Do you remember why you became a life coach?  Do you still feel the calling?  More than ever, it’s important to believe in your dreams.  Slow down.  Calm your fears about the future and revive your vision for your coaching business, your life, and the world.

I know that you’ve heard a lot about Law of Attraction principles, but you might have forgotten to use them in the drive to get things done and get ahead.  All of those high payoff actions you complete will bring a powerful result if your mind is aligned with your vision.  Like the current in a river, prosperous thinking allows what you want to flow towards you.
 
The 4-step manifestation process I’m about to share with you really works.  I’ve experienced it for myself and seen its positive effect on others.  Make this a part of your daily practice. Then watch how you attract more financial prosperity and feel better.
 
The Manifestation Meditation
1. Center and Connect.  Protect yourself from distractions and interruptions.  Use your favorite process to center yourself and connect with source. Or, try the following:

- Sit comfortably with your feet on the floor.  Close your eyes and breathe naturally so that your in-breath and out-breath are a smooth circular flow.

- Imagine a source of light energy expanding in the center of your body.  Let some of the energy move down through your feet to the earth.  And then, feel some energy from the earth come back through your feet into your body.

- Now, let that energy move up and through the top of your head to your higher self.  Then, feel some energy come back into you through the top of your head to complete the circuit.  Keep the energy moving.

Notice how that circular flow of energy makes you feel strong, safe, and alive.

2. Go Into Gratitude.  Prime the pump for manifesting what you want.  Savor what you already have.  Feel gratitude for your friends & family, the beauty all around you, your many opportunities, and even your current challenges.  Take some time in this step.

2. Access Co-creativity.  Acknowledge how creativity comes to you and how you are the co-creator of your reality.

3. Engage Your Vision. Your vision of what you want is the seed for your new reality.  Open your imagination.  Flesh out your vision with all of your senses.  Picture yourself living it now.  Feel yourself already there.

For example: My writing is read by thousands in my niche market.  My credibility is strong and my message is attractive.  Ideal prospects are easily finding me and buying from me.  I sell 100 products each month.  My leads list has grown to five thousand.  My groups and teleseminars are always well attended and perceived as valuable.  I always have at least 10 ideal 1:1 clients.  Their success stories are compelling and they refer other ideal clients to me continuously, who hire me.  My tax return at the end of the year shows my net income as $100K+.  I feel blessed to earn my living this way.

As you speak or write out your vision, use present tense, mention only what you want.  Leave out or reframe to positive terms whatever you don’t want.  Be specific.

For example a statement like this: I want to stop spinning my wheels and get some clients!  Becomes this: I have twelve full fee clients and more in the pipeline ready to hire me.  Every marketing action I take attracts my ideal clients to me.

 
4. Let Go of Outcome.  This last step is critical, and may take practice to master.  Once your vision is complete, surrender the details and let go of any attachment to the outcome.  Trust that the opportunities, resources, motivation, time and money you need to create whatever you have just envisioned is coming to you in the way that is for your highest good.
 
If you’re feeling anxious, expectant, disappointed, or discouraged, you haven’t fully let go of the outcome.

Living with Paradox

 
Nothing is free of cost.  The cost of prosperity is faith and discipline.  If you want something so badly that it has to come to you in a certain way, you might be closing off the creative flow of prosperity.  Broaden your mind; keep meditating on your vision without grasping for it.

Give Your Vision 40 Days of Faith
Do the manifestation meditation when you get up and when you go to bed for 40 days.  Pay attention to what is coming to you more easily than ever.  What comes to you may actually be better than what you imagined!

My computer consultant was at my office last week optimizing my Macbook for my next business trip. Opening up my email, he said: “OMG, your inbox is clean!” Then he looked around my office.  ”Are you really this organized?”  I am.

Stuff is distracting.  If your office and inbox are overflowing and you don’t like it anymore, keep it clean with these five Jiu Jitsu moves:

1. Start with a clean slate every day (clean inbox, clean office, clean desk).  If you need help getting to ground zero, bring in an office organizer to help you catch up and put systems in place.

2. Set aside the last hour of your workday for planning.  Write down three high payoff actions you’ll complete tomorrow and pull out any documents you’ll need.  Then clear off your desk.  Don’t just stuff it in drawers, put it away so you can put your hands on exactly what you want when you want it.

3. Set only 3 phone appointments each day.  Leave the rest of your day for emails, return calls and working on your biz.  If possible, do the high payoff actions first thing in the day.  That way you’ll feel good about what you accomplished every day.

4. Download your email once in the morning, once at noon, once before planning hour.  If you’re waiting for something urgent, look for that email more often but leave the rest for later.  When you do focus on email, aim to reply to or delete everything.  Be ruthless.  Good intentions only last for so long.  If you have to keep an email for later, put it in a Pending folder in your email program and set a time to go back and clear the pending emails each week.

5. Have one day each week set aside for outside-the-office appointments.  Tuesdays are my day for the doctor, dentist, massage, etc.  Cluster appointments whenever possible.

You’re ready to go, chop, chop.

I wonder how many years the average person spends grinding out a living.  I feel very blessed.  I do work that’s meaningful, enjoyable and profitable.  But sometimes I forget all my privileges and get caught up in the grind.

Are you making a living or making a life?  Is your business fun for you?  Are you growing by leaps and bounds?  Do you talk about your business with a sparkle in your eye?

This is my current 90 day challenge.  Join me in starting and ending every day in the joy of life.  Joie de vivre!

Before I became a top coach, I wasted a lot of time.  I was always busy, but most of what I did brought me little results.  It came down to perfectionism and fear of putting myself out there in a big way.

One day I had a Feng Shui consultant come in to work on my home and office.  I hadn’t said a word about it, but she said to me: “What’s the deal with your business? It’s time to own your power, charge higher fees and stop wasting time!”  That woke me up!

So I stopped wasting time.  I became the CEO of my business.  Now there are three options for my time:
1) Development = growing my business.
2) Delivery = coaching, training or serving my members.
3) Discretionary time = whatever I want to do, including taking the day off!

I did raise my fees but I also learned to value my time highly.  And ultimately, that’s what made me a top coach.

Are you busy or are you the CEO of your business?