Confidence When It Counts, Upcoming No-Charge Teleclass
February 2, 2012 by Deborah Ivanoff
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Rich Vision Rich Pocket MasterMind Moments
February 1, 2012 by Deborah Ivanoff
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First the Vision
Last week I began a new Mastermind group and after hearing from everyone about what they wanted to accomplish in the next 90 days with the support of the group, I led them on a brief visioning with the help of some vivid inner senses.
The rational brain can sometimes get in the way, by teaming up with it’s ally, the ego, and make a mockery out of our visualizations. That leaves them falling flat and ineffective.
Have Fun With It
To have some fun and get around that rational brain thinking too small, I called upon some senses that can be overlooked in “visualizations”; sound, touch, taste and even smell.
When was the last time you thought about what your vision of the future smelled like, tasted like, or felt like beneath your touch?
Needless to say, the whole group lit up with excitement over pink, yellow and even gold visions that smelled like fresh rain on steamy asphalt or vanilla waffle cones but downy or silky to the touch.
Get to The Glory
When the inner vision evokes that much passion, you know, energetically, that your “order to the Universe” is going to be received clearly.
Have some fun with it yourself. Or better yet, come join me and get the kind of support that supports you and your business.
I lead small, highly personalized, targeted and results-oriented groups each week for entrepreneurs, serious about creating dynamic changes in their businesses and personal lives. We have a great time and we get more done together than any of us could alone!
Not like any mastermind you’ve ever experienced; call me if you’d like to discuss whether this format might work for you and your business. 541-488-1678
Facing Discouragement? Disapproval?
January 28, 2012 by Deborah Ivanoff
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SmARTist Smashing Success Panel
This week I joined the 6th annual SmARTist Telesummit panel to help emerging and established artists grow their businesses doing what they love.
Getting Past The Things That Get In Our Way
In reality, every issue explored, was an issue any entrepreneur who has a passion for their business faces.
Participants went straight to the real questions that face them every day. And I fielded questions about discouragement and disapproval from those closest to us.
Fabulous questions, amazing answers. As a special treat, I’m including a substantial sound bite. A. Goodwin of smARTist Telesummit, 2012, asks me to answer a question about how to face discouragement:
Want More?
Be on the lookout for my upcoming Confidence That Counts and Be Your Own Superhero no-charge teleconferences.
The Difference Between Yearnings and Cravings, Mastermind Moments
January 19, 2012 by Deborah Ivanoff
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We All Have Things We Want
But do these things come from our ego self, and can therefore be nothing but impermanent, or from a deeper part that wants to expand and express more of it’s beingness, thereby lasting forever?
That was a question that arose, believe it or not, in response to some deep questioning by one of the participants in a business mastermind?
What came of the conversation, shared among the members, was the idea of the difference between “yearnings” and “cravings”.
There is no end of craving.
Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness.
Therefore, acquire contentment.
Sivananda
Yearning vs. Cravings
People came to agree that cravings were something we hoped to satisfy with some consuming or acquiring. But ultimately, cravings can only be satisfied temporarily.
Yearnings, on the other hand, were thought to come from a deeper, more permanent place inside us. They are an invitation to a call to action. Explored, answered and acted upon, yearnings can yield actual changes to our being that can last…forever.
Take the yearning to become a musician, or an artist. Once acted upon, and a new skill set is practiced, the satisfaction of expressing music or painting can not be taken from us.
Or consider the yearning to enjoy the business that we began to be independent, practice a unique talent, or just to experience challenge. This yearning can actually be calling us to be more capable, able, and to provide a greater service that is needed in the world. Again, once earned, these will go on.
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning
for union with one’s lost self.
Brendan Francis
What Do You Long For?
So what are you experiencing, craving? Or yearning?
If it’s yearning, what is it calling to you to become? You don’t have to explore on your own. Get the support you need to make the progress you want.
Wish you had a safe, supportive, structured, place each week that could aid you in becoming who and what you want this year?
I lead small, highly personalized, targeted and results-oriented groups each week for entrepreneurs, serious about creating dynamic changes in their businesses and personal lives. We have a great time and we get more done together than any of us could alone!
Not like any mastermind you’ve ever experienced; call me if you’d like to discuss whether this format might work for you and your business. 541-488-1678
Masterminding Moments, What Is Getting in Your Way?
January 11, 2012 by Deborah Ivanoff
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Getting Rid of What Gets in Your Way
Sometimes what gets in our way is an outdated belief or story about ourself such as “I don’t have a choice, I have to do this.”
But at other times, what gets in the way is literally too much stuff; too many books, e-mail, catalogs, or clothes.
Whether it’s actual physical clutter, or the inner clutter of outdated ideas and behaviors, the outer result can be the same, an energy drag.
Lose the Drag
In physics it’s called “friction” and it what slows a moving object. In one of my masterminds this week we called it “clutter”, “roadblock”, “drama” which, as we explored together, has the same effect of slowing us down, or in some cases bringing our goals to a standstill.
How do you declutter your inner and outer environment? Inspiring one another, my mastermind group came up with several inspired ideas:
- Get the whole family/whole office involved; make it a party atmosphere and include a fun activity when a space is cleared (this is good for actual physical declutter and reorganizing).
- Take regular getaway retreats of some kind to unwind and allow the inner world to declutter and reorganize (the inspiration was to avoid waiting, but plan and book a trip asap).
- Find a high school student with a knack for clearing and reorganizing. Give him/her a table and several labeled boxes for trash, donation, etc and keep busy nearby doing something that uses your own unique talent.
That’s just a few of the ideas that popped up. Now it’s your turn. What better time to get your new year off on the right speed and direction than now. Clear out anything that might get in your way and get going!
Wish you had a safe, supportive, structured, place each week that could aid you in becoming who and what you want this year?
I lead small, highly personalized, targeted and results-oriented groups each week for entrepreneurs, serious about creating dynamic changes in their businesses and personal lives. We have a great time and we get more done together than any of us could alone!
Not like any mastermind you’ve ever experienced; call me if you’d like to discuss whether this format might work for you and your business. 541-488-1678

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