Last week I sent you the new relationship with money-as-John Travolta story. (Read “John Travolta Loves You” on my blog.) The very next day a new one came in.

This is why I love my job. I want you to read beyond the dollar amounts and listen for the happiness and optimism and new relationship to life. THAT’S what this is really about:

“Dear Morgana,

I just have to tell you this. I listened to the teleclass you did last night — found out about it an hour before it was scheduled, felt moved to attend.

Wow. Wow wow wow wow. I haven’t even done the Money Monster exercise yet, but for some reason I totally connected with the idea of the Money Honey and got mine right away, plus an action to take.

I took that action last night (set some financial boundaries with my adult children) and this morning two things happened.

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First record it. Recording it on a professional mic is best. You MUST lay down some background music to fill the empty spaces. If you don’t have access to a sound studio, other good options are recording yourself on a high quality telephone seminar line. and Instant Teleseminar and Maestro Conference have excellent sound. Have someone read your bio as an intro. (But don’t let it sound like reading.)

Get fabulous design work for the disk and jewel case. People DO judge a product by its cover. My favorite designer is Colleen McGunnigle at www.designbymuse.com. She’s redesigning all my products.

Produce it: http://www.kunaki.com is the cheapest and quickest CD duplication company I’ve seen. (And it’s the company to use if you ever want to offer a free CD on your site as an ethical bribe to get people onto your mailing list.)

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Here’s a question I came across from another life coach:

“Can anyone recommend some really good ideas, techniques, resources for helping clients identify the core of their resistance and helping them move beyond it?”

Here’s my response:

The source of your life coaching client’s resistance is your failure to establish rapport. You are pushing too fast or not fully respecting and validating your client’s experience. YOU are resisting THEM.

One of the core precepts of neuro linguistic programming–one of the more interventionist forms of life coaching–is that resistance is a signal that the coach has lost rapport with the client.

Back up to the last time you were in sync and FOLLOW the client until you re-establish rapport.

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Winning the Race

Grains of sand can start an avalanche.
~ Marianne Baillieu

Feel stuck? Overwhelmed? Read on.

One of the most surprising things I’ve discovered as a coach is the power of doing LESS. A little goes a long way. Nothing will build your confidence and momentum like setting small, achievable goals that you will actually accomplish! Let the phrase “under-promise and over-deliver” be your guide. In other words, commit to less for the sake of accomplishing more.

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I don’t know who wrote this, but a client emailed it to me, and I can get behind the sentiment at any age:

“Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and
The eyesight to tell the difference.”

So mode it be, gang!

Nature’s intelligence functions with effortless ease…with carefreeness, harmony and love. And when we harness the forces of harmony, joy and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.
~ Dr. Deepak Chopra

Want to attract abundance? Feeling good is irrestibly attractive. Try these easy tricks from neuro linguistic programming for a quick emotional pick-me-up.

We all have those days: someone dinged your car, the computer crashed, or that person who knows how to push your buttons… pushed your buttons! Know what I’m talking about? Usually it’s not the events themselves that are so devastating; it’s our reaction that does the damage. It’s hard to tap into your wisdom and creativity when you are feeling stressed out, pissed off, or helpless. It’s really hard to attract what you want when you want to blow up the world. Try these quick and easy tricks from neuro linguistic programming to feel good fast.

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