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I had a crazy dream last night!

I usually remember vivid details of my crazy dreams. This was no different.

I was hanging out with my teenage group of friends and we stole the Mona Lisa, although, it wasn’t at the Louvre, it was at a church in Canada.

Once the money came around, we all got like a $2,000,000 cut from the proceeds. I didn’t want any part of it, so all I remember doing for most of my dream was running around this crazy church, which was more like a modern art museum, and trying to find hiding places, so my friends couldn’t find me and give me my $2-mil.

Finally, they found me. I was hiding on a ‘secret’ top floor in the building, and they forced the $2-Million dollars on me. So I took it and hid it in a bench so that the authorities couldn’t link it to me.

My girlfriend, one of my teenage-mob-friends, took her money and glared and me, then ran away with it. I remember yelling to her with deep dramatic passion (like the end scene of a movie) during her escape, “Why do you need this money? Why are you doing this? Don’t you have faith that you will make your own money?”

AAAAAAAND there it was.

I’m no dream expert and 90% of the time I can relate my dreams back to some TV show I watched the night before, like the time Benedict Cumberbatch kissed me…. that was a good dream (the perils of a Sherlock-Christmas-Netflix-Binge). Nonetheless, most of my crazy mixed up dreams come from a something I’ve experienced in ‘real-life’.

This was no different, although a huge break-through for me. I woke up this morning knowing that I didn’t need to steal anything or win any lottery to make my millions (I normally don’t steal, just so we are on the same page…).  It was a peaceful deep calm and knowing that all the abundance, much, much more than the $2,000,000 was already with me and present, I just have to tap into it. (This is something I have been working on for years and no surprise that I have dreams like this!)

All my teenage-gang-mob all felt that they needed to steal the Mona Lisa because they felt scarcity, lack and fear that they weren’t going to be provided for, that this was their only real chance wealth and ‘being rich’.

Who wants to live in fear?

No one does, yet we do. Our brains keep telling us these crazy stories, which are just that – stories.

I did it for SOOOOOO long.

I just got sick and tired of living in fear, lack and scarcity. It’s a very draining place to live. It’s not exciting at ALL!

The stories and the highlight reels we toss around in our brains actually play out in real life. That’s reality. You create it. So guard your thoughts carefully!

I have these conversations ALL the time around MONEY & FEAR with my clients. Daily. The 2 seem to go hand in hand. Too much money, too little money, fear of losing money, fear of not being able to live out the life you want to live, not being able to provide for your family, etc.

These are real fears, just as real as in my dream (Just you probably aren’t stealing the Mona Lisa to reach financial freedom!)

I FINALLY HAVE FAITH. Faith that abundance and my financial situation are my choice, my decision, and with that taking full ownership & responsibility – jumping into a full commitment around abundance and all that has to offer.

That’s what I was yelling to my girlfriend as she was running away with her cut of the money. I was desperately trying to get her to see that she can have the faith inside of her and that abundance could be hers if she chose it. She ran away.

We all can run away, live in denial, fear, lack & scarcity or choose something different. Neither is right or wrong – it’s just a choice.

Yours to make.

xo

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It’s so simple. It actually blew my mind when I first heard it YEARS ago. And, technically it’s easy too, yet I would bet anyone who hasn’t accomplished what they set out to accomplish for themselves or the people who find themselves not happy where they are at in relation to their goals, seldom, if ever, implement this secret.

I believe this secret works well with money too!

Actually, it’s really not a secret at all. But the simple fact that nobody seems to be “doing it” must mean it’s some secret.

The secret to accomplishing anything you want is this:

What Gets Scheduled Gets Done!

That’s it!

Scheduling

This is why.

When was the last time you fully missed an appointment scheduled in your calendar? Rarely right?

If you are like most people, you value being on time, meeting your appointments and you typically do so with integrity.

The problem is that we rarely schedule in what is most important to us.

Health, Cooking, Exercise, Writing, Prayer, Meditation, Reading, Learning, Family time, Romance – you name it, we don’t have it scheduled and yet we hope these things happen in our lives.

Am I not more important than my dentist appointment? Yet, I will always be there and be on time!

Are you prioritizing everyone else above yourself? I have more dates in my calendar for my kids half the time then I do for myself!

It’s no secret then that I can’t seem to always meet my goals – right? My work-out goals, writing goals, business goals, family goals, relationship goals?

Plain as day. I didn’t make time, schedule time for them and honour those commitments to myself.

I used to be really good at this by the way!  I have accomplished some very big things using this secret. I just need to get back in the habit.

How did I write my first book? I scheduled in writing time to my schedule every day.

How am I going to write my second? The same way.

Want to make more money? Schedule in the actions you need to take.

Want a better relationship with your money? Schedule in a Money Date and track your money weekly!

So, my one goal, my secret to making 2017 a huge success and accomplishing EVERYTHING & ANYTHING that I want to this year is to make sure that I have my goals scheduled in and that I have each day planned, scheduled in the most important things to me, then I know it will be a done deal. All my goals will be accomplished. It’s as easy and as simple as that! I’m making a habit to do this Sunday night for the week, and every evening or morning before my day begins!

DO FIRST THINGS FIRST – SCHEDULE EVERYTHING YOU WANT INTO YOUR LIFE!

This will change your life! Trust me!

PS. If you haven’t heard of the Pomodoro Technique, it’s brilliant! Google it – you can honestly accomplish almost anything in 25-minute increments.

Change Vs. Transformation

You really don’t want to change in 2017.

You want TRANSFORMATION!

Transformation of your life, your body, your money, your situation, your relationships, your health, whatever it is.

Change:

the act of becoming different or to make something different

Transformation:

implies a basic change of character with little or no resemblance of the past configuration or structure

Change may initially modify behavior, however, lasting change can not happen without transformation.

Transformation is a change from within. Transformation is a modification in values and beliefs to bring about new actions that will achieve the results you want.

When you are transformed, your life looks nothing like your past.

Here’s a secret. You are not your past, so stop taking your past and throwing it into your future! Stop trying to change things that once were.

It’s a FRESH YEAR, FRESH MONTH, FRESH DAY, FRESH HOUR.

You are allowed to stop letting your past drag you down. Transformation is simple when you stop believing you are your past.

Transformation is the only way to create lasting change.

Are you ready to create lasting FINANCIAL TRANSFORMATION in 2017? 

This is YOUR year to create LASTING change!

Message me for details or email me at lisa@ellementsgroup.com

Before I say good-bye to 2016, I love to reflect on what this year taught me.

I’m READY for this year to be over! So many of you I know feel the same way. For many it was a ‘bad’ year and for many it was a ‘great’ year.

For me, it was an amazing mess of a year – mess in a good way. Could it have been better? HELL YES! In so many areas and for so many reasons of my life it really could have been better. But what it was was PERFECT. (Reflecting on that comes from a heart of gratefulness for the lessons taught from the good, bad & ugly this year.) I am so excited to see what 2017 brings, but first a reflection on 2016.

What 2016 Taught Me:

• That I have my back, and I can depend on me. Building the relationship with myself to be strong. Loving my own company. Saying I will do something and following through with it.
• That happiness is only based on my thoughts and it is not anyone else’s responsibility on this planet to make me happy – only my job.
• That I need to throw out the instruction manual for other people on how they act and behave and love them regardless how they act or what they choose for their life. It’s their life. Other people will act how they choose. I act how I choose. Taking the shoulds and expectation out of the equation and acting from love in all situations (this is going to be a life long one to work on….)
• That everything I choose to believe came true. I manifested the good, bad & ugly that my thoughts contained. Now, I need to just dream bigger and clearer and go out and reach those goals. Realizing that you are more powerful than you choose to believe is mind blowing.
• Going deeper into watching my thoughts and guarding them very carefully, and choosing what is right for me instead of following what everybody else is doing.
• Trusting my gut and my heart when it comes to making decisions that are best for my body, health, heart, mind and soul.
• Learning not to play small to fit in. Shine and SHINE BRIGHT, and not give a flying F what people thing about me – because they gonna think anyways, and what they think doesn’t matter to me anyways. What people think of me and you doesn’t matter. Learning that the only thing I think about myself is what matters. We will ALL have haters in our lives and that’s okay.
• I learned that writing a book is 10% of the work and marketing it is 90%. I learned the same is true for any product, event or service you sell.
• I learned that people just want to know that you care and they just want to be heard and acknowledged (I already knew this, however, it’s always a good thing to discover and re-learn.)

As I am writing out diligently my plans for 2017, I write with certainty that they will come true. I believe these goals will come true, and that belief shapes my thoughts about these things that I have planned. My actions will come from my thoughts and I will end up with the result I want from those actions.

It’s written in every great manuscript that has graced this earth since the beginning of time. It all starts with a belief and a thought – absolutely EVERYTHING in your life is created that way.

So here is what I offer you as you are doing your year-end review and goal setting and dreaming for 2017 and how you want your life to look:

• If there is something you don’t want in your life, change your thought about it.
• If there is a person you are having a hard time with or they challenge you, then change your thoughts about them, and see what happens.
• If there is a habit you don’t want in your life, then change your thought about that habit and see magic unfold as you create the ideal life you want.
• If there is a goal you feel is too hard and you will never reach it, then change your thoughts to reflect that it is easy to attain, or even say the statement, “I’m on my way to believing that I can accomplish X.”

Once you change your thoughts on these things, then you will be on your way to believing these things, action will follow and then you will have the result you want.

Your year will be what you make it to be – so make it everything you’ve ever dreamed. What’s the use in holding back? What does playing the role of living small do for anyone? Least of all you?

Be the best you this year, learn to have your own back, blow your own damn mind and live with fervor in 2017!

CHEERS to 2017!!

PS. Did you give your family the BEST GIFT this year? Did you spend the 1-2 hours to get your will completed, your estate planned, your finances in order?  If you still need help with this or if you want to get your financial butt organized for 2017, I have some great options available to help you do so!

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No one ever talks about what the H-E-DoubleHockeySticks happens after you reach your goals! We talk always about reaching our goals, and setting them, but what about after you actually accomplish them? Do you just roll over and die?

This is for anyone who has ever felt like they are in a constant state of “trying” to achieve their goals, setting new ones before finishing old ones, struggling in frustration. I have been on this hamster wheel for the last 16 years, and this year I learned the MIND-BLOWING SECRET!

Here’s the crazy part about reaching your goals. Once you have reached them, you then need to go through the whole process again and figure out what you want all over again, or push further, harder, deeper into what you really want your life to look like.

MARK MY WORDS MY LOVE BUGS!

Accomplishing goals once you have set them out for yourself is actually the easy part. The hard part is in being specific and actually figuring out WHAT THE HECK YOU WANT FROM YOUR LIFE!

Deep down we all know that we can achieve all our goals and that scares us. As my fav money guru, Napoleon Hill says, “What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve!”

People say fear hold us back from going out and accomplishing our goals and dreams. But I think it’s that we just really haven’t figured out what the f*** we want! Once you do, the rest is action, mechanics, ‘the how’, the part that is left up to God. All we needed to do was decide and believe. We don’t even get that far sometimes or if we do, we play too small – we have cute baby dreams and even some of those we don’t really believe in!

I sit with clients all the time that don’t know what they want. They get swept up in the day-to-day and don’t make time to make their dreams a reality in their life.

This is not how I want to go out! No bloody way. (I’ve been listening to too many British podcasts lately!)

And I am DAMN SURE you don’t want to go out that way. Not really. You know deep down you are here for a reason, a purpose, and you may be sitting there and haven’t quite articulated it.

I think it’s time you articulated what you want from life. I’m A FIRM BELIEVER that YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL! You can have the family, romance, business, dream job, travel, experiences that you want to have without sacrificing you and your wants. If I didn’t believe this I probably would have given up LONG ago!

I think being FEARLESS is a bad thing. Bad word. Who wants to live without FEAR?! I sure don’t. People say “BE FEARLESS”, but you need fear! If you have no fear in your life then you have become complacent. You are comfortable. Comfort is not a place of growth. It’s stagnant. It’s ultimately death…. think about it. You are either growing or you are dying – which way are you headed? I think Tony Robbins always says that, sorry Lou Holtz! (Sometimes, okay most times, I have SOOOOO many gurus in my head, I’m not sure which one said what!)

Fear needs to be present. Fear needs to come along as your passenger, just don’t let it do the driving, as Elizabeth Gilbert says in my fav book, Big Magic (MUST READ!) You need to have that fear – just don’t let it stop you. I really do try to live by the motto, DO ONE THING EVERYDAY THAT SCARES YOU!

There are 2 kinds of people in the world.

The people that don’t even bothering setting goals and let life happen to them. I call them happy wanderers. These people are content with the status-quo. They seem to walk around the planet with not a care in the world. This isn’t me – if you haven’t figured that out yet! Hey, by the way, people like me are sometimes jealous of the happy wanderers – they seem so carefree and oblivious to what is going on in the world – by choice.

Then there are the people who are a cause in the world – by choice. They go make things happen. Their brains are always on. They are always looking at ways of expanding and how they can grow and help the world. They set goals, reach them, or come close to reaching them, and now they are on a new trajectory and need to re-establish new goals and keep leaning in and pushing forward.

I did reach many of the goals I set out for myself in 2016, and in 2017, and I’m back to square one it feels like. NOW WHAT?!

So I find myself sitting here as a new author, well into my blog, podcast, website and branding all done (finally 3.5 years later!) and wondering (once again) where I am going with all of this. I see the big picture at the back end, just not what’s from here to there.

FRUSTRATION.

I’m daily in tears. Usually around 4pm when I think my world is falling apart. I FEEL things may not be working out as planned or originally hoped for. That’s a feeling by the way, not what is actually going on. Feelings FEEL real to us, however, nothing that we can’t change with our thoughts.

These are the thoughts I have had. I want to pull my book off the shelf (the online shelf) and disappear it, even though it just came out. I want to quit everything and go get a 9-5 so my life will be easy. I want to simplify my life to be simple.

Then about 2 seconds into these thoughts, I laugh. I do. I will be crying and laughing at the same time. Maybe I just needed an emotional release – because let’s face it. I would last about 2 seconds at a day job before they’d fire the f*** out of me! Seriously, I’m about as employable as a squirrel.

I get into overwhelm. I feel like quitting my WHOLE life at times. I know other people feel the same way. My trick is that my moments of desperation, depression only last a few minutes, because I now have the tools to pull myself out of that funk, that I didn’t have years ago.

MINDSET IS KEY FOR ALL YOU GO-GETTERS & GOAL SETTERS! I’m writing my reality into existence. (PS my dear, this is how it starts! Daily discipline of writing out your goals and plans – if you don’t do your daily mindset work, you lost the game before you even begun! Read chapter 1 in my book. Mindset is KEY! And I can back this up with about 1000 other books and the Bible too my friends!)

FYI – I had a major breakthrough a few months back! One of my core beliefs is that I believe to be successful you need to work hard and struggle. The truth is you don’t need to. Whatever beliefs you have around making money or reaching your goals could be what is holding you back. You may need to re-program the hardwiring in your brain to think thoughts like, “It’s easy to reach my goals. It’s easy to make money. It’s easy to ….” Then slowly over time begin to BELIEVE your thoughts.

Why do we all make life such a struggle on top of the struggle? Why do we worry? Why do we let negative self-talk rule our day?

Just think that if it can be as easy as saying it will be that easy, then it will be easy. What if that was all it took? 

Thoughts produce your actions which create your reality. (PS – THAT IS THE MIND-BLOWING SECRET!)

Have a great week beautiful people!

TIME FOR YOUR FINANCIAL PAP!?!

Wha-What?!? Yup, you heard me right, this is all about your financial PAP!

Here’s the TRUTH ladies! Listen up!

YOU’D RATHER HAVE YOUR LEGS SPREAD FOR THE DOCTOR THAN TO SHARE THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR FINANCIAL SITUATION WITH ANYONE!

YUP! That’s how she rolls! And trust me, after having babies myself, most of us know that this is true. Spreading those legs for the doc is WAY easier than having to admit your debt situation, or having to share what could potentially be some ugly details of your financial life.

So TODAY, I’m giving you a FINANCIAL PAP! (And yes, I know I’m not as hot as Dr. McDreamy in the photo – deal with it!)

My diagnosis of your FINANCIAL PAP is this:

YOUR FINANCIAL PLAN SUCKS!

YUP AGAIN! You heard me right! Your financial plan sucks because YOU DON’T HAVE ONE!

And if you have one, is it outdated and something you haven’t looked at in a million years? Then you basically don’t have a financial plan either!

To cut straight through the BS,  you and I BOTH know that you should have a financial plan of some sort. Right?! (You must’ve been taught that at some point in your life. If you weren’t taught that, then I’m teaching you now –  YOU NEED A FINANCIAL PLAN.)

Here is WHY MOST PEOPLE DON’T HAVE A FINANCIAL PLAN…..

It may be because they don’t know how to go about getting one, or they don’t have a financial planner. They obviously haven’t looked hard enough or Googled it because there are financial plans and financial planners in almost every strip mall in North America! Okay, so that excuse flies about as well as pigs do.

Here is THE REAL REASON WHY I THINK MOST PEOPLE DON’T HAVE A FINANCIAL PLAN….

It’s because PEOPLE ARE TOO DARN EMBARRASSED ABOUT THEIR FINANCIAL SITUATION TO ADMIT THEIR SHAMEFUL DIRTY FINANCIAL LAUNDRY TO ANYONE OR MAYBE EVEN THEMSELVES! OR BECA– USE THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND OR KNOW WHERE THEIR MONEY IS AND ARE EMBARRASSED THAT THEY HAVEN’T BEEN KEEPING TRACK!

RIGHT?!?! Did this just resonate with most of you?! Come on… be honest with yourself! Do you really have a plan for your money? For your life?

You know how I know it’s true? Because client always tell me HALF TRUTHS! It’s amazing how many half truths I can figure out… it’s like my kids getting caught in a lie.

Do you think your financial advisor was born yesterday?? It’s like me telling my dentist that I floss everyday…. 

Watch this video for fun.. it cracks me up every time and illustrates my whole point on why your financial plan sucks!

CAUTION: There is inappropriate language right at the very end of the video.

CAUTION: There is inappropriate language right at the very end of the video.

Now you know my STRUGGLE as a financial planner first hand. This is honestly what it is like! Okay, maybe not that dramatic. 🙂

MY POINT REMAINS LADIES, I want to get you a FINANCIAL PLAN as PAINLESS AS POSSIBLE – without having to spread your legs or share all your gory financial details with your financial advisor.

(Although, if you do have a financial plan, or actually tell the truth to your financial planner, then KUDOS to YOU! This is a small percentage of people that actually work on their financial plans with their advisors! The rest of us are usually on the HOPE & A PRAYER financial strategy!)

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And let me tell you that this makeover is one that will not only make your wallet happy but also your mind, body & spirit! Trust me on this!

Right now, I am offering this course to my community, family & friends for an early bird special. This 6-week course will be $997 in 2017. Right now, for my BETA testers, I am offering it for the next few weeks for $297! I charge $1,500 – $3,000 for Financial Plans and Cash Flow Plans for clients and so do my peers – to put this price in perspective- you are getting way more than just a financial plan with this course! This gives you an opportunity to work through and organize and cover your ASSets in a fun way while sitting in the comfort of your home with a glass of wine! Could there be anything better? I will also offer 2 monthly payments of $150 right now to get you started! (That’s better – message me for details on the 2-month payment option at admin@ellementsgroup.com)

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