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What if it all was one? TelavisionDay

  I often say to my clients "What if it was all one? " What I mean by that is what if everything you had going on in your life all was related. Another way of saying this is what if you were pursuing your mission in life and all of the activities lead to that purpose.

  For the past 6 years I have been coaching visionaries and entrepreneurs. The process has involved helping people create Vision Stories of what their lives will be like in the future. They write the stories as if they have already happened. Magic that happens when people get clear on their passions, values and purpose. Things they never thought possible materialize. The universe conspires to make their dreams reality.

  While this was happening for my clients I had this sadness of knowing there was something else I was supposed to do but not knowing what it was. I have been patient waiting, meditating, doing my work and searching. This past year I found what it is I'm here to do. It started with an email with a link to a You Tube video by Malcolm Cohan of Sydney Australia called "Think It So." He was creating Vision Statements on the Internet. Knowing how powerful creating visions is I knew this was something I was to do. I brought Malcolm to the states in June to hold Vision Video seminars and plan what was next.

Malcolm Cohan Video "Nucleus"

Here is the new video from Malcolm Cohan called Nucleus. It tears me up every time I see it. I hope you enjoy it.

Why I work with women

I've recently decided to focus my coaching practice on women visionaries and here's why.

First I always recommend to people that to double the power of their brand they should cut their niche in half. Second, I tell clients to focus on working with people that give them the most energy. The question we ask is who are your people? When I looked at where I get the most energy it clearly is working with my female clients. When I looked at who are my people or who are showing up in my practice; they are mostly women. This does not mean I wont work with a man that is attracted to what I have to offer, only that my focus will be on women.

But there is more to it than that. I realize that the challenges we face as a society are mostly around the need to change/increase our consciousness. The ways of the past, mostly driven by males, will not work. We have to restore wholeness to our planet. We have to work in cooperation among nations and races. We can not continue to rape the earth as entrepreneurs of the past have. These changes must happen quickly and for the most part men are too ingrained in our pasts to wake up fast enough to the changes.

There is a growing movement in the US of Cultural Creatives. These are people much more concerned with the happenings of the world than just the US. More likely to be volunteers in their community. They are more concerned with the environment and social justice. And two thirds of them are women.

In the book Spiral Dynamics, Don Beck talks about the different stages of consciousness, or memes, that we have gone through historically and where we need to go as a society. For the last 150 years we have been in a strong entrepreneurial meme that has largely been driven by men. 30% of the population is in the entrepreneurial meme. In the last forty years a new meme of community has formed. Community is a meme of bringing people together for a common cause, think Green Peace. 10% of the population is in this meme.

What Beck says is that for us to meet the challenges of our complex rapidly changing world we need to move to new memes of higher consciousness. These stages bring out what we know to be true in the world and are represented by chaos and an uncertainty of what will be next including how we will make a living doing the work that needs to be done. These memes represent only 1% of the population. This is not an easy place to be and I want to help the women that choose to go there.

In the book Power vs Force, Dr.David Hawkins has developed a scale of consciousness using kinesiology. He states that on a scale of 1-1000 when you reach 200 you are at a place where you put more energy into the world then you take out and that 85% of the world is below 200. So, how does the world stay in balance? It stays in balance because as you exceed 200 your impact on consciousness is exponential. At the place of love or 500 on the scale, you can have an impact that counters the negativity of 400,000 people.

The major advances in consciousness will be lead by women. Women are the largest percentage of Cultural Creatives. Women are less likely to be caught in the lower memes of consciousness discussed in Spiral Dynamics and more likely to be wiling to reach for higher consciousness as described in Power Vs Force. Even a small percentage of women achieving higher consciousness can make a huge difference in the world.

What we need is bold women visionaries to usher in the new world. The work I do with  "A Better Way to Live and Work" is one way to make this happen. My vision is to become the Marshall Goldsmith of Women Visionary coaching.

Why am I qualified to do this? I am a Cultural Creative. I have been an entrepreneur for over 30 years and have worked through my entrepreneurial phase to strive for higher consciousness. As an experienced coach I provide a trusted male perspective.

 

Life Expectancy Calculator

A friend sent me this really cool life expectancy calculator. Its a great example of a 2.0 web application. Its fun to move the slider and see what effect on life expectancy different choices we make in life have. I discovered I would live to 95 if I continue my lifestyle.

Slowing down the speed of life

I've been reminded again in the past week how important it is to find time for silence, meditation, reflection or prayer if you are going to be working as a coach or consultant.

I was talking to a client who is also a company consultant and trainer, teaching around the world. She said how she used to work full throttle up until the moment of her presentation or coaching. Working to get everything perfect. She recently decided that she wasn't going to do that any more and instead she gets to her training sites a day in advance, has a massage and spends time on quite reflection.

She says her presentations are twice as powerful since she started doing this. She also said that if you want to effect change in busy executives you are working with you must come to them with a different form of energy. If you are coming stressed out and overworked and you are wanting them to find more balance and reflection, your energy wont show them the way to find what they need.

Vision for Humanity

The real purpose of the VISION Statement work is to find a few brave visionaries willing to commit to creating Visions for Humanity. There is something wonderful that happens when you commit to a vision for the future of our planet and its people. There is nothing wrong with wanting to manifest lots of things in your life, but we are really here to do more than that. I've created my own Vision for Humanity and you can watch it here.

50 Life Tips from 10 Top Coaches

I was recently featured in the May issue of Motto Magazine  in the article "50 Life Tips from 10 Top Coaches".

I was honored to be included with coaches I admire including Marshall Goldsmith, Rick Tamlyn, Andrea Lee, Marcia Wieder and  Steve Mitten.

My tips included:

1. Everything starts with vision. Create a vision story of what you want in your life and be amazed at how it manifests.
2. Pay attention to building your strengths not correcting your weaknesses.
3. Create a niche. The best way to success is to narrow your focus.
4. Create a plan with specific goals and be accountable for follow through.
5. Trust your gut.
6. Decide who you need to partner with to grow your business.
7. Simplify negotiations by developing a clear understanding of your value proposition.

Motto ( formerly called Worthwhile Magazine) is by far my favorite magazine. It is the only magazine I read from cover to cover. If you like reading this blog you will love Motto. Order it here.

I create my Vision Statement

Here is a my Vision Statement 2015. It is produced as though everything in it has already happened. It was a very powerful experience to create the vision statement and something I do now with all of the people I work with. I watch my vision statement many times a week and have a knowing that everything in it will become true.

VISION Statements

A friend sent me a link to You Tube to see a video put out by Malcolm Cohan this guy from Sydney, Australian. I clicked on it and was amazed. He creates these wonderful videos of people's lives. For the past 5 years I have been coaching people on creating visions for their lives and helping create Vision Stories for what they want to manifest. When I saw the VISION Statement I knew that this was a way more powerful way to help some one manifest their desires.

I've written before about The Secret and now most people know about The Law of Attraction. VISION Statements are the best way I know of to attract what you want in the world. Here is Malcolm's Video Vision for Humanity.

Why I haven't been writing

If you have been to this blog before you may be wondering why I haven't been doing many posts. Well first of all I don't have that much worth saying and don't want to bore people and myself but mostly its because I've given all of my energy to completing a website for our company Entrevis. Man it takes a lot of time to develop a website. The design, the content, the changes, the look .... it goes on and on forever. So here is my promise to me and to you my loyal reader. I'll do better in the future. How is that for a commitment.

Cast the web

Translucent silky spider webs
Shimmering in the new born sun
Spun from blade of grass
To blade of grass
In no apparent order
By one or more hard working spiders
But for WHAT?
They are too thin and random to trap a prey
When the wind blows they will be thrown astray
Here's the message from the spider
Cast your net wide and far
You'll never know what you will catch
You can't wait for life to come to you
Go out and make it happen

Lots to do today

There's always email to respond to
And more calls to make
A new spreadsheet to design
And new strategies to partake
Lots of books piled high
Waiting to be read
Magazines and web sites to page through
Enough to fill your head
But there is this Adirondack chair
And gorgeous sun filled shore
I think I''ll just let that sit
And BE a little more

A Worm

A worm slithers across the dirt
Expanding and contracting his body
First one way and then another
With no apparent direction in mind
Oblivious to the world
What is he thinking?
What force propels him?
Is he on a journey?
Or just taking one day at a time

Life Story and Healthy Kids

I was reading Brian Anderson's blog postings on Zaadz. Brain is the CEO and Zaadz purpose is defined as  "The quick version of what we're gonna do: build THE most inspired community of people in the world... Imagine social networking with a purpose, a community of seekers and conscious entrepreneurs circulating wisdom and inspiration and wealth and all that good stuff. Fun fun fun. "

The posting that caught my attention was about the book Parenting from the Inside Out. Here's what Brian had to say........

"It’s interesting b/c I actually want to write a book with my friend Dan. He’s written two: The developing Mind and Parenting from the Inside Out. (btw: the last pope read The Developing Mind and invited Dan and his family out to the Vatican for a private audience…the guy’s amazing and is currently working with the Dalai Lama and others scientifically showing how meditation actually rewires the brain…but that’s for another Note ;)

The theme of the Parenting book (which I have read most of but not completed) is simple: the better a parent knows him or herself, the better parent he/she will be. (Technically, the science of it goes something like this: the healthy attachment of a child is a strong predictor of that child’s well-being. You can predict how healthily attached a child is to a parental figure by how “coherent” that parent’s life narrative is–which basically means how well that individual has integrated their life story strongly predicts their child’s healthy or unhealthy attachment to them which highly predicts that child’s well being…powerful stuff…)"

So what does that have to do with A Better Way to Live and Work. Well, everything. What this says is that the more we have a clear life story, a clear purpose and vision for our life the healthier our relationship will be with our children.

Now, can I prove that, no. But like everything else I write I ask you does it make sense to you? It certainly makes sense to me.

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

A friend sent me a great article taken from the book The Great Turning:  From Empire to Earth Community that was published in this month's YES magazine. Its a rather lengthy article but well worth the read.

We are at a turning point and we are the ones we have been waiting for.......

By What Name Will

Future Generations

Know Of Our Time?

Will they speak in anger and frustration of the time of the Great Unraveling, when profligate consumption exceeded Earth's capacity to sustain and led to an accelerating wave of collapsing environmental systems, violent competition for what remained of the planet's resources, and a dramatic dieback of the human population? Or will they look back in joyful celebration on the time of the Great Turning, when their forebears embraced the higher-order potential of their human nature, turned crisis into opportunity, and learned to live in creative partnership with one another and Earth?

The New Medicine

   

    Last week I watched a two hour special on PBS entitled "The New Medicine". It talked about how medicine is becoming more integral involving the mind, body and soul of a person. It's really not new rather it remembers the way medicine used to be practiced. I saw great similarities between what they were saying about "The New Medicine" and "The Better Way To Live and Work" program we do. The purpose of this entry is to share what they are saying and what we do in our work.
    Here are some of the things being advocated and practiced in "The New Medicine" that are all part of our program:

The Times They Are A-Changin’

    The line it is drawn
    The curse it is cast
    The slow one now                                                
    Will later be fast
    As the present now
    Will later be past

    It’s been a year since I started my blog and I want to reflect on the changes I'm seeing in that year. We are in the midst of a tremendous shift in consciousness in the United States and I see the examples of it everywhere. Although it may seem like the end, it is really the beginning of something much greater.

Looking for a Speaker?

My business partner Jeff and I love to speak about the work we do. We have developed some presentations that have received the highest marks, in excess of 95% approval, from participants. We do this by actively involving the audience in the presentation. Some of the talks include “The 7 Entrepreneurial Skills for Financial Planners”, “The Power of Stories and Vision Stories” and “Finding your Better Way to Live and Work.” We have also developed a 2 day seminar called “Vision Stories” that has been delivered across the country.

If you would like a dynamic keynote speaker, please let me know. Our highest dream is to partner with groups and associations that want to offer our work to their members.

Here are three case studies of speeches.

A Whole New Leadership

One of our Entrevis leaders did a great post on the book "A Whole New Mind" entitled "A Whole New Leadership". I thought you might want to read it.

Download WholeNewLeadership.pdf

Alice Peacock-Into The Light

Alice is my favorite female singer. I love this song. She will have a new album out in June called "Who I Am" . If you don't have it, her album titled "Alice Peacock is great.

Here is a link to her website

i'm not asking for perfection
i only ask that you try
'cause you keep looking for answers outside yourself
when you've had them the whole time
it's time to see yourself as holy
time to see yourself complete
it's time to set aside the anger
and the spirit of defeat

come into the light
yeah, be the one you're born to be
into the light
wake up from your lonely sleep
the shadows can conceal what the heart longs to heal
come into the light