Blissful Busyness

Busy, I’m so busy, my head is spinning, yaa, yaa, yaa, I’m so busy! (Insert soundtrack from old Tommy Roe song.) Oh yes, it is a busy time! The Summer Sizzle time, when to do what you want to, and to have the fun you want to have, you must line all your little ducks up and get everything in place.

Is it possible to experience bliss when your head is spinning from details, organizing, and planning? Well, certainly. It’s possible to experience bliss anytime, you just have to choose it!!

Seriously, how can we stay grounded when we are running in many directions, with lots to do, and many other things we want to do? I suggest these 5 elements:

1) Get organized! If you are going to go camping a lot this Summer, get all your gear together in one place. Put stuff in totes so it’s easy to load and unload from the car. Buy special camping kitchen-ware etc., so it can always stay with the camping gear and there is less you have to put together each time you head out for a trip. This allows for spontaneous trips too.

2) Coordinate calendars with other family members, and make sure you mark off time for all those fun things you want to do. If you don’t make the time, the time will pass by.

3)Prioritize. What is most important for you to complete this week? What needs to happen for you to go away without worry and stress? What’s the one, or 3, things you really want to do this Summer? Make a list with 3 columns, with the headings Have To, Want To, and Hope To. In each of those columns prioritize again.

4) Remember to take down time for yourself. Get still. Be quiet. Spend 6 hours laying in a hammock. This personal rejuvenation time is important in maintaining groundedness and calm.

5) Have fun! Even if Uncle George gets sauced at the family picnic and throws Grandma in the pool, as long as everyone stays unharmed, just laugh and enjoy what will soon be precious memories. Laughter heals just about anything. Summer is so short. Play whenever you can.

My busyness has been preparing for the “Living Your Business Bliss” Womyn’s Business Conference coming up this Friday. I am the keynote speaker, and am offering some workshop sessions. It’s the first time I have had the honor of being a keynote speaker, and I am super excited! And nervous. So, it’s time for me to go play a little and burn some of that off!

~~Play Big~~Laugh Hard~~Live Your Bliss~~!!

Business Bliss

I’m so excited! I’ve been asked to be the keynote presenter for a local Woman In Business Conference. It’s being called “Living Your Business Bliss”. Now, is that just the perfect place for me or what?

This all day affair will include vendors, networking, mini workshops (I like to call them play-shops!) and is being offered by the local Small Business development Center, out of Cochise College, and is available through a WIRED grant. All Cochise County womyn in business are invited, and, here is the totally cool part, it’s absolutely free! What an amazing opportunity for womyn!!

My keynote presentation is titled “Getting Your Bliss-ology On!” and I am going to be busting through some mythology on work happiness, getting wild with joyful activities, and inducing (hopefully) a state of bliss for the participants.

Not only do I have the honor of being the keynote, but I will also be presenting a play-shop. I’m going to be one busy girl that day! But that’s OK, because I love this stuff. Ya know, being in front of people, helping them turn on their bliss-ology, facilitating happiness thru new awarenesses and understandings, and getting people moving on all levels. This is when I get to be in my bliss. Not that I don’t love the rest of my work, and I truly love working with groups as a bliss facilitator!

My play shop will be “Self Care, Sustainability, and Satisfaction-the 3 legged Stool to Business Bliss”. I know, not a very sexy title, and it’s still going to be a lot of fun. This won’t be a typical talking head, power-point presentation, oh no! It will be interactive, engaging, and will get people out of their seats, out of their minds, and exploring all kinds of great things. After the conference, I’ll probably make this into a tele-class, so keep your heads up on that one!

If you are local to Cochise County, I highly encourage your participation in this event. Not just because I will be there, because it really is a fabulous event, with fabulous resources, and fabulous business womyn. What do you have to lose?

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Women In Business

Yesterday I attended the Women In Business Conference, hosted by Cochise College, and sponsored by the Small Business Development Center. Titled “Growth, Gratitude and Guts”, this day long event had  a dynamic array of presenters, and included a heart warming key note by Cochise College president Dr. Karen Nicodemus.

While the attendance was fairly small, the energy, friendliness and sense of shared bond was very big. Everyone was very welcoming, willing to share information, supportive and joyful.

I had a booth, and offered a raffle for 1 free month of coaching! This is a great way for me to discover people who are interested in what I have to offer, and is a screaming deal for the winner. Congratulations to Lisa Thompson!

A coaching question I often ask my clients is : what are you taking away today? (from our session, or from an experience.) This helps to summarize the experience and allows for the learning’s to integrate more readily. I ask myself this question often as well. What I came away with, from this conference, was the affirmation of: I am a womyn in business! As I observed other womyn, watched what they did, heard the thoughts they contributed, etc. I walked away with a renewed connection to my own strengths and wisdom. I was reminded that I have a valuable contribution to make and that it is needed.

Another goody that I came away with (along with a fabulous gift basket that I won!) was a reminder of some of my weaker points as a business womyn. My tendency not to have a “business plan”, and to get stuck in the elements that hold me back from positive movement. (I forget that any movement is better than no movement and allow silly, unverified fears to rule the day sometimes.) Taking a look into who we are, and really getting to know ourselves-with all the good, bad, and ugly-is required for full success, in anything we do, really. Not just business.

Soon I will be sharing about the 17 Elements I believe are integral to a life that is a Whole Health System and has complete wellness (Click on the Playing the Game tab to learn a bit more about this). For today I will share that business and career are piece of that. By attending conferences, feeding our mind, staying connected to what’s happening in our industry and evaluating ourselves we are actively designing a sustainable environment that allows us to be in the Bliss Zone. The end result is more joy, motivation and inspiration-all things that then allow us to attract all the abundance, prosperity and fulfillment needed to keep us thriving and smiling. This is a good thing!