Radiance Requires Retreat

Welcome to RichThinking Times for September!

Someone told me recently he had 553 emails in his email box. And then for some reason that week I kept hearing about the huge numbers of emails people have in their in boxes — 339, 743, even over 800! I was amazed, and that led to a conversation about energy blocks. Think about it — if your desk had over 800 pieces of paper on it, there wouldn’t be much room for anything else — and that’s what it’s like if you have more than a screen full of emails in your inbox. It constricts and blocks energy in every area of your life, not just your business. And it comes from an attitude of fear and lack, eg thoughts like ‘I can’t delete that, I might need it sometime’, ‘What if I miss that one vital piece of information?’ ‘Oh dear, I don’t know what to do with this, I’ll just leave it’. Does this sound like you? If so, this is the kind of thing I am discussing on my Success Coaching Circles, see below for more details.

Other things for you in this issue is a great offer for a retreat (read the article first though!), and also an introduction to a free webinar where I am being interviewed about pricing and the mindset required for that. And I’m off on holiday to our little beach cottage in the south of Scotland, and hoping for good weather, never guaranteed in this part of the world.

Enjoy your September, and keep your inbox empty-ish!

Warm wishes

Jane

September Issue Contents:

1. Develop Your Business Success Circle

2. Featured Article: Radiance requires Retreat

3. Launch of New Business Success Circle

4. Pricing — how on earth do you get it right?

1. Develop Your Business Success Circle (for those with existing businesses).

You’ll know already that your business tends to grow in fits and starts, with some uncertainty in the process! If you’d like to see it all moving forward more smoothly, with ease and grace, then consider joining my next Circle starting 11am Wed 9th September. I asked a past participant what they would say to someone thinking about joining, and she said ‘sign up now it’s really good value for money!’. And it is — £97 for 6 hourly classes over 6 weeks. Click

here for more info: www.richthinkers.co.uk/coachingcircles.html

or email me now to reserve your space — only 5 places left as of today!

2. Featured Article and Invitation: Radiance Requires Retreat

When you are around someone whom you describe as radiant, you’re basking in their apparent light. You are in the presence of someone who is ‘beaming with hope or joy or love’ (Concise Oxford Dictionary). It is often very nourishing, and you may findyourself wanting to rub up against that person, perhaps hoping some of their radiance will spill over onto you. So how do you become radiant yourself, and what effect does it have on your business?

Radiance – I’ve defined it above, although another meaning in this context is ‘emitting rays of light’. And that is what someone who is being radiant appears to be doing, shining light everywhere they go. When light is shone, areas of darkness are shown to us. So anything that has been hidden in the darkness can come to the forefront of our attention and become healed, or wither away and die. And if you think about light, that is what happens to all living things – they either grow in it or die in it, depending on whether they have the other necessary things for life such as food and water. As humans we are naturally drawn to light; it is a symbol of hope, of new beginnings, of life. In business terms, shining light will show up areas of neglect, systems not working very well, unhappy people. A successful business needs these areas attended to, so shining the light, while being uncomfortable, is often necessary.

Requires – also known as ‘needs’, meaning something ‘depended on for success or fulfillment’ (Concise Oxford Dictionary). So the joining word between radiance and retreat tells us that if we want radiance, we need retreat. If we want a successful business, we need to find what it is that makes us feel successful and fulfilled, and translate that into business terms.

Retreat — meaning ‘go back, retire, relinquish’; or ‘a place of shelter or seclusion’ or ‘a period of seclusion for prayer or meditation’. All of which imply a returning to a period of time, a place, or a knowledge of another dimension, or the source of who we are. Normally in our society we think of a retreat as a few days away somewhere, not just a holiday, but perhaps alone, and/or focusing on our connection with our spiritual self. It can however be simply a few moments of sitting still and turning within. It can be taking time out of yournormal routine. It can be your daily meditation. Whatever you decide that retreating is for you (and for me today it was spending time in nature at 9.30am on a Monday morning on a beautifully sunny day, rather than at my desk), it is completely necessary for radiance to shine through you. That is what happened to me before I wrote this article; and it only came to me to write this article while I was on my walk, ‘retreating’from my normal self, and therefore able to allow the connection between my soul and the soul of nature to be present in my body. Result – heavenly. I was without doubt radiating light for most of my walk, and felt then inspired to come here and write this article. Not only that, a new idea for a business product came to mind, plus clarity about how to progress with it. So retreating regularly becomes essential for business development, personal fulfilment and consequently the happiness of your customers or clients. If you want these things, invite radiance through retreat into your life now.

INVITATION! Would you like to retreat and radiate?

Having written this article above, I was then invited by a colleague of mine to tell you about a great retreat she is offering — please visit here for an enticing offer http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?af=1043612

Gertrude Lawler is an experienced healthcare professional and is doing some free teleclasses on this subject, so click the link now and sign up for some free tips about how exactly to benefit most from ‘retreating’.

4. New Business Success Circle — starts October 1st, 8.15pm

When one of my clients told me they hadn’t got a mailing list yet, had no idea how to set up a database and the very thought of it was rather alarming, I realised there was a need for a different kind of service. Hence this month my launch of the New Business Success Circle — for those of you who have just recently started in business, or are still holding down a full-time or part-time job, and for those still contemplating the leap from employed to self-employed status. I’m really excited about this programme, as it will include a lot of essential information if you want to start as you mean to go on. Cost is £97, and only £87 if you book by 17th September.

See www.richthinkers.co.uk/coachingcircles.html for more info or email me now to ask questions or reserve your space.

5. Pricing! How on earth do you get that right?

How indeed! This topic can be a bit of a minefield, so if you know that this is one of your challenges, then consider joining this series of webinars, and benefit not only from me being interviewed by Siobhan Guthrie of ClientAttractingSecrets, but also from the other webinars in that series. I will be talking about ‘Feeling Great About Your Fee’ — how to do that from the inside and then translate that into practical action. Again, Siobhan is a colleague and focuses specifically on marketing in the therapists and practitioners field. Visit here for more details:

http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?af=1047910