Something has really been bothering me. It is keeping me at night. That something….is your dream.  What’s bothering me is how many people are living halfway, on autopilot and will never realize how much time they have wasted until their time has nearly run out. SO many of you have a dream. You have a passion. You have gifts to share and people you’ve never met who desperately need you. Yet you stay covered.

There is no worse feeling than regret.  There is nothing more crushing than the knowledge that life is short and that you’ve squandered it away. You can wish, or you can act. You can wonder what life might have been like, or you can make it the way you dreamed it could be.

I am amazed at how many people contact me, sit with me, talk to me, share their journey with tears in their eyes and longing in their hearts. I hear them, I feel their pain and confusion. They are lost, feeling like time is wasting away, unsure of the next steps but certain that they cannot go on one more day in their current reality of anxiety, uncertainty or financial strain. They want more.

So we paint a brighter picture. They tell me what they want. As they talk, they light up. They begin to picture their new life. They see themselves at peace, healthy, abundant, with clear goals and a blue print for reaching them. Their faces change as they imagine a life that is joyful and fulfilling. They feel the warmth of having more control, more time, more freedom, more money. They are whole with the fulfillment that washes over them as they see their new life. And then the meeting is over. Real life resumes. And they vanish.    I never hear from them again. Fear crept in and replaced their fire with self-doubt and skepticism.  I had one woman who couldn’t afford to coach with me one on one. I respected the fact that the median income in her country was drastically different from mine.  In fact, one month of coaching with me was MORE than the average monthly income in the rural, poverty stricken country she lived in. So I offered a major discount and customized payment plan. I offered several free resources. I made it impossible for her to refuse because after speaking with her, I could feel the difference she would make for people. But she bailed. She said if it were meant to be, she would be able to afford the regular price. If it were meant to be, her internet connection would be better. If it were meant to be I would live closer to her… I handed her a gift, and fear whispered to her “Don’t take it! It might work and then you would have to change!”

How many times have you talked yourself out of your own dream?

Let me say this as gently as I can. I’ll be just fine. Whether you take a step or not, plenty of people will. So I’ll be ok.

But what will happen to YOU?

Well? Where do you stand? Will you be counted amongst the skeptics? The fearful? The people who say that life is hard and that success is impossible? Or will you be counted among the visionaries, the trailblazers, the beautiful creative souls who leap and soar and CHANGE?

Watch this video. It is 6 minutes of your life. This video is circulating through the most powerful groups I know. It embodies the mindset I want each and every one of you to embrace. It is the core of my work and my program.

You have to be willing to go after your dream. You have to invest in yourself and your future. You get one life. If you want MORE for yours, get in Soul Success while you still can. We close the doors in one week and don’t open them again until July. Here are the details.

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Make it your year. I believe in you!

 

Gina

 

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Call it what you want—Inner Voice, Intuition, the Voice of the Infinite. We all have it. The problem is that most people coast through life never getting to know it. And when you don’t know it, don’t listen to it, don’t attempt to connect with it, you miss out on an endless flowing river of power and purpose direct from the God of your understanding.

Every once in a while, my awesome mentor Shanda Sumpter mentions a book she’s currently loving. And she’s never steered me wrong. Most recently she was singing the praises of Russ Whitney’s Inner Voice. That same day, I came across a blog post by Larry Benet and guess what? He was recommending the same book. I don’t need to be told three times. I immediately ordered my copy. But I wasn’t prepared.

Russ Whitney doesn’t just share his own incredible journey to the center of his Inner Voice, he fully expects you to walk with him. You’ve got work to do. The kind of work that when you finally get through it, you wonder why you waited so long. And unlike a lot of books that tell you what to do and then send you out to pasture, Russ gives you a blue print. And if you look at that blue print and it feels just a bit too overwhelming, he hands you an inner voice coach to guide you through it. This is more than a book. It’s an engaged community. It’s a movement; a way of life.

Inner Voice takes us through the four stages we pass through here on earth. It teaches us HOW to make two-way conscious contact with our inner voice, which is, in essence, one of the more beautiful and productive ways to learn and to pray.

This journey is not for the faint of heart. This is for the courageous souls who aren’t at all afraid of a detour into a dark forest, because they know it’s a short cut to paradise. By way of Russ’s ——— you will turn back time and revisit your past. I get it. A visit to the past isn’t always rainbows and butterflies. But it’s in our past that our limiting and false beliefs were formed so it’s there that we must go to smash through them!

Every once in a while you meet someone and feel instantly blessed. And that is exactly how I felt when I first had the opportunity to speak with Russ. This is a man who amassed a huge fortune, sat at the helm of Fortune 500 companies and then hit rock bottom only to rise again, this time as the most authentic version of himself, sharing his wisdom from a place of humble service but with that same passion and enthusiasm that we are used to from Russ Whitney. Grab a copy. Get to know him. And more importantly, get to know yourself.

It’s true. I’ve just appointed you CEO of You, Inc. So from now on you will need to make your decisions accordingly. I have given so many clients this advice and it is a game changer for them! Why? Because as unglamorous and chilly as it sounds, life is kind of like a company. You have the bosses, the employees, the mission and the message, the bottom line, the strategic planning, the SWOT analysis (assessing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) and even employee appreciation days. You have all of those things in your life.

As CEO of your company (aka your life) you have incredible freedom and perks. You get to decide who you trust and enjoy enough to hire (bring into your life). You get to decide who is no longer serving the company and must be let go. You get to make the one year plan, the company mission statement, the workshops, and you are responsible for employee morale.
I used to be a “yes man.” I said yes to everything, whether I wanted to do it or not. And what would invariably happen is that as the obligation drew near, I would get more and more irritated, maybe even start to resent the person I had agreed to help or meet and the energy of the day would plummet. I was just trying to please everyone so my intentions were coming from a place of purity and service. But it’s ok to consider YOUR best interests. Any competent CEO would. Let me tell you a very short story about the day I became the CEO of Gina, Inc.

I had been invited to dinner. I really didn’t want to go as it was a group of people I had grown apart from and I was no longer comfortable in their company. The night of the dinner came. It was dark, rainy, my youngest child was sick, I wasn’t feeling 100%, my husband ended up working late so I was scrambling to find child care and with every passing hour that the dinner approached I was more and more irritable. But then something clicked. I went into CEO mode. I thought to myself “This is absurd. This is MY life. MY time. Time is the only resource that I can never replenish and I should get to decide how I want to spend every delicious hour of it!” I called the person who had organized the dinner and respectfully said, “Unfortunately I am not going to be able to make it. My family needs me tonight.” Period. End of story. No fake excuses. No contrived apology. This particular dinner was not in the best interest of my company or my staff (my home and my family.) I can’t tell you the amazing feeling of freedom you will feel when you no longer have to dream up excuses.

This is YOUR time. Your life. And sure you want to be in service and there will be times you have to honor an obligation. But how many hours of your time have you given to the draining friend who keeps you on the phone for hours lamenting their dramatic love life? (When really the time clock was ticking and your company’s billable time would be better spent on a growth task?) How many hours have you spent at a monthly book club that you no longer enjoy at ALL? How many hours have you spent trying to preserve a friendship that had run its course, emailing back and forth, feeling misunderstood and unheard but hesitant to pull the plug? It’s perfectly ok, and I would argue imperative to your self-worth, to make decisions firmly and proclaim them confidently. And most people will respect you for it. The ones who don’t will never be invited to join your company and they will miss out on the stock options, the perks and the company Christmas party. =)

 

 

 

 

Each year, those of us in America who celebrate Thanksgiving gather around a festive table, consume more food in one hour than some people do all week and then, share with one another things that we are grateful for. This is all very nice and I like a good pumpkin pie as much as the next person, but what doesn’t sit well with me is the emphasis on gratitude just for one day of the year! What about the other 364 days?

Thanksgiving is not a holiday, it is a choice!  

One of the fastest paths to happiness is recognizing and embracing that which we already have. So why not choose to practice that all year round, every single day. Pay attention to how you pray.

 To often, our prayers begin with “please”, when in reality they should begin with “thank you.”

Below are some tips for capturing that “attitude of gratitude” once and for all:

• Remember this: if everyone in the world, or everyone in your town for that matter, threw their problems into a big pile, you would likely grab your own problems right back! You would see that despite how things may look from the outside, many people are dealing with things that are much more painful than your own circumstances. You are feeling low on money this month? Someone else lives in poverty every day. You are feeling lonely after a breakup? Someone else, somewhere, is trapped in an arranged marriage, while you are free.  Find the miracle underneath your challenge.
• Live in the moment. Drink in the tiny moments that make up the tapestry of a beautiful day. For instance, find gratitude for your view of the sky, for the quiet moment with your tea, for the fact that you have hot water for your bubble bath!
• Check in a few times a day with yourself. Set your phone timer to “ding” every few hours and at that moment, find one thing to be grateful. Even on the WORST days, you can be grateful for the fact that you are alive to hear the “ding!”
• Finally, be grateful for everything that you don’t yet have in your reality. Sounds odd right? But it sets the Law of Attraction in motion. For example, if your goal is to gain financial security, you can choose to proclaim your gratitude for the fact that money is moving into your life. It’s a powerful energy and through that, you raise your frequency and open the doors for the blessings to roll in.

    “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” 
― Epicurus

When we spend all of our time wanting, we are distracted from the bounty of blessings that are already ours. It’s ok to want, but be mindful that your longing supports your gratitude and doesn’t replace it. You are alive and reading the post. Score!  If you make it to the end of this sentence, you are having a better day than someone else. 😉

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“I don’t have time.”

“I don’t have the money.”

“I don’t have the family support.”

No. What you don’t have is the desire. You aren’t yet uncomfortable enough. The fire hasn’t started in your soul. You are stuck in fear, in self doubt. You are safe inside your bubble of what’s familiar. Because for those who have been called, there are no excuses. For those who have been called, excuses are abolished and replaced with a golden, twinkling, Vegas style lights of possibility.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide

I get it. I was there too. For an entire decade actually. But I don’t want YOU to have to hit rock bottom in order for the light bulb to finally turn on.  When you stay safe, you are smothering the person you are MEANT to be in fear. You may live an ok life. And there is nothing wrong with that if you can live with that longing; if you can ignore that whisper from your soul that reminds you daily of the gifts and abundance you are leaving on the table. I couldn’t ignore it. For me, and I am guessing for a lot of you, leading a life that is not in line with your soul eats away at you.  And every day, the knowledge that life is short is presented to you.  And the message gets louder and louder. And if you still ignore it, it starts to manifest in physical symptoms like fatigue, anxiety, weight loss (or gain), depression. I’m not making this up. It happened to me and studies support the physical manifestation of emotional pain. You might not feel quite so desperate yet. But keep ignoring… and you will.

“And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”- Anais Nin.        

There comes a time, and maybe you are already there, in which you cannot imagine going one more day in your current reality. That’s fantastic! That’s the fire starting! That’s the stunning realization that you are more afraid of staying the same than you are of changing.  There is power in that realization. Use it!

I don’t believe in accidents. If you read this, it’s because you were meant to read it. Can you be absolutely sure that destiny will keep knocking day after day? TRUST yourself. And if you can’t, trust me, trust God, trust possibility. You are not promised a tomorrow. None of us are. So make sure your today fills you with unprecedented happiness and immeasurable love!

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For years I had 2 kids. Then one day, when my oldest was 8 and my youngest was 6, I found out that I was pregnant. If the world ended right now while I was typing this, I would not be more surprised than I was that day. I had a business. I had a social life. I had a clean house and manicured nails. That was all about to change as my incredibly cute but exhausting third child splashed onto the scene!

Suddenly, a daily shower was a feat of Olympic proportion and I went from a woman who was proud of her home to a woman who closed the curtains so that no one could see the toys all over the floor. I went from a woman who considered herself well versed in literature, new movies and CNN to a woman who found herself mindlessly singing The Wiggles theme song out loud in the grocery store.  So this blog post is dedicated to all of the busy moms out there who have ever looked in the mirror and wondered, “Who in the hell is THAT?” I hereby give you permission to drastically lower your expectations of yourself. We don’t want to do this every day, mind you, but it is absolutely ok to, on particularly challenging days, turn in your cape, exchange it for fuzzy slippers and just get through the next 12 hours.  I salute you, and I want you to know that every once in a while it’s ok to:

• Order chicken nuggets for yourself and only eat the outside
• Be 37 and eat cake for breakfast…and lunch
• Put the kids to bed without brushing their teeth, or reading to them or remembering which bed is theirs
• To be just a little picky about approving which pics of you your friends can post on FB
• To think that mismatched sweats are perfectly alluring bedroom attire
• To prefer cheesecake over sex, but sex over cooking
• To admit that you do not understand the political situations abroad, but feel totally connected to The Real Housewives
• To protest Skype, facetime or any other technology that requires you to be suitable for public viewing.
• To fluctuate between wanting to take over the world and help millions of people or sit on the couch with a pint of cookie dough ice cream
• To love your children immeasurably but at 8pm breathe a sigh of relief that can be heard in China
• To pretend that you don’t even see the juice in the carpet, the crumbs under the couch or the girl scout at your door (you can leave money in her mailbox tomorrow)
•  To not be worried about  being stuck in traffic because there is probably enough random food in your car to feed a family of five and enough clothes to get you through four seasons
• To pretend that you have to go to the bathroom just to grab five minutes of uninterrupted time with your iPhone
• To eat the last cookie while hiding in your closest, not share it, and not feel the least bit guilty about it.

The point of this? It isn’t to go so completely off track that you offend the neighbors and end up on the Learning Channel.  The point is to be compassionate with yourself. Let go of perfectionism. If, at the end of the day, the people you care for are alive and mostly happy, you’ve done well. No one wants you to be perfect. Perfect isn’t fun at parties. And when you allow yourself a “human” day you are teaching a valuable lesson about self love.  Just get up and relight the fire the next day. Don’t beat yourself up. Your imperfections make your loved ones feel safe about theirs.  Show yourself the same empathy you would show them. You will forget things like school snacks and birthdays. You will lose your patience with a tired child, with your spouse and with your computer. You will screw up your calendar and forget to return phone calls.

But you will also love unconditionally, forgive wholly, live passionately and serve selflessly.  And I promise you all of that cancels out the cake you had for breakfast. 😉

Some of you know that in my former life I was the editor-in-chief of a digital fashion magazine. That line of work does come with some occupational hazards including sticker blindness and shoe addiction. One term that came up consistently throughout the days of trend watching was “must-have.” Usually a “must-have” refers to the latest “it” bag or refers to the runway trend that you MUST take part in to avoid a worst dressed list. But for me, the term has evolved. For me, a “must-have” is a component of life or relationships that MUST be present and is non-negotiable. I encourage you to steal the term. Let’s break it down.

So often we are settling. We take the less exciting job because it pays a bit more. We stay in the stale relationship because it isn’t abusive and is at least comfortable. We put up with the inconsiderate friend because we have known them since childhood. If you are reading this blog post chances are you are older than 18 and therefore an adult. So I can’t help but ask, why? Why would you, as a fully functioning, intelligent adult, continue to settle for anything less than you deserve?

A few weeks back I held a training series called The Peaceful Path to Your Life’s Purpose. The very first video was all about defining our non-negotiables. So many of us make decisions based on what we need to DO, when what we should be basing our decisions on is how we want to FEEL. You are free. Free to choose who you let into your life. Free to go to the party, or not go. Free to let someone get under your skin, or blow them off and go on your way. You are free to leave that relationship or plug away for another ten years committed to change and growth. You are free to be bogged down by negativity in a constant state of victimhood or you can choose to never let any one person or circumstance steal your hope and vision for the future. You have CHOICES. And the best way to honor those choices is to come up with your list of life “must-haves.” These are your non-negotiables. These are the things, circumstances, feelings, people that you want to have in your life on a daily basis. It’s important to note that the space for all of this blissful must-have living must be cleared. There is no room for your must-haves if your life and spirit are cluttered wall to wall with “should-haves.” There is no room in your “must-have” life for “should-haves.” It’s one of the beautiful blessings of adulthood. You can weed out the toxic people. You can let go of chores and duties that suck the life out of you. You can distance yourself from relationships that drain your energy and constrict your soul. What you do you want instead? You CAN decide. You CAN and you WILL and it will be on YOUR terms, honoring YOUR must-haves.

Some helpful hints to get you started:

How do you want to feel every day? List five feelings.
How do you never want to feel again? List five
What kind of people do you want in your life?
What kind of people do you want out of your life?

It really is that simple. So start your list. Clear your space. Invite the blessings in. Offer them a cozy space in a warm corner of your heart. They’ll stick around. 😉