Why you should become a blogger
Blogging offers businesses significant benefits that traditional websites do not. Particularly for service professionals such as coaches, therapists, consultants, and writers, blogs can help increase their visibility, free them up from dependence on their web designers, and build relationships with potential clients.
If you’re not sure if blogging is for you, ask yourself these questions:
- Do I want to attract people ready to buy what I have to sell?
- Would I like to be less dependent on my web designer?
- Do I have a storehouse of wisdom and ideas to share?
- Would I like to use my financial resources and time more effectively?
If you answered “yes” to ANY of these questions, learning about blogging needs to be on your “to do” list. Listen to the recording of “What, Me Blog?,” my no-geek-speak teleclass about the power of blogs. I offer specific information about:
- Why a blog is better for business than a regular website
- How to determine if blogging is right for you and your business
- What to do to fast-track your way to blogging success
Listen to the What, Me Blog? Teleclass Recording
Dismantle barriers to abundance in your life
I don’t think most people are truly ready for abundance. Sure, people get excited when they learn about The Secret or they start playing the Prosperity Game. They say they want abundance, yet for many of them, they have unconscious barriers that continue to block out the bounty that’s naturally flowing their way. How do I know this? I know for two reasons:
- I observe it in my clients, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances.
- I experience it myself
Break down your walls of resistance to the prosperity all around you
Below are several critical questions I invite you honestly answer IF you are truly ready to let the ocean of abundance be the sea in which you swim.
- Does the space in which I live and work reflect a nurturing, bountiful universe or does it feel lifeless, stifling, depressing, or overwhelming?
- Does how I treat my body show that I honor my physical self or that I take it for granted?
- Does the way I talk–to others and to myself–honor the life within all beings or do I talk in a way that judges, competes, and disrespects?
- Do my habits, rituals, and celebrations affirm the bounty of life or do they reflect cynicism, entitlement, pettiness, or obligation?
- Does the way I use my money accurately reflect what I value most deeply or simply what satiates me in the moment?
- Do my relationships allow me to be fully loved, honored, appreciated, and adored as my creator would unconditionally accept and affirm me?
- Does my work call forth my unique contributions and my gifts of service?
- Does my first response in any situation show a positive outlook that sees the possibilities or does it show my doubts, fears, or lack of faith?
Whatever we are waiting for–peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance–it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
I would love to know what you think of these questions and even what you discover within your answers. If you’re willing to share in this journey to accepting the abundance all around us, please leave your thoughts in the Comments section below.
Is life’s fast pace stressing you out?
This is from one of my favorite email newsletters (Yes, I still get them and even read them from time to time.). If you’d like to get inspiration emailed to you regularly, I encourage you to visit Steve Goodier’s Life Support System.
Hurry Sickness
One woman tells how she sought to convince her continually harried friend that she needed to find ways to relax. So she gave her a videotape on stress management and relaxation techniques and encouraged her to watch it right away.
Fifteen minutes later, her friend handed back the tape. “It was good,” she said, “but I don’t need it.”
“But it’s a 70-minute video,” the woman replied. “You couldn’t have watched the whole thing.”
“Yes, I did,” her friend assured her. “I put it on fast-forward.”
A major social problem of the 21st Century is Hurry Sickness. We hurry through work by “multi-tasking.” We gulp down fast food. We shop at convenience stores. We lament that we haven’t enough time. We race through the days and weeks until one day we look back in amazement and comment, “My, how the years flew by.” Or until we hit a “speed bump” — like illness — that stops us cold. Then we realize the heavy toll we paid to travel the express lane.
Hurry Sickness. Its symptoms include stress and anxiety, ailing relationships, lowered work performance and numerous physical maladies. Some people don’t survive it.
What is the cure? “For fast-acting relief try slowing down,” quipped comedian Lily Tomlin. But then, perhaps that’s not so funny. Slow down and live, for life is too short to be lived fast, and too precious not to be lived well.
“I have no time to be in a hurry,” said John Wesley. And he accomplished more than most of us ever will! Maybe it’s time to slow down . . . and live well.
So that’s what Steve Goodier has to say on the topic. What do you think about “hurry sickness” and what are you doing to slow down?
Conversations with God. . .coming to you
“This movie is a marvelous illustration of how a life can transform from something so seemingly hopeless to something miraculously good.”
~ Marianne Williamson
If you enjoyed the Conversations with God books, I’m confident that you’re excitedly waiting to see the film based on the books (I am). Well, in February you have a chance to own a DVD of the Conversations with God. This great offer is for anyone who becomes a new subscriber to The Spiritual Cinema Circle, a “club” that provides you with heartwarming, inspirational, and touching movies (that you keep) each and every month. I wrote about the Circle back in December.
New members of The Spiritual Cinema Circle will receive the Conversations with God film as part of the February 2007 DVD which also includes three outstanding short films, plus an additional special bonus DVD (you pay a nominal shipping fee), SOULMATES, which features 6 short films about the magic of relationships and the healing ability of an open heart.
“Brilliantly and poignantly illustrates how life’s greatest gifts can arise in our darkest hours.”~ Debbie Ford
The film Conversations with God details the dramatic journey of a down and out homeless man who inadvertently becomes an unlikely and highly acclaimed bestselling author and spiritual messenger. Adapted from the books by Neale Donald Walsch that inspired and changed the lives of millions worldwide, Conversations with God tells the true story of Walsch who, at his lowest point in life, asks God some very hard questions. Based on the internationally acclaimed book series that has sold over 7 million copies and been translated into 34 languages, Conversations with God is now a major feature film.
Join The Spiritual Cinema Circle in February. Pay just the minimal shipping fees with your subscription and have your very own copy of Conversations with God. (These are affiliate links. The main website is spiritualcinemacircle.com.)
Is perfectionism your prison or your past?
Nneka who hosts the Balanced Life Center blog recently wrote Diary of a Reforming Perfectionist–a 
piece which reminded me of someone I know. Though I use the terms “recovering perfectionist,” I’m glad to know that others are setting themselves free from the prison of imagined perfection.
In my past I didn’t even know “being perfect” was what I was trying to do. My family called it “being good,” “doing your best,” or “being a good girl,” yet somehow what I interpreted was that my best needed to be the best. The other malady I suffered from in earlier life was people pleasing–doing all that I could to “make” other people happy (You know that’s not in our power, to make others happy, right?). So when I put all my habits in a row, I was a people pleasing perfectionist which looks really good on the outside, unless I was doing something better than you, in which case you called me names.
The problem of course is that what looks good on the surface isn’t always healthy deep down. My first step in popping the bubble of perfection (and people pleasing) was to simply realize what I was doing (making myself crazy). From there on it was practice, practice, practice in choosing new behaviors–not because I was trying to get it “right” but because I really wanted perfectionism and people pleasing to be relics of my past rather than realities of my present and future life.
If this piece has struck a chord with you (perhaps because you know the same song), drop me a line or leave your comments about what’s helped you extricate yourself from the perfectionist, people pleasing prison (or whatever cage into which you used to force your soul).
