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By:  Karen Luniw, Personal & Business Mindset Expert

Wouldn’t it be great if everyone could speak up for what they wanted? That was the turning point for me.  That was the point when my whole life turned around and I started to have more of what I wanted in my life.  It was necessary to get to where I am today.

In thinking about that the other day, I wondered how fabulous it would be if I could teach every mild-mannered, meek young person to do that.  Then I remembered that there are a lot of adults out there who are still not doing that for themselves.  What if I could take each one by the hand and say ‘it’s okay, you can do it’ and ‘what you have to say is important, you are so important’.  Truly, it would be the most amazing thing for me.

Would I have responded if someone had done that for me? I don’t know.  You see, even though I’m an extrovert and was pretty outgoing as a young person – you would have rarely heard me blurt out what was really on my mind.  Everything was calculated to make sure that what ever came out of my mouth was going to meet with approval…from everybody.  Oh yes, did I tell you I was
a people-pleaser too?

To not consider everyone else’s opinions first before speaking was to commit social suicide.  At least that’s what I thought.  To actually put my opinion out before I heard what others said seemed far too dangerous a proposition.

But here’s the thing, one of the key success factors in attraction is asking for what you want.  You don’t ask – you don’t get.  You also usually fall into everyone else’s’ agenda and end up doing
what’s right for them.

It’s not the way to live your dream life.

So let me hold your hand for a moment and try this:

• Pick a safe situation - like with a friend who supports you – to speak your mind.  You probably have a friend that’s already told you that you need to speak up for yourself
  more.  Tell them that you’re going to try it next time you feel inspired to and ask them to support you.  Then do it.
• Recognize after you do it that you didn’t die. Celebrate that!  Do a Happy Dance!
• Keep trying it out. When the voice in your head is screaming ‘tell them!’ or ‘say it!’ – trust that inner guidance and say what’s on your mind.
• Recognize after you do it that you didn’t die. Celebrate that!  Do a Happy Dance!  Yes, you need to keep acknowledging this!
• Stop replaying all the nuances of what was said, what this person or that person did or didn’t do.  Just let it be – don’t give it any more energy and move on to the next opportunity to speak your mind.
• Don’t go into the wrongness of you. The reality is that not everyone is going to like what you have to say – so what!?  Do you like what everyone else has to say?  Probably not. 

So often we make ourselves wrong for being ourselves but let me ask you this – ‘What if you were never wrong to say what was on your mind?’  Yup, chew on that for awhile – it’ll bring up all kinds of gunk – you’ll want to release all of that.  You can start with the Sedona Method or EFT.  To start, just ask yourself if you’re willing to destroy and uncreate your gunk?  Then say ‘yes’ and you’re on your way.

Let me know how it works out for you, okay?

Ciao!

Shift | Shine | Grow

By: Karen Luniw, Personal & Business Mindset Expert

Right now, write down the your Number One desire – the thing you would most like to create in your life as soon as possible..

If this is something that you’ve desired more than a couple of weeks and if you feel you’re not much closer to it than you were the day you thought of it – it’s likely that you’ve come to some conclusion about why you don’t have it yet.

As soon as you come to any conclusion, you immediately start locking it into place. What that means is that you are inviting limitation into your life. Conclusion limits you, terribly.

Now, you, as my very smart readers, may start to think ‘ but that’s just the reality Karen! I’d like it to be different but I’m just telling it as it is.’

Here’s what I say ‘ Screw Reality’. Eeee, I said it! (actually I would like to use harsher language but we’re PG here).

You see, reality truly is what we make it. And make of it.

Even if you’re the most positive person and well indoctrinated into Attraction Principles – it’s still easy to come to a conclusion that doesn’t invite possibility. I’ll give you an example.

Over the years I have spoken to people who talk of their desire and say it’s coming, or it’ll be here soon, or it’s on its way or some other phrase that is future focused. By coming to that conclusion, their desire always has to be in the future and can NEVER show up now as much as they would like it to. The Universe is a mirror for our thoughts, feelings and actions. When we say something is ‘on its way’ it literally means that it isn’t here now. Can you have something that isn’t here now?

No!

Now here’s where you, as my very smart reader, is yelling at me saying – ‘BUT IT’S NOT HERE NOW! (…more of that reality stuff – did you catch that?)

Now don’t worry, this exact same thing used to make me crazy forEVER!!!! I wanted to believe, in theory I got the concept that everything is here now but that didn’t help me to see it….here….now. Right?

Here’s what helped me to understand. What if, instead, you started to ask yourself, your subconscious mind, the Universe…hell! Anyone who will listen….’What would it take for me to be able to see (witness, hear, touch, taste, feel) what I desire now?’ Crucial tip here – don’t try and figure that question out – just put it out to the cosmos.
When you ask questions you do at least two things:

1. You command your subconscious mind to start looking for evidence of your focus – or what you’re asking for.
2. You invite the Universe (God, All-That-Is, Source Energy, etc.) to help you. Now if this second part doesn’t resonate with you – go back to number one because it’s science, it’s proven, it’s logical.

When you give your subconscious mind a focus (ask a question) )– one of its jobs to do is to find evidence of that focus. It must do that – so whenever you ask a question – your subconscious mind will always be on the lookout for possible answers. It’s pretty much like typing a search into Google – it’ll start scanning its Universe (the internet) for possible matches. It’s kind of the same when we ask questions of our brains – the trick is that we have to keep asking because we don’t get a screen that pops up with all the matches. Instead, inevitably – what happens is that we start seeing things pop up ‘out of the blue’, people start to come to mind, we hear things ‘in threes’, we’ll start noticing different options or we ‘suddenly’ have an inspiration or a great idea. And suddenly, the path to having what we desire happens pretty quickly or you see it far more clearly.

That’s how to ‘see’ our desire being here now. In fact, sometimes, we become aware that what we want has been around us all along. We were getting the information but we disregarded it.

Here’s my own example. Just over a decade ago I became interested in investing. I followed a number of stocks and had some money I could invest. I was asking (the Universe) to have my desire of having a lot of money.

One stock in particular, I knew was the one I wanted to invest in – it was Apple. Understand me, I KNEW IT.

I didn’t invest my money because of this little thing called the Trinity of Trouble (fear, doubt and worry) – you’ve heard me talk about that before, right?

Anywhoo, last Fall I read an article where the write indicated that if one had invested $100K in Apple and kept it there – their stocks would now be worth over $6 million. I didn’t have $100K – I had $10K, you do the math.

This is one story. Unfortunately, I have many, many more not only of my own but of others, too. Do you think I listen to my knowing now? You bet!!!

What I wanted was ‘here now’. The path to it was ‘here now’.

I concluded it wasn’t here now. I concluded it was too risky. I concluded that I didn’t know enough. I concluded that I couldn’t do it. I concluded I wasn’t good enough at picking stocks to know better. I concluded ‘who was I to think I could do this? And I’m sure there are a few more conclusions in there that I’m not thinking of right now.

Do those conclusions sound familiar? I bet that I could overlay any one of those conclusions on anything you want and don’t currently have and sure as heck, you’ve probably had at least one of them. One is enough to stop you cold.

Stop concluding.

Start asking questions like ‘What would it take to have my heart’s desire to show up?’

Start paying attention to what shows up.

Now have a ton of stories where I did ask questions, where I did follow the signs and inspiration and had absolutely amazing outcomes. And, the most amazing thing is that I get to help others do that every day! How cool is that?!

Cheers

Shift | Shine | Grow

I absolutely love Vancouver! I had the great privilege of speaking for a group of business women there and had a blast!

Don’t know why I didn’t think to stay longer – just a short 24 hours – in and out.

This was the view from the venue I was speaking at so you know I had to be pretty entertaining to shift people’s attention! LOL

Do you know anyone I can connect with about speaking to your business, group, or organization or at an upcoming conference? I’m now booking for the Fall and would love if you have a contact I could speak to!

Karen Luniw

Mindset Expert – Speaker & Coach

Specializing in Business, Money & Relationships

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By: Karen Luniw, Personal & Business Mindset Expert

Yesterday I had stopped at a local grocery store to pick up my Mom’s prescriptions and when I pulled up there was a Mom with her two kids sitting in the SUV in the next stall.

They were listening to music and the kids were bright-eyed and friendly and the little boy leaned toward the window and said ‘hi’ excitedly.

I don’t see that very often and it was really refreshing and I said ‘hi’ back to the little tyke and his older sister sitting next to him. As I walked by the Mom didn’t look at me or acknowledge the interaction I just had with her kids.

When I came back to my car, to my delight, both kids leaned out and put their hands up to ‘high five’ me. It was fun and innocent. Their Mom was horrified and started yelling at them to sit down. Again, she didn’t acknowledge me at all. The kids were delighted with themselves and you could see they were perplexed by their Mom’s reaction.

It got me thinking. One of my best traits that I feel I have is being able to read people. I learned a long time ago and through ups and downs on how to trust my awareness. Now, I’ve also done some exceptionally dumb things like going places with people I didn’t know and was lucky enough that they were good people.

I’ve also worked with some pretty dangerous people and was also able to develop my awareness – my ‘spidey’ senses, if you will. And, honestly, when it came to dangerous people, it was the nicest and most charming that I had to be most careful around. Go figure. However, I learned to trust my awareness.

Why? My over-riding value was to be open and not judge. If you have no point of view, one way or the other, about something or someone – you’re actually more able to pick up on what you need to know.

We all have this ability but most of us don’t acknowledge it. We’re not aware of how aware we are. Funny, hey?

If we believe the world is a dangerous place and all people are to be feared - then we can’t be aware of what the truth is in any situation we may find ourselves in. And, in fact, if we do believe that the world and people are dangerous – we can find ourselves in circumstances that reflect that belief. It’s just the way our brain works – whatever we focus on or believe – our subconscious has to find evidence for that belief. We can then find ourselves attracting lousy situation after lousy situation – which, of course, reinforces our original belief.

What if we could just step back and decide to not judge a situation beforehand and allow our awareness to step up. When we do this, we get a sense of knowing that sometimes we can pinpoint to a feeling, a noticing of a persons actions or something else that we can’t pinpoint. We just get a sense (awareness) that this is good or this is not good.

The sooner we develop and acknowledge our awareness and come to rely on it – the smoother our life runs.

Here’s something else to consider, we can have well-developed awareness in a variety of areas and not so much in other areas. For instance, you might have a great awareness about investments, people, real estate and suck at jobs, love life and money management.
Take some time and write down these things:

• What areas do I do best in? What do I attract most easily?
• In each of those areas – what am I aware of that I am not acknowledging?

 

By starting that process, you can then start to get a sense of how your own awareness works so you can start to apply it to the other areas that don’t work as well.

Wouldn’t it be great to have the awareness that those kids did so you could go around high-five-ing anyone you choose? Wouldn’t life just be more fun?

Have fun with this and let me know what you find!

Cheers!

Shift | Shine | Grow

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This is My Church

P.S.
In the meantime, Shift…Shine…and Grow into the Life and Business you deserve!!

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Something Wonderful…

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deserve!!

PS: A great big “Welcome!” to all the new readers who joined our AttractMoreNow community since last week! You’re going to love the resources you’ll find here to help you

Shift | Shine | Grow …Enjoy!