There is a calm. A grounding.

An ability to see things how they are, not that which my worry imagines they could horribly metamorphosize. Not how they should have been if I had know better, if I was a good mother, if they had treated me right, if I could write all futures.

I’m here.

Yes, there were tactics I used to bring this calm into my life.

Accepting that I am Highly Sensitive and, as such, living in a high-rise in San Francisco a block from Fire Station No. 1 and riding in packed & smelly public transit system all day was not healthy for my body or my soul.

Allowing myself to be healed not only of the injury that was on the surface, but the damage done to me by the tumor my daughter carried in her brain. Healing of the meanness the Ideal Woman in my head pounded me with over the last few years. Healing of wounds I had suffered for so long, I forgot what it was like to be undamaged.

Deciding. Moving. Buying. Signing. Starting new projects, registering new domain names, beginning a certification program in the MBTI and a Master of Arts in Human Behavior.

Writing three pages in my journal each morning, to dump out the crap and the drama and to spread out what’s underneath onto the page, so the truth can reveal.

Playing with a new business plan, a new daily schedule, a new way to arrange my desk. Playing with room for the current iteration of Live Your Truth, room to expand into what Live Your Truth will become, room for entirely new projects that are inviting me forward.

Practicing. Touching. Being. Living the feeling of grounded as I rest here on my sofa entering characters into OMM Writer with my eyes closed, letting the words flow from my insides out onto the screen.

But this transformation didn’t magically happen because of any one of these pills.

Transformation happens in the nexus.

The nexus of these tools and this moment. The nexus of what you do now with all the good and bad and powerful and traumatic that has happened in your life, up until today. The nexus of the pill you practice and the truth that you are.

It is true, that I invite you to find out if your environment supports your temperament.

I invite you to heal injuries that continue to wound you.

I invite you to decide, to move forward, to expand.

I invite you to write.

I invite you to create a schedule with space for where you are going.

I invite you to practice being grounded in this moment.

But I remind you.

What you do this weekend, what you experience in that program, what you write from that journal prompt, what you fix with that healer – the results from those tactics may happen all at once.

Or they may not show up for years.

Just like social media campaigns, constructing a new two car garage, or conceiving a new member of your family, transformational results do not flow immediate from a tactic.

Transformation flows from the strategy.

Do the Work.

Pay Attention.

Love.

Live.

Accept.

Take the Risk.

Have Faith.

Trust.

Trust that the dividends of our investments of work and attention and love and living will reveal themselves in their own time.

When we are ready.

We just have to keep showing up.

—

Are you still waiting for peace to arrive? Are you frustrated because you’re doing all the right things and it hasn’t happened yet?

Have you done work where the results showed up for you years later? Are things finally coming together for you?

I’d love to hear from you below!

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(if you can’t see the video, watch it on youtube here).

Living Your Truth means creating an entire life that is the natural expression of who you really are.

Living Your Truth is about your work, business, the way you make money and the way you market – your body, possessions, environment, time, energy, money – your relationships and passions and message to the world.

Living Your Truth is about bringing all of those areas into resonance with the core uniqueness of you – so you can be more satisfied & fulfilled, peaceful & powerful. So you can bring the greatest change to the world.

More Live Your Truth audio interviews, video classes, articles, and other information will be coming here soon, including information about the upcoming 18 Days to Live Your Truth ecourse (starting June 6, 2011). Signup for the EPW newsletter (above, on the right) to stay in the loop!

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yep, pretty much what I do for everyone in my events & programs!

But the thing is, I need coaching too!

It’s hard for me to have any objectivity about my own Live Your Truth-ing, not-just-shoulding, calling-me-on-my-crap, even though I’ve created the freaking programs and am in the middle of writing the book.

(And, by the way, if you meet a coach / teacher / guru / blogger / leader who acts as if they don’t need to study / grow / learn / reexamine their own crap … be very wary. If you’re no longer growing, you’re shrinking.)

So, without further ado, here’s the Declaration of ElizabethPW!

I declare that doing things that make me feel expansive, peaceful, useful, important, connected, and in the moment, turn me on.

I declare that above all I’m unique because I’m smart, creative, brave, open, accepting, receptive, fun, honest, committed, and create a space for others to live their truth.

I declare that I’m willing to set the stage by asking for help, taking personal risks, accepting where I am, letting go of the clock and to do list & just being, letting people connect with me, and by taking a moment to breathe.

I declare that I am successful every day when I connect with people who love me, when I have fun, and when I feel inspired, confident, peaceful, and unbound by time.

I declare that money adds value to my life by giving me more opportunities to feel pretty, reduce tension, explore my boundaries, spend time with people I love (including myself), support my daughter’s growth & joy, and connect with the beauty of the world.

I declare that it’s important for me to celebrate my wins (both big and small) because I need to acknowledge and appreciate my awesomeness and how far I have come!

I declare that I can trust that there are people who love me, that my desires were designed by my creator, that I am here & the people I’m with were put here for a reason, that inspiration is a valuable resource people pay for, and all things happen easier, better & faster without me forcing or worrying about it.

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First I tell you the Amazing (somewhat-lame-excuse) Story.

How today I’m so crazy and embarrassed and sentimental that seven years ago I launched my first website at pottsweinstein.com, for Potts Weinstein Financial Consulting (personal financial & estate planning).

How ha! ha! ha! I launched a business on April Fools Day! How foolish of me!

And omg, the website was so ugly / badly marketed / terribly copywritten / had no CTA / acted as if I was a big corporation so clients would drive down my residential street and be like WTH where is the big office building.

And we all think to ourselves, ah yes, that first job / business / website / blog, we were also all so foolish / young / desperate / trying to pretend that we actually knew what we were doing.

And then I say, so, in celebration / anniversary / irony of that first website going up, I’m having a sale!

(As if that has anything to do with a sale? Why did we need an excuse anyway? Oh yes, because we have to have a story to sell things and the story is the excuse but really it’s just bullshit. Of course, this anti-story is just another story. So there you go.)

The real reason I’m having a sale is about necessity and deadlines.

I didn’t have time to launch a new virtual program in February or March (as you read this I’m hosting the Live Your Truth Adventure live event here in San Francisco) and some of you guys need a deadline to get you to make a decision on the stuff I already have available.

So, here’s your deadline, my dears.

Use the FOOL coupon code TODAY ONLY and get 30% OFF everything.

That’s one day only, April 1, 2011, from midnight to midnight EASTERN time.

And that’s everything I sell – including virtual programs AND consulting AND the other 2011 Live Your Truth Adventure events.

(how it works is you just go put the thing you want in the shopping cart, and then when you get to the page to enter your name etc. then you can enter the coupon code and hit “apply” and the 30% off will appear on your entire order, like magically and stuff. yay internet!)

Here’s your options of cool Live Your Truth stuff you can partake yourself of:

Want to catch up on the first year of Live Your Truth?

Get all of the blog posts and video transcripts in the Year One of Living Your Truth 400+ page ebook! Regular price $17, sale price $11.90

Want my Advice/Ideas/Feedback, One-on-One?

Consulting via email, Skype, and telephone is available, starting with email consulting at regular price $27, now $18.90 per session (yes, you can buy now and use anytime!)

Want to learn how to Live Your Truth on Video?

Learn how to create videos that speak your truth and engage with your tribe – Quickstart regular price $37, sale price $25.90 & 4 Weeks to Video regular price $147, sale price $102.90

Wish you were playing with us at today’s Live Your Truth Adventure?

Join the Adventure (with just 2 other people!) in September or November – regular price $497, sale price $347.90 (payment plans available!) [note: there are 5 seats available as of 4/1/11 at 9:35 AM Eastern]

If you have any questions, ask them asap to me via email at elizabeth[at]elizabethpw.com and I’ll get back to you as soon as we take a break at LYTA – and, don’t forget that the sale is over at Midnight Eastern (9 PM Pacific)!

~ Elizabeth

P.S. If you really want to get the best value, I suggest you look at the Live Your Truth Adventure Event or Consulting with me (especially if you’re thinking about phone consulting) – this is the lowest price LYTA will ever be, and I may not put consulting on sale again.

P.P.S. This isn’t a joke. You can count on this b/c I’m a dork and don’t know how to pull off April Fools Jokes. That is all.

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The spoon did not decide to be a spoon.

Her spooning is the natural expression of the fibers of her being.

Even more, her spooning is the natural expression of her creator, embodied in this corporal existence inside the physicality of her, the spoon.

It is that simple.

It is that beautiful. It is that pure and purposeful and the joyful allowing of her destiny.

Except.

Except for the utensil drawer.

The spoon enters the world and finds herself surrounded. By forks, knives, serving spoons, pizza cutters, turkey basters, those picks for corn on the cob.

She wishes she could be more. She wishes she could do more.

She wishes she were like them.

She says, “look at what a fork can do with the chicken, look at what the knife can do to the bread, they are all so much more valuable and important and successful! What is wrong with me? Why can’t I fit in? Everything would be better and easier and more important.”

The fork says, “there’s no future in spooning! You will be safer if you fork like us! I’m sure you could if you just try harder!”

So she aspires to fork, or shovel, or play the tambourine.

Some of her endeavors are moderately successful. Some are failures. All require force. Pushing. Making. Suffering.

She worries, “I must not be a good utensil. If I stop for a second, this will all collapse. I must keep trying harder, or what will become of myself? I must make these forks like me, I must do more forking, or I will be abandoned, I will die.”

She is drained. All is only about work and waiting and monochrome flatness. Life is hard.

So she wallows in the acquisition of yet fancier utensil baskets, she drowns herself in the spirits of the bar, she runs away to hide in the child’s sandbox.

Until.

Until she hits the bottom of the sandbox, and reflected there in the quartz crystalline fragments she finds a glimpse of her truth looking right back at her.

And she remembers.

“I am a spoon.”

Not just remembers in her head, but she begins to feel it in the entire length of her.

In her very metallic nature, she begins to feel the truth of her spoonness.

She remembers spooning when she was first created, she remembers those moments, those secret stollen seconds where she spooned in the middle of the night, or when the forks weren’t looking, or when a spooning was needed and she was the only one around to do it.

She begins to hear the voice of the creator in her soul.

Yes, she requires rehabilitation. Yes, years of forking took a toll on her, she requires polishing, relearning, stretching of her spooning muscles, keeping up on the latest in spooning techniques.

Yes, this requires energy. She works at remembering how to be a spoon, at being her best self, at relearning what she had been created with but had forgotten in her attempts to be what she is not.

But the only remaining fight, the only resisting force – is her denial, her fear, her possibly running away again from the real of her creation.

She wonders, “but is this enough? This is so in the flow, being a spoon is so natural to me, how can it be valuable, how can this be important to anyone?”

Because being a spoon is natural to the spoon.

But the soup looks at her in wonder and says, “to me, you do the impossible.”

The effortless carrying provided by the spoon, this is what the soup could never do for herself.

The soup’s nature, her very purpose would remain unfulfilled, would remain unrealized, if it were not for the natural glory of the spoon.

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