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The transformation you can obtain in this newsletter is:

You can answer and address this question:

“Why is it so hard for me

to do what I want to do?”

Art by Maria Mar(c)2010.

In this issue's feature article, I offer you the first of the article series that helps you grant yourself the Seven Basic Permissions to Succeed: The Permision to Deserve what you want.  You can also subscribe to get the entire ebook series for free!

In this issue's  LifeByte I answer the question "Why can’t I get motivated?"  And in the inspiring stories I feature the story of Christina Andrews, who inspires you to persevere and triumph over the ups and downs of life.

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LifeByte #4

Why can’t I get motivated?

Question:

Why can’t I get motivated?
Asked by: Elizabeth
 

Answer:

There are two different scenarios for depleted motivation: temporary and chronic. I'll cover the first one in this issue and the second one in the next issue, so stay tune.

Temporary lack of motivation

If you are suffering from a temporary lack of motivation, then you are usually motivated, but find yourself in a motivational slump. Here are the issues that may be causing this slump.

1.   Overworking.

2.   Taking too many ineffective actions.

3.   Plans and goals are not in harmony with your Purpose.

4.   Doing too many difficult things for too long.

5.   Working hard without giving yourself rewards.  

6.   Doing too many things you don’t like.

7.   Not receiving the results.

8.   Feeling alone and abandoned.

9.   Toxic environment.

To see how these situations diminish your motivation and find out what to do, click here.

The Seven Basic Permissions
to Succeed

By Maria Mar(c)2010

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I’m talking on the phone with a great international artist. I congratulate her on the success of her current exhibition. Suddenly I hear a shocking confession.

“Yes, I know. It’s been well received. But you know what? I really do not FEEL like a success.”

As a soul healer and shaman, I am a psychic huntress. I track down patterns of energy not only in individuals, but in groups. For months now I’ve been on the scent of a mortal enemy of women’s success and wellbeing.

This enemy brings a scent of despair and diminishes a woman’s intrinsic value. It minimizes her contributions. It transforms a woman’s self- perception from success to insufficiency.

The Question
I’m chatting with a friend in a café. This is a woman who I admire, love and respect. She is a cultural leader, an exquisite poet and a college professor. She acknowledges that she is not working in the way she wants, not living her potential to its fullest. The obstacles seem insurmountable and she feels trapped.

I went home and hunted down the unasked question in the conversation.

“Why is it so hard for me to do what I want to do?”

The Answer
The long history of denial that women have experienced collectively is embedded in the individual energy patterns of each woman. The problem is not that we consciously rate ourselves as a failure. Most of the women I interviewed knew the objective value of their achievements.

This is what I see: women do not give ourselves emotional permission to succeed. Our denial to succeed is subconscious, emotional and implicit. This denial works as a hidden interference to our conscious intent to create a fulfilling life.

The Underbelly of Success
The stories that we tell ourselves are rarely the real story. When we tell ourselves the reasons why we can’t do what we want to do, we focus on external circumstances, usually having to do with how giving to others takes precedence over our own desires. But that is a lie we’ve been told and one that we keep telling ourselves.

If we look at the underbelly of success, however, it is rarely about circumstances and much more about permissions. It is about giving ourselves the emotional and spiritual permissions to be, have, create and enjoy what we desire.

Women need to restore the energy gateways for these Permissions to Succeed. They are not built-in, as is usually the case in most men, who have been socialized for centuries in the belief that they are made to achieve things in the world.

The Seven Permissions to Succeed that I have discovered are:

1. Permission to deserve what you want.

2. Permission to do what you want.

3. Permission to achieve what you want.

4. Permission to unleash your greatness.

5. Permission to deserve love.

6. Permision to be happy.

7. Permission to be.
    

Permission to Deserve What you Want
Many of us unwittingly fall into the role of victim, in spite of being powerful women, often leaders and high achievers. We do this by pitting our right to succeed against the wellbeing of our loved ones. Guilt is the glue that keeps us stuck, though we rarely recognize its scent in our self-sacrifice.

Why does an accomplished writer, artist, expert or leader who has taught, guided, helped and empowered hundreds of people feel unsuccessful?

Because she is serving others in ways that do not fulfill her Soul’s needs. Success needs to be measured by the degree of fulfillment of your Soul, not by social criteria seen from outside the Self. I call this Success with Soul.

Many spiritual paths tell you that you are here to serve others, not for yourself. I disagree. We came here for our own evolution. That is not in opposition to love or service. We are one. You are a mirror to me and part of me. When you honor your essence, you give me permission to honor mine. The war between self and others is part of the Myth of Self-sacrifice that has limited women for centuries.

But there is something else.

For centuries we have sustained community, nourished families and transformed societies without as much as a thank you. We have gotten used to trying harder and giving more. We are seeking perfection as the gateway to give ourselves permission to succeed.

If we have achieved mastery of our creativity, but are not yet prosperous, we feel that we have failed. If we have achieved prosperity, but do not have a love partner, we again feel that we are not that much of a success. We throw away the baby with the basinet, so to speak.

We do not measure success from our own perspective, but from the perspective of others. As a result, we cannot FEEL success. We make it a measure alien to our Soul.

Why is it so hard to give yourself what you want?
1. Because you believe that if you are happy, someone will suffer. For centuries, you’ve been sold in the definition of love as self-sacrifice.

2. Because your relationship, empathic and nurturing gifts have been historically pitted against you. The training you’ve received on how to be a mother, friend, daughter or caregiver is to give by cutting off pieces of yourself. But you cannot subtract from what you don’t have.

3. Because you believe that you are not good enough to have what you want. You believe that if you take care of others first, then and only then will you deserve the right to have what you want.

Here’s a solution you can try at home to create new gateways to give yourself permission to succeed.

Make a list of seven things that make you happy or that your body and soul want right now. These things should be small enough that they are doable now, but challenging enough that you have not given yourself these things in a long time. For the next seven weeks, give yourself one of these things each week.

Examples:
~ Take a day off and go to a SPA
   to get a massage.
~ Give yourself a warm food bath
   with salts before going to bed.
~ Spend a week-end in a retreat
   to rest and relax.
~ Take a creative workshop to
   learn or improve one of your talents.
~ Write a poem or create a song
   expressing your Unique Essence.

~ Dust off that instrument or canvas
   you've hidden away for years and play.
~ Dance under the moon.

Offer your happiness as a gift to the world.

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Transforming Adversity

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Christina  Andrews 

Christina was born in Greece. At the age of five adversity knock at her door for the first time. She simply woke up one morning and couldn’t walk. The nurses noticed that, in spite her tragedy, Christina served as a tonic for the other children in the hospital. They would wheel Christina all over the children’s wards, spreading good humor and encouragement with her natural ebullience. Eventually, Christina was able to walk.

This joyful force was one of the qualities of Christina’s Unique Essence. It would serve her well in the saga of tragedies she would face in her life.

When her parents moved to Australia, Christina saw her parents go from middle class to poor immigrants. Suddenly Christina’s mum went from being a happy housewife in their Greek village to working long hours in an assembly line factory. Her dad went from having a good government office job to also working in a soulless factory. He eventually suffered an accident in that factory and was unable to work. They were hardly able to survive and suffered the rejections that poor immigrant suffer everywhere.

Christina married young, went to college and had her first child. Then they bought their first business and began to prosper.She discovered that she had a talent for business and a gift for making money. They soon were multi-millionaires. Now everyone wanted to be their friends.

But her fortune would collapse in the 1990 crash. Christina found herself pregnant again with her fourth child while having lost all her possessions. Then her husband went overseas and never returned.

You would think that Christina gave up in despair. She had tried and she had lost. But Christina had another quality in her Unique Essence. She knew how to get up when she fell. Christina built up a number of technology based businesses, raised four high achieving kids and even started an online university to help single parents.

Just as she did when she was a child, Christina got up and moved forward. And she still inspires others to triumph over adversity. What does Christina have to say about adversity?

"It's made me more resilient."

To read Christina’s full story, visit this link.

http://wemagazineforwomen.com/from-ruins-to-riches/

RESOURCES:

The Single Parents University

Christina created this online university to guide and support single parents.

If you are going through a divorce or are a single parent, Christina and her staff at SPU have support, advise and tools for you. Her affordable home study course comes with free months of membership. Click here.

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The dream of a peaceful world

has been with us for millennia.
Are we the generation

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"In the years ahead, we have the opportunity to help wean the world of its addiction to violence by harnessing best practices, deepening our personal commitments, healing ancient wounds, building bridges between cultures, advancing the science of peace, and teaching our children to live peacefully. In fact, most of the “technologies” for creating peace at all levels of society are well advanced - we simply need to share them on a wider scale.

The broad trend of human evolution is to move beyond violence. Given the scale of global crises, we must accelerate that evolution and learn to live, collaborate, and create in a more harmonious way.

PeaceWeek will unite pioneers from around the world together for the largest virtual peace summit ever created, culminating with the International Day of Peace on Sept. 21st. It will be a celebration and exploration of everything that is working to foster peace, from the family level to whole nations."

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This is my blessing for you today:

May you feel the ecstatic joy

of being a born success
and know in every bone and atom

of your body that
the second you were born,

you were an instant success,
possessing all the essential qualities

to deliver your purpose
in your very presence.
 

Maria Mar is an author, poet, healer and spiritual teacher whose life mission is to inspire you to live fully. She helps you to be, have and create success every day. If you want to achieve personal freedom, unlock your creative potential and live a life of magic and delight, keep Maria present in your life.

A PBS-featured performer and visual artist, Maria has freed her vast creative potential and helps you do the same, designing a life and work experience that fulfills your soul's purpose. Maria marries her artistry and imagination with her wisdom and energy tools as a shaman to offer powerful tools for self-transformation, healing and manifestation. Enjoy stories that open portals to your Personal Freedom, ceremonies that quicken the Law of Attraction, audios that take you into a healing journey and art that shifts your consciousness.

Maria is available as a speaker and ceremonialist poet. She offers books, digital products and coaching, art that heals and transforms as well as performances, speaking engagements and other live and online events to help you become the protagonist of your life and the creator of your destiny.

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