The Art of Being Your Commitment

The shortest route between you and all you desire involves asking yourself daily or moment-to-moment, “Who do I need to be to bring what I am committed to into reality?”

– Ann Strong, from the book “Thriving Work, 90 days of daily practice to transforming you and your coaching, consulting or healing business”

For the past six months, I have been committed to bringing the next version of my coaching business into the world.  A much messier and more humbling process than I had imagined!  It just occurred to me today that I might want to work through the workbook of my own book!!!

So, I began with an affirmative prayer from Chapter 1.

Radiant Wave of Oneness

I am a radiant wave in the
ocean of Oneness.

I am one with God.
I am all that God is
All I desire and need is mine,
easily and effortlessly –
as I am willing to receive
the love and abundance
of me, of the ocean of Oneness.

I am one with God, with good.
I am all that God is.
I am a radiant wave in the
ocean of Oneness.

I am love, power, beauty and mystery.
I am love, joy, peace and hope.
I am love, brilliance, health and wealth.
I am love and abundance.
I am God expressed.

I am a radiant wave in the
ocean of Oneness.

Who do I need to be to bring the next version of my coaching business into reality?  I need to be love, power, beauty and mystery instead of being scared, tentative and needing to control.  I need to be love, joy, peace and hope instead of being anxious and nervous about the process.

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As I am bringing this new version of my coaching business
into form, almost daily I look to nature for clues. This
gorgeous red and green hill against this dynamic blanket
of clouds recently spoke to me. What does Mother Earth
and Father Sky want me to know?!?

I need to include you in my journey instead of waiting until I have it all figured out and can present you with something perfect!

I am considering starting a small coaching group of a few women who are each in the process of creating something new or reinventing themselves.  If this speaks to you or piques your curiosity, simply email me, tell me a bit about what’s going on for you and we can schedule a time to chat.

If this fits a woman you love, please share this post with her!

Feel free to post your comments, insights and experiences below.

Join me to share this Sacred Women’s Circle


An invitation for you radiant women
in the metro Denver area . . .

A couple weeks ago, I invited you to join me and Gina Garris for our first So Purkh Women’s Circle.  We had 21 radiant women in that first Circle.  It moved me to tears.

I am so excited to invite you again because we are having our second Circle this Thursday.

I’ve also attached a flyer with dates for the Circles we will have twice a month for the remainder of 2013.

I am on day 15 of my second 40-day meditation.  If you choose, you could begin your own 40 days with the women who join us for the first time on Thursday.

Back in June and July, my first 40 days were magical – joyous and uplifting. 

My first 15 days this time around have been challenging.  It’s bringing up deep stuff about standing in my own power (and how I haven’t).  It’s also clearing painful stuff between me and my sweetie.  Not fun, not pretty.  Super empowering.  And humbling.  And I trust the process – even when I don’t like it.

If you choose to join us, I don’t know what your process will be.  I do know that whatever it is, it will call you to more of your own Truth and radiance – however that is best done for you!

If you feel called or curious, do join us.

So Purkh Women's Circle

Thursday • Sept 26, 2013 • 7 to 8:30 pm

Access the flyer here for all the details.

To Love and Truth,
Ann

P.S. So Purkh is for all women – pray for up to 3 men in your life, clear your own karma with men and manifest the highest caliber of man to serve with you and your shared destiny.  Each woman’s experience serves her own soul’s path.

 

Transformation: Urging Women to Freedom

I just completed Simon Sinek’s “Start with Why” program at Why University.  My coach, Janet Redford, facilitated the process as Simon insists that you work with a partner. 

Simon says.  And, Simon certainly was right, at least in my case. Janet easily saw my huge blind spot that I would not have seen on my own.  Warning: do not coach yourself at home alone!

I thought my WHY involved helping us be our best selves.  While that is fundamentally important to me, it’s actually a HOW that supports my much more visceral WHY.

“I inspire and urge women to freedom from innocently self-imposed prisons so we can each thrive from our specific Genius and Godness.”  Free Your G!

Freedom from innocently self-imposed prisons, specific Genius and Godness.  Now those are reasons to get up in the morning!  My reasons.  Uniquely, beautifully and specifically me.

What about you?  And your WHY.

I am writing you now to inspire you and urge you to greater freedom!

Freedom to be your best self. 

Freedom from ways of thinking that tend to keep you from your best self.

Freedom from old ideas and habits that have become ingrained, yet keep your Light at low wattage. 

Freedom from endlessly seeking out and attempting to follow other people’s programs.

Freedom from doing your life and work in a masculine way because we haven’t known how to “succeed” in a feminine way.

I urge you to go to StartWithWhy.com, plunk down your $99 and sign up for Simon’s masterful course.

Just as I have previously urged you repeatedly to buy the book StrengthsFinder 2.0 and take the assessment to learn your Top 5 strengths.

I believe in you, your strengths and your WHY.

I believe that following your unique, beautiful and specific path based on your strengths and your WHY will free you to be more you!

I believe the freedom to be more you will ignite your personal energy, confidence and strength.

Freedom.  Free to be you.  Freeing your G – your specific Genius, your specific feminine Godness or radiant Goddess.

To that end, I have created a juicy new coaching package that we can complete in one day together or over the phone or Skype in 3 or 4 sessions.

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Free Your G!
Internal compass and grounding
We will discover your WHY and combine with your Top 5 strengths to align your internal compass and create a simple, clear and deep grounding for your life and work.

If this calls to you, let’s have a short conversation to see if this coaching is a good fit for you.  My gift.

Check my calendar for availability.

To the delicious freedom of being
more radiantly YOU!

Ann

P.S. A couple of ways you’ll know you want to talk with me:

  • you feel restless and sense something new is emerging for you, but don’t yet know what
  • you feel a bit disconnected
  • you’re tired of creating relationships or work that are close, but not quite right.

Transformation: Living with Abandon

Fear of abandonment.
You leave me.
I leave me.

Why do so many leave me?
Abandoned again.

Will anyone ever stay?

I’m only in charge of me.
So I will stay.

I begin to stay with me.
Whether I feel good or bad.
Whether you stay or don’t.
Whether I feel like it or not.

I stay with me.
And again, I stay with me.
Still, I stay with me.

The more I stay,
the more I’m me.

Living from my own internal compass.
My True North.

Freeing more and more of me to be me.
Freeing the specific Genius of me.
Freeing the specific Godness of me.

When I'm living with abandon, fear of abandonment no longer haunts me!

When I’m living with abandon, fear of abandonment
no longer haunts me!

Freeing . . .

And then, I hear it.

My secret code word.
Abandon.

Live with abandon.
There all along.

Live with abandon.
Free from self-consciousness.
Free from limitations.
Free from restraint.
Free from concern.
Free from worry.

Living with abandon!

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