How to Live Abundantly: The Secret

Last night I watched a very inspiring movie that has the power to change the way the world thinks and acts. It is called The Secret (www.thesecret.tv )and can be watched on DVD or online (for $4.95). I was so impressed with the movie, I’ve passed it on to many of my clients. It is definitely a "must see"!

Much of what life coaches teach their clients are the Principles of Attraction and Abundance and this is what The Secret is all about. These two principles are so life-changing that, once learned and lived, you will never go back to your previous way of thinking.

In a nutshell, the Principle of Attraction says that our thoughts are energy. What we think about most manifests itself. If we think about, focus on, complain about or somehow give thought energy to everything wrong in our lives, then our negative energy (and behaviors) attracts just more of the same thing we don’t want.

Conversly, when we focus on what we want (all the GREAT stuff we can have in life), we can naturally attract ALL that we want into our lives. The key here is being aware of and consciously choosing and envisioning what we think about and where we put our thought energy.

This is where the Principle of Abundance comes into play. Begin from a place of being aware of and thankful for all that you already have in life. Notice how your energy changes when you make a list of what you are grateful for! When you put yourself in a positive emotional space, you are in a position to effortlessly attract what you want. It is an amazing process that has worked for me and for millions of people for centuries!

Women as Global Role Models

This past Tuesday I gave a presentation at the Women in Leadership Forum in Munich organized by QS Top Career Forums (www.qsforums.com). The event was a recruiting and networking forum attended by top companies like DaimlerChrysler, Roland Berger, Shell and several others to speak with the best and brightest global women who are expected to be the next generation of female leaders.

The women who attended my workshop were incredibly savvy and intelligent young women from around the world who were interested in finding the perfect job and career. I told them that what I wanted most for them was to not only attract that perfect job and career, but to go beyond that to embrace their true passion and purpose in life so that they could become global role models for others.

We spoke about the personal and professional benefits of becoming Global Role Models in their organizations, families and communities. For me the basis of being a role model is having a strong personal foundation. Practicing that is a life-long process. All of them agreed that they could reach their personal and professional goals faster and more efficiently by partnering with the right life coach, business coach, mentor or support group.

My challenge to them (and to you, if you choose to accept it), is to find a coach with whom you connect well and who can move you forward to an EXTRAORDINARY life!

Self Check: Are you already where you want to be, but just don’t know it?

Coaching can be quite an amusing business. I just got off the phone with a potential client. She told me she felt honored to speak with me because I am doing what she wants to do. She categorizes herself as a "global citizen" and wants to become a global life coach. Then she proceeded to tell me about her wonderfully inspirational plans to someday – in maybe 15-20 years -  have a non-profit organization where she can be living out her purpose. Problem is she thinks she’ll need money to buy a building for her organization.

After listening closely to the projects she is currently working on and how they match up perfectly with her values, purpose and non-profit’s mission, I asked her something like, "So, why will this take you 15-20 years?? It sounds like you’ve been living your purpose for quite some time now. YOU embody all that your non-profit org is supposed to be about. What is stopping you from having your non-prof NOW?"

After a long pause, which was probably the "shift" sinking in of bringing a 15-20 year goal into the possibility of the PRESENT MOMENT, she said something along the lines of "Nothing…I could do that now….I AM doing that now…"  WOW!

It is amazing, and yet amusing, when clients make that big shift! I am wondering how many other people out there are already doing what they want to be doing in 20 years, but just can’t really see it?

Amazing!!