What is stopping you from being happier and healthier?

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As I sat on a hotel balcony in Honolulu looking at this beautiful view, I contemplated my own life and where I could be happier and healthier. I went through an exercise of being hard on myself first as some of us have a tendency to do. I quickly recognized I was doing this and stepped into the exercise of seeing myself in a year from now and what is it that I want to create for myself.

I realized I had in the past let money determine for quite a while what I can and can not create for myself. I had given money the power to determine if I was going to be happy or be healthy. I had let money determine my relationship with myself and others. I had let money stop me from making decisions in my life that I knew would be the best for me.

I ask you to share what is stopping you from being happier and healthier?

It was once I healed my relationship with money that I truly felt in control of my own life . I was making decisions from a place of what is best for me instead of what I can afford? I chose to make decisions from a place of how can I be healthier and happier. I also chose to just be happy and healthy instead of waiting for everything to be the way I thought it should be. This new place of having a healed relationship with money is so much more fun and easier than constantly worrying.

How did I heal my relationship with money?

a) I started to build a relationship with it by spending time looking at my bank accounts and statements. I also watched my budget more closely.

b) I also changed my mindset of how I felt about it. I started to look at money from a place as if it was my best friend. I started to treat money as I would a best friend.

What would your life look like if you healed your relationship with money? How different would your life be? What would you do that you are not doing now?

If you are ready to shift your relationship with money, check out the Wealthylicious http://wealthyliciousvancouver.eventbrite.com/ event on June 20th and the 4-week Attract More Money and Live Healthier group coaching courses http://wp.me/P1HP20-7M  coming up.

 

 

Exciting Events coming up

June 19th – “Truths and Myths of Successful Startup Businesses” - www.byobfsuccessstartup.eventbrite.ca

Come learn from experts and entrepreneurs on tips on how to have a successful startup.

June 20th – “Wealthylicious Vancouver” - http://wealthyliciousvancouver.eventbrite.com/

Heal Your Money Stories, Activate Your Millionaire Mindset and Create Multiple Streams of Income.

July 8th – “Attract More Money and Live Healthier” - http://wp.me/P1HP20-7M

A 4 tele-call series on Attracting more Money and living healthier focusing on money mindset, and a 30-day action plan to achieve your goals. (A tele-call series is a group coaching program, where you will be provided a conference call number to dial into during call times and will be sent a recording incase you miss the live class. Email support is provided in between calls to answer all questions you may have)

Self-Love: Choose it now!

Photo Credit: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~shiv/inspiration.htm

I spent the last weekend with Amma, the hugging saint that has hugged over 32 million people around the world and WOW, it was once again another blissful and unexplainable experience.

This was my third time being hugged by Amma. I have been very fortunate to have visited her in her home in Amritapuri in Kerala prior to this weekend’s experience (of course she doesn’t remember me from the thousands that meet her each day, but I remember each experience vividly).

As I had geared up for this weekend, I had started noticing the love that I was surrounded by. Love showed up in my life through my family, my friends and strangers who felt like we had met before. Love showed up in my interactions with people whether it be in person, in text message, emails and phone calls. Love felt very presence in my life.

I had began to notice that I was much more open to love now than I have ever been before. I do credit Amma to opening my heart, showing me the pure love that she exhibits and showing me how it felt to be loved. I did notice that there were aspects of me that was not open to be being loved. As I have spent time reflecting on how I can be more in the energy of love, I have noticed this shifting as well.

One of my biggest lessons of the weekend was when I watched her interact with each person that approached her. She gave her undivided attention to each person and to each person, she made them feel special as if they were the only person in the world.

For me, this brought upon self reflection of how I treat myself and others. I came to realize that if I treated myself and others as special as each individual is, how blissful that would feel not only to myself but to them as well. I ask you “how often do you treat yourself as that special someone?” As I was reminded today as we fill ourselves with self-love, the greater the capacity it to love others.

Self-love comes in many forms. Self-love is the talks that you give yourself, the permission to live life the way you want, taking care of your mind, body, and soul on a daily basis and self-love is the relationship with yourself, others, money, body and the universe.

Take the 5 minutes each day to ask yourself:

a) How can I be in the energy of love today? What actions am I guided to take?

b) How am I taking care of my mind, body and soul today?

This quick exercise will allow you to grow that love inside yourself, so your world will become more loving externally.

Exciting Events coming up

June 19th – “Truths and Myths of Successful Startup Businesses” - www.byobfsuccessstartup.eventbrite.ca

Come learn from experts and entrepreneurs on tips on how to have a successful startup.

June 20th – “Wealthylicious Vancouver” - http://wealthyliciousvancouver.eventbrite.com/

Heal Your Money Stories, Activate Your Millionaire Mindset and Create Multiple Streams of Income.

July 8th – “Attract More Money and Live Healthier” - http://wp.me/P1HP20-7M

A 4 tele-call series on Attracting more Money and living healthier focusing on money mindset, and a 30-day action plan to achieve your goals. (A tele-call series is a group coaching program, where you will be provided a conference call number to dial into during call times and will be sent a recording incase you miss the live class. Email support is provided in between calls to answer all questions you may have)

Spending time with others helps with our abundance?

In the next few weeks, there are many exciting things happening in my life including travel and some really inspiring events (I will include links to the inspiring events on the bottom of this post). My travel all transpired organically and very last minute, which reminded me of how when we live in the flow we are easily able to manifest what we want.

I am gearing up to meet Amma in Seattle this weekend (check out my post last year on the purest love I experienced with her-http://bit.ly/12NjYza), then I am off to Hawaii and Fiji! I am living my dream of working off my laptop on an exotic beach;) All of this last minute travel has been teaching me quite a bit about myself especially around my relationship with money and people. I noticed that as I had started to spend quality time with people who I felt uplifted and inspired around, money and opportunities started to flow my way.

Queen of EarthThe Queen of Earth card below from the Angel Tarot Cards shows us how we can create magic all around us if we stay connected to our surroundings, spend quality time with individuals who we leave feeling refreshed and renewed and she especially shows us that bringing in compassion into situations allows us to have positive outcomes to challenges.

Have you realized that when you are happy and feeling healthy, that everything seems to be better? When we are in the flow of life, relationships are better, there is more opportunities coming your way and all your manifestations are coming true. Wouldn’t it be great to feel this way all the time?

It is possible that you can. It is a choice you make to “BE” happy, “BE” content and “BE” present around the people you enjoy spending time with. If you notice diverging from any of these states, ask yourself “am I avoiding intimacy,” or “how do I feel around these individuals?” I will remind you that no one can make you feel any which way, if someone makes us tired or a little negative than we are allowing someone else to determine how we feel. If you notice that you are constantly feeling a little more down around a certain person, ask yourself “what is it that they remind me of that gets me feeling anything less than positive?”

I know that this post is loaded with relationship related questions that we will unpack over the next couple of weeks as we gear up for the 4 part – call series on Attracting more Money and Live Healthier.

I will leave you off with an exercise to visit your current list of family and friends and see who you feel the most refreshed around, rejuvenated and inspired by. I would suggest spending more time around those individuals and watch how much more grateful you are towards life then!

 

Exciting Events coming up

June 19th – “Truths and Myths of Successful Startup Businesses” – www.byobfsuccessstartup.eventbrite.ca

Come learn from experts and entrepreneurs on tips on how to have a successful startup.

 

June 20th – “Wealthylicious Vancouver” - http://wealthyliciousvancouver.eventbrite.com/

Heal Your Money Stories, Activate Your Millionaire Mindset and Create Multiple Streams of Income.

 

July 8th – “Attract More Money and Live Healthier” - http://wp.me/P1HP20-7M

A 4 tele-call series on Attracting more Money and living healthier focusing on money mindset, and a 30-day action plan to achieve your goals. (A tele-call series is a group coaching program, where you will be provided a conference call number to dial into during call times and will be sent a recording incase you miss the live class. Email support is provided in between calls to answer all questions you may have)

Spontaneous or Living from your heart?

Recently, I have been really looking money in the eye to ensure that I will reach my money goals for this year.

For me it was important to recognize what I really want out of life and what steps I will take to get it? In the past, I have done the vision board, the goal setting and intentions but I didn’t always take action as I knew I should. Have you ever been in the same boat too?

To shift out of this planning stage into action stage, I took a few steps that I will share with you here:

1. Looked money in the eye! I looked at my budget and really spent time on analyzing where I was spending a lot of money and where I was investing.

2. I looked at what I wanted out of life and how do I really want to feel. There were a few leaps of faith that I will have to take in order to really achieve all that I want and those leaps would require an investment. I had to ask myself, how ready am I to make an investment in myself? My answer was a resounding very ready!

3. I paniked a little as I didn’t know how I was going to be supported. I also realized that I have always been able to attract money when I needed so how would this time be any different? A friend reminded me that everything that I currently wanted was somehow or the other paid for or I had the money lined up for. I realized quickly I didn’t really need to worry.

The budgeting, settling into the feeling, calling in support and most importantly I devised an action plan of how I would move forward. As soon as I took action in one area, many other things fell into place. Planned and inspired action allows us our biggest rewards. What action are you ready to take right now?

Join me in the 4-week tele-call series “Attract More Money and Live healthier”  starting in July. Are you ready to invest in yourself to step towards creating the life you want? http://wp.me/P1HP20-7M

Stepping into 2013

As we celebrate the holiday season with close family and friends, there is many times we hear “wow the year went by fast.”

How often do you reflect on your celebrations as you set your goals for the new year?

I am lucky as my birthday is in June so I break the year into two parts as a way to celebrate and set my goals for the next half.

In order to support the accountability to myself, I connect with my own coach and mentor to help me stay on track. What support systems do you have in place for yourself?

On December 12, I will be supporting others in a 3 call series (recorded if you are not able to make it live) -”Stepping powerfully into 2013″- https://intoessencecoaching.wordpress.com/upcoming-courses/steppowerfull/. Allow me to support your journey to a more powerful 2013.

Also to support you in moving to next year, here is the recording fot “3 blocks to reaching your goals and moving past them.” http://yousend.it/QNSPZr

Happy journey!

What lessons are you taking with you from 2012?

Daily we learn lessons and have awarenesses as to who we are, what we have learned and what patterns we have. The awareness can come in an easy form where we just get a thought or something happens that we have to think about.

Throughout the year, it is inevitable that you were growing in some area of your life. It may have been subtle or a huge shift that it shifted your world upside down.

Any type of growth and shift is so important regardless of how big or small it is. Sometimes it is the most minor shift that will get us closer to what we really want in our lives.

What were your big or small shifts that helped you shift to a new place? Take 3 minutes to brainstorm what these shifts were. The awareness you are getting by focusing on the shifts will help to further integrate these shifts into your day to day.

 

“Be the CEO of your Joy’

I recently read the lesson “No one else is in charge of your happiness. Be the CEO of your Joy” in the book “God Never Blinks- 50 Lessons for Life’s Little Detours” by Regina Brett. Before I actually read the chapter I decided to go into my own akashic records to see what this lesson means for me. Upon consulting my records, I quickly became aware of my joy is living in reality. There are many illusions that I have created or I have bought into. When I take ownership of my joy, guide myself to more joy, I find myself in a place of growth and expansion and happiness.

There are times where most of us have looked outside ourselves for happiness or joy either from an achievement, friend, partner, money , etc. Ask yourself “where have I looked for joy?”

Are you surprised by this answer? Now remember a time when you really felt happy. What were the circumstances that got you to that state? Was it the fact that a new partner came into your life and you realized how much you had grown as a person? Was it that you committed to yourself and achieved a goal? Notice the statements show you as the owner of your happiness.

I decided to read the book on this lesson. My takeaways were:
1. Ask yourself what truly would make you happy.
2. Choose to be happy
3. Accept and celebrate that you are in charge of your own happiness.

Smile. You are in charge.

Engaged and Motivated in your Business life?

As I sit here at a coffee shop, I am extremely grateful for the fact that I live a lifestyle that allows me to do what I love when I want. I wear many hats and people always remark “Wow, you are busy.” My response back is always the same, it sounds that way but I truly enjoy what I do.

I have created a lifestyle where my different hats are intermixed and support one another. In reality I don’t really feel like I am working most of the time. I am able to use my creative tools in different projects so that I am constantly engaged. I also have created life long friendships with whom I attend events with. This supports me in having balance as we end the night off with dinner or drink.

It is such a pleasure for me to wake up in the morning to be excited about what I will be learning that day or who I am meeting that day. I get to help people fulfill their dreams and it is the best feeling in the world.

I have learnt much through my business career both working at University of British Columbia and as an entrepreneur. I have been able to apply different tools and skills to make situations work for me.

Now I would like to share them with you so that you are able to feel a deeper level of satisfaction in your business and career. I want others to love spending their days doing what they love, building positive relationships and being wealthy.

Join me for the 4 week tele-call series Em”Power”ed in Business on June 20th http://intoessencecoaching.com/services/empower-yourself/

 

*Free Call* 5 Key Ingredients to Em”Power”ment in Business

If I was to ask you how satisfied you are with where you are in your career or business, on a scale of 1-10, what would you answer?

 

Would you like to have more satisfaction out of your business life?

We do spend a good chunk of our lives in careers and business. I know I used to dream of the days where I would love to retire and not work.

Now I feel so satisfied with what I am doing in life, that dream has taken the form of how do  I continue to live a life aligned with my passions.

On this free call on May 29th at 5pm, I will give you the 5 key ingredients to Em”Power”ment in Business. Click on the link below for more information and registration details

http://intoessencecoaching.com/free-call-2/

“See” you on the more em”Power”ed side!

Celebration as you move forward

It comes a time as an individual or an organization where we are pulled to grow. For an individual the time comes when they are faced with an opportunity that will make them step outside their comfort zone. For an organization, it may come when a key individual stands in their truth and makes a decision to move forward.

How do you feel when you are called to step into truth of what your next steps may be? Are you scared, frightened and worried about what others may say? Yes this happens within organizations as well. Organizations have feelings and identities. Many times clients and relationships are built with a person within the organization and not the organization themselves. If the individual decides to leave they may take a part of the organization with them.

For an individual it is important to remember that everything happens for the best. When are given the opportunity to grow, take a deep breath and remember what your strengths are.

For an organization, the management team must stay in a place of open communication, being pro-active and not reactive. The organization should have plans in place to have that key individual’s relationships be introduced to other people in the organization so that the relationship is with the organization and not the person. It is possible to build relationships with organizations, as long as the culture of the organization is collaborative and community building. What is the culture of your organization like?

Step into the next stage of your life with solid foundations based on trust within yourself.

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