your life purpose may take many different shapes during the course of your life and still be the same purpose.  That means that there is not one single solution, there are lots and we will explore what works best for you and your life.  Once we have determined what you want to do we will carve out your niche and get really clear on what you are offering to your ideal clients.  You can be sure that during this process you will run into the emotional and external obstacles that have the potential to hold you back.  We will work through those as they appear and address the behavioral patterns and beliefs at the core of them.

In this program we spend time exploring your unique gifts and talents.  What comes easily to you?  What do people come to you for?  What could you get lost in the middle of for hours without realizing it?  All of these are clues to your life purpose.  Your life purpose may take many different shapes during the course of your life and still be the same purpose.  That means that there is not one single solution, there are lots and we will explore what works best for you and your life.  Once we have determined what you want to do we will carve out your niche and get really clear on what you are offering to your ideal clients.  You can be sure that during this process you will run into the emotional and external obstacles that have the potential to hold you back.  We will work through those as they appear and address the behavioral patterns and beliefs at the core of them.

Here are some outcomes you can expect from this program:

• You will reconnect with the little girl who had big dreams and the inner goddess who can make those dreams come true.
• You will fully embrace your power, allowing you to feel genuinely comfortable charging what you are worth without doubt, fear or guilt.
• You will become a beacon that attracts clients and money.
• You will feel confident in your ability to attract and serve your clients on the deepest level.
• Your conversations with prospects will be guided by your desire to serve, not fear.
• Your life and business will be in harmony and balance.
• You will be doing what you love and being paid for it!
• You will feel deeply connected to the work you do, the value you provide and the benefits your clients are experiencing.
• You will radiate energy that magnetizes your clients to you and you will feel deserving of the money they pay you.
• You will no longer question what you are meant to do.  You will be living your purpose every day.
• You will “feel” successful in your business and your life!

If you feel drained and depleted by your day job, but can’t see how it’s possible to create the business that will inspire you to leap out of bed in the morning this is the program I designed for you!!

If you want to find out whether this program will make a difference in your business (and your life!), sign up for a FREE Energy Diagnostic Session with Casey by clicking here.

I created this program for women entrepreneurs who:

• Feel stuck and frustrated in your business
• Love the work you do, but struggle getting clients & paying the bills
• Struggle balancing your business and your family
• Feel like you are being pulled in too many different directions

This program may be perfect for you if you:

• Know your business has great potential but you are not getting the return on your emotional and financial investment in it
• Know you have a great product/service and you are tired of giving it away!
• Want to feel more confident when speaking with clients and prospects
• Feel like you are right on the edge of it! So close that you can almost touch it, but not quite.
• Are fearful of turning customers away! After all, you are struggling to get customers and clients, why would you want to narrow it down and limit potential clients and customers!
• Have great ideas and lots of energy, but you feel pulled in many different directions and never progress as far in any one direction as you would like.

In this program we will use your Energetic Footprint™ to determine what emotional and external obstacles you are facing and we will:

• Use the Emotional Energy Diagnostic™ and your unique Energetic Footprint™ to help you tap into your own internal guidance system to find the answers.
• Use your own Emotional Energy Centers (chakras) to get clarity on what is keeping you stuck and focus on moving it out of your way.
• Locate the disconnection between your goals and your Energetic Footprint™ and create a plan to get you on track.
• Determine your core issues, uncover the emotional blocks and develop an action plan to address behavioral patterns that are keeping you stuck.

To help you Magnetize Your Ideal Clients we will:

• Create Marketing Language that
  • GRABS the attention of your Ideal Clients Immediately AND
  • Makes them FEEL Like YOU ARE THE ANSWER TO THEIR PROBLEM!
  • Takes the FEAR out of the question: what do you do?
  • Will make it Easy and Enjoyable for Friends and Colleagues to REFER Clients to You

Here are some outcomes you can expect from this program:

• You will fully embrace your power, allowing you to feel genuinely comfortable charging what you are worth without doubt, fear or guilt.
• You will become a beacon that attracts clients and money.
• You will feel confident in your ability to attract and serve your clients on the deepest level.
• Your conversations with prospects will be guided by your desire to serve, not fear.
• Your life and business will be in harmony and balance.
• You will be doing what you love and being paid for it!
• You will feel deeply connected to the work you do, the value you provide and the benefits your clients are experiencing.
• You will radiate energy that magnetizes your clients to you and you will feel deserving of the money they pay you.
• You will “feel” successful in your business and your life!

If you are struggling with not having enough time, money, confidence, energy or support, this program was designed with you in mind!

If you are constantly being inspired with new ideas that make you feel like “THIS IS IT!” only to be disappointed by the lack of results.

If you are tired of your emotional pendulum swinging back and forth from” I AM SO CLOSE to Will This EVER Happen?!”  this is the program that will change that forever !!

If you want to find out whether this program will make a difference in your business (and your life!), sign up for a FREE Energy Diagnostic Session with Casey by clicking here.