Did 11-11-11 Catch You By Surprise?

I hate to admit it, but I really wasn’t paying attention much to all the buzz around the 11-11-11 phenomenon. Heaven knows I received enough e-mails on the topic, even from some unexpected sources.

But it wasn’t until my daughter mentioned that she and her partner, currently in his first year at Reed College, had wanted to spend the day together and make wishes together at 11:11 am and 11:11 pm, today, 11-11-11, that it hit me what a sensation today is becoming.

photo credit: Tarter Time Photography

Dreams May Come True, They Can Happen to You…

A friend commented that something rare sparks our wish that wishes do come true, that magical things happen and that we can create what we want simply by by our believing it. We laughed about how 11-11-11 can mean anything you want it to mean.

My comment is “so why not make it mean something you do want!?”

So What Can It Mean?

I asked another friend what would she want to make 11-11-11 mean and I loved her answer. She said she’d like 11-11-11 to mean that our wishes our our prayers on this day were in alignment with one another and with a higher good for us all.

I loved that. Just had to share. So today, I invite you to adopt a meaning for 11-11-11 that works for you, for your good, and for the good of all.

See you all in my wishes at 11:11 pm 11-11-11!

Deborah

P.S. Did you make a wish today?

Do You Know Your Perfect Question?

In just over a week, I’ll be hosting a tele-work-play-call to help people find their own unique, perfect question to use like a magic wand to change what they are experiencing from what they have now, to what they more truly want.

Business Is Changing

It got me to reminiscing about my own business and the perfect questions I’ve been using to lead myself to  a place in my business that felt better.

“Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential. Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers”. …Tony Robbins

Like many people, I think I’ve noticed changes in many areas of life; my industry, coaching and training, being one of them. I admit to a certain resistance to the way coaches were more successfully connecting with their clients.  I had a real inner dialogue running about the industry, about my own abilities with the new social media technologies, and about the business aspects of my business in general.

Coaching Myself Through My Resistance

Coaching myself around the resistance and seeking outside coaching around new skill sets has led to many new realizations and an ongoing unfolding into new possibilities for the form serving with my unique skill set demands.

One extremely helpful coaching technique has been to use “connecting questions”, questions of power that unleash fresh, new possibilities.

Questions That Sparked Positive Change

Here are some of the questions I have been using to guide me into infusing my business with new energy:

1. What needs to be healed or transformed for a new belief in my ability to grow and change along with the changes to the coaching industry?
2. I wonder what techniques would best support me as I change my old patterns that no longer fit the way successful coaches do business, into new patterns that serve both my business and my clients.
3. How can I take what I’m learning about what is unique and helpful to others, that lives inside of me, and present that in a way that only those who are currently looking for those services can’t help but be magnetically drawn to my offerings.
4. Who must I be and what must I do to continue to serve my current client base, to encourage and support them, while exploring other market place arenas?

As I grow in my ability as a business person, to support my business in ways that best support my clients as well, what can I do to learn and perfect the skills that will be needed for my future business success?

Power Questions Change the Future Several Ways

By asking one such question each week, and then looking for the answers, I did several things:

• I sharpened by preference and intention
• I directed my busy monkey-mind to activity that served my business
• I changed what I experienced because of what it was I was looking for (that’s Law of Attraction, that is!)

But Wait, There’s More

To put a cherry on top, I kept a weekly positive evidence notebook, for myself and to share with my various mastermind partners.

Create Your Perfect Question

Want to know how to create your own perfect question to keep your mind directed to bring you want you want? I hope you’ll join me for Ask The Right Question, on November 16.

Or contact me about joining one of my Mastermind support groups; reasonably priced, momentum generating weekly meetings with other good people doing good work in the world.