Stop thinking your way through life and start feeling it!
I’m sitting under two oak trees in the back mountain country of Santa Barbara. Blue jays and sparrows are talking to each other and I’m feeling happy and grateful for the hike I just finished. When my partner Jeff decided to go on a mountain bike ride and asked if I wanted to come along my feelings were initially torn. I wanted to be with him and have fun in nature but I also wanted to stay at home and follow my desire to write. So I started thinking, how can I do both? Then Jeff came up with the idea for me to come along and go for a hike or small bike ride and then write on one of the...
Read MoreStop Procrastinating, Embrace Change & Get your Taxes Done
This is the time of year. TAXES. Ahhh. Many of you, sensitive creatives & entrepreneurs, may be pulling your hair out just about now. Your whole body is rearing up like a wild horse, resisting to get your taxes done, procrastinating to collect all the information, data and documents needed to finish this unenjoyable task. Maybe this is the first year you have to do business taxes because you just started your first business last year. Congratulations on taking the step to enter the world of creative entrepreneurs! If you are a creative, taxes are just not your thing, but you can do...
Read MoreCreate Intentional Outcomes with Anese Cavanaugh
Anese Cavanaugh is the author of Contagious Culture: Show Up, Set the Tone, and Intentionally Create an Organization That Thrives(McGraw Hill, 11/15). 14 years ago she invented the IEP Method® (Intentional Energetic Presence) and has reached big success using it with leadership groups and individuals. Anese talks about the 3 components of IEP and what happens if you are consistently not present or do not set intentions. Anese and Marilyn also discuss the “superpowers” we all have and what people who are successful and create positive change in and impact the world do...
Read More5 New Habits that will keep you Energized and Focused on Succeeding
Do you wake up dragging or anxious? Do you feel like you are all over the place emotionally throughout the day? Do you easily get distracted and feel confused and end up not getting much done during the day? Is your day filled with worry and fears? Do you jump from idea to idea without a plan and don’t complete projects? If you said YES to any of these you will want to read further. Highly sensitive and Creative people are easily affected by their environment. Learning to manage your energy (as well as keeping other’s energy out – Learn how HERE) is key to building the successful life and...
Read MoreStop Self-sabotaging your Relationships & Career
Do you have BIG desires but don’t seem to be able to make them come fully to life? Do you feel like you’ve been doing all the right things with little or no success? You get to a certain point and then you can’t get past it without sabotaging or going into fight, flight or freeze? Maybe you are not aware that you are doing it? Here are some examples of what I’m talking about: You’re an artist and you won’t share your work (art, music, poetry, photography, book etc.) publicly because you don’t believe it’s good enough and you don’t want people judging you or you are afraid of great success...
Read MoreChange your Mindset through your Experiences
I’ve been home adjusting to the new ME for several days now. I’ve returned from a transformative trip to Cambodia (four days,) a Tribal Trust journey to Bhutan (10 days), and three days in Bangkok. I am still in the middle of assimilating to The new time changes on my return, so I could go to sleep on PST time instead of Bhutan time. The many blessings I received in the temples and the profound peaceful energy of love and happiness I connected to in the temples of Bhutan, the countryside, and with the Bhutanese people who live filled with love, happiness, compassion, and...
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