What’s the Opportunity?

If I could give you one question to ask yourself during a challenging time it would be this…

What’s the opportunity here?

I know the last thing you want or think to do when you are in the middle of a challenging time or situation is to ask yourself what the opportunity is, and I know it seems like I’m asking you to be unhuman, but go with me on this for a second…

How many times in your life have you looked back on a particularly difficult time of your life and suddenly had a lightbulb go off as to what you got from it?

Here’s an example…

My best friend lost her father…

It was a long and hard 2 1/2 years and at the end she was fortunate enough to be able to go and be with him and care for him for the last couple of months.

About 6 months after he had died, she and I had a long conversation about how she felt like she was still playing catch up with her life and she was scared she would never get her life back on track.

I asked her why she felt so behind and she said that when her dad had been diagnosed she did what everyone does in that situation and she put her life on hold.

During this time she had also moved accross the country and given her career a fresh start, but the whole time her focus was on her dad.

As we talked, I asked her what her life would be like now if he had never gotten sick…if he was still alive…

And THAT is when the light bulb went on…

Her eyes brightened and she said, “I would be doing exactly what I was doing then, I wouldn’t have moved, I’d be doing the same exact things I was doing before that were making me feel trapped and like I was living with a ceiling on my success.”

I said, “Okay, so what is your life like because he was diagnosed and you went through that time?”

The light bulb was really on now…

“I am living somewhere else, I’ve made progress in one career and have a whole other career I never dreamed I would have…”

Her voice drifted off for a second and then she said, “I’ve been feeling like I got behind, but I really ended up ahead of where I was ever going to be if I hadn’t gone through all of that.”

AMAZING!

So often we are struck days, months, years later with why something happened the way it did…what opportunities came to us because of the challenges we went through…

So all I’m asking you to do now is to try to remember to look for that opportunity in the midst of the challenge…

You won’t always be able to do it…

But, when you run into roadblocks with anything…

• Making money
• Discovering your passion
• Living your dreams
  etc.

Try asking yourself what the opportunity may be?

Just try it!

To help you get into this practice, leave me a comment with one or two examples from your life…

Go Big!

Kristen

Now is the Time to Do This…

I don’t know about you, but I have noticed a serious shift recently…

It has gone hand in hand with the bad economy and I am surprised to say the least.

So what is the shift I’ve noticed?

It’s this…

People are so busy burying their heads in the sand and panicking that customer service seems to be going down the tubes.

Companies seem more than willing right now to tell you how valuable you are to them in order to get you to do business with them…

But then only a few are actually delivering on their promise.

So, this is what I have to say…

Now is the time!

For what Kristen?

I’ll tell you…

Now is the time to OVERDELIVER!

If you put your focus on how you can exceed the expectations of your customers and clients, I PROMISE you that money will flow to you and the best part is that money will be lasting and very deserved!

Get your head out of the sand…

Overdeliver…

Not only will people be thrilled with you, but you will be thrilled with yourself!

The people that over deliver will stand out — this is true always, but especially now!

Look for ways to over deliver everywhere:

• In business
• In Relationships
• In Solutions

EVERYWHERE!

Leave me a comment and tell me how you can start to overdeliver!

Go Big!

Kristen

What You Do in the Last 4 Counts!

People tend to evaluate and re-evaluate their lives every year toward the end of the year so that they can head into the New Year ready to go!

I’m here to tell you that what you do in the last 4 months counts!

How are you setting yourself up now?  Don’t wait until Dec 31st to decide how you are going to do things differently…

Start now!

I’m telling you this…

About 5 years ago I stopped waiting and I actually started looking at the last 4 months of the year as a time of amazing opportunity…

The difference in my life is ASTOUNDING!!

Take the last couple of weeks of August to decide what you REALLY want!

• Do you want more money?
• Do you want to lose weight and get in the best shape of your life?
• Do you want to attract a wonderful, supportiv and passionate relationship?
• Do you want to grow your business?
• Do you want to start making money from your passion?

First ask yourself what it is you want?

Then ask yourself why you want it?

Then use the last 4 months to START NOW!

Imagine if you start now instead of waiting until Jan 1…

Imagine if you take the pressure off the New Year and start moving toward the life you want to design now?

Imagine if you are just that little bit ahead of the game…

1. What do you want?
2. Why do you want it?
3. What can you do RIGHT NOW to move 1step (just 1) toward what you want?

Imagine if you took 1 step a day, every day between today and Dec 31st, toward your goals…

• How much farther would you be?
• How different would your life be?
• How different would you be?

Just 1 step a day…

These last 4 count…let’s do it!

Leave me a comment to let me know what you want and why and if you are going to commit to taking 1 step a day starting NOW!

Go Big!

Kristen

All Work and No Play…

We all know the saying, “All work and no play makes Jack and dull boy.”

I want to change that to be, “All work and no play makes you a big, stressed mess.”

Seriously…

We all get so caught up in everything we have to achieve, be, do and have that we forget to unwind.

If you drove your car non stop without fueling it and washing it and getting it serviced and letting it sit for a few hours, what would happen?

It would break down!

Now let me ask you this…

If you drive yourself non stop without getting the right food, taking care of yourself physically and feeding yourself emotionally, spiritually and HAVING FUN, what will happen?

YOU WILL BREAK DOWN!

I promise you this…

No matter how much money you need to make or how many things you need to do or how amazing you want your life to be…

YOU HAVE TO STOP AND HAVE FUN!

• Play…
• Laugh…
• Do something just because…
• Stop thinking…
• Stop pushing…
• Stop driving…
• Play again…
• Laugh some more…
• Do something else just because…

You have to or you will break down!

Now, keep in mind that if you leave your car in the garage and don’t drive it the wheels will go flat and the car won’t run, so it’s all about balance…

But I promise you your capacity for money and love and greatness will expand if you allow yourself to play and have fun and LAUGH!

Leave me a comment and let me know your favorite way to relax and play and have fun!

Go Big!

Kristen

Business and the Law of Attraction

There seems to be a great misconception out there that the Law of Attraction is this big ‘woo woo’ way of thinking that has to do with attracting everything you want to you and yet it doesn’t have practical application when it comes to business.

This couldn’t be further from the truth…

When I talk about attracting more money I certainly don’t mean for you to sit in a room and focus on all of the money you want and then wait for the doorbell to ring with money on the other side…

That’s ridiculous! You have to take Inspired Action, but PLEASE make sure it is INSPIRED Action or you’ll spend a lot of time running around in circles (trust me, I know, I’ve been there).

Listen, I say it over and over again…

The Law of Attraction is always working, it’s just a matter of if it’s working for you or against you and this applies to everything…

• Business
• Money
• Relationships
• Health
• Weight Loss
• Finding and Living  Your Purposeetc.

You get what you spend the majority of your time focussing on (and most of us think we are focussing on what we want but are reeally focussing on what we don’t want, but that’s for another conversation…)

So, does the Law of Attraction apply to business?

YES! A million times YES!

This is what you need to do:

1. Take a good look at your business and decide the ultimate vision of what you want
2. Remove any blocks you have to believing what you want is possible
3. Decide what your FIRST STEP is (check out this post to help with this)
4. Take the first step (otherwise known as INSPIRED ACTION)
5. Let it go and trust

The steps are the same…

I suggest you go through the steps in my report specifically for your business or career, many of my students have done that and reported great results! Chances are good you subscribed for the report and downloaded it already…if not, click here to get it.

As I said, the Law of Attraction applies to EVERY AREA of your life!  Get in there and get it working for you in your business and everywhere else!

Leave me a comment and let me know how you can start to use the Law of Attraction specifically with your business or career!

Go Big!

Kristen