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Earlier this week I returned from the most amazing workshop called "Mastering Life's Energies" created and presented by Maria Nemeth, Ph. D., author of The Energy of Money. Wooo Hoooo! What insight!

I'll speak a little more about one specific concept in the article below and you just may hear more on it in a later newsletter. I'm still digesting the concepts and applying them to my life.

Which makes me wonder, what have you learned lately and how do you apply them to your life? I like this quote by Dr. Robert Anthony: "If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is this good news?" Applying new concepts is difficult because it asks you to challenge your current beliefs, or as Maria Nemeth calls it, your structure of knowing.

Your beliefs (or structure of knowing) are your filter to your life. It's like looking through a pair of purple eyeglasses. You see certain colors, but others are muddy and unclear. The color purple simply doesn't show up at all. Your structure of knowing acts the same way. It filters what comes in, distorting some things and rendering others invisible. Examining your beliefs helps you to open your eyes. What are you missing?

Let me know how it goes for you.

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I appreciate my readers, each and every one!

We all know what it feels like to be energetic. You have a spring in your step and nothing can stop you. Things happen smoothly and thoughts come easily. Wouldn't it be great if it were that way all the time?

Maria Nemeth, Ph. D. uses a metaphor to describe energy coming into our life. It's as if there were a vast reservoir of energy out in the universe somewhere and it is plugged into each of us via a conduit or a pipe. When we feel powerful, the energy is flowing easily, but when things are hard and we feel stuck and sluggish, we need to look closely to see where the pipe is plugged up or leaking.

This energy shows up in our lives in six different forms. If you think about it, you will recognize that each form of energy has a flow. These forms are: money, time, creativity, physical vitality, enjoyment and relationship. They are all interrelated and impact each other because our lives are holographic.

Now what the heck does that mean? If you take the negative of a regular photograph of a tree and cut it into pieces, each piece will show a part of the tree. If you cut up the negative of a hologram of the same picture and shine a lazer through a piece, you will see the whole tree. Isn't that interesting? So if you were to make a change to one piece, it would impact every other piece. This is explained in more detail in a book called The Holograhic Universe by Michael Talbot.

It's the same with energy. If, for example, you balance your checkbook to the penny and are in integrity with your bank account (clearing the sludge from your money energy conduit), your life will shift imperceptably and you will be in deeper integrity everywhere. By the same token, if you keep a promise to yourself regarding your physical vitality (I won't eat a donut for morning coffee break) then that integrity will reflect throughout your life. It acts like a hologram.

What makes this so powerful is that it doesn't matter if you do big things or little things, ANY change has an impact. That means that the goals you set don't have to be big, like "I'll travel to Italy this fall." It can be something as simple as I'll clear off my desk tonight before I leave the office. Keeping that small promise has as much impact in your energy as keeping the big one.

Learning where you are leaking energy and where your conduits are plugged up to allow energy to flow more easily is the most powerful way I know to create real and lasting change in your life. For some ideas on how to discover your leaks and plugs and how they impact your career change, see the Career Tip below.

As a Career Coach, I can be your partner through this process. Please contact me at debra@forwardmomentum.com for more information!

I asked God if it was okay to be melodramatic

I asked her if it was okay to be short

and she said it sure is

I asked her if I could wear nail polish

or not wear nail polish

she calls me that sometimes

she said you can do just exactly

And is it even okay if I don't paragraph

who knows where she picked that up

what I'm telling you is

Changing careers is one way of channeling your flow of energy into a different direction, one that is in more alignment with who you are. When your conduit is open and clear for all six forms of energy, then happenstance and serendipity can work in your favor.

You can begin to discover where your energy does not have an open conduit by looking at what bugs you. No kidding. Things that you "tolerate" drain your energy. For example, say you're listening to a lovely piece of music in your den, and the next door neighbor's teenager decides to pump up the rap music while he shoots hoops in the driveway. Part of your energy is going into listening and part is going in to NOT listening. It's a leak. Clear up the toleration and you regain energy.

I challenge you to make a list of at least 100 things that you are tolerating right now. If you're the linear type, you can divide them into the six categories of money, time, creativity, physical vitality, enjoyment, and relationship. It makes more sense to me to just randomly list. For example some things on my list are:

Donate the extra shoes and purses that I don't use to my local charity.

Sort through the spices in my kitchen and toss the old ones.

Design a way to remember to call my mom more.

Sew a button on my linen blouse.

Organize the wrapping paper and ribbons left over from Christmas

You get the idea. After you make your list, then do something about 3 things this week. Make them small, doable, and set a specific time to have them done. Make yourself accountable to someone else if that will help (Call me! I'm happy to hold you in a place of integrity.) Then notice what shifts in your life.

Let me know how it goes for you!

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Un-Retirement is a time to re-invent your life!

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