True Balance

Greetings! Please forgive my spotty posting this month. I am fully engaged in final edits, design and planning for Life on Your Terms (LOYT). I am also in the throes of creating a new LOYT blog and facebook community.

This week my prayers were answered when John P. Strelecky agreed to write the foreword for LOYT.

John is the epitome of an entrepreneur who lives his life as he wishes. He is a #1 Best Selling Author, international speaker, and is in the midst of raising money to create wells in Ethiopia! More than all of this,  he is a kind person and loving, mindful father.

You can learn more about John in his entrepreneur spotlight next month. I promise you John’s story will inspire you to continue on your path of personal development and balanced living.

You can find out more about John at  BigFiveForLife.com

More about the book…

Life on Your Terms: The Support Your Need to Follow Your Passion From Inspirational Entrepreneurs will be published this Summer!

Here is the back cover copy:

Energize your life with insights from this exceptional group of entrepreneurs. The more than 40 coaches, authors, executives, doctors, artists, and visionaries represented in this book have generously shared their personal secrets of liberation.

From chucking it all and backpacking around the world, to not being afraid to die, from never tasting the same meal in the same way, to conquering cycles of mental illness, climbing the corporate ladder and base jumping off the top rung into the realm of personal freedom.  You will read tales of individuals desiring to be their best, giving back to their communities, allowing for divine love, and even traveling to remote areas of the world to uncover stories of elephant whisperers.

Each interview turns over the stones of accepted wisdom we walk through every day to reveal the tremendous power of the entrepreneurial perspective. Now is the time to trade in struggle and obligation for liberation and passion.

Does this message sound intriguing enough to make you want to read the book? I would love your feedback!

You are welcome to come and visit the brand new Life on Your Terms blog, follow us on Twitter or join us on Facebook.

Image courtesy of Peter Forton

The sankalpa I choose during Yoga Nidra meditation is “I am Peace” or “I am Peaceful.”  Sankalpa is defined as the resolve, determination and good intention that resonates and aligns sublimely with your essence.  Cultivating and sharing teachings to create a more peaceful love filled existence means everything to me as a woman, wife, mother, author and life coach.

7  Steps to Create More Peace in Your Life:

Positive Thinking

• Attitude is everything … Why not start by choosing happiness?  The next time you are cranky, think about how funny you are all puckered up and pissed off. Angry? Get over it!

Breathe

• Breathe deeply for 5 or 6 rounds of your breath every hour. When you pay attention to your breath your world will settle down.

Emotional Energy

• Let go of any excess baggage and learn how to tap into your happy place. Everyone has a crappy day … Learn to let it go.  Say so long, bon voyage, later days to that big ugly sack of sticky darkness.

Self Love

• Love yourself as you are - in this moment. You are an amazing critter. You matter.  Embrace your quirks, strengths, deficiencies and human kindness. There is nobody in the Universe quite like you!

Gratitude Power

• Begin and end each day thinking about what you are thankful for. Consider writing letters of gratitude to the people you love in your life. Let them know you think they are all kinds of alright. Share your Love!

Meditation

• Get centered by creating time for guided or silent meditation.  As little as two minutes counting your breath daily will make a difference. Do it … No excuses.

Knowing

• Your life is more important than you know. You are the author of your life’s story. What kind of life do you want to create? Begin …

Consciously embrace each step and become aware of how much internal peace you can create.  Peace begins within you and radiates out to everyone you encounter.

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”

- John Lennon

Seth Godin is my very favorite marketer. He has a way of inspiring me to think deeply, stay on my creative path and evolve into the kind of coach and entrepreneur I set out to be.

Check out his latest supportive post here:

You Matter

When you love the work you do and the people you do it with, you matter.
When you are so gracious and generous and aware that you think of other people before yourself, you matter.
When you leave the world a better place than you found it, you matter.
When you continue to raise the bar on what you do and how you do it, you matter.
When you teach and forgive and teach more before you rush to judge and demean, you matter.
When you touch the people in your life through your actions (and your words), you matter.
When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.
When you see the world as it is, but insist on making it more like it could be, you matter.
When you inspire a Nobel prize winner or a slum dweller, you matter.
When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.
And when the legacy you leave behind lasts for hours, days or a lifetime, you matter.

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