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Direct from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T Harv Eker (while I get my life organized and set up the next series of blogs) …

“The secret to success is not to try to avoid or get rid of or shrink your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than any problem.”

Sue Crutcher, Life Empowerment Coach & Mentor

Another concept from the T Harv Eker Millionaire Mind Intensive seminar….

The speaker draws a tree showing the trunk, branches and fruits as well as a line representing the earth and then the roots under the earth.

Broken down as simple as possible:

Your roots create your fruits.

Meaning (continuing with the T-F-A=R idea) whatever is within you (your thoughts and feelings) creates that which is outside you (your actions and, therefore, your results) in life.

You cannot have the roots of an apple tree and expect to magically grow plums or cherries on it.  Or, you cannot expect a computer program to run differently if you do not make changes in the program itself.  You can type a letter with a mistake in it, print it out and the mistake is there.  You can go back as often as you want and change the mistake and print it out – the mistake will continue to be there unless you click ‘save’ before you print.

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The general concept is the same for our minds: unless you change the thought, the thought process and the emotion(s) linked to the thought or process, you cannot expect a different result.  Yet, people do.  They get trapped within loops. This ‘loop’ can make life very frustrating.  We’ve all experienced it.  We all know people who choose not to make changes and we know people, like our group here, who love the challenge of change.

This ‘loop’ is not generally by choice but, rather by lack of knowing there is a choice. Their upbringing, our surroundings, society, culture and many other contributing factors help to create who they become. Often, they simply do not know another way and by not expanding beyond their comfort zone they may be locked in their pattern for a long time.

We only change when we make the choice to do so.  One of the ways to do this is through Life Empowerment Coaching & Mentoring utilizing the ‘Baby Steps to Success’ process.  This allows each person to make individual choices that are simple to implement and not overwhelming.  Over a short time, these little changes become ingrained as part of their lifestyle.

Sue Crutcher, Life Empowerment Coach & Mentor, Baby Steps to Success Expert

PS -- I'll be by everyone's site sometime this weekend for comments. Sorry for the delay ... I've been dealing with poison ivy, sunburn and a couple other issues all at once and, generally, not feeling like doing much.  Better to have to cope all at once though, cuz then they're all over at once too!

While I wait for more comments on my previous blog, I post this in the interim:

For those who are interested in Harv’s courses (and the ones I’ve done ... 5 so far ... have been the best of any I’ve been to), it appears there are no FREE introductory Millionaire Mind evenings scheduled at the moment.  However, there is something new on the website – the availability of a 90 minute TeleSeminar.  I have listed the weblink at the bottom of the page for your convenience.

Coming up ... I will post the “tree of life” idea…

BONUS -- this is a fabulous lesson in copywriting technique either way....

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"There is a secret psychology to money," says T. Harv Eker, internationally known speaker and author of 11 top-selling books and courses, "Most people don't know about it, that's why most people never reach their financial potential."

Eker explains, "Your outer world is simply a reflection of your inner world! A lack of money is not a problem, it is merely a symptom of what's going on underneath! The fastest and only way to permanently change your financial situation on the outside, is to first change it on the inside." Eker should know, using this strategy he went from zero to millionaire in only 2 1/2 years!

"Give me 5 minutes and I can predict YOUR financial future for the rest of your life!"

How? By identifying your personal money and success blueprint!

Unfortunately, your current blueprint will stay with you for the rest of your life, unless you identify it and change it. You are about to access a powerful audio seminar that will do just that. It's called the "Millionaire Mind, The Secret Psychology of Wealth”.

You will learn:

• The 5 critical ways rich people think differently than the poor and the middle class.
• The hidden cause of almost all financial problems.
• How your childhood conditioning is affecting you financially today.
• Why knowledge and skill DO NOT create wealth.
• How to train your mind to work for you instead of against you.

EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW!

You can preview the amazing Millionaire Mind Intensive by attending a Millionaire Mind TeleSeminar from the comfort of your own home or business! This 90 minute event is jam-packed with practical and innovative strategies to begin changing your financial life.

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To your financial success…

Sue Crutcher, Baby Steps to Success Expert, Life Empowerment Coach & Mentor

PS – Have you been clicking through everyone else’s sites? Obviously, someone’s been at mine since it is still on the rise.  Thank you!

PPS -- If you sign up for anything through the book or Harv's website, I would greatly appreciate it if you used this tracking number anywhere the site requests where you heard about them or a reference -- #398949 -- it gives me 'points' which count as credit toward future courses.

This acronym is an excerpt from the book ‘Secrets of the Millionaire Mind’ by T. Harv Eker.  At both the introductory evening (which is free and is often in a city within easy accessibility to your home) and the Millionaire Mind Intensive seminar, the trainer spends a substantial amount of time presenting this concept.  It is an important one that many people do not realize or are simply not aware of its existence.

This acronym is to remind us how our ‘inner world’ is reflected or manifested in our ‘outer world’ or our perceived ‘reality’.   The letters mean:

T      Thoughts

F      Feelings

A      Actions

R      Results

Therefore:

Our THOUGHTS lead to our FEELINGS which lead to our ACTIONS which equal (or produce) our RESULTS.

If you consider this for a moment, you will realize that it is a very simple equation for almost everything we achieve or do not achieve in life in all areas.

Quite often, we are unaware of (or so ingrained in a habitual saying or thought) this continual cycle within us.  We have instananeous, automatic responses – they could be verbal, thoughts, emotions, physical sensation (sick stomach, headache) or a physical reaction that is instant with a specific stimulus.  Examples: someone asks us for money, someone raises their voice to us; how you feel when you must speak in front of a group of people, when you want to ask your boss for a raise.  In each of these examples, each of us would have individual and very different reactions at each level of ourselves.  Perhaps you are a yabut – someone makes a statement, you agree then you automatically say “yeah, but…” (or any other constant verbage: uhhuh, hmmm, uh, but, not really…).

Take a moment to stop and think of your first reaction to each of them. Now, notice that this is an automatic response.  Notice whether it is emotional, physical, another thought or a physical reaction. The noticing or awareness of this automatic response allows us to grow – to step outside ourselves in the instant and consciously determine our response.

In your day-to-day life this week, notice where some of these automatic reactions occur and what the stimuli are to them.  The more we are aware of our patterning, the easier it is to change it.

To your continual growth…

Sue Crutcher, Life Empowerment Coach and Mentor 

PS -- If you buy the book off the internet or sign up for anything through the book or Harv's website, I would greatly appreciate it if you used this tracking number anywhere the site requests where you heard about them or a reference -- #398949 -- it gives me 'points' which count as credit toward a future course for me.

My friend, Niki, and I had a wonderful time at T. Harv Eker’s 3-day Intensive Millionaire Mind Seminar in Toronto over the weekend.  We’d been to it a couple of years ago, found it amazing, and decided to go back to re-evaluate, inspire and get ourselves back on track.

This week, I will share some of the key points we learned regarding financial freedom which are also clearly spelled out in his book “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind”.  This is an ideal BABY STEPS TO SUCCESS book -- easy to read, simple to follow. I highly recommend you read Harv’s book if you haven’t already (re-read if you already own it) – it is chock full of useful, easy-to-apply advice.  It is the only book I have found so far (and I have quite a collection) that incorporates a ‘holistic’ viewpoint to money … physical, mental, emotional and spiritual inter-relationships.

Coming up:

• Body, Mind, Spirit, Emotion connection
• The Tree of Life
• T-F-A-R
• The Jars

Harv’s company now offers more than 15 life-changing seminars – I’ve been to four of them and each was well worth the money.  It just happens that there was one seminar ‘special’ this weekend for an intensive seminar on passive income generation that sounds very much in line with the course we just completed with Kevin Hogan.  I will post more information at the end of the week – it will be held in December in California – Niki and I are both going.

To your financial success…

Sue Crutcher, Baby Steps to Success Expert

PS -- I hope everyone that went had an awesome time in Vegas!

PPS -- If you sign up for anything through the book or Harv's website, I would greatly appreciate it if you used this tracking number anywhere the site requests where you heard about them or a reference -- #398949 -- it gives me 'points' which count as credit toward a future course that I can sign up for.

I'll be at Harv T Eker's "Millionaire Mind Intensive" in Toronto today through Monday with a friend -- so I will not have any posts (I just wasn't organized with all the catching up do here before I left).  My apologies.  I've done the course before and it is very interesting and inspiring.  If you have not read his book, you may want to add it to your repertoire.  It approaches finances from a holistic point of view (the only book I'm aware of that does so ... and I have a lot of these books).  It is simple, logical and has easy-to-apply suggestions.  I gave all my nieces and nephews a copy last year for Christmas.

Sue Crutcher, Life Empowerment Coach & Mentor

PS -- a huge THANK YOU to everyone who has been clicking to and through my website ... it has risen another 106,645 this week in the ranking.  I've been to everyone's (and clicked through at least 3 pages if they were available) almost every day in the past week.

Continuing the thought string from yesterday’s blog …

When I am with a client who has a specific complaint or long-standing issue, I like to simply mention the possibility that the issue could stem from another level.  I want them to consider and be aware of it.  For some, this possibility contains immense possibilities, for others, it doesn’t mean anything.  The fact is, that by mentioning it, ithe possibility is now in the subconscious where it can start to work at a deeper level.  Naturally, it is always up to the individual to choose how much inner work they wish to do.

Following is an excerpt from the Forward of Louise Hay’s fourth edition of “Heal Your Body”:

This little book does not ‘heal’ anyone. It does awaken within you the ability to contribute to your healing process. For us to become whole and healthy, we must balance the body, mind and spirit.  We need to take good care of our bodies. We need to have a positive mental outlook about ourselves and life.  And we need to have a strong spiritual connection.  When these things are balanced, we rejoice in living.  No doctor, no health practitioner can give us this unless we choose to take part in our healing process.

The concept that our thought process form our reality and, to a great extent, create dis-ease within our bodies.  Louise’s book focuses on the ‘metaphysical causations’ of dis-ease and suggests ways to replace the ‘old’ thought patterns with positive affirmations.

There is a lot more to the book (and the whole concept) than this introduction can delve into.

There are several versions of this book available …  the original ‘little blue book’ has been out of print for quite some time but is still available used.  My favourite is “Heal Your Body A-Z” simply because it is easier to reference for clients in alphabetical order of dis-ease.  Note how ‘disease’ is hyphenated.  There is a reason for this in the holistic health care field.

Here are a few examples as promised:

Back Problems

Lower – Fear of money. Lack of financial support.

Middle – Guilt. Stuck in all that stuff back there. ‘Get off my back’.

Upper – Lack of emotional support.  Feeling unloved.  Holding back love.

Belching – Fear. Gulping life too quickly.

Problems with throat – inability to speak up for one’s self. Swallowed anger. Stifled creativity. Refusal to change.

Feet – represent our understanding of ourselves and others

Legs – represent ability to move forward in life

Throat – represents avenue of expression. Channel of creativity.

Arms – represent capacity and ability to hold the experiences of life

Hands – represent how we hold and handle situations

To your health…

SUE CRUTCHER, Life Empowerment Coach & Mentor

Do you get sick more often than you used to? Before you get ill, is there a ‘sign’ that it is coming again?  Do you listen to your body when this ‘sign’ appears?  Does your illness tend to manifest in the same way each time (sore throat, low back, sciatic, migraine…)? Does the illness incapacitate you to the point that you must actually stop and rest for a day or longer?

Illness is normally our body telling us that we are not listening and/or taking care of ourselves. Originally, the issue started at another level (spiritual or emotional) but we either failed to hear (or were unable to hear or chose to ignore) the message for whatever reason.  Perhaps because amongst all the other internal chattering and ‘priorities’, we simply missed it.  When the message is not ‘listened to’, the body uses stronger and stronger tactics until it gets your attention.  Any illness that puts you in bed for a day or more is your body saying: “I need a break.  I need time to recuperate.  I need time to heal.  Pay attention to my needs.”

At this point, most of us take the day (or two, or three) needed to restore ourselves.  Many of us fail to realize that we missed the message from within a long time ago and this is simply the manifestation of that message in a different form.  If we choose to continuously ignore the messages from within, the body will utilize stronger and stronger messages until we absolutely must stop.  Personally, I have a lot of experiences with what I consider ‘life’s 2x4s’ simply because I wasn’t listening or allowed the ‘priorities’ of my life at the time to have first place.  When I chose to change, to heed the lesson, to do what I felt was necessary to become healthier … amazingly, it worked very quickly.  Obviously, since this has happened many times, I’ve had a lot of lessons to learn.  In hindsight, you think I’d catch on … but, apparently not.  With age, however, comes intelligence and I am learning to pay attention earlier before an issue becomes a problem.

Tomorrow I will post some information on specific illnesses and their possible co-relation to emotional/psychological and thought patterns.

To your health…

Sue Crutcher, Life Empowerment Coach & Mentor

What is the most important key to self care?

It is difficult to say.  There are so many … I think each of us would have our own version of the most important to us as individuals.  Certainly we need to include, from a holistic point of view, at least one item from each of the four main categories: body, mind, emotion and spirit. We also need to include: responsibility, accountability, respect, duty, value to self; family; career; goals; volunteer and/or charity; relaxation and much, much more.  Notice the problem here … most of these are not ‘tangible’.  They are perceptions.  How do we measure these perceptions?

When I first meet a client for a consultation, we sit together (or go for a walk in nature) for at least an hour and discuss the client’s goals, interests, priorities, issues, problems, and purpose for future meetings.  In this first session, I glean all types of pertinent information (client’s drives, ambitions, where can I delve, what is sensitive or ‘out of bounds’, what are the prime motivators to success, is coaching a waste of time for either the client or myself…). The client determines whether or not they are comfortable with our interrelationship with a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ decision to further sessions.  When the answer is ‘yes’, we discuss and together determine the path we will take toward the client’s goals.

The most important key to self care – from a coaching/counseling/mentoring point of view – is to have a methodology in place by which we are able to track progress. How do we do this? One of the best ways I have found is an assessment tool which I refer to as ‘the wheel of life’.

I suggest you try this exercise once a month. Don’t get all caught up in checking it constantly.  As we change on an ongoing basis, it will change. We are looking for overall progress (or, perhaps, stagnation or reversal). Think of it like your weigh scale: you can check your weight several times a day and get all caught up in the emotion attached to the fluctuations, or you can check it once a week and get a good grasp on your progress.

The point of the ‘wheel of life’ exercise is to see change in a positive manner with an overall goal of balance in all sectors.  It does not matter if that balance is acquired at 10% or 90% as long as all sectors are equal. When all sectors are relatively equal, your perception of life will be that of more contentment.  Contentment, in the moment, is a wonderful and peaceful place to be.

EXERCISE

• Draw a circle
• Divide it into 4 approximately equal sections
• Label the sections:
• Physical
• Emotional
• Spiritual
• Intellectual

Before you start

Consider the centre of the circle to equal 0% and the outer most line to be 100%

First, look at the ‘physical’ sector

Draw a line across the sector (or a dot anywhere within) that will represent where you are right now physically as a percentage. This is a general perception including: strength, fitness levels, health, diet, stamina and anything else physical means to you.

Next, move to ‘emotional’

Draw a line across the sector (or a dot anywhere within) that will represent your emotional level right now. The easiest way to choose this number is to ask yourself: ‘How happy or content am I right now?’ and chart it as a percent.

Now, move to ‘spiritual’

Using the same process, draw a line or dot to represent your perception of how spiritual you consider yourself to be.  For some spirituality and religion are relatively inseparable, for others, there is a distinct difference between the two.  Spirituality represents your personal connection to whoever/whatever you consider your creator to be, to the universal life force, chi, prana … whatever you choose to call it regardless of what religion you may or may not be.

Finally, complete the ‘intellectual’ section

This is not about your IQ. This represents your perception of how close you are to your perceived intelligence potential at present.  It could be relative to how intelligent you would like to be down the road; how intelligent you are relative to how you once were

Almost done...

If you used lines across the sections, colour or fill in each section from the center out to the line that you drew.  If you used a dot to represent where you are; join each dot to the next sector dot with a straight line.

Now, thinking of this completed exercise as if it actually were a ‘wheel’…

If you were to cut along the lines of either the filled in portions or the joined dots, stood the wheel upright, would it roll smoothly?  If the answer is ‘yes’, you are very well balanced in life (from this viewpoint) and should congratulate yourself.  If your answer is ‘no’ (and the majority are), you now have a ‘map’ of areas you need to be aware of … what to work on and what to let be for now. Perhaps you’re very strong at a physical level, but spiritually or emotionally noticeably weaker.  At this point, we are simply getting a ‘feel’ for where we are currently. In a private session, we would delve into this a little deeper before we proceeded to tomorrow’s exercise.  If you would like more information, send me a ‘private’ message.

To your success...

Sue Crutcher, Life Empowerment Coach & Mentor

From the comments posted on the last blog, it is glaringly obvious that I have to post a deeper series than where I was headed.  No worries.  I teach on the fly … I can write on the fly.  I’m going to change tacks here and revamp the details to address what I am seeing.  Your comments have inspired my thought line tremendously here…

In the meantime while I determine how to word this series (and get caught up on the turnaround at the retreat … 12 leaving this morning, more coming in at 5 …. only me to do all the cleaning and laundry today … I’ve finished the homemade orange/pecan muffins for their welcome basket; get the rest of the garden planted; and enjoy sunset dinner on the greenhouse deck; while I spin these concepts in my head), I present the following.

Take a couple of minutes (I only ask minutes not hours since I know you’re all very busy people) and actually WRITE down the first word(s) that come to mind when you read the following questions. It’s almost like a word association game except that it’s emotion association.

That’s it.  I don’t want you to write in sentences or create an epistle here.

• Don’t even write out the questions.
• Just write the emotions, one per line.
• Leave a space between each set of answers.
• When you are done, you will have a list of at least 6 words (likely a whole lot more).
• That’s all you want … just a list.

1)         What emotion do the words ‘self care’ bring up for you?

2)         Describe your general overall emotional demeanor.

3)         What emotion do you think your spouse or partner or closest friend would use to describe you right now?

4)         If I asked you to set aside 1 hour a day just for you, how do you feel right now about that idea?

5)         How do you feel about me offering advice and/or suggestions to you?

6)         Your current state of overall physical health makes you feel ___?

You’re done.

What I would like you to notice is:

Do you see a theme in your answers?

That’s it for today. I simply want you to be aware of where you are right now.

To your health….

Sue Crutcher, Life Empowerment Mentor & Coach