If you’re like me you just LOVE the beginning of each New Year. It feels like optimism and a fresh start are in the air, doesn’t it? So why not leverage the good energy that’s floating around and get yourself geared up to make this your best year yet! A great way to do this is to create a Master Plan for the year.

There are a few steps to this process but I think you’ll find that taking some time for yourself to get quiet and get clear about what you really want, will pay off – big time!

I would recommend getting out of your regular environment for the first part of this process. There’s just something powerful about a change of scenery that really works well for this.

So pick a new coffee shop, or a library or someplace you feel drawn to so you can have a fresh perspective and change of scenery. Take a notebook or a computer with you and answer the following questions…

• What feelings do I want to have more of this year?
• What kinds of experiences would I like to have?
• What are 3 things I would really like more of in the New Year?
• 3 goals I would love to achieve this year are…

When you sit down for this introspective exercise, make sure you do not censor any images, words or ideas that occur to you. Just allow the information to flow.

Then answer (and again, let it flow)…

• What do I need more of to achieve my goals?
• Is there anything I do or surround myself with that might negatively impact my success?
• What limiting beliefs do I carry that don’t support my goals and dreams?
• Who do I need to be in order to achieve my goals?
• What changes do I need to make to support myself in achieving these goals?

Whatever your goals are – make sure you are set up to achieve them. Many goals don’t happen because at the core, people don’t have the beliefs systems to support them. So what ends up happening is people sabotage themselves all over the place by not getting the support they need or not creating new ways of being to get there. Makes sense, huh?

You may choose to translate the information you gathered into a form that supports your forward momentum. For example, you could create a Vision Board that visually depicts the goals and dreams you have for yourself. You may also wish to join a mastermind group or hire a coach to help make your dreams a reality. It is important that you create some structures in your life that keep you oriented to your goals.

So what are YOU going to do differently this year to make it the BEST YEAR EVER? Who are you going to be? Are you going to be your most confident, powerful self? I sure hope so, because when you step into this way of being, you can create anything you desire.

I hope this year is your best year ever!

Has your intuitive guidance been telling you something? It might even be something that you don’t want to hear. If so, are you willing to listen? Are you willing to open yourself up to what the Universe has to offer?

Our Higher Selves always know what’s best for us. But sometimes it’s hard to hear the messages. Either we’re not listening closely enough to hear anything at all – or we ignore the messages because we don’t trust them. But the answers are right there in front of us all of the time. We just have to listen.

So today, won’t you give yourself the gift of listening?

Won’t you take even 15 minutes for yourself to get quiet and allow your intuitive guidance to emerge?

Here’s an exercise to access your this information for those of you who are willing.

Take a blank piece of paper and turn it sideways and write the following question…

“What does my Higher Self want me to know today?”

Then take the paper and a pen to a peaceful, calming space and get very quiet. Breathe deeply – in for a count of 8 – out for a count of 8. Do this until you get into a centered and feel calm.

Then open your eyes, put the pen in your non-dominant hand and allow the pen to start moving to answer the question. You might hear a voice speaking – or have a feeling – or maybe some words just start to appear on the paper. There is no right way that this intuitive guidance emerges.

You can do this exercise every day. See what emerges. What are the messages? Are there patterns?

Start to open yourself up to the possibility of listening to the guidance. What would be possible for you if you did?

Are you willing to trust and see what the Universe has in store for you? Are you willing to go with the flow instead of trying to muscle through life and make it all work on your own?

It’s an interesting process for those who are used to doing it all by themselves. This idea of listening and surrendering takes some deep faith and lots of practice. But the rewards are so sweet. I do hope you will listen.

I want to talk to you about confidence. Now I’m not talking about that icky, cocky kind of confidence that we all can see and feel a mile away.

I’m talking about “authentic” confidence.

You’ve seen it before. You can recognize those people that just seem to be happy and seem to have it together.

They are comfortable in any situation – they aren’t trying to impress or prove anything to anyone. They are just being themselves.

Now THAT’s authentic confidence.

So think about it – if you were authentically confident with yourself, what would be possible?

Would you attract more clients?

Would you find go for a new job?

Would you be able to head up a committee for your favorite charity?

The answer is of course! When you are authentically confident, you are far more likely to attract the opportunities that you are seeking.

So the question becomes, what does it take to be authentically confident?

There are many strategies and ways to go about this.

So let me share a little exercise with you. After you get done reading this email, write this question on a piece of paper.

What am I believing about myself that negatively impacts my authentic confidence?

See what comes to mind. And keep the paper handy. Look at it every day and add to it as things come to mind.

Knowing yourself well – and doing the work to bring yourself into alignment with the TRUTH is important work – and the work that can get you where you want to go in life.

Chances are there are things on this list that aren’t really even your beliefs. They have been created because of things you’ve heard – from your parents, teachers or even well-meaning religious organizations who programmed you with beliefs of unworthiness.

There are no victims in life, my friend. You have every opportunity to re-program yourself to believe good things about yourself.

And this creates authentic confidence. Believing what Source – and your higher self knows to be true for you. You are part of the Divine, you are good, you are love – and loved.

You don’t have to DO anything to be deserving of a good life. You deserve it just because you are here.

So if you want to create that authentic confidence that creates magic in the world, please give yourself the gift of overhauling your beliefs. You deserve it!

If you’re unclear about what’s preventing you from experiencing “Authentic Confidence,” allow me to assist you. Sign up for my complimentary Intuitive Guidance Session today and get clear about what’s going on with you so you can fix it and get out there and share your gifts in the world! To reserve your space, visit http://mollyluffy.com/blog/freesession/

And for the ultimate confidence booster, join me for my 3-day Women’s Empowerment Workshop this April. Click here for more information…http://www.loveyourselfandsoar.com

So many heart-centered Entrepreneurs are struggling to make a great living sharing their gifts these days. They have been courageous and taken the plunge to leave the safety net of the corporate world and long to help make the world a better place.

They’ve done their best to research success strategies on the Internet, subscribing to ezines, telesummits and even paying for programs that promise almost miraculous results.

But there’s a problem with much of the success strategy information out there. The focus is on the “hype” and not on the reality of what needs to be present in order for those success strategies to work well.

Maybe you’re one of the many Entrepreneurs who are starting to wake up after having spent lots of money on programs that didn’t work for you. Or maybe you’ve been exposed to enough slick marketing hype that you’re feeling over-saturated.

I talk to people every week, it seems, who tell me stories of how they follow certain celebrity entrepreneurs success advice (usually at great financial investment) yet they are still struggling – only even worse than before – because now they’ve invested tons of money. Many of these wonderful, smart, caring people are on the brink of either bankruptcy or having to return to corporate and take a job working for someone else. This truly breaks my heart.

So today I’m going to share with you my personal, very strong opinion about just SOME of what it takes for outside-in success strategies to really work. I know that some of you aren’t going to like what I’m saying in this article. You might think I’m being pessimistic. I don’t call it pessimistic – I call it realistic. I’m giving it to you straight, my friends – from the heart – hoping you will be able to identify the reality of what is happening in your business.

In order for outside-in success strategies to work, you need:
A big, responsive list
A unique, well defined platform
A clearly defined niche and target market
Crystal clear core marketing messages and campaigns
Professionally produced websites, sales pages and materials
Consistent passive and active marketing strategies
Relationships with potential joint venture and affiliates who also have big, responsive lists
Confidence
Belief that you deserve success
Positive self-esteem

These are all things that really need to be present in order for one to achieve those 6 and 7 figure goals that the hype-y programs promise.

And there is ONE thing on this list that will absolutely undermine everything. If you don’t have this one thing, you will struggle and sabotage any chance you have of creating and sustaining a successful heart-centered business – DESERVABILITY. If you don’t feel that you deserve the success you desire, your subconscious will make sure that you don’t get it or don’t keep it.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, folks. But I’ve seen it over and over again. And I’ve certainly experienced it myself.

I’ve been a Professional Coach for a decade now and I focused on the outside-in strategies for a long time before I was lucky enough to receive the message that before I did anything else, in order to be successful I needed to LOVE MYSELF.

Walking this beautiful path has healed my once buried deservabilty and self-worth issues. Once I started to know myself from the inside out – and healed all of my deep wounds, a funny thing happened; success strategies I had tried before started to work. The focus of my business naturally changed in a positive way. I could clearly see opportunities, create effective marketing messages and execute marketing strategies with ease and flow like I’d never experienced before.

You see, your vibration raises up dramatically when you love yourself. The Law of Attraction starts to bring you things that feel good – because YOU feel good. People start to respond to you because they can feel your good energy – not your confusion and secret lack of confidence.

So I’ll tell you what I tell every single struggling heart-centered Entrepreneur that I meet… “Don’t spend another dime on outside-in success strategies until you’ve focused on cleaning up your inside. Outside-in only works if you’re uber-optimized from the inside out.”

When will you see that true, authentic, fulfilling success comes only from the inside out – not the other way around?

Please, I urge you to focus your time, energy, attention and investments to programs and information that support you on INSIDE-OUT strategies. Because without the optimized inside, you’ll struggle. And probably just won’t make it.

If you’re unclear about what your particular form of “inside” block is, I can tell you in a mere 15 minute phone call. Sign up for my Intuitive Guidance Session today and get clear about what’s going on with you so you can fix it and get out there and share your gifts in the world! To reserve your space, visit http://mollyluffy.com/blog/freesession/

So many people stay stuck where they are because they don’t value themselves fully. Recently I started working with a person – we’ll call her Susie – who has so many obvious talents and abilities. She’s smart as a whip and has an encyclopedic knowledge of a variety of interesting topics. She happily rattles off resources, ideas, tidbits of information. It’s very clear that Susie loves to help others and is always right there with some relevant information.

While Susie has many talents that are obvious to me, she has a difficult time recognizing them in herself. During a recent phone call I was telling her how much I appreciated her intellect and she started to cry. She shared with me that she doesn’t really feel that way about herself and struggles to appreciate her own qualities. I can certainly relate. There was a time when I struggled with my own gifts too, thinking they weren’t really that special.

But I’m over that, and Susie is on her way now, too. All of us have wonderful qualities that are unique and special. And we should lovingly appreciate ourselves for all of these qualities. It’s a delicate dance, though isn’t it? We don’t want to come off as an ego-maniac or a jerk by flaunting how great we are. But we also owe it to ourselves to heal the part of us that tells us to play small and undervalue our own gifts.

The world is changing every day. More, now than ever before, people are waking up and realizing that in order to make a difference and be their best in the world, they need to follow their soul’s lead and let go of those old beliefs about themselves that aren’t serving them anymore.

Susie is working on developing her own sense of self-love and appreciation. She understands the value that comes from this and is taking steps to live her life from this space. Are you ready to do the same thing? Are there qualities that others tell you they appreciate, that you can’t appreciate in yourself? Are you hanging on to past hurts or beliefs that aren’t serving you?

It’s time to let this all go. It’s time to get in touch with yourself, your gifts and let your inner star shine brightly. The world needs us now more than ever before, to stand in our power, to know who we are, what we believe in and be willing to take a powerful stand for those things that we care about. Loving yourself is the best gift you could ever give yourself – or the world.

Love. It’s in the air today on Valentine’s Day. It’s a day where people focus on loving those in their lives with niceties such as flowers, chocolates, romantic evenings and nice dinners. And I love that! My husband and I always celebrate this holiday with each other.

And while expressing our love for one another is great, it just seems to me that there should be more emphasis on cultivating the love relationship with ourselves.

Too often we are not loving towards ourselves. Not only not loving, but downright mean more often than not.

Think about it. Would you ever speak to a child or friend the way that you speak to yourself?

We all have an inner critic that tells us we are bad or wrong – or stupid. Or maybe all of these things and more.

I think I had the most active inner critic ever. Mine was so raging that I spent years feeling unworthy and awful. I was in a terrible cycle – beating myself up over and over and over again.

But I have created strategies for myself to tame my critic’s voice using energy clearing – and the “turn-to” statement. This is a statement that you create to use when the Inner Critic is doing its thing.

Here are some examples… of “turn-to” statements…

“I’m doing the best that I can”
“All is well”
“I love myself just the way I am”

So if the inner critic is saying “You’re so stupid. Why did you do that?” You would use a “turn-to” statement and tell yourself – in your head “I’m doing the best that I can.”

To learn more about the “turn-to statement” and other strategies for walking the path to self-love, download my free Love Yourself and SOAR Success Kit.

Since your Inner Critic has probably been doing its thing already today, won’t you take a moment right now and tell yourself “I Love You.” Just silently – in your own mind, say these words. “I love you. I love you. I love you.”

This might feel odd, but please try it. I know many of you might be thinking that you can’t say it because it’s not true; you don’t love yourself right now. But isn’t there some little part of yourself that deserves your own love?

What about your sweet little inner child who wasn’t taught to love herself? Doesn’t she deserve some love?

Listen, I know for many of you it seems too hard. But just try it. “I love you.” Say it to yourself, “I love you.”

Loving yourself is the greatest gift you could ever give yourself – and your loved ones. Because when you are filled up with love, from the inside out, your entire world changes for the better. You have so much more of your authentic self to share with the world. You are a role model for everyone you know. Your vibration uplevels and you start to attract more of what you want.

I hope that you’ll take just a moment today to consider that you can love yourself. Spirit certainly does. Your Higher Self does. And you can too. You do deserve it!

Perhaps you’ve heard the idea that “everything is energy?”  It’s so true!  And so exciting that this notion is now becoming part of the collective consciousness.  More people than ever before are remembering this truth and starting to learn how to capitalize on it in creating a truly meaningful and abundant life.

The Law of Attraction is not a new notion but for many this idea has come into their lives for the first time over the last few years.  Popular media has done a great job of raising awareness about this Universal law.  But many people struggle to effectively utilize Law of Attraction strategies.  Why?  Because there’s much more to the story than just thinking about what you want for it to manifest.  You need to understand the energy piece of the puzzle.  And once you understand that, you need to take it one step further and learn how to be a  “vibrational match” to receive what you are wanting.

Maybe for some of you this whole notion that we’re vibrational beings living in a vibrational Universe is a new one.   It was to me too at one time.  But it’s true, folks.  And the more you get this one concept, the more you can work on making sure your human energy “signal” is directed at creating more of what you want – instead of unconsciously creating what you don’t want.

This is the big mistake people make when trying and failing to use the Law of Attraction.  You have to consider yourself as one vibrational entity.  Thinking yummy thoughts about that new car or job or house isn’t enough.  You have to be a vibrational match to receive them.  And guess what messes up your vibration more than anything?  Fears, limiting beliefs and doubts.  If you are harboring unconscious or conscious ideas that you don’t deserve good things, rich people are jerks – or whatever it is – you negatively affect your human energy signal.

Remember, you are ALWAYS in creation mode.  Interested in landing a new job?  Great!  Launch that desire but make sure that you don’t harbor any negative beliefs like “I won’t be able to pull in a new job since we’re in a recession.” Limiting beliefs and fears carry strong vibrations and oftentimes cancel out the vibration of desire.

You need to remember that you really do deserve success – and can be, do or have anything you want in life.  If you are carrying around a bunch of negative beliefs about yourself, you aren’t doing yourself any favors.  So get in touch with the things that are telling yourself that are impacting your ability to create a meaningful and successful life.  And get rid of them once and for all.  You’ll be amazed at how good life can get when you stand in the truth of who you are – powerful, smart, amazingly talented with so many gifts to share.   And when this is your dominant vibration, the stars line up and amazing opportunities come into your life.  The world is waiting for you…what are you waiting for?

Last week the leader of my spiritual community at Columbus Center for Spiritual Living, Rev. Molly Cameron shared with the congregation that she had seen a bumper sticker with the above title.  Isn’t that cute?  AND true?

And since Thanksgiving is just around the corner, it only seems fitting that we spend a bit of time re-orienting ourselves to this powerful concept.

We students of spiritual topics have heard it a million times, but sometimes we just forget to spend a focused amount of time each and every day of counting our blessings.

But let’s change that today.  Let’s dust off those gratitude journals, get out our favorite pen and start making that list once again.

It’s such a vibration raiser.  Let’s face it; we’re surrounded by bad news.  It can be so easy to focus on what’s not working versus what is.  Keeping a gratitude journal is such a great way to keep us focused on what’s real – we all have so much to be thankful for.

According to Robert Evans in his book Thanks! How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier, reported experiments, which revealed some exciting news.  Those who focused on gratitude increased their happiness level by 25%.  This has a huge impact on our ability to attract more of what we want.  What a quick and easy – and free – way to make our lives even better!

I hope you’ll join me in creating your own gratitude list.  I’m starting mine right now – I’m grateful for you!  By being part of my community, you help me to do the work that I love.  Thank you!

So many people are setting goals – but what they don’t realize is if they are too far out of energetic resonance with them, the goals are actually undermining their success. Watch this video and see what I mean…