The Guidebook: Flex Your Thrive Muscles
The art of having a business and having a life too!
If you feel like you've been reading about yourself on the
Home Page and
Is This For You page, then please read this book - it was made just for you.
Note: The full-length book is in the works and will be ready some time in January of 2009. In the meantime, if you decide to join the Clubhouse, the beta version of the book (it's current form is four separate learning guides) is included in your membership.
It's a quick read of easy to digest, bite-size chapters

The book shows you the four Thrive Principles to turn toward your personal life without feeling like you're letting go of the reigns of your business. In fact, you'll feel that you're running your business better and therefore more at peace about spending time away from it. This allows you to finally be fully present and at ease when you turn toward your health, relationships and free time.
Each chapter includes a teaching and then a practical, no-stress experiment that helps you apply the principles to real situations in your business and personal life. The experiments will naturally fit into your busy day and will not bog you down with complicated learning, rigid systems or boatloads of extra to-do's.
The best thing about the process is that you don't have to do anything differently, make things happen with will power, or change anything about yourself. It's much easier than that. The Principles are all about awareness, so you just have to notice them day-to-day. Once you begin to notice the Thrive Principles, you won't be able to turn back, and the changes you desire will fall naturally into place without you having to
make any of it happen. How cool is that? I've seen this happen over and over as I've worked with my clients throughout the years.
|
"I knew I saw myself in Lisa's description of "go-getting women and felt like this would be helpful for me, but I had no idea just how helpful it would be.
I was a bit worried the exercises and approach would cost me time (and who has extra time?), but the exact opposite happened. Instead I've found that I'm more productive, and I can step away from my business without feeling guilty.
Because the Thrive Principles shifted my thinking, the changes were easy instead of forced. I feel more calm and that affects my family too. With Lisa's approach, I'm allowed to acknowledge my worth and my accomplishments and I feel at peace. It's not easy to explain, but it just works. And it works very well!"

Michelle Shaeffer, The Small Business Muse
www.TheSmallBusinessMuse.com
|
Here's an overview of the four Thrive Principles...
Thrive Principle #1: Tame your Never-Enough Cycle

I've noticed that most go-getting entrepreneurial women get caught in the Never-Enough Cycle. When in it, you feel constantly behind, fall short of your expectations and beat yourself up. It's a constant and subtle emotionally
exhausting drain, plus it makes it hard to unplug from your business because you're always in a state of catching up. When you stop this drain, you put an end to that forever-behind feeling, and you free up all kinds of energy for your business and personal life. The good news is that the Never-Enough Cycle is pretty simple to diffuse, once you know a couple of easy, yet powerful skills.
The teaching includes:
• The three-step process to recognize you're in the cycle and then step out of it
• A two-minute technique to feel profoundly "enough" anywhere, anytime
• A fun formula to practice stepping out of the cycle in a way that really works for you
Thrive Principle #2: Rock-Solid Internal Knowing

Most of us use our Inner Knowing to some extent already, and in this class you'll learn to turn the skill up full throttle. When you have an unshakable connection with your Inner Knowing, it's easy to make confident decisions about what is right for your business and to bypass the things that aren't quite right, even when you're the type of person who's drawn to say "yes" to everything. As a result, you spend less energy making decisions because it's easy to make them and you are able to rest easy about those decisions, trusting that they're leading you in the right direction. This trust is what allows you to relax and unplug from your business in a way that feels natural, easy, authentic and real. Ahhhhh...
The teaching includes:
• The three steps for effortless and undeniable knowing
• The key technique that stops second-guessing, worrying and hyper-vigilance
• An easy way to practice using your Inner Knowing in real situations in your business
Thrive Principle #3: Step Into Your Right Rhythm

I have a client who lovingly calls this skill "Beyond Time Management" because it addresses your time problems without having to try to manage time. At first glance, the ever-increasing pace of our modern society
seems to fit the intense nature of those of us who are passionately-driven, so we plug right into it. Problem is, it's not your true rhythm. When you operate from your true rhythm, you recognize from an undeniable internal place when it's time to be "on" in your business and when it's time to unplug. When in your Right Rhythm, the un-plugging will feel natural and easy, rather than like something you have to force with your mind. Additionally, your Right Rhythm guides you to take the right actions at the right time so that you no longer exhaust yourself unnecessarily or create effort in your business that doesn't need to be there.
The teaching includes:
• A no-stress way to open the door to your Right Rhythm immediately
• The real secret to no more procrastination.
Really.
• A big a-ha on how little things called Pause Points unlock time in your schedule
Thrive Principle #4: Kick your Work-Hard Habit with Miracle Machine
As a smart, motivated woman, you get in the mode of thinking you have to create everything in your life. Your Miracle Machine is your personal system for inviting help, synchronicity, little miracles, unexpected resources and answers you couldn't have dreamed up on your own into your business on a regular basis. This is not positive thinking or Law of Attraction a la The Secret because you don't have to change a thing about your thoughts or feelings in order to use your Miracle Machine. The result? Reduced effort expended in your business, freeing up your energy for personal time and allowing you to relax more into the trust that your business can be nurtured even when you're not focusing your intense attention on it.
The teaching includes:
• Using the 5-step Miracle Machine process
• The truth about what most attracts what you want (it's not what you think)
• Helpful insights into feeling less alone and like you have to do it all yourself
• Fun experiments to get you using your Miracle Machine in real situations in your business and personal life
|
"My business and life have smoothed out and become far more manageable.
Instead of a frantic, rushed pace, I can breathe, focus and find my way through the millions of tasks involved in owning my own business, and instead of feeling swamped by swirling chaos, I know how to shift it. It's been incredibly helpful."
Sonya Hughes, Website Consultant
www.CircleStarConsulting.com
|
Honestly, the teachings in this book have saved the quality of my life and can yours too.
At the end of a many-year career in music, I had huge successes under my belt, but was horribly burned out and had to throw in the towel. I made a commitment to embark on what became a nine-year journey to discover how to have a business
and a life, all while keeping my passionate drive. It's a special formula of what has worked for me, being a go-getting woman. Some of the concepts may even be familiar to you, but the way in which the book guides you to act on them is the difference. It's made to fit with your intense, action-oriented nature.
Owning the book is a pre-requisite to become a member of the Extraordinary Clubhouse. If you're not sure about the Clubhouse, then you can go ahead and buy the book and the price of the book goes toward your first month of membership in the Clubhouse if you decide to join later. Or, if you don't have the book and you sign up for the Clubhouse, you get the book as a free bonus - my gift to you :0)
And if you're waffling about whether to get the book or not, you can get the free Thrive Workbook which is an excerpt from the full-length book. It will give you a good taste of the book, so if you haven't downloaded it yet,
here's the link.
Want to know when the guidebook is ready?
<a href="https://secure.blueoctane.net//forms/I8CB814MQBMZ">Click Here To Load This Formexperts.com Form</a>