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Transformation Tuesday | I never wanted to be called a “coach” (then this happened) 👀

My new Sacred Money Archetypes Transformation Program isn’t just based on all the high-achieving women I’ve helped over the years.

Don’t get me wrong. The shifts my clients and students have had are no joke.

Deepa even said: “Tara not only calmed my nerves but she also made me money! I feel like a different human because of the work I have done with Tara.”

But this program isn’t just based on my students’ stories.

This program is also based on my personal story of breaking through the unconscious upper limits I’d placed on my own happiness…and my income.

<<< If shattering your own upper limits seems intriguing, you might want to get in on my upcoming Archetypes course 

In the first few months after I learned and started working with my own Archetypes, 4 things happened:

I booked six figures in new, previously unplanned income… without building a single web page

I stopped trying to reinvent the wheel and started pairing my unique genius with proven-profitable business models

I made a single change to my calendar that created massive revenue and big chunks of uninterrupted time to work in my Zone of Genius

I got a Divine Download for my next book… and wrote the first 20 pages in a weekend.
And, by the way: I did this working roughly 30% fewer hours than usual.

What shifted for me?

When I learned my Archetypes, I realized why I’d been doing what I’d been doing all these years with my money, my business and my career.

I learned my own unique patterns of power, strengths and deep-down motivations… and my own patterns of self-sabotage, too.

See, up until that time, I’d never wanted to be called a coach.

Consultant, sure.

Marketer, definitely.

Author. Tech exec. Startup founder. Buddhist Black church lady of Silicon Valley.

All of that.

But not Coach.

I didn’t want to be lumped in with the masses of coaches.

I wanted extra credit for my extra brilliance.

I wanted to stand out from that crowd.

But that meant that when people called to offer me money to coach them, I’d say NO.

It meant that I struggled with certain personal branding and marketing projects, because it was so hard to capture what I actually do.

And it meant that damn near every time I’d talk to people about what I did, I’d tell my whole entire long-winded career story.

I’d tell about my Master’s degree in Psychology, my law degree from UC Berkeley. I’d tell about my time with HGTV, my time at Trulia, my time at MyFitnessPal.

I’d tell about the three books I’ve written. 

And then I’d say something like: “I’m a consultant, but my signature approach includes teaching the leaders I work with the skills and practices of inner wellbeing that unlock and evoke their deepest brilliance.”

Rolls right off the tongue, doesn’t it?

Then I did a round of inner work that included learning and working with my own Archetypes, my unique “money code” and why I do what I do in every part of my life that has even the tiniest relationship to money.

(Which is basically every part of my life.)

My dominant Archetype is Ruler, the Inner Empire Builder.

My #2 Archetype is Romantic, the Inner Hedonist. (I do love my cashmere.)

And my #3 Archetype is Maverick, the Inner Rebel with a Cause.

This is where the magic happened.

I learned that Mavericks have a need to stand out from the crowd.

On the extreme shadow side of this Archetype, Mavericks can unconsciously sabotage their own marketing, business and wealth-building efforts by stubbornly refusing to leverage proven business models and categories that are actually a perfect fit for them.

That insight was much more than just a spiritual mic-drop for me.

This insight felt like the tumblers on a bank vault sliding into place with an audible CLICK, opening up a whole new world of possibilities… and wealth, for me.

I realized in a moment of total, instant clarity that by definition, the people who unlock others’ brilliance?

THEY’RE CALLED COACHES.

So I leaned all the way into my Coach-ish-ness and started owning it.

I put a little Tara-style spin on it, of course. Because: Maverick.

I started introducing myself as a Business Coach and Spiritual Strategist to high-achieving women and purpose-driven companies.

I hung out that shingle in earnest, in a premium-feeling way.

I realized I’m really, really good at this… and that I really, really love doing it.

And almost immediately, the brilliant boss ladies I love to work with started showing up and signing up to work with me.

Game-changer.

What’s all this got to do with you?

If you’ve ever felt like you know you’re incredibly bright and powerful, but you’ve barely scratched the surface of your income potential, my new Sacred Money Archetypes Intensive Transformation Program will help.

Knowing that money influences every aspect of your life, aren’t you ready to create a breakthrough for yourself?

<<< Click here to learn more and enroll in my Sacred Money Archetypes Intensive Transformation Program. 

I can’t wait to see you in the program. We begin August 30th, this Friday.

Head up + heart out,


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Transformation Tuesday | How to find (and profit from) your personal zone of genius

Dear Brilliant One, 

Last week I launched a three-part video series to help you release your money blocks and get in deep, inner alignment so you can live in abundance and soul-level fulfillment. Video #1 is for you if you’re ready to release your money blocks: The 8 Hidden Money Blocks of High-Achieving Women

Video #2 is fuel for elevating your money mindset: The 7 Alignments that Break the Trance of Scarcity

And just today, I released Video #3, which connects all the dots. 
In this video, I teach you how to use the Sacred Money Archetypes to find — and profit from — your unique, personal Zone of Genius.

Part of the brilliance of learning and working with your Sacred Money Archetypes is that they shine light on your money shadows: your personal money challenges, touchy subjects, limiting inner narratives and your patterns of self-sabotage.Know what happens when you shine light on a shadow? 

It dissolves. In the video, I tell the story of one of my own personal shadows that dissolved during a moment of total, instant clarity I had when I first started working with the Sacred Money Archetypes in my own life. Watch the video – or listen to it, like a podcast – and let me know how it lands for you. 

Head up + heart out,

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Transformation Tuesday | 8 Hidden Money Blocks of High-Achieving Women [Time Sensitive]

I’m Tara-Nicholle Nelson, the CEO of SoulTour.com and Founder of the
School of Spiritual Strategy.

At this stage of the game, I’ve worked with thousands of high-achieving women. So I have the perfect vantage point for pattern-spotting. And I’ve spotted some patterns I just can’t keep to myself any longer. I just filmed
this video on the 8 hidden money blocks I see over and over again in the successful, purpose-driven women I work with.
>> You can access my free video training series here.<<

These are the ways I see brilliant, purpose-driven women sabotage their own wealth-building potential… ways they build an invisible glass ceiling on their own incomes without even knowing they’re doing it.This is the first of three videos I’m releasing as a preview of my upcoming Sacred Money Archetypes intensive boot camp.

If you’re ready for a money mindset shift, watch these 8 hidden money blocks of high-achieving women, and I’ll let you know when the next video comes out.

>> Access my free video training series here.<<

Head up + heart out,
TNN


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Transformation Tuesday | Take my QUIZ to see your personal money blocks…and powers 💥

Brilliant One, 

One of the things I miss about my sweet grandmother is her keen attunement to the seasons, especially when it came to keeping her house in order.

She’d say: “It’s April! So it’s time to send the drapes to the cleaners!”

Which… let’s just say April does not mean “clean the drapes” in my mind.

Or she’d say: “It’s November, so I just finished off dusting off the top of the fridge!”

Me (silently): “Have I ever dusted the top of my fridge?”

I joke, but the truth is that this apple didn’t fall too terribly far from the tree. 

I think in seasonal terms, too. 

During the first few months of every year, I hit the ground running, taking action and building momentum on my vision for the year.

In the Spring, I take a course or read up on some topic I’ve never explored before.

And in the Fall, right around October, I start reviewing the year, celebrating what’s working and releasing what isn’t, and allowing a clear for the next year to come into focus.

So what do I do during the Summer? 

In my world, Summertime is for SELF-DISCOVERY. 

In the Summer I assess, gut-check and soul-check myself and my life. I celebrate what’s working and see what’s out of alignment:
I explore my gifts and strengths at a new level of depthI evaluate whether my values, identity, beliefs and actions are in alignment, so I can course-correct or shed what no longer serves meI take a frank, compassionate look at my habits, relationships, patterns… and the outcomes I’ve created, andI listen to my own Inner Guidance on what next steps feel natural, inspired and in the flow to me on my path of ever-increasing success, happiness and abundance. 

This year, I’m sharing my “Summertime of Self-Discovery” with you. 

I invite you to take my brand-new Sacred Money Archetypes® Quiz, which is proven to help you crack your personal money code and release your money blocks so you can start living the life of abundance and fulfillment you desire, at soul-level.

>> TAKE THE SACRED MONEY ARCHETYPES® QUIZ <<

In other words, it’ll help you get your financial house in order.

(My grandmother would be proud… of me and you.)

One quick note: Don’t be afraid of what the Quiz will reveal. 

It will surface your authentic, inborn gifts and motivations, so you can stand in your power and increase your income.

And it will also reveal the shadow side of your money patterns, so you can stop being blindsided by these money blocks.

You can expect to feel seen and heard when you take the Quiz, not judged or critiqued. 

And also expect to feel resonance, as you get your own download of clarity and total, instant insight into why you do what you do when it comes to money. 

>> TAKE THE SACRED MONEY ARCHETYPES® QUIZ <<
IMPORTANT NOTE: After you take the Quiz, you’ll be directed to a short video briefing on your #1 Sacred Money Archetype®. 

And if you check your email right after that, you’ll find a full list of your scores on all 8 Sacred Money Archetypes®.

When you take the Quiz, you’ll also receive some downloadable mantra cards and personal recommendations from me to you on how to start using this new self-knowledge to begin your journey into financial freedom and deep, soul-level fulfillment.

Head up + heart out,

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Transformation Tuesday Vol. 84 | The Science of Being Great 🔬💥

Brilliant One,

>> Listen to the AUDIOof today’s Transformation Tuesday Newsletter.

A couple weeks ago, I apparently sent my 20-month-old granddaughter to daycare with a copy of The Science of Being Greatin her backpack.

Which means shemust have put it in her backpack. 

This was especially hilarious because this book was published by Wallace Wattles in 1910.


I’m doing this thing where I let her pick my reading these days. 

So when she got home, I opened the book to see if there was anything relevant for us right now and… 

Here we go. From page one. I suspect you’ll find the resonance as stunning as I did:

YOU MAY BECOME GREAT

THERE is a principle of “power” in you at this very moment. By the intelligent use and direction of this principle, you can develop your own mental faculties.

YOU HAVE AN INHERENT POWER ALLOWING YOU TO GROW IN WHATEVER DIRECTION YOU PLEASE AND THERE ARE NO LIMITS TO YOUR POSSIBILITIES.

Nobody has become so great in any faculty that someone else cannot become greater. The possibility is in the original substance from which man and woman is made.

Genius is omniscience flowing into you. Genius is more than talent. Talent may only be the disproportionate development of one faculty over others. True genius is the union of man with spirit in the acts of the soul.

Great people are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a limitless reserve of power. And nobody knows where the boundary of mental powers lies. We do not even know if a boundary exists.

Like plants and trees, your purpose in life is growth. And there’s one big difference. Trees and plants grow automatically along fixed lines while you can grow at will. Trees and plants can only develop certain possibilities and characteristics while you can develop any power.

Nothing that you can think of is impossible to put in action. Nothing that you can imagine is impossible to realize.

And that’s all from page one of The Science of Being Great. 

When it comes to money and abundance, which are front of mind for so many people almost all the time, we are connected not just to a limitless reserve of Divine Power. 

We are not even limited to receiving the fruits of our action. In the masterful life we’re learning to live, the whole is much greater than the sum of our efforts, our work, our actions with this physical body. 

We are connected to all the resources of this Universe. 

We don’t even know all of the wonderful ways prosperity and abundance will flow to us if we allow it to. 


In the words of my teacher Florence Scovel Shinn, which you should feel free to repeat after me if you want to pre-pave your day, your week, your year, your life for happy surprises: 

“Unexpected doors fly open, unexpected channels are free, and endless avalanches of abundance are poured out upon me, under grace in perfect ways. 

All that is mine by Divine Right is now released and reaches me in great avalanches of abundance, under grace in miraculous ways.

I am linked with an endless golden stream of prosperity which comes to me under grace in perfect ways.”

Not in grindy ways.   

In perfect ways.

Under grace.

Unexpected.

Avalanches of abundance. Not just enough to barely scrape by. 

Avalanches.

Overflowing. 


That’s what’s coming your way. 

But you’ve gotta release some stuff in order to receive this stuff.

Release the need to know the date and time. 

Enjoy the journey. 

Enjoy the glorious life that is unfolding before you, all along the way.


Release the need to know “how” it’ll all happen. 

Enjoy the happy surprises, small and large. Enjoy the dots when they connect.

That’s what makes life feel magical.

Release the need to feel like you have to DO SOMETHING or you have to MAKE IT HAPPEN.

Enjoy the receiving and allowing.

Each of these “releases” will open your Pipeline wider and tune you to become even more receptive of inspiration, anyway. 

And that’s when you should take action. When you’re inspired to do so. That’s when all the best stuff happens, anyway. 

It is a point of mastery to know what resources are available to you and to simply consent to receive them, and to refrain from making it much more complicated than that.

It is a point of mastery to know that you already possess an All-Access Pass to all the resources of this Universe, and that you’ll have exactly what you need, exactly when you need it. 

Knowledge. Intelligence. Connections. Energy. Clarity. Love. Joy. Time. Money.

All of that.

It’s all your birthright, by virtue of being a child of the divine. 

That’s what you are.

It is a point of mastery to use your Spiritual VIP Parking Passand pull right into the you-sized space in the front row of the parking lot of your life, waiting for you to come out of the back rows, stop playing small and hiding in your shadows and show all the way up, soul on deck, all in, right up front.

Are you ready to claim your spot? I believe you are. 

And I declare over you that the Divine, Genius plan for your life is coming to be, now, by grace and in a wonderful way.

Head up + heart out,

TNN

P.S.: I’d love your help wrapping up the curriculum design for my new Sacred Money Archetypes ® program. It’s all about releasing your money blocks and learning how to stand in your value and power. 

Would you answer this two-question survey to help me make sure I’m covering everything? I just want to know what your #1 and #2 questions about money blocks, the Law of Attraction and self-discovery are. 

Thanks in advance. Here’s the link: https://taranicholle.typeform.com/to/EdtGKI

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Transformation Tuesday Vol. 83 | Transformation Tuesday | Law of Attraction lessons from a toddler (👶🏽pics inside)

Brilliant One,

>> Listen to the AUDIO of today’s newsletter.

I’ve got a new little roommate these days: my 19-month-old granddaughter Londyn, aka Baby Genius, aka Baby Boss Lady.
You need to turn images ‘on’ in your email to see these photos
Exhibit A: Yes. She’s really that cute. It’s beyond.

I frequently call Londyn a Master Manifestor.

And I mean it.

My pugs are, too.

All the small mammals of our planet are, really.

When I sat down to write out the things about her and the other small mammals that empower them to flow the laws of the Universe in their favor, I started out in a very descriptive kind of way.

They are light.

Playful.

And their desires are clear.

Meaningful, to them.

And they care not whether they are meaningful to anyone else.

Pure.

Unresisted.

All of that makes them and the way they attract what they want seem magical.

I mean, my granddaughter has been alive a full 19 months and she hasn’t made even one list, action plan or vision board yet.

But when I sat with it a little longer, I realized that while these adjectives are helpful, it’s really the VERBS of life mastery, the actions involved in leveraging the Law of Attraction. The things “Master Manifestors” do and do not do that reveal the most powerful mindset shifts and lessons for those of us who want a life of flow and wealth, riches inside and out.

Because the things the small mammals do that broadcast their laser-focused magnetic signals that call in the people, experiences and things they want are very different from what you and I have learned it takes to “make things happen”.

They don’t hustle.

They don’t crave.

They don’t grasp.

They don’t grind.

They don’t even really “work” – they do take inspired actions that don’t feel like work to them.

Interestingly, they do a lot of being.

Leaving other people’s dramas right with those other people, not taking their stuff on.

They do a lot of unfurling.

They do a lot of falling apart… or being willing to, as they allow their emotions to have their career in their system and run their course teaching them whatever it is that they’re meant to teach.

They spend a lot of their time in life “doing” verbs like:

Laughing
Practicing
Downloading
Accessing
Aligning
Broadcasting
Tuning
Receiving
Praising
Appreciating
Reveling
Refreshing
Replenishing
Allowing
Re-sourcing, which my students know means reconnecting to Source.
Resting
Re-connecting
Refueling

And they STAND.

They stand squarely in their own power and in their Zones of Genius, never forcing themselves to do what feels off or bad or “shackles on” (well, not until an adult human convinces them to).

They stand in awe and wonder at the miracles of their own bodies and of this planet, just appreciating. Enjoying. Savoring.

And they stand aside as the various components of what they want line up and light up before them, not needing to prove anything by acting or forcing unless and until inspiration strikes, and when it does they GO!

Ultimately, the adults who can call themselves Master Manifestors also do a lot of releasing.

Releasing shoulds.

Releasing attachments.

Releasing outgrown ideas.

Releasing cultural programming.

Releasing family traumas and patterns that no longer serve them.

Releasing old wounds, by having the courage to see them and grieve them.

Releasing Resistance that is long-practiced but false in terms of its power to limit us.

And that brings us to one last, really important Verb of Attraction:

Remembering.

Knowing who you really are.

Putting the pieces of all of that brilliance that you are back together after shedding the cultural and family and social programming of limitation.

Re-member.

Reset.

Release.

Receive.

P.S.: I’m teaching a course next month on the Sacred Money Archetypes and the Law of Attraction. 

Part of what’s hard about leveraging the Law of Attraction is that your specific personality and mindset determine which strategies and tools will work for you.

That’s where your Sacred Money Archetypes come in.

If you’d like to start understanding your own personal money code, gifts and roadblocks, take my new Sacred Money Archetypes Quiz, for FREE, here: soultour.com/sacredmoneyquiz

I’ll share more soon about this exciting system of Archetypes and how you can use it in your own life for more freedom, more money and more joy.

Head up + heart out,
TNN

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Transformation Tuesday Vol. 82 | How to create an Intentional Vacuum 💡

Brilliant One,

>> Listen to the AUDIO of today’s Transformation Tuesday.

A couple weeks ago I realized a fundamental truth about life that had never dawned on me before: that there are few things in life as exhilarating as the annual bulky trash pickup.

That reminded me to share a process with you that is one of the very first things I ask my students and clients to do when we start working together.

Any time you want to call something fresh into your life — be it money, love, energy, time or new habits, projects, relationships and opportunities — you can use a Spiritual Strategy we call creating an Intentional Vacuum*.

In nature, vacuums suck things in. Intentional Vacuums attract things in, intentionally.

When you clear out space in your home and get rid of things you’re not using, you jump back into the cycle of life and unstick whatever’s been stagnant.

It’s like putting jumper cables on the flow that is always trying to bring new life and fresh opportunities your way.

Set your phone timer for 7 minutes and grab a garbage bag, then do one of the following tasks:

  • Clean out your wallet, handbag or backpack.
  • Clear out one drawer in your dresser, kitchen, bathroom or desk.
  • Throw out old food in your fridge or freezer.
  • Clear the clutter or mail off of your kitchen countertops.
  • Clear the top of your desk or delete 100 emails.
  • Pull things out of your closet that you don’t absolutely love.
  • Walk around your house and grab things that are broken, damaged or even unused.

Heads up: this *might* feel so energizing you don’t want to stop.

So if you don’t want to stop when the timer goes off, or if you get inspired to schedule your bulky trash pickup… DON’T STOP.

There are some advanced strategies for using Intentional Vacuums, too.

Want more money? Clean out your purse, and clear your bank account of all those $.99 subscriptions you don’t even remember signing up for in the first place.

Want more time? Clear your calendar of obligations and duties that spark not even one iota of joy.

Oh… and if you should happen to have a really good idea occur to you about your goals or anything else while you’re creating this Intentional Vacuum, WRITE IT DOWN.

Then act on it, as soon as you can.

Because often, what flows into the clear space of your Intentional Vacuum is inspiration.

P.S.  Next month, I’m starting my yearlong Inner Circle Mastermind Program for Women Entrepreneurs.

In this program, we integrate Business Coaching and Spiritual Strategy on a yearlong journey into more freedom, profit and contribution.

We’ll even meet twice in person for Mastermind Retreat Days, in Oakland!

If you want to learn more or apply to the program, click here for a 20-minute Discovery Call with someone from my team.

*I first learned this strategy from Florence Scovel Shinn, who wrote about it back in the early 1900s, but I first heard this name for it via Tosha Silver’s book, Outrageous Openness. Hat tips all around.

Head up + heart out,

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Transformation Tuesday Vol. 81 | Your Zone of Genius 💡

Brilliant One, 

I’ve been teaching and coaching a lot lately about how to find your Zoneof Genius and how to spend as much time in that Zone as possible, once you find it.

This mostly requires that you understand your Divine Coding: the unique pattern of power, motivations, strengths and challenges you were wired with when you arrived here on Planet Earth.

My students are learning how to identify their unique powers and stand in them, unapologetically.

There’s one particularly powerful thread of Genius that we all possess, but give short shrift to:

You possess the superpower of knowing whether a relationship, person, job, project, conversation or experience is in alignment with your highest potential or not.

And you possess this power right now.

You know.

As children we were taught to be deliberate or politically correct about these things.

We’re taught to be rational, reasonable, strategic, or talk ourselves out of what we know in the name of obedience or social harmony or some other nice name for domestication or letting somebody else’s priorities trump our own Inner Genius, our Inner Guidance.

But you knew back then when something was in alignment with your Inner Guidance or not.

And you know now. 

You are not confused.

Stop saying you are, if that’s a thing you say.

Because, real talk? Confusion is just a case of competing priorities.

Let me rephrase: Confusion is almost always a case of you trying to prioritize something or someone else’s feelings or approval ahead of your Inner Guidance.

Confusion is almost always a case of you doing an inner calculation of the cost of following your own Inner Guidance system, and getting all hung up because your logical, rational, verbal mind — your domesticated mind —  is trying to talk you out of going in the direction your deepest wisdom, your Inner Genius, is pointing.

Your logical mind and your trained, domesticated thoughts are trying to convince you that the cost of following your Inner Guidance is too great or that the payoff of going the other way is worth shouting down your Inner Genius.

So when we talk about tuning to yourself utterly unresistant, we’re not just talking about utterly unresistant to the callings you hear with clarity.

I’m talking about tuning yourself to be utterly unresistant, fully in surrender, to the Divine urgings and callings that are softer or that you’re not allowing yourself to hear with clarity because you’re focused on that feeling you’re calling confusion but is really just letting someone else’s opinions or priorities matter more than they should.

You know what to do. 

You might not hear it clearly yet.

But you do know.

Your Spiritual Self knows.

Because you know what feels good when you think about it, envision it or daydream about it.

You know what feels like bliss.

And despite all the talk we do about all of this, you really can boil down a huge piece of this enterprise of awakening to the order our old Uncle Joseph Campbell once gave us, when he said FOLLOW YOUR BLISS. 

Follow your bliss.

Your bliss is your Genius.

Your bliss is your Inner Guidance.

And your Inner Guidance is Infinite Intelligence.

Infinite Intelligence is a Divine Resource.

And that deep down feeling of friction, of ARGH, of “that ain’t right”, of disconnection, or shame or guilt or shackles on?

THAT IS INNER GUIDANCE, TOO.

That is how the Divine, Genius path for your life lights up, step by step.

When a step feels like bliss get after it.

And when a step feels like shackles, move away from it.

It doesn’t always have to be more complicated than that.

In fact, making it more complicated than that, practicing the story that you don’t know what to do or you’re confused or whatever… that’s the same thing as talking yourself out of listening to your Inner Genius: the voice of Divine Intelligence that speaks to you, through you.

And making the commitment to listen to that still, small voice that speaks through your bliss on one end of the spectrum and through your angst on the other?

That’s standing in your power. 

Head up + heart out, 

TNN
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Transformation Tuesday Vol. 80 | The lie of scarcity 🌿

Dear Brilliant One:

Our culture likes to tell scarcity stories:

“There’s not enough for everyone.”

“You’ve gotta fight for what you have.”

“Money comes hard.”

“You’d better be damn near perfect and hustle very hard or you might lose everything.”

Lies.

Propaganda.

Should you need some evidence that this Universe of ours is *actually* wildly abundant in resources, LOOK UP.

Look at the leaves on the trees. That’s what the creative power of this Universe does.

And it flows through you.

But back to those leaves.

As I drove home from the gym this morning, I looked at all the trees around me and wondered: How many leaves are in Oakland?

Then: How many leaves are in this world?

So I asked Google: How many leaves are in the whole wide world?

Estimates ranged from 120 quadrillion and 1 quintillion.

Guys: 120 quadrillion was the low end.

The same Power that created all those leaves flows through you.

That same Divine Creative Power is waiting for you to stop resisting and let it flow through you.

It wants to team up with you to turn your ideas and your dreams into your real life, creating whatever it is you came here to be, do, have, delight in, create and (most importantly) learn.

But wait: there’s more.

You know what this Universe has even more of than leaves?

Bugs.

If 1 quintillion leaves seems like a Very Big Number, wait till you get a load of this: There are an estimated 10 quintillion bugs on the planet at any given time.

That is 10 to the power of nineteen.

That is this many bugs: 10,000,000,000,000,000,000.

And you think there’s not enough money, love, happiness, success, or whatever else in this Universe for you????

For real?

Nah.

This Universe is limitless.

And so are you.

I have it on Divine Authority.

You can stop telling that scarcity story now.

Use every excuse possible, every leaf on every tree or bug you see, to tune yourself to the station of abundance.

Do this and abundance will become the story of your new reality.

Here’s a micro-challenge:

For the next 24 hours, act and make decisions as if you will have access to everything you need, exactly when you need it.

Act and make decisions as if everything is always working out for you.

Act and make decisions that you feel called and led to make as if you’ll survive if you do them, even though the fear and voices in your head make you feel a tiny bit like you’ll die.

Hit reply tomorrow and let me know how it goes.

Head up + heart out,
Tara

P.S. Few quick caveats:1. You might find that reading this stirs up some thoughts you have to the contrary, like the belief that the world cannot be as abundant as this. 

If so, excellent . Those thoughts of lack can’t come with you into your season of abundance. Best that you see them now, so you can release them sooner than later. 

2.  Lest you be tempted to argue with this evidence of abundance by pointing to all the poverty in the world, keep this in mind: The solution is never found on the same level as the problem.

In other words, you can’t eliminate lack by focusing on lack.

In other words, the most helpful you can be to the poor is to live a generous and abundant life, taking inspired action to be part of the solution whenever you feel called and led to.

3. This worldview ain’t for everyone. It’s only for people who want to enjoy their lives and are willing to set down their struggle portfolios in exchange for a shot at joy.

4. One of the number one reasons we keep our struggle stories around is that we think we’ll be all alone in the world if we give them up.

You will, indeed, seem weird to others around you if you adopt this point of view.

Some of them won’t be able to deal, and they’ll opt out of your world. Try this Dave Richo mantra to cultivate independence from other people’s opinions: People go and people stay, and I’m okay. 

Others will see your life change unfold over time, and they’ll want what you’re having.

And many others, the other joy trippers of the world, whole squads of people you didn’t even know were right there, will become attracted to you, like a magnet. 

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Transformation Tuesday | Your Upper Limit Problem 🚧

Brilliant One:

>> Here’s the AUDIO for today’s Transformation Tuesday.

In our Book of the Month, The Big Leap, Gay Hendricks shares that every human on the planet — no matter how successful they are — has what he calls an Upper Limit: the final barrier between you and your ability to live in thriving and success in every area of your life, at the same time.

He writes:

“Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed that inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure.”

He shares the moment he discovered his own Upper Limit, retelling of a time when he’d had a wonderful day at work, his relationships and job were humming along well and his daughter was at summer camp. As he sat in his office chair, savoring the good day, he began to have thoughts and images of his daughter being lonely, then even bullied, at summer camp, and the joy he’d been feeling dissolved away.

He called the camp and was surprised to hear the staffer report back that not only was his daughter thriving and well, but he was the third parent to call with this kind of concern that day. The camp supervisor guessed that the parents missed the kids and were projecting their discomfort onto their imaginings of what the kids must be experiencing.

The epiphany came when he explored why he’d begun to feel so bad when, just moments prior, he’d felt so good. What he realized was, it was precisely BECAUSE he’d felt so good that he’d begun to manufacture these unwanted, unpleasant thoughts.

He went on:

“When I reached my Upper Limit of how much positive feeling I could handle, I created a series of unpleasant thoughts to deflate me. The thoughts I manufactured were guaranteed to make me return to a state I was more familiar with: not feeling so good. .. if I hadn’t pulled up those particular worry thoughts, I would have used some other train of thought to dampen my mood.”

When he applied this idea to other areas of his life – and to humanity in general, he started to see the pattern:

He’d eat healthy food and work out for a few days, feel great, then binge and stay up late, feeling bad.
He’d be getting along well with his wife, then pick a fight or criticize her.
Even countries tend to cycle up and down between prosperity and depression, or war and peace.
So it came to be that he realized we humans are just now beginning to evolve — psychologically and spiritually — and gain the capacity to let ourselves feel good in an ongoing, extended way.

We are just now realizing that we can make a choice about how much love and abundance we’re willing to allow, and that we can also choose to see how we get in our own way… and stop doing that.

We are — you and I are — just on the brink of learning that we can actually extend the periods of positive energy, contentment, prosperity and plain old happiness in our lives, living in a steadier and steadier state of success, happiness and abundance, as we go.

Like in our affirmation: going from success to success, from glory to glory.

Our New Reality goal, Hendricks says, should be to spend 70% or more of our lives solidly, firmly in our personal Zone of Genius, which we’ll talk about and actually find in the next few days, but it’s a place of joy.

Discovering and dissolving your Upper Limit is your next step on the journey into that kind of a New Reality.

At the same time, intentionally finding and focusing on what in your current experience of life feels good… now, and now, and now and also now, will begin to get you used to that feeling of good. Then you can work on extending the periods of time you can stay in that place before hitting your Upper Limit or starting to manufacture unpleasant thoughts, like fear or impatience.

So get to your favorite spot to sit, and get as comfortable as you can.

Slowly, gently close your eyes.

Feel the pull of gravity on every part of your body, just asking you to let yourself be fully supported.

Take a few grounding, deep breaths and just feel your forehead relax, your jaw relax, your neck and shoulders relax, and even your chest open up and relax a bit as you breathe.

As you take an inhale, tilt your head up a little bit and let the glowing, warm, liquid light and the totally unconditional and abundant love of this Universe stream into your head and into your whole Being. Feel it flowing down your body, warming and thawing out any kinks or tight spots as it goes, cooling what needs cooling. Unconstricting what needs to unfurl. filling you up from the tips of your toes all the way up.

Feel it make its radiant way from your bones and organs out to your skin, and even beyond.

Feel yourself becoming even more poised and even more powerful than you already are, even more radiant and even more magnetic than you already are.

Sit like this, focusing on the words: ALL IS WELL.

Inhale, exhale: ALL IS WELL.

Finding the passing ideas and thoughts and excitements and Beings you love, as your thoughts come and go, at a slower pace than normal, but still coming and going.

As you see them, sort of grab the one that feel especially good and hold them in your heart and mind for as long as you can.

And then, take a deep inhale, receiving Divine Light, occasionally bring your mind back to the phrase: ALL IS WELL.

Allowing and accepting that whatever is going on right now, ALL IS WELL with you and your soul in this season, in this day, in this moment.

And all throughout the day today, circle back to the ALL IS WELLNESS of you, of your life, finding good feeling thoughts and people and focusing on them as often as you can today.

Head up + heart out,
TNN

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