Is it Really Possible to “Have it All” in Your Own Business?

When people get into business or even think about starting their own business, what often ends up happening for them is they end up working harder than they ever did when they had a job.

Have you ever felt like that?

I see it all the time.

You have been taught that you really can have your own business and have balance and have plenty of money and all of those things, but you probably have the mindset that you have to work really, really hard for it and that it has to be difficult.

Has anyone ever taught you otherwise?

I have a business degree, and no one taught me in business school how to have a business.

I was taught how to be a good employee.

So when I talk about growing and expanding your business and lifestyle, I really think as an entrepreneur and especially as a Spiritualpreneur that it’s so important that your business and your lifestyle are in alignment. They need to be congruent.

I see lots of people who work a lot of hours; they never see their family.

Maybe they’re making a good income, but they don’t have any time to spend it. They don’t have any kind of real relationship with people or their relationships are suffering.

When I first started my business, I ended up always feeling like I should be at one place or another.

When I was with my family I felt guilty that I wasn’t working on my business, and when I was working on my business, I felt guilty that I wasn’t with my family.

That kind of energy is incongruous. It creates a lot of stress and disease, and it creates situations that people have where they actually end up going out of business.

A lot of the “going out of business” experiences aren’t about cash flow as much as they are about the person being burnt out.

The thing is, you can have a lifestyle the way that you want it with the hours that you want – something that you get to create in the way that you want to create it. Read more

Why is it Worthwhile to Write Down the Unique Serving Offer of Your Own Business?

The process of writing your Unique Serving Offer for your own business is simply bringing your unique energy into tangible form.

You are activating your unique energy into the language of your service.

Take a look at the evolving progression of my unique serving offers. 

It is important to remember that you can change your USO any time you want to revise, tighten up, energize and activate that language.

First Unique Serving Offer for Coaching from Spirit:

Coaching from Spirit Institute provides programs, leading edge teleseminars, coaching and products to empower all aspects of your life and business through an online community that showcases top teachers and speakers.

This USO contains 31 words and describes what my business provides, why this is offered and how it is offered.

Second Unique Serving Offer for Coaching from Spirit:

Coaching From Spirit Institute provides programs through an online interactive showcase of top teachers to excite and empower all aspects of your life and business.

This USO version has 25 words and begins to focus on what makes my business – my work – different.  The language is more active, empowering and activating.  This language feels more alive.

I eliminated passive words, which gives the USO a bigger presence. I used words like, “excite and empower”, because that is what I actually do.

Third Unique Serving Offer for Coaching from Spirit:

Excite and empower your business and life with Coaching from Spirit, the leading provider of cutting edge live coaching with the world’s top teachers.

This USO contains 24 words.  This is only one word less from the previous version, and yet some dead weight has been removed. Read more

How Can You Activate the Unique Serving Offer of Your Own Business?

When I first told my mom that I was a coach, she said, “Of course you are”.

And then she reminded me of the time I brought a little boy home on the school bus with me to teach him his ABC’s because he was having trouble in school.  My mom said, “Who’s your friend?”

And when I told her, she said, “Does his mom know he’s here with you to learn his ABC’s?”

And of course, his mom had no idea where he was!

But I learned from others that they saw me as an activator, a cheerleader – and that I helped them move easily through things and they were able to access other possibilities.

I wasn’t always aware of my unique gifts.

These things were natural for me and sometimes when that happens, you don’t see the value in them; you think everyone does or knows that; you don’t think that it is unique.

One of my clients is a spa owner.  She is really unique in that she has the ability to intuit exactly how people would look at their very best; she can see it and offer it in a progressive plan of action.

She can see a picture of the best hair color, the most beautiful hairstyles that would fit the shape of their face, and how their features can be best enhanced with make-up they should be using.  She can always see the very best for them.

She is very directive, and she makes recommendation about things that people may not usually pay for.   She activates possibilities in her clients. Her clients simply put their appearance in her hands and they totally trust her.

When you are in touch with your passion – with what makes you REALLY unique, you can stand in a more authentic place of power about what you are doing and offering – including asking for your price.

When you have achieved awareness of your ideal client, your uniqueness, and your niche, you can move forward very comfortably and freely as yourself.

Use the following Activation Exercise to help get a real awareness of your unique serving offer activated within you for your own business: Read more

Do You Know What is Unique About Your Own Business?

One of my favorite clients was a Minnesota family that owned a small car repair business.  When I was helping them explore and identify their uniqueness, they told me that they didn’t have anything that made them particularly unique.

Upon digging deeper, they shared that it was very important to them that their customers felt like family.

So they put homemade cookies on the car seat when the car was fixed, so that when you picked up your car, you got warm, fresh, home-baked sweets.

They would also pick up their customers and drive you to where they wanted to go while they fixed their cars. They even gave their customers a loaner car while they were doing repairs. They thought everyone did this, so they didn’t see it as unique!

They were genuinely caring, hospitable people who treated everyone like family.  Thus, who they are and what they have provided ever since they created their business 20 years ago became their Unique Serving Offer (USO).

“Joe’s auto repair shop, where we treat you like family – We pick you up, drop you off and leave fresh baked cookies on your car seat.”

As you read this story, what’s coming up for you?  What do you enjoy receiving?  What do you enjoy giving?  Are words – ideas – maybe even songs – coming to your mind?

What is unique about you? Read more

Do You Know What You Don’t Want for Your Own Business?

When you are creating something like an Action Plan for your own business, the foundational work of energy management can be one of the most important things that you can do to truly be able to achieve what it is that you want.

And in order to really get what you want, it is surprisingly helpful to first list what it is that you don’t want.

i.e. What I Don’t Want:

I don’t want to have to figure out how to create my own business and feel burdened to carry the load of creation and implementation by myself.

What I Don’t Want to Feel:

I don’t want to feel overwhelmed or stressed.  I don’t want to feel direction-less. I don’t want to feel like I am doing this by myself.

Getting all of these “Don’t Wants” out of your system helps you to both acknowledge that they are there, and to dissipate the energy that is around them.

When you have laid this at a foundational level, you can begin to think of the categories for creating your action plan, and begin another helpful foundational tool, the Order Form to the Universe.

The following examples may be some of the types of categories you would have in an Action Plan for your business:

• My Attitudes/Perceptions
• Advisory Board
• Financial Resources/Financing
• Paperwork and Legal Documentation
• Location
• Support Staff – Volunteer and Paid
• Mission/Vision
• Marketing
• Fund raising Avenues
• Time Frames

Creating Order Forms to the Universe goes hand in hand with creating your Action Plan – it is a complete integration of spiritual energy management that will help you detangle your energy and pre-pave all of the steps for the actions that you want to take.

The purpose of the Order Form to the Universe is for you to identify what you want and then watch for all the positive evidences of how the Universe will work to support you.  It is a customized way for you to identify exactly what you want in a way that will be absolutely perfect for you.

The Order Form to the Universe is an easy way of partnering with Spirit and surrendering your “I wants” to Spirit.

It allows for easy and effortless flow, so that you don’t have to work or push so hard for things, which tends to tempt you into thinking that you are suffering too much.

You can use the Order Form to the Universe as a tool to first determine, and then acquire what you want.

Check out the following Order Form example: Read more

How Do You Create the Foundation for Taking Action in Starting Your Own Business?

Yesterday I talked about making a 30-Day Action Plan for starting your own business.  The thing is, there are many layers to making a plan and taking action, and the stronger your foundation is, the greater your success will be.

If you are creating an Action Plan for your own business, it is a good idea to always make sure to include the following foundational steps – taking the time to create what I call an Energy Blueprint:

First, surface up the energy that you have activated about whatever goal or project you want to work on.  No matter what it is, it’s OK.

You are going to write down the beliefs, patterns, evidences, and actions – anything that’s serving you about your business.

Next, identify the beliefs that may not be serving you as well.  Drill them down! You will write these down as well.

Following that, you will create one new progressive belief – something that makes you feel just a little bit better.

You can use what I call a Merry-Go-Round visualization to assist you in emerging a progressive belief by imaging a Merry-Go-Round in a children’s park.

When you are on this kind of Merry-Go-Round, you have to run around in a circle, holding onto the bars until you have gathered enough momentum, or energy, to jump on.

If you don’t have enough momentum you won’t be able to get on.

If you are running too fast and try to jump on, you may get tossed further by the momentum. You will be able to visualize through this if you are a vibrational match to the progressive belief by seeing and feeling in this visualization if you got “On” the Merry-Go-Round.

After you have emerged a progressive belief, you will use that new belief daily in an energy management tool called Scripting. Read more

Do You Have an Action Plan for Your Own Business in the Coming New Year?

Joyful Greetings and wishing everyone a Happy Holiday season!

For anyone that wants to get a head start on the New Year, here’s an example of what I call a 30 Day plan, which is a simple process that you can use in your own business, or even if you want to start your own business this year!

It will help you break down what may seem like an insurmountable or unrealistic goal into small, do-able pieces, and is a great resource for really getting things accomplished!

30-Day Action Plans are used when you have a large number and variety of tasks to be completed with both goals and sub goals, and also if you are experiencing feelings of being overwhelmed.

The 30-Day Action Plan can bring you greater clarity around the things that need to be done because it picks apart the actions you need to take.

It’s also important to realize that there are dominant vibrational patterns you have activated previously that could sabotage you from taking the right action or keep you from having successful results when you do take action.

An Action Plan brings greater clarity about things that need to be done AND it can shift your perceptions about doing them.

Check out this example below to really get a feel for how to do this: Read more

What Does it Mean to be a Spiritualpreneur in Your Own Business?

Spiritualpreneurs are people that are really feeling called to do some kind of business, but in a different way than business is “normally” done.

I want to make it clear – being a Spiritualpreneur doesn’t have anything do to with having a “spiritual” kind of business – a healer, massage therapist, acupuncturist, psychic reader, etc. – those type of professions that are more “spiritually” oriented.

That’s not what being a Spiritualpreneur is about!

A Spiritualpreneur might be someone that owns a franchise, or works in the stock market, or someone that is also a mom-preneur. 

It’s not about what you DO.

It is about HOW you want to experience your own business.

Spiritualpreneurs are those that recognize that business is just as important to run from an Inner level as it is from an Outer level. They are people that want to apply Universal Principles in their business because they can see the peace and success that it brings.

Spiritualpreneurs are people that have some sort of calling inside them to do something more – to make a difference – to serve others in a way that is beyond the sole goal of making money or attaining success.

I have had the opportunity to work with Spiritualpreneurs in many varied lines of business.

I worked with a Vice President of a bank that really felt a calling to serve people; she thought about doing volunteer work or changing her career.  She actually ended up in one of my coaching programs and now consistently has clients!

It’s not only an extra added income stream for her, but it fulfills her desires and she likes what she’s doing.

One person that I started working with recently went through cancer.  She is in remission and healed from the cancer, but one thing she noticed was that there wasn’t really a lot of support for cancer patients after all the treatments happened.

There can be long-term, residual physical issues from the ways of treating cancer.  And this woman saw that there was really a need to work with people, to support them and hold their hand after they’ve gone through that journey. Read more

Do You See Paying the Bills as a Joyful Part of Running Your Own Business?

If you don’t, you should!

What are some steps you can take to make the bill-paying experience feel more joyful?

I like to put on red lipstick and kiss my checks, and imagine the love in that money going out to those people and more money coming back to me.

I actually have this statement printed on my own business checks:  “Prosperity in huge amounts flows to you and comes back to me”.

How would you feel about writing something like that on your checks?

It’s like playing a game that’s all about getting into a relationship with this idea of money that goes out and then comes back to you.

You can actually bless it as it goes out and expect that it comes back to you in even more amazing ways! Read more

Do You Understand the Importance of Making Wise Investments for Your Own Business During These Times?

Many people are finding right now that it’s necessary to make adjustments in where they are allocating their resources, and it is very useful at any time to get even more clear on what you are spending in your own business so that you can allocate your resources to whatever is going to serve you the most.

It just might be that there’ll be certain projects that you’re going to put on the back burner, because they’re just not as important from a priority standpoint.

This is really something that is useful to be doing all the time, but I know that business owners tend to get more into the bigger picture sometimes and not so much the nitty gritty, day to day, week to week aspects of where they are really spending money.

The thing is, while it’s important to have the strength and confidence to maybe put off some projects that you may be really excited about, but maybe just aren’t the best thing to be spending resources on right now – it’s equally as important to have the strength and confidence to continue to invest in those things that will help your business move forward to greater success.

I like to evaluate, on a weekly basis:

• What am I allocating my resources to?
• Are there other ways I can better leverage those resources?
• Are there investments that would really make more sense for me now to?

I recently made the decision to invest in an online Project Management system.  My team and I researched the costs, the benefits, how it would assist the business in streamlining everyone’s work together, and at the end of all this, I decided to make the investment.

If you have your own business, and you’re hunkering down – trying to weather the storm – and you’re not willing to put resources into anything right now, it’s probably not going to do you much good in the long run!

The key opportunity that times like these bring around is that they really force you to focus on what is necessary and what is unnecessary.  The thing is, you can swing both ways in your own business.  You can throw money at every idea that comes up, or you can refuse to spend a penny on anything beyond the bare necessities.

Neither of those attitudes are going to get you to the success that you are looking for!  That is why you need to know how to manage your business from both an Inner and Outer level.  If you are managing at an Inner, or energetic level, you can more clearly make those decisions regarding investments.

You will be calm and aligned at an energetic level with whatever steps you want to take, which will make those steps even more effective!

There’s a lot of thinking outside the box going on right now – people are turning to new ways of allocating their resources and even new ways of using their current employees. Read more

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