As a business owner I also have had a hard time marketing myself in the past. Thankfully, this has changed and I now not only fully enjoy it but also play with it. In the meantime, take the opportunity from the Shift Network that is offering yet another powerful event.
I want to invite you to tomorrow’s free teleseminar on “5 Keys to Giving Your Gift to the Shift (How to Feel Good about Marketing Yourself and Make a Great Living Doing What You Love!)”.
The call is this tomorrow, Tuesday, January 31st, and features top conscious business leaders and marketing experts — Lisa Sasevich, Alexis Neely, Lisa Cherney, Michele PW and George Kao — all sharing their proven methods for getting your gift out there in an authentic, non-salesy and successful way.
This free call is an opportunity for you to take your business or soul work to the next level. Learn how you can enjoy the process of marketing yourself, and make an abundant living while you’re doing what you love.
You can sign up even if you can’t attend live, and you’ll be sent the recording. You can register here for free.
Hi everyone, I wanted to let you know about the new Winter of Wellness Summit – another great free virtual quality event from The Shift Network that helps empowering you with practical tools and inspiration to create true wellness in all areas of your life!
You’ll hear world-class pioneers Joan Borysenko, Bernie Siegel, Harville Hendrix, Dan Millman, Marianne Williamson, John Gray, Bruce Lipton and many more experts sharing their latest insights, practices, tools and advice for your optimum health.
Here are some tools you can use with and outside of coaching. Some of them are free, some of them are available for purchase.
Meditation. Here is a topic that is so often misunderstood. While some view meditation in the strict sense of Zen Buddhist, rigid, static, striving for that illusive spontaneous self, other see a way to relax. The bottom line is that meditation helps you connect back with your self, take scope and regroup. It’s a must for anyone wanting to reclaim their runaway life and none other than high up successful executive and business owners know its merit all too well.
You can start simply on your own by devoting 15 minutes every day by yourself, with yourself. Find a secluded spot in your home. If you can, buy yourself something to shield any lights away from from you. I found MindFold to be particularly effective and anyone can actually build one from scrap. You can also use noise cancelling headsets, such as Boses Quiet Comfort or others. Once comfortably seated, close your eyes, and start by observing yourself. Observe your breath. Don’t be disturbed by thoughts coming into to your mind. Simply, in a detached way, let them slip away. They are not you, nor do they define you. The are just thoughts.
Binaural Beats: Binaural beats are interesting and for those who have been reading this blog, I wrote a little about it a year or so ago. What they do is put a tone in one ear and another one, slightly off-tune in the other in order to balance both hemispheres. This allows you to go into deep states of relaxation, meditation and even concentration.
The Monroe Institute pioneered this type of work and perfected it over the decades. Their CDs are available. Mark Certo hails himself as a sonic alchemist and worked closely with the Monroe Institute. His CDs called The Tranquility Training Method (TTM) are fantastic and I’ve particularly enjoyed them.
Soul Contract Reading. The new tool I added for my practice is called Soul Contract Reading. The system, also called the Holy Numerology of Moses goes back to millennial and has been “reintroduced” in order to facilitate this forward momentum the human race is experiencing. By phonetically translating each letter to its Hebrew equivalent, a number and “energy” is given and put on a chart. This charts helps you understand why your life works the way it down and how to make full use of it. My initial reading was so fascinating and intense, I felt this would be an amazing tool for coaching.
Listening to your heartbeat is very helpful, so is your breath. After sometime, you will find that inner peace many speak of. In these states, everything becomes relative and problem solving is done with great ease.
Those are the basic free, if not at least affordable techniques anyone can use. Still, nothing replaces a certified, professionally trained Coach.
The title should really be: How Corporate America Went Wrong, shifting attention from customers to investors.
The gist is the difference from a few decades ago with how major corporations conducted their business and now is striking. Ultimately, their ever tightening relationship with investors has shifted their focus away from the essential client base. It’s easy to understand why companies act the way they do, when they pay more attention to investors instead of the customers who buy their products, services go down.
It’s natural for companies to need more money and turn to investors. Consumers should benefited from this. But companies saw they could have more profits and headed down the wrong road by relying too much on investors, giving them too much leverage. The result over the 80s and 90s was that companies courted investors more than their current base clients, alienating themselves. It’s a naive representation, but its makes the point.
It’s a tricky line between spending time and energy on your clients, while seeking investors. Investors can bring the much needed extra cash for a company but they come in with demands, sometimes without understand the business. Case in point, the 12 billion dollars IPO for Groupon is hardly justifiable.
So What Can Be Done? It will be difficult for corporations worldwide to come back to intelligent management, while rebuilding a sustainable way forward. If a company focuses on customer service, which has been on a constant deterioration for the past decades, while showing investors it is taking care of business, it will win both.
Why has Apple done so well with only 15% of the smart phone market share? Its cultures is translated into its products. It walk the fine line (so far) between being innovative, delivering quality products that are needed and listening to what customers want. Who cares about a fraction of the market when you pay a premium for products that work better than the competition?
What Can We Do? The most important role will come from consumers who need to exercise intelligently their use of their credit cards. By buying form the smaller, yet more competitive company that offers the same service with better products and who still vies for your attention is one way of keeping competition alive. It sends the message loud and clear to those companies who cater too much to investors demands that go against their customer base. In other words, once it gets too big, choose another company! We wouldn’t have monopolies and little to no use for laws against them.
Why am I writing this? First, I came to the US in the 70s when it was business treated you very, very differently. Second, I’ve been through a few weeks of dancing to the tune the corporate futility. My Internet provider speed was well below advertised. As I started shopping around, it was clear Verizon, the only other “choice” didn’t have a user friendly site where you could get all the information needed before buying. I guess they think I will just buy without checking the competition out. As I started shopping for a new cell phone, I went through a similar rigmarole with the big three, and found Metro PCS to offer the best bang for your buck. See here for this story.
I’ve also been motivated seeing the increasing complexity around internet services. Apple’s current services is nothing compared to what we’ve come to expect form them. iTunes had one department that didn’t speak to the Mobile Me one who had no contact with the online store. I ended up with 3 accounts, an iTunes, website accounts, Mobile Me and a series 1 iPhone that would loose passwords forcing me through a series of futile and utterly frustrating procedure of resetting my password. To add to it all, none of these passwords could be the ones I used in the past year… You know why, right? Security! Certainly, this is not what we expect from Apple and I am no criminal.
And the list goes on and on as America finds itself like a young teenager at the end of a big bash with a buzz and wanting more without knowing how, desperately clinging to how it used to be. It is safe to say, little to no corporations have given any thoughts as to: “What if our product doesn’t sell?”. Microsoft invented decades ago the reach out, embrace and choke approach which eventually sterilized competition. And putting myself in their shoes, I can almost understand these people running those corporations. They have gone through school that give high degrees based on template solving. And why not? After all, it’s the next CEO’s problem…
In the meantime, you have a desperate political scene fighting for relevancy giving us two clear message. The government will take care of you, on the one hand and work more, on the other. How about we reclaim our power. which we temporarily gave away?
In the meantime, you can watch this if you need courage, you’re not alone…
I’m very happy to announce that we are now offering a free reading for you specific Soul Contract for those of you who have subscribed to the bog. We will open the reading to everyone else at a later date.
The gist is I came upon Soul Contract when Nicolas Ngan at Center for Conscious Ascension gave me a reading which was both profound and so uncanny, it picked my curiosity enough to learn how to do it. After a few months of intense studying (and I mean INTENSE!), I would like to open the reading to a select few of you who have signed up for this blog.
What Is Soul Contract? Soul Contract is an ancient holy tool called the Numerology of Moses. In essence it is a direct Spirit, Life, The Source, God or whatever you feel more comfortable calling it given to humanity in order to accelerate our development by reading what we have chosen to experience with our lives here on Earth.
What Can You Expect? The reading will take about 20 minutes and will touch upon the major parts of your life, why you have chosen this life and to accomplish what. You will then have a better idea who why you are the way you are, how to turn anything in your life into a positive tool and better realign yourself to your original goal.
Soul Contract reading is a great tool for Coaching. It takes a direct look at what we signed up to do and experience before birth, what can we do to achieve it and how. It is my hope you will take the opportunity to try it. I’m sure you will derive as much as I have.
I could have used a more pompous title but after living decades with this little book and having met some of the most amazing people related to it, The Kybalion is truly a priceless life guide.
The gist is far away from the controversy of who wrote it, the book is inspired by ancient hermetic philosophy and does a good job at synthesizing its basis. Simplistic on the surface, overwhelming when you realize its complexity, The Kybalion is the perfect guide for those who have dabbled with esoterics but have gotten lost in the often contradicting paths. In many ways, it is the unifying glue. So what is it anyway?
All Is Mental. With such a powerful underlying axiom, The Kybalion clearly sets the fundamental basis that all is mental. Period. After you have wrapped your head neatly around this concept, the rest falls into place.
The Seven Principles. And therein starts to unfold the amazing Universe of hermetics and how these “ancient” ones had either unfolded life’s mysteries or had been taught its whys. The seven underlying principles are down to earth, observable facts that have far reaching consequences, beyond our plane of existence.
THE PRINCIPLE OF MENTALISM.
THE PRINCIPLE OF CORRESPONDENCE.
THE PRINCIPLE OF VIBRATION.
THE PRINCIPLE OF POLARITY.
THE PRINCIPLE OF RHYTHM.
THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT.
THE PRINCIPLE OF GENDER.
The Secret. By now, some of you might liken The Kybalion to the famous movie; The Secret. Yes, The Secret borrows heavily on The Kybalion and more with Napoleon Hill’s work, as with the Abraham-Hicks books, yet The Kablion stands on its own. There are no Kybalion schools, temples, nor masters, and teachers, at least to speak of. Beware of those pretending to be. Hermetics starts with observations and is a lonely road until you meet like-minded students. As said in the book, never equaled, much copied, it has never been surpassed. There might be schools pretending to be Hermetic, but the real masters shy away from the public.
It can take some time to understand and live the philosophy expounded in The Kybalion. It takes a lot of observation, freed from bias, almost in a practical scientific way. This is what appealed to me most with hermetics. It’s the bridge between science and esoterics, the way it should be taught and never been separated. But then again, things happen for a reason and this separation has probably taught us that all is indeed one.
Read the book once and put it away. Give it no more thoughts. Come back to it later. Months, even years and start to see how the Principle of Mentalism applies to everything around you. See how what you and others think affects the world around you. Find the clever subtlety in that statement. Then tackle the next, the Principle of Correspondence and write a comment or two to share to the wealth of what has already been built upon this marvelous little book.
I’m excited to let you know that The Shift is about to start another powerful free teleseminar with celebrated evolutionary leader Barbara Marx Hubbard and transformational meditation teacher Patricia Ellsberg on The Shift from Ego to Essence.
You will most likely greatly benefit from this call in which they will reveal the keys to shifting from the egoic “local self” to the Essential Self — giving access to divine guidance and the ability to live with grace, confidence, creativity, purpose and joy — particularly needed in these times of great change. A much needed quality to develop these days.
It’s happening this Monday, November 21st, at 5:00pm Pacific / 8:00pm Eastern! Don’t worry if you can’t make it live — you can register and you’ll be sent a link to the recording.
I’m happy again to invite you to another top leader summit, the Global Oneness Day on Monday October 24th!
It’s a one-day virtual telesummit featuring 40 inspiring thought leaders such as Ambassador Chowdhury, Neale Donald Walsch, Gangaji, Kenny Loggins, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Lynne McTaggart and many more for free.
You can gain access to these leaders, October 24th, or by recording, and be part of groundbreaking sessions that offer profound insights for creating your life and our world based on the principles of oneness.
What Is Global Oneness Day? Global Oneness Day is an opportunity to connect deeply with a global community of changemakers and heart-centered people. You’ll learn practical steps and actions you can take that will benefit your life and help create a culture of Oneness.
I admit, I love social media and I get it. It’s fun, can be a great tool and of course, it’s not very well used most of the time.
The gist is social media is great. The varieties of social media channels available cater to almost every type of businesses. The trick is what do you want to use it for and to do what?
IBM Survey. IBM had an interesting survey of global companies where CEOs said their biggest difficulty is information management and second, social media. It turns out companies know how to market to the mass but not to individuals. Companies spend a lot of money advertising to groups of people but they are not good at reaching out and hearing to individuals.
So how do you reach out to individuals? How do you get individuals to tell you what they want?
It’s not very difficult if you offer something needed and worthwhile. You need to compete for 5 to 10 minute attention from individuals who are overwhelmed with a hectic pace of life leaving little time to stop and think. What makes your question or offering appealing to them? It’s what you offer. It can be as simple as giving them enough attention to express themselves, something they would like to see or have, something that would actually make their life easier. Intrigue them, put out reports, let them ask, and ask back, what should the company provide them. There is plenty to offer but the key is to offer something they need and can use.
In the meantime, social media is a fun game you can tweak to serve your broadcast platform. It will not work if all you do is tell people to check out your site or your product. If you don’t get personal, you won’t get much out of it and be just another sales pitch drowned in a sea of look alike.
So here are some questions to get you going; What is social media? What does it me to use social network? What is networking? Why use it and to what end? After this go talk to your coach and if you don’t have one, reach out I can help you.
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