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My Three Words for 2012

Adele Michal — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100

Riffing off Chris Brogan's post at http://www.chrisbrogan.com/my-3-words-for-2011/ I have come up with my three words for 2012:

Focused

Engaged

Flow

These words feel good to me and incorporate my intentions for 2012 -

Focused = strip away distractions and put my attention on the task in front of me. Reduce multi-tasking as it distracts the brain and makes one less productive.
Engaged = put to use the information and education I have invested in, put myseRead More...

What Are Your Three Words for 2012?

Adele Michal — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

Chris Brogan in a recent post says that every December he comes up with three words as his intentions for the new year. This seems like such a good idea to me that I've been noodling on my words and have come up with several sets, all of which I like.

If you would like to play, read Chris's post and then send me your three words as a comment. I will reveal mine on January 1st. The post is here: http://www.chrisbrogan.com/my-3-words-for-2011/

Let me hear from you!

What Is the Positive Fractal of Your Life?

Adele Michal — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:00:00 +0100

I am having a great time taking telecourses right now. I wrote last time about Tim Kelley's wonderful work in his Align Inner Parts (Inner Harmony) teleseminar.

Today I want to talk about Jean Houston's Awakening to Your Life's Purpose teleseminar series which is wrapping up soon. (Yes, my friends, the deep longing to know ourselves and our purpose is very strong right now. We sense that something new is being born. Many of us want to know how to step up and play our role in the great Read More...

Who's That Talking?!?

Adele Michal — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:15:35 +0100

Tim Kelley of the True Purpose Institute and Know Your Purpose brings an engineer's mind and systematic approach to the murky and infinite realm of our psyches. Trained in Voice Dialogue, he teaches his clients to identify their true purpose, blessing, and mission.

I am currently taking the Align Inner Parts (aka Inner Harmony) teleseminar with Tim and his team. We are learning to identify and have practical, helpful conversations with various parts of our psyche. We are starting with Read More...

Fear Not the High School Reunion

Adele Michal — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:00:00 +0100

I spoke recently with a friend who is going to his 30th high school reunion this weekend. He isn't looking forward to it. High school was not the high point of his life, and he's not feeling all that good about his accomplishments thirty years later.

My advice to him is

Realize that three people in your high school class enjoyed high school - only three. Now that they are 30 years older, it's pretty clear that those days are over.
Some of his classmates are bald through no fault oRead More...

What Will You Do with Your Third 30?

Adele Michal — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:32:05 +0100

I was talking recently with a friend who has moved into her third 30 years of life. Her kids are launched, her career as an exhibit fabricator (she’s made more than five replicas of the White House for various museums and exibit centers) is changing because of the economy, and she and her husband are looking at what they want to do with their lives at this stage.

Her husband has fulfilled a lifelong dream of buying a sailboat. Many of their discussions center on sailing around thRead More...

Do You Hide Your Gifts from Your Ideal Clients?

Adele Michal — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:00:00 +0100

In my last post, I wrote about how your beliefs can stop you from sharing your best gifts in your business. Today I want to tell you a story to illustrate my point in a different way.

I had the opportunity to talk with a woman whose family immigrated to the US from Iran many years ago. Some of her family members stayed in Iran, and she had recently visited them there. She told me that her female relatives in Iran wear gorgeous clothes and accessories, have beautiful haircuts anRead More...

Are Your Beliefs Messing with Your Business?

Adele Michal — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:40:09 +0100

Recently, I worked with a midlife entrepreneur whom I will call Amanda (not her real name). Amanda has spent a considerable amount of time and money in the last two years getting trained and certified as an intuitive healer in a modality called Theta Healing. She has even been trained to teach some of Theta Healing courses and has begun a website to promote her Theta Healing work.

But the problem is that Amanda has not completed her website or begun enrolling paying clients for her worRead More...

What Do Supermodels Have to Tell Us about Aging?

Adele Michal — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:00:00 +0100

Yes, it’s true – in midlife you DO look different than you did in your teens, 20s, 30s, and 40s! It can be a rude awakening to realize that you are no longer so young and cute. It can also be liberating!

On her show Oprah asked many beautiful women, including actresses and supermodels, how they felt about aging. Their answers reflect our secret fears:

Cybill Shepherd, Actress, told Oprah, “I had a great fear, as I grew older, that I would not be valued anymore.Read More...

What to Do Now that You Know the Law of “Funny” Money

Adele Michal — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:00:00 +0100

In my last post, I wrote about Mary’s Law of Money aka “Funny” Money, which states that

What you think about money is what you get.

I asked you to track your thoughts about money for a whole day to become aware of what you think about money. You may find a relationship between what you think and what your money life looks like.

So what do you do now that you are more aware of your thoughts about money? Knowing about them is not the same as being able to Read More...

Do You Know the Law of “Funny” Money?

Adele Michal — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:42:37 +0100

Recently at dinner, my friend Mary told me her understanding of how money works. Her simple explanation, which she calls “funny money”, rocked my world.

Here is Mary’s Law of Money:

“Money is what you think it is.”

I was stunned when Mary told me her Law of Money because it perfectly describes what Quantum Physicists tell us about the nature of reality = reality shows up as you expect it to show up.

So, if you think money is hard to Read More...

Did You Feel the Quake?

Adele Michal — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:16:41 +0100

I couldn't believe that I missed the earthquake and the hurricane last week! I was in California (of all places!) having a wonderful time at Lisa Sasevich's Sales Authenticity and Success Mastermind Retreat and at Vrinda Normand's Online Marketing Mentorship Retreat. To be sure there were a lot of internal shifts for me, but the earth was still and the skies were sunny where I was.

Now back in NC, I realize that the earth and weather changes left a residual shake up in their wake. My dRead More...

Are You Using Your Superpowers?

Adele Michal — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 06:00:00 +0100

One of my mentors, Dr. Richard Bartlett, creator of Matrix Energetics, loves using superheroes in his healing work. In one of his books, he describes imagining Superman coming into a session to help discover what was causing a child client’s blindness. With his x-ray vision, Superman could “see” into the child’s brain, find the problem, and “fix” it. Amazingly, the child was able to see after this session with Dr. Bartlett (and Superman).

Dr. BartletRead More...

What Has You Tethered to the Past? – Part II

Adele Michal — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:00:00 +0100

In Part I of this post, I suggested taking an inventory of your roles and identifying the gifts your experience has given you.

In this post, I want to talk to you about forgiveness. You have probably heard and read a lot about forgiveness. There are some wonderful books about why it is important and how to forgive.

But you might not realize how essential forgiveness is to creating a new life for yourself. It is the second key to un-tethering from the past.

I don’t kRead More...

What Has You Tethered to the Past? – Part I

Adele Michal — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 06:00:00 +0100

I’ve noticed that in midlife, many of us are carrying around a good bit of luggage – old identities and relationships, “failures” and disappointments, and outdated ways of relating to ourself and our world. (I put “failure” in quotes because I strive to think of them not as failures but as feedback about what you want and what works.)

It’s hard to make a new start in midlife when you are lugging the past with you. It can be difficult to kRead More...

What Can Getting to “Enough!” Give You?

Adele Michal — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:02:01 +0100

Recently two of my dearest friends told me they walked away from their family. It was a temporary retreat, but a walk away nonetheless.

The story is that the conversation was getting heated where my friends were getting blamed for other people’s problems. So they retreated to gain some space, poise, and breathing room.

They cried, “Enough!” and acted on it.

This was new behavior for them. Usually each of these magnificent women is in there pitching withRead More...

Are Your Beliefs Like a Smelly Burrito in the Pantry?

Adele Michal — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:45:26 +0100

Last week when I called my friend Whitney, I asked what she was doing.

She said, "Something has been stinking up my pantry, and I just found it! It's a package of burrito wrappers that went bad. I've thrown them away, and now everything is smelling better!"

And I thought, "Gosh, Beliefs can be just like that - they stink up the place until you dig them out and get rid of them."

Beliefs like

I'm not good enough
Everyone else is doing the same thing I'm doing, what do Read More...

Free TeleEvent April 15th

Administrator — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:38:58 +0100

Thursday, April 15 2010, 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

Our Topic: "How to Access the Beliefs That Are Holding You Back"

Join the Create More Now Community TeleEvent to learn how to uncover Business Beliefs that interfere with your success, prosperity, and fulfillment.

Whether you are experiencing restrictions in your profits, client/customer attraction, or satisfaction in doing your business, a Belief or system of Beliefs are probably at the root cause. AttenRead More...

How Your Family's Experience Affects Your Business Success

Adele Michal — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:26:35 +0100

To celebrate St. Patrick's Day, I went with a good friend of Irish heritage to hear the magnificent Eileen Ivers play the fiddle with her band in their show, "Beyond Bog Road", at UNC's Memorial Hall.

Behind the band a video played with beautiful images of Ireland, archival footage about the Potato Famine that had over a million Irish emigrate in the mid-1800s, home movies of families in Ireland and America, and images of American cities - so different frRead More...

What Limiting Beliefs Do You Keep Bumping Into?

Adele Michal — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:40:43 +0100

I've just facilitated a teleseminar series called "Unsticking Your Business" with a group of wonderful Conscious Entrepreneurs. During the 3 weeks of the class, each participant gained her own insights about Beliefs that are limiting her success and have resolved conflicts those Beliefs were causing in her business. Everyone is moving ahead with updated Beliefs about her business success.

One participant, whom I'll call Sally, talked about the process of becoming aware of heRead More...