Success = Money + Power + ???

“If we continue defining success as two metrics, money  and  power, it will be like trying to sit on a two legged stool. We’re going to fall off sooner or later.”  ~Arianna Huffington

 Arianna Huffington is an absolute powerhouse of a woman. There is no question about her phenomenal business success – she founded the Huffington Post, the #1 political (and now also #1 well-being) news site and blog.

…but more interestingly, through her experiences, she has evolved into a champion for a more holistic and sustainable paradigm of “success”.


Beyond money and power, in this video, Arianna explains the essential (and often missing) “third leg” of success.

In this talk, delivered at the 2014 Wisdom 2.0 conference, she delivers some of her most profound (and funniest) lessons… including the key shift she experienced after lying in a pool of her own blood after collapsing from work exhaustion…

Watch this talk. Arianna will make you laugh, and smile and really, really ask yourself, how do I want to spend the 30,000 days of my life?

With Love from Ukraine

 This Monday's Food For Thought courtesy of Lana Karasevych

Large groups of people generate powerful thought forms that may affect your thinking. For instance, at times some people are fearful about the economy; they think that a depression or recession is coming.

If you are worried about the economy, you may be unconsciously tuning in to their thoughts and fears and

responding to them as if they were your own.

Wherever you are, there are some people who feel they are living in troubled economic times and others who feel that the times are the best they have ever been. You create your prosperity no matter what the economy is like.

Your challenge is to keep your thoughts about your economic future positive and not be affected by what large groups of people are thinking or saying. Even during the worst economic times there are businesses and people who do quite well.

 And as always remember to ask yourself questions:

1. How does this advice relate to my situations?
2. How could following this advice change the outcome of my situations?
3. In what way can I apply this idea to better produce the outcomes I desire in the future?

With Love from Ukraine
Lana

Making space for something new, purge the old

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind,

what is the significance of a clean desk?

Laurence J. Peter

Every year, before Easter my mom cleans the whole house.  I call it “spring cleaning”. And there is a good reason for doing it. 

Whenever you want to bring in new business or new project, you have to purge the old. From Aristotle and Einstein way back when, to physicists today, both scientists and philosophers agree that (at least here on Earth) nature abhors a vacuum.

Meaning, when you create space, the Universe will gladly fill it up for you, with what your intentions are set on.

The problem is if you don't have space, nothing new can come in.

When we don’t throw away clutter and items we no longer need, it’s as if we don’t trust our ability to manifest the necessary abundance in our lives to buy new one. But incompletes like this keep that very abundance from showing up. We need to complete the past so that our present can show up more fully.

Are there areas in your life where you’ve left uncompleted projects or failed to get closure with people? When you don’t complete the past, you can’t be free to fully embrace the present.

Failing to complete robs you of valuable attention units

When you start a project or make an agreement or identify a change you need to make, it goes into your present memory bank and takes up what I call an attention unit. We can only pay attention to so many things at one time, and each promise, agreement, or item on your to-do list leaves fewer attention units to dedicate to completing present tasks and bringing new opportunities and abundance into your life.

So why don’t people complete? Often, incompletes represent areas in our life where we’re not clear-or where we have emotional and psychological blocks.

For instance, you might have a lot of requests, projects, tasks and other things on your desk you really want to say No to. So you put off responding to avoid saying No. Meanwhile the sticky notes and stacks of paper pile up and distract you. There may also be circumstances in which you have to make decisions that are difficult or uncomfortable. So rather than struggle with the discomfort, you let the incompletes pile up.

Some incompletions come from simply not having adequate systems, knowledge or because of our bad work habits.

So who to get into Completion Consciousness?

Take a look the The Cycle of Completion Steps:

1. Decide

2. Plan

3. Start

4. Continue

5. Finish

6. Complete

Each of these steps is required to succeed at anything, to get a desired result, to finish.

Continually ask yourself “What does it take to actually get this task completed?” Then you can begin to consciously take that next step of filling completed documents, calling a clients to complete a contract or making payments, etc.

The truth is that 20 things completed have more power that 50 things half completed.

Action steps:

How many things do you need to complete, dump, or delegate before you can move on and bring new activity, abundance, relationships or excitement into your life? Make a list, choose four items, write down how you’ll complete each task. Start completing them. Choose those that would immediately free up the most time, energy or space for you – whether it’s mental space or physical space.

Also add what’s irritating you. Like incompletes, daily irritants are equally damaging to your success because they, too, take up attention units.

What is your favourite way for making space for something new?

Are you charging enough?

When's the last time you sat down and had a moment of honesty with yourself about why your fees are where they're at? 

You probably have several good logical reasons for explaining your fees. But how about the real reasons? 

Not being confident about what you're charging is one hell of an effective way to never get what you want. 

Have you noticed that your clients keep bumping up against their "money stuff"? 
And it's likely that your clients' triggers are mirroring YOURS, right? 

It is time to heal our relationship with money

When I mentor my entrepreneur clients, most of them are surprised to discover that I spend just as much time coaching on a correct money mindset as I do on sound business strategies. How you think and feel about money is even more important than how you earn it.

Your relationship with money is precious.
Your quality of life and freedom to become who you are depends
on it. Once you become aware of how much conflict and disturbed emotion you are carrying about money, something needs to be changed in your relationship with money.

How Your Money Story Shapes Your Financial Mindset

It is commonly stated that only 5% of people who start new businesses are successful and profitable. This means that 95% of entrepreneurs are struggling to create financial prosperity.

These statistics really concern me. It is my belief that the more YOU get to do the work you are deeply called to do, the better this world will be. And it is my life's service to help as many people as I can make their passions profitable!

Have you ever noticed how some people work hard, do all the right stuff, and still can’t get ahead, while others attract whatever they want effortlessly? Everyone has a magic. Life becomes difficult when you try to do someone else’s magic instead of your own. What is my magic to be successful – is my relationship with money.... I am not kidding. When I found this magical word “relationship with money”- my life was changed.

My Process For Setting & Achieving Goals

Beginning of the year is the perfect time to press reset on key areas of your life and business so that you can begin the year with energy...and create the results you want.

Every year I choose a personal theme to pull me forward. This works because without it, you're likely to fall back on old conditioning or old ways of looking at situations that keep you stuck exactly where you are now.

2014 will be a very special year for me. My theme will be - "to Act as If". Transformation was my keyword for the last 2 years and indeed I invested in myself and my business a lot and learned a lot.

Now it's time to step to a whole new level! This year is going to be about “to Act as If” in every possible levels - in business, in my private life and my health-wellbeing business. it's time for me to make another significant leap forward in income, reach and impact.

The MOST Important Time of the Day

"It’s easy to be negative and unmotivated, but it takes some work to be positive and motivated. While there’s no off button those relentless ‘tapes’, there are things that you do to turn down the volume and shift your focus the negative to the positive".  Donna Cardillo, R.N.

We spend a lot of time dealing with what I call “the chatter box in our heads”. We beat ourselves up for things we have done in the past, worry about how to do things perfectly in the future, and obsess about all there is to do in the NOW.

To relieve ourselves from the internal chaos, we dive headfirst into as much busywork as we can. And then, we feel completely out of control, or worse, out of touch with our true desires. This is why—although I’m a huge advocate of getting things done—I also believe the MOST important time of any day for entrepreneurs is your quiet time.

Today I want to share with you an important part of my focusing regimen – I call it “45 minutes just before going to bed”.

Are you ready to attract only the Ideal Clients?

Have you tried everything you're "supposed to do" to get clients and it's still not working?

Have you been trying to stay "in the flow" and focused on abundance, but in reality, all your intentions, affirmations and positive thinking HASN'T translated into more clients and dollars in your bank account?

Let’s imagine that your business is like a "lighthouse" standing strong and tall on the rocky shore of a beautiful harbor. The water is calm, the sky is blue, and many boats are out at sea. But off in the distance a storm cloud is forming. It approaches the shore very quickly.

How to manifest a new client, money?

Happy Friday,

This time I decided to give you some deep information to think over the weekend – look at your business and your life from different prospective.

And today I want to answer one of the questions I am frequently asked.

How to manifest a new client, money or a new car?

First of all, you are always manifesting, in every moment, with every choice and decision you make, with every reaction,manifest-money thought and feeling, and with every desire you set into motion. Your consciousness, awareness and understanding determine what you manifest and experience in the outer world.

What is your relationship with money?

Happy Friday,

This week I want to share with you a very important subject which affects every area of our life and your Business- our relationship with money. You might think: “Lana is “crazy”, how can I have a relationship with money?” You are not alone, I used to think the same –I only had relationships with men, friends, kids, est.

But when I looked at my relationship with money and changed my inner dialogue with money my business and income kept growing. Within six months I had accrued such a waiting list of clients that I did not have to look for my new clients; they were finding me. Keep reading….