Passion Meets Profits

Here is my Tuesday "wisdom to use as you please". Use it to your good health and to attract your highest good.

The optimal prosperity is doing what you love and making a good living doing it. Making money fulfilling your heart’s desire is optimal not only for the sake of financial prosperity, but even more importantly, because it enables you to continue doing what you do love and bless the world with your natural gifts. The economics are simple: If you can create the level of prosperity you desire by doing what you truly love, you don’t waste your time or energy on “making a living” doing anything else.

So why do so many people separate what they feel passionate about from how they earn their money? Some of the prevalent beliefs are “work and pleasure are two separate things” or “you have to work hard (read: do what you don’t like) to make good money”, etc.

But the world is changing. And the concept of making money is evolving. More and more people strive to successfully combine their passions, desires, and values with creating prosperity. And this true prosperity goes well beyond the monetary rewards: they are prosperous emotionally, spiritually and even physically (they don’t get ulcers from hating their workJ)

Today, I invite you to take a look at your belief system and see how you relate to the passion/work/money question deep inside. Check in with your attitudes about making money; see if they stand in your way to true prosperity. And if they do, I invite you to… simply change your mind.


Be well.

Margaret Moczkowski
Personal Business Coach
Momentum Coaching
www.momentumcoach.net


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Thanksgiving

This week I’m doing something different than usual; instead of my weekly wisdom I’m offering you a short, inspiring, and a very wise video to watch. It’s Brother David’s Thanksgiving prayer, “Giver of All Good Gifts”.
http://www.gratefulness.org/brotherdavid/thanksgiving-video.htm
With it I wish you a peaceful and grateful Thanksgiving.

Wherever You Go, There You Are, and Whatever That Means

There is a Zen saying I really like: “Wherever you go, there you are”. It took me some time to finally understand its meaning, but maybe before I had not been ready to embrace the concept. Now I’m ready and my translation is: “Enjoy the process”.

Sometimes we are so wrapped up in working on our life and business goals that we forget to enjoy the process that will get us there. We think we will relax when “we get there”, when we “arrive”. We will then finally exhale and be happy; we will do fun things and think fun thoughts. Now is not a good time for it because we have to work hard or worry about things.

Try a different perspective: That you have already arrived. You are exactly where we should be, at the time and place that is perfect for you in your process. Wherever you go, there you are. So why not exhale now and be happy? Why not do fun things and think fun thoughts now? I’m not saying stop working on your goals and just relax on a beach, but do your work and still have and love your life. Be happy now, don’t wait till it’s all done, earned, bought, sold, made, expanded, healed, under control, in the right place, etc., whatever you think needs to happen for you to “arrive”.

Today, I invite you to simply be happy in the place you are now. Do something you truly enjoy, or don’t do anything if it feels good. Just be. Take a breath and feel how great it is just to be able to inhale and exhale when you want to. Be content that You Are.


Be well.

Let Your Vision Pull You

Create a vision of what you really want in your life and let it pull you to your highest good. Creating a vision is a powerful thing to do. When we state out loud what we would LOVE to have in our lives, a great shift happens, both in us and in the Universe (same thing, really). We dare to think big about ourselves and about our time on Earth; we open the door to a possibility of having it the way we want, and we invite the Universe to co-create with us on a higher level.

I always think of my life vision as something to PULL me to my dreams and desires. When I have it in front of me, guiding and keeping me on track, life and business become less complicated and much more fun. It seems I don’t have to work as hard to “push” myself towards my goals; rather I let my vision energize me and supply me with synergies, courage, confidence and trust to move forward. And the best thing is that it gives me a great sense of direction in life.

Today, I invite you to either create of revisit your life vision. Ask yourself: What would I LOVE to have, to do, in, let’s say, a year? And how will I feel when I have it the way I want it? Play with it; it’s a fun exercise to go through. Make is light, yet truly manful to you. Write down all thoughts and ideas that show up and revisit them often. Change and update when you have new insights.

You will see a different energy present in your life. It will pull you and let you float freely towards your highest good.

Be well.

Your Best Is Enough

Always do your best.
No more, no less. Your best is enough. Your best is the only thing you can do. When you do your best and you acknowledge yourself for it, you can’t be dissatisfied with yourself. There is no room for blaming yourself or complaining about the outcome. When you know you’ve done your best, you know that there was nothing else to do at the time. You can rest you mind easily.

Keep in mind that your best today might look differently from your best tomorrow, and it’s all right. On days when you wake up full of energy and enthusiasm, your best will be better than on days when you wake up tired and in a gloomy mood. But your best is really all you’ve got.

Always doing your best will free you from self-blame, complaining, feeling not enough. It will create a shift towards acceptance, satisfaction and love.

Today, I invite you to do the following: Evaluate all your today’s actions and give yourself an honest feedback whether they were your best. If you feel that with some things you could have done better, make a decision to do it again or make amends. If you feel you’ve done your best today, sincerely acknowledge yourself.

Make a decision to do only your best from now on; not only in “important stuff”, but also in small routine actions you perform every day. You will see a tremendous difference in how you see yourself and what you create. For me, doing my best is a liberating experience. I hope you find it liberating too.

Be well.

What's Right With You?

You create more effortlessly when you feel good about yourself. You can handle all your life situations much better when you know you are doing your best, when you feel “enough”. Feeling enough is the most fundamental need we have. Yet many of us don’t feel enough…

We are programmed to see insufficiencies in our life situations and in our own selves. We are taught to point out what’s NOT working, what’s NOT whole, what tasks on our to-do list were NOT completed today, where we are NOT enough. By doing that we create a general attitude of lack, powerlessness, and being stuck. And, as the saying goes: What you resist persists.

So if you are ready to increase the flow of positive things into your life, use this very simple yet very powerful tool: Acknowledgement. By acknowledging yourself daily for all the things you’ve done that day, you make a huge shift from “What’s wrong with me” to “What’s right with me”.

I invite you to try this exercise for three weeks. Every evening, before you fall asleep, come up with as many self-acknowledgements as you can for that day. They don’t have to be huge accomplishments, you can praise yourself for such “small” things as smiling at a stranger, being patient with your children, returning calls or emails, taking a walk in the park, getting some things done from your to-do list. Some days you can even praise yourself for getting up in the morning though you didn’t feel like it. Make the list as extensive as you can each day. Have fun with it. You can either recite it in you head, or even better, write it down in your journal. Be specific; treat each item on your list seriously and with respect.

This is what will happen: You will experience an immediate feeling of ease, joy, and sufficiency. You will start liking yourself more. You will start liking other people more. You will appreciate yourself for who you are and start seeing how much you already do in your life. You will feel more important. You will feel enough, whole and complete. And the Universe will respond accordingly. It will like you more, treat you better, send more good things your way. But the first step is yours. Take it and open up to the positive feelings about yourself and to the positive energy of the Universe.

So go ahead, acknowledge yourself right now for at least five things. See how differently the world looks already?

Be well.

What Is Already Perfect in Your Life?

Do you want to attract more good things to you life? The easiest and the simplest way to do this is by being grateful.

If I wanted to use just one spiritual tool in my life, it would definitely be Gratitude. By simply thanking the Universe for all the goodness we receive daily, we create feelings of abundance and satisfaction. We become more joyful, we feel more “in the right place, at the right time”, and we open up doors for more of the good stuff to flow through. More than that, when we are in a place that we think is less than perfect or even “bad”, being grateful for what we do have and for all goodness coming from this situation creates the necessary shift of energy to turn things around.

I do a morning ritual to thank the Universe for all my blessings. I invite you to create a ritual that feels good to you and give thanks daily. You might create a gratefulness journal to write down things you are thankful for. Or you might simply close your eyes and tell the Universe what you’re grateful for. Thank daily for what you have and it will multiply. Thank for what you want to have and know it’s already yours. This ritual doesn’t have to take longer than two minutes and you will be amazed by what it will accomplish in your life. You will feel more connected, more in the flow of prosperity - financially and emotionally. You will start seeing good things just flowing into your life.

Try it right now, see how different you will feel in a minute.

Be well.

What Are You Investing Yourself In?

We all have just 24 hours in a day. We all have limited amount of physical, mental, and emotional energy we can spend daily. The things we choose to do, to think about, or to get upset about are what we spend this precious energy on. How do we make sure that we invest it in things that are really important and worthwhile for us? How do we not get sidetracked by things of little importance and by mental energies that are not really serving us?

Here is an anecdote that drastically changed my way of looking at time and energy management. I learned it when taking a Franklin Covey time management course.

A professor brought a large empty glass jar to a lecture on time management and asked his class: “Is this jar full or empty?” The students responded: “It’s empty”. Then the professor filled it with large, fist-size stones. “Now is it full or empty?” he asked. The students responded: “It’s full”. Then he poured gravel into the jar and the gravel filled the spaces between the large stones. “And now, is it full or empty?” he asked. Some of the students said it was full; some got the idea and said that he could still pour sand to fill the spaces between the gravel. The professor did just that. He repeated his question. Students suggested he could still fill it up more with water. “Right”, he said, and he poured water into the jar. Now everyone agreed that the jar was finally full and there was no unused space left. “What’s the moral of this story?” the professor asked. “The moral is that you can always squeeze more into your day even though you think your schedule is already full”, the students volunteered. “No”, said the professor, the moral of this story is that if you don’t put your largest stones into the jar first, you won’t be able to squeeze them in later. If you don’t make time to do the things that really matter to you on every day basis, the smaller and less important stuff will surely take over your day”.

So are you putting your large stones into your jar first or are you busing yourself with “other things” and then you don’t have time and energy to do what really matters?

Today, I invite you to ask yourself what the big and important stones in your life are. What is the gravel and sand for you? And what is just water? When you schedule your week, your day, I invite you to make sure you choose to invest your time in the biggest things first. You know, the ones that give you true fulfillment. Of course, we all have to do our “gravel” or “sand” things too, but it’s up to us to create healthy proportions between them and the large stones. Decide what’s the healthiest for you, what would serve you the best, and invest yourself accordingly.


Be well.