As the CEO (Chief Energizing Officer) at Hartful Living including GaiaHart.com and BizBuilderCards.com; I’m a Messenger and Mentor for women entrepreneurs, connecting them to their capacity to energize their work and their lives in the art of living Hartfully. At BizBuilderCards.com, you can make a living through giving with greeting cards and gifts to build your network net worth as an additive to your current business or an easy way to send gratitude and kindness to the world.
Cracking the Code to Your Calling: Unveiling Your Life Purpose
January 16, 2011 | Posted in Leading Hartfully, Living Hartfully, Wealthy Woman | By Gaia Hart
Have you ever wondered if you’re on the right path? Doing the work you were put here to do? Do you sometimes feel out of whack with your work or feel like you’re in the wrong job or the wrong place? Is your business lacking the cash flow, clients or customers you want? Are you living your life fully expressed and getting paid to do what you were meant to do?
Perhaps you’re not working in alignment with your true calling? Or what you thought was your life purpose needs to be tweaked to get into the flow? Or maybe you don’t have a clue as to your calling, you just took whatever job was available or your work chose you?
Discover some of the telltale signs that you’re out of alignment at www.GailHahn.com where we have 70 ways to tell if you’re living inside or outside of your purpose in January’s blog posts. Then join us on our free preview call on how your life purpose can be revealed. It’s all in your own hands. It’s not just what you think and want, it’s your own personal life blueprint mapped out for you even before birth. Let us help you read your blueprint and help you build a life you’ll love as you turn your purpose into prosperity. LIsten to our recorded teleclass at: http://www.audioacrobat.com/sa/W1dCHL8X.
You’re in the right place to learn how you can know, really know, your life’s purpose and your true calling. We all have our personal GPS, our Greater Purpose System, in our own hands. Our life’s purpose is literally at our fingertips and we have the scientific technology to be able to access it and crack the code to our true calling. We’re born with it, it never changes and when we’re aligned with it, we experience flow. We have flow of love, money, business, and we are in tune with our life lessons as well as our life purpose. Life just gets easier once you know you’re on the right track. We were put here with all the tools and resources we need to do our Universal Job. And it’s in our own hands.
Join Margaret Shebalin, Prosperity Master, Life Coach, Licensed Practitioner and Life Purpose Analyst (www.ProsperitySalon.com) along with Gail Hahn, MA, CSP, CEO, Chief Energizing Officer, Speaker, Author and Executive Coach (http://www.funcilitators.com/) as they review what it’s all about on this free preview call, and how you can claim your calling easily and effectively. Together they will cover the four life schools and what they mean. Find out how you fit into your life school, your life lesson, and learn how you can explore why people buy from you. Are you marketing the right things to the right people and are you in the right business? Come find out what Gail and Margaret have learned from their own journeys after their life purpose was revealed and validated, and learn how you too can crack the code on your calling and move forward with confidence in your calling.
We recorded the call for you at http://www.audioacrobat.com/sa/W1dCHL8X so you can listen to this impactful 37-minute teleclass at : http://www.audioacrobat.com/sa/W1dCHL8X. Join us and other thought leaders on Facebook at The Energized Entrepreneur Network Group or at the Facebook Fan Page: Gail Hahn CEO, Chief Energizing Officer if you want to know about living a life fully expressed and getting paid for your purpose. We’ll help you turn your passions and purpose into profits if you follow your right path. Looking forward to helping you crack the code to your calling and sharing our insider secrets to success and significance with you.
Cheers To Your FUNomenal Success!
Are You in Alignment?
January 13, 2011 | Posted in Leading Hartfully, Living Hartfully, Wealthy Woman | By Gaia Hart
Just as your car needs adjustments and realignment when you start feeling vibrations, hearing creaks, feeling rattled as you roll down the highway; so does your body and your life.
You know the feeling of being out of sorts, creaky, cranky, sluggish and slightly out of balance. There are some quick fixes and then there are some root cause interventions. One of my favorite quick fixes is spa time, massage and a chiropractic re-adjustment. It’s incredible how the knots build up and they won’t go away. They need to be worked out or else your body binds up, tightens up and you feel lousy.
Putting your life back into alignment, or getting it there in the first place takes more work, it’s a journey and not a quick fix. One of the main ways to get and stay in alignment is to know how you should be aligned in the first place – with your life purpose, your calling. When we’re doing the work we were put on Earth to do, we’re more in flow and it comes easier. We have clarity and more ease than dis-ease. We’re healthier and less fearful. We just know.
When we’re doing God’s work that we’re supposed to be doing, we have all we need to get it done. We wouldn’t be put here to do a job and not be provided the tools to do it. Cracking the code to your calling just got much easier. It’s scientific. It’s in your hands. It’s in your fingerprints and everybody has their own purpose because everybody has their own unique set of fingerprints.
If you’ve been wondering about what you’re supposed to be when you grow up and how to get re-aligned so you’re doing the right work, your heart work; then contact me for a copy of the preview call Gaia@GaiaHart.com.
Join me and Margaret Shebalin as we discuss how your life’s work can unfold in the palm of your hand as you discover your life school, your life lesson, what could be holding you back and what the heck you’re supposed to be doing this time around. We’ll be offering a special bonus for our listeners – so stay tuned on how you can claim your spot in Cracking the Code to Your Life Purpose. See you there!
You Know You’re Living Your Life Purpose When…
January 12, 2011 | Posted in Leading Hartfully, Living Hartfully, Wealthy Woman | By Gaia Hart
There are so many people who don’t really know when they are in or out of alignment. It’s the same as your car. If you’re out of alignment, things don’t feel right. You keep going, but it’s a little shaky, things don’t run smoothly and you may hear rumblings around you. Some of us know when something isn’t quite right and still others may not even recognize when things are in perfectly in place and on purpose. They don’t know when to celebrate that they’re doing it just how they are meant to be doing it.
That’s why the Hot 100 List and the Ideal Day exercises are so critically important. To help you do a gap analysis and see what you wanted in your life and when you have it, you need to celebrate victory. Sometimes we need some hints on how we’re doing in life just as we had or have performance evaluations from a former or current job. As entrepreneurs, we don’t get the official evaluations in our work – our bank accounts can attest to how we’re doing, but it doesn’t cover all the bases.
So I submit to you some hints on what living a purposeful life looks like. How it feels and what are the signs of living in alignment with your life purpose and doing your calling. It may be something you aspire to do, be, have or feel, or it may be showing you it’s time to celebrate your success of living on purpose.
You know you’re living your life purpose when…
- You can’t turn off your brain with all the ideas swirling around on how to implement your plan
- You are excited to wake up each morning and get to your life’s work
- You feel happy, optimistic, exuberant and excited about life and your future
- You dwell in the realm of possibility and let nothing stop you from your goals and dreams
- You may have a lower tolerance for people who aren’t living on purpose, you want to surround yourself with other like-minded people living out their purpose and potential
- You don’t let the how’s stop you – you know your why and your what and everything else is just noise
- You feel lucky to live the life you do
- You can’t believe you actually get paid to have so much fun and just do what comes naturally
- You enjoy fun in your life and your sense of humor is very much intact – you’re happy
- You feel fulfilled, happy and perhaps not satisfied because there is more to do, bigger plans to implement and more people to help serve -you’re hungry to help others find what you’ve found
- Your bank account reflects your purposeful livelihood and you attract the right clients
- You attract the right people into your life and the right opportunities at the right time
- Your life is in flow at all levels personally and professionally
- You’re living your dreams and doing things you never thought possible in your early years
- You wonder why you didn’t take this step, know this, or learn this sooner – you want to share it all
- You’ve reached your point of enoughness and want to give away to others in need
- You’re living your life fully expressed and you get paid handsomely for using your knowledge, skills and abilities to the best of your ability
- You feel valued, wanted and in demand for your work – you’ve built a following of fans and advocates who you value just as much as they value you
- You’ve cut ties with those who don’t get it or who don’t support you in your dreams, those negative people who don’t have your best interest in their heart
- You’re proud of the efforts, successes and achievements of others, not jealous or envious of them
- You’re not trading your time for money – you’ve got passive income flowing in from your businesses and your investments
- You’re not ever bored
- Your voice is excited, you speak with power and confidence and enthusiasm – you love communicating your message to the world in various channels
- You admire your friends and colleagues and support what they do as they do with you
- The line is blurred between work and play – it’s just your life and what you do – it runs together
- When you’re working you’re in flow, the hours don’t matter, you don’t seek breaks and there is not official quitting time – when you’re done or tired or finished with a project or find a stopping point, you stop, otherwise you just keep going until you feel like stopping
- There is no mindset of part-time work or full-time work, it’s just life and you do your life
- You do your work for the sake of serving or doing what you do, you don’t do it for the paycheck – the money is a side effect of doing what you were born to do and put here to do
- You get to live your life on your own terms
- You wake up and decide what you want to do for the day and how you spend your time exactly how you want to spend your time and with whom
- You have challenges, but your vision, mission and purpose is much bigger than any challenge – your purpose is waaaaay bigger than anything put in its way
- You’re making rich memories for you and your family and friends – you are giving away more and tipping more and don’t’ worry about the cash flow – it flows in and out effortlessly
- Your relationships are healthy at all levels, you enjoy time for yourself and with loved ones – there is time to go around when you’re not in struggle
- Your life just works better all the way around
- You are proud of what you do, who you are and how you live and what you have and take pride in your actions and how you serve.
So if you can check off more than a few of these items, you deserve a little celebration of living your life on purpose and consciously choosing your calling. If you need some more insight on getting it all together and turbo-charging your calling, be on our call: Cracking the Code to Your Calling, Living Your Life Purpose – send me an email Gail@GailHahn.com.
Take a peek at this video on Freedom – freedom to be who you want to be and live the life you deserve with financial freedom and time freedom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbQIzcQzT-o&list=PLtUVv9eXCdIKmF4MMCOVMBuzeZ1nrrUQF
You Know You’re Not Living Your Life Purpose When…
January 11, 2011 | Posted in Leading Hartfully, Living Hartfully | By Gaia Hart
After working with many entrepreneurs, employees and others out of alignment with their life purpose and having experienced it myself from time to time; I decided to share in the Jeff Foxworthy fashion, how you know if you’re not in sync with your calling.
- You’re tired all the time event when you get enough sleep
- Waking up is hard to do – you hit the snooze button a few too many times
- You’ve lost that lovin’ feelin’ – not in the mood for that or anything – you’re just blah, flat lined
- You or your friends notice your vocal tone has flat lined – there’s no excitement or optimism in it
- You don’t feel excited about life or you’re not optimistic about the future
- You can’t wait to leave your job each day and get home or can’t wait for the weekend
- You collect stuff, have too much stuff or spend too much money on stuff to fill the emptiness inside you
- You eat or drink too much, stuff your face with too much stuff to again fill the empty hole inside
- You take too many vacations to get away – nothing wrong with vacations, I’m a big fan of them – it’s all in the mindset of wanting to go someplace, explore, recharge, refresh or are you running away to escape from your life or are you getting away to add to your life – are you hiding out or living large?
- You hear the words “this is stupid”, “This is insane”, “They should do….” coming out of your mouth way too often
- You catch yourself citing all the ways your boss or your organization “should” be doing their work
- You are shoulding way too much on yourself and others in your personal or professional life
- You’re not making the income you so richly deserve and desire
- You feel like somebody or something is holding you back – you could be more, achieve more, do more
- You’re mentally and emotionally exhausted all the time – your work doesn’t charge you up, it drains you
- You dread Mondays or whatever day of the week is your Monday – you have lower energy on Monday than on Friday
- You keep wishing something would happen in your life to make you happy
- You’ve been ‘retired’ on the job for the past umpteen years, but you keep showing up for work each day
- You just clock in and clock out – you’re physically at work, but mentally you’ve checked out – you only do what they ask of you and not one thing more
- You’ve lost the fun in your life and your sense of humor is waning
- You’re more of a spectator in life rather than a participant
- You’re living in the future too much and not experiencing this moment right now
- You feel like you’ve got something to contribute, but not sure what, why or how
- You’re feeling stuck and don’t know how to get out or move forward
- You lack initiative and drive to do better or do more or serve more
- You look forward to your 10-minute break or you live for your lunch hour and quitting time
- You wait until you leave your job to lead your life
- You only do your job for the paycheck and the money is your only reward
- You wear a uniform or a nametag and hate it
- You wear an embarrassing costume and you’re not on stage as a performer
- You’re constantly being told what to do by incompetent people or somebody in high school as your boss
- You’re not working with people you like, trust, are proud to be around
- You’re not feeling proud of what you do for a living or taking pride in yourself, your image, your life
- You’re not happy and you’re not sure how to fix it or where to turn
- You know you need help to get your act together and are too fearful to quit your job or make a change or ask for help
So there you have the tip of the iceberg for starters. If you recognized yourself in any of those scenarios, then you may not be working in alignment with your life purpose. And if you have no idea of what your life purpose is, then you’re in the right place. My colleague Margaret and I have put together an overview in our free teleclass on how to crack the code to your calling. It’s all in your personal DNA – we just help you see it and show you how to use it to your benefit and the benefit of the world.
Contact me for the link to the call Cracking the Code to Your Calling – learning your life purpose.
Are You Leaving Your Job to Live Your Life?
January 6, 2011 | Posted in Leading Hartfully, Living Hartfully, Wealthy Woman | By Gaia Hart
I adore working with entrepreneurs and execs who get it. Those who have found their calling and are living their purpose. Those who are enlightened who have a blurred line between work and play and who wake up excited that they get to be paid for doing what they love. It thrills me to work with those who are discovering their right livlihood and I get very excited to help show them the way to themselves and the work they can do as a full expression of who they are.
Stay tuned for an upcoming special promotion to help you find your true purpose, your life school, your life lessons and your life’s calling. It’s all in your hands and with the help of a colleague and myself, we can help you find your right path on your journey from success to signifacance. I’ve experienced it myself and it was a true validation that what I’m doing as an Artist and Messenger in the Community Spotlight is the right path.
Some of us had an inkling since we were very young. Some of us knew in our gut something about what we wanted to do in our lives and some of us are still searching or not sure how to listen to our intuition that guides us in the right direction. What I found was the affirmation that what I loved doing, speaking, writing, communicating, teaching and leading and creating community within a group was right on target. Sometimes just because you’re good at something doesn’t mean you should be doing it.
What I’ve learned while working with those that are not yet enlightened, or those in the world of the employee mentality is that most of the world’s workers need to leave their job to lead their life. So many millions of workers just endure their job instead of enjoy their work. They live for their 10-minute break, they can’t wait for their 30-minute lunch, they RUN to their cars at the end of their shif to get away from their job. Their eyes are dull, they’re just enduring the hours until they can go. It’s very sad. They can’t start living until they leave their post. It’s deadening, it’s draining and it hurts to see it and experience it. I’ve experienced it myself when I’m not working my right livlihood. When I’m not around higher-energy people or higher-vibrating environments. I can feel the energy, or lack thereof. I can sense it immediately when walking into a workplace of a client. Sometimes I wonder how they stay in business with such dead energy. I’m always up for a challenge to help them turn things around.
What I decided in college while comisserating with one of my fellow recreation majors when we realized our chosen major didn’t pay as well we the engineering majors or business school grads; was that I would rather be happy every day of my life than unhappy for 5 days a week so I could be happy for 2 days per week. I knew right then to make my life’s work fun, enjoyable, in alignment with my purpose in order to be fufilled, prosperous and engaged.
When we’re not in alighment, not engaged, not plugged into the purpose of what we’re doing, it’s draining on all parts of our life. Are you in alignment with your calling? Are you working your life’s work so it feels more like play? Is the line blurred between your work and the rest of your life? I knew there was really no line between the two when I was running outdoor recreation trips across Europe, Aftrica and Asia for a decade. I got paid to play and take others on adventures. They paid and took vacation leave to do what I was being paid overtime to do. When I took vacations, I would do the exact same thing as when I was working – take my friends on trips and wild adventures to foreign lands. That’s when you know you’re on the right path – do you still live while you’re on the job? Are you feeling fully expressed when you work or do you wait to clock out to do that?
If you’re not getting paid to express your full, authentic knowledge, skills, abilities and talents, then why not? If you’re still seeking your calling or wondering about your purpose, then send me an email at Gail@GailHahn.com and we’ll schedule a session and tune you into our upcoming program. If you’re just wondering what’s it all about, Alfie, then send me an email and stay tuned for more details on living your life’s purpose and how you can find out precisely what it is. It’s all in your hands and has been your entire life. My colleague and I can help you crack the code on your life’s purpose. Let us show you how.
If you’re dreading mornings, if you physically feel your energy draining away as you drive closer to work, if you hate your commute, feel a surge of energy when you leave your workplace, become more vibrant as you clock out, then you have the warning signs that you’re not leading the right life. If you’re working witout purpose and just for a paycheck, then you’re not working on purpose. If you’re more excited about your time off than your time in, then you may need to re-check your purpose. We can help you find your right path.
Start The Year Right: Holi-moments vs. Holidays
January 2, 2011 | Posted in Leading Hartfully, Living Hartfully, Wealthy Woman | By Gaia Hart
With only a hanful of holidays a year, many who work in W-2 land only get a handful of days to recharge and spend quality time with whomever they please. Those of us in entrepreneur land get to choose whichever day we darn well please to spend quality time to do whatever we want. I like to create holi-moments on a daily or weekly basis. Some of the moments are fleeting like watching the sunset or breathing in the crisp air after it’s just snowed in the mountains on my morning jaunt or meeting with the pups along my route for a quick scritch and tail wag. Some holi-moments take more time such as a spa day, a pedicure or a great meal and live entertainment.
In order to become and remain energized and live a vital life, we need to pay attention to our moments and not just our holidays to lift our spirits and create joy in our lives. I vowed decades ago to not participate in the usually seasonal holiday mall madness, the stressful dashing about, the traffic around shopping areas and the obligations if it wasn’t enjoyable to me, which it isn’t. My declaration is to stay away from the mania in order to keep my sanity and polite, positive disposition. If it feels like an obligation and isn’t enjoyable or genuine from the heart with a sincere desire, then don’t do it.
Don’t fall prey to unfettered consumerism or the unjoyful acts of the season if it’s not energizing to you. I’ve streamlined holiday decorating to take 30 minutes and thoroughly enjoy it and the after effect. I don’t feel any stress whatsoever during this time of year and I’ve got a great system to sending out holiday cards and gifts from my home office while the fireplace crackles and holiday music plays on my stereo. I get to enjoy the good things and dispose of all the negative side effects by ascertaining what stresses me and make plans to avoid that list.
So whats on your list of stressors? What feels like an obligation to you? What can you cross off your holiday list of things to not do next year? How will you create holi-moments in your daily or weekly life so you don’t have to wait until the holidays to take time to revitalize your life and your work? When we’re personally revitalized, our work is revitalized. Everybody who comes into our life also feels the benefits of an un-stressed you. Make time for holi-moments and make a stand for making time for yourself and making your own rules on how to handle holidays and every day with grace and joy. And if you want my top secret technique for card sending and gift giving, send me an email and I’ll reveal my trade secret: Gail@GailHahn.com or visit BizBuilderCards.com.
Refresh & Renew: Enjoy Your Journey & Celebrate Your Accomplishments
January 1, 2011 | Posted in Leading Hartfully, Living Hartfully | By Gaia Hart
Happy New Year’s Eve. I’ve been taking a self-batical from blogging and being plugged in this month. It was a perfec time for a girlfriend getaway and a time for reflection, re-energizing and renewal. A time to re-focus on the future and remind myself of the present journey and the journey beyond.
How I love to renew is outdoors. Sometimes solo and sometimes with great company of people who get it and who get me. It gives me breathing space and a place to connect wit the divine in an organiz way. A place to reconnect with myself and my body and breathing. Although I do my daily morning mileage in my ‘hood, nothing compares to the magnificent, majectic National Parks and outer limits of undisturbed outback to reawaken the senses and lighten the load.
We selected Zion and Bryxe National Parks and Angel’s Landing to be specific.
Although we’re not blood and guts hikers any more, we’re not candy-asses either. What we like is a good challenge for women who are fifty, fit and fabulous! We encountered at least 31 switchbacks and a smidgen of knife-edge trail 1450 feet above the valley floor. We’re wise enough to know when we’ve reacked our peak experience. Which is to say that it doesn’t necessarily need to be the peak of the mountain to be a peak experience. We’ve earned our wisdom and know when renewal and recharging our batteries turns to regret. We came for enjoyment and enlightenment and not endangerment or encroachment on our comfort. Just enough push to get us out of our usual comfort zone.
No more camping on the ground – we opted for a yummy cabin with a roaring fire and down comforters with a rain water show head with mule deer and wild turkeys frolicking outside our window. We opted for delicious gourmet breakfasts and sumptuous dinners with keoki coffee and ended our tour du outdoors with a decadent spa day and evenings at the theatre on the Vegas strip to see Lion King and a Diva Drag Show. It was a fabulous feast for the senses at all levels.
What I’ve learned is to enjoy this moment, this journey, this adventure right now. We can turn around any time we want, but the great views are reserved for those who climb a little higher than most. What are you doing to enjoy your journey all along the journey? Are you living to enjoy each step and each swtichback? Are you taking time to look back at where you’ve come or are your blinders on to only look forward full speed ahead. We often had to take a break to breathe on our trek to Angels Landing. We also realized we were looking down so much at our footing that we needed to look up and look around and enjoy the view all around us, which included where we’d come from. We celebrated at different points in our journey and enjoyed ourselves immensely.
What are you doing to enjoy yourself along your path before you reach your peak? What if you don’t reach all the way to the top? What if you get very close but not all the way? Will it be OK? Will you re-calibrate once you see what’s up there and make different choices? How will you celebrate? How will you know you’ve arrived?
Let’s take time to celebrate where we’ve been, how far we’ve come and where we are right now. Let’s not wait until the absolute pinnacle and just toil away while we’re getting there. Take a breath, breath in the fresh air, look around, look up, look back and look ahead too. As I learned while backpacking for 30 days in the Colorado wilderness with Outward Bound, it’s not where you go on the map that matters, it’s where you go in your head as you travel that matters. How are you clearing your head and making room for better things, clearing your schedule to make room for you and clearing your path to make room for your journey? Happy New Year!!
Year in Review, Time to Renew Your Hot 100 List
December 29, 2010 | Posted in Leading Hartfully, Living Hartfully, Wealthy Woman | By Gaia Hart
It’s that time of year when I look back and look forward and do a gap analysis. I look at my past rear in review and match it to my former Hot 100 List, my list of at least 100 things that I wanted to accomplish in my life. Being a card-carrying member of the over-achiever’s club, I always have more than 100 just to stretch my thinking and look forward to past the current year. Resolutions, schmesolutions. These aren’t your grandma’s New Year’s list. This is a lifeforce all it’s own. Your compass for living and leading the life you love.
I’ve been doing this list and this exercise officially since 1984 with a written list and a purposeful time set aside to create it, dream and renew my goals and desires for the big plans I have for me. I take thoughtful time to reflect on the past year, lessons learned, what don’t I want any more, what do I want to start doing and stop doing and keep the same or pump up the volume.
It’s not necessarily a bucket list, although you can incorporate items that may be on your bucket list. It can be simpler lifestyle goals, health benchmarks, financial goals or personal achievements. I had one item that was on my list before I even had a written list. It was on my list for 27 years. And you can imagine the celebration I had when it finally came true. Some of my items are only on for a year or a few weeks before I get to cross them off. Some items I find I don’t want any more – life changes. It’s not about necessarily reaching those specific goals, it’s about creating them and allowing yourself to dream big dreams for your life.
To make sure I cover my bases on the left brain and right brain and all senses side; I not only write down in numbered style in long hand, pen to paper, but I also create a vison board with photos and phrases. I used to cut and paste magazine photos onto posterboard. Now I do my collage digitally so I can make a custom greeting card using a simple software and send myself the card with my vision board as well as my affirmations and life purpose on it. I have one at my desk and one in my purse at all times to keep me reminded of why I do what I do and what I want for my life. It comes in very handy during wait times in airports and waiting rooms.
Along with your Hot 100 List, I suggest you write out your ideal day putting pen to paper – no typing any of this out. Your heart and your body hear it better and internalize hand-written things over the typed word. Make the head and heart connection by writing out in long hand how you want your ideal day to go in excruciating detail. Give yourself time and permission to take this very seriously. Most people spend more time writing up their holiday gift list than doing this special gift list for themselves.
Stay tuned for our upcoming free teleclass on cracking the code to your life purpose. Doing your Hot 100 List and your Ideal Day exercise will help you clarify your path and prepare for our call. Be looking for our special offer to those who want to work with us and discover your own life purpose which is in your DNA. You have it at your fingertips. Let us help you understand how you’re supposed to move through this world. Looking forward to seeing you on the call on 2 February.