Lamisha Serf-Walls

Mindset, Keeping Score, & How to Make Them Work for You!

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Just recently I decided to jump-start my fitness routine again in an attempt to get healthy and create a bit of structure for my workday.  I have to say it’s been pretty great…for the most part.

Growing up I was fairly active.  I danced from 8th grade through high school and into college so I never really had to worry about getting to the gym and making time to work out.  It just happened.  I took dance classes and loved it so it hardly ever felt like ‘work’.  Just a couple of hours a week doing something I love.

This time is a bit different.

I get up every morning and do the ‘work’.  Despite how much it burns in my abs or in my quads, I know that I will feel better having done it.  I just have to get through the 30 minutes.  The work out I am doing is a Beachbody program and it uses 1 minute increments for each exercise and I can’t tell you how many times I have looked at the time left and wished I hadn’t.  Just when I think I am close to being finished, I look up only to realize I am only half way there.  For some reason it makes the second half of the minute seem so much longer!

Well last week I decided to try something a little different.  I decided that instead of looking at the clock or counting the number of squats or mindsetcrunches I am able to complete,  I would just focus on a spot on the wall in front of me through the entire minute.  Funny enough, it seemed like the minute passed by so much faster AND it didn’t feel so hard.

This is a perfect example of how holding your vision while not ‘keeping score’ can help your mindset.

I will be the first to admit that when it comes to my goals or intentions, I am a score-taker.  I like to monitor where I am and how far I am from my goal and while that doesn’t seem like a bad thing, I find it to be discouraging at times.  It can often make it feel like I’m just never going to make it...there.

It’s like saying I want to go to California and all along the way being discouraged that I’m not there yet.  Or wanting to work with 100 clients in 2014 (a true goal of mine for this year) and feeling discouraged when I count I have only worked with 40.

It is ALL about mindset.

If you instead celebrate the progression from where you started to where you want to be AND keep your focus on your vision, something magical happens.  Things feel better, run more smoothly, and you get there much faster.

The same works for whether you are working out, wanting to lose weight, or make a certain dollar figure during the year.

3 Key Steps:

  • Know where you started
  • Celebrate your progression (no matter how small)
  • Keep your ultimate goal/vision alive through focus

startnowAs long as you are consistently taking inspired action and keeping your mindset positive, you will get there.  It just takes a bit of patience, focus, and sometimes accountability.  And if you are finding yourself struggling with getting started or need help to keep going, think about getting yourself a coach.  I have opened 5 individual spots for the month of August for my 1-Month Jump Start program and while I had previously decided not to run this program again until November, I changed my mind because I know how much can happen in 1 month.  I would love to help support you as you envision and create the life & business of your dreams so if this is something you are interested in you can schedule your 30-min. consultation here.  We have 5 months left in 2014 what haven’t you started that you wanted to do this year?  It’s not too late to get started, I promise working with me for 1 month can make all the difference in you creating the life of your dreams.  Are you ready?

Biz Brilliance: What it is & Why you need it.

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So excited to share this with you! Biz Brilliance for you in 90 days!

Do you know someone who could use a bit of brilliance in their biz?  Share this with your network and spread the love! Registration opens July 7th!

 

Your Heart-Centered-Passionate-Path Needs This To Thrive…

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photo credit: Alexandria LaNier via photopin cc
photo credit: Alexandria LaNier via photopin cc

In the last year or so I have had the honor of meeting some truly amazing women with incredible talent yet I see far too many struggling to make their dreams a reality.

With such awesome gifts and healing work that can change the world forever, they are struggling to create thriving businesses.

How can that be?

I have experienced first hand some of these awesome gifts and am blown away at what EFT Tapping, Chakra Healing, Muscle Testing, Reiki, Yoga, and many other healing modalities can do to shift our energy and vibration so we can live happier and healthier lives.  It’s like magic…literally.

So, why the struggle?

The magical abilities and ideas that these women have can literally heal the world.  They can get rid of diseases, help others manifest amazing abundance, and heal a ton of emotional junk that we all experience (and need to heal) and yet actually taking those ideas and putting them into action often feels restrictive and against their very nature.

As a fellow airy-fairy, woo-woo-centric, hippy-dippy, out of the box-thinker, I know how incredible it is to have a dream that is so vivid and colorful that you could stay in your head forever, but I am also blessed with an uncanny ability to put those dreams into action.  Inspired action that is.

The magic happens when we can effectively bring our glorious ideas down from the heavens and implement them in inspired-actionable-steps.  And if you are like many of my clients, I know what you are thinking. “Ugh, actionable steps sounds pretty in the box to me.” or “I just like to go with the flow and see where the tide takes me.”

I get it.  The idea of structure and schedules and dare I say accountability can make us enlightened folks cringe because it goes against all the free-flowing, belief-bustin’, let-me-do-it-my-own-way, nature, but I can promise you two things:

Without action & accountability, your dreams may stay fully alive in your imagination, but that is as far as they go.

AND

You CAN have structure and freedom while creating a thriving life & biz of your dreams.

The key is in following inspired action and creating structure that works for you.

There really isn’t a one size fits all plan on how to make your work come alive and if you have been fighting the good fight against a ‘schedule’ or ‘to do list’ because you want to keep your freedom status, then I invite you to look at freedom a bit differently.

Freedom implies you have a choice or an option to do as you please and when you can create a schedule or structure that works for YOU, you still have the freedom you crave.  And when your business is thriving and soaring to new heights, you are capable of hiring out a ton of work that you don’t enjoy doing, but the choice is still yours.

So get out there and don’t be afraid of creating a bit of free-flowing-structure (that’s totally a thing) and begin following your heart to take inspired action.

The world needs your gifts & it’s up to you to share them.

What’s the #1 thing you have been resisting in your heart-centered biz because it feels too restrictive? Leave it in the comments below and share this post with your friends who could use a nudge to send their gifts out to the world!

If you need a bit of extra help in the structure & accountability department, this is for you.  I have opened up a few spots for my 1-Month Jump Start program for July 2014 that will get you moving in 30 days or less. 4 sessions in 4 weeks = major progress.  This offer expires June 30th so if you want in on this incredibly affordable and powerful opportunity, you can sign up here.

 

Dream Changer: Featuring Nancy Pigno of Creative Abundance

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****Happy Hump Day Dreamers!  Today we have a wonderful Dream Changer piece by the inspirational and very creative Nancy Pigno from Creative Abundance.  This is one story that will make you dust off your own idea book and get busy.  Enjoy!****

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”  These words were spoken by Thomas Edison years ago, obviously, but they just reached my ears today.  When I heard them I stopped dead in my tracks.

Yes.

These words spoke directly to me.

Not that I am a genius.  That’s not it.

I get inspired though.  You know the phenomenon.  You get a great idea, right?  And then, you let it go, for there is laundry to be folded and lunches to be made.  Life demands a certain amount of effort or it threatens to fall into chaos.  And it is easy to move your dreams and ideas aside to tend to your daily responsibilities.  The idea is forgotten, until weeks, months, maybe years later, when you suddenly remember it.  What a good idea that was!  You wonder what would have happened had you followed it.  More laundry.  More lunches.  Other great ideas come, too.  You have lots.

Laundry.  Lunches.  Life.

We cannot act on all of our great ideas, of course.  It isn’t realistic.  So, we should not beat ourselves up for letting ideas go.  I just read an article about someone who is trying to start a new business every single week for a year.  I wonder about this experiment.  It doesn’t seem a recipe for success unless he truly has vast resources and can delegate much of the work out.  Seems like it would be hard to focus, hard to manage, hard to juggle it all.

We don’t have to act on everything.  It’s okay to let ideas go or to store them in a special notebook labeled, “Great Ideas” or whatever strikes your fancy, so that we don’t lose them entirely.  Collecting inspiration is good, but the genius is in the action: taking an idea out of that special notebook and bringing it to life.

I am doing a monthly theme over at my blog, the Creative Abundance Café.  I have enlisted the help of other creatives and together we are dishing up helpings cuppaof Perseverance.  Perseverance pep-talks are important because that ninety-nine percent of genius, the sweat-work part, is riddled with moments when giving up seems very attractive.

When I was invited to write this piece, my Dream Changer story, my immediate thought is that I would talk about my journey into becoming a creativity coach, setting up a business, or my book-writing aspirations.  But that’s not the essence of it.   Simply put, I am changing my life by the simple fact that I am daring to take ideas out of the “Great Idea” notebook and am taking action towards bringing them into being.

This is a big deal to me.  It isn’t an easy road.  It is full of moments of doubt and discouragement.  It takes courage and it takes perseverance.  This is the truth of it. It is universal.  That is why so many people were eager to rally at the Café. We are cheering one another along because making your dream, changing your life, bringing something new into being, or following a great idea, is worth it.

It is worth every ounce of sweat, all ninety-nine percent.

NancyHaving a life of CREATIVE ABUNDANCE  is about connecting with and believing in your CREATIVE SPIRIT, the part of you that dreams big and believes that you can do whatever you set your mind and heart to. Nancy J. Pigno brings her training as a Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach, in Kaizen-Creative NLP and as a Modern-Day Muse Facilitator together with her Masters in Dance Education, Massage Therapy training and Certificate in Somatics Movement Therapy, to offer 1:1 coaching, workshops, and writings, designed especially for creative people with big dreams.

Website:   http://www.creative-abundance.net/

Blogsite (The Café): http://www.creative-abundance.net/blog/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/creativea

Email:  nanodance@creative-abundance.net

 

The Power of Collaboration & Group Coaching for YOU!

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A few months back I was working on the Unleash Your Personal Power e-course with 3 other amazingly talented women and it was one of the best experiences I have ever had.  In fact, since then the ladies and I have grown very close and have sort of developed our own little mastermind group of support as we move forward on other projects!

What started as a professional project collaboration quickly developed into a powerhouse of wisdom, care, and compassion from other women on a similar journey as me and it has proven to be invaluable!

I got the brilliant idea to create an opportunity like that for my tribe.  An opportunity to share, learn, grow, and reach beyond your boundaries with other like-minded soul sisters and that is just what I did!

The 3-Month Group Coaching Program for Business-Minded Women is a wonderful opportunity for you to gain support and learn from not only myself, but up20-women(1) to 19 other business-minded women who like you have been through (or are going through) the ‘stuff’ that comes with doing work you love.  Whether you are an artist with an Etsy shop or a healer with a Reiki practice or somewhere in between, this is a wonderful coaching opportunity is individual coaching in a group setting.

This program is catered to the needs of those in the group and will focus on things like breaking through the self-limiting beliefs, shifting your money mindset, how to untangle your web of ideas, and so much more!  The lovely Isis Arjeta and Crystal Davis will be coming in to do a masterclass at no extra cost to you and I assure you their expert tips and advice if implemented, will dramatically shift your mindset and how you do business.

While it might seem like this is a ‘business coaching program’, it’s not.  This is all about WHO you are, HOW you think, and WHAT you feel throughout your business experience, things that are all directly related to your success as a business woman. 

I know that when like-minded women come together to collaborate and communicate with one another in a supportive and understanding environment there is no room for competition.  Instead there is a community of caring, supportive, and incredibly understanding soul sisters who are powerful beyond belief!  That is what this program promises to deliver on top of the amazing creative ideas, collaborations, and relationships that will surely be built throughout the 3-month period.  It will also provide you with tons of insightful advice, actionable steps, and practical tools to help you level-up in your business and personal life.  Between our bi-weekly calls, emails, exercises, private Facebook group, and the invaluable nuggets of information you will receive from Isis and Crystal, this all-inclusive program is like a beacon of light to the business-minded woman looking for support, understanding, and practical tools to keep you moving!

Sound interesting?

Because I am limiting the group to a max of 20 participants and I am offering a money back guarantee for the first month I will be scheduling intake sessions to make sure this program is what you are looking for.  I trust that the right souls will come together for this amazing opportunity starting in June and if you want to be part of that, all you have to do is schedule your intake session below.  For more information on the program, the investment, and all the extra goodies that are involved, click here.

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I can’t wait to see what amazing women come together to share in this journey!

P.S. There is still time to get signed up for the Money Mindset Masterclass that is happening on May 22nd at 8pm EST.  If you could use a little (or big) shift in your money mindset to bring in more money, more prosperity, and more clients go ahead and sign up!  The call will be recorded and emailed to everyone after the call so if you can’t make it live, sign up anyways so you don’t miss the awesome info!!