"The universe conspires with those who dare to manifest their desires" -Paul Coehlo

I am so happy you are here!!!

If you are new here, I am hugging you tightly. And I hope you can feel that instant knowing you are in the right place.

And if you are returning here with me, I am kissing you softly on the cheek and my heart is whispering..."welcome back".

I think I always intuitively knew about this super power we all have inside us to create the life we want to live. You would have seen so many vision boards in my bedroom when I was in middle school and high school. I did not have a name for these...I simply put before me what I wanted in my life visually. Pictures were torn from magazines or books & quotes I loved were handed written on paper.

Did you do this too?

These visuals all around me continued into college and my belief kept getting stronger.

When I was in my late 20's, I was one of a few hundred applicants for a sales position on the staff of ABC WPVI-TV in Philadelphia. It was a team of six in the fourth television market at a powerhouse television station. It was a dream job.

I had a very good interview with the top management team. And then I really put "visualizing" what I wanted to the test.

I went to ther well known bakery in Philly and ordered a huge sheet cake to be delivered to the sales department. The top of it was decorated as their business card, but it had my name in the top corner, with the coveted title of the position I wanted under my name.

For a moment, when that cake was delivered, an entire team visually saw what I saw.

I got the job. I will say after I sent the cake, I felt so vulnerable. But I made a decision to share a vision...and I saw that thought through.

I wish I was there when the cake arrived. But the fact that I was hired was telling enough.

Later on, I manifested my cottage studio on a farm as if it already happened. That space is sacred to me and to everyone who comes to my studio. And there it was, a stone building on a farm placed on a white sheet with the words under it about how it "felt" to come to my studio.

I have used this sooooo many times. I will share more in class.

Below is another powerful reminder of how this works.

Mike and I moved out of our home of 15 years and wanted to rent an apartment in a neighboring state in a lovely little river city of 4000 that feels like a town. Before we purchased a house, we wanted to rent to see if Lambertville was a good fit for us. Below is a page of an art journal where I visualized our rental before we had it. When I share this journal, I will share pictures of where we landed. The essence of this rental was what I saw on my pages before it was on the market.

In the picture above, you can "feel" this shift in me already happening by the words I wrote as if all I was envisioning already "was".

That is exactly what we are going to do in this course!

I just want to step in here and hug first...

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Where do we start?

I love to start exactly where I am; at the end of one year and at the beginning of another.

Last year I gave a some thought to December of the following year and how I wanted to feel next holiday season.

I was making some big and needed changes in my business. And for a decade December meant a period of immense busy-ness. And if I took out that busy-ness, how would the month feel?

We cannot know what is going to happen in the future but we can think ahead to how we want to "feel" in a period of time. There were some curve balls (always...) but I could feel the "stillness & choice" I wrote about a year prior.

Although I had three holiday show events scheduled, I canceled two of them. And the one I did host at my studio was truly heart opening. All my people came out to see me. I also cancelled a holiday party I was supposed to attend. But I added in some other events that filled my soul: a holiday game night with beloved neighbors and a Christmas Karaoke with another group of beloveds.

My words written months before shaped this holiday season.

"I lost the part of my ego that just loved to please others. I took back actions that drained me and found that pleasing me was so gratifying and fulfilling.

Slow and easy days and long giving days. I studied the tides of my own ocean.

I took my time back and oh how the holidays held me.

Busyness left--stillness and choice remained.

I remember last December--gifts still unsent into February. So much work, Christmas came 2nd.

And that one hand-painted Christmas card pulled at me--I longed for that kind of tender sweetness and I added in space to my days and heart.

I created change. I added in spaciousness".

Ps. All my gifts were mailed perfectly on time this year.

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Bottom line here: WHAT WE FOCUS ON GROWS.

The only power I have is the power over me.

These pages are about me and how I want to respond and show up in my life.

Now for some homework...xo. See you in the next lesson.