THE CHALLENGE

Life can get really busy, and one of the challenges I’ve heard over and over again from clients and others is that they just don’t have the time (or energy) to wake up early in the morning and begin the day with prayer and meditation, or with some kind of self-sustaining spiritual practice.

I know the feeling. For awhile, I had the inclination to wake up at 4:00 AM for prayer and meditation. Part of me was completely on board with the idea.

Then there was that other part of me that wasn’t on board; she flat out rebelled.

Which was no surprise; she generally rebels against anything that’s for my greater good, especially if it involves getting up extra early, exercising, eating well or doing anything else that involves discipline.

I call that part of me the Rebel-With-A-Cause. Her cause? To be lazy, undisciplined, unfocused and unproductive.

When I’m not really, really careful and conscious, she succeeds. Now that I’ve learned to recognize her tactics, she doesn’t succeed to the extent she used to. I’m always on the lookout for more ways to deactivate her, keep her busy or otherwise decrease her influence.

THE SOLUTION

One of the most powerfully effective means I’ve found for bringing this aspect of me into loving dominion is to get up early, before she does (remember, she’s lazy) and begin a practice of prayer, devotion and meditation at 4:00 am to 6:00 AM each morning. (I finally decided to honor the still small voice inside that was urging me to get out the bed early.) After a period of time, the practice locked into my consciousness and became a habit. And I love it. Who knew getting up so early would be so much fun and so transformative?

Anyway, back to the folks who are still struggling to wake up early in the morning.

BOOST IN YOUR BATHROBE!

I got the idea to have an early morning live conference call each weekday at 6:00 AM and to invite clients and others to join in for 15 minutes of prayer, praise and inspiration. I hoped that after the 15 minutes, folks would be so excited and worked up that they’d stay up and continue in prayer and devotion after the call. At least the hard part would be done, they would be out of bed.

The name BOOST IN YOUR BATHROBE came because you don’t have to get dressed or leave the house to join in the fun. You can roll out of bed (or stay in bed if you want) and just dial in.

The idea comes to life on Monday, December 1, 2008 at 6:00 AM EST, when BOOST IN YOUR BATHROBE begins.

I’m excited. Really, I’m enthused about the prospects for this live call each morning, and the far reaching effects it will have.

The good news is: you’re invited!

Whether you’re still in bed at 6:00 AM or whether you’ve already started your day, or even if you’re on the other side of the world, you can join us. Just dial in! (The call-in number is below, at the end of this post.)

There is a theme for each month, and the theme for December 2008 is PROSPERITY. Everyone can benefit from an expanded consciousness of abundant prosperity, and this month’s offerings are designed to do just that, from Prosperity Prayers to Prosperity Affirmations, you’ll get loads of spiritual ammunition to aim at your thoughts of lack and limitation. When you develop a prosperous mindset, a prosperous world soon follows.

The theme for January 2009 is NEW BEGINNINGS.

There are a multitude of benefits to joining us, here are just 5 to consider:

1. Start your day on a high. Starting each weekday morning on a spiritual high makes it easier to stay that way all day.

2. Invoke the power that accompanies two or more who are gathered together. Once you invoke this supernatural power, you can consciously walk with it throughout your day, effecting different and better results.

3. Encourage yourself and everyone on your path. When you’re encouraged, prayed up and ready for your day, you encourage everyone you interact with (often without even knowing it).

4. Hear an inspirational message that’s designed to empower you to live the awesome life that’s destined for you.

5. Hear from other like minded folks on the spiritual path and gain insight and wisdom from the special guests on the all each morning.

These are just a few reasons. After you join us on the call, you’ll probably have a whole list of your own reasons to get your BOOST each morning.

When we receive inspired ideas, we never know where they will take us. I’m not sure where this idea will lead, which is okay by me. I know it can only empower all of us who are waking early in the morning (before our rebel side arises) to be more of who we were created to be.

Join us. Consider this your personal invitation. And remember to call in 2-3 minutes early, so we can welcome you to the call.

Until then, count your blessings!

Minister Valerie Love

P.S. — The dial in number for BOOST IN YOUR BATHROBE is: 641-715-3300. The Pin is: 480031#.

Tags: Daily Inspiration, Destiny Living, discipline, Gratitude, praise, prayer

Part 2

Yesterday I spoke of the first 5 Faces of Fear in the post titled The 9 Faces of Fear: Part 1, and how I was able to overcome my fear of public speaking to do what I do now, which is being an inspirational speaker.

Today, we’ll talk about the next 4 Faces of Fear and I’ll offer the proven solution I spoke of yesterday.

Let’s continue where we left off yesterday:

Face #6: Distraction

This one usually follows on the heels of face #5 (Disorderliness & Disorganization). When you’re disorderly and disorganized, you will invariably become distracted. Distracted by what needs to be done, distracted by one pile of stuff or another, distracted by what someone else is doing so you don’t have to look at the piles in your office anyway.

Distraction is a success killer and a face of fear. Focus is its nemesis. Laser focus creates astonishing results.

Face #7: No Plan of Action

When I see unsuccessful folks, there is usually always a commonality: no plan of action. There is no plan to create success, no blueprint to follow, thus nothing happens. This is a face of fear because it is yet another way our crafty inner demons get to keep us stuck right where we are.

One thing is certain: if you have no plan, you will get nowhere.

Face #8: The Dreaded “I Don’t Know”

When clients give this answer, it’s a signal that they’re in fear, resistance and denial. We always know. Always. I believe you know everything you need to know to achieve high success. Whether you remember it all in this moment and take courageous action in harmony with what you know is another story.

Yet, you know. You always know.

When we feign ignorance, we’re in resistance and denial, which are just more faces of fear. The next time you hear yourself say you don’t know, ask yourself this question: what would I do if I did know?

Face #9: Overwhelm

This face of fear comes up when you focus more on the enormity of the task before you rather than focus on the rewards and benefits you’ll gain. It’s easy to fall into overwhelm when you look at all the things you’ve got to do and the little time you’ve got to do it all in. You wonder how you’ll get it all done in time, and you begin to feel overwhelm creep in.

You wind up saying ‘forget it’ and you walk away without doing anything.

You don’t consciously say you’re walking away. That would be way too obvious. You find something to distract you from the task at hand. Or you engage in time wasting activities that have nothing to do with your task, like meaningless chatter, cleaning out your desk,  or getting another snack when you’re not even hungry.

So, what’s the solution?

Before sharing the solution, let me state that it will sound quite simple and easy. I know it’s not easy, and I’ll tell you how to make it happen for yourself. Here’s the golden solution:

DO IT ANYWAY!

That’s it. Whatever you fear, DO IT ANYWAY! This is the only solution I know of that works every time. It has never failed. It’s never failed because your fears are unsustainable, so when you dive into what you fear, the fear disappears. Fear only exists before you do a thing. Once you’ve done it, you no longer fear the thing you just did, even if you get fearful again when you get ready to repeat the action. In that instance,

DO IT ANYWAY!

How, Valerie, am I supposed to just DO IT ANYWAY when I haven’t done it yet?

Glad you asked.

There is one thing that will help you to DO IT ANYWAY:

Accountability

Get accountability to take certain actions that you know would catapult you to the next level of success. There are different levels of accountability. What works well (other than securing a life coach to support you in forward movement) is to call someone whom you highly admire and respect and ask them if they would be your accountability partner. Call the person and let them know you really admire them and their success and that you’re aiming for a new level of high success in your own life.

If the person has been an inspiration to you, tell them so.

Then inform the person that you’re starting a new success habit and you’d like to check in with them for just 15 minutes (of accountability) each week to apprise them of how well you’ve kept your commitment. Assure the person that you value their time and yours.

Most successful people love helping other people and you will probably get a positive response. Even if the person says no, it’s okay. Ask someone else you highly admire and respect.

The reason this form of accountability works so beautifully is because of an inherent fear most people have: the fear of looking stupid. You won’t want to look bad to the person you highly admire and you know that if you call them two or three times to inform them that you haven’t done what you said you were going to do, you’ll feel dumb, even if they don’t think so. You’ll do what you said you were going to do just so you won’t look or feel dumb.

It’s a great tool that works.

I’ve said enough about this now, so until next time, keep moving fearlessly forward and remember to

DO IT ANYWAY!

Many rich blessings,

Valerie Love

Tags: achievement, conscious living, Destiny Living, focus, Fulfillment, growth and development, Life Coaching, success

Part 1

If you’re anything like me and every other human on the planet, you’ve had your fair share of encounters with fear.

I used to be deathly afraid of speaking, even to individuals, much less to an audience full of people. It’s a huge fear I had to overcome to do what I do as an inspirational speaker. Now, I feel at home on the stage, as you can see.

Some fear is quite healthy, yet most fears are detrimental and debilitating. To get a better handle on fear and the ways it presents, I decided to post this list of The 9 Faces of Fear. These are the most common ways I’ve seen fear present itself in my own life and in the lives of countless other folks I’ve coached and trained.

It doesn’t really matter how your particular brand of fear presents itself, there’s only one solution. I’ll give that solution at the end of Part 2. It is, hands down, the only thing I’ve ever witnessed that works every time.

Today I’m posting Part 1 of this article, which covers the first 5 Faces of Fear. Tomorrow’s post (Part 2) will feature the next 4 Faces of Fear, along with the proven solution. Here we go:

Face #1: Resistance

By and large, resistance to doing what’s best for us is just another form of fear. What’s resistance? Resistance is a pattern of engaging in thoughts and behaviors that pull you away from what you say you want or that keep you stuck where you are. You have goals. And you want to reach them. The good news is: you can, and probably a whole lot easier than you think. The bad news is: you’re probably resisting your own success. Why would you do a thing like that?

Because you fear the unknown and where you might end up. You don’t know that place. You know where you are now, and you do things to stay right there, even though you claim you don’t like it. It’s a human proclivity to be resistant and wary of the unknown.

Which leads to the second face:

Face #2: Procrastination

Am I stepping on your toes yet? Don’t feel bad, I am a recovering procrastinator too. What I now understand about procrastination is that it is based in fear; fear of success, fear of failure or fear of change. We know that when we take inspired action, something is going to change. When it does, our life changes. Since we’re not quite sure how the whole thing will play out, we delay taking action.

Face #3: Self-sabotage

Okay, I know I must be stepping on your toes with this one. Anyway, I’ll speak from my own experience. I’ve sabotaged myself more times than I can count. It’s been horrendous. I’ve been right at the finish line and came up with a reason not to cross it. In those instances, I didn’t collect the gold, though I’d worked hard for a long time.

What’s worse, I didn’t even recognize what I was doing. Later I’d complain that I almost had the prize, but then ’something’ happened.

This face of fear is tricky. You won’t always know when you’re sabotaging yourself. Fortunately, there are clues. One big clue is this: ask yourself how many times you’ve almost gotten what you want, but didn’t. How many close calls have you had, where you were right at the finish line, but didn’t cross it to collect the gold?

Chances are, if you’ve had this experience more than once or twice, you have a pattern of self-sabotage. It’s a nasty little habit, quite insidious and capable of keeping you stuck where you are for years.

Face #4: Low Energy, Tiredness or Sudden Sleepiness

This may seem an unusual one, but it presents more often than most of us realize. How many times have you been in a position where you knew there was action you to take, perhaps to grow your income or your business, and when it was time to take the action, you got tired. You wanted to take a nap. You were suddenly sleepy.

The particular group of people I’ve seen this ailment afflict is business owners who work from home. If you’re in this group, it happens like this: just when it’s time to do something that really matters, that’s truly important to the growth of the business, and would take you in a new and higher direction, you get tired.

This is another face of fear: it’s nothing more than a mental shutdown that results in feeling tired and sluggish. It is an energy zapping thought pattern that yields inactivity and low productivity, and results in not reaching your vast potential.

Face #5: Disorderliness & Disorganization

Papers flying everywhere, not being able to find what’s important, valuable time wasted looking for items, feeling and acting disheveled, being late and harried are all aspects of disorderliness and disorganization. These are two of the biggest killers of success. Remember this well:

Where there is no order, nothing good can unfold.

Which is a paradox, because chaos often produces order.  When I speak of order, I don’t mean neatness. There’s a difference. I’ve seen offices that were not neat, yet they were in such order that the owner knew immediately where each item was and easily reached for it when needed. There was an underlying order though the space didn’t appear to be neat.

You don’t have to be neat to be in order. And not every neat person is in order. (Many times, neat freaks are people who are so afraid of taking forwarding action and huge risks that they spend most of their days fixing things up and telling you how sloppy you are. For your own good, don’t mind these people or let them get under your skin.)

When I speak of order, I am speaking of an underlying energy of coherence which reflects high thinking processes, a coming together of parts and ingredients to form harmony, a proceeding that unfolds in a step-by-step process, and/or the ability to move according to a defined plan of action. All these aspects are necessary for high success.

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Do any of these apply to you? If so, keep reading tomorrow when I’ll post the next 4 Faces of Fear and the trusted and proven solution to move past it all…

See you tomorrow!

Rich blessings,

Valerie Love

Tags: achie, conscious living, Destiny Living, focus, Fulfillment, l, Life Coaching, success

It seems almost everyone wants to be successful, but so few actually are, somewhere between 5-20%. The other 80-95% will never reach the levels of success they say they want. I’m intrigued by humans and what we do, so I’ve been exploring this question for years from different angles.

What creates success?

I’ve talked to hundreds of people about this issue, from clients to business owners to authors to stay-at-home moms. I’ve talked to people who consider themselves successful and those who don’t.

What I’ve gleaned from these interviews and from my own life experience is that there are a minimum of 4 distinctions that make for success in any endeavor. Think of these four distinctions as a foundation for success. This is not to say that if you have all four you’ll automatically be successful. Just because a table has all 4 legs doesn’t mean the table is automatically in good order. Yet, if you don’t have all four, it’s pretty clear, from my observations and experience, that you won’t be successful, just as a table with legs missing is definitely out of order.

At the end of each distinction, I’ve added a Success Strategy that you can implement for your high success.

Here they are:

4 Distinctions That Create Success In Any Endeavor

1. Your state of mind when you begin the endeavor.

Whatever your mindset is when you begin an endeavor is likely how the endeavor will turn out.

For instance, if you decide to start a business because you’re running away from something, rather than doing it because of your passions and intentions, you’ll have problems with being successful. If you start an endeavor just to make money, you’ll have problems being successful.

I spoke at a junior high school a couple of weeks ago and taught the students to NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER do anything just for the money. They laughed at first. Some told me I was wrong. After we explored it, they began to see the light.

I’ve never seen anyone do something they didn’t like just for the money for an extended period of time without negative consequences.

If you’re beginning an endeavor just because you’re running away from something (which is a reaction, not a response) or if you’re doing it just for the money, count on not being successful over the long haul.

Success Strategy #1: Closely, and I mean CLOSELY examine what is in your mind when you begin an endeavor. What are you thinking this endeavor will bring you? What are your motives (even the motives you’d be ashamed to talk about in front of other people)? What do you think you’ll gain? What do you think you’ll lose? The bigger the decision or the endeavor, the more self-examination you’ll need to do to really see where you stand mentally on the issue.

To go further, what’s beneath the surface in your consciousness regarding this issue? What are your past experiences in this arena? What fears are present?

When you make a comprehensive examination of what your consciousness holds before you start an endeavor, you can begin to ascertain whether or not you’ll be successful at it.

2. How long you are willing to persevere.

This has got to be one of the biggest reasons most people aren’t successful: they don’t stick with anything long enough to start a fire.

People quit, too often and too easily. Quitters don’t ever make it to the finish line. I’m speaking from experience.

This issue is tied to the first issue. If I had examined my consciousness and motives before starting a new endeavor, I may not have undertaken many of the endeavors I later on wind up quitting. We quit things because we probably shouldn’t have been doing them in the first place, but the story sounded so compelling, we went along with it. Later, when we discover that the endeavors is not in harmony with our inward desires and intentions, we quit.

When to quit can be a tricky decision because sometimes we do need to throw in the towel, while at other times we need to change our approach, while at still other times we need to stick it out and keep moving forward, in spite of the fear, pain and resistance.

Deciding when to do what is the tricky part. You’ll have to go within and seek your own inner guidance, in addition to praying on it, and sitting in the silence to give the answers space and time to unfold.

Success Strategy #2: You don’t win a gold medal without the battle scars to show for it and you cannot be successful without perseverance. To persevere means to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement. Which means you’ll kiss a lot of toads before you’ll find Prince Charming.

Perseverance is unusual because it means pushing through pain, resistance and listening to folks who love you, yet tell you that what you’re doing is ridiculous, impossible, crazy or even dangerous. You’ve got to be willing to take your eyes off everything and everyone who is a counterinfluence and stay your eyes, mind and being on what you’re going for.

Remember the hundred or so variations that failed before Thomas Edison created a light bulb that actually worked.

Perseverance does not mean martyrdom, or banging your head against the wall. It doesn’t mean being unwilling to look at the truth. And it doesn’t mean being hard-headed and stubborn.

What it does mean is this: after you’ve determined that what you are going for is aligned with your heart’s deepest desires, your meaningful intentions and the divine will for your life, and it will serve others, then go for it and keep going for it until you succeed.

I like what Tony Robbins (one of the world’s most successful coaches) says about success. He uses the simple example of learning to walk. At one time, you were a tiny tot trying to learn how to walk. How many times did you fall on your rump before you mastered walking? Maybe hundreds. Yet you kept on going. You may have gotten positive reinforcement from the big people around you who were so excited that you were taking those first few steps that they encouraged and cheered to an extreme degree. As a result, most people walk.

Now here’s a question for you: do most parents look at all the times their child has fallen on his/her rump and give up? Do they say ‘well, it looks like my kid is just not going to be a walker…’

No, that doesn’t happen with sane people. Your efforts and their encouragement continue UNTIL YOU WALK. The same is true of perseverance. When you’re on the divine path for your life, you persevere UNTIL YOU SUCCEED. Most times, you’ll need to encourage yourself all the way to the finish line. Don’t make other people responsible for making you feel good.

3. How willing you are to throw your whole self into it.

People dabble. A little of this, a little of that…

Dabblers get nowhere. Then they look up 10 or 20 years later and wonder why they aren’t further ahead than they were 20 years ago.

When you dabble, by holding back from throwing your whole self into what you’re doing, you don’t ever create momentum, or stoke your passions, or generate enough interest for anyone to join you (more on this next).

When you dabble, everyone knows it. Worst of all YOU know it.

Success Strategy #3: BE RED HOT on fire for what you’re doing. Your enthusiasm will be contagious and you’ll create an immense amount of curiosity about what you’re doing just because of your excitement.

BE RED HOT. If you can’t be red hot about what you’re doing, why are you doing it?

4. How willing you are to build a team of associates, mentors, advisers and supporters.

I’ve seen lots of folks who could do amazing things on their own. Then, when they were put in the mix with lots of other people, they didn’t handle it well.

Success does not come in a vacuum or a void. High success can only be had when you involve other people. Relationships are the backbone of all success. You’ve got to develop and maintain relationships with clients and customers, partners, suppliers, distributors, a board of directors and/or more.

You cannot be highly successful completely alone.

Success Strategy #4: Build a team. Start a Master Mind Group. Attract more prospects who turn into clients and customers. One way you do this is by exhibiting your passion for what you’re doing, operating in excellence and proving the high value you offer.

You can never attract too many good people to your endeavor. Knowing that you will attract to your endeavor people just like yourself, aim to stay enthusiastic, positive, determined and orderly. Conduct yourself wisely and masterfully.

And most of all, lavish the highest praise and appreciation on all the people you’ve attracted. Mary Kay used to look at people as if they had a sign hanging around their neck that says: “Make me feel important.” She did, and she grew a business from a $5,000 investment to a multi-billion dollar international enterprise.

With these four foundational stones in place:

1. Right Consciousness
2. Perseverance
3. RED HOT ENTHUSIASM & PASSION
4. Attracting loads of great people

you are well on your way to high success! Share with us your ideas on what creates success…

Rich blessings,

Valerie Love

Tags: achievement, Life Coaching, living with passion, success

Thank you for your frequent visits and comments! You are always welcome here.

I’m glad you stop by regularly to discover more about how to live on purpose and create a destiny you love.

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The way to subscribe to this blog is through what’s called RSS, which stands for Real Simple Syndication, which is a fancy way of saying that you can be alerted when I post new information to the site, or when new pages are added without actually having to come visit the site.

This saves time and energy, because you visit the site once you’ve been alerted that new material has been posted or you can read the new material through your reader. It’s sort of like an updating service. And the best part is: it’s free and easy to set up.

How does it work?

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VAL

I’m eating crow today.

The other morning, I had a blow up with my beloved hubby (rest assured I was not calling him beloved the other day).

Of course, I was convinced he was wrong. I’ll tell you more about that later.

For right now, I’ll share with you what I discovered about myself this morning, and what it has to do with the blow up.

I’m a writer. I love writing. I’ve written books, articles, blogs and more is always pouring out of me. Writing is a passion and for me, a way of life. It’s one of my favorite chosen methods of expression.

When I was in the 9th grade in Washington Irving High School in New York, I completed one of my assignments for English class and turned it in. I was pretty proud of my work, I felt I’d done a good job. A few days after I handed in the assignment, Mrs. Freeman, chair of the English Department, sent a note that she wanted to see me.

I got nervous. What does Mrs. Freeman want with me? Worry took over. Oh no, maybe my assignments are not good and she’s going to tongue lash me! Oh no! (You know how doom, gloom and dread can take over…)

I went reluctantly to meet with Mrs. Freeman at my assigned appointment time. She wasn’t there, so I was instructed to sit in her office for a few minutes and wait until she returned. Instead of taking these few minutes to calm my nerves, I chose to use them to stare around her office and use each thing my eye landed upon as another prop in the worry story I was building. Oh no, she’s got a stack of papers on her desk, I wonder if one of them is mine…Am I failing?…Why else would the Chair of the English Department want to see me–I must be doing really bad…Oh no, there’s a red pen, it must be for marking a failing grade on my paper… It was a mental downward spiral, until I was saved from myself when she whisked through the door.

“Hi Mrs. Freeman.”

“Hello Valerie, you’re probably wondering why I asked to meet with you.”

Not really.

During the conversation that ensued, I became delightfully surprised. Mrs. Freeman had been looking at my writing in English class for months and thought it was good. She explained that there was an English Honors program that began in 10th grade and went through to the 12th grade. There were 30 students in the class, each there by invitation only, her invitation. The 30 students were comprised of the top ten English students in 10th, 11th and 12th grades. Most were chosen in the 9th grade.

Because Mrs. Freeman taught the class herself, she met with each prospective student to invite them personally into the Honors program, and to explain beforehand what was required, so that the student would understand the high expectation and choose whether or not to participate.

Is that why she wanted to see me? Whew, I’m so relieved…

I excitedly said YES and prepared to enter the rigorous program in the fall. All went well, so well that my writing, when I was 17, was published in the New York Times in a section titled: Good Writing by Young People.

I was ecstatic to see words I’d penned published in the New York Times!

I guess that seals it; I’m a good writer, even the New York Times said so…

Fast forward to the other day, a mere 30 years later (but who’s counting?), when I get the bright idea to write every day. Not just write in my journal. No, instead, write for publication.

It’s easy for me to write in a journal every day–it stays with me daily, and when I’ve filled it up, it goes on the shelf alongside the rest of the journals I’ve been writing over the past 15 or so years. That’s safe.

Write in a journal, just for me, then put it on a shelf.

There’s no rejection in that, no room for me to feel vulnerable about my work.

If I never put anything out into the world, I’ll never feel the pang of rejection, right?

That line of thinking would have worked by pitting me in procrastination mode, and not living my purpose; except for the divine discontent that crept up from the depth of my soul, reminding me of why I’m here.

“You’re a writer”, the divine discontent whispers. “And writers write.”

Darn.

I guess it’s time to come out of hiding, all the way out. I guess it’s time to write every day, for publication. The words I write will actually have to reach further than my front door. After all, that’s what I know I’m here to do. Share my gifts.

All this comes on the heels of my 47th birthday. It only took me 30 years to come to the realization that writers write, and since I’m a writer, and I feel led to do so at this point in my life, it would be a good idea for me to write every day, for publication.

In light of this realization, the SHOULD in me went to work:

You should have been writing all this time…

You should not have wasted all that time…

You should know better…

Back to the blow up with my hubby. Here’s the line that absolutely got me more riled up than I care to acknowledge, (but after writing about Acknowledgment the other day, I’m willing to practice what I teach).

He said:

You should know better…

That’s right about when I hit the roof. It took me a while to pull myself back down from up there.

Today is another story. Now, several days removed from the comment I found offensive, the benefit of time has settled in and I see things a little differently. This morning, in a powerful conversation, I came to the realization that no one can say anything to me that I hadn’t already proclaimed to myself, over and over.

Here, in the infinite love and wisdom of the universe, was my intimate partner mirroring back at me the conversation I’d been having in my head, so that I could really hear what self-punishment and judgment sounds like.

Sometimes the conversations we have in our heads are so familiar, we don’t examine them. Familiarity steals and hides objectivity.

When we hear someone else saying something that we’ve been internally uttering to ourselves (if not saying to ourselves, feeling within ourselves), the familiarity is washed off, leaving the statement to stand there in its bare nakedness, raw and shocking.

That’s what happened to me the other day. The reason that comment was such a big OUCH for me was because it was the exact same comment and notion I’d been using to mentally beat myself up.

No more.

Now I know that my path is perfect for me, regardless of how long it takes.

Now I know that there’s no right or wrong way to do things, just different choices. I’ll learn something either way.

Now I know I don’t need to waste a moment of my precious life energy, resources or vitality telling myself that I should…I am ready, willing, able and delighted to drop should from my vocabulary, for me and for anyone else I tried to pin it on.

Now I know I can choose again, and again, and, if I don’t like that choice, I can choose again.

And I know that every day is a day for inspired action toward what really matters to me, living the passions that ignite a fire in my soul. It makes no never mind whether that inspired action happens in the form of a tiny baby step, a giant stride or an all out quantum leap. On the journey, we experience them all and they’re all perfect.

Beautiful realization.

Yeah, it was an ouch for a few days.

Now it’s a deep breath in recognition of how loving and wise the Divine One is to serve up lessons in such a way that they reach the core of my being, with a holy precision, cutting through and disintegrating all the unnecessary stuff along the way.

Thank you God.

Much love to you today,

VAL

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Yep, that’s the name of my daughter Varonika’s alter ego, who happens to be a super she-ro with all the super-powers ever invented. She even has the ability to turn into a ghost, which, according to Super Sassy Sophia (S.S.S.), is the most powerful one ’cause you can turn invisible and walk through walls and stuff’.

She can do magic, read minds and she has laser beam eyes.

Varonika is 7 and a half (the half is very important–one year she got the idea to have another birthday party on the date that was halfway to her next birthday–don’t you love it?) and her imagination is kicked into overdrive.

As I sat in the driver’s seat yesterday while chauffeuring us to the park, peering every so often into the rear view mirror to catch a glimpse of Varonika’s face as she craftily concocted her super she-ro story–complete with strangely unusual antics and events which all pit S.S.S. as the brave rescuer (in one part of the story, she even rescued her dad)–I wondered where along the way in my journey from 7-and-a-half-year-old to adult woman did I lose that kind of imagination?

I mean that bold, in-your-face, I’m-making-up-a-story-yet-I’m-so-convinced-it’s-true-that-you-might-actually-start-to-wonder-yourself kind of imagination.

That this-story-gets-crazier-and-crazier-the-more-layers-I-add-on-to-it-but-that-won’t-stop-me-cause-I’m-having-way-too-much-fun kind of imagination.

Varonika has it down to a science. Her story of Super Sassy Sophia, along with all the intelligent details of the story, was so fascinating I started playing along.

“Super Sassy Sophia’s mom doesn’t know she’s a super hero,” she informed.

“I don’t believe that! I would know if my daughter was a super hero, what with all those capes in the closet and boots with ‘S’s’ on them and tights hanging around. I would absolutely know if my daughter was a super hero!” I chimed in, almost surprised at how much her story had engaged me, even though I knew it was completely fabricated (or was it…).

Varonika’s story was so good, I couldn’t get it off my mind. Later on at dinner, I asked her about S.S.S. She quickly turned into her alter ego and answered all my questions.

This kid is a genius (I could be biased, but I don’t think so)…

Anyway, I made a resolve, right then and there, as I gazed wondrously at this little lady who served as my reminder, to:

• Laugh more, a whole lot more…
• Make up more wild stories and share them with Varonika, who loves a good story…
• Power up my imagination more in every day life…
• Teach clients & audiences how to create a destiny using a powered up imagination
• Know myself as a she-ro, with all the super-powers ever invented at my disposal

What does imagination have to do with creating and living my destiny?

It has everything to do with it. One of the keys to reality creation is imagination. When we imagine big, currents are sent out far into the cosmos, touching everything and bringing back what matches.

If you can’t imagine yourself as great or successful, regardless of your current state, you never will be. It’s as simple as that. Your imagination is the gateway to a new life filled with what you want and have never had.

More than just a tool for reality creation, imagination is a walk with the Divine, a dance with Spirit; it lifts us to loftier thinking, and opens us to what could be.

Even if we only get a glimpse of magnificence, we’re better off.

This would be a good opportunity to comment on the fact that most of us are master story-tellers. The problem is that the imagination is usually powered up in the negative direction when stories are created that don’t support forward movement. Stories like:

If I perform at my peak, there are people around me who might not like it or they may feel insecure. I don’t want to outshine everybody. I’ll just play it cool…I won’t let myself be as good as I really am. (Of course, you might not mentally have this conversation with yourself, though your actions and results tell the whole story.)

I don’t know what to do.

No one cares.

He/she is stupid/dumb.

Life sucks.

All of these statements are fanciful, whipped up from the imagination, powered in the negative direction. The truth is:

If you perform at your peak, always do your best and shine in your brilliance, you just might inspire and encourage someone else to do the same. If nothing else, you’ll feel a whole lot happier and pleased with yourself. (Think of Tiger Woods on this one.)

You always know what to do. You simply forgot that you know. All that’s needed is to enjoy some silent reflection/meditation/contemplation time and the answers will come pouring forth. You always know what to do, though you don’t always have the courage to do it (that’s when you start asking friends and family for advice, because you already know what to do before you ask the question but are too afraid to do it and you’re secretly hoping someone will give you an out).

God cares. That’s all that matters.

We can call folks stupid or dumb until the cows come home, but we can’t usually prove that the statement is absolutely true. Besides, how would we know stupid or dumb unless we’ve had an up-close and personal encounter with it? (hint, hint, like in the mirror?)

Life is a grand and wondrous adventure. Life is a teaching and learning device. Life is whatever you decide to make it. You’re the one creating your reality. Make it good.

With all that said, my new imaginary, magic name is Solara Stoneflower, and I’ve got all the magical powers at my disposal (watch what you’re thinking, I could be reading your mind right now…).

Until next time, much love and many blessings,

Valerie Love (AKA Solara Stoneflower, super-duper she-ro. I’m using my imagination to make up my story, you get to make up yours.)

Tags: creativity, destiny, imagination, living out loud, reality creation, success, wonder

First off, I haven’t written in a few days here, please forgive me. I’m back at it again.

Awareness, acknowledgment and acceptance are the triplets that make life infinitely easier. This post will be a little shorter than my usual 1,500+ words, and it’s my intention to make it power packed with stuff you can use right away to make your life better, easier and thus, create more of what you love. Let’s go!

What is awareness?

Good question. Awareness is knowing who you are, what you do, when you do it, how you do it and why you do it. It sounds simple, yet it’s easy to fall into the trap of being almost completely unconscious of who we are and what we’re doing. And quite a few of us have no idea why we do what we do.

How does one become aware?

Another good question. By taking deep breaths and staying present in each moment. The reason we tend to live life so unconsciously is because the mind is in either one of two places:

The past

or

The future

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Rarely are we ever fully present in the right now moment (unless we’ve done considerable work on creating and maintaining that state of being). Left to its own devices, the human mind quickly turns to guilt, remorse, sadness and/or self-flagellation over events and situations in the past (over which we have absolutely no control) or it races ahead to fear of what might, could or should happen in the future.

Anytime your mind languishes in the past, or races ahead to the future, you’re not present NOW.

Take this test today: set an alarm to ring every hour on the hour. When the alarm rings, immediately stop what you’re doing and write down what’s on your mind in that instant. You may be astounded, in the most unpleasant of ways. This is because we don’t even know what we’re thinking half the time. Thinking is automatic and the mind won’t stop doing it, unless you do something to cause the mind to stop and take a breather.

Determine to become more aware of who you are, what you do, when you do it, how you do it and why you do it by employing these three strategies:

1. MOVE SLOWER…slow down. Slow down. I’ll say it one more time (mostly for my benefit–I can be a Type A who moves at the speed and velocity of a tornado) slow down. The slower you move, the easier it is to be conscious and present NOW.

2. BREATHE DEEPER…Eckhart Tolle (author of The Power of Now and A New Earth) says that whenever you are aware of your breath, you are in the present moment. Make deeper breathing a part of your daily practice, all day, every day.

According to some, the number one indicator of life expectancy is lung capacity.

3. PRACTICE SENSUALLY IMMERSING YOURSELF IN THE MOMENT…feel the temperature on your skin, focus your eyes on what’s in front of you, inhale the fragrances and scents wafting through the air, feel the fibers of your clothing against your skin… Practice using all your senses by immersing yourself in the sensory experience you are having in this moment.

When you master awareness, you’ll drop the nasty little habit of blaming. That’s because you’ll be aware of what’s in your consciousness and you’ll take full responsibility for drawing all like experiences to you, wanted and unwanted. You’ll stop blaming people for being rude and start asking yourself what exists in your consciousness that would attract a rude person. (Get rid of the rudeness in your consciousness and it would be next to impossible for you to run into rude people, and if you did, they wouldn’t affect your happy mood in the least.)

When you’re aware:

You’re awake.

You know who you are.

You know what you do.

You know when you do it.

You know how you do what you do.

And you know why you do what you do.

How do we stay aware? Be breathing and staying present RIGHT NOW, without allowing the monkey mind to ruminate on the past or jump fretfully to the future.

The next step is acknowledgment.

What is acknowledgment?

Glad you asked. It’s the act, art and practice of stating what you do, when you do it. For instance, if you become aware that you have a tendency to blame other people for your stuff, acknowledging it (just before you do it or in the midst of doing it) may sound something like this:

Scenario: You’re trying to get your kids to school on time in the morning and they seem to drag. You yell at them to hurry up! Then you remember your new awareness/acknowledgment/acceptance habit and you say instead:

Kids, I haven’t planned very well this morning. It would have been wise for me to have prepared myself more last night. Now that we’re running late, I wanted to blame you and rush you. That’s not right. I acknowledge that I haven’t planned well or organized myself. I’m now getting feedback from my world on what I need to work on. I’ll be more proactive tonight so we’ll all have plenty of time in the morning to get ready in a relaxed way.

It may not sound exactly like that, use your own words, but please do acknowledge your issues (you don’t have to go around blurting out everything you think is wrong with you). This is a way of life to develop that keeps you out of blame and points your attention to the only place where you can effect real change: in the mirror. Remember, you can only successfully influence and lead others to the degree that you influence, lead and master yourself.

Acknowledgment puts the people around you at ease. After all, you’re not going to blame them for your stuff. Plus, they’ll start to acknowledge their stuff too, and they’ll stop blaming you. When you create a No-Blame Zone around you, life becomes delightful for you and your people.

Acknowledgment requires humility and willingness to check ego at the door and not let it back in the picture, no matter what the other person says. You don’t really care what the other person says anyway; your courageous act of acknowledgment is putting you in a better place in the universal order of things because you’re empowered. When you feel empowered you do what it takes to make a change. That’s what you want!

What’s the role of Acceptance?

Acceptance can be tricky for some because it’s been confused with agreement. Acceptance and agreement are not the same. Acceptance means you’ve found a way to retain your inner peace and calm even in the midst of a situation you don’t like. You accept it by saying “it is what it is”, as you commit to making a new choice going forward. You don’t have to like something or agree with it to accept it.

For example, a husband leaves socks/clothes on the floor (these examples are from my life if you haven’t guessed). In the past, it would’ve been easy for me to get harried and frustrated at the sight of clothes on the floor. I would have badgered my husband about picking up his clothes. I would have sucked my teeth loudly every time I passed them. Not any more. Now, I can walk by an entire laundry load of clothes on the floor and not get perturbed.

I’ve resolved in my heart and mind that it’s just not worth it. He can pick up his clothes or not. Because I no longer get bent out of shape about it, I barely see clothes on the floor.

Hmmmm, funny how that works…

Acceptance means you understand you cannot control another. You can’t force anyone to do, think or say what you want them to without unpleasant repercussions. They will resist being controlled, and you won’t get what you want anyway. It’s just not worth it.

The opposite of acceptance is resistance, fighting what is. What you resist persists. What you fight stays with you, because you’re adding energy to it, albeit negative energy.

Acceptance takes all the fight and resistance out of the picture, allowing the situation to change. Because of your changed and peaceful inner state of being, what you don’t like begins to slip away. There’s no resistant energy to hold it in place.

Try this exercise: pick three things that frustrate, annoy or irritate you (don’t start with something that infuriates you–you can always work your way up to that). Look at each situation, one at a time, and ask yourself:

1. What am I trying to get someone else to do?
2. Is this an issue of control?
3. Am I using manipulation to get my way (though it may be subtle)?
4. This person hasn’t changed this behavior yet, what makes me think they will, or have to?
5. Who died and left me boss?

Then state silently to yourself:

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

IT IS WHAT IT IS AND I AM COMMITTED TO MAKING A NEW CHOICE.

Keep chanting this statement until somewhere in your being you feel a shift toward believing it.

Then release it.

Go about your business and don’t try to get the person to do anything different.

(This process is only for working on issues that cause you no harm.)

If the issue comes up again (which it will–your new commitment will be tested, you can count on that) just continue chanting to yourself:

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

IT IS WHAT IT IS AND I AM COMMITTED TO MAKING A NEW CHOICE.

It’s always helpful to offer a prayer on how to retain your inner peace and calm in the midst of experiencing something you don’t like. Don’t necessarily pray for the thing to be taken away immediately, especially if this is a long standing issue. There’s a lesson here for you, if you’re willing to learn it. And if you don’t learn the lesson now, the lesson will just come back, amplified.

Well, I thought I wouldn’t write more than 1,500 words and here I am at 1,700, so forgive me. I acknowledge that I love to share information and sometimes don’t know when to stop!

I pray you use what’s here to make a radically new choice, one that befits the amazing person you are!

Until next time,

Valerie Love

Tags: acceptance, acknowledgment, awareness, breathe, choice, conscious living, peace of mind, responsibility, transformation

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I’ve studied Kabbalah for years now and oftentimes when I refer to this ancient wisdom school, I hear this question. It appears that more folks would like to know just what Kabbalah is, why it’s effective in dealing with every kind of life disorder I’ve ever seen and where this wisdom tradition comes from.

With that said, I’m taking this opportunity to go deeper into Kabbalah than I’ve ever done before from a teaching perspective, though I’ve written lightly about Kabbalah in my books and shared some of the profound stories this tradition offers.

I’ll do this in a question and answer format, which I think would be most helpful.

Also, I’ll provide lots of resources, including the books I’ve read and the programs I’ve listened to on CD, so that you can go on your very own Kabbalah exploration. This article is intended to bring  you greater awareness  about a powerful tool that can transform your entire world. Let’s get started! I’m excited, are you?

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What is Kabbalah?

Kabbalah has been referred to by Yehuda Berg as Technology for the Soul; it is a way of life, or a way of looking at the world from a completely spiritual perspective, which has transforming power and cuts right to the core of all questions, problems and issues because Kabbalah goes to the source of questions, problems and issues, rather than dealing with symptoms. It is a method of revelation and discovery.

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Is Kabbalah a religion?

No. While Kabbalah is a spiritual path, a way of looking at the world from a spiritual perspective, it is not a religion. And though it is somewhat associated with Judaism, (I call it the mystical side of Judaism) you can enjoy the teachings, tradition and practice of Kabbalah and still practice your religion, whatever that might be. Kabbalah does not conflict with religion, it enhances your unique spiritual walk.

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Where did Kabbalah come from?

From the Hebrew scriptures of the Holy Bible.

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Is there a holy book for Kabbalah? Is so, what is it?

Yes. Kabbalists have a holy book which is called the Zohar. It consists of 23 books, and, according to Yehuda Berg, it is

“a commentary on biblical and spiritual matters in the form of conversations among spiritual masters…In truth, the Zohar is nothing less than a powerful tool for achieving the most important purposes of our lives. It was given to all humankind by the Creator to bring us protection, to connect us with the Creator’s Light, and ultimately to fulfill our birthright of true spiritual transformation.”

This is a brief and most accurate description of the Zohar.

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Where did the Zohar come from?

Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai is the scribe who, as a giant among Kabbalists, over a 13-year period buried himself in the ground each day up to his neck and, using Kabbalistic meditation techniques, reached high levels of consciousness. It is said, that because of his steadfast discipline and faith over many years, he was chosen, ordained and anointed to scribe the Zohar, which is the greatest Kabbalistic text of all time.

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What makes the Zohar such a great text?

There are several reasons.

First, the Zohar was written early in the 2nd century, and at the time, it was wildly out of step with the scientific notions of the day. Back then, folks still thought the earth was flat. The Zohar proclaimed that the earth was spherical. It even spoke of a Big-Bang like explosion which began our universe. It refers to the universe as existing in 10 dimensions. It speaks of parallel universes and even black holes.

Additionally, the Zohar was considered a book of secrets for centuries. Only Jewish males over the age of 40 had access to its teachings. It was a secret teaching from a secret book because of its immense power.

Also, the Zohar is considered to be magical in its life-energizing and life sustaining properties. It is thought that just having the physical books in one’s possession brings about peace, protection, fulfillment, healing and all sorts of spiritual, physical, emotional and mental blessings. The Zohar is highly charged energetically.

The Zohar also has the ability to enlighten minds and hearts just by its presence. It has immense transforming power for our world and for each of us as individual God beings in the cosmos.

Because humankind may not have been ready for the evolutionary leap the Zohar heralds and facilitates, the books (and the Light they emanate) were hidden away for centuries, which is the period in human history we refer to as the Dark Ages. It was found in the 13th century by the Spanish Kabbalist Moses Deleon after being concealed for 1200 years.

Some believe the Zohar to be the original Holy Grail. The symbology of the Holy Grail–the chalice, the Tree of Life, the sword, the stone–is present in the Zohar.

Thankfully, a handful of modern day Kabbalists worked tirelessly to translate the Zohar into English and spread its teachings throughout the world. Now, the concepts of Kabbalah and the contents of the Zohar are simplified and widely taught. A leading educational center for the teachings of Kabbalah is The Kabbalah Centre, located in New York City, with branches worldwide. Now anyone with a desire, hunger and thirst for spiritual understanding can study Kabbalah.

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What are some of the teachings/concepts of Kabbalah?

I’ll talk about some of my very favorite Kabbalah concepts, though this ancient wisdom system is far too complex and compelling to be summed up in a few short paragraphs. I’ll do my best.

1. Kabbalah teaches that the physical senses only perceive 1% of reality, whereas the other 99% percent of reality exists in the spiritual realm and cannot be perceived through the five senses. In fact, our five senses actually act as a barrier to perceiving the 99% Endless World, or the world of Light, where the Creator resides and exercises dominion.

2. The 1% world, which is the physical universe, is ruled by the ego, the human mind as it relates to the five senses.

3. Humans are 99% spiritual beings and 1% physical beings.

4. Whatever our desires are, whether for a new car, a new home, or anything else on the physical plane, we will not be satisfied with obtaining the thing. The actual object has no real relevance to us, as 99% spiritual beings. What we really desire is the energy of the thing, which is its essence in the 99% world. In other words, you’re not buying that brand new Mercedes Benz for more money than a little bit because you love the object. You’re buying that vehicle because of the way its energy makes you feel. Feelings, thought, emotion and any other non-physical, non-local energy is of the 99% Endless World. This non-local energy, according to Kabbalah is called Light. We want the Light in the object, or the Light we think the object will bring us, not just the object itself.

We know (on a Soul level) as 99% spiritual beings, that there is no joy or fulfillment in objects. There is only the joy and fulfillment of what we think the object can do for us, or how it will make us feel, or how we will operate better in the world because we have that object.

No one wants money for money’s sake. You want money because of the Light you think you’ll receive from having money, in the form of freedom to do what you like, generosity in gifting to those you care about, enjoying the experience of taking trips all over the world with no concern for how much anything costs.

Look closely at all your desires. None of them are about what you think they’re about. All of them are about bringing more Light–more of the energy of the Creator–into your physical world.

That’s all humans really want, more Light.

5. We are fulfilled to the maximum when we bring Light into our world by being proactive in how we think, act, speak and treat others. Kabbalah is about becoming more proactive in your everyday experience and less reactive. What does that mean?

It means that you are conscious about how you do what you do, and you know the affect you have on others when you do what you do. And, you are proactively seeking to bring more of the Light of the Creator into this physical world, not just for yourself, but for the whole human race and the entire planet.

That’s a tall order.

And it can be done, with practice, discipline, focus and a commitment to living consciously.

It’s a beautiful walk if you’re up for taking it.

6. All conditions in your world stem from a seed: the seed of thought. Everything, and I mean everything in your physical world reality right now, your car, your house, your paycheck, your income, your bank statements, your clothes, your friends, and EVERYTHING else in your physical world all stems from one source: your thoughts. Your thoughts are the seed you plant into consciousness that brings forth a harvest.

If you don’t like the harvest you’ve created, there’s good news: you can change your seeds, re-plant and harvest another crop, anytime you want.

7. Succumbing to the reactive nature of the ego blocks the Light from entering our physical world and invites chaos in. When chaos comes in (because we have been reactive rather than proactive), it hits us where we are the weakest. If you already have relationship drama, and conflict (also known as ‘conflama’) the chaos will come into your relationship, though you may have  originially invited the chaos in by being rude to a store clerk.

Conversely, when we are proactively living well, gifting to others for the sake of giving (and not to get anything in return), when we’re practicing the mandate to love our brother/sister as ourselves and when we consciously commit to creating a reality that is loving, not only for ourselves, but for the whole world, we invite Light into our world.

The beautiful thing about the Light entering our physical experience is that it comes in where we need it most, not where we think we want it.

It’s all a very beautifully designed and intelligent system of spirituality. Kabbalah is truly a Technology for the Soul.

Though there is much more to Kabbalah than I could ever reasonably write about here in one post, this is the essence of why I love this ancient wisdom tradition so much. It has helped me make spiritual sense of every aspect of my world, even when my world seems to make no logical, human sense.

Kabbalah is a magical, mystical look into the 99% Endless World, the world of Spirit.

Kabbalah is a way of looking at the world that’s proactive and calls each of us to our very best nature. After all, we are Godlings, 99% spirit beings.

I pray this article supports you in creating a more well rounded and fuller spiritual life for yourself, and a better world for all of us.

Happy exploration and discovery!

Valerie Love

P.S. — If you do decide to explore Kabbalah more, here are books I’ve read and which have proven to be transformational for me, and which I highly recommend. Enjoy!

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