Some of you may have heard me talk about the Product Pyramid, which is a tool for laying out your product offerings from lower client monetary investment and least amount of your individual time (bottom of the pyramid) to the highest value offerings with the greatest amount of your personal time (top of the pyramid).

 One of my clients, Julie Murphy Casserly, takes a holistic approach to wealth management.  She has a fresh perspective for getting rid of the shame, blame and guilt often associated with financial planning. Julie has been perfecting her product pyramid. In addition to the high end programs that she was already offering, she added more broadcast media exposure through public relations. As a result, Julie’s been picked up on ABC-News, FOX Business, and CNBC to name a few. started offering monthly free tele-seminars to introduce people to her signature system based on her book, The Emotion Behind Money.

I’m so happy to be able to share her success.

Keep sharing the abundance Julie!

Website: http://www.JulieMurphyCasserly.com

So there you are, crazed about what to do next. Feeling overwhelmed and doubtful. For  entrepreneurs this scenario could present itself on a regular basis. What can you do to shift out of paralysis and into mindful action?

1 – Go Play.

You’re in constriction mode which means that neither the blood in your body nor your energy of attraction is moving in the direction you need it. You are probably not thinking very clearly and likely to take some random action just to feel like you’re being productive. STOP.

You need to breath and gain perspective so that you can take mindful, inspired action. Go play; music, art, a video game, walk in a natural setting, take lunch at the zoo, or tea with your 6 year-old.  (You get the idea.)  You have to disrupt the existing pattern and create a new one. This doesn’t have to take a lot of time, an hour will do.  But an hour of restorative engagement will take weeks off of the frustration meter.

2-  Go De-clutter.   

Clearing physical space also opens up your energetic space. Sometimes all you need to get things flowing from the energetic world is to create a little order in the physical world. So go clean a drawer, the trunk of your car or some other small space and put the physical world into alignment with your intentions. This distracts the mind and pulls you out of that infinite loop.

3 – Go Help Someone Else.

Getting your mind off of your work and into service for someone else is a great way to break the bond of overwhelm and gain a new perspective.

All of this may sound ridiculous, but I’ll say this, How’s that overwhelm working for you?  You don’t have to believe me, just try it for yourself and see. You have to do something differently to experience a different result.

Listen to our experts and learn ways to harmonize your busy life with your family life.

You are welcome to download these recordings. Click on the titles.

Entrepreneur and Parent: Integrating the Two With Love

Whether you hope to parent your children or yourself wisely, join us as we talk with author Betsy Thompson about her new book, Love Parent and how to create joyful experiences, build relationships that stand the test of time, and release when independence is timely.

Can Your Soul Mate in Love Be Your Soul Mate in Business

Find out if your soul mate in love can be your soul mate in business. Dr. Felicia Williams “Couple-preneur Coaching Expert” joins us on Beyond Blind Spots.

Yes! You Can! Five Ways to Achieve Balance Today

Balance may be an elusive term for entrepreneurs. Find five ways that you CAN achieve balance when we talk with Adele Ryan McDowell about her new book, Balancing Act: Reflections, Meditations, and Coping Strategies for Today’s Fast-Paced Whirl.

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

 Click on a link to download the audio recording

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.

Wednesdays at 9 am CST  

Online on Unity.FM

 Maybe you missed them the first time. No worries, here is a head’s up about some of our recent radio guests and a link so that you can listen right now! 

  “Tennis Anyone?” Changing lives through a game:

Combining his gifts, talents and passion Kamau Murray, founded

XS Tennis in order to help people live fuller lives. Join us as we talk about how he’s doing that and how it feels to win the Pepsi Refresh grant to take tennis into Chicago Public Schools.

Click below to listen now.

 When Did Happiness Go AWOL?: 

Happiness is a choice. Do you feel that happiness is frivolous in today’s environment? Or do you feel guilty for going after your happiness? If so, this conversation is for you!

Join us as we talk with author and coach Diana Fletcher about happiness that seems to be absent without leave (AWOL).

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Saving Our Kids and the Environment: 

The Elements Naturals Story: 

When she couldn’t find a healthy, chemical-free sustainable baby wipe option, she made one. Join us as we talk with Linda Naerheim, founder of Elements Naturals about creating a successful and sustainable healthy business from scratch.

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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

Wednesdays at 9 am CST

Online on Unity.FM

Did you miss my June 29  show?

You can listen to it now!  Click here

How to Create a Successful Soul Infused Art Career

Michele Theberge , Artist and Artists’ Mentor

It is possible to leave the “starving artist” archetype behind.

Join us as we talk with Michele Theberge about just how she did it and how           she mentors other artists to do the same.

micheletheberge.com themindfulartist.com

“When you’re stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin, you need only to change one thing.”                                                                                                                                                                    -Christina Baldwin

Ever feel like your life is like that movie Groundhog Day? In the movie, Bill Murray gets trapped in a spiral where he relives the same day over and over. What I’m talking about is getting trapped in situations or circumstances that you impede your ability to live your dream, over and over again.

The quote by Christina Baldwin eloquently captures a lesson from my 10 step system about change and perspective. My metaphor is the kaleidoscope, but the message is the same; change one thing and you’ll change everything. The simplest, but often more challenging place to start is by changing your perspective on the situation.

Can you:

1)      See the learning in it? As painful as this may seem, EVERY situation has a lesson in it for us; even the painful ones. What can you take away from this experience that strengthens you? What did you learn about yourself or the others involved?

2)      Do one thing differently? It doesn’t have to be a full-scale change. Simply, start by changing one aspect, and then another. Eventually, you’ll have made a significant change – collectively.

3)      Believe that things can be different? Changing your mind, changes everything. If you don’t believe it can be different, you’re guaranteeing that it won’t. But if you believe that change is possible, you’ve, at least, left the door open for something new.

Summer is finally upon us here in Chicago. It’s been in the 90′s and I welcome the warm days. I’m glad to have the break in the hectic school year schedule. As a reminder, I’m very excited to be offering:

a 2 day retreat July 8-9^th just west of Chicago

“How Good Can I Stand It? – Unlock Your Soul’s Code to Business Success”

Here’s an insight – the abundance, joy and well-being you seek, seeks you! It’s just waiting for your permission to flow in. Come find out what’s blocking you and remove it from your life and from your business.

For more information visit, How Good Can I Stand It?

As always, send me notes and comments about the newsletter or let me know what you’re doing. I’d love to include your successes in the newsletter!