Today I’m talking about structures, plans and systems that nurture and grow your dreams.
Creatives tend to resist this stuff – but without it your dream WILL wither and die.? So let’s build structures!
Creative Dream TV: When you resist structure, you sabotage your dreams. Read More »
I set a big goal for my business for 2014: to welcome 800 dreamers into my Creative Dream Circle. And to do this not by getting super pushy about selling – but to do this with heart and soul and creativity and joy and LOVE.
(you can read my original post about this here)
At this point though, it?s less about the numbers and more about growing my capacity to serve dreamers everywhere in living gorgeously with their dreams – gorgeously meaning in alignment with their inner truth.
In support of this goal, I am writing weekly updates on Fridays, for all of 2014. This is where I’ll share the story of all the ups and downs of bringing a big dream to life.
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So the last month or so this has felt stupidly complicated.
I’ve been exploring, and ultimately decided to totally recreate, my marketing plan.
This kind of stems back to the question I was asking when I first started this journey: To get a different result, do I have to do something different than I’ve been doing, or do I just have to do MORE of what I’ve been doing?
I’m not a marketing expert.? I’m really happy that I’ve learned enough about it to make a living doing the work that lights me up.? But my marketing has always felt a little murky.
Marketing is essentially being clear about who you help and how you help them and explaining that in a way that they can understand.? I’ve got a Bernina sewing machine.? When I run into trouble with it, I go to the Bernina authorized dealer & repair shop.? I know that they are the ones to solve my problem.? They help Bernina machine owners keep their machine running happily.
It’s never been that cut and dried for me to say WHO I help or even HOW I help.
The last few years my marketing message has been that I can help creative, spiritual people make their dreams real.
My job is to hold the space of where you want to be, give you the tools that help you build a path that leads to where you want to be, and hold the space for you to complete the construction.
That’s what I do in the Creative Dream Circle.
And that’s what I’m going to do in my marketing now.
So this is my new plan:
I’m going to talk about living gorgeously with your dreams instead of talking about how to get your dream.
Which is still talking about the same thing but with a different vibe.? It floats above resistance.? It’s more inspiring and encouraging.
People who believe that their dream is impossible are probably not going to want to listen.? People who are living gorgeously with their dreams, like the people in the Circle, are going to be inspired to listen more closely.
Until now, when I’ve tried to really dig down and get clearer on my marketing…? Blah blah fucking blah.? That is all I can think when I try to focus on it which is why I have not focused on it very much at all.
I want to admit here that when I first started taking business classes, when I was still doing my classes in-person and just thinking about moving it online, I cried, A LOT, about how hard it was to nail this stuff down.
But now, here I am on the other side of it.? These past few months I’ve spent a whole ton of time and energy focused on exactly this thing? – who do I really want to serve and how – and yes it was really frustrating at times but my results are INSPIRING.
My heart is actually sparkling with joy about the to-do list I put together for this week.? I want to EXPLODE with happiness about having a 2014 class calendar all set up (more on that below).
I want to sing and dance about how I feel about promoting the upcoming Creative With Money course I’m doing in the Circle.
You have to be wiling to shift through the muck to get to clarity.? They’re both necessary parts of the process.
I also simplified & updated my website to align with how I’m feeling about this now, and added a welcoming new home page.? (I do plan to record a new video for it – hopefully soon)
The new header is one of my dream-bots, and let me tell you: he is THRILLED to sit at the top of the page and be able to welcome you here.
He invokes ease, support & delight.
Another result of that digging is that I created a course calendar… FOR THE WHOLE YEAR.
I’m going to create SIX new courses and run a few of my old favourites.
The new classes are very much about living gorgeously with your dreams and LOVING LOVING LOVING the deliciousness of creative soulful exploration.? Lots of journaling and magic-making.? Deep, transformative processes and playful healing work.
And I feel amazing, having a solid schedule mapped out for the whole year. It’s an incredible relief to know what I’m going to be doing all year.? (Though it’s also spacious enough to accommodate change)
And the work I’ve set up for myself to do is inspiring the heck out of me!
In terms of numbers, so far this year I’m not getting more sign-ups than I used to when I ran all of my courses separately.
The Circle is just over 80 members now, growing slowly.? I’m accepting that it may not grow fast enough for me to stop doing one-on-one sessions completely, but/and I’m feeling really optimistic and happy with it.
I love what I’ve built.? I love the people that have joined.? It is growing slower than I’d hoped but that seems so small in comparison to how happy I am.
And I do anticipate an upswing in new members as we get closer to Creative With Money (starting April 3) which is a really fantastically awesome class, if I do say so myself.
One thing I do need to do more of that I’ve been totally stuck on is SHARING PEOPLE’S STORIES.
Miracles are happening all the time inside the Circle and I know if more people knew about it they’d want to be a part of it.? I know that sharing these stories is fun and inspiring and the best selling tool I’ve got and I haven’t been doing it.
So that’s what I’m exploring now.? Not so much “why am I not doing this?” but more “how can I find a way to start doing this that I feel comfortable with?”.? There has got to be a creative, soulful, EASY entry point to doing that, and I’m going to find it.
Update #15: BREAKTHROUGH. Living gorgeously with my dreams. Read More »
I set a big goal for my business for 2014: to welcome 800 dreamers into my Creative Dream Circle. And to do this not by getting super pushy about selling – but to do this with heart and soul and creativity and joy and LOVE.
(you can read my original post about this here)
At this point though, it?s less about the numbers and more about growing my capacity to serve dreamers everywhere in bringing their dreams to life.
In support of this goal, I am writing weekly updates on Fridays, for all of 2014. This is where I’ll share the story of all the ups and downs of bringing a big dream to life.
Last week I talked about how I am re-building my marketing plan.? As I’ve been exploring the world of my business I’ve been creating this wall of business planning stuff…
Being able to see it all in front of me helps me be clear about what I want to do next.
This week started a little rocky, I needed extra space & gentleness to get comfortable in this new space.? This is normal any time you shift or heal anything inside of you – you need time to adjust to living as this new version of you.? Sometimes the adjustment is hard because you’re letting go of old ways of being.
Even if your old ways of being were not really serving you, they were familiar.? And humans sure like the familiar!
So letting them go is more complicated than just brushing them off – it takes some work to fully adjust.
So I’ve been adjusting.
Which, this week at least, has meant spending a lot of time becoming irritated with myself!
Like – new me, me who believes in herself more than ever, has these new ways of being that are important to her that I don’t actually know about yet.? I just find out when she gets irritated that I am not doing them.
If this sounds hard to understand – imagine how hard it is so BE in it!
Like, she really doesn’t want to relax in the evening by watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and eating popcorn.? So when I kept doing that she would freak out but I didn’t know what was happening, I was just feeling really annoyed with myself and wishing I was doing something else but not knowing what that something else is.
(We learn all about how to do this with grace & ease in Module 6 of the Creative Dream Incubator e-course)
Once I understood what was happening it was so much easier to deal with.? I really like living as the me who believes in herself more.? I like that she would rather sew adorable clothes than watch Buffy.? And it’s really fun to learn more about who and how she wants to be in the world.
A dream come true (on the outside) happens after a million tiny changes (on the inside).
I know what I want to do, it’s just when I try to nail down the dates I get all procrastination-y and weird about it.
So I took my journal out for a latte.? (That’s what I do when I am resisting something.? If I stay home it’s too easy to jump up and do something else.? If I go to a coffee shop with a specific intention, 9 times out of 10 I actually do the thing.)
I started writing about what I wanted to do, listing the classes, then listing the months of the year and it seemed fairly simple to just match them all up…
Except it wasn’t simple, at all.
I had all these inner critics and fears pop up about choosing the wrong classes.
So, using the Un-Sticking Station inside the Creative Dream Circle, I met with EVERY inner critic and fear I had about this.? And I brought in healing for EVERY inner critic and fear I had about this.
When you HEAL an inner critic or fear there is a huge gift.? The essence of these parts of you are powerful and helpful – they’re just all tangled up in some bullshit story.? When you un-tangle the story and heal the pain around it – you can access the essence.
This time in healing my inner critics and fears I was able to access the essences of Steadiness and Presence.
Steadiness and Presence feel like the most amazing Superpowers that ever superpowered.
And now I trust myself to create the schedule now, I’m not all tangly and frustrated about it.
I’m also looking at how bringing more stability and presence into my daily routines, weekly schedule and business plans can help.
I worry it will get too big too fast and I won’t know how to handle it.
I worry I’ll get overwhelmed.
But then – I look at what happens in the Circle.
?I?ve actually accomplished more and received more clarity in the 4 weeks I?ve been in the Creative Dream Circle than I have in the past 4 years going it alone.?
Carrie Anspach, www.dirtygirlpottery.wordpress.com
“I?m one of those people who used to think that I didn?t have enough time or money to participate in the Creative Dream Circle.
I realize now that thinking I didn?t have enough time or money was just an excuse. It was kind of tied into not believing in my own self worth, like I shouldn?t spend the money or take time away from my kids to do this because it was silly and it wasn?t going to cause a change in my life so what?s the point.
That was just my inner critic talking, I realize now, and boy was my inner critic wrong!
These resources and the daily practice of connecting with my creativity has changed my life! It has impacted my relationships and my outlook?in such a positive profound way in such a short period of time that there is no way I would ever stop playing in the Creative Dream Circle.”
Melody Flurry
When I remember that, when I look at how AMAZING all the members are, how supportive and kind and creative and smart they are – well why wouldn’t I want MORE of them to play with?
Every morning I wake up and find tiny miracles happening in the Circle.
I love what we are doing there.
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I set a big goal for my business for 2014: to welcome 800 dreamers into my Creative Dream Circle. And to do this not by getting super pushy about selling – but to do this with heart and soul and creativity and joy and LOVE.
(you can read my original post about this here)
At this point – 13 weeks in – the goal is less about the numbers and more about stretching my capacity to serve dreamers everywhere in bringing their dreams to LIFE.
In support of this goal, I am writing weekly updates on Fridays, for all of 2014. This is where I’ll share the story of all the ups and downs of bringing a big dream to life.
I feel like I’ve hit a whole new level of creative spiritual entrepreneurship and I am VERY happy to be here.
Inside the Creative Dream Circle, we’re working on module 4 of the Creative Dream Incubator which is all about transforming fear, turning inner critics into allies and shifting comfort zones to include less of what you don’t want and more of what you do want.
I’ve gone through this process many times, and each time there are new gifts in it for me.
And each time it gets a little easier to face my fears.
My fears are showing up TINY and with a sense of great spaciousness around them.
This has a such a radical impact on how I feel!
Which is giving me a clearer perspective, which is helping me see the things I wasn’t seeing before.
It’s not just that I have the courage to look at the things I didn’t want to look at before, it’s that I can look at them and see through the problem right to the solution.
Of course, I’ve been working on my new Guided Journal & Colouring Book: You Got This. Dissolving Doubt & Bolstering Your Potential to Believe in Yourself and the book is working its magic on me, for sure.
(That book will be available on TUESDAY!)
And, this is update THIRTEEN – that’s thirteen weeks of focused attention to what I want to create.? Momentum builds over time.
I’ve got Hiro Boga‘s words ringing in my ears, something she said to me when I asked her a question that I am still working out the answer to.? I had a tea date with Jamie Ridler and as we chatted about what we’re doing in our businesses I got a HUGE piece of clarity.? Then I asked Kate James a question about marketing and her response brought me to exactly where I need to be.
Even though I work alone, I have such a rich network of creative support.? Feeling super grateful for this.
When I started this series, I shared the things I was going to do each week, including making time to revisit some of the better business courses I have taken over the years, like Unveiling the Heart of your Business (highly highly recommended if you are just starting out in business) and Become Your Own Business Adviser (much more expensive but highly recommended if you are a little further along) and the book The Creative Entrepreneur.
I’ve been doing that, a bit.?? But I was kind of just flitting around, reading things here and there, and not being clear on where to focus.
This week I saw where I need to focus: marketing.
It’s like I am looking at everything with much clearer eyes right now and seeing new possibilities, so I want to re-build.
What I’ve been doing has worked, so it hadn’t really occurred to me to take it apart and re-build it.
I was operating on the assumption that if you can get 10 people you can get 100, and it you can get 100 you can get 800 – it just takes more time.? And the most important part is to stretch your internal capacity, so that’s where I focused.
Well now that I have been stretching my internal capacity for 13 weeks I see things differently.
Also, if you’ve been following these updates you know I’ve been doing a lot of journaling and exploring what “working” means and what I want it to mean in my business, and how I want my business to feel for me and what kind of impact I want it to have.
It’s all coming to a head now.? I can see how and where things aren’t working – according to my NEW definition.? I can see how to take apart the parts that are not working.? I can see what I want to build.
I’ve spent two years building the insides of the Creative Dream Circle as my full-time job.? Now it’s time to build an outside that is worthy of the inside.
It’s a happy surprise, but still – I don’t want them to be surprised!? I want to be describing it better and I feel really clear right now on how to do that.
I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me, and I am super excited about diving into it.
PS: Remember if you join the Circle NOW – you get to come to next week’s Creative Journal Playdate!
Update #13. Unlocking a new level of Believing in Myself Read More »
I set a big goal for my business for 2014: to welcome 800 dreamers into my Creative Dream Circle. And to do this not by getting super pushy about selling – but to do this with heart and soul and creativity and joy and LOVE.
(you can read my original post about this here)
In support of this goal, I am writing weekly updates on Fridays, for all of 2014. This is where I’ll share the story of all the ups and downs of bringing a big dream to life.
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I do want to keep posting updates every week, even when I don’t have any real news – mostly to show how small steps add up to miracles over time.
It’s really about sticking with it day after day.? Sitting down to do the work, day after day.? Doing what you need to do to stay inspired, day after day.
Other people will be inspired and interested when something exciting is happening.
You need to stay inspired and interested even when nothing is happening.
This week I did lots of really great journaling.? Lots of exploring how I want everything in my work life to be.
The answer to that question has always been shifting as I am always growing.
I know the Circle is key because dreams need on-going support, that’s why I want to focus on the Circle instead of focusing on private sessions or e-courses.
I went back to offering private sessions recently because it’s something I LOVE to do and I was inspired to do so, but only on a limited basis – I don’t want that to take up the bulk of my time or energy.
I know DREAMERS are who I am here to serve because I am so passionate in my belief that our dreams come true will save the world.
Not that I am letting this goal go (I’m not!), this is just how I’m feeling about it right now.
I am focused on creating special new treats for Circle members.
There are two ways to grow a business: outward or inward.
Outward as in reaching out and growing your audience.
Inward as in reaching in and serving your people more fully.
You can do both or one or the other.
For a long while my focus was inward as I was building the Circle.? Once the Circle was ready for more members, I thought my focus should shift to outward.
Now I’m thinking no.
Feeling overwhelmed and awkward can be signs of being out of your comfort zone which is part of what you have to do in the process of change.
Feeling overwhelmed and awkward can be signs that what you’re doing just isn’t right for you.
You have to dig deeper into your feelings to know: is what you’re doing aligned with your truth and it’s just awkward to stretch into the next level, or is what you’re doing not quite aligned with your truth?
That’s where I’m at.
I think being outward focused is #2 for me right now – not quite aligned with my truth.? But I could just be trying to bullshit myself because I don’t like being uncomfortable.
As I shared last week, it was liberating to see that being outwards focused for January didn’t result in more sales for January (over last January).? But does that mean being outward focused doesn’t work for me or does that mean I need to give it more time?
This week I gave away my first guided journal and mandala colouring book: You Are Loved.
This book is a mini version of a series of books I wanted to create.? I put this out there as a test to see if I really do like making these and if anyone is going to care about them.
Delightfully, I LOVED making it and yes people do like it.
So I am working on the first full-sized version which I will be releasing next week.? Ideally, I’d like to make one every month.? They’d be free for Creative Dream Circle members and available for sale on my website.
Plus I just scheduled a streaming video journal party (for Circle members only) to celebrate the first one.? This next book will be out next week and the streaming video playdate will be the following week.
I have a LOT of inspiration and joy and energy for this.
This is being very inward focused which is in my comfort zone.
I’ll keep exploring whether or not this is the right path for me, or if I am just trying to avoid the discomfort of stretching into something new.? My hunch is that I do need to be doing BOTH.
Feeling overwhelmed and awkward about some parts of this… Read More »
I set a big goal for my business for 2014: to welcome 800 dreamers into my Creative Dream Circle. And to do this not by getting super pushy about selling – but to do this with heart and soul and creativity and joy and LOVE.
(you can read my original post about this here)
In support of this goal, I am writing weekly updates on Fridays, for all of 2014. This is where I’ll share the story of all the ups and downs of bringing a big dream to life.
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When you have a dream, you almost always have things you know you could do about it, that you are not doing. Like – I want to write a book but I am not sitting down to write.
The things you know to do are not necessarily the things that are going to get you what you want. But doing them gets you moving.
When you stay in your stories of what you think it will be like, instead of diving into the process, you create an energy of resistance around you.
I had an energy of resistance around me about doing everything I could to promote my courses.? So last month I decided to do ALL THE THINGS I knew to do, to promote it.
Exhausting, yes. But it created movement and detangled the resistance energy around me. Totally worth it.
While I was happy with the number of people who signed up for the Creative Dream Incubator last month, it was only a small increase over how many people signed up last January. And given that I dropped the price this year, it meant I didn’t make more money this January than I did last January.
That was disappointing. I still made more money than I need, doing the things I love most, so it’s not a total bust or anything.
What if WORKING MY ASS OFF had doubled my income?
Wouldn’t I then be tempted to keep WORKING MY ASS OFF as my permanent plan, instead of temporary measures to get myself out of resistance and into movement?
Even though I was journaling in a coffee shop, I actually laughed out loud about this. Of course I didn’t want it to work!
But now I see all these new possibilities for how this can work, now that I am MOVING with this.
It’s like that process of doing everything I thought I “should” be doing was little a clarifying fire. It burned off all this bullshit and has left me so much more connected to my truth. The inner critic who says “You have to follow the rules” is probably not totally gone, but got a LOT smaller this week.
Such a beautiful thing and totally worth the discomfort of staying out of my comfort zone last month.
People are opening up to their dreams and miracles are happening. I never get tired of seeing this happen.
The energy of the Circle is amazing and it is drawing new people in.
I’m also hearing a recurring theme from new members, that they have wanted to join for a long time, but they were scared because they knew that joining would mean dropping all of their excuses for why they can’t have what they want. And dropping your excuses is terrifying!
(Well, actually, I think getting to the end of your life and looking back to see you followed other people’s rules and didn’t get any of YOUR dreams is much more terrifying)
The Circle is a SAFE space for doing this work and for facing the hard stuff in the lightest possible way.? People are so relieved to find there is so much love and support for doing this work with LIGHTNESS.
Now I’m wondering – how do I create more of that safety out here? A public blog is not a clear, solid container like a private program is. But there have to be ways to invite more of those qualities in, there has to be a way to create a safer path.
This weekend I’ll be journaling about that, and exploring some exciting ideas that are springing up in the places where the “you have to follow the rules” inner critic used to hang out.
How disappointment is LIBERATING Read More »
I set a big goal for my business for 2014: to welcome 800 dreamers into my Creative Dream Circle. And to do this not by getting super pushy about selling – but to do this with heart and soul and creativity and joy and LOVE.
(you can read my original post about this here)
In support of this goal, I am writing weekly updates on Fridays, for all of 2014. This is where I’ll share the story of all the ups and downs of bringing a big dream to life.
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I remember the first time I read what Deepak Chopra said about the process of metamorphosis, how a caterpillar turns into mush and a butterfly is born out of that mush and how our transformation works in the same way.
You don’t just suddenly sprout wings.? You turn into mush and then emerge from the mush brighter, stronger and truer.
This week, I am that mush!
It feels like new space is opening up inside me.? Like my heart has more room now.
Good stuff happened this week which I’m not ready to talk about just yet, since I am in the mush.
So I’m just not in the headspace to share a detailed practical kind of update.
I can say that the Creative Dream Incubator e-Course started inside the Creative Dream Circle this week and it’s AMAZING.
We’ve got over 70 members in the Circle now which is buzzing and sparkling.
I worked hard this month, I kept the pedal to the metal.? I tripled my web traffic!? I welcomed really wonderfully fantastic new members into the Circle!
I am really happy with how this is going.
I don’t want to let the mushiness of transformation and shifting into something new that I am feeling right now to dampen the momentum I worked hard to build.
So, this weekend I’m spending some time with my journal, my analytics and these questions:
What worked?
What didn’t work?
How am I defining “worked”?? Am I clear on how much energy I want to be putting in to make things “work”?
What do I want to do more of next month?
What do I want to do less of next month?
If everything about running my business could be exactly how I wanted it to be – how would that be?? What do I really want to be doing?
… looking forward to exploring this.
PS: I’ve been getting a lot of emails from people wondering if they can still join the Circle now, even though the Creative Dream Incubator started on Tuesday.? The answer is YES.
There is one rule in the Incubator course: You are never behind!? This is deep transformation which you can only do in YOUR own time.
So if you’re feeling like you’d like to join us, join us!
Venturing into new Territory Read More »
I set a big goal for my business for 2014: to welcome 800 dreamers into my Creative Dream Circle. And to do this not by getting super pushy about selling – but to do this with heart and soul and creativity and joy and LOVE.
(you can read my original post about this here)
In support of this goal, I am writing weekly updates on Fridays, for all of 2014. This is where I’ll share the story of all the ups and downs of bringing a big dream to life.
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Today I am so grateful that I stayed with the discomfort of shifting my comfort zone these past few weeks.? It’s not that being uncomfortable is inherently valuable, it’s more like in order to hold a new intention you have to be willing to hold that new intention no matter how it feels or else you won’t be able to move into it.
And new usually does feel uncomfortable because it’s outside of our familiar zone.
The numbers I am working with, like having 800 members in the Creative Dream Circle, aren’t really about the numbers.? It’s more about the energy, feelings and qualities of it.
A business is a tangible thing and I wanted a tangible set of numbers to work with.? The number that best matched the energy, feelings and qualities is 800.
The other number I’ve been playing with is around 3,500 – 4,000.? This is the number of unique monthly visitors per month I have had for the last few years.?
For those who don’t speak analytics this means the number of different people who visit my site, this is not the total number of page hits.? Even if you visit once a week, you are only counted as one person – and everyone who gets my blog posts sent via email aren’t counted in this number at all.
Given how honest and vulnerable I am in what I share here – I was simply NOT comfortable with this number being any higher than 4,000.? Also – coaches don’t need huge audiences to have enough clients.
But my dream has been telling me that in order to grow the Circle I do need to grow my audience.
Substantially.? To about 20,000 unique monthly visitors.
I was barely comfortable with 4,000!
What has helped me the most is to keep remembering that it’s not about me.
I’ve studied how dreams grow WAY MORE than anyone I know.? I have so much passion and love for dreams.? I have created programs that literally GROW DREAMS.
I am not the point – DREAMS are the point!? I didn’t do this work to get attention for myself, I did this work because DREAMS MATTER TO ME.
I feel strongly that dreams are going to heal the world.? I am deeply committed to supporting this in happening.
When I sit with the desire to serve the whole world through serving more dreamers, I feel like I can do anything.? I feel like the whole universe (which loves dreams very much) is actively supporting me.
This feels amazing.
And it’s happening quickly!? Right now I’m now at just over 9,000 unique monthly visitors.?
My number more than doubled in a month.
And it’s happening in a sustainable way – at this point it would be hard for me to slow down that growth.? (For Circle members, I am sharing the details of what I’m doing to make this happen in the Creative Business Incubator)
Of course, traffic does not equal Circle members!? But having 800 members by the end of the year seems completely do-able with what the numbers are doing right now.
And the process of getting out of that rut and creating a new path was awkward and uncomfortable and exhausting – but now I’m here.? Solid and steady on the new path.
I still have to walk the path – but actually getting on the path is harder than walking along it.? Such a satisfying feeling.
I am super in love with my dream, with the Circle, with the Circle members… all of it.
I know that love is a powerful magnet and light – helping draw more support and resources to me while lighting up my next steps on the path.
What is making me happy is knowing that I am doing my best to make this work.
I’m not shying away from any of the things I usually shy away from.
I’m not avoiding looking at any parts of this.
I’m not wishing, hoping or praying things will change, I am being ACTIVE about CHANGING THEM.
I’m not letting my inner critics or limiting beliefs decide how things have to be.
Whatever the outcome ends up being – THIS feels amazing.
Bringing a dream to life is about this inner work of connecting more deeply to the core of who you are.
Bringing more of your soul’s presence (and power and magic) into your everyday life.
There are bumps in the road because there are hard things to face in this process. (If it was easy- everyone would be living with their dreams)
There are also times when everything feels so amazingly right it’s hard to not burst into song about how gorgeous it all is.
PS: The Creative Dream Incubator e-Course is starting on TUESDAY!? You guys!? This class is amazing.? It’s not even a class as much as it’s a transformational dream-growing bubble of love.
You can read what Incubator Graduates have to say about it right here.
You can read all about the course right here.
You can join the Circle – to get this course plus every other course I do all year long – right here.
Being Ridiculously Happy Read More »
I set a big goal for my business for 2014: to welcome 800 dreamers into my Creative Dream Circle. And to do this not by getting super pushy about selling – but to do this with heart and soul and creativity and joy and LOVE.
(you can read my original post about this here)
In support of this goal, I am writing weekly updates on Fridays, for all of 2014. This is where I’ll share the story of all the ups and downs of bringing a big dream to life.
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I am familiar with PUTTING the pedal to the metal.
I’ve had to do that repeatedly to get to where I am.? And I like that feeling that I am DRIVING myself somewhere in my life, that I am in the driver’s seat, pointed in the right direction, and GOING.
What I am NOT familiar with is KEEPING the pedal to the metal.
I like to go somewhere, then get out of the car.? Have a picnic, maybe a nap.? Appreciate where I am.? Acclimate to where I am.? Then choose a new destination, draw a new map, get back in the car.
What I like are day trips.? Put the pedal to the metal, get to where I want to be, then stop.
What my dreams are calling me into now is a long distance road trip.
Kind of funny that this is coming to me in a driving analogy since I sold my car this fall and have been REVELING in my new car-free lifestyle.? But this is how it feels.
I can feel my right foot pushing down on the gas and I notice how I want to slam on the brakes and just stop until I feel acclimated where I am.
But my intuition is clear.? Pedal to the metal, sweetie.? You’ll LOVE where we get to once we get there.? But we’re not there yet so don’t stop.
Pedal firmly to the metal.
Being consistent about all the things I need to be consistent about to spread the word about the upcoming Creative Dream Incubator e-Course happening inside the Creative Dream Circle.
This is that not-keeping-the-pedal-to-the-metal-thing.
So I started using the tools in the Circle to work on it, to get to know it more, find out what it has to teach me, learn more about my own resistance and – finally – create a new possibility for what I’d like to do instead.
And here I am.? Now it’s like I am cruising down the highway, singing, enjoying that beautiful sparkling spacious feeling of being out on the open road. Marketing-wise I am doing EVERYTHING I feel inspired to do.
I’ve never done this before.? I’ve always spent more time working on my actual programs or working with clients, and less time marketing.
It feels good to work so hard in service to inviting more dreamers into my world.
Things are going good, but this is also exhausting.
I do want to keep this up until the end of the month as I really want as many participants as possible to join this round of the Creative Dream Incubator happening inside the Creative Dream Circle.
Of course I’m exhausted, this is taking a LOT of bandwidth.
It’s not that it’s a ton of work, it’s just the energy expenditure of staying out of my comfort zone is exhausting. I’m meditating on this every day and getting wise advice from my inner council. But if shifting your comfort zone around to include sparkling new things inside it was easy – everyone would be doing it.
Plus I got my period which is making me more tired, and for some reason I decided that this is not a good reason to slow down.? So I’m in loving (but difficult!) negotiations with the part of me that is afraid that if I do slow down and take care of myself, I will just stop.
This is kind of weird because normally I excel at self-care!? But this KEEPING the pedal to the medal thing feels so new I worry that it is too delicate.
And I have increased my self-care practices, but it’s not enough.? This weekend I’ll be exploring what I am going to do about this – how to fuel myself for the final leg of this month-long trip.
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The Creative Business Incubator is one of the courses you get in the Creative Dream Circle.
This is NOT one of those sleazy Make a Gazillion Dollars Online In Three Easy Steps things.
This IS an honest and vulnerable sharing of what I have learned along the way of starting and growing my business – with creativity, soul and authenticity.
For each module of the Creative Business Incubator you get my thoughts & ideas, journaling prompts plus LONG, IN-DEPTH videos.
If you’re curious about this click here to listen to the audio introduction to the course where I talk more about the EPIC hero’s journey of bringing YOUR soulful creative business to life (it’s just over 8 minutes long).
The Creative Business Incubator has its own classroom inside the Creative Dream Circle, where business owners and would-be business owners can gather and explore.
Business is NOT the focus of the Creative Dream Circle, but a lot of dreamers find that as they start to grow their Creative Dreaming Muscles and get better at making their dreams real – they want to explore how to create a life for themselves that does NOT include giving their time + energy to a day job.? So the Creative Business Incubator is there to help with that.
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I set a big goal for my business for 2014: to welcome 800 dreamers into my Creative Dream Circle. And to do this not by getting super pushy about selling – but to do this with heart and soul and creativity and joy and LOVE.
(you can read my original post about this here)
In support of this goal, I am writing weekly updates on Fridays, for all of 2014. This is where I’ll share the story of all the ups and downs of bringing a big dream to life.
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I spent some(?) time last weekend hanging out with fear.
And these fears are all stirred up because I’m doing something different.
I’ve never set this kind of goal in my business before.? I’ve been super grateful that I’ve learned how to put things out there in such a way that enough people respond that my needs are met.? That’s nothing to sneeze at!
I am well aware that I am in the minority on this.? I am very grateful for what I have.
And until now my business planning has stemmed from that gratitude -? I’m so happy I have students and clients and potential new clients, now what do I want to offer them next?
And setting out to do something differently stirs up fear, stirs up inner critics, stirs up uncertainties.
I had a really beautiful chat with my friend Chris Zydel (the one I went to visit in California a few months back).? Chris reminded me that it doesn’t matter how I think it will be – it won’t be how I think it will be.
I’m feeling a desire to reach out in this way – this is my heart and soul calling me onto the next steps on my path… but this is the energy that is getting me moving, this is not necessarily what I am headed to.
The creative dream path is a mystery.? All we can ever do is step into what our hearts are calling us into.
Some dreams are easy.? Back in the olden days when I first started working with the tools I teach in the Creative Dream Incubator I wanted more money.? And I got more money – lots of it.
But a more meaningful life?? To share your gifts more widely with the world?? To step deeper into your purpose?? Not so cut and dry.
THAT is the gift, not whether or not I reach my goal.
Which, some days, drives me nuts.
Some days it makes me giggle.? I mentioned in the last update that I’d been working on my Strategic Action Plan.? This weekend I also made a brand new spreadsheet, to track the few things that I want to track from that plan.
I had to learn how to do spreadsheets on my iPad because I really wanted to do this in my iPad and not on my laptop.? This was kind of frustrating at first (WHY is Numbers for iPad so different to use than Numbers for MacBook? Geez!) …. I finally got the spreadsheet set up and put numbers in from the first week of January and then had to laugh – all that frustration and time and energy and I know that the numbers are not the point.
But the numbers are a part of the journey and I want to give love, respect and attention to every part of the journey.
And then facing the numbers activated how terrified I am of failing…. which brought me to some much needed inner work.
My fear of failing, like most of our deepest fears, remains deep beneath the surface most days – you wouldn’t even know it’s there.
These fears lurk deep down where we forget about them, and fuel inner critics and unconscious self-sabotaging mechanisms and hold us back without us even being aware that we are being held back.
I am reminded this week of how very important it is to develop the skill of being able to face and transform your feelings.
When fears come up to the surface that’s a good thing!? It means you get to work with them and, over time, transform them.
But too often dreams DIE because people don’t want to face their feelings.
So I spent a lot of time in the Un-Sticking Station in the Circle which is literally an un-sticking station that un-sticks stucks like being terrified of failing.? (The Un-Sticking Station alone is worth the cost of the whole Creative Dream Circle – imagine having access to a QUICK process that actually transforms fears!)
It was all about how to approach journaling so that your journal becomes a tool for growing your dreams.
We talked A LOT about facing fears and how that all works so if you are feeling some fear or other discomforts when you think about your dream, or if you don’t believe you can have your dream – watch the replay.
Also: Holy CRAP!? I did LIVE STREAMING VIDEO ON THE INTERNET WHERE ANYONE COULD SEE!
My intuition, and many of my collages, have been nudging me towards this for a long time.
I do tons of live tele-classes.? And tons of recorded video.? But putting them together into one live video?? While that is the next logical step, it felt daunting, to say the least.
But, thanks to my willingness to step it up to meet my new goal, I listened to the nudges and did the live video.
And the live Creative Dream Journal Playdate was pretty awesome!? (The recording is still there so you can play along)
It’s really different being live on video.? Live on the phone means people have to be committed enough to actually call and they are generally really present.? Live online can mean you were committed enough to show up fully or it can mean you’ve for 16 windows open and are just cruising around, really just trying to distract yourself from whatever is happening inside you.
So I couldn’t really approach it the way I approach my calls.? Which is good!? Trying new things is good!
And it will take me a few times (at least?) to be truly comfortable with this.? Also good.? Stretching yourself when you feel inspiring to stretch yourself is good.
It’s got over 1,600 views already.? So this can really get my ideas out there in ways that tele-classes can’t.
On the other hand, 7,000 different people have visited my website in the last month.? I’d sure love for more of them to get more engaged with the process of growing their dreams!
I’ve put the Playdate on the Fabulous Free Stuff page so people can continue to find it.
And I’ve already scheduled more for next week and the week after.
So I started this week feeling terrified of failing.
I always love how I feel after I have done the work of facing/healing/transforming the icks that come up on the path.? I want to broadcast to the whole world that FEELING STUCK IS GOOD.? Facing the stuck is the path.? You’re SO READY to make your dream REAL.
The Circle feels like a MAGNET OF LOVE.
I love the Circle!? I love the members!? I love their dreams!
I am so excited about the new people joining.? I’m feeling really good about my goal for this year for the Circle and inspired about the other things I want to create in my business.
This is something I teach in depth in the Creative Dream Incubator e-course, how focusing on connecting with the heart and soul of your dream, rather than focusing on the externals of it – makes the external path easier.
It creates a beautiful energy that draws to your dream whatever it needs to thrive.
I’ve been focusing on this for about a month now and am really feeling it now.
It’s an amazing energy and it feels like it is really nurturing ME because I am working MUCH harder than I normally do, but feeling super happy, energized, inspired and not cranky/tired/other icky things I associate with working “hard”.
And this week I announced the next session of the Creative Dream Incubator e-course, happening inside the Circle, starting Jan 28.? I want to invite you to think about joining us.? This is my fourth year of running this course and I know it’s going to be our best session yet.
It includes the Creative Business Incubator plug-in, I’ll be super active in the forum answering your questions and cheering you on and at the end of the 6 weeks we’ll close off with a live coaching call (if you can’t attend live you can email me your questions and so you can hear the answers in the recording).
The Incubator is magic.? You will ADORE it.
PLUS you’ll also get whole year of creative dream support.? For just $100!
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I set a big goal for my business for 2014: to welcome 800 dreamers into my Creative Dream Circle.? And to do this not by getting super pushy about selling – but to do this with heart and soul and creativity and joy and LOVE.
(you can read my original post about this here)
In support of this goal, I am writing weekly updates on Fridays, for all of 2014.? This is where I’ll share the story of all the ups and downs of bringing a big dream to life.
This week I’ve been focused on working on the Creative Dream HOLYday creative playdate & virtual creative dream retreat (which is happening today in the Creative Dream Circle)
I “work on it” mostly by attuning to it and aligning with the energies of it:
… creating an energetic space for deep down communion with the heart and soul of your dream which creates space for miracles.
I can’t describe how grateful I am that this is my job.? Bringing energy healing, spiritual healing and creative play all together in a profoundly and practically helpful way.
As I work on this, I am so filled with gratitude I do feel like I am levitating and so excited I could almost burst.
At the same time, I spent a lot of time in resistance earlier this week.
Scrolling through Facebook.? Playing Bejeweled Blitz.? Watching Netflix.? Getting up to make another chai latte, just a minute after I sat down to get some work done.
So that part was hard.? While the actual work I was doing was so awesome I felt like was levitating.? Creative dreaming is an emotional roller coaster!
I’m doing my best to notice when I’ve slipped into resistance, meet myself where I am, take care of how I’m feeling, and bring myself back to where I want to be.
And the longer I spent right here every morning, the better this goes:
Sitting on my miracle pad with a spruce soy candle, meditation, Creative Soul Alchemy and creative journaling.
I’m playing along with Lisa Sonora Beam’s?Root: 30 day creative journal project.? I ADORE Lisa.? Her Creative Entrepreneur book was the first book that helped me feel inspired about business.? And the more I get to know her online, the more I like her.
And as a person who teaches creative journaling it’s important to participate in creative journaling groups and classes as a participant, to sink deeper into my own practice and have space to explore & play without supporting others in their process.
Like I wrote in my year in review of 2014 (not 2013), this goal is a GIANT BUNDLE OF LOVE. ?I’m letting that love nourish, inspire and lead me.
I’m feeling sure of my ability to handle to increase of all the things that increase when a business grows.
What else happened this week:
I am looking forward to next week being here and the holidays being over.? Part of this is the inner-prep-work for the HOLYday, part of it is it being the holidays… I look forward to the routine/structure of a regular work week next week!
Now that 2014 is here, I am ready to get to work.
If you like to sound of the HOLYday but can’t join us for the live event today – you do get recordings & playbooks from today’s event plus space to play with it in the Creative Dream Circle.? While attending live is special, past HOLYday participants do say that they find miracles & magic in playing with the recordings.??
Click here to read more about the Circle.
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In my first and second years of being a full time Creative Dream Incubator I was excited to write a year end review… to look over what I’d learned and how it all went and and plan out what I want to do different next year.
This year I feel very meh about that.
Though I did flip through my instagram to share some of my fave photos of the year…
As I sat with that feeling, I realised that what I want to do is want to write a year end review for my business for 2014.
Do this with me… let’s zoom into December 2014 and look back on a truly sparkletastic year.
I started the year feeling fresh, focused and excited about what I wanted to create.? I had the clearest, solidest goal I’ve ever had for my business – to welcome 800 dreamers into the Creative Dream Circle by the end of the year.
Love for the dreamers and their courage & brilliance.
Love for the sweet, sparkling dreams.
Love for the Circle and it’s dream-growing magic.
Every time I thought about the 800 dreamers and their amazing dreams, my heart beamed.
With this much love on my side, I knew I could not fail.
I have long thought of myself as “an artist, not a business person”.? I have been angry about the destructive effect a lot of big businesses have on our world – fueling my beliefs about how “business is bad”.? I have felt like I just don’t know how to successfully grow a business.
I started my business with a strong belief in the quality, power and importance of my work, fueled by purpose and spirit and love – and a belief that these things, not business skills, were enough to get me where I want to go.
As I learned more about business, I came to understand that these are 2 different things: your soul work and your business skills.
And most people are not naturally equally gifted in each.? I mean… It’s possible for lackluster products to become superstars in the marketplace.? It’s possible for superstar products to be virtually invisible in the marketplace.
And it seems true that as you polish and perfect the shining jewel of what you are here to offer you’re going to start looking for ways to get better at offering it.? For many, like me, this means a business.
Creativity, heart and soul cannot replace the need for practical business skills.? What they can do is fuel and activate the practical business stuff so that your business can be your (very helpful!) partner in bringing your creativity and your purpose to life.
I knew that already.? But in 2014 it changed.
It’s like I had marinated long enough in ideas about spiritual business and creative business to be able to live from them in a new way.? I developed a new sense of trust in my ability to do this.
I spent the first 35 years of my life marinating in ideas about how I am not a business person.? I needed to spend a few years marinating in ideas about how I am a capable and gifted business person before they could really clear out the old beliefs and sink in.
Ultimately what this means is approaching all aspects of my business from my creative genius, which means not being all tangled up in my limiting beliefs.? Being in the flow.
In hindsight, this harder to do before this year because I was still getting my business sea legs, so to speak.
Which is why I had to keep things smaller before.
I spread my business wings wildly and widely.
I tried all the things I knew to try, to get the word out about my work.? When things didn’t go as I’d hoped, I re-adjusted and tried again.
I stretched some more and sought out more ideas for things to try.? And I tried those.
I played with my business.?
I brought a whole new level of creative genius to it.? Just like being in my art studio – throwing paints down and fooling around and trying new things and experimenting and exploring.? I approached my business like a fantastically inspiring art project.
Meanwhile, I was more committed to my personal daily creativespiritual practice, to build stronger roots, so my dream tree could grow giant leafy branches.
My business grew wildly in 2014.
The Creative Dream Circle started to fill up… and as the Circle members practiced the art of Creative Dream Incubation and delighted in all the magic of that – word spread and momentum came to play.
The more fun I had, the larger the Circle got, the easier it became to grow it.
Trust. Alignment. Purpose. Spirit. Joy. Knowing. Stability. Growth… all of it Glowing with Love.
Writing this feels amazing.
I didn’t set out to write exactly what I wanted to have happened.? I started by looking at how I’m feeling about my goal for the year, and then followed those feelings and the story started to write itself.
When I got to the end it felt like a deep affirmation of how, as long as I stay committed to being true to myself, my spirit and heart, and to clearing/healing all the things that make that hard to do, of course I am going to get to somewhere that is gorgeous, abundant and fulfilling.
Success, love, wild creative abandon – it’s all possible for you.
And I’d love to help you make it all come true, in the Creative Dream Circle.
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Christmas happened this week! I had a great time doing Christmas things, and did not make much progress with my dream.
Though I did spend some time with it – meditating and journaling.
And I spent making art, really enjoying getting into the flow of my creativity.
I took Samie Harding’s Gelli Printing class this fall and have really been in love with gel printing ever since.? So playful and fun!
While I was playing with my gelli plate this week, I got inspired to add something new to my weekly Creative Genius Planning Sessions.
Right now I’m using my large Moleskine planner with a page a week, with a blank page on the other side for journaling, which is perfect for Creative Genius Planning (I shared it in this video about the Creative Genius Planning Sessions).
Now I’m adding a sheet of watercolour paper, taped onto the edge of each page, so it folds out.? One side has fun gelli prints on it.? On the back of that sheet I journal about the inner work I’m focusing on for the week – affirmations and energy I want to focus on.
That leaves the whole blank page in the journal free for keeping practical lists of what I want to get done and journaling my way through the blocks I encounter in getting it done.
And it makes my planner more fun and creative looking, which just make it a happier thing for me to work with.
While I was making the gel prints for this new project, I was wishing I had a really cool feather stencil.
I’ve wanted one for some time, but I don’t ever go to places that sell stencils, and I guess I have not wanted one enough to go out specifically looking for it.
This morning, I was thinking about wanting one and thought… well why don’t I just try to make one?? I’ve never drawn a feather, but I do have a degree in fashion design which included 4 years of fashion illustration, visual communication and life drawing classes.? Surely I can draw a feather?
Surely I CAN draw a feather!? I made many feather stencils and I love them.
I was so happy with my feathers.? And then I sat with that story:
And I let myself marinate in that energy.
And I am reminded that as long as I stay connected to the heart and soul of my dream, EVERYTHING I do helps me move towards my dream.? I love that!
I also started making a deck of cards with affirmations specifically about this dream.? Not so much “I now have 800 dreamers in the circle” but juicy nuggets of inspiration that help me develop the bigger/stronger roots I need to grow this dream.? As I play with this, I am thinking of doing an affirmation workshop in the Circle later this year.
Last week discipline came up as I was exploring how to make this dream real.? This week I’m noticing how I move in and out of being disciplined.? And how I used to think being less disciplined was worse, and being more disciplined was better.
I’m seeing now that it’s more of a cycle.
Your desire to make your dream real puts you on the path.? Discipline puts you on the superhighway.? Sometimes you need to pull over and have a picnic.
And then when the picnic is done, sometimes it takes a little while for your car to back up to full speed.
I think that’s where I’m at – revving the engine and getting myself back up to full speed.
I’m feeling creatively all filled up and ready to GO in 2014.
I hope you’re having a gorgeous holiday season!? Next week we’ve got the Creative Dream HOLYday – a creative playdate and a virtual creative dream retreat.? I am SO looking forward to that.
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It’s already week three of my new adventure!
Early this week I started to really come into alignment with this new dream.? I started feeling more flow and inspiration.
I had so many ideas for things to try, and so much energy to play with them.? Sunday night I had a hard time falling asleep because I was So Excited for Monday morning to come so I could get to work.
It felt amazing.
Until it didn’t.
This happens with dreams!? You dig through stuff, get to a new layer of clarity, but then there is all this… debris from your digging.
The debris was messy this week.? Remembering all the reasons why this is impossible.? Loosing my connection with why I want this.? Not trusting my dream.? Not trusting myself.? Not fun.
And I kept trying to push myself to act anyway.? Which is never a good idea. But I felt frustrated and impatient and wanted to see some results.
I found myself very focused on externals, which is usually what’s happening when you feel stuck like that.
That stuff kept this week from being a total disaster.? And as I played with these tools, I learned A LOT about why I was so in the dumps.
And even found gifts & treasures in the dump.
I’ve got painful stories that I carry that me-who-lives-this-dream does not carry.? These stories were so troubling for me this week because I was waking up to how troubling they are.
You know how when you’re just used to something you don’t really notice it?? It’s like that with your stories and patterns and limiting beliefs.
When you consciously choose to grow, and set your sights on a new way of being – the old ways of being start to become horribly uncomfortable.
This was uncomfortable this week and I’m guessing I’m not finished being uncomfortable.
I am grateful to start to see the patterns behind the patterns more clearly.? I’m grateful to have the tools & skills to transform this.? I’m grateful that no matter how sad & frustrating this gets, I do hold onto the knowing that I will move through this.
Discipline appeared this week.? Not all drill sargeant-y and pushy, more like a beautiful and benevolent Goddess of Possibilities.
Last week I talked about creating daily and weekly practices that support and sustain me as I support and sustain this dream.? Daily meditation, energy work, journaling and art-making.? Weekly learning.
This week I learned that I need this to be more disciplined.? It’s not enough to just to these things each day, they need more structure and I need more structure in how I approach them.
These structures are the most supportive things, ever.
Everything about this represents everything I want in how I approach my work.
He’s relaxed and trusting and barefoot.
He’s playing.? In a soft space in the sunshine.
He’s got pens and toys and an open book.
Spaciousness. Freedom. Creativity. Trust. Alignment. InTUNEment.
Flow. Flow. Flow. Flow. Flow.
Given how hard this week felt, it feels like a complete miracle that I did anything.? But I did!? Because I am kind of chatty here talking about why I’m doing things, I am making the things I did bold, and everything else plain.
I figured out how I want to start advertising, and started!? I updated my Fabulous Free Stuff page, created a button for it and signed up for an ad on Kind over Matter, to advertise my Fabulous Free Stuff page.
(Advertising my free stuff has been the best way for me to advertise my business.? This way the ad is an invitation to peek into my creative world and see if you want to play here.? Ads that point to a sales page are NOT how I want to grow my business – I would much rather people got to know me FIRST, then decide if they want to join the Circle, instead of advertising the circle.)
I’ll also advertise the freebies page on Facebook, starting in January.? And I did some research for some new places to place ads in January.
I did a lot more tweaking to the Creative Dream Circle page.? (do check it out!)? I thought a lot about how I want to connect with people as they’re reading that page, and what I want them to know.
Made some images to promote the Creative Dream HOLYday to share on Facebook and Pinterest.
Spent more time exploring my new favourite question: Do I need to step up what I’ve been doing or do I need a totally new plan?
Did more inspiring business reading to nourish my brain with possibilities.
Worked on my promotional plan for January.? I’ll be running both the Creative Dream HOLYday (Jan 3) and the Creative Dream Incubator e-course (Jan 28).? This is an amazing course that really does grow dreams – I want to get as many people as possible participating this year.
Planned my first Spreecast: The Creative Dream Journal Playdate (it’s free and it’s happening January 7)!!? On Monday I got to play with Connie and Lisa on Spreecast and wheeeee it was fun.? I’ve been thinking about doing this forever and finally – I’m doing it!
Being able to speak to people one-on-one has been the best way for me to grow my business.
When you have a mindset like “this is hard” or “I don’t live my dreams – that’s for other people” someone telling you they can help with that doesn’t even register.? Because you’ve been carrying that story so long it feels like Absolute Truth for you – you don’t know that you’re carrying it.
When I work with new people and start to shift the energy around the story to open up new possibilities – they’re stunned.? Then they start to get what it means to play with possibility.? Then they start to want more for themselves.? It’s so beautiful.
Last year I gave away 100 free mini coaching sessions.? As much as I loved that, energy work takes a LOT of energy and I simply can’t do that again.? So this year I’ve been doing free monthly coaching circles and tele-classes since November, and now I’m going to branch out into the free live stream.
I think the tele-classes/circles may work better because then people get to actually talk to me and I can do energy shifting & coaching with them.? For that to happen on a live stream, they’d have to be willing to go on camera and a lot of people are not comfortable with that.
On the other hand, a lot of people don’t want to pay long distance for a phone call (though I do have to pay long distance charges to call my own conference line!) but would watch a video stream online.? So I think the video stream will have more participants – but will they be as engaged?
I don’t know!? Let’s see if I find out at the Creative Dream Journal Playdate.
I added new posts to Dreamtastic Creative Journals.
Did a little re-tooling of the space inside the Creative Dream Circle to make space for more members.
This week wasn’t easy and I feel like I didn’t get nearly as much done as I would have liked, but still I’m proud of how I faced how I was feeling and brought in love & creativity to transform it and stayed on track as much as possible.? The inner critics are not going to knock me off track!
Last week I started a score card to keep track of everything I’m going, inner and outer, in bringing this dream to life.? This week I’m exhausted at the thought of even looking at it, so I’m just going to ignore it.? Suffice it to say – it’s going to take a zillion steps and in the process I will defeat a zillion inner critics, fear & limiting beliefs.
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