Archive for inner guidance
Time To Blow Shit Up!
Posted by: | CommentsI have some important news to share with you that I’m very excited about!
Over the course of the past few months I’ve been getting some unmistakable signs that it’s time to shake things up in the Defy the Box Sphere!
Things just weren’t feeling right to me, and when things don’t feel right it’s time to check in with my inner-guidance and see what needs to be adjusted.
So I asked the Universe to help a sister out and low and behold the answers started rolling in.
I love when that happens!!!
I will admit some of those answers were painful! I spent a few nights crying to my sweetie and feeling like a failure.
Living a Kick-Ass Life comes with its share of mistakes and you can’t be afraid to blow shit up in order to get to the promised land of success, fulfillment and juicy goodness.
Where am I going with all of this???
Over the next few months I will be refocusing my biz. I’m still going to be talking about defying the box, flying your freak flag and living a Kick-Ass Life, but my focus will be on applying these ideas to your business.
Amongst my colleges I’m known for showing up in a powerful way and flying my freak flag high and proud. I stand out and get noticed. I’m constantly being told that I make other people want to fly their freak flag in their business too.
Now I’m going to help them do just that!
The first change that is going into effect has to do with the new Kick-Ass Discovery group that I’ve been busy pimping out lately.
I’ve had some great feedback and a few requests that I re-focus the group to support entrepreneurs who are ready to fly their freak flag; stand out and shine; and attract the people who are dying to buy from them.
This will require bit of revamping on my part, but I plan on launching the new group in November. If this is something you want to get in on please let me know and we can hold a spot for you.
I’ll be announcing more changes as I sort everything out.
I do have a favor to ask of you………
I’d love to know what your biggest challenges are when it comes to really showing up and flying your freak flag in your biz.
Where do you feel like you have to do things a certain way to be successful ?
What situations make you feel like you have to show up in a certain way to be accepted and get clients?
I can’t wait to hear what you have to say!
Rediscover Yourself with the Daily Kick-Ass List
Posted by: | CommentsAre you trying to be something that you are not?
That’s what happens when you live a pre-packaged life and try to fit into what society thinks is normal and good. You end up following someone else’s advice about how to be successful and live a meaningful life. You lose yourself bit by bit and your own special brilliance slowly starts to fade away. Next thing you know you are just one of the herd shuffling about wondering where your inspiration and passion went.
The question is- What does society know about what makes you successful and brings meaning to your life?
Not much!
You‘re the only one who knows what will bring you the most success, meaning, happiness and satisfaction. It looks different for each one of us. We are all unique and have our own perspective on life. Everything that you need to know is right there inside of you. All you have to do is start tuning into it, and allowing it to show you the way.
Trust me, you’re meant to live a Kick-Ass Life and you already have everything you need to do it.
The best place to start is by being 100% you! Stop trying to be something that you are not and start tuning into everything that you are instead.
Spend some time getting to know YOU on a much deeper level.
Identify:
- how you work
- what you need to thrive
- what your inner-guidance says
- your definition of success, happiness, satisfaction, love and meaning
- your natural rhythms
- your strengths
- what you resonate with
Then use this information to go out and custom design your life to fit YOU perfectly, rather than trying to make yourself fit into someone else’s idea of perfect.
All this information is ready and available to you. You just need to learn how to tune into it. A great place to start is by creating a Daily Kick-Ass List. Spend some time everyday writing down all the things that worked for you, felt good to you and that you want more of. Take note of where you feel that you are in the flow and things are effortless. Notice what you are appreciating about your life and the people in it. Don’t forget to appreciate yourself too!
Refer back to your Daily Kick-Ass List often and take note of any patterns. There will be lots of valuable information there about what you need to thrive. Use this information to create the perfect environment for you to be the best that you can be.
I have attached a Daily Kick-Ass List for you to work with. Try it out for a few weeks and let me know what happens.
Tune into Your Inner-Guidance by Embracing Your Psychic Ability
Posted by: | CommentsTuning into your inner -guidance is necessary of you want to break free and start living a Kick-Ass Life ! It will show you the way to all kinds of awesomeness!
In order to help you tune into your inner-guidance I asked a fellow Defy the Boxer 
and Kick-Ass Creator -Lisa the Punk Rock Psychic – to come talk about embracing your intuition/psychic ability in order to know what is right for you.
We discuss how to access your inner-guidance and strengthen your connection to it, the practical uses of intuition-like finding parking spaces to getting ideas for projects, and how to use intuition to get unstuck. We also talk about how the clair’s work (our psychic senses that are simply psychic replicas of our physical ones), and some simple psychic tools like oracle card decks and how to get messages in a way that works for you.
You can listen to the 60 minute interview by clicking here-
You can learn more about Lisa here- http://punkrockpsychic.com/about/
This show is hosted by Leah Shapiro- the Kick-Ass Life Coach at Defy the Box . Leah helps spiritual, creative, non-conforming souls embrace what makes them unique and different in order to create the Kick-Ass Life of their dreams.
How to Create a Kick-Ass Life-Part 2
Posted by: | CommentsGetting Up Close and Personal with YOU
(This is the second installment of How to Create a Kick-Ass Life.)
A common problem for a non-conforming soul is that you lose touch with your inner guidance and you end up feeling a bit lost and full of self doubt.
I think this happens because for most of your life you are marching to the beat of a different drummer, and everyone around you keeps telling you that YOU are out of sync.
It starts when you are a child, doing your own thing, and your parents want to mold you into their idea of a good child. They told you to quiet down, stop being so silly and to try harder. You are taught to follow their rules and behave in a certain way. This is also when you are taught to ignore how you feel and to do what you’re told so that things will be peaceful.
Then Things Get Worse
This only gets worse as you grow older. You go to school and there are more rules to follow, but now you have to deal with the other kids. There’s a lot of pressure to fit in so that you will be included. There is nothing worse than being picked last for kick-ball or to have to sit by yourself for lunch every day!
It is really easy to begin to make yourself wrong for being different, or to try to force yourself into the box so that you will fit in. You learn to play the game so that you will be included or you don’t even try and you become the mysterious lone ‘lone wolf’ who is always off by themselves.
That was the route that I chose. I did my own thing, but I spent a lot of my time feeling like there was something wrong with me and resenting the hell out of the popular kids. It was tough. I was often made wrong for being different, and this made me doubt myself and not trust my instincts. It made me feel like I didn’t know what was best for me.
Enter Adulthood
We carry this behavior into adulthood. Society has so many ideas and expectations around what you need to do in order to be as a successful adult, and what a meaningful life looks like.
Most people are doing the exact same thing with their lives -go to school, get a ‘real’ job, get married, have kids, work hard to provide for your family, save for your future, and then when you retire you can pursue your dreams.
On a day to day basis it becomes one big miserable grind. It’s the same-old-thing day in and day out.
The end result is that you begin to tune out and go into survival mode. Next thing you know, you’re stuck in a gigantic rut and you can’t see any way out of it.
This is no way to live!! I existed in that place for too many years before I broke free.
The way Out
The way out of this big, frustrating rut, is to reconnect with yourself and start listening to the beat of your own drummer again. It’s still there underneath everything else. You just forgot how to hear it.
The reality is that you are the only one who knows exactly what you need to feel totally alive, living life full out, on fire and deeply satisfied. Everything you need to know is right there inside of you, you just need to learn how tune into it.
If you want to create a Kick-Ass Life you need to learn how to tune into this inner wisdom so you can confidently identify what you need in order to custom design your life to fit you perfectly.
In order to do this you will need to get to know yourself on a much deeper level so that you know your preferences, what works, and what you need to feel deeply satisfied.
A New Set of Skills
This is a new set of skills for many people.
That is why we will spend 4 weeks exploring different ways to know yourself better in the second module of the group program Create Your Kick-Ass Life in 2011.
Do you want help getting to know yourself better?
If you want to work on getting to know yourself better so that you can use this information to custom design your life to fit you perfectly, sign up for Create Your Kick-Ass Life in 2011.
http://www.defythebox.com/create-your-kick-ass-life-in-2011/
We will be getting under way on Monday, February 7th. This year long program will give you all the tools, guidance and support that you need to create your kick-ass life.
The Aliveness Inside: Can You Feel It?
Posted by: | CommentsLast night I was hosting a meeting of the New Earth Meet-Up group that I created.
If you are a fan of Eckhart Tolle, I encourage you to join in! At the meeting we were discussing Chapter 8: The Discovery of Inner Space. This chapter discusses the practice of becoming aware of your inner body and learning to feel the aliveness that is inside of you. I find that tuning into your inner aliveness is a key component to living a life that feels good and is meaningful. When you are tuned into your inner aliveness, you have access to all the information you need to make the right choices for yourself. That is where your inner guidance system hangs out. The more tapped into your inner guidance system you are, the easier it is to discover and stay on the path that will lead you to your own private Shangri-la.
I find that many people have totally tuned out from their inner guidance system. They do not feel the aliveness inside of them. Rather they feel empty and disconnected. There is a continuous under currant of unease. Since we all essentially crave connection and meaning, we begin to look for it in other places. Sex, drugs and Rock in Roll are a few of the places that people search. I think the most common place people look is intimate relationships. You are looking for the man or woman that will “make you happy”, your other half, or someone who will complete you.Of course this often leads to a big let down and you are once again left feeling disconnected and feeling the under currant of unease, except now you blame it on your partner.
Many people buy into the pre-packaged belief that says someone else can make you happy.
Let me clear this up right now: You are responsible for your own happiness. No one else can do it for you.
Happiness is an inside job. You can find it right there inside of you hanging out with the aliveness and your inner guidance system.
Can you feel it?
If you want to learn how to tune into this part of yourself, give me a call and let’s see how I might help you.
