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Prosperity In A Time of Recession: A Coaching Approach My husband is a pessimist. He spends a lot of time worrying about many, many things. Among them our children, our home and now, the economy. Jerry works at home and takes time during the day to check CNN and other TV channels for the latest unnerving news about the state of the US economy. Has the stock market gone down again? Are home prices falling? What is the price of gasoline at the pump today? He thinks I am a Pollyanna optimist. When we talk about the economy, particularly the stock market, I point out that economists say that much of our economy is based on perception. Stocks go up based on speculation. No one has a crystal ball and can see into the future. Therefore people invest in or sell stocks based on what might be, among other reasons. I tell him, if we can change the future by worrying about it, why can’t we change the future with optimism and imagination? Of course, this view causes him great frustration, but I find that I am having more fun than he is; I am enjoying our home (even though we have to replace our roof, landscape the yard and renovate a bathroom). I am excited to be living in a small town after a move from a big city, although I left a six figure salary behind. I am enthusiastic about this moment right now even though we are both living in the same dismal economic reality. Or are we? What is recession anyway? Wikipedia defines recession as a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales. A recession begins just after the economy reaches a peak of activity and ends as the economy reaches its trough. Between trough and peak, the economy is in an expansion. Expansion is the normal state of the economy; most recessions are brief……. By Chris Isidore, CNNMoney.com senior writer, January 24 2008: 3:25 PM NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The sputtering U.S. economy has gotten everyone from the financial markets to the Federal Reserve to Congress in a panic. But here's a disheartening message for those already worried about economic growth -- it could get much worse. Most economists who believe a recession is already here or at least near are looking for a relatively short and mild downturn, perhaps lasting only two or three quarters. But many of those same economists say they also can envision a worst-case scenario where spending by consumers and businesses falls off sharply, unemployment heads higher than normal during a typical recession and housing and credit market problems worsen. The April 2008 Money magazine had a surprising article called “Goals: What do you really want from your money?” Rather than focus on which mutual funds, foreign ETF’s or stocks to invest in, the article focused on why we want to have money: “Granted, pausing in the middle of a scary market to ask yourself grand-scheme-of-things questions might seem like a luxury you can’t afford…..In fact, the self-reflection can actually be a source of strength, helping you to do the right thing – stay calm….Your relationship with your money is complicated. Life planning posits that to find satisfaction, you should do two things: put in the effort to figure out what you really want your money to allow you to do in life and examine how the attitudes you picked up about money decades ago may stand in the way of your reaching those goals.” What does it mean to have prosperity in the time of recession? This economic recession isn’t the first in our national history. The most famous was actually the Great Depression which started with the stock market crash of 1929. While some investors were ending their lives in despair, others were using their ingenuity and imaginations to create abundance for themselves and their families. Some families turned to vegetable gardening and raising livestock for food and for sale. Many of the country’s most important social programs were created in response to the economic challenges, particularly Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, some of which we still benefit from today. Written remembrances from that time focus on the difficulty of finding money for the basic necessities such as food, rent and clothing, but also indicate a sense of community that arose as a response. People shared food, clothes, garden space; neighbors and friends came together to assist one another. They created systems for sustaining their lives and the lives of those around them. Although, by our measure, the Great Depression was a time of scarcity, those times also allowed people to live by their imaginations, to take risks that turned into opportunities, and to live out essential values such as sharing, compassion, determination, and loving-kindness. Money plays a key role in living a life of abundance and prosperity. It provides us the means of exchange for a place to live, transportation, clothing, education and many other necessary and/or desirable things. However, I agree with many philosophers, activists, authors and great minds that prosperity is a primarily a FEELING. It is not a specific amount of money or a number of things. It is not having a large home with a master suite, taking expensive vacations, driving a status car, attending a prestigious university, or eating all our meals in a restaurant (One of my children does just that; she lives in New York City and has a very large kitchen by New York apartment standards, but still eats every meal out or has it delivered. I can guarantee this doesn’t make her feel prosperous; it does make her life easier, however and costs a bundle!). Each one of these things may be something you have or you wish for and, if that is your dream, you can and should pursue it. There are many people in our country who already have these things and yet do not feel prosperous. In addition to being a feeling, prosperity can manifest in our lives as money, loving relationships, a supportive community of friends and family, good health and positive energy, a connection to a spiritual practice among other things. Prosperity is ready to be made manifest in our lives, regardless of our economic circumstances. In addition to being a feeling, it exists as potential for each of us. We can feel prosperous today and we can work toward having an abundance of what we need and want in the future as well. Your current financial situation may not be all you want or need it to be. You may no longer want to be earning money in the way you are right now. You may even have lost your job. But, just as you created the thought that led to the job from which you were let go, you can once again use your creativity, imagination, and all your resources (your body, your mind, your family and friends, your community, your spirit) to move into another job, career, business or pursuit. It may not FEEL that way. Once despair, fear, confusion, grief or other negative feelings have set in, it can be difficult to see your way to a prosperous present or future. To create and sustain abundance in our lives, we learn to work with “what is” and use it to benefit ourselves and others. We can learn to let go of what is not working in our lives. We can adapt to unforeseen circumstances; we have the ability to shift and make the most “abundant” choices, even when prosperity is not apparent. It is important to remember:  All prosperity begins in the mind.  Only thought stands in our way.  Thought is energy and thought energy has the power to manifest.  We need to make the unconscious conscious; we must be aware of what we want and what stands in our way.  What we believe is what we achieve. Creating prosperity requires both outer work (putting in the effort to achieve our goals) and inner work (releasing our thoughts from negative perceptions, limiting beliefs, negative assumptions about ourselves). What does thought have to do with it? We first create in mental form everything we desire to produce in physical form. Everything started as a thought, an idea in someone’s mind. It begins in our minds and manifests in our lives. You did not wake up one morning and have a job, a career or a business to run. You thought about what you might like to do or you may have thought of it as what you have to do. Then you created a vision or a plan to get you to that point. Orville and Wilbur Wright knew that a human being has no wings to lift off the ground and fly. But they proved that that is not the only way to get a man or woman up into the air. The concept of democracy began in the minds of our founding fathers, a political system unlike any before it. Someone wrote your favorite book. It began in the author’s mind and was transported to you because numerous individuals worked to create a system for publishing and marketing and selling books. The same is true for your favorite films. Examples of thoughts becoming things is virtually endless. For the skeptics among us, Dr. Andrew Newberg investigates the functioning of the brain, particularly in the role belief plays in structuring our experience. He is Associate Professor of Radiology and Psychiatry at the University of Penn and is also Director and cofounder of the Center for Spirituality and the Neurosciences. He has found that whenever we think about something it has a physical effect on our brain. “The more we keep coming back to a same concept, a same belief and so forth, that is how neural connections get laid down and that becomes what is written into the neural activity of the brain….The brain is capable of changing; it is capable of creating new connections.” “Our beliefs are deeply tied in with our emotions…. If you use your frontal lobes to focus on something, anything-positive or negative-that becomes our belief system….The frontal lobes connect the emotional parts of the brain.” Newberg contends that we are biologically driven to find meaning and wholeness throughout our lives. All our worries, fears, strongly held desires, convictions and beliefs are in our subconscious mind. They form our belief system about ourselves and the world. What the conscious mind dwells on, the subconscious mind works to produce. We program our subconscious to manifest what we think about consciously. We must believe in our thoughts and our power to achieve them. But thoughts can be negative as well as positive. Beliefs can be negative as well as positive. Our growth and our prosperity come from our choice in the way we use our minds. Thought, in the form of intuitive hunches, dreams, gut reactions is our connection with our creative selves. We have the power to be what we want to be, have what we want to have and do what we want to do. The power is in our thoughts and then our actions. We can make new choices that bring new risks and new opportunities. Think about people who turn their lives around after they have been battered, become addicted to drugs, married the wrong partner, lived through sexual, physical or emotional abuse. There are thousands of stories of women and men who have overcome tremendous adversity to succeed. It’s possible for every one of us. Money, money, money There are many sayings about money and there are conflicting viewpoints about it as well: Is it a source of all good or a source of all evil? If money doesn’t grow on trees does it mean we have to scrape and scrimp and scramble to acquire it? “There are people who have money and people who are rich.” – Coco Chanel “If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.” --Henry Ford “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.” – Yogi Berra “Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” – Norman Vincent Peale “Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due.” – Author unknown “Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons”. – Woody Allen “Money often costs too much.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Most of us learned about money when we were young. The way our families earned and spent money, talked about money, complained about money, rejoiced in their money had an impact on our view of money, how we treat it and the role it now plays in our lives. Our relationship to money is sometimes a reflection of how we see ourselves in the world and how we see the world itself. To find out more about the role that money plays in your life and your relationship to it, try answering these questions: 1. When you spend money, how do you feel? Like you are cheating? Like you are sharing your bounty? 2. What does money provide for you? 3. When have you had enough money? What did that feel like? 4. What is enough? 5. What are your deepest feelings about money? Do you love it or hate it? Or both? 6. Is it fun to spend money on your monthly expenses or do you resent paying the mortgage, rent, phone and electricity bills? 7. What do you enjoy buying with your money? 8. What do you avoid about money? Do you avoid paying your bills? Some of them or all of them? If some, which ones? 9. How do you invest for the future? 10. Why is money important to you? What can it buy that you value? What can’t it buy that you also value? 11. Why do you want more money? What would you do with it? What would it do to you? Would you feel blessed? Or cursed? 12. How will you feel if you have more money than your friends or relatives? 13. How will you feel if you have less? 14. Do you feel you deserve to have more money? Why? Why not? 15. How motivated are you to increase your wealth? So exactly what is money? Although we prize it highly, money has no intrinsic value of its own. In fact, the news recently reported that it costs more to make a penny than it is worth. My son is in Germany playing professional baseball there. He is not used to paying for things with euros and it feels like “play money” to him. Because it doesn’t feel real, unlike the greenbacks he is used to, he is spending more freely than he might otherwise. He has not yet invested the euro with a sense of worth. Money is a means of exchange. What you exchange is the life energy you have invested in gaining that money for the goods and services the money can obtain for you. It takes a certain amount of life energy to earn a dollar, or ten dollars or a thousand dollars. You are in control of how you use your life energy in regards to money and to other areas of your life as well. What you put your attention on with passion and purpose can turn into many forms of prosperity, financial, social, emotional, spiritual. Does money equal prosperity? In the minds of many of us, the answer to this question is a resounding YES. Of course, money means we are prosperous. It can purchase a beautiful place to live, a fancy car, great vacations, private school education for our children, people to clean our home, landscape our yard, handle all those aspects of life we don’t want to deal with. It proves to others that we are successful. There’s the old cliché, “keeping up with the Joneses”. If we don’t have the external manifestation of financial success, then we are not as worthy as those that do. That is certainly one way of defining prosperity. It is clearly not the only way and may very well not be the best way. Are all rich folks happy? How rich is rich enough? How much money do we really need to be prosperous? The bottom line changes frequently. At one time we were in awe of someone who was considered a millionaire. Now one million dollars, we are told, isn’t even enough to retire on. There is a newly minted millionaire just about every day. At this point in our history, becoming a millionaire is not newsworthy. And what happens when someone sets out to be a multi-millionaire and achieves the goal by the time he or she is forty? Is life over for them? Is it just beginning? Now what? Why is it that some lottery winners end up poverty-stricken in a few short years? Didn’t the money fix all their problems? Or did it create challenges they never expected? Our relationship to money can be much more complicated than it first appears. Money and prosperity are not synonymous. Here are several more questions about money to help you think about its role in your life and how it may be similar to and/or different from your understanding of prosperity: 1. Money can’t buy happiness: what does that mean? 2. What do you have in your life? 3. What is missing? 4. How can money buy you what’s missing? 5. How can money not buy you what’s missing? Being prosperous is related to our values Below is a list of values. This is not an exhaustive list, so please add others. Which of these do you feel most attracted to? Authenticity Accountability Appreciation Aliveness Balance Beliefs Beauty Caring Celebration Credentials Charity Cleanliness Compassion Confidence Conviction Dependability Determination Diversity Deliberateness Delicacy Daring Efficiency Effort Effectiveness Elegance Education Environmentalism Emotion Essence Faith Fairness Forgiveness Freedom Goodness Grace Gratitude Happiness Honesty Originality Prosperity Hope Integrity Initiative Joy Justice Kindness Love Learning Listening Loving-kindness Morale Natural Quiet Quantity Pride Power Righteousness Repentance Responsibility Security Trustworthiness Truth Uniqueness Valor Veracity Verve Vibrancy Wit Worth Wellness Zest What if the worst happened? Try to imagine the very worst that could happen to you because of the recession. It might be that you lose your job and/or your home. There are more and more reports of people who are unable to pay their variable rate mortgages now and have had their homes foreclosed upon by their lender. The news is full of stories of individuals who are finding it harder and harder to pay for gasoline to get to work, sales reps whose sales are plummeting, all due to the current economy. Now that you have imagined the worst, consider this: How likely is it that the worst will happen and you will lose your job and your home? Rate the probability on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being highly unlikely and 10 being it’s happened already)? If the worse you can imagine were to happen, what could you do to make sure you and your family could weather the storm? Who could you turn to? What resources do you have to tide you over (money, skills, imagination, friends, family, community, government support) What do you want to do right now to prepare yourself just in case? If the worst did happen, it is likely that your self-esteem might suffer, but you have it within you to create a new reality that will honor your values, support yourself, your family and allow you to access your imagination and ingenuity to create a prosperous future. Is this a scary and perhaps risky process. Absolutely! Are you capable of weathering the storm and coming out the other side? Absolutely! You can create both a feeling of prosperity and the physical manifestations of prosperity. You can vitally capable of doing so. You may have heard of Robert Kiyosaki the author of the Rich Dad, Poor Dad series of financial self-help books. In the original book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Kiyosaki describes how he and his wife lived in his car after his business collapsed. From there he built his “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” empire. Certainly a story of rags to riches. You can succeed as well. Thriving in a recession So the question remains how can you be prosperous in a time of recession? It is essential to remember that money and prosperity can be related but are not one and the same. There are people all over the world who feel their lives are filled with happiness, a sense of purpose and passion who, by certain standards, would be considered poor. Once upon a time people in the US had fewer things and managed to be as happy as we are now, if not more so. Our American “reality” has trained us to believe that we need and deserve to have a big house, at least two cars, multiple television sets (preferably big screen high definition), and myriad creature comforts that we have learned to take for granted. This is not an attempt to convince you to give up your iPod, cell phone, cable service, SUV and other conveniences that make you happy and/or make your life easier. We live in an age when these are available to us and we can enjoy and make use of them. On the other hand, recession gives us an opportunity to determine what is really most important to us, to our families and to our communities. This is an opportunity to create a new reality that honors our values as much as we honor our material things. Open your channel to prosperity Physics and astronomy teach that energy is infinite. According to science, energy and matter are interchangeable. What does that tell you about our thoughts? They are energy waiting to be made “real”. We are energy and matter, a part of the universe. Our subconscious mind is our connection to the universe. Your job is to open your channel, your connection to universal energy, knowing you already deserve a full and abundant life. You have what you need to create your own prosperity. As soon as you give yourself permission to prosper, step through your fears of failure and success, see that you deserve all that you desire, and move toward what you want, rather than toward what you don’t want, you are deciding to win successfully. Dr. Deepak Chopra is a physician and best-selling author who has brought a spiritual understanding to the lives of many in this country and around the world. In his book, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, he writes, “Everyday brings the promise of a new beginning, and the opportunity to transform every life challenge into a gift.” Life is a journey; it is not where you are going in the end, because we are all going to experience the end of our physical existence. It is the process of getting there that is important and having joy and abundance in its many forms along the way. What is important? Who is important? Having looked at values the list above, what are your values? Make a note of those that stand out for you. Which are you living by? Which may have fallen by the wayside? What is just one step you want to take that will help you incorporate one underused value into your current lifestyle? Over the course of a month, note how you are making that value a part of your day. If it is friendship, you may want to contact an old friend and renew the acquaintance. If it is morale, you may want to find a way to make those around you at work feel respected and successful, particularly if you are a supervisor, manager or sit in the C-suite. If nurturing is one of your top values, how can you nurture yourself as well as those around you? What makes you truly happy? Which things? Which relationships? Which experiences? Which places? How do you give thanks for these things, places, people, experiences that are in your life right now? What are you grateful for? How can you celebrate having those things, people, experiences in your life? How can you say thank you for what you have now? Attitude of gratitude Gratitude is one of the first and best ways to get in touch with the present and appreciate all we have now. Some say that the “present’ is called just that because it is a gift. The past is made up of memories and the future is still ahead of us. The present is where we live each moment and say “thanks” for what we have received and/or created. You may be paying $4 per gallon at the gas pump, but you still have a car to drive to work, to the grocery store, to visit friends, to a doctor’s appointment. If you didn’t have a car, the price of gas would not be of as much concern. A loaf of bread costs between $3.50 and $5.00 in my neighborhood, but I am grateful that I can afford at least one loaf a week. I am paying well over $600 per month for medical insurance and prescriptions, but I am grateful that I can manage to make the payment. That is not to say that I’m not looking for a less expensive policy, but, for the time being, I have health coverage that will protect my assets should I develop a serious health condition. Someone once asked me what does it mean to spend money with love? I believe it means two things. The first, like prosperity, is a feeling. It is possible to feel that spending money connects me to whomever I am paying. It might be Bob the Builder who is repairing our roof, or Greg at the local food coop or Sarah at my hair salon. When I’m in the right frame of mind, I can actually feel a visceral connection to them as I hand them cash or a check or my ATM debit card. Giving with love also means remembering that I am helping to support the trucker who drives the rig that brings the groceries that appear on the shelves at my local Stop and Shop. My payment at the grocery store helps to keep his family fed. I love 85% Lindt chocolate and when I purchase a bar at the Lindt store in the mall I am helping to pay the young woman behind the counter who may be working to put herself through college. Even if we don’t know who benefits from our money, the money is going into a vast pool that is supporting our neighbors, the residents of our state and our fellow globe dwellers. So that’s what it means to spend money with love. It is a consciousness that we are using our money energy to allow others to thrive as well. So what are you grateful for? When do you give thanks? Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday and a great excuse for realizing our current abundance, but gratitude needs to be an everyday occurrence. Notice the trees swaying, the birds singing, the cactus blooming (depending on where you live, of course; I love cactus but only see them when I travel six hours west by plane to Arizona), the ocean waving, the children smiling. It doesn’t cost money to appreciate these and so many other things as well. Feeling prosperous and appreciating our current abundance is not related to money per se. But feeling prosperous is just one step on the road to manifesting prosperity in all the areas of your life. Remember that we all have the potential to create prosperity and abundance for ourselves and those around us. Being grateful for what we already have is a first step. But there are others. Steps toward prosperity Gratitude for what we have right here, right now can help us see the abundance in our lives. The next step is to create an affirmation that begins to train our subconscious mind to work toward what we desire. Affirming what we want in a positive, passionate, intentional phrase can help create a prosperity mindset. So what is an affirmation? According to Dr. Ruth Ross, author of Prospering Woman: A Complete Guide to Living the Full Abundant Life, you create an affirmation by choosing goals that are well-defined, truly desired and have enthusiastic energy behind them. • State your desire specifically and intensely. • State it in a positive active way. • State it as if it is already true. • State it in a few words. Think seriously about your values and your passion in life. What do you want to be? To have? To do? Knowing that you deserve to have, be and do all that you desire, create an affirmation based on Dr. Ross’s formula above. To help ingrain this thought in your subconscious mind, you will need to repeat it daily as often as you can. Here are several examples of affirmations. There are many books that describe affirmations and how to use them in your life (please see bibliography below) You may want to use one of these or construct your own: • I deserve as much abundance in my life as I desire. • I am using my imagination, skills and experience to create prosperity for myself and my family. • I love what I have and look forward to having more of everything I want. • I am a loving human being with infinite potential. • I am enjoying every moment of every day. Simply wishing and wanting is not enough. You must affirm your dream and then work toward it to make it real. Close your eyes and “see” yourself as prosperous. It is just as easy as seeing failure. Both images begin in our minds and then manifest in our lives. Remember: When we affirm, we are acting “AS IF”. We are visualizing what we and our lives will be like when ____________. Thoughts create reality. So if you think it, it is real already. You will need to act on your thoughts in order to manifest your abundance. This will require creating steps to achieve what you want. It is not possible to outline all the steps you might need and want to take to create your abundance, but you have already created much of what you have in your life right now. Think about how you got here. What do you want to sustain that you already have? What do you want to change? How can you do that over the next year We are attracting our future through our consciousness right now. According to Ruth, “the secret of experiencing joy in life is loving what you have while you’re working toward what you want.” Act prosperous and joyful and you will attract more of the same. Think about this. Even though there is a recession going on, do you have enough or, even an abundance of any of these? Laughter Friendship Solitude Food Energy Happy sounds Love Exercise Appreciation Fun Relaxation Opportunity to travel Support at work or at home Creativity New experiences and familiar activities Hobbies and interests If you have any of these in your life, begin to consider yourself prosperous. What’s good about recession? Although no one wants to experience lack in any area of our lives, especially a lack of money, it is possible to see this recession as an opportunity to rethink how we live. As Americans we have become more and more insulated from our neighbors and our communities. At one time sitting outside on the stoop, if you lived in the city, or out on your front porch, if you lived in a more rural area, was a way that neighbors connected to one another. It helped to keep neighborhoods safer because there were always eyes watching out for the children or noting anything that seemed out of the ordinary. We may find that recession can bring neighbors together in new/old ways. Perhaps it makes sense to grow a community vegetable and flower garden in someone’s large yard or make arrangements to use a vacant lot or unused public space. Or think about sharing a piece of lawn care equipment with the family that lives next door. Maybe you can convince your town to invest in a few “zip cars” that can be used for a fee on a short term basis so you don’t need that second or third automobile. What would it be like to downsize to a 1500 square foot home that brought members of the family closer together literally as well as figuratively rather than living in a 4,000 square foot mansion that requires family members to communicate by intercom? Maybe a group of single moms could rent a home together and work out a system for caring for each other’s children while they work. Our imaginations and our willingness to try something new may be the key to creating the prosperity we deserve. Consider a weekly neighborhood potluck dinner where everyone brings something to share. How about an annual children’s clothing exchange where you swap or sell your children’s outgrown outfits for “new” clothes? What would it be like to make a gift for a birthday instead of purchasing an expensive item? Even a card with a “gift certificate’ to be redeemed for time spent with you is a unique gift that no one else can give. We each have the power to create a new paradigm for how we choose to live our lives. There are so many opportunities for using our imaginations and creativity. Try thinking of a different way to host a birthday party or a life cycle event. What would a two week vacation in a cabin by a lake be like for your family instead of a trip to Disney World or a cruise? Can you exchange some needed home maintenance with your local “handy Andy” for babysitting or guitar lessons? These suggestions are only meant to trigger your thinking about how we might use this current economic recession to inspire us to really look at who we want to be, what we want to have, and what we want to do with our lives. Giving to receive There are ancient philosophies that emphasize giving as a means of setting ourselves up to receive. According to these “universal laws”, giving reminds our subconscious that we have MORE THAN WE NEED. If we have more than we need, then we are already prosperous. A sense of abundance tends to lead to additional abundance according to the well known Law of Attraction. What do you have that you might want to give away? Clothes that no longer express who you are or don’t fit the way you would like them to? Canned food that your family won’t eat, but that could benefit a local food bank? Time that you could spend with an elder in your family who would appreciate an hour of attention and conversation? A donation to a worthy cause? A heartfelt “good morning” or a smile? Giving doesn’t have to cost money, but it can help you feel prosperous right now. Importance of quieting the mind The lives of most Americans are busy, noisy, often stress-filled, and provide scare time for relaxation and rejuvenation. However, in order to allow our subconscious minds to explore the infinite possibilities that can lead to our prosperity, we need to allow ourselves to experience our innermost selves. How might you do that? Reading your favorite book, listening to soothing music, walking, swimming, meditating, praying, knitting exercising, laughing, even crying can all connect you to YOU. The most useful practice is something you can do every day, if only for five minutes at a time. You might have a favorite inspirational poem you can read, a prayer you say before you go to sleep at night. What is important is that you try to turn off your chattering conscious mind to allow yourself to tune into your intuition, imagination, creativity, or “higher self.” How can I feel prosperous in a time of recession? The answer to that question is completely up to you. As I said when I first began, part of being prosperous is feeling prosperous. A second component is knowing yourself well enough to know your values and a third is working to develop a plan that will allow you to incorporate your values into your life and your livelihood. What we believe is what we achieve. Believe you are prosperous today and you will manifest more abundance tomorrow. I am not intending to imply that any of this is particularly easy. Simple, perhaps. Easy, no way. Most of us need some kind of support to shake off limiting beliefs, the little negative voices in our heads that tell us we aren’t good enough, don’t deserve to have what we want, yada yada yada. We make assumptions about our future based on our past. These are real barriers to feeling and manifesting abundance and prosperity in our lives. As a Life and Leadership Coach I know that the kind of support that coaching provides can make a big difference in achieving our dreams. I have experienced the benefits of coaching for myself and see the strides made by my clients. Coaching, according to the International Coach Federation, is an alliance between a coach and a client in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires a client to maximize his or her personal and professional potential. Coaching is a distinct service and differs greatly from therapy, consulting, mentoring or training. Individuals who engage in a coaching relationship can expect to experience fresh perspectives on personal challenges and opportunities, enhanced thinking and decision making skills, enhanced interpersonal effectiveness, and increased confidence in carrying out their chosen work and life roles. Life and Leadership Coaching can help you to:  Identify what you really want to have, be and do.  Explore the limiting beliefs that hold you back from achieving your goals and your dreams.  Focus on results.  Learn to take risks.  Let go of what is not working and enhance what is.  Build self-confidence.  Create a personal plan to move toward your dreams and be held accountable for taking the steps to achieve them. Conclusion I know something about you that you may not know. You have a gift to give the world. A gift that only YOU can give. Of the billions of people in the world, you are a unique combination of strengths, talents, experiences that make YOU. You are special in a way that is unlike anyone else, anyone else who came before or will come after. Believe it. Achieve it.   Check out these quotes: “Being happy is the cornerstone of all that you are! Nothing is more important than that you feel good! And you have absolute and utter control about that because you can choose the thought that makes you worry or the thought that makes you happy…..You have the choice in every moment.”—from Abraham-Hicks Publications 2003 “The past is finished. Learn from it and let it go. As for the future, it isn’t even here yet—of course you should plan for it, but don’t waste your time worrying about it. Worrying is worthless. When you stop focusing on what has already happened and what may never happen, then you’ll be in the present moment. Then you’ll begin to experience joy in your life.” –Dr. Brian Weiss, author of Many Lives, Many Masters and Meditation: Achieving Inner Peace and Tranquility in Your Life “If you will it, it is no dream.”-Theodore Herzl, father of Zionism “Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”- Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher “All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.” –Dr. Ruth Ross “Imagination is the passport to the real world. “–Screen Actors Guild Awards 2008 “By finally acknowledging the power of the intuitive, imaginative side of ourselves, we have access to our enlightened imagination, and to the full creative power of our minds. These are the basic tools for prosperity. “ – Dr. Ruth Ross “Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.” – Cree Indian proverb “There are people who have money and people who are rich.” – Coco Chanel, entrepreneur “If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this works is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.” --Henry Ford, entrepreneur “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.” – Yogi Berra, baseball legend “Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” – Norman Vincent Peale, inspirational speaker and author of The Power of Positive Thinking   Bibilography The Break-out Principle by Dr. Herbert Benson and William Proctor (Scribner, 2003) The Seven Laws of Spiritual Success by Dr. Deepak Chopra (Amber-Allen, 2007) The Spiritual Activist by Claudia Horwitz (Penguin-Compass, 2002) Creating True Prosperity by Shakti Gawain (New World Library, 1997) Energy Leadership: Transforming Your Workplace and Your Life From the Core by Bruce D. Schneider (John Wiley and Sons, 2008) The Passion Test: The Effortless Path To Discovering Your Destiny by Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood (Hudson Street Press, 2007) Taming Your Gremlin: A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way by Rick Carson (HarperCollins, 2003) Meditations To Heal Your Life by Louise Hay (Hay House, 1994) Prospering Woman: A Complete Guide to Achieving The Full, Abundant Life by Ruth Ross, Ph.D (New World Library,. 1982) The Astonishing Power of Emotions by Esther and Jerry Hicks (Hay House, 2007) Meditation: Achieving Inner Peace and Tranquility in Your Life by Dr. Brian Weiss (Hay House, 2002) Spiritual Economics: The Principles and Process of True Prosperity by Eric Butterworth (Unity Books, 1998) The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity by Catherine Ponder (Prentice-Hall, 1962) Take Time for Your Life: A 7 Step Program for Creating the Life You Want by Cheryl Richardson (Broadway Books, 1999) The New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle (Penguin 2006) Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (Ralston Society, 1937) Intuition: The Path to Inner Wisdom by Patrician Einstein (Element Books, 1997) The Unmistakable Touch of Grace: How to Recognize and Respond to the Spiritual Signposts in Your Life by Cheryl Richardson (Free Press, 2005)
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