Happy Valentine’s Day

Are You Prepared For Love?

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

Love, the expression of love and the acceptance of love, doesn’t happen by accident.

The way we express love and accept love is often more a reflection of how we were raised than an indicator of our true, inner capabilities to give and receive love.

So if you want to change your experience of love, not only through that special someone, but through all your relationships, as well, you must prepare yourself for love.

Prepare Yourself to Be Loved

People, even that special someone, can attempt to share their love and esteem for you through words, deeds, and gestures all day. But unless you have prepared yourself to accept their gifts of love, you won’t recognize what they do, say, or give to you as love.

You must expand your capacity to recognize and accept love. So I ask you, what helps put you in a receptive space?

Do you need to reflect and possibly forgive yourself for something that can open a space for others to give to you? Do you need to make amends with another so you feel deserving of love from others? Do you need to care for yourself in some way so you will recognize caring gestures from another?

Prepare Yourself to Love

Loving others can be challenging. It’s easy to feel loving when the other person is behaving in a pleasing manner or is meeting expectations.

But people and situations are inherently imperfect. Can you express love to someone when they aren’t meeting your expectations; when they’re late, or make mistakes, or seem distracted?

I’m not advocating accepting inappropriate behavior. I’m talking about when someone is different; when they express different opinions, or make different life choices than you, or than you would want for them.

If you are not feeling like you’re getting the love you want in your life, it may be time to look at what is getting in the way.

When the process of loving and being loved seems to go awry, it could be seen as an invitation to consider Love more closely. We clear and set the table to enjoy dinner, why not prepare for loving events too?

If your day of love wasn’t everything you hoped it would be, and you would like a little one-on-one support to explore how to create and tend a deeper space to experience love contact me for a no-charge, introductory session designed to look at what gets in the way of experiencing the love you want, and how to remove any blocks to that love. Call me at 541-488-1678 and ask to schedule your own introductory session.

Confidence When It Counts, A Presentation

If you missed Confidence When It Counts, here’s a 5 minute presentation version I did recently. Enjoy!

Confidence When It Counts, Part 1

Confidence When It Counts, Part 2

Thank You For Attending Confidence When It Counts

Thanks to all of you who attended Confidence When It Counts

And a special thank you to those of you who bravely stepped forward and shared your experience. I admire each of you.

Confidence When It Counts, Upcoming No-Charge Teleclass

Ready to Take On The World! That’s the attitude, Confidence When It Counts, I want to help you achieve. What Can Bring Back Confidence When You’ve Taken a Hit? I’ve been asked a number of times to create a class to help people with their confidence levels, especially for those who have to call or meet with people. Whether you’ve suffered a recent Confidence setback, need more confidence under pressure, or simply want to increase your confidence level, I’ve designed a class with a simple exercise I’d like to share with you, live. If you’ve ever felt Confidence, you have a powerful tool you may not be using, that you can use to increase or reclaim your confidence level now. And if you need confidence in a new area of your life, I’ve got a way for you to use what you’ve experienced in the past to prepave your desired result for the future, today. Join me for an introductory 1 Hour – Confidence When It Counts Teleclass This is an actual working class. Come prepared to roll up your sleeves, put your thinking cap on, listen to your heart, and look at your situation with fresh eyes. In this call we will explore: What nurtures Confidence and what starves Confidence An exercise that virtually guarantees Confidence anytime, anywhere. You will take away: Your own “In Case of Confidence Emergency” confidence resource This is a live class. I’ll be opening the line for those who want to work with me to increase their confidence (or you can quietly work the process on your own, your choice). Come prepared to experience new insight, and a new, powerful way of working with your past to improve your future. Can’t make the call? Sign up anyway and you’ll receive a special bonus.

Contact Information

Deborah Ivanoff, PhD, MSC 541-488-1678 Deborah@AnsweringTheSacred.com

Rich Vision Rich Pocket MasterMind Moments

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?

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

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?

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

smARTist Telesummit 2012

This January, I have the rare pleasure of joining a wonderful group of business and creative teachers and coaches to help support artists in their craft and businesses. The theme this year is Communicating with Confidence.

I hope if you’re an artist, or have a friend who is an artist, you’ll consider joining us for a week of valuable speakers and panel discussions.

Visit the website here.

smARTist Telesummit 2012

Do you ever wonder why some artists are wildly successful and others can’t figure it out? One critical reason is they’ve learned the secrets to connections that inspire sales.

Communicate with Total Confidence to the Right Buyers and Collectors so You Too Can Grow Your Sales

smARTist presents the longest running, online (and off!) professional development conference for visual artists.

This Online, Live, 7-Day Art Career Conference Is For You If…

• You are ready to connect with collectors, communicate with confidence and make more sales.
• You want your artwork in the world and are confused, or overwhelmed, about the best way to go about this.
• You toy with the idea of working as a full time artist, and aren’t sure where to start.
• You work as a full time artist and you want new ideas and more inspiration to sell your art.
• You know there are better ways to market your art, online and off, and aren’t sure which ones work best.
• You have lots of ideas, and want help focusing on where to begin and how to keep going.
• You want support and information from fellow artists who are on this path with you.

Click here to see the roster of topics and speakers and to sign up.

Masterminding Moments Happy New Year

When Was the Last Time You Reconnected With Your Passion and Purpose in Your Business?

My masterminds ended the year last year with an assignment to write a “love list” for their businesses; refreshing themselves in what they loved most about, and what had drawn them to, business for themselves originally.

What Would Be Your Manifesto?

One member took the assignment to all together more intentional level. She had come to the Mastermind to reconnect with her creative process. And connect she did! She wrote her own Manifesto (aka Jerry McGuire style) which blew the roof off of any resistance or block she’d feel experiencing in her business. Now she’s basking in focus, clarity and enthusiasm for her business and her life.

Another member says she’s feeding her own spirit again, not only nourishing her business but making new, more courageous decisions and taking new, more definitive actions.

Waa Hoo! I’m so Impressed!

Next week, we’ll be discussing  the fantasy of the “desire for speed and huge leaps” vs. the ease and power of creating a momentum in our businesses.

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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