Inspiring Focus

Where is your focus for your business? Is your focus on who you want to work with, how many people you want to work with and exactly what you want your business to look like? Or, is your focus on what is wrong, that you don't have enough clients/business, that you hate the early mornings/late nights, that you procrastinate for your country?

Which focus do you think is the most inspiring? Focusing on what you want, or focusing on what's wrong? Which one has you leaping out of bed in the morning, raring to go because your vision is so inspiring? (Hint: if it's focusing on what's wrong, you're doing it the hard way!)

Reconnect to your vision for your business today, and see your enthusiasm soar!

Love

Donna.x

Social business

On our latest teleclass, one of our participants found a new way to meet and connect with people - Facebook. This social networking site is good fun, exceedingly random...and a nice way to re-connect with old friends/clients and stay in touch with them in a light and easy way. It's not for everyone - we all have our own Natural Way (and if we were all the same, it would be boring...and crowded!). And there's a good lesson here:

You do what you do all the time - you don't have to put your business 'hat' on to go networking, meeting and connecting. Have some fun, connect, and serve...socially. And watch that approach fill your business.

Love

Donna.x

Riding the Currents of Life

It's not as if the currents of life must be studied, examined, charted, explained, plied, or channelled, in order to be effortlessly ridden upon.

Besides, you'd get soaked.

The Universe

Let it be easy. You already know what you need to know, to have it all.

From www.tut.com, a resource we love.

"The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others. "
Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)

Love

Donna.x

Love That, Hate That

Ever have a conversation with someone else in a similar field to you where they tell you how they get more clients and you go 'wow! what a great idea! I'd love to do that', or 'ugh! what a hideous idea! I'd hate to do that.'

Our assumption is that the things you would love to do are aligned with your natural way - like writing is for me. And the things you'd hate to do? Not so aligned with your natural way - like breakfast networking for me (it's not the networking part, it's the getting up at the crack of dawn part!).

Notice what other people can teach you about Your Natural Way. Instead of 'making yourself' do every trick you hear of, do the ones that you will enjoy anyway, the ones that sing to you. If you write a newsletter because you've heard that's what you 'should' do - it's going to be painful every deadline time, and possibly not the best presentation of your genius! Either do what you love, or change the parameters - eg evening networking.

Now that's better!

Love

Donna.x

Y-levels:

The Y-level mid-terms (or mocks, if you prefer) are coming up soon. These exams will test your ability to be Yourself. What is your report card going to say? ‘Good on theory, not so hot on the practical’? Or how about ‘has the potential for magnificence, but buries it in layers of perfection, difficulty and trying’? The talk is all about the ease module, and how hard that is. Er…think they’ve missed the point – but you haven’t, right?! Good luck!

Love

Donna.x

Clean Connection

What is the difference between connecting with people easily, and connecting in a disconnected way? One answer that often comes up is the expectation from the connection - being attached to the outcome EG this person MUST love me; or this person MUST become a client. It's rarely that obvious, but do a little noticing, and there it is - the expectation that this connection must work out a certain way.

I wonder how this would feel from the other side? Connecting with someone who clearly has expectations of you? Might it feel a little uncomfortable? Might you be a bit concerned about letting them down or getting it wrong? Maybe it's not that obvious, but you still feel 'something' is a bit odd about this connection.

Are your connections clean? Free of expectation and attachment? Easy?

Love

Donna.x

Remember

Here at Your Natural Way, we don't just want to teach you something new. We want you to remember what you already know. We want to teach you a new way of being. Being yourself. Even when you are selling. No more putting your pants on outside your trousers, just remembering who you really are and using that authentic self to serve other people by selling them your services.

Sounds much easier than trying to be someone you're not and 'making the numbers' to me, but then I like easy. Do you remember?

Love

Donna.x

Your Duty to Be Yourself

By being fully, completely and magnificently yourself, you open the way for thousands of others to do the same. When they see you in all your glory, “getting away with” being you, they get permission to do the same. So, as if doing it for yourself isn’t a good enough reason, you also get to help all those poor souls trying to be something they’re not when you play full out as yourself.

Love

Donna.x

Everyone I meet MUST become a Client

Is this how you approach your client getting? Everyone you meet and connect with MUST become a client. Immediately. Or you will never speak to them again? Seriously...take a look at your attitude to your client-getting process. Do you court someone endlessly until they turn you down, then dump them? (Smacks a bit of using someone for sex doesn't it?) Imagine how that must look to the potential client.

Oh, right, if they can't have their wicked way with me, they don't want me?! Right, I am so not going to reccommend this person! What if this potential client doesn't want your product or service today, but in 3 months will put in an the biggest order you've ever had? What if this potential client knows other people (it's quite likely!), and because they know you and like you, they recommend you? What if, even if they never become a client, they somehow will help your business?

What if you let go of your attachment to the idea that everyone you meet must become a client?

Love

Donna.x

I Believe in a Thing Called Work

Working hard, putting in the hours, making an effort, pushing the barriers, motivation, strain, stress, worry, pain.

Versus

Ease, joy, fun, play, experimentation, service, passion, love, laughter, movement, sychronicity, inspiration, attraction.

Which do you think a successful business requires?

Which do you think would feel best?

Which would you rather do?

Which do you do?

Love

Donna.x

Looking in the mirror of someone else

This weekend, I have been watching the mixed doubles contest from Wimbledon, and thoroughly enjoying the antics of Jelena Jankovic and Jamie Murray. This pairing laughed, jokes and smiled their way through the contest and were an absolute delight to watch. This led me to wondering why I was enjoying them so much, and what they could show me about my natural way.

I loved the joy, the fun, the laughter, the flirtation, the romance (are they, aren't they?), the smiling, the obvious way they were enjoying what they do. When I am fully my natural self, I am joyful, fun, laughing easily and often, flirting, romantic, I smile easily, I clearly enjoy what I do. Aha... A couple of things to add and underline in my personal success formula... What I see and love in them is also in me.

This week, notice what you are enjoying in someone else and what it can tell you about your natural way. Remember, they are a mirror.

Love

Donna.x

Evolving In Service of

What we are 'in service of' is an ever-evolving statement. I thought it might be interesting to show how mine has progressed over the past 2 and a half years:

I started with "I am in service of passion and joy" (after discarding about 20 other statements!)

A few months later it became "I am in service of passion and joy in the world"

Then "I am in service of purpose, passion and joy in the world"

Then "I am in service of awakening purpose, passion and joy in the world"

Then "I am in serive of awakening passion, joy and love"

And now "By being fully shining brilliance, I awaken passion, joy and love"

Our understanding of what we're serving changes as we change and grow and develop. Knowing what you serve makes it easier to market your business, to enjoy your life and to be of service! I give mine only as an example, yours will be very personal to you...

If you're wondering whether your statement needs updating, answer me this: does your in service of statement still fill you with the same sense of 'rightness' and give you fuel? If not, it may need to change!

Love

Donna.x
PS If you want to find out more about how to create an 'in service of' statement, go to the website and check out our courses!

Authenticity

According to Wikipedia (The biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet), authenticity is a psychological concept in which the individual derives gratification and positive emotions from exercising signature strengths and values.

Seems like a hard way to say, be your natural self (or in a fancy way you could say 'exercising your signature strengths and values'), and while you are at it, no need to apologize, in fact the world will give a standing ovation because you'll be so naturally undeniably attractive :-)
Damn, being your natural way just seems to work!!!!!