I wonder if this sounds like you? Hanging out with me, with the body worker, personal trainer, cancer survivor, feminine presence coach, corporate attorney, acupuncturist, home-schooling mom, PhD scientist, physician’s assistant, and nutritionist who’ve joined the Vibrant Ones team? Or the ahead-of-her-time author/OBGYN Dr. Christiane Northrup who brings people together in partnership to better understand & manifest the power of the law of attraction in action? Or the man who inspired her to join his visionary calling to prevent chronic degenerative disease so people can stop “living too short, and dying to long,” Dr. Myron Wentz, the founder of our product partner USANA Health Sciences?

Here’s the part where you save hundreds of dollars getting started, YES! I’d already announced to my team that I’m offering $100 sponsorship toward the cost of getting started with a ‘ business in the box’ enrollment package from USANA – their entrepreneur and professional packages are perfect for getting to know this business as well as the best nutritional products in the world. That offer stands through Friday, June 3rd. Through the following week, June 10th, I’m sponsoring $75 off.  ‘BUT THAT”S NOT HUNDREDS???’ you ask? No it ain’t, and here’s the cool thing. Over the weekend USANA announced a promotion like they’ve never done before. They want to give ME $150 for every person I sponsor with an entrepreneur package. And they want to give me $300 for professional packages. Frankly, I’d rather pass the savings on to YOU! Seriously, watching people transform their lives, their health, and their pocketbook through growing a business they love is worth WAY MORE than $300 to me, I enjoy it that much. Plus, I’m not in it for the short term. If you decide it’s time to join me, we brainstorm some kick-ass ideas for you to run with, and then you DO run forward, we’re both worth a lot more income than that in the long run. It’s a win/win/win situation.

So, USANA is offering this deal through August 20th, you have lots of time to contact me, take a closer look at the company and the packages, mull it over and imagine how you want your life to change in the next few years. HOWEVER, if you want to maximize what I’m offering now… that’s $250-$400 off through this Friday, or $225-$375 through the 10th.

I know it’s not for everyone, but this team, this business, and glowing vibrant health, just might be for you. Let me know if you’re thoughts are turning…. and in the meantime, there’s a jigsaw puzzle I’ve gotta get to before my husband steals all the glory.

Happy Summer!

If you don’t already practice loving yourself, getting started can be challenging. As my Valentine to you, here are some tips & resources for getting started:

• Read Mama Gena‘s blog post today highlighting Emily’s experience of becoming her own Valentine. This is a beautiful love story and full of lovely ideas that are easy to incorporate. Check out Mama’s other resources while you’re out there, and if you haven’t yet read it, her book is a must for all women.
• Are you a busy mom? Self care is often the very last thing a mother allows herself. Get yourself a copy of The Mother’s Guide to Self-Renewal and find (or gather) a Personal Renewal Group in your neighborhood. Renee Trudeau‘s compassionate resource has been a lifesaver for mothers.
• Do you love your work? Join Dr. Christiane Northrup, featured last week on Dr. Oz as an ‘Alternative Health Allstar‘ – on a special, free tele-gathering tomorrow night, talking about ‘What’s Love Got to Do With It?’ She’ll share how to use the most powerful force in the universe, LOVE, to build a business that is thriving, sustainable, and feels good to run. You’ll find out specific ways you can open your heart to increase your business success, and your bottom line.
• Speaking of bottom line, you know I just can’t stop talking about Barbara Stanny lately. And since working with her closely I now know more than ever the money IS love energy in the physical. I promise you, creating a loving relationship with your money will draw abundance in every single area of your life. Read her book, Overcoming Underearning, join her free Monthly Money Mondays, and if you’re in Austin, join my Vibrant Books circle next week to talk about how this work creates a full-spectrum life!
• One of the ways I most desire to love myself is to add more GREEN to my life. I’ve experimented with green smoothies and have found some of them to be quite refreshing, to the point where my body craves them. It feels really good when your body craves something good for it! With the help of Kris Carr‘s sexy new book Crazy Sexy Diet I’m exploring adding more (green) juice to my life this year.
• Last, and most importantly – gather your tribe you love you and support you 100% in loving yourself first. I highlighted my posse and the names of women whom I admire, wish to emulate, and have got my back, no matter what.

This is what’s top of mind for me at the moment. We all have unique ways of giving & receiving love. What are the expressions of love you most desire to receive? Tell me how you’ll be your own best Valentine this year!

“i heart me” photo by Allison Evans

view from cliff dwelling near Santa Fe

I like change. At least, that’s the version of me I find most attractive. Perhaps a more accurate way of putting it is, that I often choose change, despite which, change still can make me extremely uncomfortable.

Examples: At the end of the 80’s I opted to face an uncertain future rather than accept a line of credit from my family which would have put me through college (that is, if I would have chosen to attend classes and get the required grades). Twenty years later I left my first marriage, moved to a new state with my 2-year-old and embarked upon a corporate career – all in the space of 4 months (‘they’ say never to take those life-altering actions more than one at a time). Several years ago when I’d just barely left my job and begun a coaching business I found myself getting over-excited about the remote prospect of my husband’s possible overseas job offer. In 2008 I championed the presidential candidate for change, gave his campaign a big chunk of my hard-earned ‘change’, and cried when we elected and then inaugurated him this January. I’m kind of a tenured practitioner of this thing called change.

So why then, have the last few weeks been so doggone hard?

This summer, after years of my husband’s urging and one good book (Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad) read over vacation, I agreed we should sell our home of the past seven years and find another, less expensive place that we could lease. We spent the next six months updating and put our house on the market after the holidays. I’m a huge believer in the Law of Attraction – so when my family collectively put our minds to visualizing a wonderful new family enjoying our beautiful home – it wasn’t that big a surprise to me that we got a good offer within three days (economy schmonomy…).

That’s when it got difficult for me; we needed to find a place to live. First we looked at houses over our budget that we hoped to negotiate down. No dice. Then we looked at a development which we liked but the houses were too small. On a couple consecutive rainy days I went with our realtor and tried really hard to find it, the one place that was perfect. But all of the places were too far south, too far north, too boring, too much in a state of disrepair. I came home and started to cry the kind of cry that doesn’t happen often. A bone-rattling, snot-dripping, wave after wave-crashing flood of tears that I thought was over by the time my husband and the kids came home but started up again during dinner. I hadn’t expected that. I’d chosen change. I’d read the book. I’d seen and finally agreed with my husband’s point of view. I thought I was in control.

We did take the house that’s too small. We sold a lot of unnecessary stuff at a yard sale and gave the rest away. Despite my daughter getting the flu and strep on the day of our move, we moved. And we closed. The family moving into our old house is exactly who we pictured, they are lovely and they will be happy there. And it even seems now that we will be happy here. The neighbors are kind and welcoming. The community is thriving and connected. There’s enough room for us in the house and everything is (slowly) finding its’ place.

Last night my back went out. Please understand, my back doesn’t go out. I have a strong back and in recent months I’ve been strengthening it further at my twice weekly workouts – well not this week because my daughter’s been home from school. Last night after I crawled off the toilet onto the floor, feeling a little like Elizabeth Gilbert and praying for assistance, I thought “What the HECK?!?!” It then occurred to me that my mental picture of the way things are and my physical experience of the way things are, are not in sync. “I like change.” “This move is a good decision.” “Everyone is benefitting from this change.” These are all mental constructs that I’m quite good at convincing myself are true. But in my body I do not believe it yet. It’s as if I’m waiting for proof. Louise Hay writes that lower back pain represents fear of lack of support and financial concerns. And that is the less attractive, but true picture of who I have been. The person who worries about everything, who likes to be in control because then she won’t have to trust anyone, the little girl who doesn’t think anyone ever listens to her or cares about her ideas. Yikes, that’s still in there.

Change ain’t easy. But change is good. Through the difficult choices we make, we have the opportunity to witness the ugly under-bellies of our belief systems. Ooooh it can be murky in there! But my back is getting better today and I’m an unrelenting optimist – by choosing to wade through the muck – I, we get to go to new, incredible places, like we never could have imagined or chosen for ourselves.

What about you? Do you like change? What types of places have you followed it to?