Karyn’s monthly ”workshop” series.

If you would like to operate your own business from a Spirit-driven place,  join us as Karyn shares tips, intuitive insights and takes live questions from you.  Participate live Wednesdays 9am cst on unity.fm 

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Reduce the Effort While Increasing the Effect – With Spirit-Driven Decisions

The Invitation: The Secret to Creating Your Best Life

You’re a hard-working, committed, heart-led professional who wants to do great work, hire great people and reap the rewards of that effort. You can. My Signature Systems are designed with you in mind — built from my own experience. I understand the desire to integrate work and life; to create a business that works and supports you, instead of your constantly supporting it. I understand the desire to get off the treadmill and create a profitable business that doesn’t require you to leave your spirit behind.

So, how can you do it? Check out my Coaching Programs, VIP Intensives, or ongoing virtual THRIVE! program. One of them is just for you.

Discover how tools from spirit to divination can help you to find and understand your path, passions and strengths

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Bringing Your Spirit to Work Will Save Your Business

This week host Karyn Pettigrew is joined by her mentor Sonia Choquette, an internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher, intuitive guide and masterful catalyst whose special gift is to energetically activate the highest vibration and free the authentic Spirit in everyone she meets. They will be talking about the importance of bringing your spirit to work.

The ego often gets a bad rap. Can the ego actually be really good for us? Join us as we welcome internationally recognized counselor and speaker Tara Taylor; who will explain how you can learn to love your life by learning to love your ego.

I realize that I’m a never-ending project.  And really, I think it’s true for all of us. As I work through the spiral of my life and work,  I’ve reached another level of understanding. I used to focus on helping entrepreneurs position their businesses and develop strategic marketing plans. I still do that, but that’s the 3rd step, two important steps come before it.  These steps – the prequel steps – are about “seeing yourself, talents and possibilities” clearly, and then positioning yourself to share your best, and then applying that to your work or business.

What I’ve discovered in my work with clients is that all the strategy and tactics in the world are useless if you can’t truly see yourself, your calling and your path. When you don’t see things clearly, you make decisions and take actions that require more effort than necessary. The extra effort leaves you and your resources exhausted, wondering how you got there.

I greatly recommend spending more time in the prequel stage to maximize clarity and vision as you think about your work or business. It’s foundational and soulful work. It’s easy to dismiss these stages because they don’t appear to generate tangible results, but the greatest success, sense of well-being, and contribution start with you; what you perceive, receive and envision for yourself.

Are you exhausted and overwhelmed, wondering if things will ever get better, and how?

No doubt there’s a lot going on these days, plenty of worry, concern, fear, and uncertainty. It’s everywhere and it’s draining.  Low vibration emotions zap the vitality right out of us. Low vibrations also set up a kind of filter or veil which may keep us from making decisions for our highest good.  So, what ends up happening? We work like crazy for a desired outcome, only to come up short.  What can we do about it?

1 – Start living YOUR life.    

Take a “Truth Inventory” – a list of what’s working and what’s not. Don’t leave out anything! Include all aspects of your life including work, hobbies, volunteer activities, relationships, health, finances, etc. Lay it all out.  Sometimes we just really need to SEE it in order for it to register that something needs to change.

2- Make a change to anything (or anybody) that no longer serves your highest good.

Yep, I said it. Clutter or diminishment of any kind – emotional, physical, mental – is a killer. It destroys inspiration, clarity, possibility, health.  Purge it.

What was true one year, five years, or ten years ago, may not be true today and yet, are you hanging on? Hanging on takes up space in our lives and anything that takes up space, takes energy.  I think Steve Jobs says it very well,

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. ~ Steve Jobs

3 – Make no excuses. Start today. 

Start small, that’s fine, but starts today.  Your life is too valuable to make excuses for why you’re coming up short on your personal goals and expectations.

There’s a lot of talk about the importance of discipline. We need it for work, we need it for raising kids, and we need it to lose weight. But the word discipline is one of those heavy resistance words – a word that creates an immediate negative reaction, consciously and subconsciously.  It sounds like pain, difficulty, punishment.

I’d like to turn that around. Try this on instead: self-love.  Think of discipline when applied to self, as self-love. Do you have the self-love you need to do your best work, raise your children with love, and stick to a program for your health? In the end, you must do this for you, no one else. If you make it about anyone else, you’ll end up with lackluster results and disappointment.

September 30 – October 1, 2011

Eaglewood Resort, Itasca, IL

This 2 day, 6-sensory weekend is about providing the tools to go beyond illusion, to accept the truth, see opportunity and begin accepting your great life.

Accepting your great life?

Yes, accepting. Because the life you want awaits your permission to flow in!

Our greatest challenge is not how to create, but how to let go.

That, my friend, is the secret.

This weekend is about removing the veil of lack, not enough, and what isn’t… so you can receive the abundance, joy and well-being you seek and deserve.  It’s right under your nose.

But!  … read more

Happy on Purpose

by

Diana Fletcher

Diana’s book is so in line with my soul’s code work. In an accessible, light, inspiring format Diana invites each of us to choose happiness daily.  She says, “When you take the time to think about being happy and make the choice to be happy, you gain strength.

You build fortitude, you achieve self-assurance and confidence, and you come out whole. You are ready to take on challenges and to claim your power.” One entry per day is all it takes to get started. You can be happy on purpose!        

I just heard about a new product (full disclosure, that I have not yet tried) which sounds like a great solution for project/product launches and content management for coaches and consultants. It allows you to take your content; documents, audio, video and create modules, which you mix and match for each client’s needs. Sounds amazing.

Check it out here… (Not an affiliate link)

"Paris" in Vegas

Don’t I wish that the picture on the left was the real thing. I was in Las Vegas at a friend’s 50th birthday party. I’m not a gambler, so my Vegas recreation is hotel hopping, people watching, spas and shows.

Le Reve Show, c'est magnifique!

I have to admit, this picture was part of the inspiration for a new program I’ll be launching this summer called My Motivacation™ – 6 Sensory Destination Adventures that Build Your Business by Nurturing Your Soul. I’m sooo excited. If you want to know more, visit this link MyMotivacation.com

As my work has evolved, I’m discovering what I consider to be the true key to business success…and it happens waaaayyy before you start with strategies and tactics…My feature article “Can’t move the needle on your revenues?” is for those of us who work so hard, care so much, but can’t seem to get traction. Often we’re trying to build in the wrong places.

The personal note, as always, comes from some personal experience I’ve had and this time, I’m learning to embrace all of me by not, “…fighting the funk“

Please remember that I love to get your notes or messages. Let me know  what you’d like to see more of in the newsletter.

From,

Karyn and Elvis with Love!

Chris Taylor, founder of Actionable Books, formerly Goose Media, has compiled a DVD of some of his best interviews on employee success principles for the 21^st century.  Interviewee’s include thought leaders such as Seth Godin, Gary Vaynerchuk (Crush It), Dan Pink and more.

The cool factor, 100% of the proceeds will be donated to Room to Read, an organization dedicated to spreading global literacy. To learn more click here.

Try these 3 steps to clarity

Stuck? Overwhelmed? Confused?

If you’re like most people, your life is moving at light-speed and your commitments have grown to gargantuan proportions. Often this means we’re doing nothing well, and still wearing ourselves out. There is a simple process that you can follow to move beyond feeling stuck or overwhelmed or confused but let me be clear it requires something significant from you.

Moving beyond being stuck, overwhelmed or confused requires LETTING GO! Try these three steps that I use with my clients to help them let go.

Grab a pad and pencil, make 3 columns on the paper.

1) Column 1: Write out what is “not working” for you, right now – put all of your feelings, most pressing commitments, whatever is not working for you, right now, onto that paper.

2) Column 2: For each item in column 1, write out “what you’d prefer” – be authentic, write out what you would prefer your situation to be, if you had control and all the resources you need.

3) Column 3: Review what you wrote in part two – find the most compelling, exciting item and commit to making it happen. Write down 3 things you can do, beginning today, to make that happen.

It works.

When you bring authenticity, clarity and commitment to your conscious mind – doors open that you may have never imagined.

If you’re still having trouble – call me and we’ll talk about how I can help. 773-233-9214