the goddess notebook

Briefcase Goddess - Quick Start Series - #3

Good morning!

 

Tonight marks the third (and last!) session of our Briefcase Goddess Quick-start Series and the chance for you to celebrate the NEW.

 

Perhaps new habits you have incorporated into your life.

Perhaps new insights you have gleaned over the past 21 days.

Perhaps new ways to have fun and BE more feminine.

Perhaps a new awakening for you to go deeper into this work.

 

Whatever new things you wish to celebrate, bring this gem to the call tonight.

 

Another fantastic  question came in late last week:

 

"When your spouse is in the "negative" mode or even business partners, what techniques do you recommend us Goddesses to use to help keep us in our Goddess mode? I find myself slipping throughout the days just due to the negative energies that I am surrounded in."

 

This is a GREAT question and in fact, forms the basis of our session tonight.  Stay tuned for SEVERAL things you can do in these exact scenario!

 

Remember that tonight we are extending this call for those who can squeeze another 30 minutes away from kids, dogs, work or pressures for anyone who desires some laser coaching or lively question and answer period.  The regular call will still be contained within the 60 minutes so you want miss the 'main' content, just the bonus if you cannot stay on the call.  Of course, the whole kit and kaboodle will be recorded so as to not miss a thing.

Tonight's topic:    

                  

BEing a Goddess Session 3 – Living Happily Ever After (even if your goddess hat slips!)

 

 

Being a Goddess - Quick Start Series - Part 2

The Art of Knowing and Asking for What you Want 

 Yep.  This is where we delve into the language of the goddess and how to speak those desires so fabulously stirred up with our fun heartwork.

 Bring your best fun gems and your open heart to the call this evening.

If possible, take a breath (or a candle lit bath!) and slip into our virtual room a few minutes before the hour so we can start right at six and drink every drop of our time together.

Heartwork for the week

BE Clear.  How can you manifest what you want if you do not know what that is?  Spend some time this week doing the 'clarity through contrast' exercise Jenny spoke of.  Or if you are inspired, buy Michael Losier's Book The Law of Attraction and make as many lists as you have desires using his template.  As the goddess Jennifer so beautiful shared, "it is all about just being open and honest about what I want".  Her clarity got her lunch with 75 million dollar clients!

BE Grateful.  The power of gratitude is not to be underestimated.  Like fun only with more depth.  Allow yourself to swim in gratitude this week ensuring you find time each morning and before you go to bed to express, feel or just BE grateful.  For something.  Feel it in your heart.  Smile.  Then see what happens and of course, report back to the group!

are you in love?

It's February.
LOVE month.

Oh the expectations around good 'ol Valentine's Day!  Whether you love it and hate it, there is definitely no escaping that it is coming.  Everywhere you turn, there are suggestions of ways to express your love.  Hearts  on coffee cups, red balloons, chocolates galore and of course, roses.  But in the spirit of Tina Turner, "what does love got to do with it?"

Not so much.

I don't know about you, but my relationship is not made nor broken by how we spend Valentine's day.  Neither one of us thrive under the pressure of this Hallmark day.  My husband spends all day wrestling with what to do or buy for me and gets all stressed out about even finding the time to buy a card.  I am no better shape at my end.  I try and think up something we might do different or exciting or sexy and usually end up doing the same old thing or hoping my husband surprises me with a blow-me-away plan.  Either way, who needs the stress?

Instead of using February to remind me to BE in love all month.   Not just with my husband but the rest of my life too.   Be in love with my clients (easy!), be in love with my current level of fitness (a work in progress), be in love with my children, my family, my friends, my colleagues (yum!) and be in love with things that are less easy to appreciate.  Like paperwork.  Like making lunches.  Like moving forward with a business plan with ease and simplicity so that every day does not feel like 'work'. 

That feels like LOVE.

How about you?

To BEing in love.
B

what sandboxes are you playing in?

I simply love this question because sandboxes immediately take you to a place of play.  A place of child-like wonder.  A place of creativity and a place of having fun.  When we apply this idea of being playful, creative and fun to our "work", well you start to get an idea of where this idea is going.  What if our work felt like hanging out in a sandbox?

I think that would be a good thing but how easy is it to put into practice?

We often hear that work should feel like play but I often catch myself separating the two.  Getting some work done and then planning some play.  Or having some play and then getting 'back to work'.  Either way, I often do not see them as co-existing partners that might happen at the same time.  But what If I could?  What if we all could?

Sounds kind of...well...fun!

Consider trying the following exercise...

Step 1: Make a little list.

List your most important realms of your life (family, career, money, health, relationships, spirituality etc...) and give them your personal sandbox rating between 1-10 (1 being no fun being had here and 10 an over-the-top fun zone)

Step 2: Get a little curious.

Notice which areas seem to boast a particularly low sandbox score and pick three you would like to raise the fun factor in.

Step 3: Inject a little fun.

A sandbox isn't complicated and neither should your life be.  Start small.  Pick one thing you could do that would add some playfulness in each of your three most important areas to you and watch what happens.  Hint: the more outrageous the fun you inject, the more noticeable your results!

With all the press about The Secret and The Law of Attraction these days the phrase "everything is energy" is becoming the new buzz words but we can get awfully serious about this manifestation stuff.  I know I can for sure and chances are I might have some company in this arena.

I hope you join me.

Consider this your official invitation to get out your bucket and think of your whole life as a  bunch of sandboxes you get to play in. 

Everyday you choose to.

together is better

There is something that happens when women gather together that is just good.  Whether it be for food, for wine, for exercise or going to the bathroom, it is just more fun with a friend.  And particularly if that friend is a woman.

This, I notice, is also true when woman decide to grow.

On Monday, I launched a new briefcase goddess - aka women who work - coaching group, and on the call was a representative from eastern Canada, western Canada and all the way to Nebraska.  Far flung goddesses geographically but connected in a mutual quest to have lives of joy, lives of purpose and lives that are easy.

Easy is good.

Joy is fantastic.

My wish for all woman is that they have both and the easiest way I know to having it is by being connected.  Today, I am grateful for the connections I have. My family, my friends, my colleagues, my clients, the animals in my charge and for the amazing world of technology that makes it possible for me to stay connected. 

Hurray for Google, gmail, ichat, webmail, telus and typepad!

PS

If you want to get connected to a group of briefcase goddesses, contact me.  You are welcome at our next virtual gathering.

the art of joining

The art of gender synergy is not always easy.  It falls in line with the four levels of competency.  There is level one - unconcious incompetency.  That's where you don't know what you are doing and you are completely (for some blissfully) unaware that you do not know what you are doing.  But we evolve.  We then move to level two - concious incompetency.  The place where we still do not know what we are doing and very aware of it.  Committed to getting to competency.  That's level three - conscious competency.  It feels good to arrive at level three.  You have done the work, you know the steps and you can apply the system to get the results you want.  And then one day you realize you no longer have to think about it.  Kind of like riding a bike. All of a sudden, you can just ride and you do not have to think abut what the left and right foot needs to do.  Everything is flowing effortlessly.  This is level four - unconscious competency.  So what does all this have to do with gender synergy?  In a word, everything.

I have a business partner who is a man.  Gender synergy is critical to the success of our partnership.  In order for us to create over-the-top results, he has to BE masculine and I have to BE feminine.  When we hang out in our natural states of BEing, he then starts DOing masculine things - creating systems, finding solutions and making tangible results happen.  This then takes all the pressure off the feminine (in this case me) to DO that masculine stuff, allowing creativity, inspiration and appreciation to flow out of me and birth great things that he can systemize all over it again.  We have created many magical ventures this way and once we realized we had a formula here that worked we decided to write a book about it (the briefcase goddess: the working women's guide to success).  It's sub, sub title could really be, the art of joining but for now it is just a chapter.

The art of joining is when two people create a mutually desired result using the prinicples of gender synergy.  It is a system in which you activate clarity and connectness to create magic.  It does not matter what kind of magic you wish to create - more clients, more business, more health or more happiness, the magic happens because both people agree to clear any big fat ego hairy thought that is getting in the way of us BEing our true selves and showing up in our natural states.  Sometimes it takes recognizing you have slipped back into level two - conscious incompetency.  You know you are there because things start feeling like work and usually your prosperity starts slipping away simultaneously.  Hurray for consciousness though because upon realizing this, you can then head straight back up to level three ('cause you know the system!) and start being consciously competent and before you know it, you are making magic happen without thinking about it.

This happened on Tuesday.  My partner and I recoginzed that we had somehow slipped into level two (always a blow to your ego when you realize that you are acting less enlightened that you are!).  We cleared, we connected and within 24 hours we had four new clients.

Sound too easy? It's not.