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Practicing Self-Love

On October 4, 2012

The more you are able to love yourself, to appreciate who you are, to own your power, and to value yourself, the further your business can grow.

Here are a few ways to practice self-love:

Create a self-love mantra you can tell yourself as many times as you like throughout the day, such as: I love myself; I love and appreciate all parts of myself; I accept and love who I am as I am.
Take time to be in contact with nature: walk in the park; hug a tree; walk barefoot; visit the ocean; go hiking; visit a community garden.
Start a success diary: list all of your major life accomplishments to date, and then continue writing daily successes. After you list the major successes, the daily updates don’t have to be huge! How about: paid the bills on time, arrived early to a meeting, did the dishes, wrote a blog post?
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How long does it take to rebuild after a site breakdown?

By admin

On September 12, 2012

In Trust Yourself

In April 2012, I wrote the article Chaos, after both of my sites had crashed the previous month. I was able to re-launch this site then, only to have it crash again a few days later. I realized that a major makeover was needed, and took the site down again.

It’s been five months since, and that’s how long it took to re-launch this site. In reality, it didn’t take five months to actually re-launch it, it took this long to:

Chaos

By Elisa Balabram

On April 25, 2012

In Trust Yourself

What do you do when chaos happens in your business? When unforeseen events crash what you’ve been creating for years, what do you need to do?

I have been going through a chaotic situation, as both my sites crashed a few weeks ago.

First I felt numbness and shock, not understanding why that had happened and how to proceed. Once that energy was moved, I started to research possible solutions. I’m glad that AskOthersTrustYourself.com is back up, while the other site is still going through maintenance and a re-visioning process.

Expanding Your Comfort Zone

By Elisa Balabram

On December 3, 2011

In Trust Yourself

A few weeks ago I was invited to attend a weekend for Reiki Masters and healers retreat in Cape May. I knew some of the people attending it but not all. I also knew that many of the attendees had attended other retreats together and were very close to each other. After I said “Yes, I’m attending it”, I felt the fear of feeling like a fish out of water.

Inspiration

By Elisa Balabram

On November 16, 2011

In Trust Yourself

How do you recognize when you had an inspired moment?

I think that most of the time, we are going through our daily lives not paying attention to it. How about if we set the intention to realize and appreciate the inspired moments? How would that day look like? Would you spend the day wondering if and when inspiration would come? Would you ask for it to come at a specific time so that you would notice it? Would you just live your day as you always have? Or would you stay more present each moment, so that you would recognize when you had an inspired thought or action?

When does our journey to achieving a dream really start?

By Elisa Balabram

On October 28, 2011

In Writing the Book

My journey to becoming a published author

The Day of Self-Discovery workshop on October 22^nd 2011 was great, thank you to all the women who participated, shared, opened their hearts, created their own action plans and are now on their way to achieving something wonderful!

The workshop got me thinking about my own journey in writing Ask Others, Trust Yourself. I realized that this journey started long before the idea came up to write this book. I remember that as a teenager, I would go with my little sister (10 years younger) to the club, stay by the pool, and I would come up with stories for her to keep her out of the pool so I could sunbathe (I know, horrible! But she forgave me. I think). Years later, the first book I attempted to write was a fiction one, but it was never published or appreciated.

Make Yourself a Priority for One Day!

By Elisa Balabram

On September 22, 2011

In Workshops and more

Join Elisa Balabram and a small group of wonderful women on Saturday October 22^nd, and spend a day focusing on you.

The program is divided in three main areas:

1- Getting clearer on your vision and dream;

2- Understanding and releasing blocks and reframing the mindset;

3- Creating a plan of action that you can actually follow.

What’s Your Passion?

By Elisa Balabram

On July 19, 2011

In Trust Yourself

The other day, someone who had visited both WomenandBiz.com and AskOthersTrustYourself.com told me that he could clearly see my professional passion. I stopped for a moment to think about it. He is right, I’m passionate about helping women pursue their dreams, find their passion, and achieve balance. However, I don’t spend all day long thinking about what’s my passion, if I’m pursuing it the right way or enough. It just happens that I’m most attracted to reading about women’s issues, reading non-fiction books that help me become a better coach and writer, helping women become their best selves, and promoting women’s equality and achievements.

Fine line between being fierce and being smart

By Elisa Balabram

On June 16, 2011

In Trust Yourself

As you may have watched, I recorded a video a few weeks ago to promote the self-discovery day I’m launching.

I certainly welcome feedback, and I ended up being criticized for doing it alone. Either it was the wrong lighting, the wrong distance to the camera, (I agree with all comments), hey maybe the wrong person to be in the video… 😉 You will see from the video that I recorded it myself (I used a Flip Camera). I’m actually proud that I was able to edit the video, and delete myself starting and stopping the recording.

How does worrying help you take action?

By Elisa Balabram

On May 27, 2011

In Trust Yourself

It doesn’t. Well, I remember a few years ago, during the webcast that Oprah hosted with Eckhart Tolle, someone posted a question that he keeps worrying about paying bills, and Eckhart Tolle mentioned that worrying would not pay the bills. It makes sense. Worrying won’t bring you the results you need, but realizing that you feel worried and taking action will.

What can you do today to stop worrying and start doing? What are the small and big steps you can take to make something happen?