Coach.

Some serious embarrassing shizza has gone down in my life.

Like the time I walked out of the bathroom in 10th-grade with a “sanitary napkin” stuck to my jeans….

Or the time when the police caught me with a giant spotlight kissing my first boyfriend while trespassing on private property…

Or the time I modeled in the 12th-grade fashion show a white dress with black undergarments… ughhh….

Or the time I had just given birth 48-hours prior to my Opa’s funeral and proceeded to give an awkward “Bridget Jones” speech to tell everyone how much I loved my Opa in very VERY bad broken Germanenglishish  (it’s a language!)  which included words like “epidural” and “pickles” (which are words that should probably not make it into ANY end-of-life celebration!) to 200 of our family and friends which my family STILL laughs about… and they aren’t laughing with me…. OH VEY!

Ya, okay, you get the picture…

Embarrassment comes in many forms. One that we talk about lots is failure. That’s probably the worse one of all.

Nothing GREAT ever occurred from something safe and secure.

You have to be able to risk it all, put your heart out on the line, put your money where your mouth is and sometimes you

HAVE.

TO.

GO.

ALL.

IN.

Commit. Even if you fail, you may as well go down in a glory-poop-bomb-flame-basket after giving it your best. I mean really, do you think you can survive a poop-bomb-flame-basket? I think so.

Remember everything happens for your highest good – NO – let me change that…

Everything happens for your highest GREATNESS!

I’ve said this before, and if I were to ever get a tattoo it would probably be this.

The opposite of Good is not Bad. The opposite of Good is GREAT!

If you are stuck in a “good” life then you got all caught up in your comfort zone, but don’t worry I know you are in good company with your friend Fear and Fear’s Cat, Scaredy.

Here’s the tough love: you need to ditch your good ol’ friend Fear and hook up with some good new vibes.

And I will challenge you, here, right now, that living a GOOD life is embarrassing.

• It’s embarrassing that you aren’t using your abilities to their fullest potential.
• It’s embarrassing that you aren’t putting it all out there.
• It’s embarrassing that you haven’t taken that step out.
• It’s embarrassing that you aren’t even trying.
• It’s embarrassing that you aren’t even allowing yourself to dream big!

You know how I know? Because I am you. I was once there (and maybe still am) and daily have to deal with this. I get it.

Isn’t it amazing when you see someone stepping out and going all in on their dreams – it’s UNBELIEVABLY FREAKIN’ MIND BLOWING AMAZING and when you sit there and hear someone else totally going after their dreams doesn’t it just inspire you to the core of who you are and put a pep into your step and make you want to go out and CRUSH IT????

Hear me here. Yes, I’m pretty much yelling this from the mountaintop. (And come to think of it, I’m actually writing this from a mountaintop in Kananaskis!)

You have to get past your own bullsh*t and find that thing that is bigger than you.

Do you want to know what the investment industry really is all about? What the big secret about money really is?

What every last trade, stock, currency exchange, mutual fund, bond, GIC, private equity, real estate deal is really all about? What every transaction since the beginning of time is really all about?

It’s so simple, yet, we never talk about it, because it must be TABOO for us to actually go to this deep emotional vulnerable level….

Are you ready for this?

Every time we invest in ANYTHING we are giving money to fund someone else’s dream while they are funding ours. 

BOOM!

That’s value, service, serving, exchange – that’s everything we do as humans on a daily basis. Modus Operandi. Standard Operating System for us humans! This is what we are created for: Love & Serving!

So, what happens when you are holding on tight, not investing, not spending, closed-mindedness, stuck in a mindset that there isn’t enough or that you don’t have enough? You actually STOP funding your dreams and the dreams of others (and how horrible would it be to crush someone’s dreams!)  It actually full out stops the flow of energy, and as previously discussed in all of my 117 past blog posts – MONEY IS ENERGY!

The embarrassing thing is not trying. Not living full out with your money and with your life.

Stop thinking about having too much money or too little money as embarrassing.

Stop thinking that there isn’t enough.

Stop embarrassing your money!

Start investing.

In You.

In Others.

xx

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Yesterday, I had my best wake surf ever!

I even did a little dance on the surf board.

Dancing & Surfing.

Heaven.

I’m so proud of myself for always being willing & open minded to try new things and push myself to do the uncomfortable – knowing full well that wiping out (literally) is a REAL possibility.

There is no better feeling than being proud of yourself.

I know I talk about this a lot – all we are really chasing at the end of the day is feelings, good feelings: LOVE, HAPPY, PROUD, ABUNDANT, JOY.

Let’s be clear here, sometimes being proud of ourselves comes easy, but definitely not all the time.

One area I struggle with is MONEY! Shocking right?!?

I’m so hard on myself for not being where I want to be financially.

Can you relate?

Or relate to not being proud of yourself in one key area of your life – such as your health, relationships, etc??

And so what do you think happens when we are hard on ourselves about where we ‘should’ be?

Yes, you know the answer.

We draw more of that to ourselves.

Law of Attraction attracts more of the un-love, the hating of ourselves, the shame, guilt, lack, and scarcity – it all comes back to us in droves and digs the vicious cycle deeper.

Been there.

Done that.

Have a closet full of the T-shirts.

So how do we pivot to create what we really want in life?

The only way to attract what you want more of is to change your point of attraction.

• Feeling broke or worried about money? Start counting your assets & all that you’ve been blessed with!
• Want more love in your life? Start loving on all the people that cross your path – like crazy!
• Want a new relationship? Start loving yourself like crazy. (No one wants a needy partner!)
• Ready to release the excess weight or want your health back? Start to see yourself as the person you’re on your way to becoming!
• Want your partner/spouse to shape up or ship out? Then BE the FIRST to LOVE them like crazy!
• Want to be an author, artist, famous, successful, politician? BE THAT NOW – embrace it now.

See, most people have it wrong.

They think they need to DO to HAVE and then BECOME.

But in reality, you need to declare and BE (& become) first on the inside so it can begin to radiate out of you, then you will DO the work to HAVE what you really want.

Mindset is everything – and that is how the law of attraction really works.

So the feelings you are chasing – LOVE, PROUD, JOY, ABUNDANT, HAPPY…..

Find that in yourself first – and more of it shall be given to you.

I will repeat.

FIND THAT WHICH YOU SEEK IN YOURSELF FIRST.

It shall be given to you in ABUNDANCE.

xx

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There’s this computer chip inside of all of us, programmed with a lifetime of past, present, and future of CRAPPY excuses for the most part. (Maybe in some of us, it may be actual chips! Maybe some Lays or Old Dutch?!)

Maybe the medical term is amygdala, located in the brain responsible for survival instincts and emotion. I know it’s there, if only from a handful of life coaches that told me that it’s there – seriously – them and probably psychologists – because we all know I didn’t pay attention in biology.

So, at least now I know who to blame for all my incompetencies & justifications, AMY. G. DALA……DAMN Bitch – just shut up already!

But it won’t.

The brain keeps going. Pumping out CRAZY ASS EXC– USES and JUSTIFICATIONS for ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING!

Here’s the other crazy thing that is programmed in us. Somewhere else, no doubt.

I don’t even think they have a medical term for this, probably because it’s part of your spirit. Well, really it is your spirit, your soul.

It’s our desire to INCREASE, CREATE, to PUSH BEYOND what we are capable of, to GROW, to live INSPIRED.

If AMY is working overtime in our brains to keep us safe and rationalize everything for survival purposes, then our true spirit, our souls – the part of us that is connected to source –  is the part of us trying to grow, create, become better.

Talk about cognitive dissonance! (By this point, it may actually appear that I went to college… or have become a really good GOOGLER!)

Cognitive Dissonance is basically what I’m talking about – the state of having inconsistent thoughts, emotions, beliefs, attitudes, EVERYTHING – the internal battle we face every day!

This is where the damn rubber meets the road beautiful!

I want an ice cream, but want to lose weight.

I want some wine, but want to drink less.

I want to watch TV, but I want to run a marathon one day.

I want to SHOP, but I want to SAVE lots of money.

I don’t want to work now, but I want to retire early.

Blah, Blah, Blah – you get what I mean.

DUALITY. DICHOTOMY. LIFE IS CHOCK-FULL OF THIS FRUSTRATION!

Don’t you find that you are always stuck between the now (’cause life is short) and the future you (in case you actually do live a long life)?

But deeper still, why is it that the now side seems to almost always win? SO FRUSTRATING – are you with me?

MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION: IS IT ABOUT BALANCED LIFE (BOTH SATISFYING THE NOW & THE FUTURE SELF) or COULD IT POSSIBLY BE OKAY TO BE ONLY FUTURE FOC– USED (SATISFYING THE FUTURE YOU)?

You can really decide that for yourself and you have already. Look around you right now, look at what you created. That’s all you by the way – no one else to thank or blame.

Most people don’t even have a balance. PERIOD. They are only present focused, and nothing gets done for their future self.

So, here’s the big question….WHY?

You see, if you talk to any therapist, life coach, interviewer, etc – their favorite question is always WHY.

Then they ask you to peel back the onion layer.

But WHY?

Dig deeper…

REALLY, WHY IS THAT IMPORTANT TO YOU?

And once you strip past the amygdala, and all the somewhat artificial beauty pageant answers, like family, friends, and world peace, you actually end up back at yourself, you end up at pure spirit, your true soul.

Because here’s the real WHY?

None of what we do really matters, and yet, it all matters.

(We know this deep down & that’s why we all have the internal struggle!)

HOLY CRAP – the ultimate DICHOTOMY that makes your brain FIZZLE out on overload.

It’s true. Life really is empty and meaningless. It’s what we make it mean that counts. It’s our choice to make meaning from our soul’s work – you know the stuff that lights you up – whether it is construction work, being a writer or helping people.

SO put that in your pipe and smoke it – literally (not physically, I don’t actually own an old-man-pipe, but would be cool…)

HOW DO YOU WANT TO LIVE & CREATE YOUR LIFE?

These are the options available to you:

• A) Past Focused
• B) Present Focused
• C) Future Focused
• D) ALL OF THE ABOVE or SOME OF THE ABOVE

It’s your choice my dear, and frankly, no one can give a damn for you, only you can give a damn for yourself. Unfortunately, that’s how this life thing works – you need to care enough about yourself, love yourself enough, and create your purpose for yourself. No one else can do it for you. (I think we wish they could!)

I’d also say this: FOLLOW YOUR TRUE SPIRIT & SOUL’S PURPOSE & SHUT THE MONKEY BRAIN (AMY.G.DALA) UP!

If faced with the DICHOTOMY within – CHOOSE YOUR TRUE SPIRIT (which by the way, will be FUTURE FOC– USED!)

The AMYGDALA (Monkey Brain) is PAST & PRESENT FOC– USED! (This is where we reside most!)

For me, I’m like, SCREW IT – I’m going all in – FUTURE FOC– USED. It’s the only way I’m going to be able to create the dream, the picture, the vision I have in my head for my life.

What are you creating?

xx

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Stop identifying with your past.

STOP IT!

You weren’t who you were yesterday.

Stop bringing your past into your today.

Stop bringing your past into this moment, because when you do, you are just putting your past into your future. (And then you expect your future to be different, but it won’t be – it will be the same.)

Yesterday, you were fat, lazy, poor, mean, scared, insecure, loser – Whatever stupid mean things you kept saying over in your head on a thought loop like a broken record!

THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING ABOUT LIFE – are you ready for it?

YOU ARE NOT YOUR PAST. YOU ARE FREE TO CREATE YOUR LIFE FROM THIS BLANK SLATE TODAY! YOU HAVE 100% of LIFE LEFT TO LIVE!

You can’t change your past – what’s done is done.

But, you can create a new future.

Whatever you dare to dream is in sight!

I actually have a great past over all. I had an AMAZING upbringing… yet, my head still leaves me stuck in these negative thought loops – I suck, I am fat, I am poor, I am not successful, I am not pretty enough…..

Can you relate to repeating something in your head? Are you even aware you are doing it?

Here’s the best part.

You can change your narrative. You can change your words, your thoughts and change your life.

SERIOUSLY.

All you have to do is start by changing the story you tell yourself about yourself.

Yes, it’s that simple.

Are you hot, sexy, rich, lean, fit, healthy, successful, confident?

Well, why not start telling yourself that?

I am.

People who look at me may disagree.

But we don’t care what other people think, do we? Damn it! We probably do…. Why else have we been playing small all our lives? Taking the “safe” road to our goals?

Damn the little voice that says we won’t make it or succeed at anything we try. SHUT UP MONKEY BRAIN!

We are the lighthouse. We are here to shine. We aren’t lifesavers in the water trying to rescue the drowning. We are just here to share our light, and stand TALL and stand FIRM with our light. Shoulders back. Boobs out.

Being the lighthouse, you don’t have to shy away from being too bright.

BE BRIGHT!

I’m not bright all the time because I’m scared of what people will say.

This is what people have said in the past or I think they will say/think if I’m really shining my light:

• You are big fat bragger!
• It’s all about you ALL the time!
• Snob!
• Unrelateable! (I’ve worked hard at being relatable – and I’m scared I will lose being able to relate to people if I’m crazy successful!)
• People won’t like me!
• I’ll lose my friends!
• I’ll have no friends left!

And the list could go on…

WOW! With a list like that, who would ever want to be successful or shine their light?

It looks like a crap deal to shine your light if those are the consequences. It’s easier to shrink and blend in with the crowd.

So, what to do? How do you shine like a lighthouse?

You have to grow some serious thick skin and say to yourself, in your narrative, the story you tell yourself:

My dreams are bigger than my bullshit and what other people will think. I’m here for a purpose, and people who don’t love me for living out my purpose here on earth – well, those people are missing out and not part of my journey. The right people will show up and be in my life as I shine bright!

‘Cause the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate anyways right?

So, let them hate your light. It’s your responsibility as a lighthouse to shine.

A lighthouse with its light off does not offer much.

Turn that sucker on!

xx

I am LOUSY at receiving. And I’m trying to change that.

Last week, I had a breakdown when I was running. My breakdowns usually happen when I’m running. I don’t know why that is, but I will be running sometimes and break down & cry, sob really. I think running breaks me.

On this particular run, I had finally met my breaking point on this topic of RECEIVING.

I’m so tired of resisting RECEIVING ABUNDANCE!

Okay, let me backtrack for a minute.

I am still struggling with the whole worthiness thing. STILL.

It’s been this crazy battle. There are moments I don’t feel I deserve anything. Moments that I feel I’m still not good enough. STILL.

I just want to scream! I know it’s total bullshit.

This is a HORRIBLE place to be and yet I know so many of my friends and I suffer from this in waves, through depression or through not living out our soul’s purpose or being in full self-expression and still trying to live up to the standards of the rest of the world – whatever that is?!?!

In my want/desire/need to everything I want in my life: love, joy, happiness – I somehow still don’t feel that I’m worthy or receiving.

This could be one of the worst places to be. Seriously.

It’s sad. It really is – because I see so many people as amazing greatness…but they don’t see themselves that way. I don’t see myself that way, maybe once in a while, maybe more and more now, but for years, no.

It makes me want to cry. (Things I do NOT want to pass down to my daughters!)

And money has nothing to do with it. I mean it’s something I’m working on receiving for myself personally, but there is always something we are working on when it comes to receiving – and ALL of it stems from UNWORTHINESS. (I mean unless you really didn’t believe we lived in an abundant world or that abundance existed, then I guess you could argue there isn’t really enough to go around, and maybe then it wouldn’t be a worthiness issue with you if you truly felt you had what you deserved to have, but at your souls level you kinda gotta know by now that abundance exists…right?!)

So, I do what every soul-seeker, entrepreneur, student of life does when faced with growing in a particular area: read more self-development, listen to more books, buy more courses – some I do, some I haven’t even opened yet and basically, just keep seeking to look for what is outside of me, when the secret really is that:

I really do have everything I need, right now, and I only need to look inside of me, and not for approval from the rest of the world. I also know I’m good enough – great enough JUST AS I AM – JUST AS I WAS CREATED!

HOLY MYLANTA! Can you feel that? That weight taken off my shoulders? Can you feel how freeing it is to not have to be anything else but just be yourself? And that you deserve to RECEIVE goodness, abundance – whatever that is for you?

I’m going to take it one step further around.

I’ve been struggling to receive money for ME. I mean, I’m happy to make money and pay everyone else, and like most entrepreneurs, I would happily give it all away too, but it gets tiring making lots of money and not really truly giving back to myself.

I could make millions a year right now and still be in the same place for what I’m giving to myself, which is virtually nothing!

And I know why.

It’s because, for some deep-seated reason, I don’t think I’m worthy of receiving. My business, yes, sure, but me personally – NO!

CRAZY right!?!

And that’s total BS and I know it, and you may be in the same boat in some area of receiving. I hope you are not, but so many of my clients, friends, fellow moms, and entrepreneurs are in this place. Somehow, many of us got this mixed up, crap message engrained in us from who knows where – Church? Parents? Too many episodes of Family Ties or Who’s the Boss? (Full House? Probably Fully House! LOL) Who knows?

Having children has opened up my eyes to see a glimpse of the love God has for us and how he wants to shower us with ABUNDANCE!

I want to spoil my children. And I do. And again and again. Even when they are little sh*t heads. I love them to infinity & beyond, and yes, I want them to have everything they ever dream of having! Of course, I don’t want them to be spoiled brats, but I do want them to know that they are worthy just by being them, without having to do anything.

Don’t you feel you want to spoil your kids or if you don’t have kids, your fur babies as much as you can?

God/Universe wants to do the same for you!

On this journey to “finding my worthiness” (or better yet, learning to just allow worthiness!), I think about how God must look at us, and how he must feel the same for all of his creation – it’s just we are the ones not allowing the gifts in! Crazy right!

Can you believe that we would do such a thing?

But we do deny receiving all the wonderful gifts: money, love, joy, peace, happiness.

And this is how we don’t allow receiving in.

• By feeling not worthy and thinking we are not worthy.
• By complaining about our lives.
• By staying in a state of lack and feeling like “things will be better when I have…..”
• By resisting.
• By not listening.
• By not accepting the gifts given to us with open hands, or not appreciating them.

BUT what have we got right now in this moment?

Another gift. Right here? Right now?

Perfection.

Everything about this moment, about our lives right now is exactly what we created PERFECTLY to perfection.

And you are allowed to receive this moment as perfect.

Lessons you need to learn, situations you find yourself in, people you are surrounded by.

So, if God/the Universe loves me so much and wants me to receive this beautiful gift, then who am I to deny God of giving me all the abundance He wants to pour on me?

What happens when you are in a constant state of unreceiving? Let me answer that for you!

People stop wanting to give to you. We want to give, but not to someone who isn’t grateful, and not to someone who doesn’t even want to receive the gifts we are handing them with closed hands. Imagine I hand you a gift, and you don’t turn palms up to receive it as I’m handing it to you. You are basically spitting in my face, and saying you hate my gift. So, why do we do that that with all the goodness the universe is trying to pour out on us?

So, ya, up until now, I’ve been a shitty receiver. I know that. I can’t even take a compliment well without downplaying it.

No more.

I am a great receiver. I am in receiving.

And best of all, it is GOOD to receive.

Stop being a martyr. Stop making receiving bad.

You are beautiful. You are worthy. You are worthy of receiving.

So RECEIVE it.

xx

Life doesn’t go as planned.

I sit down to write this week’s blog and just got a bleeding nose. So here’s to typing with one hand, which will make me crazy! I haven’t had a bleeding nose in years! This is random and so perfectly perfect for what I wanted to say to you today.

Last week, I told a group of women that financial planning was total bullsh*t!

It’s true! We make all these plans and things rarely go to plan!

In fact, sometimes they are better than we planned, sometimes worse, and sometimes so random out of left field we don’t know whether to make heads or tails of it!

But here’s the thing, even though we know things really never go to plan, we still need to plan!

I’m in Vancouver right now. Doing some planning.

I like to take this week alone every year when my kids are at summer camp, a week to hide away at my sister’s place in Vancouver, and plan.

And I’m SO excited to be here alone and left with my thoughts.

And scared.

After all, spending 24 hours in a 650 sq. ft. room, alone, in a different city, makes me almost want to crawl out of my skin. I want to talk to people and defer and procrastinate to what’s really going on, and put off what I really need to do, which is tune into myself and to some planning and course adjustments – so of course, I stay on course! 🙂

A big part of planning means tuning into myself, to take the time to love myself again, and fall in love with ME again.

Quietly. Thoughtfully. Purposefully.

I think I get stuck too in the “What’s the point of all of this if we are just going to die anyways?”

Why plan?

The point is in the journey. The lessons learned. It’s in making the impossible possible. It’s in showing others it can be done.

Overcoming.

Triumph.

Accomplishing the goals and dreams.

I celebrated with one of my clients last week who hit over $1,000,000 in their portfolio. This was a huge celebration for my client. Showing people it can be done!

Anything is possible.

Make the impossible possible by planning.

It won’t be easy.

But it will be life changing and have an impact on not just you, but your world around you.

Sit down, create the space around you, take a few deep breaths and

MAKE A PLAN.

xx

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I want to share with you something super personal. And don’t worry, it’s not about my vagina. You may think that’s super personal, but I think that plays second fiddle to this topic.

I want to tell you about this part of me and how I protect mine. I’m very passionate about protecting this part of me too – the most delicate flower, besides the other flower 😉

It’s my mind.

I want you to know that I protect my mindset at all costs. ALL COSTS.

To me, my mind and my mindset are the most important thing that I have.

I don’t know if everyone shares the same feelings/thoughts as I do about mindset, and I wonder why that is? Do they just not know that they can choose their thoughts?

To be honest with you, I totally thought this topic should be saved for the people who chose “bad” thoughts, such as murder, violence, the pure evil kind of people. After all, wasn’t that taught to me in Sunday School? Guard your mind. Don’t think evil thoughts.

And we did that. Most of us aren’t murderers or violent people and our lives reflect that.

But today, I want to talk about a different kind of mindset protection – the one that guards our dreams, our innermost desires, the things that we don’t really want to share because they make us vulnerable.

Right now, I want to tell you with one of the biggest things I struggle with, and to be fair, I’m sure I’m not alone, in fact, I know that every functioning brain for the most part on this planet has to deal with this.

Choosing what thoughts serve you is the greatest gift we as humans are given, yet most of us just take life at face value or whatever gets thrown to us and don’t go about choosing to discard the thoughts that don’t serve us.

I am a light. Something I choose to believe, and I find that thought serves me.

I keep my light lit. What does that mean? Personally, I tune out a LOT of crap. I tune out a LOT of darkness that I see (I don’t watch news, even unfollow negative stories or people on Facebook – I read or hear about what I need to from other people close to me), and not because I live in some La-La-Land and pretend everything is all coming up roses, but in a way, yes, it’s because I’m protecting my optimism, my mindset, my dreams.

First of all, it has taken me a few years to discover that I really can choose my thoughts, not just the hand-me-down thoughts I thought I had to take from my parents, family, church, etc. And then taken me a few more years to figure out what thoughts serve me and help me reach my goals and dreams.

I choose thoughts like:

• It’s easy to make money. (Hey, I’m still working on this one, but I’d rather choose this than thinking that it’s hard to make money.)
• I am a light, I shine.
• I live my dream life (and I do! Probably because I choose too!)
• I am the healthiest person I know (and I am.)
• I am fit & lean. (ya… that serves me… better than thinking I’m fat!)
• I am smart.
• I help millions of people in the world with my message.
• I am sexy, hot, fun, beautiful and rich. Seriously, why not? (If that just triggered you, then, ask yourself why?)

Because here’s the thing, I only allow a handful of mentors to speak into my life, and not that I don’t listen to what others have to say, I totally love learning, and will always have an open mind, however, when it comes to my deepest truest self, I’ve aligned with mentors that I would literally follow off the earth, and even then, I have mentors for different things in my life, such as business, personal, fitness, etc.

And what I really want to say is this: the people who I allow to speak into my life are NOT the people who are closest to me!

And, here’s my big revelation in the last year or two, the people closest to you – your partner, husband, girlfriend, mom, dad, sisters, brothers, best friends – they love you HOWEVER, they are usually the dream crushers…..

Yes, I will say it again.

The people closest to you are usually the dream crushers.

Not on purpose. They love you. They really want you to succeed, but they usually are the ones to tell you:

• it isn’t realistic, that you are never going to make it,
• that you should consider quitting on your dreams as a way to not let you get your hopes up or having to witness you be in pain for falling flat on your face or
• be brought back to reality or given a “reality check”
• that you are too optimistic, pie-in-the-sky dreamer, or
• maybe they are scared of change themselves, and don’t want you to rock the boat.

ROCK THE DAMN BOAT!

When you step out powerfully in your life, it makes the people around you uncomfortable. They don’t really want you to change, they like you just the way you are right now. Plus, when you step out into your dreams, you are challenging/triggering/reminding those people that they aren’t. You awaken them to the fact that they aren’t living their dreams, or stepping out in a certain area of their life.

MIRRORS SUCK!

The people closest to us are the people that are usually in our head. Do you agree?

I know this is so true for me!

I don’t care if random strangers tell me that I suck at something, but when it comes from someone close to me, it hurts, it holds weight – and only because I love them, and chose to give them that power over me and speak into my life like that.

I’m learning slowly to stop giving my power away, even to those with the best intentions!

I’m talking about when you are stuck in life. Feeling frustrated. Feeling you aren’t moving forward. That is when you need to protect your thoughts even more. That is when you can’t let the nay-sayers in.

So today, I want you to protect your dreams at all costs, hold them close to your heart and keep them safe. That may mean not sharing it with people closest to you or when you do share it, not letting others opinions of your dreams, your life, how much money you want to make or the impact you want to make in the world.

I am creating a huge transformational shift with my business and all the people I partner with. It’s my dream. To make a difference. To help hundreds of thousands – millions – in my lifetime. I will do it.

Here’s WHY this is so IMPORTANT:

At the end of the day, what purpose we create for ourselves during this human experience is all from the thoughts we think. Our thoughts really do create our lives and the experiences we feel.

We can do anything we believe we can do.

Deep down, you and I know how powerful we really are.

And it scares the shit out of us.

And we hold back.

I hold back.

Without my optimism, my positive thoughts, my mindset and dreams protected, I won’t be able to go out and make a difference in the world.

Think about it.

If I let someone who says “I can’t” into my headspace, then I’ve lost. I’ve let myself down, and the world has lost out on my gift of contribution to society – in whatever shape that comes in (business, art, science, love, charity, writing, etc. – whatever that is for you.)

You are important and you were put here to be an important helper in your own unique way. So, protect those dreams, hold them close to your heart.

Believe in them.

Cause, you know….

You can do anything.

No holding back. No holds barred.

xx

PS. You want to live a life with no holds barred – then join me this Saturday for Elevate! elevateday.com

100.

I’m so damn proud today.

I get to celebrate 100 BLOG posts and I get to feel proud for not missing one week since May 15, 2015.

THAT’S OVER 100,000 WORDS (like 2 more books! Oh ya! Plus I wrote a book! Shameless plug for STRUT!)

CONSISTENCY BABY!

Here’s the thing. People tell me I’m a “great” writer.

And I tell them, I’m not. It’s a skill. Something you develop over time.

Let me ask you something.

What if you delivered 100 babies, prepared 100 tax returns, taught 100 classes, put out 100 fires, sold 100 homes, cooked 100 meals, drank 100 beers? You’d be “great” in your area of expertise too.

But here’s the thing (as you know by now, with me there’s always a “thing”), all it takes to be an expert in any field is consistency, showing up, and not quitting.

Do you do that?

Do you do that with your money? (HA – there’s a good question!)

Do you do that with your business or your dream job or do you just quit and jump from one opportunity to where you think the grass is always greener?

Do you do that in every area of your life? Especially areas like your dream body or dream relationship?

Most people jump. That is a FACT! Nobody sticks out much anymore – true story. But on that same note, why? Why stay in a job that makes you miserable. Exactly! The point here is to choose something you can stick with, something that lights you up, even on the days when you want to quit – because EVERY JOB, EVERY BUSINESS, EVERY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN 2 HUMANS has those days. Quit if you want. No one really cares (seriously, hear me say this lovingly, no one really cares what you do…) but you will. You are the only one who has to like yourself for your choices. Not your mom. Not your dad. Not your husband. Not your kids. Not your best friend. They will think what they want to think and everyone will judge regardless – don’t use others as a measuring stick for success, it’s sure to fail you! So like – no, LOVE the choices you make!

We all know the grass is NEVER greener on the other side, so make your grass MOTHER EFFING AUGUSTA PGA GRASS! That’s what you do! Make your grass the greenest grass everyone wants!

How? Live your purpose, live your dream life.

Why? Because when you are living your true calling, your path, in alignment with your soul, people take note. People notice the light, the spark, the jump in your step, the joy in your heart! People will want your grass when you are living your dream life. People always want something they can’t have….

Everyone wants to know the secret, the secret to having everything you ever wanted – yet, the secret is really inside all of us, we just have to let it out – unleash it onto our lives and the world and stop keeping our message, our truth, bottled up!

The secret is that there is no secret and you have to choose what you already have and what you don’t! (A totally confusing mess!!)

When you choose your life, the exact life you have, the choices you made – that’s the secret to being happy. Happiness is on you. It’s never on them. I’ll say it again……

Happiness is on you. It’s never on them.

Trust me – the most freeing thing in the entire world is choosing, and re-choosing, and being grateful for your life and then choosing something different, and then choosing to be grateful for the new choices you just made!

One foot in front of the other.

Find your true calling, your path, alignment.

There’s no RIGHT OR WRONG here… no matter how many people try to tell you that you are doing it right or wrong.

Live FREE. Free your soul’s work, your soul’s art. LOVE the crap outta all people and all things! DO the work you were put here on the planet to do.

When you do that, I guarantee you will be deeply satisfied, proud and happy.

I am.

Free. Happy. Proud.

Jumping out of the roof of my car.

Live every day like that.

That’s what we are all chasing. It’s not money. It’s not stuff.

We want to feel good.

Happy. Free. Proud. Joy. Love.

xx

PS. Thank you to everyone who has supported me in the last 4 years in my writing journey, My Shoes En Blanc Girls, My Shopping Club Girls, I tagged you all because I love you so much and want all my friends to live their best life! xo

PPS. If you want to ELEVATE your life – be sure to check out elevateday.com on June 24th in Cochrane!

Here’s something that I’ve really been struggling with over the last few years, trying to make sense out of.

MONEY. AND. SPIRITUALITY.

That sounds pretty funny right, because well, I do “MONEY” all day long.

And, well, spirituality, is me in a nutshell. I CRAVE meaning (or making my own meaning – as we all do…), and deep connections with all living things.

Somewhere, somehow, money & spirituality got all mixed up for me. As if they were 2 totally separate unrelated things.

Nothing makes me happier than when I meet someone and we have this deep connection like you’ve been friends forever, or you can bear the deepest part of your soul to them, and well, you just know – it is meant to be. I LOVE these connections. For me, they make life DAMN good. And they happen all the time for me, probably because I’m open to them, AND I literally meet strangers on the street and can have deep mind blowing conversations with them instantly, and get right past the fake shell and down to the heart. BEST. THING. EVER!

So, let me share my dilemma with you.

Long ago, like 4 years ago, I finally got over one of my biggest money blocks, which was that I deserve to make money.

Okay, and I did make money (it felt good), however, there still must be some money blocks there, because I’m still way too happy to give away the farm for free… I’m sure a few of you can relate. Hey, I’m a nurturer (that’s my main money archetype – FYI – more on that another day) so ya, it makes sense that lots of the time I send my clients away with a HUG and not a bill. But, on a spiritual level, I’m totally fulfilled. I know I just FREAKIN’ changed/helped/transform someone’s life, so ya, I’m smiling big, but my bank account isn’t.

So, here I was, finally knowing it was okay to make money and feeling I had money & spirituality figured out at this point! But I’m a seeker (naturally, I’m a life long learner – says the letters behind my name, and growing!), and then came more spiritual books, a constant stream of journaling and examination, energy work, country music in the country (maybe a cigarette – maybe) and a period of deep prayer & searching (not for GOD by the way, I know Jesus is my homeboy – LOL, this was more finding my deep soul rooted connection to source, and finding out how I can stay connected in the way in which I can access abundance all the time – which I will say again for you who don’t feel or believe it. ABUNDANCE IS YOUR BIRTH RIGHT. Okay, you go me now?)

Then, I found that dang PEACE THAT PASSES UNDERSTANDING DOWN IN MY HEART. (yes, peace that you can’t explain at all!) AND HOLY CRAP….

Wanna go for a mental trip up?

I say dang because it messed me ALL UP! I had just kinda got my EGO full blown and wrapped around on this making money thing or at least allowing myself to finally MAKE money because I finally thought “SCREW THIS” if so-and-so could do it or if those UGLY OLD MEN could do it, so could I. (UGLY OLD MEN: See Forbes Global Billionaire List – which I hung on my wall as a reminder that MONEY DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE WHEN IT COMES TO HOW YOU LOOK – most of those old men are NOT ATTRACTIVE, even with BILLIONS of dollars….)

And then in my spiritual journey, I did find deep peace, the peace that none of it really matters. None of the daily stuff, sales targets, what’s for dinner, how clean your house is, really NONE of it really matters. The guy who dies with the most toys is still dead.

And then came the, “What’s the whole point of this? What’s the point of life? What’s the point of literally paying off debt, or saving or making billions, or what’s the point of ANY OF IT?” VIVA LAS VEGAS baby. Live and Let Live. You only live once.

Right, you’ve been there too I imagine. Caught in the balancing act of living for the now and living for the future you….

It really plays with your head. Because once you realize, there is no point to it, and really, life is empty and meaningless, then you can go down that whole depression spiral and be like – WHAT’S THE POINT? And, you can even take it further and yell at God and say, what’s my purpose here? What’s the point of all of this?

And you probably won’t get any answers, well, if you did you probably already wrote a book about it! Because, I’ve worked on this with my life coach, reading books and again more prayer and meditation, and deep, deep conversations with dear friends, and it can really get you into a spin – spinning your wheels going NOWHERE FAST!

So, I was back at square one. Literally, I felt like what’s the point of money?!?! (and this is a problem when my career/business/life is a Financial Planner!) I’m already in the top, say 5% of the world, maybe even 1% when it comes to income or living in Canada or however you want to say that we are super rich and blessed, and I know I’m not going homeless anytime soon, mostly because too many people love me to let me live on the streets or go without food… you get what I’m saying. Yes, my mind can go really dark, really fast. It’s what the brain does. Brains are good at this.

And then, also, there’s the point in life (and maybe many don’t get to that point), but the point where stuff just doesn’t matter, sure don’t get me wrong – I love me some PRIVATE JET & CHAMPAGNE & 5-STAR HOTELS & LOUBOUTINS (funny, just realized I have had all that!), but, I don’t need it. I walked away from everything once, and it was so good for my soul, and to know that you could lose everything, and life would go on, and it would be more than okay! (Talk about freeing your soul!)

Money doesn’t make me feel less or more of a person these days.

Oh, and it used to! I used to feel that money mattered, as in I was only as worthy as was my bank account or my “stuff”. Remember, I had my dream house and 5 (slum) rental properties, with my 2.1 children, and back then I even had a dog, nice trips and cars in the driveway all at age 30! I used to equate my personal self-worth with how much money I was worth!

Are you starting to see my BIG DILEMMA now? I know MONEY does amazing things, I BELIEVE YOU & I can make and have as much money as we want, and I believe GOD/UNIVERSE calls you to that.

Then, on the other hand, I’m still like, what’s the point?! What’s the point of all of this? Seriously, you are dying anyways, why bust your butt? Why do you need to be financially free? Why do you need millions? Why save money? I mean, after all, you could move to Belize and live on the beach, right? Beer is 10 pesos. You don’t need much to survive.

It seems so ironic, doesn’t it?

Remember the story of the fisherman off the coast in Mexico, that was approached by a businessman to turn his fishing into a fish empire, and sell millions of fish, only so he could make millions and get stressed out running a large corporation, all to make more money, save money, to end up spending his remaining retired days, quietly back on his small fishing boat just catching a few fish and living simply?

Here’s my big finish… and it’s GOOD – it’s what you’ve waited 1000 words for…

1. Money is spiritual. Making loads of money is what you are called to live in abundance – it’s your choice!
2. You’re gonna die. (I know it still takes people by surprise every day!)
3. So, YOU HAVE TO KNOW YOUR WHY! You have to know YOUR why… Because no one can answer that for you and so you have to create it for yourself. And life won’t work for you if you are living someone else’s why….

I know my WHY.

This is what I’m looking for, and maybe you can help.

I’m looking to work with the people who’s WHY is that they want to do something BIG. They want to LEAVE THEIR MARK on the world. They want to CREATE, BUILD, and MASTER their LEGACY. They have a DEEP DESIRE to help people, their families, children, future generations. They want to BE the change in the world, not just wait for some “foundation” to come along and rescue the world. They want to be the FOUNDATION. The foundation for their family, for their money, for all the AMAZING GOOD that God put in us, and they want to LET THAT SHINE.

If this makes your soul scream YES and resonates with you, then I want you to be part of my FREE FACEBOOK GROUP, because I’m going live in my facebook group on some SERIOUS DEEP MIND BLOWING (yet simple) FINANCIAL STRATEGIES that you’ll uncover with me to help YOU create, be and have the LEGACY you were put here for.  (So, you have to join the group to see what’s cooking and how YOU can make a difference and CHANGE the world with your gifts!)

CLICK HERE to join if you are ready to STRUT into your LEGACY!