Spirituality and Business: 3 Powerful Tips for Unleashing Your Intuition

Posted on Oct. 11, 2009 by Baeth.

If you really want to know “the secret,” access your business creativity and live your Life Purpose, there’s one jewel in your treasure chest you must dig out, polish up and wear proudly - the gem is your intuition. Without it, you are likely to be confused and looking to others for your own answers.

Now, that being said, it’s perfectly good and necessary to seek out spirituality and business knowledge from others. However, there is a difference between being a workshop junkie and being a truth seeker. The workshop junkie looks for the next quick fix of temporary, adrenaline-induced inspiration (quick to wear off), while the truth seeker looks within and asks, “Hey you, what do you really want to study and learn about next?” She then finds her next step - whether it be a new relationship, an enlightening book, a tele-class or a workshop (wisdom lasts a lifetime).

What makes the difference between these two kinds of women entrepreneurs? One trusts their intuition and the other doesn’t. So, you may be asking, how do I TRUST my intuition more?

Here are three powerful tips for unleashing your intuition that I’ve discovered in my almost ten years experience as a hand analyst/palmist, and spirituality and business coach.

Tip #1: Trust the FIRST impression that comes.
Your impression could be a vision (psychic/clairvoyant), a disembodied voice (clairaudient), a gut feeling (intuition/kinesthetic response), or a simple ‘knowing’ that without explanation, forethought or planning, ‘flashes’ into your mind.

With my visual psychic/clairvoyant ability, I see imagery either “inside” my mind or “outside” my mind as if on an invisible movie screen. For example, many years ago, I was at a friend’s party giving short palm readings to the guests. As one woman sat down in front of me, I saw twelve angels around her. The angels weren’t visible in the way that she was – I saw them energetically and could feel their energy in the physical space with us. Curious and a wee bit nervous, I said, “Are you aware that you have twelve angels walking around with you?” She said, cool as a cucumber, “Oh, yes,” and then proceeded to tell me some of their names!

Tip #2: Ask your heart for spirituality and business intuition.
Close your eyes and put your right hand over your heart. Breathe in and out slowly, feeling the rhythm of your heart beat. Then quietly ask your heart, “Heart, what do you want right now?” Since your heart processes emotion, NOT thoughts, it will usually respond with a simple, one- or two-word “feeling” answer such as “love,” “forgiveness,” “patience,” “action,” etc. You will probably hear these answers in your head, in your own voice.

Usually my heart answers, “I want peace and joy.” However tonight, while writing this article, my heart gave me the longest answer ever. My heart said, “Baeth, stop pushing yourself. I want you to be kind and gentle to yourself. Take care of yourself and do those things that make you feel pretty and happy.” Pretty and happy? Never got that one before. Wow, I guess I have my homework!

Tip #3: Build your self-esteem.
In her book, Anatomy Of The Spirit, the great energy medicine expert, Caroline Myss wrote, “How we feel about ourselves, whether we respect ourselves, determines the quality of our life, our capacity to succeed in business, relationships, healing, and intuitive skills [emphasis mine]. Self-understanding and acceptance, the bond we form with ourselves, is in many ways the most crucial spiritual challenge we face. In truth, if we do not like ourselves, we will be incapable of making healthy decisions. Instead, we will direct our personal power for decision-making into the hands of someone else. Someone whom we want to impress or someone before whom we think we must weaken ourselves to gain physical security. People who have a low sense of self-esteem attract relationships and occupational situations that reflect and reinforce this weakness.” (This lack of self-esteem is the #1 reason why women entrepreneurs don’t use their intuition.)

After reading thousands of hands, I believe that the “Life Lesson” of humanity involves self-esteem issues. If you doubt yourself, how are you going to trust something as subtle, fast and laser sharp as your intuition? Having good self-esteem is vital to harnessing the power of your intuition. And here’s the catch: If you ask and don’t listen, your intuitive awareness may go into hibernation. If you ask and listen, but don’t ACT, you create stagnation, procrastination and all sorts of spirituality and business ills.

If you’d like to learn more about how to harness your intuition as well as how I help female entrepreneurs and small business owners discover the calling of their souls and create business plans that turn their unique life purposes into businesses that are both meaningful AND profitable, download my free special report “5 Massive Mistakes Spiritually Oriented Women Make in Business…And How to Avoid Them” go to http://www.handanalyst.com

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3 Tips to Put the Profit Back in Your Purpose

Posted on Oct. 08, 2009 by Baeth.

Yesterday, a client called me in a panic about the state of her finances. ‘What is causingsuch a talented, experienced, bright woman such money misery?’ I wondered.

As I contemplated her situation, my own history with money, and that of the hundreds ofbusiness women I’ve coached over the years, I realized that there is an inner process that must be happening simultaneously with specific, time-tested outward actions if you are going to have BOTH purpose AND profit in your business.

Here are my TOP 3 TIPS for creating more purpose AND profit in your business:

#1 Stop making ‘work’ a four-letter word.

Work gives our lives meaning. For many of us, work is one of the primary ways we expressour life purpose. However, I’ve noticed something very interesting. Here’s the hypothetical scenario: “Julie” is 36 and married, with two young children. She has just started a home-based business selling nutritional products. She is having trouble juggling the schedule of her kids with her own business responsibilities.

As Julie’s coach, I suggest she hire an administrative assistant (easily done by posting an ad on www.CraigsList.com. Hourly rates range from $8 hr - $20 hr). She balks. “How can I afford that? I’m not making much money in my business yet.” I ask her, “How exactly do you make money in your business?” She says, “Well, staying in touch with my current customers and finding new ones.” “Right,” I say, “so where is your time best spent?” Julie responds, “Marketing to my current customers and ideal prospects.” Uh-huh. “So, how about doing that?” I say. ”But it’s so much work,” she says. Uh huh.

When we do the REAL work in our businesses, which consists primarily of delegating tasksthat are not our area of expertise and spending our precious time letting our prospects and customers know about what we’ve created to make their lives easier (that is the goal of EVERY authentic business - making the life of your customer EASIER with a better hand soap, a better vitamin, a better home study course, a better workshop, etc.), we begin to not only PROFIT, we feel more connected to what we are doing and why we are doing it - our PURPOSE.

Are you avoiding the real work of your business with lots of nitpicky tasks? What is thiscosting you? At a deeper level, what does this distraction allow you to do? That’s right, HIDE OUT. When you spend your time creating a new product, publishing a new book or improving your marketing campaign, you are definitely not hiding out. You are showing the world who you really are. And that’s what Julie is afraid of - succeeding and being seen. Which leads me to Tip #2.

#2 Determine your ‘Visibility Edge’ and stretch it

How much spotlight can you handle before you start to retreat? Is your blushing brought on by a simple compliment about your lovely blouse or is it a full-out panic attack about stepping on stage or calling the local TV station for an opportunity to appear on their morning news program? Each of us has a ‘visibility edge’ - the limit to which we will allow others to see, hear and applaud us before we stop doing the necessary ‘work’ to be seen, heard and valued by our target market. (See Tip #1.)

What is one thing you can do today to move your ‘visibility edge’ out a little bit further? (I asked my personal assistant to contact the local radio station about my appearing on Valentine’s Day to do ‘romantic compatibility’ hand analysis readings for the listeners. We’re waiting to hear back and I’m excited. If this one doesn’t pan out, there are always more. BTW - I make up these ideas and pursue them - which takes me to Tip #3.)

#3 ”Ask For Forgiveness, Not Permission”

Grace Murray Hopper, a computer programmer and the inventor of the COBOL program, was quoted as saying, ”It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.” I interpret this to mean that, in your business, it is often easier to move forward with your visions and goals when the inspiration hits you than it is to wait around for someone to tell you, “Yes, darling, you can have what you want.”

In Julie’s situation, the nutritional company she represents won’t let her put up her own web site. So instead of asking their permission to create an informational web site on nutrition fundamentals, Julie just did it, with a link that connects people back to the nutritional company. Julie honored the policy of the company but created a solution that not only increases the company’s sales, but creates an additional profit stream for Julie in an area where her purpose as the “Family Healer in the Spotlight” can come alive.

If you are in a financial rut, these are my three challenges to you:

1. Work on the PROFIT tasks and delegate the rest. Do what makes money FIRST each day, not last.
2. Determine your ‘visibility edge’ by writing down the last time you really showed up publicly - whether on a teleclass, a radio or TV program or in print. What is ONE thing you can do before the week is out to bring you and your business some purpose-full publicity?
3. What is the BIG thing you need to give yourself permission to do? What will it take to give yourself permission NOW? What kind of person will you have to become to not wait for someone else’s approval? Set a deadline and go for it!

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The Faaabulous Interviews - Baeth Davis

Posted on Sep. 24, 2009 by Baeth.

This is Baeth Davis, The Hand Analyst aka “the palm pilot for the soul of your business”. Baeth read my hands last year and it was amazing!

- Sandy Grason, http://www.sandygrason.com/fabulous

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What It REALLY Takes to ‘Go Diamond’

Posted on Sep. 22, 2009 by Baeth.

That’s my Diamond Phenomenal Entrepreneur Coaching Circle [PECC] posing with a Native American warrior woman (she’s entirely made of bronze!) in Scottsdale last week. Each member invested $100,000 in them SELVES to be a member of this strategic spiritual alliance! Inspiring! (If you’re thinking ‘that’s crazy!’ let me ask you something: Would YOU invest $100,000 to make a million? I would. ALL DAY LONG! These Diamonds are creating high six-figure or seven-figure businesses rapidly, with ease and appreciation.)

I’ve been thinking… what does it take to Go Diamond? I mean, going Diamond isn’t for everyone - nor does it need to be. The ‘Diamond’ entrepreneur has a HUGE vision of what’s possible, not only for herself, but for the WORLD. What struck me about each of the above Diamonds was the way they used language:

“I want to help my Self express authentically, laugh genuinely, dance wildly, create beautifully, love truly, madly, deeply, pay myself handsomely. I want to help others in the world… increase literacy, eradicate hunger, heal, become self-sufficient and claim abundance.”

Many entrepreneurs I meet focus on creating a ‘life style’ that often reflects their current exhaustion… “I want more time,” they say. “Time to rest, read, sleep.” Really? You want to build a business so you can sleep more? That’s pretty funny. You really need to pick a different money game if you want to sleep more! Besides, as the gym slogan says, “You can sleep when you’re dead.” (Of course, rest does have its place - but it’s not a ‘life style.’)

If this resonates for you, you probably need a vacation so you can get a perspective shift and tune into your Divine Guidance.

If focusing on ‘more money’ and ‘more time’ is all that your business is about, that will simply NOT be enough motivation to propel you into action. A business designed to express your Life Purpose - now THAT will get you in ACTION. The business game is NOT for folks who aren’t in perpetual motion for a PURPOSE GREATER than money. (But money IS part of the equation, to be sure.)

My clients know not to ask me, “What can I do to make money?” Instead, ask your Self: “What can I do to provide MORE VALUE for others in EXCHANGE for money?” I KNOW I can take someone with no business and help them create a six-figure business in less than ONE year - IF they are motivated and willing to do WHATEVER their inner guidance asks them to do. That’s value. So my ‘coaching prices’ reflect ROI and ROE = ‘return on investment’ and ‘return on experience.’

In your business, are you a value creator or a victim? There’s really no in-between. It’s one or the other. If you’re blaming the economy, your spouse, your education, or your business partner for your ‘problems,’ you’re in victim mode. Diamonds don’t blame others for their outcomes. And if they slip, they catch it quick, because one victim moment is one too many.

To ‘Go Diamond’ every day, you MUST DECIDE NOW TO ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS ACT on your Divine Guidance (and never ever, ever, ever NOT act on it!). It’s not enough to just ask and listen - you have to ACT. Diamonds ACT. Right after our group meetings, they are back in their rooms or at the pool (smile - my FAVORITE office), writing out plans, putting up landing pages online, calling vendors - IMPLEMENTING what they received moments earlier in the mastermind sessions. Two members received 500 K ideas while in the room - and yes, those plans are coming to fruition right now.

EASY is relative. If Divine Guidance says, “GET UP!” at 3 AM so you can explore a new concept online, you’d better get up. Divine Guidance doesn’t care about you getting ‘enough’ sleep or working ‘more’ or working ‘less.’ Divine Guidance guides you PERFECTLY, every time, to take the actions needed for this project, this relationship, this bank account, this moment. Some months, you may work 80 hours a week to fulfill Divine Guidance, at other times, you may hang out with the dolphins in Hawaii and find joy in just floating under the big blue sky.

Ultimately, to REALLY BE a Diamond, it’s about your Consciousness - it’s a state of mind. Here’s a quote from Robert A. Russell’s amazing book, You Too, Can Be Prosperous: “When you make a claim on Universal Substance, have a well-defined mental picture of what you want. Vague, misty, and indefinite pictures do not accumulate Substance.” Know what you want, see it, feel it, and take ACTION toward it.

One ACTION I’ve been working on diligently the past seven months is the introduction of an online store with lots of resources to further your Life Purpose. First-come access will be on our current web site, then ‘officially’ launched worldwide on a new site. However, stay posted so you get first dibs on my incredible birthday month offer… more on that later.

No article today as I’m going on vacation tomorrow with my hubby, Mark, to hang with friends in Canada at their lake house. Here’s to some quiet contemplation before the winds of magnetic autumn begin blowing! (My music recommendation below will stir your creative juices!)

What do YOU want your autumn to REVEAL to YOU? Set your intention now. To be a Diamond (or not)? That is the question!

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Spirituality and Business: 3 Powerful Tips for Unleashing Your Intuition

Posted on Mar. 10, 2009 by Baeth.

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Torn Between Two Businesses, Feeling Like a Fool? Discover HOW To Choose

Posted on Feb. 09, 2009 by Baeth.

Remember the song that goes, “torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool?” I know I can feel that way about all sorts of things - not just lovers. Grin. Perhaps you’re struggling to decide which business idea to focus on. You know you need to choose, but you don’t know how. Your hands give us clues as to what may be challenging you.

The middle zone of your thumb is known as your zone of logic or the “third eye” zone. This part of your hand represents your ability to discern, plan, and decide. This zone, between the tip and base of your thumb, can sometimes contain a series of horizontal lines. These horizontal lines operate as energy blocks.

If you find these horizontal lines on the middle zone of your thumb, it means you are inundated with choices. If you are a business owner or wanting to start a business, you probably either own one or more businesses or you’re having trouble deciding which one to focus on.

Let’s use logic to explore your dilemma.

#1 You have LOTS of choices, lots of options. This is good. This represents abundance.

#2 Chances are you created all these choices because you have many talents. This is also abundance.

#3 You want to satisfy every choice and end up with lots of unfinished projects.

#4 You struggle with overwhelm, lack of focus, frustration, and indecision.

#5 Planning and implementing a CLEAR plan… huh, what’s a plan???

If you have horizontals on the middle zone of your thumb, you are abundant but confused. What is required is MAKING A CHOICE. In this particular situation, HOW you choose is more important than WHAT you choose. You simply need to choose and stick with that choice.

Here’s is my pet formula for HOW to choose well.

Get a piece of paper and lay it down landscape-style. Draw a grid on the paper with 5 rows and approximately 15 columns . Make a list of all the options, ideas, and goals you are currently contemplating and put them at the top of each column. (You may need more than one piece of paper, LOL!)

Then list your top 5 values down the left-hand column, one for each row. (Mine include Love, Health, Presence, Creativity and Freedom.) Going across each row, rate the project listed at the top of the column from 1 to 5 - 1 the lowest, 5 the highest - in terms of how that project expresses the value in the corresponding row. For example, let’s say I want to publish a new e-book. I would go down the column, rating that project from 1 to 5 in terms of love, health, presence, creativity and freedom.

Now, add up the totals for each column at the bottom of the page. Which projects ranked highest and which ranked lowest for honoring your values? Now, pick the project that rated highest and FINISH it. Do whatever it takes to stay focused on your target. A coach, mastermind group, or goal-buddy can be invaluable. Just remember, you MUST choose or continue to run like a hamster on the wheel of choices.

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3 Strategies For Leveraging The Opportunity Markers In Your Hands

Posted on Jan. 07, 2009 by Baeth.

I’m often asked, with hands discretely hidden under the tablecloth or tucked into pockets, “Beth, do you ever see anything bad in the hands?” My answer is always the same: “No.” Other hand analysts might disagree, but my philosophy is this: Since you can choose whatever you want to believe, how about believing that everything, and I do mean everything, is an expression of life offering you an opportunity to learn, grow and discover more about your authentic self?

Today, I’m going to focus on three types of markers in the hands and how each offer an opportunity to grow. At first glance, you may want to categorize the marker as “good” or “bad” but that creates opposition and resistance (as well as fear of the “good” or “bad” thing happening/not happening). Basically, what you see is what you CHOOSE to see.

1. Challenge Markers: Effort Leads To Breakthroughs
Let’s pull this tooth out first - and quickly. Challenge markers can slow us down, bind us up, and generally present obstacles to goals we are attempting to achieve, whether it be greater health, a new love relationship, or completing a business project.

Horizontal lines on the hand, other than the heart and head lines, present energy obstructions to foward movement. X’s, boxes, islands, and grills (these look like tic-tac-toe boxes) are other forms of energy obstruction.

This type of marker is trying to get our attention. “Look over here,” it says. If you are aware of this challenge on your life path, you can make accommodations for it. For example, let’s say you have a grill under your middle finger on your palm. Grills indicate one foot on the gas and one foot on the break. Underneath the middle finger, this indicates that you may run into contractual challenges, especially with family members. In order to remedy this, be sure to run agreements by your lawyer, discuss all the finer points and make sure both parties understand the agreement before signing it.

These types of markers stretch us in areas where we are not comfortable and hence, either avoid altogether or jump into hastily and have to clean up later. The opportunity here is to face the challenge boldly and gather up the support you need to move through it. You probably won’t become a master in this area, but nothing is impossible! Effort leads to breakthroughs.

2. Talent Markers: But Are You Using It?
The only “bad” thing about having a talent is not knowing you have it - or worse, knowing that you have it and deliberately NOT using it! (Happens ALL the time.) Talent markers imply you have a special ability. For example, a ring on the palm, encircling the base of your pointer finger, indicates X-ray vision. It’s called Solomon’s Ring after wise King Solomon. You can see the BIG picture as well as the power-plays happening behind the scenes, even if you don’t know that many details about the situation. The opportunity here, of course, is to use the X-ray vision. If you don’t, well, you might find that you are chronic “small thinker” and can’t figure out why nothing exciting seems to be happening for you. Dare to dream big.

Three or more talent markers in your hands and you are officially a “Man or Woman of Wisdom.”

3. Gift Markers
Gift markers are similar to talent markers in that they confer a special ability upon their owner. However, gift markers carry with them a penalty if you don’t use the gift. In other words, if you’re using the gift, you’re avoiding the penalty. If you’re avoiding the gift, you’re in the penalty box. Richard Unger has identified 14 gift markers in the hands. Some hands have many gift markers and other hands have none. If you have a gift, the opportunity is to use it and discover that you do, in fact, have quite an ability - perhaps as a healer, speaker, writer, clairvoyant, warrior, or shaman. If you don’t use the gift, the penalty creates resistance. The resistance is saying, “Choose another path and use your gift.”

No matter what the marker reveals, if you embrace it, you grow and flourish. If you resist it, you struggle unnecessarily. THAT is why there is nothing “bad” in the hands (or in your life!). You can choose to embrace what puts you teetering on the edge of your comfort zone. The alternative to that is stagnation. And that really is “bad.”

If you are curious to know what your hands reveal about your challenges, talents and gifts, I challenge you to get your hands read and put your mind at ease. A hand analysis session with me IS an investment. However, I can honestly say that if I had paid $10,000 for my first hand analysis session, it would still be worth every penny because it showed me not only WHO I AM but HOW to ACHIEVE my dreams and live my ideal life. What could be better than that? You can find out more here. (I will be raising my rates, so get in before the investment goes up.)

Baeth Davis, “The Hand Analyst,” is a professional hand analyst specializing in non-predictive palmistry. She helps female entrepreneurs, small business owners and women experiencing major life transitions to discover the calling of their souls and create practical, pragmatic business plans to make their unique life purposes both meaningful AND profitable.

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