Are you using this success secret?

Let’s talk about 1 of the most thrown around ‘Buzz Words’ when it comes to any growth…

Personal Development

Business

Weight Loss

Money

etc.

What’s the word?

ACCOUNTABILITY!

Accountability…

It’s a buzz word…

We all know it…

I can’t tell you how many emails I get telling me that all someone needs is an accountability partner and then they’ll get the results they are looking for…

Here’s what I have to say to that…

It’s true!

It may be a buzz word, but when it comes to any kind of movement, growth or development…

It’s true!

I don’t care who you are…

I don’t care how successful you are…

I don’t care how motivated you are…

I guarantee you that when you have someone holding you accountable you will far exceed the success you would get without the accountability…

Listen, I am extremely self motivated — in fact, a place where I am always able to find my motivation is with working out…

I am actually one of those people that will get up every day and go to the gym AND I will work out hard when I’m there…

BUT…

When I work out with someone else or with a trainer I work even harder and get better results.

It isn’t good or bad, it IS human nature…

Start using accountability today to turbo charge your results…

Here’s the key though…

You have to make sure you have the right person holding you accountable or it won’t work…

But if you asked me right now what you could do to get more results between now and Jan 1st than you thought possible I would say do whatever it takes to be held accountable…

You can do this in many ways…

I have coaching clients who send me daily emails, weekly emails, talk with me on the phone for 5 minutes for an accountability report…

There are a million ways you can be held accountable, you just need to find the way that works for you and then get started!

Don’t fall into the trap that 90% of people fall into…90% of people go into this time of year and the year might as well be over…they decide that everything they want to do has to be put on hold until the start of the next year because of the holidays etc.

Don’t fall into this trap!  You can enjoy the holidays AND move forward in all the areas of your life during this time…I promise!!

Leave me a comment and let me know what you want to be held accountable to following through on consistently between now and the last day of this year.

Don’t just tell me what you are ready to be held accountable to…

Tell me WHY…

Let’s do this!

Go Big!

Kristen

When You Are Almost to the Finish Line Be Careful!

I love ‘Expedition Africa’!  It’s a show on the discovery channel and is about 4 ‘Modern Day Explorers’ who are retracing the steps of an historic expedition in Africa.

Anyway…

The 2 hour finale was on Sunday night and at one point, Benedict (one of the expeditioners) said something that made me run to my notepad so I would remember to write a blog post about it.

Before I tell you what he said, let me give you a little background on what these 4 people had already endured in the quest for their goal…

They spent 30 days and covered almost 1000 miles, most of it on foot.  They crossed the dessert in 120+ degree weather, endure malaria and successfully warded off Hyenas, Snakes, Hippos, Crocodiles and Lions.  They conquered lack of water, lack of communication and lack of food and about 100 other obstacles that could have stopped them from achieving their goal of finishing this historic expedition…

And yet…

Not finishing was never an option…

They had a singular focus for 30 days and it was absolutely inspiring what they were able to achieve.

Okay…now let’s get back to it…

In the last episode, they were 3/4 of the way to their goal.  They could taste success and see the proverbial finish line and THAT is when Benedict said something to the effect of this…

“This is when we have to be the most careful, on expeditions like this, the last 25% is when everything can go wrong because it gets easy to look at the finish line and lose focus on what is happening in the present.  When you lose that focus and settle into feeling like you have already succesfully finished before you have, that is when 1 thing can go wrong and take away the 75% you have achieved.”

WOW!

Seriously…that is so powerful!

Remember that as you go after your goals…

You have to STAY FOCUSED for 100% of the journey!

This is true whether you are:

• Trying to attract money fast
• Trying to find your purpose
• Trying to make money from your purpose and passion
• Following inspired action
• Trying to lose weight
• Trying to improve your relationships

etc. etc. etc.

When you start to feel like you are almost there and that you have successfully endured everything that was thrown at you for the bulk of your journey to a goal…

REFOCUS and remind yourself to stay present!

I would love to hear examples of how this exact thing has played out in your life…leave me a comment and let me know your story!

Go Big!

Kristen

Inspired Action in an hour or less

It’s Saturday!

Most people look at the weekend as a time to escape from their lives (something I’ll address at a different time)…

I want you to look at it as a time to take Inspired Action and step into the life you desire and want to create!

I’ve said it 8 million times and I’ll say it again…

If you want the Law of Attraction to work for you instead of against you, you MUST take Inspired Action!

Now here’s the deal, most people look at the things they are dissatisfied with and they do one of 2 things:

1. Ignore it (Bad Idea)

2. Try to FORCE it to change by taking action (EVEN WORSE Idea)

I know I said for the Law of Attraction to work for you Inspired Action must be taken…just make sure it is Inspired Action and not just ANY action.

If you are trying to force something to change or ‘think’ your way out of something you can chalk that up to ‘Just any action’.

When you feel an instinct to do something THAT is Inspired Action.

Here are the tricky things about Inspired Action…

• Inspired Action doesn’t always seem completely practical
• Inspired Action will often make you push your comfort zone

I want to give you a trick…

A way for you to take Inspired Action EVERY DAY…

Yes, I said it, I want you to take Inspired Action every day, EVEN ON THE WEEKEND!

If you are serious about designing your life instead of living it by default, then the weekend can be a time for fun and doing the things on your purpose list (check out the posts from earlier this week if you haven’t written your purpose list yet).  The weekend can be a time for increased attention to creating the life you desire.

I want you to imagine taking 1 step (just 1) of Inspired Action every single day…

How different will your life be a year from now?

What about a month from now?

Or even by the end of the day?

Are you getting excited yet?

The best part is that you can do this 1 step of Inspired Action at a time!

Here’s the trick to help you…

Every day (even on the weekends) I want you to look at your current primary goal (target) and ask yourself this one question:

‘What 1 step can I take today, that even if it pushes my comfort zone, I KNOW will take me 1 step closer to ————– (fill in your goal here)?’

Now here’s the key to this trick…

1. It has to be 1 step and 1 step ONLY of Inspired Action

(Call Jimmy to talk about our Joint Venture is 1 step, Get new website up is multiple steps.)

2. You HAVE TO TAKE THE INSPIRED ACTION!

The cool part is that most of the time the step of Inspired Action will take less than an hour and will move you forward more than 10 hours of JUST ANY ACTION.

Seriously, 1 inspired action phone call will normally change your life faster than 10 hours of organizing your office.

If you can actually change your life in 1 step of Inspired Action a day and in 1 hour or less a day, when is the best time to take the first step?

Now or NOW?

Go Big!

To Attract Money Fast you have to Give Money? Am I crazy?

Does the thought of giving when you feel like you have to attract money fast seem crazy?

If you answered ‘Yes’, you aren’t alone…

In fact I had a coaching client almost hang up on me earlier this year for this very reason.

Here’s what happened…I have been coaching this client for a long time, and like so many people right now, he’s hit a rough patch.

In our last session, I listened to him as he told me all about all of the things that were going wrong and how it was turning his world upside down since over the last 5 years he had really gotten his life on track and now it seemed like it was all going away.

Finally, he said, ‘Kristen, I need to attract money fast, what do I do?’

My answer was simple…

I said, ‘If you want to attract money fast, you need to give money.’

‘WHAT?’ The anger and fear that came through the phone at me was enormous.

‘Yup, I know it’s counter-intuitive, but when you feel like you NEED something, but the fastest way to bring it into your life is to give exactly what it is you feel you need.’ That was my reply, and that was when he told me in no uncertain terms that I must be crazy and that he was going to hang up.

Keep in mind, this man is not the combative type, he is unbelievably kind and sincere, but his comfort zone was shot and I sounded like a crazy person.

So I challenged him…

‘Okay, you need to attract money fast right?’

‘Yes!’ He was more than at the end of his rope now…

‘And you think I’m crazy for telling you that when you feel like you need to attract something fast you should give it, right?’

‘YES!’

‘Are you up for a challenge?’

He paused…and then, ‘Yes’ came over the phone…

‘Okay…here’s your challenge, for 1 week you accept that the way you are going to attract money fast is by giving money. You follow through on that with inspired action and at our session next week, if you don’t have more money than you do right now, you don’t pay for the session AND I will post a blog post saying that I made a mistake.’

‘You got a deal!’ He sounded like his old self, determined and excited…

Half way through the week he called me ecstatic because he just landed a new client that would bring him an extra $3,000 a month…

This is what happened…

According to him, he hung up the phone with me and went on a walk. He ended up on the main strip in his town that had a bunch of restaurants and watched a woman park her car and jump out to feed the meter. After searching though her pocket book for a minute she started asking people if they had change for a dollar. Every person she asked ignored her or shrugged and kept walking.

He said he was about to turn around and walk the other way so she wouldn’t ask him, and then he remembered the challenge I gave him. He dug into his pockets and found a bunch of change, walked up to her, tapped her on the shoulder and handed her the entire fist full of change he had pulled out of his pocket. She went to grab a dollar to pay him and he waved her off. She said, ‘This is more than a dollar, let me count out what I need and give you back the rest.’ And he said, ‘Keep it, that way you’ll have it the next time you need it.’ And then he turned and walked away.

He told me that he felt good and suddenly free and realized how much he had been clamping down on money.

‘It wasn’t a lot of money…but if she had asked me for it a day ago I would have felt like I couldn’t give it to her and would have avoided her at all costs. That’s not like me…’ He said. ‘I’m not like that and yet since I need money fast, I was clenching onto whatever I do have and it was constricting me in so many ways.’

I asked him how his new client came about and he said this guy had been calling him for 3 weeks, but his messages were always vague and my client was so concerned with how he was going to attract money fast that he kept putting off calling him since he was too busy focusing on his money problems.

The day after he gave the change to the woman, he was feeling much more focused and was actually getting work done as opposed to spinning his wheels all day in a panic about money…and he decided to the things that were unfinished, the phone call to what turned about to be his new client was one of those things.

I thought an actual story could illustrate this better than me trying to explain it…

I promise you, whatever it is you feel you need more of…go out and give it!

It doesn’t have to be a lot…it isn’t about the amount…it’s about letting go of the constriction you have. When you constrict, you block the flow, when you give you open yourself up to receive.

1 word of caution here…don’t make the mistake of going out and giving and then waiting to see how it will come back to you…the second you start looking for it as proof that this works, you are constricting and blocking the flow again. Just give and let go…it sounds crazy but it works.

• If you need to attract money fast, go give it!
• If you want to attract love, go give it!
• If you want to attract positivity, go give it!

And then let go and trust that you have removed the flow blocks and are now ready to receive.

Let me know how you feel about this post…it is a hot button topic, so I won’t be surprised if you have resistance to it.

I challenge you with the same exact challenge I gave to my client…let me know if you are up for the challenge…and let me know what happens!

The last step in the ‘3 Steps to Attract Money Fast’ Series is Generate and we’ll talk about that next time, see you then!

3 Steps to Attract Money Fast (Part 2)

I know you want to get to the 3 Steps to Attract Money Fast, so let’s dive right in…

Last post we talked about the 3 C’s and how they may be natural but they only make the situation worse. Today we’ll get into the 3 G’s. As I said last time, The 3 Steps to Attract Money Fast require you to step out of your comfort zone and go against survival instinct.

I told you these 3 Steps may sound ‘Woo Woo’ and even completely ridiculous, but if you are here reading this, I’m assuming you are ready to try them and give them an honest shot the next time you need to attract money or anything fast.

The 3 Steps to Attract Money Fast aka The 3 G’s:

1. Gratitude
2. Give
3. Generate

1. GRATITUDE:

Gratitude is the way to abundance. It’s as simple as that.

Do this right now…no matter how awful things may seem in your life right now…it’s time to get grateful.

I can hear you kicking and screaming, ‘Are you crazy Kristen? Nothing in my life is going right and you want me to be grateful?’

Yes…that’s exactly right…I want you to be grateful and I GUARANTEE you that you have at least 3 things you can be grateful for.

Time for some tough love…

Your life might be terrible right now, but when you sit in Complaining and Self Pity and any of the other awful emotions you may be feeling, you prolong the struggle.

So I ask you this…

What do you have to be grateful for right now?

Part of you is probably yelling at me, ‘NOTHING…I have NOTHING to be GRATEFUL FOR!’

Here, let me help…

• Are you breathing right now?
• Can you read?
• Can you walk and run and talk and laugh?
• Can you think and imagine?
• Can you hear and smell and eat?
• Do you have someone (anyone) somewhere that loves you?
• Do you have someone (anyone) somewhere that you love?

I promise you that if you are reading this right now you have something to be grateful for…in fact, I believe you have at least 3 things to be grateful for.

What are they? You can answer in your head, on paper or post them here.

Even if it doesn’t make sense to you…the FIRST STEP in the 3 Steps to Attract Money Fast is to get grateful.

What are 3 things you are grateful for? I don’t care how small they are…think of each of them…really focus on them individually…why are you grateful for these things?

Focus on them, feel them, breathe into them and then for each of them say, ‘THANK YOU’.

If you are thankful for being able to breathe say, ‘I am so grateful for my breath and for my body that breathes without me having to tell it to, THANK YOU.’

If you are thankful for your imagination say, ‘I am so grateful for that I can imagine what if feels like to have a full and abundant life, THANK YOU!’

You get the idea…

Do it now…

I don’t care if it seems silly…DO IT!

Just by doing it you will change your state…

You will literally shift from an awareness of lack to an awareness of abundance. Remember you attract what you focus on!

Now you are ready for the second step in the 3 Steps to Attract Money Fast…

We’ll talk about the 2^nd G next time…until then, place a comment and let me know what you are Grateful for…

I am grateful for you!

Go Big!

Kristen

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