Archives for January 2017

Jan 26 2017

The Compound Effect – Book Buddies

I’ve read a bunch of great books lately but one in particular that stands out is The Compound Effect (Affiliate Link) by Darren Hardy. In the book he talks about making small tweaks in different areas in your life in order to achieve a more positive and successful life and business.

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One of my biz friends and I were chatting the other day about how we can help each other step up our game and we decided to go through this book together. Each week we’ll be reading a chapter and following through by doing the exercises at the end of each chapter. We’ll then “meet” online to discuss what breakthroughs we had and the action steps we’re taking to move forward.

Do you tend to get really excited and inspired about the concepts you read in a great book having every intention to follow through with the concepts but never seem to do it?

Want to be book buddies?

If you’d like to make some positive changes in your life and biz and want to have some accountability, come read along with me and join my free Facebook group so we can discuss each week. You won’t be far behind because we’re only on chapter 1 and it’s not a long chapter.

We’d love to have the company and it will feel amazing as we all grow together.

Join the Life Happens Now facebook group now!

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Jan 17 2017

Free Instagram Stock Images

I think I’ve said it before but Instagram by far is my favorite social media platform. As a photographer, I love how visual it is!

If you’re a photographer, artist, crafter, chef or any other creative, it’s a great platform to show off your work – given that you have great images! Your feed is basically your online gallery – like a mini website!

To keep your current followers and potential future followers interested, It’s also a good idea to mix up your feed a bit so it’s not 100% of your product shots. That could get pretty boring.

So what do you do? You can take your own pictures or look for stock images.

I’d like to help you out once a month by giving you an image that you can use on your feed. I’ll create a design for the month with 3 different backgrounds – white, black and either cork or natural wood.

If any of them fit your aesthetics, feel free to use them. If you’d like to credit me – that would be amazing (@life.happens.now) but if not I just really hope I can be of some help in some small way to at least make one day easier. 🙂

This is the design for January – you still have half the month to fit it into your feed.

Click the image below

to get access to my creative resources library.

You’ll be able to download from there and each month new images will be added.

If you end up using them, share your Instagram account in the comments below so I can check out your feed!

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Jan 16 2017

Feel The Power of Inspired Action: Mindset Monday

***Mindset Monday***⠀

Feel the power of INSPIRED action!⠀
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There’s such a difference between INSPIRED action and FORCED action. ⠀
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Inspired action is when all of a sudden an idea comes to you and you get excited and the action you take feels effortless. You’re having fun and it feels amazing!⠀
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Forced action is exactly that – when you’re trying to force something to happen. It feels desperate and like you’re pushing up against something. There’s no joy in forced action. Only the feeling of “have to”.⠀
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You will definitely get better results from inspired action.⠀

When and how does inspired action come?

I find it’s usually when you’re NOT thinking about it! Let’s say you want to write a blog post but you can’t come up with an idea. You research, you write lists, you’re trying to force ideas to come to you. Nothing!!

When you put it to the side, and do something different like put on music, or go for a walk or read a book, that’s when all of a sudden it will “hit” you! Haven’t you heard people say their best ideas come from the shower? Because they’re relaxed and not thinking about it. Clear your mind to allow fresh new ideas to come through.
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I was up late last night, watching some videos when all of a sudden an idea came to mind. A way for me to combine my natural gift of photography with my love of helping female entrepreneurs. I’m so excited about it and will be taking INSPIRED action on it today!⠀
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Stay tuned…Excited to announce my new offering!
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If you want more motivation for today, listen to this Abraham Hicks Rampage on Inspired Action video on YouTube. It’s great!⠀

Comment below and tell me what you’re inspired to do today.

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Jan 09 2017

Tips For Creating A Vision Board + Party Recap

The beginning of a new year seems to be the time when everyone is crazy about setting their goals. You really don’t need to wait until a certain time to do it – JUST DO IT!

To help in your goal setting, I suggest creating a vision board. If you’re new to this idea – let me explain.

I know for me as a creative, I like visuals. It inspires me and helps me to imagine things better. A vision board can be used as a visual representation of your goals. Say for example a goal is to have a new car – find a picture of the exact make and model car that you want and glue that to your board.

Steps for creating a vision board:

1 – The supplies

Board – this is like your blank canvas. Some suggestions are a white poster board, foam board, bulletin board
Scissors
Glue , tape or push pins
Magazines to cut up

2 – Think about what you want for the coming year. I’ve created a worksheet to help you in the planning process. I broke it down into 4 different areas – BE, DO, HAVE and FEEL

3 – Start going through magazines and look for images and words that represent what you want

4 – Put your finished vision board in a place where you can see it every day. You’re training your mind to expect these things to happen. You are Visualizing to Materialize!

Remember this is an ever evolving process. As you reach a goal you can take it off of your vision board and replace it with new things. It’s really up to you how you want to use it.

A couple of months ago I taught a workshop on creating vision boards for local female creatives in Riverdale, NY. It was amazing!

To host this event, I teamed up with my friend Linda Manning – a playwright, screenwriter and actor.

We held it at the KRVC office near Riverdale Avenue. We had about a dozen people and KRVC was generous to supply the space and refreshments!

It felt so rewarding to create an opportunity for local creatives to come together to connect, establish new relationships and start to intentionally put into place what they’d like to create in their life and business for the upcoming new year. Linda and I worked really well together – balancing each other out by bringing in our own unique perspectives and interests to create a cohesive inspiring workshop for all that attended.

Linda and I each attend meetups with other creatives in the city and felt there was a need to bring that same energy here to Riverdale. As a coach, I’m working with entrepreneurial moms to help them think bigger for their lives and businesses so we wanted to share the techniques we both use to stay inspired and bust through our limiting beliefs. It opened up a conversation with the group and allowed for a safe space to share thoughts and ideas.

It was a wonderful experience. I enjoyed sharing it with everyone. Stacey and Linda were terrific. It was lead in such a natural, open and beautiful way — thought provoking and stimulating, definitely meaningful evening for me. Opened up new ideas.

If you want to get started with your own vision board – (and you definitely should!), get yourself a board, glue sticks, scissors and some magazines that you can cut up. There are 4 key areas to think about when creating your vision boards. I created a PDF for you to download with prompts in each of the 4 key areas. Click the image below to get a copy and get started.

If you missed this workshop, no worries – we have more workshops planned in the coming year – on various topics so stay tuned!

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