52 Ways to Feel Like a Goddess:
!. Take a meditation-nap. Listen deeply upon awakening!
2. Write yourself a permission slip… What do you need to give yourself permission for?
3. Create something just for you…
4. Have a green smoothie! Greens are good for the soul AND our moods!
5. Reach out to five people and tell them how much you love them and are grateful for them.
6. Stand outside when it is sunset or sunrise… the colours and light will heal your chakras and energy…
7. Go for a drive to a place you haven’t been before… Even if it’s just a road, park, shop or river. Let your spirit see new things!
8. Switch off for the day and remember joys which are screen-free.
9. Write your "Things to do This Life" list.
10. Write a love letter to the Goddess in You.
11. Give away or donate three things you own that don’t make you feel magical.
12. Watch inspiring movies
… or watch ridiculous 1980's comedies or silly romantic-comedies or kid’s movies… feel good movies!
13. Create a dreamboard.
14. Dream up, organise and host a gathering of goddesses.
15. Make a raw dessert.
16. Find a place you can have a campfire. You don’t have to camp out all night… just stay for the best bits of fire-gazing and marshmallow-burning!
17. Mark in your calendar an LBW. My hunky invented these – Lazy Bastard Weekends. A weekend where you have total permission to do as little as possible. In pyjamas. Then nap. It’s muchos healing and restorative!
18. Ask your Mama to tell you your birth story.
19. Read SARK’s "Transformation Soup". Bring joy, healing & rejuvenation into your life. Sparkle SARKle!
20. Get a reading by someone you either know already, or who comes recommended. Readings help you get back on track again when you lose your way.
21. Go swimming. Even if swimming just means sitting in the spa at your local health club. That totally counts!
22. Drink more water. Chances are you are dehydrated. Love your friendly water police!
23. Stop complaining for today. Start saying you are AWESOME… You will begin to feel it!
24. Give your crystals a good cleansing with water and salt, sunlight or moonlight.
25. Decide to forgive someone. Feel the space open up!
26. See if you can find music you were obsessed by as a kid or teen. Listen to them again… maybe even sing a long!
27. Make a pile of your favourite healing books and lie in amongst them.
29. Thank someone from your past who was special to you.
30. Make space in your life for magic to enter by doing some divine decluttering!
31. Go on a retreat. One that’s run by you, or a group one. Retreats are oh so good!
32. Organise a breakfast date with your favourite person.
33. Decide on a new hobby to play with that you haven’t tried before… Horse riding! Scrap booking! Disco bowling! Knitting! Ice skating! Creative writing! Ze possibilities are endless…
34. Cuddle a puppy or meow-meow.
36. Find your totem animal.
37. Go have a book picnic outside and get distracted by the clouds!
38. Create an altar that feels supportive, uplifting and inspiring… a collection of all the lovely things you want to remind yourself of…
39. Create a gift basket for your best friend.
40. Take 100 deep breaths. One after the other.
41. Write on a piece of paper what you are willing to let go of. Burn it.
42. Make one new friend for the day – who cares if it is online or offline. Connection is goooood!
43. Make your bedroom into a sanctuary.
44. Give yourself a superhero name for ze day! I am Queen Megatron! I can bounce with the power of a thousand pogo sticks and a hundred Tiggers!
45. Take yourself on an Artists Date for lunch!
46. Let someone else decide what book you should read next.
47. Paint an angel and put it beside your bed.
48. Write letters. The kind that need stamps. Apply stickers by ze boatload. Embrace your inner pen-palling eleven year old self!
49. Play dress-ups.
50. Sleep in the moonlight – either keep your curtains open or sleep outside. Or if you can’t do either – step outside for a moment before going to bed just to say goodnight to Grandmother Moon.
51. Take a media break.
52. Write a list of your own favourite ways to heal and get sparkly again…
NOTES from Day 2 of The World's Biggest Summit
OCTOBER 2, 2011
Passion-Based Entrepreneurship
David Siteman Garland Creator & Host of The Rise To The Top
Entrepreneur Interview Shows, tips etc.
Audio Interview: Passion-Based Entrepreneurship
Background- David started, “The Rise To The Top” in 2008, just a couple of months after a chat session with a friend in a coffee shop.
KEY PASSION: Chances are you already KNOW what you feel passionate about. What if you just focus on THAT for a little while? Flow freely with creative mind-mapping and try on some business ideas that might passion might lead you to. The more you can focus, the better. Let’s say you LOVE CHOCOLATE. That is very focused. From there you flow into how you want to feel, what you see yourself doing. You love chocolate. One day in the kitchen you started playing with how many things you can find that could be dipped in chocolate and arranged in a gift basket. You take one basket to a party for a friend’s birthday and cause a sensation. The phone starts to ring……..
KEY ACTION: FIND THE FIRST STEP AND TAKE IT!
KEY PHRASE: Money follows passion. David says that every time he has tried to create a business based first and solely on making a lot of money, he has failed. Let the passion lead and the funds will follow. Is this work that I want to do? You must love the law in order to become a lawyer. If you don’t feel it. It won’t come.
Use ACTION to CONVERT PASSION into making a passionate living. David suggest you focus on your passion. Growing up he was hockey and he did all things hockey. He made a living with his own hockey team. Announcing at games, managing things, cleaning bathrooms. Thing is, he loved it all because it was all related to this true passion; hockey. Then one day he thought it would be great fun to go out and make a TV show about extreme entrepreneurs. Within two months, he had the first episode launched. As Goddess Leone says, “Ride the wild donkey.” Dive in and do the work that can be done in the next couple of months instead of setting a 2 year or a 5 year goal.
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Audio: Craft Your Own Map
Make more than you spend.
Be excellent to each other.
Other than that the answer is, “It depends.” You must craft your own map rather than follow what other people are doing. Ignore the advice that doesn’t fee can do it. Set your own vision of Success. Play to your strengths. This will attract the people who adore what you do.
WHAT IS MY AWESOME DESTINATION (AD)? Start with the end in mind; your destination….set the short term future vision for what you want…. “For the next three months I’m on my way towards...”
WHAT COMES INBETWEEN WHERE YOU ARE AND YOUR (AD)? There may be stops along the way but that doesn’t matter so much, because I know where I want to go. I’m going to know if I am “off course” because I will use my internal guidance system and I will feel myself getting further away from my destination.
MILE MARKERS- Mindmap and mark every step that comes between you and your AD. You will feel progress (how far you’ve come; how much closer you are) as you pass the mile markers, and you will be aware that you are “on course”. These should be things that you can name and check off like an actual task.: Completed Checklist and Map, Scheduled First Event, Called Realtor, Secured Business License, Took Bookkeeping class, Designed Website, Networked with Friends.
SIGHTSEEING- Each MILE MARKER will generate TO DO’s. Just like you would if you were on a real trip and you stopped for a bit; You’d have a list of sights to see, food to sample, gifts to buy, only this “stop” or MILE MARKER has a list of about 5 actions associated with it that must be accomplished before you move on. Creating this visual will help you take time and organization into account. What can I clump together? What should come first? How many minutes, hours or days will I need at this MILE MARKER? Roughly place everything on your Rough Draft messy, crazy HUGE.
VISUAL POWER- Now: Put everything on your MAP in TRIP FLOW SEQUENCE so you will be able to track your progress, check off MILE MARKERS and see where you are going NEXT!
Pay attention, adjust, notice what is working as you go. If at any time you realize something is wrong, your destination needs to shift….it’s OK! YOU ARE THE CREATOR and you are learning as you go! Make changes based on what you’ve learned…switch directions…blaze new trails…ride the wild donkey to a shiny new place! It is YOUR MAP!
DESTINATION- Maybe you never “arrive” because you keep creating a new AWESOME DESTINATION. Maybe arriving at the first destination spurs you on to the NEXT MORE AWESOME DESTINATION. You created your map. You control the outcome. Enjoy the trip!
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Notes from Day 1 of The World's Biggest Summit OCTOBER 1, 2011
How to FIND YOUR BUSINESS- Alexandra Franzen
- Searching for a way to use your gifts; to determine what goes into my Package of Skills, the first step is to think: How do you want to feel?
ADVICE TO THE YOUNG and possibly unhappy in your job: Loosen your game plan....leave room for magic. Have an orgasm every day for a month! Give yourself a break so you can stop feeling pale and sad. Give yourself your own retreat, clear the decks and you can start right now and go in a new direction.
- How do you get clear on what to do?
Start by telling a dear friend what you want to do and have your friend watch your body language; do you collapse, sound constricted?
OR do you open up and light up with energy?
This will help you clarify what you offer in the world.
- Take a poll, ask Your Tribe (Social Network)- Idea A, B or C? Get feedback on your ideas, plans, products, packages. Tweek, adjust, re-do.
Making Peace with Maintenance: Ten Truths about the Ordinary Work of Everyday Life
Maintenance- Ordinary work in our everyday life that is essential to well-being.
1. Maintenance (M) is Urgent and Important! It supports what we feel is important. Maintenance is Integral to a happy, healthy life!
2. M thrives on ROUTINE. CONSISTANCY. Test how long you can ignore an M task before a problem shows up, then cut the frequency with which you do the task in half. QUESTION: How long can you engage/ work before you lose interest in, or grow fatigued with the task? Spread it out a bit- a couple of 30 minute sessions per week/ month etc.
3. How long M tasks ACTUALLY requires. MEASURE the time. (outside of a crisis)
4. Many people have a habit of doing BIG CHUNKY PROJECTS ie- Clean the entire dirty house all at once instead of small regular, manageable bite-sized tasks. Establish systems that help you keep up, NOT catch you up. Catching up with tasks is a PROJECT, not maintenance.
5. Maintenance Practice is only finished "for the moment". Think of this as Practice Finishing. Finished "For Now". Use the system of Cyclical Maintenance to practice follow-through, organization and achievement.
6. There will never be the Perfect Time to do this stuff “The Perfect Way”. Perfectionism and M do NOT belong together. Save perfectionism for things that will genuinely benefit from it; Refinement until the work meets the reasonable and clear standard you set for yourself- <DING!>
7. M and transitions are a match made in heaven. Transitions- the small spaces between larger activities into which a relief or brief M Task nicely tucks! One or two big tasks go into the day's plan, with SM’s or MT pieces cozied in between (and use M’s for needed breaks in the larger task!) ie- popping in a load of laundry to take a break from a writing project or more strenuous task. Take care that a contrasting task is compatible rather than disruptive.
NOTE- M can hold more than one thing! Vigorous house cleaning can double as exercise! Physical movement creates mental movement. SOME M tasks deserve a dedicated space on the day's schedule.
M as ritual: Prior to creative/ writing project, drink a big glass of water. Think of it as Washing Away negativity/ toxic thoughts/ noise in the head. (Personal Note- A GREAT substitute for Morning Pages, since I have experienced that MornPages sponged up all my morning time and writing juices!) Water is M on many levels! Water as Spiritual Practice...(I like it!!!) Enhance MT with play- a drink, music, do it in a different location, etc.
8. M normalizes things, an important role in feeling calm and grounded (and won’t have fueled your anxiety in the drama of a moment). Think of Maintenance Tasks as the Complex Carbohydrates that help avoid The Sugar Highs and Lows of intensive/ creative project work. MT as respite from more demanding tasks. MT’s offer a sense of accomplishment during a day or a week of “setbacks” in your life.
9. M clarifies what belongs in your life and what doesn’t. M= care and feeding, conservation, conserving, keep, preservation, preserving, sustentation, upkeep.
At heart, maintenance is Care Taking! Quite noble-sounding, really. Taking care of what you love.
I love the ease of a clean and organized environment. If you don’t “LOVE IT” you will never feel good about the maintenance it requires. What needs to change in order for other activities to remain? Making peace with M is about making peace with your choices.
10. Patience, practice and experimental frame of mind. Observe what happens when you follow through on the intension of keeping pace INSTEAD of getting “caught up” by keeping an open mind. You may find more time and energy and peace now, because you aren’t putting out so many fires. You may need to adjust, or develop more effective or efficient systems, learn better communication skills. Keep tweeking variables until you find your groove. You WILL find it!
CREATIVE LIVING PRACTICES- Jamie Ridler
Who am I, what do I want, what do I want to give?
- PRACTICE ONE- Discover and connect with your own unique voice.
The Sigh- Stand in relaxed position with feet about hip-width apart. Rock back and forth just a bit to feel bottoms of the feet grounded to floor (“like bamboo swaying in the breeze”). Relax knees, give body just a little wiggle. Take in some breath and sigh!
Then sigh again and allow the voice to ride that sigh. Breath in and make your sound…..Uhhhhhhhaaaaaaahhhhhh.
- Awareness- connecting to the present moment. Plugging into the energy in and around you. Sacred and Normal! Choose a sense and a focus. Pay attention. Focus on all aspects of your focus. What do I notice? DETAILS and FLOW and Flex your creative flow.
- RESISTENCE- is a part of stretching through to the next level of who you came here to be.
ENERGY SEPARATED FROM YOUR CREATIVITY- Creation begins, resistance shows up and everything seems to stop, but that energy is still there. The energy spins and builds and might pop out in unwanted or uncomfortable and decidedly UN-creative ways. Anger, pettiness, pickieness, compulsion ,sadness, exhaustion, “wasting time”, ….it’s all just energy that wants to move toward what you want but it’s hit that wall of resistance. Resistance tends to show up when we actually are moving in the direction of creativity. Re-connect or keep connected to what “over there” over the wall in NativeCreativeLand. Make a poster, a dreamboard, whistle/ sing or hum a creatively seductive tune, write down and save thoughts about creative energy when you are in the flow- journal it, keep a symbolic postcard with you, talk about it- whatever you need to keep that energetic connection.
Dancing in the face of Resistance- Other ways to keep the energy productively flowing- take a walk, shower, cleaning and scrubbing, kneading, making, brushing, DANCING! Set an intention- Universe, today I’m going to shift that energy, I’m going to move through resistance- please let this activity serve that purpose….
Keys:
KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE PRIZE
SET AN INTENTION
AND GROOVE!
