3 weeks ago, I chose to go for it! Consciousness was calling me to go to Europe and create greater possibilities!

And this morning as I write this, I'm on the ferry from Ireland to France.

As part of that calling I hosted a free teleclass called Turn On Your "Crazy One" Talents & Abilities to facilitate people to create a conscious business. You've probably seen Apple's video "Think Different" about famous change leaders like Einstein and Mahatma Gandhi. It's about the "crazy ones", those people who change things because they believe they can.

Do you believe you can change things? You can if you choose it!

Are you ready to play a far bigger game now that we're in the deep waters of 2012? Change is upon us in a big way. Either you resist your greatness and get swept under by the huge tidal wave of change that's coming. Or you swim forward faster and catch your wave that will carry you with ease and power into a whole new life of far greater contribution and bold exuberant expression and abundance of you!

If this sounds mystical and other worldly, it maybe. And it's not. As a friend of mine Dr. Dain Heer says, energy is the most pragmatic thing in the world. When you change the energy of a job or business or relationship, you can change what can show up. Where there were limited possibilities before, all of a sudden greater possibilities can show up!

What 'crazy one' talents and abilities are calling you to create something bold and innovative that truly makes this world more conscious and fun?

Personal power can come in many forms. Being willing to use positive confrontation is one of them. It can give you the power to handle difficult people and get your message across clearly and directly. A couple days ago that was made real clear to me three times in one day so I really got it!

First I was watching a livestreaming video by marketing coach Suzanne Evans. She talked about how she likes to be confrontational in a positive way because she feels more alive and in touch with people. And other people feel more alive. For her being confrontational in a positive way addresses issues and makes things more real.

Later that day I was at the great Book Passage bookstore in Corte Madera near where I live. I was browsing and reading the latest biography of Steve Jobs. I came across a passage about him being a jerk and a rage aholic bully. On a trip to France  he was raging against several Apple managers until he started raging against one manager who was a reformed rageaholic himself. This manager recognized himself in Steve Jobs. He took Steve Jobs by the lapels and told him “Stop!” and Steve Jobs did.

Confrontation has a bad rap. Often if we just confront people, they back down. Later in the bookstore I saw a father with his two 4 year old twin boys. One boy in particular is incredibly loud. The father keeps saying “Shhhh… “ but the boy totally ignores him. A while later one the boy gives a book to his father and says “Buy this for me.” The father says “Please…” But the boy ignores him.

We have to confront people who are impacting their own lives and other people's lives in destructive and limiting ways and wake them up to how to live life as caring contributing human beings. Sometimes that person can be us.

 I'd love to hear your feedback.
What do you think?

Judging ourselves and being afraid of other people judging us is probably the biggest block to enjoying life and creating a successful business.

Here's a great post about judgment my a client who's a professional photographer in France. http://www.colorimages.fr/?p=2851&cpage=1#comment-9
 

Whether you have your own business or would like to, or you work for
a corporation or small business, the infinite organizing power of
consciousness can flow through you to create far greater results
than trying to do everything from the daily limited mindset that so
many of us operate from on a daily basis.

A few weeks ago I experienced a profound shift in my awareness. In
the morning I felt strangely uncomfortable like something was off, but
I couldn't put my finger on it at all. It didn't feel like any 'normal' angst
or worry. I asked if it was mine and or not and it did lighten up, but still
the sense of strangeness persisted.  As the day passed I felt something
new and exciting moving in my spirit; almost like being born to a 
new freshness of spirit.

At a certain point as I walked along a pathway towards Mt. Tamalpais,
the central land mark in Marin County just north of San Francisco where
I live,  I felt something opening… consciousness started flowing throughout
me,  my body and my life. I felt a vast bliss and delight.

It kept flooding through me. It felt like nothing in the world could come close
to that experience. No material possessions or experiences, no cars, clothes,
houses, travel or personal relationships could come close to this experience of
consciousness flooding through and illuminating everything. Yet this is at the
very heart of far greater aliveness in all those areas of life.

The experience faded away over night. The next day I didn't have such a vast
sense of consciousness. Yet it had shifted something in me in a way that I knew
that my life would never be the same. Since then I've found that I am much more
aware of how I spend my time. Especially with my business. I have much a much
sharper focus and at the same time feeling more relaxed and having fun with
everything I do. I complete asks with far less effort and much more of a sense of
ease and expansiveness and being true to me.

My business has grown exponentially with very little effort. A few well
placed actions have created so much greater results than hours of
planning and activity. It's amazing what a difference having consciousness
working directly for you can make!

I've found that clients I work with also experience faster and easier
results with their business when they let go of limiting beliefs and
habit patterns and embrace more energy and awareness.

What's missing in so much of our lives is a deeper wholeness and
connection with everything. At the fundamental basis of everything we
choose and create is our awareness of Self – pure consciousness. All our
endeavors and all we desire to have things in the world can be enriched
with unsurpassable strength and ease and fullness. Consciousness is the
conduit for your talents and abilities to flow through and be magnified a
hundred fold.

When you get in touch with that vast consciousness that you truly are and
feel that flowing through your unique talents and strengths, then you know
that the universe can work for you and with you and allow far greater
things to show up for you than you can with just your mind alone.

Here's a meditation that will help you have more consciousness flowing "
through you and supporting you.

Close your eyes.
Take a long deep breath.
Now take another even bigger deep breath being aware of your whole body.
And another deep breath letting go of any sense of anxiety, fight or flight.

Put your awareness on any small or large sense of joy that you are aware of.
If you have a hard time feeling any joy, think of someone or something you
are grateful for. Allow yourself to bathe in that and keep expanding that
awareness to fill your whole body and beyond.

Keep expanding out and allow consciousness to flood your whole life.
Allow all this to quickly or all at once if it comes that way.

Now just be with all of that and allow yourself to fully bathe in it!

Are you willing to call forth  the power of consciousness to expand
your business?

I'd love to hear your comment.

I had so much fun last week with the "Genius Activation" sessions! On Friday alone I facilitated nine people. Each person was a joy to work with. And I felt totally fresh at the the end of the last call and ready for more! How does it get even better than that?

Thanks to all of you who participated this past week! I'm so grateful and inspired by your willingness to step into your greatness! To celebrate, I'm extending my offer of complimentaryhalf-hour sessions another week. If you haven't experienced a"Genius Activation" session yet and would like to, email me at rich@accesscreativepower.com before next Saturday to reserve your session.

How much more money and joy can you create with your talents and abilities?

Steve Jobs and What it Takes to Express Your Unique Genius

Steve Jobs death last week created a huge outpouring of caring and tributes. We lost a phenomenal innovator and inspiration for individual genius! Somehow we know that his death is a wake up call to not waste any more time. As Steve said:

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
 
You have to be willing to not only be different, you have to be willing to dominate this reality. That's actually what Steve Jobs did. He didn't try to be a nice guy like so many other business leaders in Silicon Valley. He was willing to be a tyrant in order to create the secrecy and intense aesthetic development of Apple products that have changed the lives of so many people.

It's very clear to me that no matter what is standing in our way, we all have the capacity to be a huge contribution to the world through our consciousness and our unique genius!

It may not look as big or successful as Pixar or Apple, but as Marianne Williamson says, our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We are powerful beyond measure!

To be the powerful genius contribution that you are, you have to be willing to not only be different, you have to be willing to dominate this reality. That's actually what Steve Jobs did. He didn't try to be a nice guy like so many other business leaders in Silicon Valley.

He was willing to be a tyrant in order to create the secrecy and intense aesthetic development of Apple technology. Yet his employees had intense loyalty to him and were inspired to create a high level of quality and aesthetic delight for customers.

What intensity of power and potency are you unwilling to be that if you would be it, you would dominate this reality? Are you ready to get out of the idea that you shouldn't dominate this reality?

If you are not willing to dominate this reality, then you cannot be the power and potency of you. You cannot be a leader of your own life. It may not always look the same you know. Different conscious leaders function differently.
 
But they all tend to be pretty damn intense in their own ways. Mother Teresa certainly was. Gandhi certainly was. Gary Douglas (the founder of Access Consciousness) certainly is. Even Eckhart Tolle is intense in his own way. It's not one-size-fits-all. As Osho says, in order to be a creative genius you have to function as an individual, not as a member of the mob.

In order to be a leader, you have to step out into the unknown and be unique and different. Who you truly are, no matter what that looks like. In Steve Jobs case, he looked like a tyrant. Yet his employees were intensely loyal to him and very inspired to develop Apple products as unique cutting edge elegant tools. Not knock off copies of somebody else's idea.

Intensity doesn't have to be force or judgment. Intensity is the power and potency of you. For some people it might look a lot lighter and a lot more playful than for others. Not everyone is built exactly the same. But for each of us who claims it, the lightness of being shines through you when you choose to be you.

If you would like to get a much deeper taste of your power and potency and your unique genius, reply to this email at rich@accesscreativepower.com to reserve your session. I will keep the offer open through Friday.

To your fun and expansive success!

Rich

R.I.P. Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs made a phenomenal contribution to the whole world! Not just by providing us with elegant user friendly technology. He was a major inspiration to all the "crazies" and all that's crazy and brilliant in each of us. The torch has been passed. Are you ready to accept the challenge and demand that you be the 'insanely great' genius YOU truly are??

Are you aware that there is a huge change in consciousness happening right now? And if you choose, you can help make the possibilities far greater? 

photo by fallingrock

What is getting your creative juices flowing and why would you
want to? Being creative is your natural state. As a being, you
were meant to live with ease, joy and the exuberant expression of
who you are. You were not meant to live a life of dull routine,
fearful limitations or judgments about who you are or who other
people are.

Not only is being creative and expressing yourself exuberantly
natural and fun, it adds to your money flows. Money is attracted
to happiness and joy. It’s not attracted to sadness and
heaviness.

What does it take for you to get your creative juices flowing?
Here are some tips and approaches to get in the flow of your
creative power.

The most powerful way to start the flow is to be open and vulnerable to receive from everywhere and everything. On weekend edition this past Saturday, Scott Simon interviewed lead singer Anthony Keidis of the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s. Scott Simon asked Keidis how the band stays creative after being together for 30 years. He responded that being more aware of  your surroundings can give you energy and ideas.

“I remember being very depressed driving on my way to the studio…” and then “looking out my window and seeing all this beautiful life on the sidewalk, in the buildings. In the trees, kids running around and riding bikes. And I just remembered: It’s very important to keep your eyes open, even when you’re going through a routine.”

What keeps us from receiving energy and information from all
around us are the judgments we use to try to defend ourselves by
separating from others and gaurding against being disappointed.

When you aren’t judging, you can be in a state of bouyancy and
fluidity. You feel confident and comfortable in your own skin as
you’re interacting and receiving from the environment around you.

A big part of the work I do as a business coach is helping
business owners and entrepreneurs get out of reaction and
resistance to the environment and challenges and opportunities
that are coming at them. It’s really a matter of shifting from
judgment and reaction and negativity to a state of ease and joy
with your embodiment.

Your body is not just something that you push around like a slave
or a mechanical extension of you, your body actually has it’s own
consciousness and awareness that can contribute to you.

By engaging with your environment with and through your body as a
living instrument rather than a mechanical extension of your
will, you foster aliveness and sensuality in all your actions.

Why do I say the word sensuality. That may seem inappropriate
especially in a business environment. Well actually, sensuality
is the enjoyment of your body and your surroundings in everything
you do.  Have you ever been around a really stiff and self-
conscious executive? Did you really want to do business with
them?

In contrast when you interact with someone who is comfortable in
their body and who enjoys being present and alive and joyful in
their interactions. Doesn’t that make you want to work with them?
As long as you know they know what they’re doing?

There’s a greater variety and depth of creativity and power that
you can bring to your career or business by getting your creative
juices flowing. You do that by being who you truly are and not
judging yourself. Judgment kills creativity and communication.

Children live in the energies of flow. They’re constantly playing – enjoying and exploring their body and their surroundings. You can promote  that in many ways – by getting massage, practicing yoga,  attending an improv class dance class, or by simply giving yourself permission to be silly and play with the moment.

When you stop judging yourself and allow yourself free expression
in everything you do, you can create greater possibilities. You can actually bring more money and success to your career or business.

Would you be willing to get more of your creative juices flowing
so that you’re enjoying exuberant expression of you in everything
you do? What will your life look like if you don’t? What will
your life look like if you do?

I went to a Toastmaster's Leadership training in Berkeley last night. What a great experience! Toastmasters International is totally dedicated to empowering you to be confident and effective speaking in public. At very little cost to you other than a couple hours a week. There's a club in just about every town in every country around the world. If you're looking to get experience and support speaking in public, check it out! http://www.toastmasters.org/

Toastmasters is something I really enjoy participating in and supporting others as a contribution to the community.

In my coaching and consulting, I facilitate entrepreneurs and independent professionals to overcome whatever keeps them from achieving the success they're looking for and greater.

Public speaking is one of the greatest fears many people have. In fact, a lot of people who fear speaking in public actually have a message to share with the world, but they have been so judged so much for it they won't take action. What message do you have that could change the world? And dynamically expand your life and business? Would you willing to do what it took to share it?

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