Where Are You in Your Entrepreneur Journey?

This year at Coaching From Spirit, I’ve really begun to see becoming a Spiritualpreneur as being on a journey, and as a Coach it’s exciting to me to be able to share my own journey with you through these online tools like blogging and social networking and my most recent setup on Blog Talk Radio!

I created the show, Empowering Spiritualpreneurs, as a way to bring people together in the Spiritualpreneur community to share tips, insights and resources with you from their own journeys as a way of empowering you as a Spiritualpreneur in all that you are doing.

Recently I had internationally recognized author, speaker, coach and editor of Synchronicity in Your Life Magazine, the Synchronicity Expert, Bill White as a guest on my show, and he shared a powerful story from his journey as a Spiritualpreneur!

Bill began with talking about how he wasn’t always a successful entrepreneur – for him it was a journey from blue collar work to white collar to finally getting into entrepreneurship.

He talked about having a lot of ambition and an entrepreneurial spirit when he was in grade school. In fact, he actually started a business in grade school of making necklaces and selling them to the other kids in class!

Unfortunately, the mothers that were sending their kids to school with lunch money that was being spent on Bill’s business venture didn’t appreciate it too much, and he wound up with being called to the principal’s office and being told to shut his business down.

A simple thing, perhaps, but Bill made an important point – it happens a lot to children when they have bright ideas – oftentimes an adult’s first response is to shut it down (even for what may seem like a good reason!).

But the child, when told at such a young age that, “You can’t do things like this”, may very well end up internalizing the “You Can’t” part of the message, which can affect them more than they may realize.

It was not many years later that Bill witnessed the absolute collapse of his family – his parents separated, his grandmother died on Christmas, his grandfather followed soon after, and he was crushed!

He just couldn’t understand how all of this could be happening and he rebelled against it, which meant that by the time he got to high school, despite the fact that he had good grades, a guidance counsellor took one look at him and told him that she thought he was best suited for blue collar work…

Once again, Bill had an authority figure helping him to create the “You Can’t” belief – something that he accepted and internalized, and that caused him to follow a path on his journey that he didn’t even realize he had a choice in for a very long time.

He kept that reality, and by his mid-20s, Bill was working as a contractor.

He was actually making great money, but he was absolutely miserable! There was nothing in his external world that was fulfilling what he actually wanted internally.

The programming and the beliefs he was brought up in – the stories that he was telling himself – were keeping him in something that didn’t match and didn’t jive with anything that he really wanted to do or be.

Bill shared on my show that through a unique series of synchronicities, he finally reaches several stages of unfolding in a different direction, though not all of the things he went through were absolutely positive…

Bill had a dream that a guy came up to him and said, “Hey, you better get to a doctor – you have cancer.”

A couple months later, he found a tumor, and he was told that he had one year to live if he didn’t have surgery immediately. Read more

When You’re Self Employed, Does it Pay to Ignore Reality?

I heard a great story from my colleague, Jim Donovan, that I wanted to share with you:

“The end of the month was quickly approaching and like many self-employed people, we were experiencing a cash flow challenge. It was, in all honesty, one of the greatest tests of faith I’ve experienced in a very long time.

I knew deep within my being, at the cellular level, that everything would work out. I said to my wife Georgia, “Don’t worry, everything is going to be fine, even though I don’t know exactly how, I know it will.”

I went about my business taking appropriate actions, holding my attention on what I wanted, being appreciative for everything I already have and yes, ignoring reality.

I know that there people who will say I was crazy or foolish. That we have to “be realistic!” There was a time when I might have tried to convince them I was right. Now all I do is smile, for I know better.

A few days before the end of the month, I went on-line to check my bank balance to see what checks had cleared. When I looked at the screen I almost fell over, because what I saw there was a very large deposit sitting in my business account. My first reaction was, “this has to be a mistake.” Read more

What Difference Can the Laws of Attraction Make to Paying Your Bills?

I came across these wise words from Elyse Killoran and thought they would be a good reminder in these times…

“Tightness. Procrastination. Anxiety. Yuck!

Are these the words/feelings that you typically associate with the monthly (or bi-monthly) ritual of paying your bills?

If so, you may want to consider what impact your vibrational statement to the Universe is having on your future financial outlook.

The Laws of Attraction – the most powerful law in the Universe – insures that ‘like attracts like’. In other words, your experience around money today sets the stage for your experience of money tomorrow.

As the teacher Abraham reminds us, ‘You can’t get thin from hating being fat. And you cannot attract prosperity from disliking being poor.’ As we focus on money and experience a sense of lack, we become vibrational magnets for future experiences of financial lack.

To propose that how you hold the experience of paying your bills will affect your financial future is a radical shift.

Here’s a new approach to bill-paying that will support you in creating prosperity – from the inside-out! Read more

What Does it Mean to do Joint Ventures Backwards?

The approach that I like to take when developing any kind of program is to reverse-engineer – or reverse-create – it by starting at the end and going backwards.

You start by really thinking about the gap for your clients or customers that your product or service will address – begin with what you are going to offer to your vibrationally matched clients and everything has to seed back to that.

When I created my in-person workshop and marketing venture called Heavenly Meals, it was very successful because it identified and focused on a real gap; it brought together the “right” team to address the gap; it attracted Joint Venture partners to support the project, and then I was able to easily market a well-organized workshop to the market.

After just a short time, I was able to sell this business for a profit and move on to other ventures.

Most people get tangled when they try to write a workshop (or a teleseminar or an interview) because they see a blank page and try to figure out what they are going to present or teach.

You don’t have to do this!

You can fast forward to the end of your presentation and:

• Examine the problems/issues for your ideal client or group
• Identify what their challenges are
• Then identify what your solutions are to those challenges

When you can clearly see the gap for them, you can then easily create solutions to offer for their challenges.

This is creating starting from the end and moving toward the introduction.  You can think, “Now I will work backwards and create the element that will support them taking a next action and will activate in them that what I am offering to them is a solution”.

This really leverages your time and energy.

What’s so great about reverse creating your in–person workshop is that you are simply activating the gap and seeding.  By following this process, you will see that by the end of the workshop they are saying, “I want this, I need this”, and it is a totally irresistible offer.

All you have to do is think about what programs you have and what would be an amazing offer for them.  From there you can create all the different pieces of the workshop that would support it.

The onsite workshop is a 90-minute to two-hour free, local workshop where you are actually live in-person.   It gives you exponential opportunities to energetically tap your potential ideal clients’ senses so you can even more deeply connect with them. Read more

Do You Have a Vision for Your Own Business?

I had the privilege of speaking with some amazing Spiritualpreneurs on a teleclass I held the other night, and one of the them was Bill White, the Synchronicity Expert.

I asked him to share about being a Spiritualpreneur and how that has helped him to recession-proof his business, along with what tip he could offer to you for your own business.

Here’s what he had to say:

I came from a background in advertising, and as a result I was used to working 70 – 100 hours a week year round.  So when I decided to go into business for myself, one of the biggest things that I was doing was running from my career – because I was just exhausted!

In advertising, we had such an emphasis on persuasion – trying to hammer, hammer, hammer a sales decision into the mind of a client – and I carried some of that with me originally in my business.

But when I started to realize that serving the customer was not about persuasion, and I started to shift that emphasis, that’s where I really began to see my own business grow.

I was doing a lot of the blueprinting process of:

• What do I want to do?
• And how do I want to do it?

But I started applying that also not just to ideal clients but to vendors and partners as well. So I would write job descriptions of the partners or the vendors that I needed, and start setting my intention on that.

That’s really when I started to see my business grow, because I started to draw to me the people who I could serve and be served by the best, and it became a fair energy exchange.

One thing that I would suggest for a tip that really helped me a lot: Read more