I’m starting a new thing: regular book giveaways! Yayyyyyyyyy!

I’m just not sure yet how regular regular will be, maybe every couple of months?? We’ll see.

I do know that I loved the $100 Startup giveaway I did a few months ago, and I’ve got a new one today:

Tapping into Ultimate Success by Jack Canfield and Pamela Bruner

(I did receive this book for free from Hay House)

I picked this book because I was doing EFT in an acupuncture circle and I loved it and wanted to explore more.

I am more than a little embarrassed about the fact that it’s written by the Chicken Soup For The Soul guy.? But, I gave it a chance and I am super glad I did!

Because even though the Chicken Soup For The Soul empire is kind of cheesy and embarrassing, I can’t argue with the fact that it is MEGA-SUCCESSFUL.

And do you know what MEGA-SUCCESSFUL people do?

They don’t let their stuff (inner critics, fears, doubts, etc) get in their way.

EFT is a way to stop your stuff from getting in your way.

I was SUPER IMPRESSED with how the book dealt with emotional stuff.? Typically this is what happens:

Here you are, in your “comfort zone” which is filled with things that are comfortable and things that are not comfortable.? (It’s really more of a “familiar zone” than a “comfort zone”.)

There is your dream, outside of your familiar zone.

There is this uncomfortable emotional stuff, between you and your dream.

And your fear of dealing with that keeps you in the familiar zone.

Even though, generally, that uncomfortable emotional stuff between you and your dream is no more uncomfortable than the uncomfortable emotional stuff you face all the time – it’s just not familiar.

It makes no sense.? NOT LIVING YOUR DREAM MAKES. NO. SENSE.

This book shows you, step by step in crystal clear detail, how to tap your way to where you want to be.

It makes the trek through the unknown uncomfortable stuff easier – so that you can get to your dream (aka your PURPOSE or MISSION).

It’s very simple – you tap on energy meridians with your fingers while working through your emotional stuff in an effective, simple and systematic way.

So, I loved the book and how it presents how to work through your emotional stuff in an effective, simple and systematic way – there is not enough of this in the world!

It makes it so much easier to work through that gunk and get to the part where you believe in yourself, you believe in your dream and you’re ready to make it happen.

Do you want it?

HOW TO ENTER THE DRAW:

THE CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED.

Using a random number generator to choose the winner, the winner is Laurie who said, if there were no obstacles in her way “I would be a full time creative artist, shiatsu and reiki master, happily married, and independently wealthy and sublimely healthy..”

Awesome!

And this week’s Creative Dream TV is all obstacles and how dealing with them can actually help you make your dream real.

PS: The Creative With Money Online Playdate is happening SUPER SOON!

Past participants have called this ?A smashing success?, ?Life-changing? and ?So full of magic I?m still seeing stars and glitter!?

We’re playdating on OCTOBER 26. That’s next Friday.

CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE FUN.

As I shared last week, for the past year I’ve been running a group called Advanced Creative Badassery.? About how if you want to break out of your own patterns and limitations and create your dreams in your world – you’ve got to be kind of basass.

Then my friends Jenn and Amanda sent me a badass email about this new thing they are doing:

Positive Panties. Curing the crabbies one sweet ass at a time.

When they asked me to join the party, how could I say no?

I made a video for their “How To Tap Into Your Badassery” e-Book.

And, since badassery is important to me, I wantd to share it with you too.? This is how I tap into my badassery:

The Badassery e-Book is free.? Download it here.

Also: Positive Panties needs your help! Click here to read more.

PS: The Creative With Money Online Playdate is happening at the end of the month!

Past participants have called this ?A smashing success?, ?Life-changing? and ?So full of magic I?m still seeing stars and glitter!?

I set out to participate in?Susannah Conway?s August Break and post a photo every day for the month of August.

Last Friday I posted about Creative Burnout and I haven’t posted anything since.

Ha.

Funny how that works.

I am putting together The Best Thing I Have Ever Done.

I am so proud of this and so happy that I have created it.

I’m also so terrified about it.

And everything in between.

That’s all I can really say about it for now.

It’s amazing how much energy it takes to bring something shiny and new into the world.

Right now I’m either working-on-this-thing or actively-filling-the-well, there isn’t space for much of anything else.

This morning I had a beautiful picnic breakfast in the park.

Mostly because I am too TOAST to do anything else.

And being in nature recharges me (as do lattes with honey).

I have a lot on my plate right now. A lot a lot.

So yesterday I overdid it.

And today I am TOAST.

I want to say this mostly as a reminder to me:

(Even though I already know this.? But, we all forget sometimes.)

It’s much better to slow down, and do the refilling-of-the-creative-well-things every day when you’re not TOAST then it is to push yourself to work as hard/fast as you can and then become TOAST.

Keeping something from toasting is easier than un-toasting TOAST!

I don’t like that I have a capacity.

But I’ve got it.

And learning how to care for it is so important.

Learning how to care for it opens up possibilities to play with it and stretch it and find out how miraculously flexible it can be in certain situations.

Ignoring it and bulldozing through leaves me TOASTED with no options but to go into Extreme Recovery Mode, which is where I’m going to spend the rest of the day.

PS: For the longest time, I didn’t even know I had a creative capacity!? This is because my creative capacity is actually quite large, and I was always working well enough within it that I never experienced it.

I first started experiencing it when I decided to give myself 6 months to quit my part-time job and do my creativespiritual work full time.

Luckily, I was in Jamie Ridler‘s Circe’s Circle at the time, a Creative Dream Coaching Circle.

Jamie’s support, guidance and expertise were instrumental in helping me learn more about my creative capacity and what to do about it.? And now, thankfully, the days when I become TOAST are few and far between.

PPS: Jamie’s Circe’s Circle Creative Dream Coaching Circle is starting again soon.? I highly recommend it! You can check it out right here.

PPPS:? And now I am off to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer and eat popcorn and take a bubble bath and a nap and let my brain recharge.