A couple of years ago I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, and I discovered something truly amazing.

You see, the food was great, but for some reason every time I ate at camp I was left really poorly with sickness and diarrhea- which isn’t great at the best of times, let alone when you are camping in a 2 man tent with your 66 year old Dad, in freezing conditions, and hiking up to 10 hours a day at a high altitude!

I was afraid that if I ate less then I would have less energy, and not make it to the top.

Fortunately, I had prepared ahead with all my ‘energy tools’ that I had learned from being in my business and needing to manage my energy as a sensitive type or Earth angel.

What was so amazing was that within a few hours of stopping the food that was making me sick and switching to my secret super foods I was bouncing up that mountain!

I believe whatever summit you are striving towards in life- whether its to make your first million, change the World through philanthropy, find more balance and peace in your daily routine or all of the above then these supportive secrets can help!

These tools and tips can help support you if you are sensitive, travel a lot, or need to be on your ‘A’ Game for an event or meeting!

Rhodiola- This is my flying secret- it is a literal miracle worker- it completely stops you getting tired and stressed! I just take it on the flight and for a day or two after landing. Usually I buy a tincture and add it to water but you can take a pill as well- whatever you prefer. I once forgot it and felt dizzy and weird-but when I remember I don’t even notice and can roll right into whatever I am doing, whether working with clients, trekking to jungles or attending a swanky do!

I am one of those people who doesn’t care ‘how’ I just want the result – fast- but if you love the sciencey-how bit then check out this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodiola_rosea

Maca- Essential if you are at a high altitude or having hormonal challenges, it supports your adrenals and makes you more energised. I don’t go crazy on this and eat it daily like some folks- but I had a liquid form of it on Kili and it was awesome- even my Dad was a fan and he is a super sceptic of all this ‘woo woo nonsense’- In fact he said without it on summit night he would not have made it Thanks Maca! I like it in hot chocolate with raw cacao and almond milk mmmmm- yum.

Protein bars – If you’re anything like me your blood sugar can drop super fast- keep some healthy protein bars for emergencies! I like these organic ones- you can get them at wholefoods by the box- or online if you are UK based.

 
 
This is where I get them from
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Almonds- Just the most amazing snack foods- have some on you at all times! Alkalising, healthy, packed with nutrients and easy to get most places. Almonds are lifesavers!

Coconut water- I always try and grab a fresh coconut or some bottled coconut water when I land anywhere- it totally helps to replenish lost fluids and is more hydrating than water. It has electrolytes in so its uber beneficial- Again I don’t really know the science- just that it works!

Flower Essences- I always have rescue remedy with me, I usually take some on flights as security and all that stresses me out and I have been known to be the one running for the gate- yes even at 7 months pregnant… And my other must have flower essence for flights is YARROW- it helps with all the electro-magnetism apparently
 
 
 

Essential Oils – My friend Christina Morassi turned me onto these when I had my son, and they have been awesome. there is one called peace and calming which kids love- and I like Valor for when I am speaking on stages and have some nerves.

I hope these little tips help you! I really recommend trying some of these powerful ‘magic bullets’ – I f you need a place to start try getting Rhodiola for your next long haul flight and working with the Bach’s flower essences and see how you get on…

Be sure to comment BELOW and let me know your magic bullets for managing your energy and any other tips you have to share!

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Going….	….Going….	….Gone.

Life here lately has been pretty messy as Ludo gets to grips with food. In the beginning I was wary of letting him get stuck in, worrying about all the mess it would make. But I soon realised if he is going to learn and master the process of eating and putting food in his mouth it’s going to be a journey- and a messy one at least to begin with. So, in my infinite wisdom I gave him a bowl of pasta with sauce….

I once had a mentor who when I went to her bemoaning another mess in my life where I had failed to set or stand by my boundaries, or had been less than graceful, or screwed up – again would calmly tell me- “It’s always awkward before it is elegant.”

This phrase gave me the courage, compassion and patience with myself to take a deep breath and do my best to clean up the mess, forgive myself and continue to learn and grow, despite my discomfort.

Watching little Ludo so innocently and keenly get to grips with the basics of life:- moving, talking, eating: is so heartening and encouraging.

He gets frustrated, needs to take breaks, needs encouragement and reassurance and has to practice until he gets it, but there is no doubt that he will eat, walk, run and speak, and there is no doubt that tomorrow is a new day with new opportunities for him to grow, learn and develop.

It makes me wonder- What if we could keep this stance all through our lives? That no matter how many times we ‘fail’ or make a mess in our relationships, wellbeing, businesses or finances we can simply take it as experience, look to tomorrow, enjoy the present and without shame, quitting, or self-loathing we keep trying until we get the breakthrough.

It reminds me of a favourite quote of mine:

“You have to fail your way to success”.

So I hope little Ludo and his messy eating will inspire you to be willing to fail and try something new today and be willing to go through life’s little messes knowing that you are one step closer to your desires.

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When BIG opportunities come around that would make us stare into the abyss and face our  biggest fear, we find a way to get ourselves off the hook…..

There are 4 magic words we use anytime we are scared as an ‘easy’ way out….

I Can’t Afford It

When we are scared to say YES to who we know we are, when we fear what others will think or say, when we resist our path, this is the song we start singing…. and we cut ourselves off from our good and limit God/the Universe to give us the resources to create what we say we want to manifest. I’m going to give you 4 steps to quickly create the cash you need to Get Your Gifts Out and invest in anything you want.

What we are really saying is:

‘I am scared’

When we are scared “I can’t afford it” is the easiest and most ‘don’t call me on my sh*t’ excuse in the book. But it’s patently absurd for any of us to say…We always find the money for what we consider a need.

If you are blessed with a roof over your head, money in the bank and in your wallet and a little extra in a dish somewhere, and resources like technology at your fingertips you are in the top 8% of the World’s wealthy.

Note to self: When I started out I didn’t invest in myself because I could afford it. In fact, my payment for the deposit on one of my early mentoring groups bounced and my mentor’s team called me to find out what was going on.

The amount was just £100.00! I said “Just give me a week, I will find a way!”

And I did find a way, because I had decided and committed. I sold stuff on ebay, I cleared my money clutter, I started to get serious about my business- and money started showing up and flowing in. Weird stuff happened, like I received a tax rebate and won some money on premium bonds! But there were also distractions and fears that came up- you need to be on the look out for that and just stay foccussed! My good did come in…just in time…

But only after I said yes and committed.

So this is the secret- You don’t ever say yes because you can afford it, you say yes to become the person who can afford it. Even when it’s scary.

So what are the tools you need?

The tools for my art -of life and business transformation was advancing my self-realisation and experience by receiving mentoring. For you, it might be something else that you know you need- a piece of equipment like a new laptop that is faster and more advanced, a certain lens to take the photos you desire, a deeper intensive to deepen your shamanic work.

Whatever it is, if you are committed you will find a way.

Here are 4 simple secrets that can help you:

• Get Specific - Write the exact amount you want by when and write it as if it has already manifested: I am so happy and grateful that I now have £5,000.00 by April 1st 2012.HINT: I write the desired outcome 15 times every day on A4 paper and do it almost like a visualisation of inscribing my desire into energetic matter
• Get Connected: Refuse to allow the thinking that you ‘can’t’ have what you want or get what you need. Reprogram this thought with powerful affirmations and when you say them daily put your body heart and soul into- by getting into it and moving, singing, really feeling the affirmation as you say it. Take time each day for your wealth reading, affirmations and connection (prayer /meditation/walks in nature etc) So you can receive the guidance with the aligned action you need to take.
• Get Strategic: Write a list of all the ways you can make money, people who owe you money, might lend you the money or where you have money ‘stuck’ and not working for you. Work through your list- circle the top 3 and I bet you will have the amount you desire before you get to the end of the list.
• Get Focussed: You will need all your focus, energy and mastery for this, especially if its a short time frame- so turn off the box, drown out the noise and negativity, eat well, take daily MASSIVE action and have a pivotal phrase, person or text that you can turn towhen the inevitable ‘Upper Limit’ symptoms start showing up. This can trigger a kind of healing crisis, when suddenly you receive bills and dramas ‘pop’ that have been bubbling under the surface but if you just work through it , stay focussed, and clean it all up knowing you are creating it- you will come out the other side more in you power and realising you can do anything you set your mind to!

So when people say to me they don’t have the money to do what they want I never see that as an obstacle. I don’t believe in lack. I never had £20,000.00 in my pocket just sitting there whist I thought- ‘hmmmm….what should I do with this? I know- Why don’t I do a coaching program? ‘

The money showed up after I had made the decision to do whatever it was that I really wanted to do and then followed the steps above.

Working with the miraculous takes courage, and no one said this path would be easy.

There are times when you will wish it was.

There are times when you will wonder why you can’t just ‘be normal’.

If your destiny is calling you, no matter how quietly, you will find it impossible to ignore- whether its telling you to leave the security of a job, start a foundation, travel the World, or join a coaching program….

So don’t let money or your story around the lack of money come between you and your destiny.

Ultimately its not money but listening to your deep intuition, saying YES to YOU and giving the gift that you and only you are here to give- that will be the most valuable to you and the World.

AKA: Quit Your Job And Get Your Gifts OUT!

I still remember vividly the day I left employment behind me for good to become self employed, and eventually step into my highest calling as a Spirit-led entrepreneur.

I was working in a glossy PR agency, with high brow clients like Miele, Nicky Clarke and Wella and was desparately trying out the ‘graduate-gets – a life- and- a -job -and- ‘settles down’ thing’

…But I was more unsettled than ever.

I was so bad at my job that I used to hide in the magazine cupboard and pretend to sort out the magazines, I used to get told I did everything wrong- the way I signed off my emails was not formal enough, the way I glued the mood boards was not neat enough, the way I binded the company presentations was not straight enough and the coffee I made was not strong enough.

After years of studying at University, £10′s of thousands invested in my education, here I was making coffee and running around like crazy for a measly £12,000.00 a year.

Is This Really It?

Is this it?? I asked myself every day as I looked around my office…

I’d had so many dreams, so much energy, creativity and potential…But now I felt completely stuck and hopeless.

I was hungry for meaningful, creative work that filled me with joy and paid me well, but where would I find it?

None of my friends were much better off, no one made more than 10k extra than me per year and I was afraid that if I went for another job I would only get more entrenched and never get out.

So I took a nighttime and weekend bar job to make up my money and began to ask people who came in the pub that seemed happy and successful in what they did.

The ones who would come in at unusual times, the ones popping champagne corks- what businesses were they in? What did they do?

The thing they had in common was entrepreneurship.

After my extensive research (pulling pints has been some of my greatest education!) I concluded it was time for me to have a go and set up some kind of business on my own. There was one problem …I was completely terrified and I had no idea on Earth what I could do…

However, I knew that I had to leave this job that was draining me and that I could no longer fake it at work.

I knew I sucked at pretending to be ‘corporate‘ and I had already called in sick with a hangover in my first 2 months because my coping mechanism was to get really drunk at night so I did not have to think about how crappy my life had got.

I woke up, went to work, had ideas and dreams about making some sort of difference and then struggled through piles of papers and email before getting home having a piece of toast of going out to the pub for my shift.

All my dreams of a life of freedom, excitement, travel, adventure and humanitarianism seemed like a million miles away and my reality was the 9-5 that I had always dreaded. Urgh.

The Leap Of Faith

The day came for me to quit. I had never quit a job before, I remember feeling so afraid – afraid of the unknown, afraid of what ‘the peanut gallery’ would think, afraid of what my boss would say.

I plucked up the courage and I can remember the terror that gripped me was so intense- I thought to myself- “How does anyone quit a job to take a chance on their dreams if they have a mortgage and kids?” I was 22 and just had a student loan and the rent on my flat to find – which I knew I could make if I took more hours at the pub until I figured out my path.

This was one of the first times I became aware of the power of a decision to shape your life:

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.” Goethe

Looking back, just 7 years later and I now have created the life I longed for in my early 20s, thanks to taking that scary decision.

I’m so grateful i took a leap into the unknown and set about manifesting a life and business that allows me to work in my gifts, get paid abundantly without limits and take time off when I want.

I do travel the World, work with humanitarian projects such as the protection of the remaining Amazon rainforest with the Pachamama Alliance and their indigenous partners, and supporting orphanages in Africa and Ecuador.

I recently gave birth to my son and am so grateful that I have plenty of time to be with him and watch him grow up, without worrying about needing to ask my boss for time off if he gets ill or if I want to watch him in the school play or sports day.

I feel blessed with the ability to be a mum and have a business that I love, and I believe the balance flows from doing something that you love, which is on purpose, and plays to your strengths, whilst you outsource the rest!

So How Do YOU Find Your True Calling?

As you can imagine, I didn’t just quit my job and overnight figure out my Calling, but I did get on the path.

I don’t believe in overnight success.

Anyone who has achieved anything in their life and made their life a masterpiece has prepared for opportunity and taken the rough with the smooth.

If you are thinking of starting your own business you must first commit to the mental, emotional and spiritual work necessary when you move out of the security of a paycheck and regular income. You must work on your mindset, wealth consciousness and faith every day.

Entrepreneurs learn to listen to and feel the ebb and flow of life and respond to the challenges, twists and turns on the path whilst staying empowered and not falling into victim mode-

Here are some practical tips to help you in answering your highest call:

1. Live In Your Gifts, Outsource The Rest: You need to ‘go with your own grain’ rather than against it and get really honest about what you excel at and what you either can’t stand or can’t do well, and find a team to support you to live your big dream. If you’d like to learn how I did this and you are in a service based industry check out the resources available at my website, www.getyourgiftout.com
2. Take 100% Responsibility for your life and everything in it. As an empowered creator and entrepreneur there is no one to point the finger at, you MUST take 100%responsibility for your thoughts, choices and actions because its up to you…However you’ll also be challenged to be more loving and accepting of yourself as you navigate the sometimes choppy waters of going it alone.Ultimately there is no one to tell you what to do, and you will make mistakes, because that is how we learn. You quickly discover that as an entrepreneur you need to fail fast, learn quickly and fail your way to success. This was huge for me , as I had never given myself permission to fail at anything before and thought everything needed to be perfect…Entrepreneurs know the importance of ‘good enough’ and the power of “Just Do It” …If you think it over too much you may miss your chance,….
3. Adopt technology if you haven’t already- Release the story that you are ‘not good with computers’- the web is the most powerful tool for business and can free you up to live and work anywhere in the World! Bless the web and make your laptop your best friend! We live in such a time of opportunity and potential, use those resources, even if they are out of your comfort zone at first.
4. Be You. I can’t think of better advice for women starting up in their own venture than to just be yourself,… people are tired of faceless, anonymouse companies and we want more than ever connection and human touch…Just look at the rise of facebook and social media to see what I mean.

The power of YOU is that there is no one else like you and people are genuinely interested- try to find a way to bring your passions into your business- like Richard Branson with his hot air balloons or Anita Roddick with her humanitarian ethos.

This is the age of the strong personal brand- whatever your business- be it airplanes, beauty products, cakes or coaching, be sure to add your unique essence and bring all of yourself to the party.

Finally, I want to leave you with the call to sing your song in this life, don’t die with your music still in you. You are special, you do have gifts and talents that the World needs – What you are naturally good at is Life’s clue as to what you are here to do.

Your life is not meant to be a struggle, feel into what you love and what you do best and find ways to add value to people.

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Blessings

This week I started work on my second book and it’s been terrifying!

I am used to getting out of my comfort zone, but something about committing to this project has made me question everything about myself and my life! Yes, its true what is said about resistance- the more a project or enterprise is important to the growth of your soul, the more fear you will feel about doing it!

So how is your resistance showing up?

Today I wanted to help you to identify a classic example of resistance- waiting to be perfect or ‘healed’ before starting your business, going to the next level, or moving ahead with a creative project…. and what you can do to get past it.

I realised this week there is a huge difference between living IN fear and living WITH fear.

As creative beings we are meant to do those things that scare us, not stay stuck avoiding them. I hope this article will help you to move through any resistance you might be experiencing right now and get your magnificence into the World in even greater ways.

Are you waiting until you are perfect, ‘fixed’, healed, lighter, stronger, smarter or more qualified before you start the project that is burning a hole in your soul?

Its all very well being on a personal journey of healing, growth and transformation, but too often I see gifted people hiding behind this growth and using it as a delay technique to justify their procrastination around making money, getting new clients, picking up the phone to an incredible opportunity, becoming more visible, publishing- or writing- their writings or completing their plans and actioning them consistently.

Accept that perfection is a false premise designed by the ego to keep you feeling unworthy and prevent you taking bold steps in the direction of your dreams.

You really are good enough right now. Even with an unmade bed and a relationship drama. Even with an extra 10lbs, even with a failed business/relationship/creative project/all of the above behind you.

Accept and love yourself wherever you are right now and recognize that your personal life doesn’t have anything to do with your soul’s work here on Earth.

Start today on your dreams and don’t look back.

If you don’t feel ready, if you are afraid, if it seems like you ‘just need to….’ then you MUST start!

Your genius comes from a place within you that is always ready, is deeper, stronger and unaffected by anything external. Its bulletproof, and you can count on it- you just need to move out of your own way to let it do its thing.

In fact- if you look at many artists, from Beethoven to Amy Winehouse, you’ll see the truth that the more troubles you have the richer and better that creative part of you becomes, so release the excuse that everything in your life has to be perfect before you get on and do your thing.

“I’ve nothing against true healing. We all need it. But it has nothing to do with doing our work and it can be a colossal exercise in Resistance…Resistance knows that the more psychic energy we expend dredging and re-dredging the tired boring injustices of our personal lives, the less juice we have to do our work.”
Steven Pressfield- the War of Art

If you need a helping hand then you can get my free audio here- www.getyourgiftout.com

HINT: Even better- do 15 minutes right now of whatever you have been avoiding and THEN listen to it!

As entrepreneurs we are constantly learning about our relationships to money, our value and our ability to manage our resources. It’s never too late to start fresh and improve your relationship with money and overcome any fears you have about allowing in your Divine abundance and getting out of the shadows and fear that are so rife with this topic! (It’s often said it’s easier to teach a workshop on sex than on money!)

Apply even just one of today’s tips and see how your relationship with money begins to heal.

1- FOCUS: What You Focus on Grows: When it comes to money are you focussed on your debts, bills, and the things or experiences you don’t yet have? Worrying about what you fear is like praying for it to happen. Switch your focus and get determined to only focus on the positive, keep a gratitude journal that you write in every night and count your blessings to watch them grow! It’s true that what you appreciate, appreciates.

2- PERSPECTIVE: The next time you find yourself feeling wanting or thinking/saying/behaving from a place of poverty consciousness take a step back and get some perspective- remember how much money is easily available to you- The below is from an anonymous author, it sure can make you think.

If you have food in your refrigerator,

clothes on your back, a roof over

your head and a place to sleep,

you are richer than 75% of this world.
If you have money in the bank,

in your wallet, and spare change

in a dish someplace, you are among

the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.

3- ATTENTION: Money likes to be paid attention and tickled behind the ears. Just like a child if you don’t pay with positive attention it will cost you and money will start playing up, doing anything to get you to notice it! SO if you go into denial and avoid doing your accounts, taxes, and budgets it will get your attention with fines, losses and bills!

4- TRACKING: Check in with your money every day to build your relationship with your finances. Check your balances, move money in alignment with your financial savings/investments/debt repayment plan and write down what comes in every day- every penny counts- and this is a powerful exercise to encourage the positive flow of money into your life: remember money loves having your attention and care!

5- TITHING: Tithing will eventually free you from all financial lack. Find a cause you love and start giving whatever you can afford, but make a start today! Every phase of your life improves; becomes more harmonious, balanced, healthy, and happy due largely to invoking the prosperity law of Gratitude. You will see financial miracles begin to happen as you affirm your own abundance and plenitude.

6- LOVE & JOY: All the above will only work with the faithful practice of an ‘attitude of gratitude’ and an energy of love and joy- If you imagine money as a being and realise that you have got into a pattern or habit of abuse/neglect/fear/control or whatever is true for you, then huge shifts can happen as you heal those old stories and start fresh with a healthy new relationship to money this year of the water dragon!

7- PRAYER: Unfortunately many people fail to see the connection between spirituality and prosperity, when the two are divinely connected. Your good, abundance and money are yours by divine right and you are not separate from it. The Universe, Higher Power, God or whatever term you use to define all that is wants you to enjoy your peace, prosperity, love and good health right now! It’s your ego’s job to keep you ‘safe’ at all costs- even when you are being invited by your Spirit to step up into greater success, health, happiness and abundance- so watch out for the ‘I can’t afford it story’ which is really just the easiest way of saying ‘I’m scared to grow and need a convincing excuse that I won’t be challenged on….’

8- EXPAND : Create a consciousness of limitlessness rather than one of limitation by seeing abundance, supply, opportunity and prosperity everywhere – even in the face of so-called ‘failure’ or ‘disaster’. When one of my clients is going through an especially tough patch I often remind them what roses grow best in!

9- BELIEVE YOU’RE DESERVING: Many people are holding onto ‘Who Am I?’ beliefs and stories and deep down feel they are not worthy or not good enough, and therefore cannot expect to have much or get their wants/needs/desires met. As a consequence they have a habit of giving up, giving in, self-sabotaging and finding other ways of stopping before their financial breakthrough.

10- CLARITY: Have you actually decided to make/keep more money this year? Get clear on exactly how much more and why you want it, write out exactly what the money if for, why it is important to you and why you shall have it. Decide to lift your faith and envision the vastness of Universal supply- and it’s yours for the asking, claiming and accepting if you allow yourself to get clear about what you need and desire!

Sometimes when I feed my son he is so frantic to get the milk that he mistakenly pushes away exactly what he most wants and needs. Whilst squirming about and clutching for it, waving his hands and trying to speed things up, it becomes harder to actually get the milk to his mouth and he slows everything down! This ends up with him getting more frustrated, until I pin his little arm down or hold his hand out of the way (I’m always impressed how strong a 10 week old baby can be!)

Interestingly, this is something I have noticed with myself or with clients sometimes, when a result or outcome is so badly desired that it becomes almost impossible to receive it, and the more we want it and struggle to get it, the slower and more arduous the whole process becomes. On my journey of ups and downs, mastering the art of manifesting and creating the life of my dreams I have had to continually surrender and ‘let go’ to read more about my journey here http://www.katharinedever.com/mentoring/.

So today’s article is about how to receive your desires faster, let go of attachments and basically get out of your own way!

1. Breathe

It sounds basic, and it is, but so often we forget to just take a breath and step back and see the situation for what it is. We lose perspective when we get attached or start chasing something, or decide on the way things ‘should’ be. We forget to trust life, trust the process and believe in the good that is naturally ours and will find us once we are available for it! Yes – it’s not so much as needing to ‘get’ your good, as it is about being open, ready and willing to receive it, so place your energy on shifting to that space rather than the ‘grabbing’ space of lack, fear and want.

2. Know

Get yourself into your knowing. Listen to your intuition, ask for what you want and then ALLOW, by leaning back and hearing the messages you receive, looking out for signs and then taking immediate action upon your guidance. Cultivate a knowing inside you of safety and enoughness:

“We each have the choice in any setting to step back and let go of the mind-set of scarcity. Once we let go of scarcity, we discover the surprising truth of sufficiency. By sufficiency, I don’t mean a quantity of anything. Sufficiency isn’t two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn’t a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency isn’t an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough, and that we are enough.” Lynne Twist, the Soul of Money

3. Gratitude

You’ve heard it before and no doubt will be reminded again, but I’m harping on about gratitude anyways, because it’s fundamental to receiving your good. As the old saying goes- what you appreciate, appreciates – so make a note today of all the many and myriad blessings in your life and extend your gratitude to another and make their day!

With All My Love & Blessings,

Katharine

With the hubbub of 2012 getting louder and everyone looking ahead, planning and thinking about what the next year has in store, its the perfect time to tune in and receive your wisdom from the place inside that is ‘access all areas’ and can connect the Grand Design, or ‘Divine Plan’ for your life.

For me, things tend to get messy in my life when I try and take over and ‘Edge God Out’ because I think I have to do it all alone. I think its little ole me that needs to write the article, plan my day, deliver the speech, and I forget to call on something wiser, higher, and greater than myself to help me. I find it becomes infinitely easier when I surrender, let go and allow Spirit/God/Life to lead the way….

When I actively invite this Power into my life, that is when the magic happens- I need to take the time to seek this guidance and ask for help before I really get the magic/solution/support I needed- and very often it looks nothing like I thought or could have ‘made happen’ with just my mind’s agenda.

Today I am sharing three tips to get out of your own way and allow that magic into all aspects of your business and life, whether its speaking at a big conference or figuring out why your baby is crying.

3 Ways to quickly re-set your dial and tune in to your higher knowledge (As always use whatever word works for you to describe Higher Power- God/Source/Life/Spirit…I kinda mix them up…)

1. Ritual

Never underestimate the power of a ritual to get you back on track and hear your inner voice. Far be it from me to prescribe ‘how you should’ create a ritual instead get creative like a child again and create a ritual that suits you, and is appropriate to the situation, space, and time. Some ideas to try might be a particular location, clothing, candles, insence, element, exercise, breathing technique song incantation or prayer to help set the scene and set up some sacred space for you to get clear and hear your inner knowing:

Example – Before I go on stage to a big audience I completely release my planned talk to Life. I ask the Light to come through me, and to give people what they need. I say my affirmation “I am no one’s opinion of me, I am not even my own opinion of me, God please allow me to serve and may your will be done”

2. Ask

If you aren’t clear then what you want can’t really show up in the juicy way its meant to. Ask for what you desire and ask for help especially. Invite God/Spirit/Your Higher Self/Life into your everyday life & business with this simple and memorable passage from ‘A  Course In Miracles’, to move you from manifestation from your ego, to actualisation of your Soul’s Purpose:

‘Where would you have me go?’
‘What would you have me do?’
‘What would you have me say? and to whom?’

3. Intention

Never underestimate the power of your intention to completely transform anything in your life. Working intentionally carries amazing results and can be the difference between a great time and a rocky one. I especially use the power of Intention for tuning in when I can not set up quiet time or space and am in potentially stressful situations:

Example: I always get great flights and have seamless experiences at airports, because I set my intention before the trip, and I do the same with car journeys, and I guess like lots of you with parking spaces too!

Start with the little things and practice tuning in every day and before you know it you’ll be tuning in to higher input on everything from how much money you want to make next year to what kind of services you could offer!

(To learn more about how you too can make a living in your true gifts and be paid abundantly click here)

A few months ago I had this dream that I would give birth in a part of the World that I felt warm, supported and connected to Mother Earth.

My mother asked me “Are you giving birth in Bath hospital or Bristol hospital?” I asked my mum “Mummy, If you could give birth in any way you wanted, anywhere in the World what would be your dream?”

She laughed at me and looked a bit confused, rolled her eyes and I could see the familiar expression of exasperation cross her face. Followed by a resigned ‘Ok Katharine…’

But despite the reactions that made me doubt myself, somewhere deep inside me this felt possible…it became my newest miracle project, my new fascinating  question. I had asked myself other empowering questions in the past that had allowed me to achieve my dreams- like “How can I appreciate my gifts and share them with others in fun and exciting ways?” “How good can I let it get” “What would I do/Who would I be if I had no fear?”

I asked my baby in meditation- Where do you want to be born? How do you want to enter the Earth, and where?

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