Living Your Purpose

Right relationship is about balance, health, and sustainability. It’s also about service–how we help the world with the power we have.
I’m talking about our personal relationship to money–not how the world economies should treat money, but how we personally can come into alignment with the spiritual nature of money.
Money has a spiritual nature?
The truth is [...]

People are attracted to truth. If you want people to follow you, stand for something. Stand for something you believe is true and good, and make your business reflect that.
Write a credo, a manifesto. Why are you in business? What matters to you?
And then demonstrate it.
For example, let’s say you do massage.
You credo might sound like [...]

The general idea is this: we are a conduit for Divine energy/purpose to manifest. We are channels, we are the mouthpiece, we surrender, we hand it over, and we become part of something much larger than ourselves. We are fulfilled and happy, and everything is glorious.
All good. Really.
But you MUST take care of your human [...]

“Prosperity consciousness” is usually associated with material abundance. But there is a subtle poverty that is deeper than the scarcity people feel around money (although they are related). And no “abundance” strategy will heal it if it isn’t dealt with first.
We often live with daily emotional and spiritual scarcity. We don’t feel like enough.
We don’t feel [...]

Completing a major project (or job, or other major part of your life) and letting yourself move on involves:

recognizing that you are “done”
giving yourself permission to be “done”
actually completing the thing

When and why is it hard to recognize and accept when you are done?

If you think you ought to not be done yet.
If you thought [...]

I’ve been going through my books as part of a de-cluttering jag. I found this one – which I loved when I read it and I now think I need to re-read. It’s called The Renaissance Soul “Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One”.

Does the thing you are doing, even [...]

I’ve just had a revelation.
I’ve been feeling all BLAH about this blog, and about writing in general, and trying to figure out why do I write anyway.
I think what happened is I briefly got caught up in the whole blogging-twittering-”internet famous”-popularity-contest aspect of blogging. Which can be fun and all (I guess), but what seems [...]

I did a vision board workshop with Kaya last weekend, here is what I made:

It is sort of a progression as you start at the bottom and go up.
The theme is summed up in the statement in the middle – “The seeds of our inner light and vision germinate as the darkness begins to wane.”
This [...]

I subscribe to a daily quote about the Law of Attraction and this morning it was:
 We would like you to release the word “achieve” or “earn” from your vocabulary and from your understanding, altogether, and we would like you to replace those words with the word “allow”. You’re wanting to allow your Well-being, not achieve [...]

A year or so ago I made a document called “My Heart’s Desire”, and listed what I wanted out of life. I just came across it and decided to update it.
I’m struck by the difference. The one I made before focuses a lot on what I want to get. And they are mostly things I [...]

The ability to walk forward without knowing exactly what is around the corner is essential to creativity and growth.

I think prosperity boils down to two things:
1. Knowing who you are, what you want from life, and what you have to offer.
2. Offering yourself to the world with love.
When we’re doing both, things are good. We are aligned with our inner self, and with the laws of the Universe, and prosperity happens naturally.
But getting [...]

Several years ago someone I had recently befriended declared me an artist. Not directly, but in passing, she mentioned our “artistic connection” and how important it was to her. I immediately protested, because my picture of an artist was someone who painted and sold art in galleries and maybe went to art school. But she [...]

Why do affirmations get a bad rap? I think for two reasons: people use them in a way that seems fake, or they try to force positivity over a negative situation.
I don’t use them that way. I have found them quite useful, but only if used with certain understanding in mind, which is that they [...]

I don’t make commitments from my mind alone. I always check in with my soul.
Mind-only commitments lead to ego-commitments rather than soul-commitments. For instance, I’ve tried making a commitment to making a certain dollar figure per month or year. It just doesn’t work for me. Because I’m not really committed to it. And no amount [...]

Employed people from time to time tell me something like this: “My job sucks. I have to work all the time. No one appreciates me. Maybe I should start my own business. Oh, but I don’t know. My job pays pretty well. And I have benefits. Maybe I should just be happy with it.”
If this [...]

Today I am all about this book: Now, Discover Your Strengths. It comes with a passcode that lets you take their online test that identifies your 5 key strength areas (make sure you buy a new copy as the passcode can only be used by one person, and while you’re at it get the new [...]