From the Nth POWER

If you don't have a vision, it's hard to establish a goal. This is so simply because without imagination, your end result has no spark...no capacity to magnify the world or people.

Your brand is YOU - who you are, how you speak, what you want, and how you'll get where you're going. It's the concept - the why - behind being alive. And it needs to get into the world and shake things up!

If you're unclear about your vision, or you have a vision but don't understand how to get to your brand from there, then watch my latest podcast where I'm joined by Brand Strategist & Mindset Coach Lisa Guillot (Find Your Clear Vision podcast). Lisa's concept of a C.L.E.A.R. vision will spark your imagination and help you get to the next step in creating the greatest concept of your lifetime - YOU!

You could be missing out on great vocational purpose and fulfilling work because you think of work as a four-letter word. The conundrum with this is that you'll spend way too many hours trying to GET something out of work while giving NOTHING to it. In other words, the days are flat...the mission useless...the people not measuring up.

All of this would be resolved if you could change your perception of work and transform it into something you really give a s**t about.

Ahriana Platten (https://www.youtube.com/@asoulfullworld) has a great perspective on how to be a Wise Woman (wisewomanguide.com) at work, even if your energy is masculine.

Having the experience of being a businesswoman AND coach, Ahriana sees what's needed to change the energy of do, work hard, be smart and be productive for the growth of modern business with reverence and space for the feminine AND masculine.

We agree it's not about hiring more women. Have a listen...

Learning to BE with life will help you balance your energy for proper and most maximum effect. If brokenness happens to you, if you feel darkness and despair, your over-intellectual mind will lead you to over-thinking which augments your negative feelings. Most things are small experiences that you keep mulling over and fighting, which makes them larger and most painful. When you remind yourself that being broken up can be worked through, your surrender makes each experience less painful. The most painful experiences SHOULD change you by breaking you and creating pain. Then, the pain creates innumerable heights of greater self-acceptance. You must accept that life will break you open and dealing with it by stopping your feelings is a way of avoiding the problem and, subsequently, the solution. Not to mention, there are thousands of people in your life that you'd like to save and when you're broken open you have the empathy to truly do good for these people. When you change, you can change others. What can you do to make a difference by finding out who you really are?

Hope is highly useful for keeping us going emotionally and mentally. Hoping for the Best is a great attitude. But hope, in and of itself, is nothing but a feeling going neither up or down nor into good or bad. When you add simple actions, the hope become a bona fide strong hold for living a truly succesful life from the inside out. We are only the energy we are creating and hope is a foundation that needs action steps to move us into the life we want. What you want cannot be thought after as much as it needs to be energetically manifested by living your life from reflection, vision and embodiment of love and desire.

What you want is available, you just need to stay connected within and living your purpose. 

We all have darkness inside. That's never been the problem. The real problem is the mis-use and misunderstanding of darkness...of how and why it can be beneficial.

Along with that, when you are trying to relate to your darkness, blank spots and lack of self-esteem, you'll find people who will validate you too well, thereby helping you stay stuck while saying they're helping you get out of it. Belonging is good for validation, but NOT when you can't seem to find a way toward the light. 

It will become more and more important to learn how to intuitively grow and self-actualize over the next few years. The outside world has changed and you can no longer live externally first, it has to be from the inside out. 

Chasing a mania of excitement and validation will only serve to help you fall more deeply into the loneliness of despair. But there is a place inside you and out of the quicksan you've been drowing in. It's your true depth - where sanity exsits and love can take you back to your Highest Self which is powerful and purposeful.

When you're older and you cannot remember your own innocence, you'll suffer more from your unhappiness. 

If you've learned to be unforgiving and believe the world is out to get you, instead of accepting what's happening and being flexible to job, life and love changes, you falter around finding new ways to emerge from the types of crises that affect ALL of us at one time or another. 

Life is not a never-ending lovefest with peace. It's more often a struggle between what you've come to believe that can be limiting and what your intuition or highest self wants you to believe...

That everything can be resolved and overcome with love. 

If your career is stagnant and you're not getting what you need from your profession, if you don't make changes you'll feel consumed with hate and blame.

If your relationships are unfulfilling and you find yourself thinking obsessive, ugly thoughts of guilt and resentment, if you don't make chagnes, you'll feel consumed with a feeling of codependence that strips your sense of wild independence.

Your life is designed for movement and change. If you can't live in the present it's because you can't settle with a past that stripped your innocence.

But that innocence CAN return if you remember the gift...that being vulnerable to your fear contains the strength you seek.

And when you're strong enough to overcome even the slightest harm, you're on your way to greatness in your career - and everywhere in your life. 

You CAN kickstart a new job, career or business if you can be in your innocence once again.

When confronted with how to change, most people become overwhelmed before they even begin.

Such questions as: How do I change? Where do I start? and What should I do? - being vague in nature - become the starting place for a quick ending. When you can't define a path or see things as manageable most people quickly give up.

This is a truth around anything from changing careers, growing a business, working on a relationship or even just wanting to improve a personal habit.

If you talk to Cody Smith, however, he will tell you that change happens incrementally. Although it's good to dream and to surround yourself with people who are where you want to be, you also must realize that many of them got to where they are with perseverance and time.

HOWEVER, if you truly want to be where they are, and can envision yourself there, you don't need to worry about how or how long, you simply need to take small steps. Because one small step leads to another step which ultimately leads to traction, change, and the place you really want to go.

What's stopping you from that new job, more purposeful business, better relationship or better you? Pretty much you and the ego-driven sense of failure in thinking you have to have arrived before you even begin.

Cody's Habit Tracking system can help you change that, and to start a real path to change, progress or success one step at a time.

You think you know what love is? Of course you do because it's what it is to you - what it feels like, looks like, sounds like, smells like.

But what IS it REALLY? 

Is it a feeling? Is it an experience? Is it simply everything all at once...the convergence of energies that will alter your existence, even if only for a brief moment in time?

If you ask me, love is the highest vibrational force in the universe. It can explode, implore, impart, include and revere anything. It is the greatest gift you never asked for and the most painful thing to experience when you believe you've lost it. 

But ask Scotte Burns, and he says it's not a feeling at all. It's more about connection and ways to bridge a gap between another person and what's happening inside of you. For love, according to Scotte, is all about the embodiment of a power in you and the way someone else brings up the gift of that power inside. 

In the end, love is only and ever inside of you, waiting to flow into the next experience you have. It really doesn't matter if the experience "feels" good or bad. Love is the energetic essence of your being and when you deny it's there, or believe it's only a fleeting feeling, you may be missing out on the greatest loves of your life. 

If you're like me you might have learned that kharma is about some big-bad God waiting to get back on you for everything from a minor fault to an egregioius mistake. Realistically, universally and simply, kharma, according to Dr. Lynn Anderson, is about cause and effect.

And EVERYTHING you do is the cause of something else.

Now, you don't need to worry about that person you offended so much as you should be a bit concerned with how these "effects" have and will turn into consequences to/for you. BTW, none of this is about moral judgment. It's about how you feel.

So for those of you who love to immerse yourself in how you feel, let me say this...

How YOU feel should matter to no one but you. Because as you traipse through this world thinking, doing and being, everything within you that is energy is pulling and pushing you toward lightness and love or darkness and despair.

It's you who gets to decide the cause and effect of all your thoughts and actions - based on how you feel. That's what feelings are...indicators for self-knowledge and, if you're healthy of mind and body, indicators of self-actualizing actions.

Some that if you don't take, will lead you down a road of effects you don't like. 

But don't listen to me, hear my conversation with Dr. Lynn Anderson here.

Your work life is never far away from who you are. Many people want to bring more of themselves to their work but don't understand why they don't feel fulfilled. It's probably because fulfillment is not something that you get just by showing up and getting a paycheck.

You have to be invested in a vocation, a calling, with who you really are. Some think that the overall change we seek in business by bringing a deeper self is to talk about feelings, or hire more women. This is one way to balance a historical lack of duality, but it doesn't make enough of an impact to change business.

WHY? Because business lacks real masculine and feminine the best ways, those ways that produce, that birth great ideas and that create synergies of the utmost greatness. Unfulfilling work is the earmark of the post-Covid workplace and era. Sitting in your house should have shown you, more than ever, how unhappy you are lacking purpose at work. Your eyes have now been opened. Your heart has been warned that you cannot turn back now that you have this knowledge. Any attempt to ignore the obvious lack of purpose in our work will lead to misery and lack of health, pure and simple.

Have you forgotten who you are? You ARE the light in the world because you are you. And if you are NOT fulfilling what you came here to do, well, you're simply missing out on that happiness and real intrinsic success that you know you want - and keep telling yourself is in the next paycheck or vacation. It's NOT...and you know it.

So why not do something about that? I'll coach you find out what happened to that purpose-filled person who wanted to become and do more than what s/he is doing.

Let me...nicoledevlin.com

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Getting your entire life into LOVE mode takes the kind of work that's about practice. And that practice can last a lifetime.

Because even though we were born to love, we have had TOO much practice learning to fear. Yet, as Nina Presman reminds us, fear, although distinct, dark and seemingly overpowering, will ALWAYS vibrate lower than love.

How does one start the shift in the direction of love? How do you begin to understand your individual fear- and harm-based scripts and patterns that will thwart the journey to love?

Well, as Nina puts it, you have to understand and modify your own programming. Sometimes that programming can be translated, sometimes it has to be slayed. Either way, it begins with becoming just enlightened enough to be aware of it and just diligent enough to do a little something loving and energetically cathartic every day.

If you want to find out more about shifting from fear to love and how it will change your life, listen to this week's podcast episode and interview with Nina Presman, Energy Healer and unlimited being of transformative and healing work. Nina can be reached at 561-654-0177 and energyworkunlimited@gmail.com.

If you've ever enjoyed a good magic show as a child, you know how fun, mysterious and enlightening it can be.

As adults, we've been looking at our lives as way too pragmatic, not enviable and definitely like a computer program that we haven't exactly gotten to run quite right. In other words, we're in a loop...a loop of boredom, mediocrity, lack of questioning, and FEAR.

So the big question is WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MAGIC? Magic is like the elements, there but unpredictable and unknown. And most of you are scared to death of the unknown. You'll change your whole life to avoid the unknown. You'll stay stuck to avoid the unknown.

You'll need to come to BELIEVE in magic once again to FEEL the life within you that can counteract the boredom, stuckness and darkness.

This week's podcast is about just that...my interview with Alane Hathaway, professional Tarot Card Reader, Energy Healer, and Spiritual Advisor. Alane has intellectually thought-provoking and fascinating ideas that demand looking at if you are a seeker, or even just interested in opening up stuck spots and trashing limiting beliefs. 

The more prominent and divinely-inspired things we talk about are:

1-The difference between religion & spirituality

2-How to use spirit guide communication and a healing practice to grow and recover from trauma l 3-Ways to channel the divine into your thoughts, body and overall life.

Have a listen to our conversation.

Many people feel they need more guidance than ever...but the people, places and systems they used to be guided by in the past (media, government, work, authority, etc) haven't been working quite as well. Even the weatherman (or is it weatherperson?) seems to be wrong more than ever.

WTH do we do NOW? We do what we should have been doing in the first place - relying on our own intrinsic power, our Good Powerful System (GPS). This guidance system is in ALL of us, whether we answer to it or not.

Deb Kelly has been teaching kids about their Good Powerful System for years. Deb believes it's important to teach children about thoughts and feelings, since they are the receivers to direct us in how to respond to life using our GPS. In other words, our natural intelligence is always consciously directing us through our thoughts and feelings. Deb believes (and so do I) that it is important to teach our children how to use their GPS to take conscious actions and live good lives.

This isn't just for young people though. Many adults never learned about their GPS when they were young and now lack power, which is responsible for much suffering and disconnection from others. This is true simply because disconnection from others stems from disconnection from self.

The remedy? Start building your GPS - a good powerful system - within you that grows power and can withstand ANYTHING the world can throw at you with strength and peace. 

Everyone wants to win or - at the very least - not feel like a loser. Despite all types of money and successes, deep inside a lot of people is the "not enough/loser" feeling. If you have that, "losing" will continue to follow you despite anything you acquire. Since everything you acquire is on loan, choosing to chase "stuff" prevents you from working out the kinks in your foundation that prevent real and lasting success.

You were born to win. Let me say that again... YOU WERE BORN TO WIN. If you think that's not true for any reason - gender, ethnicity, orientation, identity - you are mistaken. There is a divine streak in all of us that knows the greatest heights and the most magnificent pathways. That energy wants you to express yourself exactly as you please and exactly as you are.

This week's podcast, I spoke with Kat Sterling, Coach and Author who has led people into winning mindsets and strategies - and has written a book about it. We talk about how to be who you are and where you're at. We talk about our own struggles and the beneficial self-discoveries in those struggles. 

Have a listen, but only if you want to WIN with a POWER that creates the growth, change and success you've wanted your whole life. 

When you're angry,  have you ever tried Counting to 10...before you do or say anything? Or, when learning a new sport or a musical instrument, using some form of counting brings your mind to the task - and to the present moment. And, it's always the present moment where things happen and love & learning occur. When your mind is focused on one task, all sorts of solutions appear. A gateway to greater and more powerful consciousness opens and you are present and in your physical body. From the most present, physical place, your emotions can be addressed and learned to be tolerated. This is because most (maybe all) emotions are learned and conditioned scripts and things developed and nurtured from the past. When you are present, you start to learn that you are NOT feeling things based on what others are doing or saying, or what's happening outside, but what's happening inside. This inside experience is a calling of the highest self, as creative consciousness is asking you to address your own emotional well-being to the exclusion of the outside experience. Right now, the world is validating that your feelings are caused by what's happening outside and it's justifying how you feel based on external events. THIS IS POWERLESSNESS at the level of the victim - and it is DEADLY to your emotional well-being. Pain is a signal or indication that you need to step up and SEE your power. When you deny this pain through avoidance, blaming, medicating or changing things to "get away" from the "source" of your pain (the external or the other, not yourself) you are avoiding growing toward the peace you say you want. What do you really NOW about this peace if you've never even experienced it. Who do you wanna be? Do you want to live in the fullness of your feelings, heart, mind and spirit? You'll probably need to become more autonomous. And then you'll probably feel MORE FEELINGS, not less. This is where trudging the road and seeking help and support comes in. Your unhappy life, living to avoid or living for others is limiting your space your growth and your confidence. Seeing this takes time and help. Get it. Use it. 

If you've ever sought to change another, you know it's not as simple as having ONE conversation and expecting them to change. Progress and the process take a lot of time. Nature is of the highest order in the decision to change even one thing about yourself. In particular, when it comes to another person, self-acceptance will allow you to understand that their transformation need not be part of your struggle. If you want to change another person and think a conversation or scripted formula will do the trick, it won't...unless that person wants to change. 

And changing ain't easy for anyone, no matter what the wish or motives. 

Changing requires diligent effort and open communication. It's about recognizing negative habits, creating consequences for re-evaluation and re-training one's thinking through acknowlegement and ongoing effort. We train dogs by ringing bells, giving treats and petting. Humans need similar efforts of acknowlegement, yet we don't change from the simple desire for a treat. 

Our habits and conditioning are like sticky gum. Once it gets into the tread under the soles of your feet, it takes A LOT to get it out/off. Once you're out of childhood and your personality has been molded, change doesn't come easy--most of the time desire comes from pain or suffering. Even if pain and suffering are there, getting all that gum out will take time. 

Give time time and BE loving to yourself and others. 

Are you sitting comfortably surrounded by people who talk and think like you do? Do you see/spend time only with people who agree with, or relate to,  everything you say? Have you also taken it upon yourself to find media which keeps you stuck in this bubble? When was the last time you let your mind wander to the space where people are "on the other side", thinking very unlike you? There are lots of places where you can find people who don't see things the way you do and it can get really uncomfortable quickly. Yet, with all your passion, are you not willing to be uneasy for the sake of your conviction? Better yet, can you stay your convictions on the sidelines while you listen and even interact with people with questions instead of disagreement? Are you the person who shuts down arguments that people have when you don't want to hear it? Let's face it, if you keep talking, you might win through manipulation, shaming, name-calling, or even annihilating someone's point of view. Maybe it's time to stop telling and start listening to what's happening below the level of the conversation. If you want to be seen and heard, yet you won't afford tolerance and understanding to others, what kind of message are you sending? When you live the way you want, you give permission to others to lean into who they are. You don't need to be at the edge of the minefield - for the mind can't handle the fear and insanity there. Staying unattached and free to allow the mind to wander away from the minefield and toward problem-solving (and LOVE) is what/where we want to grow toward. Think about that the next time you want to engage with those people who "don't get it" (while you do?)

Your mind is capable of higher thinking - MUCH higher than you can imagine. But your thoughts have to get out of the way. Sounds like opposite ideas, but your mind isn't just about your thinking, especially when it's detached from your heart or soul. This is the story of me obsessing about not remembering the combination of a lock on my bicycle. This obsession lasted a solid three days. I had to let it go before I could take it to the bicycle store. And guess what happened? I remembered, late one night, out of the blue, that the combinaton of my lock here is not the one I was thinking. My mind surrounded itself around these numbers and my mind became a block. I set about any way to use my brain to figure out how to figure it out. And I just kept hitting walls. The lock analogy you may find simple and funny, but do you realize that your brain can work the same way vis-à-vis your emotional problems. Thinnk about it, don't you obsess on what's wrong with you? Don't you have a hard time mentally trying to overcome emotional problems? Don't you re-live a bothersome situatoin again and again, talking about it and justifying your feelings, in order to be right? And, after all that, isn't progress minimal? Where are your answers...REALLY? Not entirely in your brain. And if you think it is, creative and emotionally healthy solutions will elude you as your brain attaches itself to justification and resentment. Your mind really IS a bridge... is the ultimate bridge or tool between the depth of you and your thinking. Your mind, when connected like a bridge is a higher self, higher mind and the depth of being that is ME. Get the brain out of the way to create greater connection through awareness and toward growth.

Reality is not necessarily REAL. How do you define reality? How do you know that you know reality? I'm pretty sure that reality is not one's opinions...because opinions come from intellect- and are often ego-based. Convincing other people of the need to see and believe what YOU believe is not reality, it's your conviction and drive to have others see you, i.e., your perception. Your reality is very much emotion-based, which means it's not always going to be completely in line with others who have different feelings. BTW, those other people are not wrong for having different feelings. The problem with the power of human emotions is that if your reality starts to differ from your peers, you might feel alienated and lonely, which no one wants. Then, the fear of ostracization will probably provoke you to join the opinions of the predominant group. No questions asked is the way to stay safe, yet the questions to be answered will remain there waiting for you to look at them. Your soul needs you to become a human being of the utmost self-expression of love. No one can determine your reality, it must come from within and be validated by making up your own mind. 

You pass on SO much inforation that you don't question. As a matter of fact, you have layers upon layers of beliefs that are cemented and are making/keeping your soul sick. Then, because of prolonged sickness, your perceptions are continuing to be limited. Your realit(ies) were gathered before you learned to question - you just BELIEVED. You validated and sought out continued confirmation - through the unconscious nature of your eyesight. You CANNOT poke holes in people's belief systems without trust so you can stop fighting with people to get them to SEE. No knowledge is irrefutable...TRUTH is. You cannot take away people's beliefs but you can share your own power by bringing people into healty, open conversations where they can be right and wrong, not simply parroting what others are saying. "Your" truth has holes because as soon as you say it's yours, it has bias. You never have to give anything up when you're open and loving. You practice love with your choice. Choice can be right or wrong, but it must be conscious. No one has to accept another's experience as proof because you think they "know more" as a person of an identity group. They can be "wrong" because they're biased too. Liberation comes from an energy that allows connection. By growing ourselves, we infuse our inner energy with more emotional intelligence and spirituality.