What’s Holding You Back From Success With Your List of Small Business Ideas?

I have a client who has decided to put writing a book on her list of small business ideas.

She came to me with her plan, which was to interview very successful people that are using Universal Principles. I was honoured that she asked me to be a part of it, and she’s gotten several other very successful Spiritualpreneurs to agree to participate.

So she said that for our next coaching session, she wanted me to go over the list of questions she would be asking each person for the interview format of this book she was putting together.

I told her that was fine, but when we got into our session, I asked her, “Do you feel like we’re missing something here?”

She said, “What? What’s missing?”

I responded to hear, “Well, you know that the first thing you need to do when you’re starting a goal is to see what your Energy Blueprint around it is – what are the beliefs that are serving you and what are the beliefs that are not serving you…right?”

“OH Yeah, right!”

Then I said, “And the next thing you need to do is create an Order Form to the Universe to get very clear on what you don’t want, and get very clear on what you do want – how you want to feel and how you don’t want to feel…right?”

She’s nodding her head now, “Yes, that’s right!”

“And then”, I said, “You need to create a Problem Solution Template to get into the problems and issues of your audience – your ideal reader of this book – and THAT is what will drive the questions you will be asking in these interviews…right?”

“Of course, that’s right!”

Then she said, “You know what’s so amazing is that even after all this time, I just wanted to dive right into the doing – right into the tell me what the questions are – I wasn’t even thinking about the rest of the process!”

I said to her, “Yes, and the amazing thing to me is that you didn’t want to do it the easy way! Using the Energy Management system in your list of small business ideas is the easy way! Doing the Problem Solution Template is the easy way!”

Then I said to her, “What would have happened if you just dove right into these questions like you wanted to?” Read more

Why is it Important for an Entrepreneur to be Healthy in Body & Spirit?

Yesterday I mentioned how even as a busy entrepreneur, it IS possible to find the time to manage your energy throughout your day. The key is all about not making a big production out of it!

I understand that entire mental state, because I used to MAKE time in my day to do all of these things – meditation, affirmations, yoga, spiritual energy management, etc., etc.

I had a special room set up in my house with all sorts of temple stuff for meditation, and special equipment in my office for my exercises, and special clothes to wear…and while it made it all kind of exciting at first, it got to the point where it just felt like, “I don’t have the time to do all this stuff!”

But at the same time, I really believe that it is important to do all of these things on a daily basis, which is why I began to shift my perception around the whole idea of adding to my TO DO list vs. just finding spaces in the day to leverage my time and energies.

I shared yesterday on getting your energy management steps done before you even leave your bedroom in the morning (can you imagine what a great opening that is to your day?).

Here are a couple of other steps I like to take to make sure I fit the soul care in with my daily, necessary outer actions:

When I have to drive anywhere,  I don’t ever listen to the radio anymore. Read more