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“Leadership is an Inside Job.”

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by Baeth Davis, Your Prosperity Purpose Mentor

Today’s article explores four qualities of leadership that we will be emphasizing at our live event, Gifted, this year: intimacy, surrender, trust, and space. These are also the same qualities required of anyone who has a Life Purpose as a healer, spiritual teacher, coach, mentor, or endeavoring in any service profession.

Where This Shows Up In Your Hands
Your little finger and the area beneath it on your palm represent your connection to both the abstract spiritual world and your own inner guidance and instinct. One of the key elements necessary for you to succeed in expressing your Life Purpose fully is to own your intuitive power.

Power traditionally has been associated with aggressive confrontation, dictatorship, totalitarianism, and often violence. Today’s successful leader uses the qualities represented by the little finger side of the hand to create balance and transparency in their leadership style.

Let’s explore four of these qualities now.

Intimacy
The dictionary definition of intimacy involves revealing your inner most self to another. I call this being explicit about your inner process as opposed to implicit, which for many of us means hoping that someone can read our mind without having to directly express what we need, want, feel, or desire. The challenge with this indirect approach to communication is that you are rarely seen or heard. You may also be misunderstood.

To be a successful leader it is necessary to be personally revealing where appropriate. Examples of this include: sharing personal anecdotes about your children, pets, or hobbies in your marketing materials, sharing how you triumphed over a challenge your client may be currently facing, sharing with others how your unique systems and processes create successful results, and sharing your vulnerabilities with your beloved. Ultimately, intimacy requires being honest with yourself.

This intimate relationship with yourself also requires the quality of surrender.

Surrender
We don’t typically think of leadership and surrender going together. However, many times today’s leader has no option but to surrender to the changes happening around her. The ability to be powerfully intimate with yourself allows you to know when to let go and when to stand firm.

Many women in western society have become highly competent as givers and nurturers, however, feminine energy is designed to surrender and receive. As you grow as a leader, it is important to be able to move freely between masculine hard control and feminine openness and receptivity. This brings us to the next instrumental quality of the modern leader – trust.

Trust
Trust is probably the most important quality of all. Why? Without it, it makes intimacy and surrender next to impossible.

The ability to trust your inner guidance and surrender to it is actually a result of having high self-esteem. The paradox is that the more you trust yourself, the more your self-esteem grows. You may have to fall on your face many times before you discover which inner voice to trust. Is it your voice? Or is it the voice of your parents, mentors, siblings, church, city, state, or friends?

The only way to find out what your truth is is to make a decision and act upon it. The law of cause and effect will quickly reveal to you where you are aligned with your truth and where you are off the mark.

The key to developing the three qualities of intimacy, surrender, and trust is patience. Patience needs SPACE to grow and flourish.

Space
Space implies lack of matter. The universe is essentially made up of things and no-things. With technology rapidly evolving, none of us can emotionally or intellectually keep up with the “things” coming at us on a daily basis. You need sacred space, both inner and outer, in order to maintain your intimate connection to yourself and be able to surrender to your inner guidance.

What does this space look like? Perhaps it is a special place in your home where you go to think and meditate. Or maybe this space is the quiet time you spend writing in your journal or taking walking in the woods, or at the beach. Or more importantly this space may mean the time away from emails, phone calls, meetings, the demands of others, and your own internal chatter.

Do you allow space in your daily, weekly, and yearly schedule? Space typically does not happen by itself. To create space you must remove what is taking up that space. Which leads us full circle back to your inner guidance. For only you truly know what must stay and what must go. Are you willing to surrender to your own truth despite the demands and pressures of the world around you? Are you willing to trust the decisions you make and surrender to the process that unfolds?

As you can see, leadership truly is an inside job. You can only empower others to the degree that you are fully empowered within your own inner space. My wish for you is that you make your inner voice the authority and leader within your life. When you do you will discover you will create your life in whatever fashion you like. For all of your resources are truly inside of you. These resources are more valuable than the gold in the ground. These resources are your essential nature. And when you lead from this place, you stand not only on the leading edge of the “new economy” but on the edge of a brave new world known as your Life Purpose.

Mentor’s Challenge: Create more SPACE in your life. Create a ‘thinking’ area in your home and create space in your daily, weekly and yearly schedule for time away from the demands of anyone but your own desire.

Spirituality and Business: 3 Powerful Tips for Unleashing Your Intuition

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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

3 Tips to Put the Profit Back in Your Purpose

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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!

What It REALLY Takes to ‘Go Diamond’

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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!

Spirituality and Business: 3 Powerful Tips for Unleashing Your Intuition

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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.

 

 

 

 

 

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

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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.