Oct
20
Edit, Add, Appreciate, Energize
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Sunday evenings seem to be a time to get revved up for the coming week. It’s at this time when I tend to think about these 3 simple things that will energize me for the coming week - moving me forward in creating the life I want to lead.
- Edit: What can I edit from my life this week? A material object, thoughts, habits, behaviors, people, work or activities that don’t serve me well any more. It could be an article of clothing, a negative perception, a food, an annoying or sniggly trait. Let it go and move on to greener pastures. What is holding you back or what is causing your stress that you need to edit? Where are your bottlenecks or frustrations? Do you have excesses in your life that you need to edit or dial down? How about unfettered consumerism, debt, or unbridled shopping or retail therapy that is out of control. Edit your perspective on your point of enoughness, your needs and wants.
- After all my moves, I’ve realized you can’t just edit once and be done with it for material things. Life changes and your needs, wants and priorities change. That’s why I keep going back to re-edit and simplify. Pare down to the essence of what it is that creates joy and happiness in your life and edit out the clutter - internal or external clutter.
- Add: What can I add to my life that will bring me more joy, happiness, energy, health, wealth or whatever. Reinvent one thing such as perceptions, creations, activities, objects, recipes, people, business contacts, a route to work or walk, a new friend, new music or a new book. How about adding new beliefs or trading some of the old beliefs that may not be true to you now for what works for you as an adult. Take inventory of what your parents taught you that worked when you were 8 or 18, but not when you’re 48. Times have changed and our thought processes and perhaps some beliefs should change as well. Our beliefs rule our behaviors and our results. What can you add or edit in that area? What might be missing in your life that you’d like to add for a fuller, richer experience on Earth?
- Appreciate: What or who needs more appreciating this week? More fully appreciate someone or something and say your gratitude out loud or to yourself for these things. Act on your promptings. Send a card right now to somebody who needs to hear from you: www.BizBuilderCards.com. The more you do it, the more it gets ingrained into your brain. Do this one on a daily basis for even more impact than weekly and this can become a new habit that you add which adds to other people’s lives. Appreciate your surroundings, show your acknowledgement to those who serve you, rejoice in your beautiful environment. If it’s not so beautiful - add to it or edit to make it so. Who needs to hear from you today or who needs appreciating?

Oct
9
4 Easy Steps to Energize Your Decision Making
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Decision making can be daunting at times - weighing the oh so many options or feeling ambivalent and stuck in the middle. If you base your decision making on these following 4 questions in accordance with the spiritual laws of the Universe, then it will make all your decision making much, much easier. Things start to flow. There are spiritual laws that have no boundaries or borders and the outcome is more life, fuller expression and expansion.
Human laws have limits while spiritual laws have none. So which do you follow? Which do you want to follow? If you’re getting limited results, you are likely following human laws. However, if you really desire unlimited results, you must begin to follow spiritual principles.
Recently I received these 4 questions from one of my mentors that cut right through the clutter of the confused mind to allow a decision to come through strictly from spiritual principles. If you let ANYTHING other than spirit weigh in on your decision - if you do ANYTHING other than what pure spirit guides you to do, you are not following the laws of the Universe.
Read these questions and ponder the power of making a decision from this place:
1. Is this something I want to Be, Do or Have?
2. Is being, doing or having this going to help me fulfill my purpose - is it in alignment with my goals?
3. Is being, doing or having this in harmony with the laws of the Universe?
4. Is being, doing or having this going to violate the rights of others?
You are looking for 3 yes answers and 1 no answer. When you get them all, you have all you need to make the decision and then the way will be shown to you. Remember to listen to your heart’s desires. Your desires show you the way, the path that you are supposed to be following. It’s our compass. Test drive these 4 questions the next time you have a decision to make and see what happens and how it feels.
Aug
30
2 Biggest Excuses Blocking Your Success & Draining Your Energy
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After taking some ground-breaking course-work with David Neagle and his associates on mindset and manifesting secrets of multi-millionaire entrepreneurs; among the many AHA moments was the realization of the two biggest excuses we use to block our own success and drain our energy:
- I don’t have enough time
- I don’t have enough money
There you have it - plain as day - those tapes that have been running through your head perhaps since you were a child. Once you become aware of what tapes your parents were playing for you over and over and then become aware of what is flying out of your mouth; you can change the tapes and upgrade to MP3 with your own empowering messages.
We can only change our energy and our results when we change our mind, our thoughts. Our thougths lead to feelings, which lead to action, which lead to results.
If you want different results, then you start by changing your mind, which runs your mouth. Monitor what you say out loud and how it affects your feelings or visceral body reactions as well as your choice of actions, then watch your results change.
Change “I don’t have time”, to “I’m making time” or “I’ve decided to use my time for something else” or “I’ve chosen to do X instead of Y with my time”. Replace “I can’t afford it” to “I’m choosing to spend my money on other things right now” or “I’ve decided I’d rather do X than Y”, or “Yes, I can do that” - then watch your behaviors change along with your change of mindset.
It starts with awareness of what you think and say and how often you do it. Then consciously change to something that is more empowering and figure out why you’re using those as excuses for doing or not doing X or Y, then make a decision based on your new reality. It may take some shuffeling, but you know if you really want to do it or have it or be it, then you will make the time and make the money available and manifest whatever you want. We are manifesting all day, every day anyway, it may as well be something you want. And it all starts with your thought and your intentions that come out as words, then feelings, followed by actions and results.
What do your results show you are thinking?
Jul
22
Your Thoughts Reside Outside Your Head: Complaining vs. Engaging
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Your thoughts are not only in your mind, they are in your body and in your environment as well. When you change your mind, you change your energy, and when you change your energy, you change your life. You also change the environment around you and influence how people treat you.
When you are caught in a downward energy spiral of complaining, you are focused inward and miss the outside world. You are essentially trapped in your negative energy and your perception is creating your environment to a degree. Dr. Masaru Emoto has scientifically proven that thoughts and feelings affect physical reality. In his book The Hidden Messages in Water, his subjects focused different intentions on frozen water molecules. His mesmerizing findings showed that the water labeled with kind, loving thoughts formed beautiful, symmetrical, snowflake-like, colorful crystals. While the frozen water exposed to negative thoughts and visions formed distorted, incomplete and dull crystals. Our thoughts do, indeed affect our environment and people around us.Our bodies are 75% water - imagine how our thoughts are affecting the water in our bodies.
Research has shown that 70% of our thoughts are negative. Imagine what may happen if you change those thoughts to a positive perspective. When you are lost in complaining or negative thoughts, you miss what’s going on around you. Complaining puts stress on your body, telling it that “what is” is not what you want it to be. Stress affects our bodies with an increase in cortisol - a stress hormone which increases abdominal fat. No wonder American’s are so obese - we’re stressed out!
Be aware of your present moment, your surroundings, your thoughts and be fully engaged in what’s going on now. Pay attention to who you’re with, what you’re doing, how you’re feeling, what you’re thinking and practice being alive and engaged in the present moment. Being fully engaged means bringing your total presence to what you’re doing: mental, emotional, physical and spiritual energy all working together in total participation. This does not bode well for multi-tasking. Practice staying out of your head and into your life. Practice focus, practice positive intention, practice being present and see what happens.
Jul
11
Love: Energize Yourself, Your Connections & Your Business
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I’ve been taking the most amazing teleclass about the 7 Mindset and Manifesting Secrets of Multimillionaires as well as reading much about the keys to success. Always open to learning more about the way people operate. What keeps popping up is the word LOVE. When we operate from love, everything else falls into place. When we operate from a powerful center of love and not from fear, everything is where it should be.
As my friend and business partner Mandy told me - everything turns out in the end and if it’s not turning out, it’s not the end.
My friend and business partner Jennifer told me the reason she got into the Send Out Cards business with me is that she always saw my happy, smiling face and the happy people around me at my trade-show tables. She said it looked like so much fun that she wanted to have that in her life. Because I LOVE what I do - almost always have and when I didn’t, I made changes to do what I did love to do. It shows. I can see huge differences in my energy when I’m doing what I love and helping other people do what they love.
Enabling the dreams of others and creating connections, building relationships, helping people and using communication - speaking, writing, Send Out Cards, books, blogs etc. is what gives me energy. People and my relationships to them give me energy. I send several cards every single day to people letting them know I appreciate them and building connections in my life. I know that love surrounds me - beauty surrounds me.
That’s why I moved to the beach. Walking on the beach 3 times per day with my dog Madison - I love it, she loves it. It’s inspiring. It makes me happy to see her happy. She was a rescue who was a puppy mill breeder. For 5 years she lived outside in a 10 x 10 pen in Missouri with no shelter, 5 other dogs with a cement pad and chainlink fence. She never had the pleasure of feeling her legs run. She never had the joy of romping more than 10 feet. Now when I see her face light up as she chases waves, squirrels, birds, bunnies - it brings me such joy. We have a connection that we both love our freedom to roam and run and romp as we choose.

What more can you put into your life that you love? What can you remove that you don’t love? What connections can you make to add more love into your life? Where can you live to do what you love? What connections can you sever in order to move closer to love in other areas of your life?
My friend and business partner Paul sent me this profound 3-minute video that’s all about love and connections. I’m a sucker for animal stories and this one is quite moving about the power of love. Get out your hankies - I’m pretty sure it will move you to tears as it did for me. Click HERE to watch it.
Jul
6
What’s Your Happiness Factor?
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Do you expect things to go your way - is the universe conspiring in your favor?
Do you have loving, supportive relationships?
Do you lead a purposeful life and live consciously?
Do you feel like you have some control over your time, your stuff, your space, your situation, your life?
Do you feel like you are in the flow of your work or personal interests - challenged enough to be interesting and enjoyable?
Do you have a positive outlook and practice some form of spirituality?
The more questions you could answer with a resounding YES, recent studies show that you are more likely to be happy than those who couldn’t answer an affirmative. Happy people exude energy. Energy begets energy. If you are not at the peak of your happiness factor; take a look at the areas in your life you could change. Surprisingly simple internal factors such as having a healthy self esteem, a sense of optimism and hope, gratifying relationships and meaningful purpose in your life have the most influence over your well-being.
Let go of the things that are out of your control and practice these bliss-booster tips to improve your happiness quotient:
- Upbeat attitude. When you change your mind, you change your energy and when you change your energy, you change your life. It all starts with a thought - make it a positive one. Setting your intentions to desired outcomes makes all the difference - we attract what we most think about. Where intention goes - energy flows.
- Create a loving, supportive network of your favorite people - get connected - see #5 below. To get good friends, you need to become a good friend. What are you doing to cultivate your relationships and make people’s days? A sense of belonging is not only good for us personally, but professionally as well. Having a good friend at work is one of the key essential elements of a good working environment.
- Hone in on your purpose - know why you are here and act in alignment with your purpose. Purpose brings passion.
- Think solutions - not problems. Your brain will answer any question you offer it. Instead of asking “What else can go wrong?” or “How did I get into this situation?”, ask “How can I turn this around?” or “What is my lesson and how can I learn from this and avoid it in the future?”.
- Cultivate an attitude of gratitude. When you’re grateful, you’re not fearful - count your blessings. Send a card to somebody to let them know you appreciate them at www.BizBuilderCards.com.
- Find your flow and get into it. Become engaged and focused in your activities - where challenge meets knowledge, skills and abilities.
- Cultivate healthy habits - eating, sleeping, exercise, spirituality and smile about it. When we smile, it stimulates the thymus gland, which makes us more resistant to disease. This little practice also tricks our physiology into thinking we are already happy and boosts our mood. As a Certified Laughter Leader, my research has found that laughing and smiling do indeed aid in your happiness factor.
Now take your own inventory and see which areas in your life need a boost. We create a happy life by stringing together happy moments and feeling in control of our life. Take control over the areas that are less than desirable in your life and go get happy. As Eckhart Tolle says, “Unhappiness is unintelligent”.
Jul
2
Have the Courage to Move Forward and Say “YES” Despite the Odds
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The word “courage” has come up a lot lately in my life. My good friend (and “twin sistah”) Sue has done paintings about it. My wise counsel Bill told me I needed to have lots of it since every single thing in my life on every level was in flux right now. My BFF Barb and I have discussed different versions of it nearly every night for the past 10 months. And now my friend Paul sends me the following excerpt and video link about the courage to say YES and the courage to not quit.
I think I’m getting the hint to have the guts to keep moving forward and figure out creative ways to energize myself and my life no matter what may shift, change, crumble, not materialize or be taken away from me.
I’ve had lots of training in courage and finishing the game. I’ve done triathlons, marathons, century rides, 30-day backpacking stints to survive in the wilderness for a month, and a 220 kilometer bike ride through 3 countries in 1 day. Those were peanuts compared to the following video. I’ve learned that shifting gears and re-assessing or doing the race in your own style is not quitting - it’s twisting the situation to best fit your needs, even though it may not be the norm. Having faith in yourself and the bigger picture is what pulls you through sometimes. I also realize that no matter how big a race I think I’m racing, there’s always something much bigger, and that energizes and inspires me. So what keeps you energized and motivated to not quit?
For any of you who have thought about quitting your dream - check out this video below. Instead of entertaining the thought of quitting, perhaps just take a detour or side step a little on your path forward and watch this video. Fair warning - I had tears in my keyboard before the first few words were uttered.
A son asked his father, ‘Dad, will you take part in a marathon with me?’
The father who, despite having a heart condition, says ‘Yes’. They went on to complete the marathon together.
Father and son went on to join other marathons, the father always saying ‘Yes’ to his son’s request of going through the race together.
One day, the son asked his father, ‘Dad, let’s join the Ironman together.’ To which, his father said ‘Yes’ to.
For those who didn’t know, Ironman is the toughest triathlon ever. The race encompasses three endurance events of a 2.4 mile (3.86 kilometer) ocean swim, followed by a 112 mile (180.2 kilometer) bike ride, and ending with a 26.2 mile (42.195 kilometer) marathon along the coast of the Big
Father and son went on to complete the race together. View this video for lessons in not quitting
Jun
18
Mindset is Also in Your Body
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I returned from The Missing Thread Intensive with a newfound sense of powerful “innergy”. All I can say is WOW - a workshop like none other I’ve ever experienced. And working in the personal development field for a dozen years, I’ve had my fill of workshops. You’ve just got to experience The Missing Thread for yourself. Their perspective is that mindset isn’t just in the mind, it’s in the body. We hold our life stories in our body and it affects us on many levels. When we release those stories, we really get in touch with our “innergy” which helps us manifest what we need and quiet and de-energize those things that don’t serve us well any more.
What is your body telling you? Where do you hurt, where are your little aches and pains? I found I was having lower back aches and learned through this workshop that lower back stiffness/soreness usually means a feeling of lack of support. Yup, that’s exactly what I was feeling - that it all landed on me to support myself. Being a fiercely independent type with the “I don’t need any help, I can do it myself” attitude. I’d been not asking for help for so long, I didn’t really even know how. After learning how to powerfully ask for help instead of feeling weak in the asking, was a breakthrough for me.
Now I can more easily ask for support and help from the people I know have the capabilities to provide exactly what I need. My back is feeling much better, thank you very much. I’m guessing the new ease of beach living and doing 3 beach walks per day doesn’t hurt - it puts my mind at ease, surrounds me with negative ions which makes me feel better. Other worries or woes seem to melt away when doing meditative walks near the rhythm of the waves.
I’ve recently heard that worrying is nothing but praying for something you don’t want to happen. So get your mindset in the right direction and your body will follow suit. Be pro-active about what you’re doing with your mind and your body. Make tough decisions about where your mind and your body both need to be in order to heal and be set free. Where are you now and where do you need to be? With me, it was the beach - not just any body of water - the dynamic, powerful yet soothing aspects of the beach and the ocean. How about you?
I used to be a full-blown mountaineer - living at 8000 feet, doing everything outdoors and living to be in and near the Rockies or the Alps. It was a total immersion lifestyle for my 20’s and 30’s. In my 40’s when I was looking for a place to BE, I thought the mountains were calling me again, so I moved. What I found is that while the masculine type of mountains in Colorado were good for me in my hard-charging 20’s, I now sought the more feminine California coastal mountains. A kinder, gentler, softer side of being in the hills. I felt uncomfortable in the harsh weather of the Rocky Mountain winters. I had become a candy ass while getting used to the moderate winters in Arizona. Part of the aging process and wising up as to what comforts me, I guess. I thought a mountain lake was it and now I know I need more ocean and less mountain. My mind and body told me where I needed to BE at this time in my life and I feel it to be true. I’ve landed in a place where my mindset and my body can be at ease and at peace. A soft place to land after dealing with the world each day.
Take a look at what you body is telling you and listen to it. Sore throats - what are you holding back, or not saying? I had a pain in the neck leading up to my short marriage and the entire time I was married - nothing could resolve it, even weekly massages and chiropractor visits for 2 years … except divorce. Once I was free again, the pain left. Amazing.
What are your body stories? For guidance down that path, I suggest taking the intensive lead by Donny and Kirk - truly gifted guides and pioneers in this realm. Donny and Kirk run The Missing Thread and they also are the guardians of the Crystal Energy Jewelry and Power Pendants that I’ve posted about earlier.
I’ve come to be a great believer in the power of their jewelry as a support system using the healing crystals contained in them. Another way of supporting myself. One ring that caught my attention is one that supports life balance, cleansing, healing, spirituality and strength, Goddess energy, a clear channel for Earth magic, harmony in nature, self esteem and growth. Now those are things that I would like to have around and be reminded of each day as it sits on my hand. What I’ve also found is that wearing these energy talismans is that they attract people and conversation and you just never know where those conversations may lead. I’ve never experienced anything quite like the attraction factor of this jewelry. At least knowing these things about what you’re wearing also puts you in a good mindset and after all, our mind is our most powerful healer.

Mar
24
Ditch Your Security Blanket, Enhance Your Innergy
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We all have security blanets. Our own version of a binky that we hold dear, or just hold onto and may not be conscious of why we’re holding onto it. Your security blanky may be a job, material possessions, magazines, clothing, furniture, ways of thinking, certain behaviors, specific meals or foods, habits or perceptions about who you are and what you do or don’t do or what you like and don’t like.
Sometimes we need to ditch our binky and have the courage to move through life without that old net that doesn’t necessarily serve us or comfort us any more. The conversations I’ve been having with friends in transition lately - that includes conversations with myself - seem to turn up a few themes. One of the themes is: that which we most coveted once upon a time is now a burden. Another theme is that we are tired of some of our old ways and are itching for a change. Either a change of pace, a change of scenery, a change of challenge, or a change of lifestyle or partner or whatever. We are just itching to ditch our old ways and break free of our comfort zones. As my colleague Annette announced after she went skydiving, “we need to foster eccentricity”!
I feel like goldilocks and the four climates. In the past few years I’ve moved from the East coast to the desert, to the mountains and now to the beaches of the West coast. You won’t know if you don’t go…. so I had to experience all the zones to find one just right. I realized I didn’t want to live in a harsh climate. Along with all those moves came lots of purging and re-discovery of what matters. Sometimes it just isn’t time to let go. Give it another move and a few thousand dollars spent in schlepping stuff around, and you may change your mind about just how important something is in your life and you’ll soon decide to unload it.
My security blankets as it turned out were the European antiques I brought back from my decade spent overseas. I realized after 20 years with them, that they no longer represented who I was now. Other comfort items were my books and articles I’d collected over the years in the journey to becoming an Energy Expert. Each move I gave about around 50 books. This move it was 200. It was a challenge to give away information at first. I would be flying solo if I needed to write a book or article without backup material. Once I decided I’ve absorbed enough info and that it was enough, it was easy to let go. I also gave away most of my dishes, crystal, furniture and all the stuff I collected over the years that didn’t suit my creatively cool, casual simplistic lifestyle. If it doesn’t fit into that category, it’s outta here. What doesn’t fit your style any more? What are you still holding onto that isn’t who you are today? Just like old hairstyles, old home styles, work styles, communication styles, clothing styles etc need to be updated as we grow and change.
What ensued is that I feel much more innergized, lighter, unencumbered, able to breathe easier and move freer in my space that is congruent with who I am now and not who I was when I acquired all that stuff. I jettisoned about two-thirds of my belongings in the last 2 moves and now out goes much of the rest of it except what is functional and I’m just fine with that. Know when there is a time and a place to be able to let go of your “stuff”. Sometimes it’s too early to let it go. You will know when things become a burden, or at least don’t bring you joy or offer something positive in your life - your work, the people around you, your way of moving through the world. Take a good look at all the security blankets you have in your life. Is it time to let go of some of them and run through the world without clinging onto something that doesn’t suit you any more?
Mar
6
Energizing Crystal Jewelry & Power Pendants
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Traveling around the country meeting amazing people has brought me to the keepers of Energizing Crystal Jewelry, Donny Lobree and Kirk Prine. Donny and Kirk offer the most incredible, energetic jewelry I’ve ever encountered. It truly is jewelry with a presence of power. View their beauty and soon you’ll be able to hear their beauty from their website .


Besides being spectacularly beautiful, I’ve witnessed countless people testify the changes in their energy, their feelings, their way of moving through the world after wearing one of the pendants, rings or earrings. Statements about pains going away, headaches not recurring, more confidence and accounts of attracting great things are heard through the hallways at the events where I’ve been blessed with working side by side with Kirk and Donny.
If you want to experience energy at a different level, you’ve got to try one of these exquisite pieces. Each piece comes with an explanation of what each crystal in that piece heals or supports. Read about each piece’s story from their website. These limited edition pieces are made in Bali and I’ll let Donny’s words describe their essence.
Shankari, the designer of these Drops of Light, tells us she “hears” colors and shapes as harmonies. In fact, she is one of the few people on the planet with that capacity.
Out of the various “harmonies” she hears, a particular design for a piece of jewelry is born. Then her master craftsmen working at her palace on the island of Bali take over. After they do their daily ritual of yoga and meditation, they begin work on realizing Shankari’s designs.
As you can see, each step of the way is carried out with great intention and care.
All pieces are handmade and set in silver. Each design is a limited edition—-only 25 or so are produced for the entire world. Once a design is sold out, it is gone, never to be repeated. The pieces you see on our site are generally available in quantities of one only. The remaining pieces of a given design go to Shankari’s other markets in Asia, Europe and Australia.
These pieces are truly Objects of Power. People stop me at least a couple times a day to ask about the Shankari pendant I wear. Twice, cars have stopped my partner, Kirk Prine, while he was walking down the street in our hometown of San Francisco to ask him about the Shankari Ohm pendant he wears.
I came to realize I was being called to be a steward for these Points of Light.
I am are grateful to my teacher and friend, Shankari, for allowing us to do this work. I feel my mission is to place these Activators of Consciousness into the hands of those who will contribute to healing our planet.
And so it gives me great pleasure to offer these Talismans of Power to you.
May we be in support of your Mission,
Donny


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