Before you launch into your busy week, I wanted to share a couple of things that have helped improve the quality of my life.

When I pick too many things to “Get Done” in a day, my head gets cluttered and overwhelm sets in. Before I even begin to focus on each of the tasks, peace has disappeared and I’m not present in my body. Then when I do get present, it is painful.

I find that when I approach several things at once on my list, I lack joy because my focus is on “Getting Everything Done”. Unrealistic goals cause me pain and frustration, which leads to self-criticism.

I’ve found that when I pick one task for the day that contributes to my Life Purpose, I feel good.

I’ve found that realistic expectations of myself stop self-sabotage.

When I slow down, I get more done! I also feel happy and I am present in this moment. Instead of worrying about something that has to be handled a month from now, I can appreciate the sunrise and the miracle of holding my baby boy in my arms.

Many blessings,
Joanna Garzilli

If you are not in tune with your intuition, you won’t be able to see what is holding you back from maximizing your bank balance. It is incredibly frustrating when you are doing your best to be spiritually aligned and living life purposefully, yet your bank balance isn’t reflecting the dollar amount you know you deserve.

Tip #1 Intuition Will Confirm Your Unconscious Blocks. If you feel like you’re doing everything right but still not getting the results you want, that pesky thing called the Unconscious Mind needs more spring cleaning. It’s not enough to do one meditation or visualization. You have to treat removing unconscious blocks that hold you back from manifesting the bank balance you want in the same way as brushing your teeth every day, at least twice a day. I recommend you take a minimum of five minutes before rising and before sleeping to focus on clearing yourself. The payoffs will be massive! (check out my Soul Abundance guided meditation mp3 by clicking here. This process to help you trust your intuition and will effortlessly remove any blocks)

Tip #2 Intuition Will Remove Your Stress. In the Healing Arts “Stress” is a word you’re meant to ignore. Thing is, when you go into denial and pretend that you’re fine and haven’t got any stress, it’s going to play havoc with your energy levels and you’ll find yourself getting exhausted often. That leads to wasting time and getting off purpose because you can’t connect with your Higher Self or Spirit Guides. (If you’re interested in developing strong communication with your spirit guides, you’ll love Wealth & Success Secrets Program. You can order it by clicking here.)

Tip #3 Intuition Will Empower You. Lack of self-confidence is a horror. When your esteem is low it makes you do things you know you shouldn’t be doing but you can’t stop yourself and you don’t know why. With your intuition operating fully, you’re never going to put yourself in that position because you don’t have to look for the answers from friends and family. When you’re very attuned, you’ll find many people will automatically want to confide in you because they sense your confidence.

Affirm: “I effortlessly manifest the bank balance I desire.”

I understand you may be feeling nervous about the upcoming months. Have you put your dreams on the backburner?

Are you going to wait for the economy to settle before you pursue goals?

By applying one of these steps below, you can release yourself from financial stress and turn it into financial freedom.

#1 Brainstorm with a friend you trust. Make a date to get together and write down your Top Ten list of how you’d love to make money. All you need is one idea to create financial freedom.

#2 Research your idea. Find out how long it is likely to take you to implement this idea into tangible form.

#3 Make a concrete plan for your idea. When you create a plan, it helps you visualize your money-making idea as real.

#4 Set a deadline for your idea to become a reality. Without a deadline, you’ll be floundering. “Tomorrow,” will become your unfortunate mantra.

#5 Be committed to the first step. The first step is always the hardest. You have to keep moving forward.

#6 Less thinking, more doing. It’s easy to get yourself caught up in too much planning. You have to be alert for your self-sabotaging patterns.

#7 Acknowledge your actions. No matter how small a step you take, give yourself credit. It takes courage to implement an idea because you could fail. You know what’s worse than failing? Not trying.

Affirm: “I have brilliant money making ideas that I implement effortlessly.”

© 2009 Joanna Garzilli

As 2008 comes to a close, you have an opportunity to review your year. During all the Christmas activity with family, take an hour to reflect on your life and answer the following:

1. Did you achieve your goals?
2. What character traits held you back?
3. Did you develop a new attitude that supported your spiritual development?
4. Is there anyone you need to forgive before 2009? If yes, can you forgive them?
5. Are you dreaming big enough? If not, what beliefs hold you back?
6. Commit to one goal in 2009 now. What is it?
7. What date will you take the first step to manifest your goal?
8. Do you have a New Year’s resolution? What results can this resolution create in your life?
9. Who has made a positive impact on your life in 2008? How?
10. What will you do in 2009 that will inspire all those whom you meet?

Affirm: “I commit to my spiritual path and living it in each moment of the day.”

If you were to perceive failure at an energetic level, as pure energy, think quantum physicists looking at failure under a microscope; what does failure look like?

Is failure scoring poorly on your SATs? Or do you think financial debt makes you a failure? Do you look at the wealth and lifestyle of Bill Gates or Paris Hilton and feel ever so slightly inadequate?

It’s hard not to compare ourselves to others because it’s our natural instinct to do so.

Failure doesn’t have to be so black and white yet most people see themselves as a success or a failure.

It gets very painful when you keep holding yourself in a place of failure when in fact you are successful.

Here’s a fly on the wall at a Monday morning chat around the ad agency water cooler:

“Did you hear Jenny got the promotion to Head of Media Sales?” Dan said.

“Really?” Paul said.

“Yeah, she won the Smith account bringing in an extra $50,000 a year for the company and she gets a $10,000 bonus,” Dan said.

“She’s doing big things for the company,” Paul said, doing his best to ignore his feelings of inadequacy.

“Rumor has it three people about to be let go of at the end of the week,” Dan said.

“Any names mentioned,” Paul said, obviously fishing to make sure his name wasn’t in the mix.

“It’ll be the execs with the lowest sales, out, no exceptions by management,” Dan said.

“Oh,” Paul said, acting cool on the outside. Inside his head spun out of control as he tried to calculate his sales. Would he be out of a job?

Paul had worked for the agency for ten years now. What would he tell the wife and kids? Small Christmas gifts. No money for the trip to his wife’s parents. He imagined how she would freak out when told this yearly tradition would be broken. Perhaps she would want a divorce? Paul felt small and weak, like a true failure.

Who and what determines that you are a failure?

A media sales exec at Saatchi & Saatchi would consider $50,000 in ad sales a pathetic performance. On the other hand, a cashier at a local food mart would consider $50,000 an amazing success.

I felt like a great failure for most of my life. I struggled to acknowledge my achievements. Even when I did experience success, I couldn’t enjoy it because I was so critical of my results. People would pat me on the back yet I remained depressed. Can you relate?

First, I invite you to take a look at several different meanings of FAILURE. Study them well. Can you see yourself in any of the descriptions?

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
FAILURE-noun

Even if a failure is in the past, it can still affect your energy and your experience of life. That can be extremely draining. I’m all for being optimistic and upbeat. However if there’s a ghost in the room, you’ll be scared to go there and that will keep you from getting what you want in life.

Here are 10 ways you can overcome that awful feeling of failure now.

# 1 Face failure. It takes so much energy to pretend your failures didn’t exist, hurt you or matter. When you acknowledge your failure, its power diminishes.

# 2 Write down your failures. Get a blank piece of paper and draw a line down the middle. In the left column, write the heading “Failure” and in the right column “Success.” First list all your failures followed by your successes.

# 3 Evaluate your beliefs about failure. Become aware of your mental thoughts about failure. Are these thoughts yours? Or did someone else criticize you and you took ownership of that belief?

# 4 Observe how these failures make you feel. Can you pinpoint where you feel a specific failure in your body? Has it manifested as a bad back, depression, laziness, recurring headaches?

# 5 You are not your failure or success. Having $2,000,000 in the bank doesn’t make you a success or a failure. Failure and success are relative. You are not your failure and you are not your success. You are you.

# 6 Change your perception of failure. As long as you see yourself as a failure, you will be because you will project that energy and attract circumstances to validate this belief. If you learn from your failure and do things differently next time, you have not failed.

#7 Stop living in the past. Every time you think about a past failure, it lowers your energy vibration and impedes the good things that are coming to you right now.

# 8 It doesn’t matter what other people think. When you worry about someone else’s opinion, you step outside of your circle of power. This creates feelings of fear, anxiety, low self esteem, etc. That is not your natural state of magnificence.

# 9 Get over rejection now! You’ve already failed when you take no action. The worst thing someone can do is say, “No,” and most of the time it’s not personal; even if it seems it or feels it. It truly isn’t about you.

# 10 Check in with your true feelings often. Being sensitive is a good thing. Allow yourself to feel. Don’t behave like a machine on autopilot rushing through your day or switch off your feelings. Take several moments in the day to breath. This will connect you to your heart and soul and detach you from being swayed by the downturn of failure and upswing of success. You will remain neutral and at peace when you apply these steps.