by Erin Owen | May 7, 2013 | Ezine
Survey Closed on 6/17/13. Final report pending. For more information, contact Info [at] YourPerformanceBreakthrough [dot] com.
- What do you do to boost your energy?
- How important is keeping the big picture in mind?
- Do you have time for everything that needs to get done?
- What helps you wake up in the morning?
- How well do you manage stress?
- How important is staying positive for business success?
I want to know, and I’m willing to pay you for your time!
How? Click HERE to complete a short survey and you will be invited to enter your name in a drawing to win one of ten prizes ranging in estimated value from $15 to $350, including:
- 1 (one) $100 gift card for Whole Foods Market (or equivalent at a locally-owned food retailer of your choosing)
- 1 (one) $50 AmEx gift card
- 4 (four) $25 Amazon.com gift cards.
- 1 (one) digital download of the resource Boost Your Performance In and Out of the Office with workbook, quick guide, and professionally recorded audio lessons ($350 value)
- 3 (three) author-signed copies of the book Refuel, Recharge, and Re-energize: The Conscious Entrepreneur’s Guide to Taking Back Control of Your Time and Energy ($15 value each) or a Kindle-version of the same book (not signed by author)
I will share the preliminary results of this survey in next week’s call “Your Success: What Quietly Secures it and Sabotages it” – or register to receive a link to the call recording – click HERE.
And after you’ve completed the survey:
- Visit the official Spring Into Being website for all the details on this unique mastermind incubator including the full program schedule, FAQ, a curriculum closeup, a list of partners and guest faculty, details on how to apply, and more.
by Erin Owen | May 1, 2013 | Events, Ezine
Registration is now open for the long-awaited and highly innovative mastermind incubator group program, called Spring Into Being®. I invite you to read on for more details on why this may be THE MOST IMPORTANT investment you have EVER made in yourself and your dreams!
The Bottom Line:
We creative, conscious, mission-driven people often struggle with staying on track with our visions as we clumsily navigate around and through many unexpected bumps and potholes on the road to executing our great ideas:
- From feeling isolated and under-resourced to knowing what to prioritize and how to allocate limited available time
- From the schizophrenic contrast of feeling passionately driven to follow our hearts and do good work in the world while at the same time feeling plagued by the desperate need to make our ideas financially viable so we can pay our bills and—eventually—give back to our communities.
Meanwhile, we are bombarded by messages from the media, the Internet, and well-intentioned friends and family, that our problems rest in not having the right social media marketing strategies or capital or strategic business plan or website to back us up, or worse—that our idea is “nice, honey, but just not realistic.” (Ugh, really?!?!)
In the process, we often get caught up in a spin of anxiety and stress, beating ourselves up, directing our attention in too many disparate and unproductive directions, spreading ourselves too thin, and putting our health and personal relationships at the very bottom of our priority list.
The Sad and Untimely Result:
We often end up burning out and giving up too soon, looking for a “day job” that will pay the bills and not torture our souls too much. Or, if you’re already in that “day job,” then you end up putting off—another month, another year, another decade—the pursuit of your dream project. (Oh, the shame and the agony, the frustration of failure and regret!)
Well, I am on a mission to change this so you can live your dream!
The Solution:
I want to empower you with the foundational knowledge, self-awareness, practices, and structured support to be successful in making your dreams a reality. Not only so that you can personally be happy, healthy, and performing at your best, but so that we can all benefit from the positive impact you make on our world when you are successful in executing your inspired vision.
How? In the Spring Into Being mastermind incubator, I provide the structure, guidance, and inspiration so you can:
- Clarify and crystallize the vision you have for your overall life vision and understand exactly how the big idea you’re inspired to bring into the world fits into and supports that big picture vision
- Implement simple and transformational practices for eliminating internal roadblocks and re-aligning your mindset, emotions, and everyday words and actions with your vision
- Effectively utilize critical communication skills to influence and gain support from the key people in your personal and professional networks that you need on board to make this happen
- Take back control of your schedule and boost your productivity with specific, immediately applicable strategies for time management and staying organized
- Prioritize your own well-being on all levels so that you—as the engine behind your important ideas—can operate at your optimum level
In addition, our outreach and technical partners and guest faculty provide the rest: guidance on business models, marketing plans, social media strategies, financing, staffing, and more. Whatever you need.
When and Where Does This Happen?
- We kick-off in June and the application period is open from May 1st to 31st
- Group calls and webinars, the online community and resources, and weekly inspirational and instructional emails are delivered virtually (allowing ease of participation for you, no matter where you live and work)
- The kick-off retreat in June and the wrap-up celebration retreat in November are held in-person on weekend days in the awesome historical and sustainably-minded city of Philadelphia on the East Coast of the U.S. (providing important personal connection in our technology-driven world)
3 Ways to Learn More:
- Visit the official Spring Into Being website for the full program schedule, FAQ, list of partners and guest faculty, details on how to apply, and more.
- Register to join one of the two free Spring Into Being Informational Calls on Wednesday, May 15 at 9:30 AM Eastern (6:30 AM Pacific) or 12:30 PM Eastern (9:30 AM Pacific) – or register to receive a link to the call recording.
- Schedule a free 15-minute Q&A call with me (Erin Owen) to talk about whether this program would be a good fit for you.
I look forward to having you join me on this amazing journey!
by Erin Owen | Apr 23, 2013 | Ezine
Last Sunday, I approached a friendly looking dog with a leash that was running solo down the street, thinking that I would tie it up and make it easier for its owner to find it.
Then, the dog growled, lunged, and bit my thigh.
Shocked, I screamed and jumped back. As soon as I realized the dog didn’t want anything more to do with me, I slowly turned around and got the heck out of there.
Here’s what I learned from the experience:
First, the Obvious—Never Trust a Dog You Don’t Know, No Matter How Cute He Is.
(I can just hear my six year’s old voice in my head: “Mom, um, duh!”)
Second, Life is Short. So live so You Have You No Regrets.
After meeting with the doctor and realizing the life-threatening nature of getting rabies, I quickly evaluated my options AND did some thinking about my life.
Happily, I realized that I have no regrets. I have made decisions I’m proud of, I am grateful for the way I’ve set-up my business so that I can spend time with my boys after school hours and be with my husband and family evenings and weekends, and am so glad I summoned the courage to make all the changes to my health and career and lifestyle ten years ago to get to where I am today.
That said, the experience did put an exclamation point on my desire to do my work in the world. And it’s given me even greater motivation to successfully support conscious-minded individuals in more effectively doing their work in the world now!
So, please support me by checking out the new mastermind incubator I’m starting in June (application period opens May 1st) and recommend someone who would benefit from the structure, support, and expert guidance to get their big idea out in the world. Spring Into Being!
Third, Sometimes it’s Best to NOT be Risk-averse but Instead Call on Courage to Move Forward in Powerful Ways.
I could have gone straight to the hospital to begin rabies treatment, but weighing the odds and remembering my second foundational principle (to direct my attention to where I wanted energy to follow), I set out to find the dog and its owner to confirm it was healthy.
When you have an idea or goal that you dream about over and over, that means that it’s calling to you—and it’s time to do something about it. Why wake up years later regretting you never followed your dream, when you could live out loud right now and go for it! It takes courage, for sure. But when you focus on your vision and your excitement, the courage comes more easily and leads to realizing your dream in this lifetime—which by far outweighs any doubts you might have, don’t you agree?
Fourth, Social Media Sites and Online Networks are Fast and Powerful, and Can be Leveraged for Incredible Good!
We’ve all read about this in the media when it comes to political movements and finding lost children. But, I experienced this first hand.
After doing a web search, I identified neighborhood and dog organizations in the area where the dog bit me and made a few calls and posted some messages online. Within minutes (minutes!), people called me back with suggestions and leads, offered to forward my message to others, and more. Less than an hour later, I had tracked down the dog and confirmed he was securely quarantined in animal control. Turns out he bit at least two other people and threatened others who tried to help him.
Like many of you, I can appreciate the benefits of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, but I don’t fully understand the best way to use them. After this experience, I’m now inspired to make even better use of social media.
Here’s what I’ve already started doing: I’m reaching out to ask people in my network to invite socially-minded people with a great idea that can benefit our world to apply to my new Spring Into Being group program. I’m also inviting recommendations for additional partners who can provide outreach and technical support to complement what I’ll be teaching.
If you already know someone who would benefit from learning effective strategies to avoid the most common pitfalls of starting a new endeavor, please share this link with them: http://execcareerreinvention.com/spring-into-being-basic-faq/
In this unique program—which turns a typical business incubator on its head—I’ll be focusing on PLATINUM SUCCESS FACTORS:
- Having a really clear idea about your overall life vision and how exactly this big idea of yours fits into and supports that big picture vision
- Knowing essential practices for cultivating much greater awareness of your internal roadblocks – when your thoughts or feelings are not in total alignment with your dream—and how to shift them back into alignment
- Effectively utilizing critical communication skills to influence and gain support from the key people in your personal and professional networks who you need on board to make this happen
- Explicitly acknowledging that you (YOU!) are the engine behind this idea and you must be operating at your optimum level physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually to not only get this thing up and running but successfully keep it running once it’s out there in the world
To learn more about the Spring Into Being program, click here.
Fifth, Fear is a Choice.
Sure, it was scary in the moment to get bitten by a dog and experience that shock and pain. And, sure I could have allowed my mind to start spinning about how awful the rabies treatments would be and how I might die if I didn’t get treatment, and on and on. But, why put myself through that?
None of that is real. What was real was having a big “boo boo” on my thigh and a nasty bruise to show for it, along with a really sore upper arm where the nurse administered the tetanus shot.
But, the reality is that I feel great! I’m healthy, happy, and living my life. I did what I could do to track down the dog, and the rest is out of my control. Why let my mind spin and get overwhelmed with fear? Fear is a choice and I choose to let it go and direct my energy to more of what I want in my life.
Sixth, ASK for Help—Even Strangers Will Go Out of Their Way to Help You.
Something I once learned while riding the subway in New York City is that, when asked, a total stranger will go out of his or her way to show you the way and help you find your destination. In this case, total strangers dropped everything and took precious time out of their day to forward messages and posts, to call me and follow-up, and to help my cause of finding the dog who bit me. How awesome is that!
We are all human beings who have basic needs to eat, sleep, be loved, and feel important. By sharing with others the vision that you have for what you want to create in the world, you’re inspiring them and inviting them to take part in that vision—and that meets their need to feel helpful, to feel important, to feel they’ve taken part in something larger than themselves.
As I move forward, inviting people I know AND people in their network to support me in making a positive impact on the world, I’ll be asking them: who do you know who is a socially minded or environmentally minded or health minded who wants to be more successful and make an even better impact? Along the way, I will be remembering these lessons from that dog who bit me.
And lastly, Be Prepared and Have a Really Well-stocked First Aid kit!
Yes, we have a first aid kit in our car, but it’s been well-used and was lacking many basic ingredients. So, the first thing I did when I arrived at the Cherry Blossom Festival in Fairmount that day right after the dog bit me, was to ask for a first aid kit. Thankfully they had an ambulance and an EMT onsite to clean and bandage the wound.
What’s in your first aid kit? Or, the better question to ask you is: what’s in your metaphorical first aid kid? Consider your self-care practices, your dearest personal and professional relationships, and other resources you can call on in times of need to be key ingredients in your first aid kit. Continue to re-stock your kit by nurturing them so that they are there for you when you need them.
In my life and work, I am mindful to re-stock my metaphorical first-aid kit (if not the actual one in my car – ha!). Because I regularly challenge my mind and body with the practices of yoga and meditation, when faced with this traumatic situation, I was able to calm myself immediately after and mostly stay connected with my inner joy as I moved through the layers of the experience. Through these past 10 days, I have been reminded to be even more conscious and pro-active in restock my metaphorical first aid-kit by continuing my platinum practices and calling on the resources I have intentionally and unintentionally lined up over the years.
So, thanks “Chomper” (that’s the nickname they gave him at animal control) for reminding me of these important lessons.
Some final questions for YOU to consider:
- How do you respond to challenge life situations?
- How are you continually re-stocking your metaphorical first-aid kit?
- What can you do now to live your life more fully so you have no regrets?
- Who can support you in taking concrete and positive steps forward in support of your dreams?
Here’s to you living and working in a way that is fully in alignment with the vision you have for your life!
by Erin Owen | Apr 17, 2013 | Ezine
I want to know.
What’s your big idea?
The one you’re itching to get into the world?
- Is it a new product or service for your existing customer/client base?
- Is it quitting your job to launch a community service organization?
- Is it a new initiative to improve access to healthy food?
- Are you hoping to downshift your business to focus more on your own pursuits and wellness?
- Is it the masterpiece inside you that you’ve not yet shared with the world?
What is it? What is your big idea?
I truly want to know…
And while you’re at it, tell me what stage of development it’s at.
Which of the following statements would best describe where you are:
This is “The Spark”, where you have the inkling of something you’d like to do and start to daydream about how you need to metaphorically weed the garden of your life and cultivate your soil to allow for the seed to get planted in the future.
This is when you get even more excited and you have what is like a really detailed, full-color “Visual Picture” of your idea in your head. You imagine your idea as being real, out in the world, and where you’re further along in the metaphorical weeding and cultivating stage and have ideas about the seeds, tools, soil conditions, and nutrients you’ll need to plant and cultivate – but if you’re planting, you’re still in the greenhouse.
This is the “Co-Creation” stage, where you’re planting in your metaphorical greenhouse and inviting others to come in and take a look and see what tools and expertise and supplies and nutrients they can offer up to help bring your seeds to life.
You’re deeper into the “Co-creation” stage, not only tending the metaphorical seeds you’ve planted in your greenhouse and using the support that’s come your way, but preparing the site where you’ll move your seedlings or more developed baby plants into the field outside.
You’re even further along in the co-creating stage, planting your seeds in the outside field or transferring your starter plants to the field, cultivating growth. It’s exciting to be out in the world and have it be real.
Your idea is solidly planted in the outside world, and you are cultivating its growth, while you continue to weed and prune and water and add nutrients.
You are beginning to see metaphorical buds or flowers or berries or first bits of harvest-able growth in your beautiful plants, and further along in this stage you’ll be harvesting wholly formed flowers or fruits or yields and celebrating successes more and more.
Next week I’ll write more about the challenges and opportunities of each stage of growth in bringing your big idea into the world.
For a sneak peek at my mastermind incubator group program, Spring Into Being®, launching later this Spring.
by Erin Owen | Apr 9, 2013 | Ezine
I told you last week that the two most successful clients I’ve worked with using my “do less, get better results” approach lost 40+ lb in about 3 months, but…
After last week’s ezine went out, my client Karen responded with her own fabulous results: 73 lbs and counting.
Will you be joining me on my call How to Lose Weight Effortlessly Without the 3 Dreaded D’s this Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 12 noon Eastern? Don’t miss out! Register Here
Are you feeling heavy and sluggish? Do you have a desire to lose some of the excess weight you put on over the winter months?
Are you dreading, though, that you’ll have to do it by Dieting? Or by taking some experimental Drug? Or, that you’ll have to enter the dreaded zone of Deprivation?
This is an important time of year to acknowledge the hardships you’ve been through, by reflecting on the cold, harsh winter months or your challenging past experiences, or by celebrating Passover or Easter.
By releasing your burdens and crossing over to the other side, you create space to emerge into a fresh, inviting place of new beginnings.
When you let go of excess weight, think of it as Spring cleaning for your body or de-cluttering your internal environment. When you do this, you feel lighter and more energized. You feel better about your body and yourself. And that positive shift of energy and outlook support the planting & cultivating of new seeds in your life.
What will I talk about on Thursday’s free call?
- The #1 Eastern-inspired secret for losing weight effortlessly
- Foundational Principles I teach my private clients that are essential for letting go of what no longer serves you
- How to Go with the Flow to lose weight naturally and without the 3 Dreaded D’s (Dieting, Drugs, and Deprivation)
But, first… The Bottom Line: What do you have to gain? And what do you have to lose?
My least successful client who experimented with these ideas lost only 3 pounds in a month, and two of my most successful clients lost more than 40 pounds in three months and the one I mentioned above has lost 73 pounds to date.
How to Lose Weight Effortlessly
Without the 3 Dreaded D’s
April 11, 2013 at 12 noon Eastern
To learn more or sign-up to grab your spot on the line for this call, click here now.
Exciting BONUSES for Joining the Call LIVE
When you receive email confirmation of your registration for the call, you’ll also receive details about the 4 bonuses you’ll receive for joining the call LIVE at the scheduled day and time. (And, yes, these are unique bonuses just for this call!)
Why am I offering bonuses? I know you’re busy, so I want to make it worth your while to commit and follow through to joining me live! Plus, I love hearing your voice and having you be present on the call.
Register now, put the details on your calendar and don’t miss it!
Remember to sign-up for How to Lose Weight Effortlessly Without the 3 Dreaded D’s and plan to join it LIVE to receive the 4 special bonuses.
I look forward to hearing your successful weight loss and cleanse/detox stories!
