Years ago I became acutely aware that our actions in the present set the stage for all our future circumstances. Some people know it to be “karma”, or the Universal Law of Cause and Effect. I believe understanding and appreciating this dynamic at play in our lives is at the core of living a conscious, enlightened life. I’ve seen this cause and effect manifest instantly and at other times, it shows up months or years later. But it’s there nonetheless. For instance, someone who is regularly disrespectful to those around him cannot expect to be treated with much respect himself or at least won’t be able to see it even if it is happening to him. The same actions are true with regard to money, love, and success.
With this knowledge, I’ve committed to living more responsibly and impeccably in the present –and to always be in the present – and know that I’m paving the way for a more joyful and abundant future. Especially as it relates to Business. When I’m working with clients, my “secret sauce” is to balance business knowledge with Universal knowledge so that true success can be realized more effortlessly. I’ve watched my clients become magnets for money relationships and resources while having a lot more fun.
There are actions we can all take each day in our business to set the stage for more respect, love, joy and financial abundance to flow into our own lives. For those that have a 401K plan established in their life, you know that it requires small, regularly scheduled contributions to reap the rewards later on. Same with your Karma-01K plan. If you take the time each day to make a deposit into your “Good Karma” account, you’ll have a wonderful cushion of support to fall back on. Unlike your traditional 401K Plan however, you can begin reaping the rewards immediately and there are no early withdrawal penalties. Think of all the wealth you’ll accumulate with simple daily deposits.
Here are just a few of mine...please share yours as well!
1. Invest some of your time and money in those who are coming up behind you.
2. Look for ways to collaborate with a competitor.
3. Tell your team how much you appreciate them.
4. Reduce waste, conserve energy and recycle as much as possible.
5. Take a day off once in awhile to recharge “just because”.
6. Make it easy for others around you to do the same.
7. Give gifts for no reason.
8. Volunteer with a charity organization dedicated to improving quality of life.
9. Create a community project that your team, customers and vendors can get involved with.
10. Set aside products or services to regularly give away for fundraising activities.
11. Offer to write an endorsement or letter of recommendation for someone before being asked.
12. Let someone’s boss know what a great job their employee did.
13. Give something away to a prospective customer.
14. Connect two people who you know should meet.
15. Back away from profit activities that exploit or take advantage of others.
To discuss next steps to creating spiritually rewarding and financially abundant businesses, email simone@passion2prosperity.com for a private consultation.
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Managing Change Around You
During our holiday trip to NYC, we went downtown to visit the site where the World Trade Center once stood. They’re currently working on a memorial at the site and I wanted to check on the progress. I visited St. Paul’s Chapel and Cemetery, just across the street from where the Twin Towers once stood. Built in 1766, it was quite a miracle that the Chapel was spared destruction on 9/11 and many said it was because it had a very important purpose to serve. Turns out, it would be needed to provide shelter to the thousands of rescue workers in the days that followed. They all came to seek solace, take a nap, or have a meal there for the next several months. I never tire of the stories of the amazing human spirit that were told from the Chapel.
My lesson learned here is that there is a purpose for everything that happens in the grand scheme of things and while we may not be able to change what’s happening, we’ll ALWAYS be able to change our experience of it. With so many people and businesses in transition right now, I thought it would be helpful to share some of my recommendations for creating a more positive experience in all your dealings:
1. Refrain from taking immediate action with a confused mind. If you’re not sure what next steps are, sometimes the best thing to do is to be still. Breathe, take time to get grounded and allow your mind to quietly contemplate what’s ahead rather than jump into action just to stay busy. It’s time for a new perspective. Working in chaos only produces more chaos.
2. Start choosing differently. Do you have a predictable response when confronted with something unpleasant? Is it serving you or does it cause more harm than good? If you’d like for things to shift in your life, start choosing a different response. Pay attention to all your reactions and ask yourself if this is how you really want to show up?
3. Allow others to support you. It may like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders but you’re never really alone. Don’t be embarrassed or ashamed to speak up and ask for help. It’s a sign of a responsible leader, not of weakness.
4. Follow your heart, always. Make decisions based on what it is you truly want and what’s in your best interest. As if you’re protecting a child. Don’t make decisions from a place of fear, obligation or based solely on what others think is best for you.
5. Know yourself. We get so caught up in our business, it’s easy to lose track of our authentic selves, especially when times are challenging. Know what you stand for, what is most important to you, what makes you happy and most importantly who you really are without all the titles, money, and possessions.
6. You’re having learning experiences, not failures. Life is about growing, learning and evolving so don’t be so hard on yourself with the decisions you make. Keep learning and moving on without judgment. New opportunities present themselves quickly the less detached we are to the past.
7. Maintain a high vibration. A positive, hopeful attitude is crucial to attracting what it is you truly want. One way to do that is to put yourself in a state of continual gratitude for what it is you do have. Don’t suppress any feelings of fear or sadness or whatever else comes up but continue to stay with the gratitude to maintain your vibration.
8. Focus on what it is you do want. Situations shift constantly and rather than be consumed by a scenario you don’t want such as declining sales or lack of resources, continue focusing on the exact scenario you want to create in your life and business. You’ll get there so much faster
9. Know who your core customers are. If you’re in business, you’ll find things are shifting quickly these days as consumer trends change, people react to the economic forecasts, etc. If you truly know who you’re serving in your business, you’ll be able to innovate quickly and always come up with the right solutions for them.
10. Take inspired action. As you slow down to contemplate next steps, new opportunities, options and people will begin showing up in your life. Pay attention to all of this because these are the very answers you’re praying for. Also know your new solutions may not look anything like what you’re used to so I recommend being open and evaluating every opportunity.
~Maria Simone is a dynamic speaker, author, and transformational business strategist. As the “Passion To Prosperity Diva”, http://passion2prosperity.com ,she helps entrepreneurs package and monetize their talents to create 6 and 7 figure businesses. She’s appeared on ABC News, Fox TV, and in Business Week, Success Magazine, and many other publications.
My lesson learned here is that there is a purpose for everything that happens in the grand scheme of things and while we may not be able to change what’s happening, we’ll ALWAYS be able to change our experience of it. With so many people and businesses in transition right now, I thought it would be helpful to share some of my recommendations for creating a more positive experience in all your dealings:
1. Refrain from taking immediate action with a confused mind. If you’re not sure what next steps are, sometimes the best thing to do is to be still. Breathe, take time to get grounded and allow your mind to quietly contemplate what’s ahead rather than jump into action just to stay busy. It’s time for a new perspective. Working in chaos only produces more chaos.
2. Start choosing differently. Do you have a predictable response when confronted with something unpleasant? Is it serving you or does it cause more harm than good? If you’d like for things to shift in your life, start choosing a different response. Pay attention to all your reactions and ask yourself if this is how you really want to show up?
3. Allow others to support you. It may like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders but you’re never really alone. Don’t be embarrassed or ashamed to speak up and ask for help. It’s a sign of a responsible leader, not of weakness.
4. Follow your heart, always. Make decisions based on what it is you truly want and what’s in your best interest. As if you’re protecting a child. Don’t make decisions from a place of fear, obligation or based solely on what others think is best for you.
5. Know yourself. We get so caught up in our business, it’s easy to lose track of our authentic selves, especially when times are challenging. Know what you stand for, what is most important to you, what makes you happy and most importantly who you really are without all the titles, money, and possessions.
6. You’re having learning experiences, not failures. Life is about growing, learning and evolving so don’t be so hard on yourself with the decisions you make. Keep learning and moving on without judgment. New opportunities present themselves quickly the less detached we are to the past.
7. Maintain a high vibration. A positive, hopeful attitude is crucial to attracting what it is you truly want. One way to do that is to put yourself in a state of continual gratitude for what it is you do have. Don’t suppress any feelings of fear or sadness or whatever else comes up but continue to stay with the gratitude to maintain your vibration.
8. Focus on what it is you do want. Situations shift constantly and rather than be consumed by a scenario you don’t want such as declining sales or lack of resources, continue focusing on the exact scenario you want to create in your life and business. You’ll get there so much faster
9. Know who your core customers are. If you’re in business, you’ll find things are shifting quickly these days as consumer trends change, people react to the economic forecasts, etc. If you truly know who you’re serving in your business, you’ll be able to innovate quickly and always come up with the right solutions for them.
10. Take inspired action. As you slow down to contemplate next steps, new opportunities, options and people will begin showing up in your life. Pay attention to all of this because these are the very answers you’re praying for. Also know your new solutions may not look anything like what you’re used to so I recommend being open and evaluating every opportunity.
~Maria Simone is a dynamic speaker, author, and transformational business strategist. As the “Passion To Prosperity Diva”, http://passion2prosperity.com ,she helps entrepreneurs package and monetize their talents to create 6 and 7 figure businesses. She’s appeared on ABC News, Fox TV, and in Business Week, Success Magazine, and many other publications.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
How To Manifest More Abundance In Business
I used to think that I had to make a choice between having a successful business and living an “enlightened” life—following spiritual and universal wisdom. For a long time, I thought it was either or. It didn’t dawn on me that I could have both until some years ago, I found that I was working VERY hard for all the success I had yet there were others around me who seemed to attract what they wanted with ease. The operative word being ATTRACT. I finally realized that these people were tapped into a higher consciousness and used this knowing to create the life of their dreams. Over the years I’ve sought to create that same ease of success and in doing so have completely transformed my life. Here are some things that I’ve learned that have been particularly helpful to me in creating a conscious business:
1. Attract Others To You: Take responsibility for everything that happens to you.
Once you REALLY understand that you’ve consciously or subconsciously created every situation that is happening to you, your perception of the world starts changing. You stop living by default and become much more thoughtful with your actions and your interactions with others. You stop playing the innocent bystander or victim, as the case may be, and start visualizing and expect more productive relationships and different outcomes in your business dealings. You may not have all the answers but this higher level of responsibility is more appealing to others rather than the blame game which has a repelling effect.
2. Allow Abundance to Flow: Create a new relationship with money
The thought of money as a reward is a very strong driving force for many people. It’s also a benchmark of success and status. However, the more emphasis you put on it, the more you may actually be repelling it. Money is just energy and has no value except what we give it. When you think of creating wealth, think in turns of what you will do with the money rather than the money itself. Think of clients as people with problems you have the solution to. The more people you serve, the more prosperous you’ll be…and so forth. This is especially true during the times when you think you really NEED money --- trying to pay bills, raising capital to launch your company, etc. Take the “charge” away from it and everything will start shifting around you.
3. Attract More Respect: Show up equally with everyone around you
We are all spiritual beings created perfectly equal yet we may subconsciously feel less than equal around those who are paying us to perform a service, people who may have more financial wealth or perceived success, and those who seem to be in more of a superior position. You can still respect and admire what they’ve created but you shouldn’t feel less than equal. That behavior will subconsciously cause others to treat you with less respect which may show up as payments being delayed, missed appointments, lack of recognition, broken promises and so on. If that’s happening to you, start showing up more powerfully with this other person and remind them that it’s not OK for these things to be happening and you’d like to turn that around starting today. Be equal and supportive, not subservient.
4. Manifest Quickly: Commit to having what you want first
Do you decide to allow yourself to have something once you know how it’s going to happen? Especially if it’s something you’ll have to pay for? Something like “I can’t have that because it’s too expensive and I don’t have the money for it”. True abundance will flow if you commit to having something first, even before you know HOW it’s going to happen. This works great with money and resources for your business. Without any attachment to how it will occur, continually commit to having whatever you want--- really commit to it without any judgment about the expense, the complexity of it, the logic, etc.--- and see how fast the solutions start lining up before you. What seems to be an issue or roadblock today could disappear tomorrow.
5. Choose what would make you happy, not what is always most logical
Your head may tell you that in order to achieve your goals in business you need to do certain things even though it’s a struggle, go down certain paths that may overwhelm you, or have relationships with people you don’t particular care for…and so you do. I lived like this for years letting my head rule. However, no matter how illogical it may seem at times, when I let my heart make the decisions based on what is giving me the most joy at the time, I seem to create a new unexpected solution. So keep checking in with your heart to make sure you’re enjoying your tasks. If you’re not, then expect a more abundant solution to appear (and allow it) rather than you being miserable doing things you don’t enjoy.
6. Help to create for others what you’d like for yourself
This is “give to receive” from a business perspective. Businesses rely on connections, customers, promotions, etc, to succeed. To easily create that for myself, I continuously do that for others by making introductions to resources THEY need, referrals to customers, investing in others, and creating cause marketing opportunities that support the community. It’s a continuous flow of energy that is constantly looping back to me in a way that’s more magnified from how I originally sent it out.
7. Managing too many tasks promotes scarcity
Thinking that you’re not getting it all done, there’s not enough time, and you need to take on everything at once sends out a message of JUST THAT. The Universe will agree, of course, so you’re never really able to catch up until you exhaust yourself. Learn to manage fewer priority tasks and know that everything will get done in the right time. Non-priority items seem to disappear or become non-urgent all of a sudden or you’ll find that others are showing up more frequently to help you.
8. There’s no real separation between your business and personal life
Don’t think you can have your two lives tucked away in nice separate boxes. They really are connected and as you acknowledge and embrace that, your business will take off. So maintaining a balanced, healthy lifestyle with plenty of playtime and an orderly home will spill over into how your business operates. If you allow your relationships at home to remain somewhat dysfunctional or disconnected, you are probably recreating those same relationships at the office or with clients.
9. Manifest success by eliminating self-judgement
Ever make a decision that in hindsight could have been handled differently and you carry the thought of “stupid, what were you thinking” around for days, months or even years? Did you ever stop to think exactly how many of those thoughts you continuously carry around with you? It’s mind boggling when you really think how hard we are on ourselves. Those thoughts only add fuel to the “I’m not good enough and I don’t deserve success” fire. When you replace that with more loving “I’m a magnificent human being and I’m doing the best that I can”, you’ll find that success seems to flow more easily towards you and it’s not fleeting.
As a conscious business development expert, I find that developing and implementing the proper business strategies is just as important as removing any limiting beliefs that hold you back. Learn to replace limiting beliefs with new thoughts that will actually help accelerate success at http://www.passion2prosperity.com
1. Attract Others To You: Take responsibility for everything that happens to you.
Once you REALLY understand that you’ve consciously or subconsciously created every situation that is happening to you, your perception of the world starts changing. You stop living by default and become much more thoughtful with your actions and your interactions with others. You stop playing the innocent bystander or victim, as the case may be, and start visualizing and expect more productive relationships and different outcomes in your business dealings. You may not have all the answers but this higher level of responsibility is more appealing to others rather than the blame game which has a repelling effect.
2. Allow Abundance to Flow: Create a new relationship with money
The thought of money as a reward is a very strong driving force for many people. It’s also a benchmark of success and status. However, the more emphasis you put on it, the more you may actually be repelling it. Money is just energy and has no value except what we give it. When you think of creating wealth, think in turns of what you will do with the money rather than the money itself. Think of clients as people with problems you have the solution to. The more people you serve, the more prosperous you’ll be…and so forth. This is especially true during the times when you think you really NEED money --- trying to pay bills, raising capital to launch your company, etc. Take the “charge” away from it and everything will start shifting around you.
3. Attract More Respect: Show up equally with everyone around you
We are all spiritual beings created perfectly equal yet we may subconsciously feel less than equal around those who are paying us to perform a service, people who may have more financial wealth or perceived success, and those who seem to be in more of a superior position. You can still respect and admire what they’ve created but you shouldn’t feel less than equal. That behavior will subconsciously cause others to treat you with less respect which may show up as payments being delayed, missed appointments, lack of recognition, broken promises and so on. If that’s happening to you, start showing up more powerfully with this other person and remind them that it’s not OK for these things to be happening and you’d like to turn that around starting today. Be equal and supportive, not subservient.
4. Manifest Quickly: Commit to having what you want first
Do you decide to allow yourself to have something once you know how it’s going to happen? Especially if it’s something you’ll have to pay for? Something like “I can’t have that because it’s too expensive and I don’t have the money for it”. True abundance will flow if you commit to having something first, even before you know HOW it’s going to happen. This works great with money and resources for your business. Without any attachment to how it will occur, continually commit to having whatever you want--- really commit to it without any judgment about the expense, the complexity of it, the logic, etc.--- and see how fast the solutions start lining up before you. What seems to be an issue or roadblock today could disappear tomorrow.
5. Choose what would make you happy, not what is always most logical
Your head may tell you that in order to achieve your goals in business you need to do certain things even though it’s a struggle, go down certain paths that may overwhelm you, or have relationships with people you don’t particular care for…and so you do. I lived like this for years letting my head rule. However, no matter how illogical it may seem at times, when I let my heart make the decisions based on what is giving me the most joy at the time, I seem to create a new unexpected solution. So keep checking in with your heart to make sure you’re enjoying your tasks. If you’re not, then expect a more abundant solution to appear (and allow it) rather than you being miserable doing things you don’t enjoy.
6. Help to create for others what you’d like for yourself
This is “give to receive” from a business perspective. Businesses rely on connections, customers, promotions, etc, to succeed. To easily create that for myself, I continuously do that for others by making introductions to resources THEY need, referrals to customers, investing in others, and creating cause marketing opportunities that support the community. It’s a continuous flow of energy that is constantly looping back to me in a way that’s more magnified from how I originally sent it out.
7. Managing too many tasks promotes scarcity
Thinking that you’re not getting it all done, there’s not enough time, and you need to take on everything at once sends out a message of JUST THAT. The Universe will agree, of course, so you’re never really able to catch up until you exhaust yourself. Learn to manage fewer priority tasks and know that everything will get done in the right time. Non-priority items seem to disappear or become non-urgent all of a sudden or you’ll find that others are showing up more frequently to help you.
8. There’s no real separation between your business and personal life
Don’t think you can have your two lives tucked away in nice separate boxes. They really are connected and as you acknowledge and embrace that, your business will take off. So maintaining a balanced, healthy lifestyle with plenty of playtime and an orderly home will spill over into how your business operates. If you allow your relationships at home to remain somewhat dysfunctional or disconnected, you are probably recreating those same relationships at the office or with clients.
9. Manifest success by eliminating self-judgement
Ever make a decision that in hindsight could have been handled differently and you carry the thought of “stupid, what were you thinking” around for days, months or even years? Did you ever stop to think exactly how many of those thoughts you continuously carry around with you? It’s mind boggling when you really think how hard we are on ourselves. Those thoughts only add fuel to the “I’m not good enough and I don’t deserve success” fire. When you replace that with more loving “I’m a magnificent human being and I’m doing the best that I can”, you’ll find that success seems to flow more easily towards you and it’s not fleeting.
As a conscious business development expert, I find that developing and implementing the proper business strategies is just as important as removing any limiting beliefs that hold you back. Learn to replace limiting beliefs with new thoughts that will actually help accelerate success at http://www.passion2prosperity.com
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