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Baeth’s Update & 3 Shocking Lessons from the Hologram

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Mark Rockin’ Out, December 2009

About twice a month, our company has a little ritual. We wrap up early at the office and go out to dinner as a team and then meet up later at my home for cocktails and live music. My husband, Mark, our copywriter, Kevin, and our daughter’s boyfriend make up the band. I occasionally sing into a lint roller or a hairbrush, sometimes a TV remote. Instead of playing ‘guitar hero,’ Mark downloads backing tracks, and plays live leads on his electric guitar. Kevin joins in on challenging rock vocals. Our neighbors simply wonder at the noise but are tolerant – so far.

Our business manager, Cindy, and our product designer, Susanna (when she’s in town from Florida), sit on the floor entertaining our two dogs, Ellie and Jazz, and our temperamental cat, Onaga, who, on New Year’s Eve, jumped five feet in the air and drove off a hawk soaring in for a kitty snack.

The women bob their heads to the music while discussing things like being godparents, the benefits and challenges of romantic relationships, and who makes better beer, Nimbus Brewery or New Belgium Brewing Company. Our recently hired CFO, Joyce, plans to join us in this new year for this rewarding, hilarious and unconventional ritual.

I came home from Los Angeles adorned in fake fur and a cowboy hat (later confiscated by Mark at our off-hours rock party), met the team at the office, delegated about 15 tasks to Kevin, went over the office check list with Cindy, reviewed the P&L with Joyce, and greeted Mark, who was just back from his annual camping trip with two of his best buddies. We shut up shop and headed back to our house for the holiday soiree.

This ritual has become the stuff of legend, leaving voices hoarse from singing and laughing. As our team likes to say, “Baeth, our company is THE Place to be.” And to that I say, “If you feel this is THE place to be, others are likely to feel the same way. We want to be the place where our clients WANT to be. By treating everyone within our organization as we would treat our treasured clients, we create an ever-expanding community of love and connection.”

The integrity of a business, at its root, is a commitment to EXPECTING and celebrating THE GREATNESS in everyone the business touches – its clients, customers, vendors, employees, affiliates, colleagues, investors and share holders.

If you want to be at “THE Place” this June 10-13, 2010, please join me in Phoenix, Arizona for our NEXT Life Purpose Summit. For starters, you’ll get to see Mark play LIVE and discover the #1 thing ESSENTIAL to your Life Purpose transformation!

Tickets are already being snapped up for only $997 plus a FREE guest, but this offer will end this month! (We are expecting over 300 people and when we’re full, we’re full. Don’t get shut out. Our events always sell out to space capacity.)

Don’t miss out! REGISTER (or just ask your questions!) HERE: http://www.handanalyst.com/special

As we progress into 2010 , I’ve had some startling, amazing lessons from ‘the hologram’ that are guiding me deeper into my Life Purpose. I hope they may do the same for you. I tell you what – you won’t believe what’s happened to me just this week!


“3 Shocking Lessons from the Hologram”

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Mari Smith, “The Pied Piper of Facebook,” and moi


When I found out the news, I didn’t know how to react.

I was in shock, disbelief, I cried, I screamed! Why? You might ask?…

I GOT INVITED TO THE GRAMMYS and to walk the red carpet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

…by a woman I cherish and admire, the inimitable Mari Smith, also known as the “Pied Piper of Facebook.” She has over 58,000 fans on Twitter and thousands of fans on Facebook. She is a wizard at Social Networking not to mention just being an all-around genuine person. Do look her up at Facebook and Twitter and get on her magical train. She will teach you a lot!

She had one extra ticket and asked me to go with her. I said, “Mari, you have like 80,000 friends, why me?” She laughed her musical laugh and said, “We’ll have fun.” (And one of our BFFs is also coming with us – yes, we’ll share pictures later.)

Then she said, on a more serious note, “I’ve seen how you support people. You are truly happy for their success, like a proud mother. It’s touching.” For those of you who know me, you know I started to cry. (I’m a crier!)

Then she said, “Hey, I really want you to read my hands!”

I gave Mari a mini hand analysis session at a live event back in 2008 and in exchange, she got me rolling on Facebook and Twitter. When we meet later this month, I’ll have the privilege of reading Mari’s mitts, live and in-person!

After the session has had time to sink in, I’ll ask Mari if she’d like to have her Life Purpose story as a feature article… I can’t make any promises, but it’d be a good one!

I bet you’re wondering what the heck this has to do with the hologram.

The speed with which the hologram reflects our personal and collective consciousness is startling/numbing, bewildering/explainable, wonderful/horrible, fast/slow, gorgeous/unsightly.

With that, I wish to share 3 Shocking Lessons from the Hologram with you!

#1 The Hologram Enjoys Synchronicities

I’ve loved rock music my whole life (and married a lead guitarist!). Curiously, I wrote the rock n’ roll update section of this newsletter over the holidays before I wrote this article. Then the invite to the Grammys from Mari arrived this week just after our team completed a development meeting on a new service that we’re creating for the music and film industries. It’s a completely new business of the three interconnected businesses we are growing this year.

When I shared this interesting intersection of my passions with recent life events with Mari, there was a silent aha between us. Then she said, “And now you’re going to the Grammys!” Woot! Woot!

As Mark often says, “What are the chances of that?… 100%!”TM (Yes, we actually trademarked Mark’s quote!)

Coach’s Challenge: Are you noticing a lot of synchronicities, just a little or none at all? In my personal experience, if synchronicity is flowing, there is a major alignment between your Life Purpose and your willingness to receive the Universe’s answer to that purpose. If the synchronicities are long in coming or absent entirely, I’ve found it means I’m probably on the wrong track and need to redirect my decisions and actions. Also, if you are complaining, blaming, or otherwise resisting, that blocks the flow of synchronicity in your life. If you want, post a comment here and let me know your experience with synchronicities.

#2 The Hologram Isn’t Real – It’s A Mirror Image

I often hear the phrases “thoughts create reality” and “life is your mirror.” There is a measure of truth in these statements. However, I would offer that thoughts influence reality (if you can tell the difference between fantasies you don’t actually want to live out and those that you do). And life may indeed be a mirror, but not just of your own thoughts, feelings and actions, but that of the collective consciousness of the people around you.

The hologram – your everyday life experience - reflects back many things you probably didn’t even know existed in you. The hologram continually parades before us our dominant thoughts in action as well as unconscious thoughts that need to be brought to the surface and rooted out.

As I came to the awareness that our business seemed to be attracting more and more opportunities to work with rock musicians and well-known celebrities (and I’ve been doing more and more hand analysis sessions for these famous folks), the hologram, within days, offered me an opportunity to create even more connections in one of my favorite worlds – the world of music – by attending the Grammys! I’ve always been a bit wild and free and being with wild, uncensored, expressive creative folks is where I feel most at home. (That’s why I changed my college major from Economics to Acting & Directing!)

I also noticed that given my Life Purpose is the “Successful Business Owner and Spiritual Teacher in the Spotlight with Heart,” it was time for me to go even BIGGER with my message in a way I haven’t.

Since I wasn’t carefully paying attention to this truth in my own Life Purpose, the hologram brought me a string of Life Lesson challenges this year. Our Life Lesson is our blind spot or least evolved skill. It is the KEY to your hands and the KEY to your life. When you learn from your lesson, your purpose grows. If you avoid your lesson, your purpose goes south.

I realized that in some areas of my business, I was experiencing tremendous challenges but didn’t feel I could appropriately share my heart ache and personal experience. It felt too personal, too vulnerable and too exposing.

My Life Lesson is about loving myself no matter the emotional context and expressing what I feel regardless of the expectations of others. In some instances, my emotional responses were misunderstood, which deepened my self-judgment and inability to forgive myself for being human.

At first, the hologram gives you a whisper. If you don’t listen, it gives you a kick. If you still don’t listen, it gives you a tsunami. You may be left wondering, “Huh, why is this happening?”

No spiritual test is ever ‘personal.’ It is designed to develop our soul and move us to the next level.

Life is so bloody obvious sometimes, that even when the blood is dripping down your forehead into your eyes and sand is burrowed into your scalp from the third wakeup -spanking, there is a stubborn, ego-driven refusal to admit that, “Hmmmm, this approach may not be working.”

Coach’s Challenge: I invite you to write down three things currently in your life that are irritating, upsetting, frustrating, or painful. It could be a loud neighbor (a neighbor like me, for instance J), a sore foot, a disaster-zone closet or car trunk, a chronically dissatisfied child, spouse or client, or financial issues.

Get really specific about the ‘problem’ and then ask yourself this, “If I truly believe that everything that happens in my hologram is designed to wake me up to my true self, what is the true purpose of this situation?” Then OWN it fully, knowing you created the neighbor, the sore foot, the heart ache, etc.

I created those intense experiences in my hologram from my energetic patterns and anyone involved in those experiences also created me.

I have come to realize that all of the challenging events of my life are just opportunities for me to grow and learn. When difficult situations come into my life, I try to remember this and use these challenges as a chance to remain calm and not to react emotionally. I know that it is just an opportunity to engage them in a way that will allow all concerned to grow and learn.

First, I look inward to honestly admit what my part in the experience has been and acknowledge my own faults. I try to be totally honest with myself since that is the only way I can learn and move forward.

By not reacting emotionally, I am keeping the door open for future interaction because no one’s feelings are hurt. I try to remember that when people blame and point fingers without logical reason, they are usually just acting out of fear.

Then I respond calmly and offer solutions based on the facts as I see them and that come from my own integrity. This is not always comfortable though, because being in integrity also means standing strong by my personal convictions and commitments to myself and to others. One BIG lesson this year has been learning to stand up for what I believe is right and in alignment with my Life Purpose.

When the dust settles, I then review how I want to integrate what I have learned into specific actions for the future.

The bottom line for me is that the Universe has showed me that I need to be playing a much bigger game. I need to bring my message to millions of people worldwide. Okay, okay, Universe, I am listening!

#3 The Hologram Craves The Expression of Your Life Purpose

If you continue to follow the whispers of the Universe, more and more synchronicity flows into your life. If you refuse to listen, more and more tests, of increasing intensity, will show up to remind you of your Life Purpose.

Go ahead and write down your Life Purpose as you understand it today (whether you’ve had your Life Purpose Spiritual Blueprint deciphered with me or not).

Now ask yourself, “Am I fully expressing my Life Purpose to the best of my ability?” Then look at these four categories and rate your satisfaction with them on a scale from 1 to 10 (1 being lowest, 10 being highest):

  • Finances
  • Personal relationships
  • Health
  • Spirituality

Here’s the good news: you can change your scores if you don’t like them. Here’s the bad news: your ratings directly express how effectively and successfully you are living your Life Purpose.

Here are those categories again. Rate them on what you would LIKE them to be:

  • Finances
  • Personal relationships
  • Health
  • Spirituality

After you’ve put in your ideal ratings, write down what kind of person you would have to be to have that rating. For example, if you want a 10 in the health category, what kind of person would you need to be? Maybe you need to exercise four days a week, drink more water, hang out with other healthy people, etc. Unless those fundamental changes occur, your desire will simply stay a number on paper. It’s up to you.

As you take more and more actions that give you “10″ ratings, you will notice that your Life Purpose begins to rapidly accelerate in its expression and success. You may also notice that uncomfortable learning experiences come up faster and faster to be released from your holographic field. The learning experiences never end, because we have to constantly learn new life skills to fulfill our purpose.

I’ve learned, from the shocking lessons of my hologram, that I must always stay focused on the BIGGEST expression of my Life Purpose (vs. a smaller, hide-out version), that difficulties arise to show me where I’m not listening or where I need to develop more of my inner resources and abilities, and that synchronicity flows when I remove all self-judgment from my life.

The hologram of the past year kicked my butt over and over and every time I woke up, another amazing synchronicity would pop up as if to say, “Thank you for listening.”

I thank YOU for reading and hope that my sharing some of my more embarrassing, painful, and exciting breakthroughs is useful to you in your journey. We are all in this together, creating each other for our own education. The minute a lesson is done, the energy surrounding it disappears, to be replaced by a new energy.

What is appearing in your hologram?

If you really want clarity on how to best unleash and express your matchless Life Purpose, go to www.handanalyst.com and click on “I Want My Hands Read” before the investment price goes up at the end of this month.

We only have five hand analysis sessions available this month before the investment goes up, so if you have ANY questions, please contact our business manager, Cindy Gallo, at cindy@handanalyst.com.

“5 Simple Ways To Track Your Cash Flow”

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Ah, cash flow. The life-blood of a successful business. Without cash, you can’t grow, invest or pay yourself or your staff. It seems obvious, but in my work with hundreds of entrepreneurs and desirous-of-being entrepreneurs, I can’t count the number of times I’ve said, “What are your revenue streams for this month?” to be met with blank stares, stammering, excuses and a whole lot of fear.

If this is you, first of all, let yourself off the hook and have compassion for your situation. You are hardly alone in having money anxiety. Second of all, it can be remedied – IF you are willing to take some simple, albeit uncomfortable, steps toward financial solvency.

Here are 5 steps I feel are critical to a successful cash flow experience.

Step #1: Assess Your Current Financial Situation

Obvious, right? Set up a meeting with your bookkeeper (you have a bookkeeper, right?) and go over your Profit & Loss statement (P&L). I recommend your bookkeeper have at least three years expertise in using Quickbooks online. If you don’t have a bookkeeper – yet – you’ll need to do this yourself. ASAP.

Then answer these questions: What debts do you have? What products and/or services in your business bring you the most revenue? What products and/or services are losing you money? Of the items that do not generate revenue to your bottom line, do these expenses bring you more clients? (If YES, you may want to keep them!)

Finally, how much revenue do you need each month to meet all your expenses (including debt repayment) and turn a profit?

Step #2: Set Your Money Goals

What is your money goal for 2010? Now, divide that by 12. For example, let’s say you want to bring in $75,000 in 2010. That translates to $6250.00 per month. Most of you could do that with a couple of new clients, right?

Now, divide 6250 by 4. That’s $1562.50 per week. Divide by 5. That’s $312.50 per workday each working week. (I didn’t account for holidays and days off, so you may want to factor that in.)

Remember, you might earn $12,000 in one month and $6000 in another. The key is to keep meeting or exceeding your daily, weekly, monthly and yearly benchmarks. For many of you, you will do this easily, client-by-client.

Write down your goals in pencil in a simple notebook to track them.

Step #3: Determine What You Will GIVE In Exchange for the Money

How will you meet your monthly money goal? In what ways do you want to deliver your products and services in exchange for money?

For example, let’s say your monthly goal is $6250.00. You determine that you can bring in that revenue by selling 25 copies of your new e-book at $37 ($925), 4 coaching clients at $600/month ($2400) and 10 people at a one-day workshop costing $297/person ($2970). The grand total = $6295.00. Obviously, you can play with the monthly number in whatever way suits the business you are in.

The KEY to success in meeting your money goal is two-fold. You MUST have confidence in your ability to help your client solve a problem they are having AND you MUST know how to sell: online, offline and by phone.

If you have any issues sharing your work with others and asking them to consider working with you, I HIGHLY recommend you take as many sales classes as possible and make as many calls as possible to get over this fear. OR hire a gifted salesperson to do it

Step #4: Do The Money Actions First Thing In The Morning

You probably went into business for yourself to do the work you love, right? You probably LOVE helping people get fantastic, transformational results and you love adding to your expertise. For now, set that aside, knowing that those decisions are already IN YOU, a part of you.

Now, when you show up to your office each day, ask yourself, “What tasks will bring me closest to the money most quickly?” For most of us, it’s being on the phone with prospective clients, sending out an email to prospective clients or a direct mail offer to prospective clients. Other precious, important uses of your time come in the form of delivering your services and creating new products and services.

The business you are really in is attracting new clients and fabulously serving your current clients. Are you tracking where your clients come from? How many client lead generation tools are you using? (search engine optimization [SEO], pay-per-click [PPC], free newsletter, direct mail campaigns, radio/TV ads and interviews, article submissions, etc. etc.?)

Step #5: Remember Your BIG VISION

What is the purpose of the money your business generates for YOU? Maybe you want to pay off your mortgage and pay for your kids’ college tuition this year. Maybe you want to travel to India and live there for six months. Maybe you want to stop working one-on-one and create a product-based business.

Whatever your goals are for your money, write down 5 for 2010.

Here’s an example list:

  1. Pay off mortgage on my home
  2. Hire two new sales people
  3. Donate 10% of my gross revenue to my church
  4. Redecorate bedroom
  5. Put 20% of revenue in long-term savings (stocks, precious metals, real estate)

Bonus Tip: KNOW “Your Purpose”

If you know your Life Purpose, determining precisely the ‘work you love’ becomes very easy. It’s a ‘no-brainer.’ Business skills, selling skills, teaching skills – all these things can be learned. But the ONE THING that ONLY YOU can do is live your life purpose. As Doreen Virtue writes, “There is no competition for your life purpose.” ONLY YOU can live it! Are you ready?

Until Saturday, December 19th, you can receive a Life Purpose hand analysis session with me for $600 off the regular price.

Go here to order now: http://www.handanalyst.com/products.html

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“The #1 Reason You’re Not Living Your BIG Vision” (… and 3 ways you can!)

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Are you fulfilling the BIG vision that you know ONLY YOU can fulfill? I’ve noticed that lots of folks are NOT living their big vision. And I think it boils down to ONE THING that is so obvious, that you may just brush it aside.

So obvious that what I’m about to say may fly right over your head. In my talks with multi-multi-millionaires, they say the same thing, “Business is basic. What you’re selling may be complicated (or not), but business is business. Simple. Step-by-step. Map it out on paper and make it happen.”

Easy, right? Just make it happen. Hmmmmmmm… So if it’s not happening for you, what’s going on?

Ready for the answer?

You’re not thinking BIG enough.

I know, like duh, right? And you’ve probably heard it – oh, about a 100 times before.

Now, what do I mean by “thinking big?”

“Thinking big” gets lots of lip service, but how many people do you know personally who think big?

Let’s say you’re best friend is a gifted singer. You say to your friend, “Have you thought of creating a record? Getting a manager? Finding a way to sell your music?” And your friend may say: “I already tried that,” or “Oh, that’s a pipe dream. Accounting is a safe bet,” or my personal favorite, “Bug off! I’m happy with things just as they are.” Right. Sure you are. That’s why you sit watching “American Idol” and commenting on how you could do it so much better.

There are three ways I’ve discovered for thinking big that have RADICALLY changed my life and MY OUTCOMES.

#1 Ditch The Doubt

Before you actually even begin to think big, it’s essential to address what makes thinking big possible. You have to believe in yourself and in your right to have a dream. You must brush past naysayers without a second thought or a glance backward (this includes spouse, partner, family, friends – I don’t care who they are. Do not let ANYONE bring you down. Not anyone.) You must, must, must believe that your dream came to YOU because you are the very person to fulfill it.

If you don’t believe in yourself, no one else will either. What will it take for you to ditch doubt and get dreaming?

# 2 Decide to Day Dream

Now it starts getting fun. Allow yourself to day dream. Visualize the outcome you seek. If you dream of traveling the world, see yourself traveling to the places that spark your desire. Where is the first place you would travel? For how long? For what purpose? How do you look in your day dreams? What are you wearing? Just put yourself there in your mind’s eye. Be sure to set aside time to just hang out and dream. 30 minutes once a week minimum is a good starting point.

The dream I visualize DAILY is helping hundreds of millions of people around the world discover the work they love. Work fills most of our hours. Why should it be tedious or unfulfilling? I have created a business model that I believe will allow me to reach people all over the world. I’m doing preliminary research and it’s not even going to cost as much as I thought. I ran my idea by one tech expert and he said, “Done,” and proceeded to layout my specific vision in exact detail.

Having a prosperous business allows me to do even more to give back. This is not lip service for me. It is truly my dream. And it gets bigger. I intend to see the end of poverty and illiteracy IN MY LIFETIME. The solutions already exist. All that is needed is one person who believes it is possible and then it becomes possible for many, many more people. I am hardly alone in this belief. Maybe you’ll join me?

I simply know that my job is to leave this planet in better shape than I found it when I was born. It’s the least I can do for this awe-inspiring, unbelievable life I’ve been given.

How about you? Will you decide to dream your dream and make it real? And if you do, what will be your LEGACY?  What kind of world will you leave behind for those that follow you?

#3 Write Down Your Dream and Read It To Your Self EVERY DAY

This particular step has some kind of magic in it. Go ahead and write down your dream in vivid detail. Don’t tell me you don’t know what you want. EVERYONE knows what they want. If I asked you enough times, you would break down and admit your dream. (See step #1 if you’re still ‘confused’ about your dream.)

If you want to own a healing center, learn ballroom dancing, or move to Tahiti, write it down. If you can dream it, the way to do it exists. Reading my dream every day makes even my most tedious tasks take on great importance and a sense of fun. I know that as I fulfill the basic steps of growing my business, it creates the income to grow into even larger dreams. Your dream might be to have six children or raise llamas or join the circus. If it makes you happy, find a way to make it real.

Remember: Believe It, Day Dream It, Write It Down

Yes, it’s really that simple.

Bonus Tip #4: KNOW Your Specific Life Purpose

If you do the work you love, it will naturally express your Life Purpose. Your Life Purpose is the SECRET to your success. Do you know yours? Find out more here.

“LAST CHANCE to Coach With Baeth For All of 2010!

In Order to Transcend BEYOND YOUR LIVELIHOOD Into Living Your RIGHT LIFE!”

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RE: An Important Note From Cindy Gallo, Business Manager, The Hand Analyst, Inc.

As we come to the end of 2009, we look back at what an amazing year we’ve had here at The Hand Analyst, Inc. What a year of learning, growth, healing, loving, happiness and transformation!

We look at what amazing things have come from having you with us! Baeth’s Summit last June in Las Vegas couldn’t have happened without YOU! Baeth’s two coaching programs this year couldn’t have happened without YOU. Baeth’s Hand Analysis Intensive Weekend could not have happened without YOU.  I’m sensing a trend here.

So since YOU have been right here the whole time, supporting Baeth and sending in your encouraging emails, words of wisdom, and oodles of insight, we wanted YOU to be the first to hear about what she has in store for 2010.

Baeth is only doing ONE Master Mind group this year… the Phenomenal Entrepreneur Coaching Circle [PECC] 2010.

This is unlike ANY Master Mind group she has EVER done.

This is the nitty gritty of spiritual development and personal growth, where you will claim the passionate work you love, and access the necessary business knowledge you may need: marketing, copywriting, tele-class skills, and so on – as your business requires.

Baeth has also laid out a flexible ‘spiritual curriculum’ to support you throughout the year in fully embracing the work you love – so your livelihood expresses your Life Purpose. In other words, this is BEYOND Livelihood – this is about living your “RIGHT LIFE!”

This group will only have 20 primary members. You are welcome to bring a spouse/partner or key employee to the meetings.

The screening process for this program will be thorough to ensure a harmonious group.

We have sent out a few applications to a select group of clients that have requested to work with Baeth in the past. This is why we are emailing you today.

We know there are a lot of you who would love to work with Baeth and have been waiting for the ‘right time’ or the ‘right group’.  Well folks, this is it!

This is truly going to be a LIFE CHANGING 2010!  (And your ONLY chance to coach with Baeth directly in 2010! She is planning VERY limited VIP coaching in 2011, so don’t miss out on this!)

We have already received several applications back and the spots are filling quite fast.  (Clients are already making deposits simply to hold their spots. We’ve tried telling people this in the past  – who thought we were kidding – and then they were disappointed to discover no spots were left.)

Will you be the next PECC member? Are you ready to TRULY harness your spiritual power so that you can TRULY know, live and fully unleash your Life Purpose in EVERY area of your life?

Just send an email to cindy@handanalyst.com and request an assessment application, fill it out, email it back, have a private chat with Baeth and see if this is right for you!

As a bonus for being a loyal Baeth reader, we are offering a complimentary One Hour Private Hand Analysis with Baeth if you join the 2010 PECC!  (Price is going up to $2997.00 in the new year.)

So email me right now at cindy@handanalyst.com and get ready to EASILY do the livelihood you love while expressing your “right life!”

Warmest regards,

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On-Site Business Manager “The Hand Analyst, Inc.”

Cindy@handanalyst.com

P.S. Even if you’re not sure, respond to me right away at Cindy@handanalyst.com and I’ll set up a private strategy session for you with Baeth to see if the program is a good fit for you.

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“Let It Go”

My Life Purpose, from my fingerprints (aka my “spiritual blueprint”), is “Successful Businesswoman and Spiritual Teacher with a Special Message for a Large Audience – With Heart.”

My core message is this: “You have a unique purpose on this planet. It’s ‘your purpose – in your hands.’ Only YOU have the power to unleash this inner potency and make it manifest in the world. Doing so is the greatest thing you could ever do.”

And while my message compels me, impels me passionately forward, there is a constant winnowing process occurring where I must let go of outmoded ways of being to embrace a new way of being. If I resist this process of letting go, the lessons come faster – and harder.

Ironically, the hardest lesson this year has been letting go.

Here’s a light-hearted example. Recently, I received the infamous “Facebook spank” and my account was disabled. I think it was because I had an increase in friend requests going out from my account. I had exported my personal mailing list and was requesting folks who weren’t already  ‘friends.’ I think the powers that be suspected my account was hacked (it wasn’t).

I may or may not get my account reinstated, but silly me – Facebook is free! I should have – if I’d been smart – backed up my friends’ list AND all the content I posted on there. Did I? No, I didn’t. I don’t own my Facebook info (and you don’t own yours either) – Facebook does. They can do whatever they want with your posted info. Not the greatest customer service policy if you ask me, but they haven’t responded yet. There is no one to talk to or call at their headquarters. Email after email request has gone unanswered. So what can I do?

“Let it go.” What will be, will be. (Put out some good energy for me, okay? I like communicating with y’all on there! And there’s always Twitter!)

The same goes for interpersonal relationships.

I went out with some friends last Friday night. We had such a good time, we decided to go out again Saturday night. Unfortunately, expectations being what they are, Saturday night was a pale reflection of Friday night. Late night pancakes lightened the mood slightly, but I was astounded at how irritated I was that the evening had not unfolded in an order to my liking.

This may not seem like much, but for me, it was a spiritual comeuppance. Broken “expectations” are usually a sign that I’m holding on way too tight to a particular mood, feeling, outcome or ambition.

These two experiences – a Facebook disappearance and a disappointing evening – seemed to be trying to tell me something. Um, maybe it’s time to “let it go.”

And let go of what else? On the physical level, I cut off four inches of my hair (right before my karaoke adventure!) and died it dark espresso with gold streaks. Ditched a lot of weight around my middle thanks to my encouraging and merciless physical trainer, Zach. Let go of tons of clothes that I no longer wear, gave our king-size custom-made futon bed to our daughter and ordered a custom-made Westin Heavenly Bed (the most comfortable bed I’ve ever slept on!). Replacing our carpet with hardwood flooring, replacing old vanities with new ones (hopefully, just the ones in our bathrooms!), and finally furnishing our barren living room.

On the internal level, I’ve embraced my Life’s Purpose more deeply. That means that the tasks I undertake on a daily level aim to express my truth and my heart. Everything I do needs to express my highest self to the best of my ability. I have released anxiety and replaced it with the quest for excellence. Doing things well, in my own way, on my own schedule is just fine. I’ve let go of being ‘good’ and accepting ‘good enough.’ I’ve let go of thinking ‘I know’ what’s going to happen. I have a vision but how that vision unfolds is part of the mystery and the joy of living.

Most of all, when the day ends, it’s time to just wrap it up and let it go. Off to slumber land, surrendered, relaxed and ready for the next adventure!

Are you surrendered to your Life’s Purpose? If not now, when? To YOUR Purpose – it’s in YOUR hands!

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“Quantum Confession”

A Mosaic Grid

As I lay daydreaming one day on Venice beach, I saw the galaxy float around me in the shape of a grid. Imagine a parking garage made of golden filament stretching in all directions, north, south, east and west – an “infinite grid” of possibility.

Quantum physicists can’t agree if the observer and the observed aren’t actually the same thing, if existence is actually one giant web that stretches forever and if within that web resides all possibilities, all outcomes, all experiences, forever. Some scientists even suspect that consciousness seeks to know itself by experiencing EVERYTHING, which, of course, would take forever… and would imply that YOUR consciousness seeks to know everything as well. That’s a whole lotta life times! It seems that life without end is more than a philosophical or religious concept.

Michael Talbot, in his book The Holographic Universe shares scientific studies about OBEs (out of body experiences), NDEs (near death experiences) and PLEs (past life experiences) among the monster compilation of research he’s assembled. What is striking is that individuals returning from these altered states of consciousness report very similar experiences, regardless of background, ethnicity, income level, and just about every other demographic marker you can think of.
Holographic Universe

These time travelers report that there is a ‘room’ you enter, in between lives, where your entire life is played back for you in 360-degree surround sound. You experience every thought, feeling, and memory you’ve ever had as well as the feelings of the other people who’ve played important roles in your life. You feel what they felt – in lightning speed.

Then the angels consult with you about what you learned this life and your plan for your next life. The angels don’t seem to be concerned with your morality, your religion or your achievements. They are interested in two things: Did you do everything with love and did you continually seek self-knowledge and understanding?

Imagine that the ‘goal’ of your life is to do everything with love and to continually discover the depths of who you are? That’s it. Everything else is designed to serve those purposes. Your bank account, your popular associations, your striving – not interesting to the angels. Love and knowledge… those are the reasons.

Now imagine you are consulting with the angels for your next life. You decide that you want to be a healer who has to overcome low self-worth and paralyzing fears of rejection in order to bring forth an innovative healing technique on planet Earth (it’s possible you might choose another planet, of course).

This “life plan” also appears in your fingerprints, as if to provide you with a map and a reminder of your destiny. Your fingerprints form between the 14th and 16th week of in uterine development and don’t change. However, whether you fulfill the plan you created is up to you.

As an observer observing the world from my limited one-person perspective, I offer you this: there is an urgency to fulfill this plan for this is your one shot – in this body. But… if at first you don’t succeed, you can always try again. You have eternity, after all.

I send out a kiss to your hands, your toes, your beautiful face, your lovely hair, your tender heart, your deep mind, your bright consciousness. Bless you for choosing to come here to Earth to keep this creation experiment unfolding. Remember to breathe if you start to get ahead of yourself or feel overwhelmed, trapped, anxious or scared. This life is just a chapter in the never ending story.

A toast to YOU this Thanks Giving! May you complete your chapter with gusto… it makes the reading so much richer!

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“The Empress Has NO Clothes! Yes, My Naked Confession.”

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The Empress “Looking Back” Over 2009

Recently, one of my Phenomenal Entrepreneur Coaching Circle clients reminded me of the story of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” by Hans Christian Andersen. Two weavers promise an Emperor a new suit of clothes that are invisible to others deemed “unfit for their positions or incompetent.” As the Emperor is outfitted in his ‘invisible’ clothes by miming attendants, he hesitates to question his nakedness so he doesn’t appear unfit for his position or incompetent.

Later, when the Emperor parades before his subjects in his new clothes, a child cries out, “But he isn’t wearing anything at all!”

The key character in the story is the child who points out the naked truth while the others either refuse to see or deny the obvious.

Discovering the naked truth in my business this year has been both a revelation and, at times, a shock…

By stripping myself of my illusions, fantasies and unrealistic expectations, I have discovered some remarkable things about myself and my business that are part of my soul’s truth. This process of stripping my soul bare and admitting my nakedness and vulnerability is part of my commitment to living my Life Purpose, full out, no excuses, regardless of the expectations of others.

This commitment gifted me some of my highest highs and lowest lows this year. My intention is to share them with you as a confession, and hopefully, a revelation.

#1 All Things Pass: Endings and Beginnings

Last week, we put down our beloved dog, Sam. He was a rescue dog and had been with us for six years. He joined the family shortly after our Golden Retriever, Maggie, died at age 16. What shocked me most amidst my conflicted feelings was realizing how fleeting life is. One moment, Sam was here, the next moment he was gone. He relaxed into the vet’s loving hands, without a struggle or protest. Did he know he was going to die? I doubt it. If he did, I think he would have run away. That thought stirs the most sadness in me. He trusted us so much that he allowed us to send him on his next journey in the same way he would receive a stroke on his soft black head. He trusted us absolutely to do what was best for him.

In my business, I am re-discovering some things I love to share with my clients and releasing some things that no longer serve. Although expanding into the new direction is thrilling, I can feel the anxiety of letting go, not unlike knowing Sam was ready to leave. Being ready to change is not the same as wanting to change. Does anyone want to die? Mostly not except in those cases when the person is really ready and really done here. Are we sometimes ready to die to one part of ourselves so another can be born? The continual cycle of death and life, endings and beginnings, is eternal.

And that realization is the death of anxiety, because our consciousness is eternal and this life is merely a chapter in the unfolding life of the infinite Universe. We are part of something so much larger than we can possibly conceive. We are part of an ever-changing, ever-growing unknowable whole. It is awe inspiring.

#2 Stand Your Ground and Don’t Back Down

Our ego – the part of our brain concerned with self-preservation and separation – lives to be ‘right.’ It feeds on drama, gossip, and negativity. It loves intrigue, suspicion and craves dissatisfaction. It is a part of all of us, stronger in some than in others, but a part of all of us, for even the most enlightened must contend with the rapacious ego.

To wrestle one’s ego into submission is as simple as taking a deep breath and asking, “What is wrong in this moment?” Usually, nothing. As you bring your attention to this moment, this relationship, this breath, enlightenment just is. You are you, without a mask, defenses, posturing or the need to be right.

This year, I’ve watched my ego struggle the most when I’ve had to stand my ground to stay in integrity with myself, even if those around me disagreed. It has taken nearly all my will to turn away from those who do not support me in doing what I must to honor myself. My ego has desperately wanted their approval, approbation and forgiveness even amidst my desire to be free and true to myself. Talk about contradiction! I’ve had to discover the very fine line between honoring my integrity and my ego’s need to be right.

I can tell if I need to be right if I’m seeking approval or reassurance in my decision. I can tell if it’s my true soul’s purpose if there is no one to consult but my higher self and the legacy I wish to leave behind. I am discovering that what others say about me is none of my business. It is about them, not about me. Just as anything I might say about someone else – positively or negatively – is about me, not them. (Who else would it be about? It’s coming through my own filter of perception.) These are fine distinctions, but necessary for my self-discovery.

I have learned to stand my ground and not back down when every fiber of my being simply knows what is best – not for others, for myself. Recently, I had to do this with a friend. I do believe she is doing what she feels is right and that is her choice. I, of course, must do the same. While our choices might conflict, I trust a higher order is working to teach us exactly what it needs to teach us. For me, the lesson is “stand my ground and don’t back down.”

The fact that it is a friend whom I cherish and who can play the friendship card makes this the ultimate test for me. I am blessed to have such a good teacher. This test is helping me to be clear in EVERY relationship in my life, both personal and professional. I am currently doing a ‘boundary inventory’ and cleaning up every relationship that needs some fine-tuning.

#3 Embrace The Love That Is

Each of us instinctively loves others in the way we wish to be loved. It flows from our core values. I have a list of core values typed up and framed on my desk, last updated 4/22/03, 10 days after my wedding. It reads like this:

1. LOVE = with myself, with Mark (my husband), with others, with life

2. HEALTH = exercise, eating well, ample rest & relaxation

3. “WATER” = source of life, ease, peace, emotional authenticity & safety (water represents emotion)

4. TRIBE = friendship with family and friends

5. CONNECTION TO THE DIVINE = meditation, prayer

As I look at these values (I have a list of about 10 more that are very meaningful to me), I am reminded of what truly motivates my actions, day in and day out. I enjoy giving and receiving love. I enjoy feeling vital, energized and healthy. Water is my source of solace and I like to let the water of my emotions move through me effortlessly. My tribe are my people – my family, friends and treasured clients. My connection to the divine is the source of my inner peace and my greatest teacher.

As I have come to know myself, I have discovered that my desire for “everyone to like me” comes from being in the School of Love (the hands have four schools: peace, wisdom, love and service). If you look at my values above, there is a deep theme of “connection” running through them.

I fear the ‘loss of love’ or loss of connection – so that the experience of someone withdrawing their love from me feels like someone cutting out my heart. I ‘know’ intellectually that I am the source of my own love, but when someone disconnects, I feel I am somehow less than and must win that approval back to be okay. If this isn’t your lesson, you know as you read this. If it IS your test, you also know – deep in your heart.

This year, I’ve been both the receiver and giver of disconnection – sometimes with the same person! Funny that. It has broken me wide open and laid me flat. I am better for it because I am discovering that there is great love all around me. While I’m busy wasting time trying to regain what is lost, done, complete, the love that IS is just waiting for me, there for the asking.

Which begs the question – if I’m longing after love lost, then maybe I’m really afraid of the intimacy that comes with true connection? Ah, why? Because if I REALLY love someone all the way – and something happens – I fear total emotional devastation. So better to be distracted by a faulty connection than to plug in full force to the connection that will transcend my own ego. I confess – I am willing to fully plug in and be seen and known and see and know others.

Alright already! That’s enough confession for today! I figure things out by writing about them (and talking about them, too!). I’ll be back next week with some more… Please share your thoughts – and your confessions here – if you dare! – by clicking on the comment icon on this page.

“3 Strategies To Go From One-On-One Coaching To PUBLIC IMPACT In Your Business”

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Kimberly Schneider, “The Manifestation Maven”
Photo by Lindsay A. Miller

Maybe you deeply enjoy, as I do, one-on-one coaching. However, if you do ‘too much’ one-on-one coaching, you may discover some interesting things. Perhaps you need to scale back and do less one-on-one coaching so you can explore other directions that fulfill different aspects of your Life Purpose. Perhaps you discovered you actually don’t enjoy one-on-one coaching (that can be a shocker for some business owners to admit!) but are unsure of what to do instead. Perhaps coaching is opening up other opportunities but you don’t want to let your coaching clients go.

What is a dedicated service provider to do?…

Kimberly Schneider, the Manifestation Maven, is a successful example of a how a business woman called to be both a one-on-one coach and a messenger in the spotlight is making a public impact in the healing arts by creating her business, HER WAY.

Today’s article explores 3 strategies you might consider in expanding your business to include not only one-on-one coaching but greater public impact, reach, influence, or spotlight, as your Life Purpose requires (not all purposes require a public forum).

Kim says, “My Life Purpose is ‘Public Impact in the Healing Arts with Heart.’ 

When I met Baeth I was coaching one-on-one and in small groups, helping people overcome unconscious limiting beliefs that sabotaged their wealth and success. 

After my hand analysis session with Baeth, I shifted my business model in order to work with larger groups of people. She accurately pointed out that challenges around my Life Lesson of Emotional Authenticity kept me from stepping out in a bigger way. I was scared about what others would think of me if I expressed my truth. [This is a BIG obstacle for many people!]

Baeth also told me that my head line [your thinking style] indicated I am a gifted problem solver with a global message. With this gift, if I don’t allow my mind to work on large, complex issues, my mind will create big problems for me to solve in my personal life (did that ever explain some things!).

Hearing my Life Purpose affirmed gave me the courage I needed to quit dreaming about what I would do someday and just make it happen. Five months after I hired Baeth as my coach, I promoted my first large-scale event — and over 160 people registered! When my husband saw the registration page for my event, he had tears in his eyes. Hearing him say to me, “You are doing exactly what you are here to do,” was icing on the cake.” 

Since Kimberly sent me that testimony, she launched and now hosts Conscious Manifesting on WebtalkRadio.net with over 6,000 downloads per week and is a regular contributor on the Great Day St. Louis TV show. Kimberly also writes a monthly column for The Healthy Planet and she is the author of Beyond Abundance, a home study course on her Cornucopia Method of Manifestation. She is currently writing her forthcoming book MORE:  Shattering the 5 Illusions that Keep You Stuck as well as a volume of poetry.

Kimberly’s bio provides ample ideas of how to expand your public impact, but I’ll elaborate a bit.

#1 Go Bigger and Wider

Become a TV and radio show guest or start your own show, using the internet and public access television. There are numerous resources online for doing this. The first step is to make the decision to reach more people. You will need a press kit, a target audience and a core message that you wish to share. For example, Kimberly is the Manifestation Maven, Awakening Entrepreneurs and Other Extraordinary Individuals to the Power of Conscious Manifestation and the Joy of Meaningful Work.

For your press kit, you’ll want to have a hard copy and digital copy with a good, high quality head shot, media resume, press samples, a timely press release and a cover letter. Numerous books and web sites can help you craft the specifics of your PR package.

#2 Create Higher-Priced, More Exclusive Offerings For Your Coaching Clients

Perhaps you want to provide some one-on-one coaching but not have your days filled with phone calls. If that’s the case, you might want to consider creating a premium coaching experience where you gather two to three times per year for two or more days with 10 to 12 clients and help them brainstorm solutions for their businesses and/or personal lives. You can include some personal coaching, group calls, an online forum, and other benefits to amplify the quality of the program. The investment for these programs usually runs anywhere from $9000 to $100,000 a year, depending on the level of one-on-one contact with you, the quality of results your clients experience and the experience level of the clients themselves in their respective professions.

Kimberly created a program called “The Alchemy of Business” and brought together 12 of her crème de la crème clients for big business breakthroughs. She reduced her coaching load and was able to provide a richer service that resulted in stunning results for her clients at the truly reasonable investment of $15,000 per year, per person. You can do the math on that one.

#3 Bring Your Creativity Into Your Business

Kimberly is not only a gifted coach, healer, teacher, writer and speaker, she is an artist, too. She is a trained dancer and a wildly talented poet. She is bringing her artistic gifts into her coaching work with great success. What creative talents do you have that perhaps you think ‘don’t fit’ with your business? I bet they do! Floral design? Jewelry design? Painting? Horseback riding? Disco dancing? You get the idea.

Here is one of Kim’s latest poems (I suggest you sit down and savor this one – she’s THAT good!):

 

I Need A Sky that Moves

I need a sky that moves.

Clouds churning over the
wild Atlantic;
soft blue surrendering to the incandescent
salmon of a Missouri sunset;
a new moon slipping behind
the Catalina mountains.

I need a sky that moves.

Whoever imagined Paradise as an unchanging
landscape? My heaven holds
a shooting star;
a double rainbow after the storm;
a crimson leaf spinning in a
blustery October breeze.

I need a sky that moves.

For something tells me
my soul can only be known against
the vast unfolding drama of a living
universe.

Crawl on your belly to the edge
of the world at the cliffs on Dun Aengus and
answer me this:

Don’t the old ones whisper to you
from the misty horizon?

Don’t the waves crashing
against the rocks below
call out
as if to say:

that even you, in all your
insignificance
have something
to give,

that what you declare here
matters,

and that who you are
in any given

moment changes
    everything.

I need a sky that moves.

©2009, Kimberly V. Schneider

 
If Kim inspires you as she continues to inspire me, go ahead and ”BE,” as Gandhi said, “the change you want to see in the world.” It’s not about playing a role, or being perfect, or knowing ‘what to do,’ it’s about BEING present, in the moment, simply you, simply real. There is nobody out there any way – I’m you, you are me, and we are one. But you knew that.

My bonus tip for getting ‘out there in a big way?’ Remember that there is no competition for your Life Purpose and nobody to prove anything to or anyone to disappoint. It’s about being connected to who you are, in this place, at this time, and letting your soul soar in your joy and glory. So be it! Forgive yourself for your missteps, stumbles, shortcomings, slights, slips of the tongue and silliness. That’s part of what your soul wants, too. Your soul wants to EXPERIENCE it all. Your soul doesn’t know ‘good’ and ‘bad’ – your soul only knows ‘experience.’ And this lifetime is merely one sliver of that experience. We want to and we do experience it all – in good time. Infinite time. Just breathe, receive and ENJOY! It’s your purpose – in YOUR hands™. Now go live it, full out, no excuses. You chose it. Claim it – it’s YOURS!

A Little Bit More About Kimberly Schneider

What happens when you take a body with the soul of a poet, the mind of a scholar and the heart of a healer… and turn her into a trial lawyer? Existential Crisis and more graduate school.  Throw in a marriage and two extraordinary children and you wind up with Kimberly Schneider, The Manifestation Maven.  Kimberly is the host of Conscious Manifesting on WebtalkRadio.net and a regular contributor on Great Day St. Louis TV show.  Kimberly writes a monthly column for The Healthy Planet and she is the author of Beyond Abundance, a home study course on her Cornucopia Method of Manifestation, as well as the forthcoming book MORE:  Shattering the 5 Illusions that Keep You Stuck and a volume of poetry. Find out more about how Kimberly’s coaching programs and seminars can help you & your organization create more of what you want (and less of what you don’t). kimberlyschneider.com  Kimberly Schneider Communications, LLC Awakening Entrepreneurs and Other Extraordinary Individuals to the Power of Conscious Manifestation and the Joy of Meaningful Work.

 

Have a listen to Kim’s show, “Conscious Manifesting,” where she interviews me about “Money In Your Hands:” 

http://tinyurl.com/yhjmjd9