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I Looove NYC!

October 29, 2012 by Rachel Goldstein Leave a Comment

I am back in Charlotte after an amazing 10-day trip to NYC.

I looove visiting NY – it’s already my second time back home in 2 months, and I just love the energy when I’m there. The truth is that I do love Charlotte – it’s a great city. But New York still has my heart. :-)

For the first leg of my NYC trip, I hosted a 2-day retreat for my Soul-Centered Leaders. These women amazed and inspired me to no end. Some of the women are New Yorkers, and others came in from California, Florida, Minnesota, Boston, Philadelphia, Upstate NY, and even Canada – talk about commitment to yourself and your work!

The openings and transformations that occurred over the 2 days can’t even be put into words. We saw increased income projections, deep healing around their money story, breakthroughs around marketing plans, and so much more.

And as if that weren’t enough – the day after the retreat I met with one of my private mentor clients for a ½ day intensive together. The day started with me taking her out to brunch at one of my old NYC stomping grounds. Then we headed off to our private meeting room where we did ritual and process work to help her bust through limiting beliefs around visibility, which led into AMAZING planning of offerings and marketing that projected her into way higher income than she had expected.

These are the types of things that happen all the time when I connect with clients. I seriously feel like one of the luckiest women on the planet.

And now, I’m settling back in Charlotte and kicking off the Wise Woman Leadership Program with 30 rockin’ and soul-centered women ready to set deep foundations for their businesses.

Wherever you are, I hope you’re enjoying yourself and your week, and I hope you enjoy this week’s article, all about how to leverage your relationships for more success.

With love,
Joanna

Posted in: Personal Development, Productivity, Success, Visibility Tagged: coaching, coaching for women, joanna lindenbaum, life coach, life coach for women, Personal Development, Productivity, soulful coach, soulful coaching, Soulful Coaching for Busy Women, Success, visibility

How to Create Soul-Centered Relationships

October 26, 2012 by Rachel Goldstein Leave a Comment

Is there a person in your life or at work who consistently lets you down? Does this person fail to give you the support you need, or make you feel resentful about the fairness of your relationship? Even if you really like or even love this person, do you suspect that this person is in some way detrimental to you or your soul-centered project?

Relationships are absolutely essential, even fundamental, to the success of any soul-centered venture. Soul-centered relationships are vital to any performance you’re in, any book you want to write, exhibition you want to create or participate in, conference you want to organize, or project you spearhead.

Relationships are so important because when it comes down to it, you can’t succeed alone. To be fair, maybe you can “get it done” by yourself. But it takes way too much energy and is not as much fun if you do it alone.

Additionally, the bigger you get, the bigger your vision, and the more expansive you become, you literally cannot do everything yourself. Just as a timely example, the President of the U.S. would not be able to run the country without help and support in various ways from others!

What often happens is that you set out to do it alone or you have others’ help, but something isn’t quite right. Maybe there’s imbalance or resentment, or something missing. That’s not a soul-centered, aligned relationship.

When your relationships are misaligned, you are going to have a lot of problems.

To understand what’s happening in your relationships, it’s wise to assess where you are (or not), and to get more clarity on how to really uplevel those relationships. This way, not only can you accomplish your goals, but you do it with a heart filled with love, energy and joy.

The first step is to define the different kinds of people with you in relationships, and to identify what about the relationship makes you feel off-kilter or uncomfortable. It’s that hard-to-pinpoint feeling of discomfort when you know something isn’t working. A mentor of mine calls it a “wiggly-niggly” feeling. You know it when you feel it!

  • Team members. These are employees or any other people helping you on an ongoing basis. The wiggly-niggly with these people might be that no matter how many times you give them instructions, they just don’t get it right.
  • Partners. These can be business partners, collaborative partners, and joint venture partners. Oftentimes the wiggly-niggly is unspoken resentment or that things are not quite in balance. One person is working hard and the other person is slacking off. Or one is really promoting the venture and the other isn’t.
  • Clients. Anyone who has come to see your performance, a reader of your book, a viewer of your artwork, or someone who hires your services. The wiggly-niggly there is if you get annoyed easily at one of your clients. Does this client show up late and expect you to go overtime? Do they not pay? Or do they get intimidated or anxious if you reach out to new prospects?
  • Contractors. Similar to a team member but not someone on an ongoing basis. Maybe this person is a logo designer, a caterer for an event, or the rep for a venue you’re renting. Those types of relationships can get wiggly when someone doesn’t follow through on a contract. Or they might be hard to contact once you paid them. Or you feel you overpaid and you resent it but you never say anything or try to negotiate.
  • Employers. This could also be a supervisor. Often there can be resentment or feelings of unfairness in these types of relationships.
  • Your mentors & teachers. The wiggly-niggly energy here can make you feel shy, scared, entitled, or not deserving.

  • Main emotional support relationship. This could be your spouse, sister, parent, best friend, etc. There are all kinds of possibilities for wiggly-niggly with these relationships!

Assessing: Evaluate the Relationships

Ask yourself the following questions. Let your inner Wise Woman answer. Don’t try to overthink anything. You already know the answers.

  • Of the different relationship types listed above, which are the ones where you have the strongest relationships? Where do you feel on target, you know it’s soul-centered and you’re really clean in your energy?
  • How are those so aligned? What makes them so good and aligned?
  • Which types of relationships give you trouble currently and consistently?
  • For each of these, how would you characterize the trouble, the misalignment, or the unclean energy?
  • What’s the result of this trouble? How does it impact your soul-centered project? Be as specific as you can get with current situations.
  • Which of those categories are vital to your soul-centered project? Which ones are game-changers for your project, such that you truly need for them to be aligned in order to move forward?

  • Why are those vital? What result will it yield if you are able to create or deepen a soul-centered relationship?

This is where I see leaders falter and self-sabotage repeatedly. It happens with team members, or a client relationship, or a partner. Maybe you end that relationship, but you don’t heal it. And you end up recreating it elsewhere with someone else experiencing that same dynamic.

Creating Your Ideal Relationships

Identifying and evaluating your relationships is the first step to healing them. The next step is to get clear on what your ideal relationships would look like. To do so, journal on the following questions:

  • What do you want this relationship to look like? How do you want it to change?
  • What is required of you on an outer level to make that change happen?

  • What would be required of you on an inner level?

Put Your Awareness into Motion for Soul-Centered Success

The Next Step is to take action. What are your next 3 baby steps to create Soul-Centered Relationships, and soul-centered success?

Posted in: Empowerment, Intuition, Personal Development, Productivity, Success, Visibility Tagged: business coach, Intuition, joanna lindenbaum, life coach, life coach for women, Personal Development, Productivity, relationships, soul-centered, soul-centered relationships, soulful coach, soulful coaching, Soulful Coaching for Busy Women

Environment Is Everything When It Comes To Success

October 12, 2012 by Rachel Goldstein Leave a Comment

The spaces you live and work in are vital to your well-being and success. Humans are very sensitive to our environments – whether we realize it or not … more than we even realize – and when your environment isn’t set up for success, chances are you’re often getting distracted, anxious, or feeling sluggish and stuck.

So it’s essential to ensure that your home and your office are conducive to your ability to function with ease, grace and efficiency.

In your home or office, the way the furniture is arranged, the colors of paint, the art or keepsakes you have displayed, the plants or lack of plants – all of these have an effect on you that determines how you live your life & move through your work.

Here’s why: the way things look on the outside mirrors what’s happening on the inside. This is true for anything image-related, whether it’s your home, your office, the way you dress, or how neatly you keep your handbag. When your space is disharmonious, it’s really hard to get your work done.

What organization means to you is personal. I’m a Virgo, so intense organization is really important to me. My husband, on the other hand, seems to thrive in environments I’d call chaotic! The idea here is that when things are aligned for you externally, your ability to move forward will be better and unobstructed because your environment affects how you feel. How you feel affects what you do, how you move in the world, and how you live your life.

Here is an easy process to help you start setting your space up for success right away:

Step 1: Assess your space

Take a good look at your space and determine what’s working and not working for you. Observe from a place of your needs and desires, not from “shoulds,” and also from where your life is right now. For example, if you just moved last week, you’re not going to be fully unpacked, so just be realistic with what’s possible at this moment. Here’s a series of questions you can use to assess each room – just adapt them slightly to match the room you’re in.

Start with the outside of your home or your office and work your way in and through each room. If you own a house, look at the paint color, the front yard and the driveway. For apartment dwellers, look at your door, doormat, and any exterior decorations you may have.

  • Look at colors and how they make you feel. Happy? Anxious? Depressed? Calm?
  • Do things work? Are they broken, chipped, leaky, squeaky, dusty, stained, faded?
  • Do the art works and other decorations please you?
  • Can you move through the room with ease, or are you dodging furniture?
  • Do your cabinets, drawers, and closets contain too much? Do you throw everything in them and have a hard time finding them later?
  • Is there enough light? Can you see what you’re doing?
  • Is there too much in the room? Or does it seem empty?
  • Do you have plants or other pieces of nature that ease and inspire?

Step 2: Ask the Deeper Questions:

What does each room say about you? How does the external mirror the internal? How is it affecting the actions you take or don’t take? How is it affecting the experience of your life? What do you really need in that room and what can you get rid of?

Step 3: Be prepared to Let Go

The #1 block to organization is letting go.

On both the inner and the outer level, being unable to let go is the biggest block to getting your space organized, in alignment, and feeling that it’s nourishing you.

For example, let’s say you have a big piece of furniture that just doesn’t work. It’s the wrong color, it’s old, falling apart and uncomfortable. Why is it hard to let go of this? Maybe because your ex gave it to you and you’re still holding onto the last vestiges of that relationship. Or because you got it in your college years and you’re nostalgic for those times. When you’re not ready to let go of these items, how is that serving you?

Oftentimes when things are disorganized or chaotic, it’s because that sense of being overwhelmed or scattered can serve us in some way. It’s supporting an “addiction” to being uncomfortable because it’s what you’re used to. But in order to achieve ease and flow in your life and work, you have to decide what to keep and what you need to let go of.

Step 4: Get Organized:

Here are some of my favorite resources and tools for getting organized:

  • Making lists. Even if I don’t get to everything on the list, it’s very helpful to have a guide of what to do. Make lists of things that need repair, what you need to buy, what you need to read or write. Make a list of who can help you.
  • Ten Minute Miracle. My friend and colleague, Jennifer Zwiebel of A Place of Joy, is a professional organizer who created the Ten Minute Miracle. If you are someone who is completely overwhelmed by your space, put aside no more than 10 minutes a day to tackle just one thing. On Monday, tidy the kitchen drawer. Tuesday, change the lightbulb that’s been burnt out for 2 weeks. Wednesday, call the plumber about the leaky faucet, and so forth. Just ten minutes per day can really help demolish that to-do list.
  • Create time-bounded systems. Determine what’s daily, weekly, monthly. In my household, dishes get done daily. Laundry gets done weekly. Changing the filter for our water gets done every 6 months. When you know how often things need to be completed, you don’t have to worry about them until it’s time to do them.
  • Organize by use. Organizing things by how YOU use them will save both time and stress. What’s going to make your experience of your environment more ease-full? What are systems you can create in your home? A big issue for many people is mail and paper bills. Do you need to read your mail daily, or just a few times a week? Can you have your bills changed to e-bills and automatically paid by your bank online?
  • Get help. If you’re someone who needs help, get some. This might seem obvious, but so many people get overwhelmed and don’t know where to begin, so they don’t. I recommend the 10 Minute Miracle first, but if even that seems too much, call in a support person – either paid or unpaid – to help you. Maybe a friend or a sibling or neighbor can help, or maybe you need to hire a cleaning person, or a professional organizer. Never underestimate the value of asking for and receiving support.
  • Ritual. I’ve been trained in creating ritual, so I really understand the power of performing them – and ANYONE can do one. You can do a home blessing or home “cleaning.” Go into each room with a candle and create an intention for each room: love in your bedroom, community in your dining room, relaxation in your living room, etc. Infuse each room with the energy you want it to have. Rituals can be powerful on your own, but even more so if you invite friends or family to do them with you.
  • Feng Shui. When my husband and I first moved into our first apartment together, no arrangement felt right for me and we ended up hiring a feng shui consultant. You can use a book on your own. Set things up for maximum flow and create spaces that will inspire you. For me it was a great experience and 100% worth the time and financial investment that we made; it was such a difference in our home.

I’m excited for you to get started on aligning your environment with your goals and setting your space up so that you can be as successful as possible. Enjoy!

Posted in: Personal Development, Productivity, Stress Management, Success, Time Management Tagged: joanna lindenbaum, life coach, life coach for women, Personal Development, Productivity, soulful coach, soulful coaching, Soulful Coaching for Busy Women, Stress management, Success, success coach, time management

Complete YOUR DREAM Project and Still Have Time for Your Life

August 28, 2009 by Rachel Goldstein Leave a Comment

So EXCITED to SHARE This Very Special COMPLIMENTARY Teleclass:

The 6 Secrets to Completing Your DREAM Project and Still Having Time for Your Life

Are you ready to create a plan for successfully achieving your goals WITHOUT getting overwhelmed, drained, or exhausted?

Having a great idea is NOT enough to successfully and joyfully complete your goals. The mistake that so many visionaries make is that you haven’t developed the powerful and sustaining structures needed – both on internal and external levels – to be able to fully achieve you dream project while also feeling energized and balanced in your life.

Aren’t you ready to put this mistake behind you once and for all?

On September 9th, for the first time ever, I’ll be sharing with you my secrets and methods for seeing your vision into reality WITHOUT the exhaustion or anxiety. Join me in this FREE and interactive teleclass:

“The 6 Secrets to Completing Your DREAM Project and Still Having Time for Your Life”
REGISTER NOW: http://www.soulfulcoach.com/events.php#abundance  

On this teleclass, you will receive:

  • A straightforward method for effective and intuitive decision making
  • A fresh look at how prioritizing can ensure your success
  • A plan for organizing your time so that you control your life and your dream project (instead of it controlling you!)
  • The secret to ensuring you are energized and excited throughout the completion of your project

By the end of our class, you will have clear ideas for creating more time and energy for your goals and for your life. It IS possible to follow through on your dream project, be successful, and still have time to enjoy ALL of your life, and I am so excited to guide you through it!

REGISTER NOW: http://www.soulfulcoach.com/events.php#abundance

P.S. Can’t make it? No problem, the recording will be provided to you after the class!

Posted in: Personal Development, Success Tagged: dreams, free teleclass, joanna lindenbaum, life coach, overwhelm, soulful coaching, Success

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