I'm Flying to Paris!

I want to go and sing in France. I'm looking to sell my music to buy my tickets. If you'd like my songs and want to help me live out my dream, then get in touch and I'll tell you how. ;-)

You can listen to my original music at

http://jango.com/music/Lisa+shah
:-)

Times Change-A New Song

This was a very nice surprise. :-)

Please take a look!

http://villageconnector.com/howardcountymd/2010/07/12/a-community-treasure-from-down-under/

it includes my latest music video

Essential Elements for Effective Masterminding with CTT

Essential Elements for Effective Masterminding with Creative Thinking Technology

In a previous article (http://lisashahescape.blogspot.com/2010/02/th-art-of-controlled-chaos.html) I wrote that one of the ways creativity can be applied to businesses in this ever changing economic climate is through a regular masterminding session. Masterminding as a creative tool may well have existed long before Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, however, it has since become a term well recognised and used in business circles.

In fact, could it be that it has become so commonplace both as a term and an idea that it’s possibly in danger of becoming clichéd. When something becomes clichéd, even though it holds great value, much of its impact can be lost. Let’s consider, in light of Hill’s definition, what constitutes a productive masterminding connection.

“Two or more people who work in perfect harmony for a definite purpose...

...Borrow and use the education, the experience, influence, and perhaps the capital of other people in carrying out your own plan...

...You can accomplish in one year, more than you could accomplish in a lifetime, if you depended entirely upon your own efforts for success...

...When you form a true mastermind alliance with others, and work with them in a true spirit of harmony, you can draw freely upon the spiritual forces within you in carrying out your plans and desires...

...Also, this alliance can give you absolute protection against failure provided that your purpose is beneficial for all that you influence...”

Napoleon Hill

The first of these statements describes what it takes to create a mastermind alliance, and the other points listed could refer to the benefits able to be gained through that alliance.

“Two or more people who work in perfect harmony for a definite purpose...”

To create this allegiance takes more than one person with varying abilities between them whilst being committed to the same outcome. To be in harmony as compared to unison implies a different role whilst the definiteness of purpose speaks of specific agreed outcome from the joint efforts. Win:win.

It’s not often, or even likely, that a large group would be in harmony from the outset even if there is a shared beneficial goal. Each has their ideas and methods as well as their own particular talents, skills and egos. The gain for each member needs to be such that it motivates a strong commitment to the group as a whole and should include helping the others receive their gain.

The first agenda of any potentially effective mastermind alliance must be that of attaining “perfect harmony”. To develop this among members requires building trust and developing a “safe” environment.

When a mastermind is built upon specifically selected individuals this can be easier, but when a group is brought together via other means (e.g. a family, or a micro business) developing relationships and like-mindedness are paramount.

Having Fun and Feeling Good.

Social networking between businesses and within businesses has been on the rise for some years, the reason being it has been widely accepted that people who “play together” tend to get along better in general and feel better about working together. It’s also because it brings balance to the work/life ratio and relieves stress which leads to healthier people and better personal performance.

Something amazing happens when people laugh together. A bonding around the moment takes place. Humans are creatures who are shaped through information and strong emotion. Enjoyment of another’s company usually draws a desire to have the experience again. The more pleasant time together is the more trusted the environment becomes. To the extent people reveal themselves in various scenarios and meet with acceptance they will willingly share ideas and subjective opinions more openly.

When the result of playing or working together feels good people are free to be themselves and ultimately demonstrate more creative as the group culture allows for the putting forth of ideas without ridicule, judgment or criticism. Not only is this so but a genuine regard for each other’s well being rises out of the bond that feeling good together brings.

For an effective masterminding synergy these elements are absolutely essential and they rest solidly on the level of connectedness between the all parties no matter the number.

Creating a Safe Environment Swiftly

It could be considered a difficult task to bring synchronistic energy to a “motley crew” and it is certainly something that cannot be forced upon people. This kind of harmony must be offered willingly from within by each individual. The best way to have people align to a vision as told by many a success advocate is for it to be their idea. All that is being presented here is the notion that incentives can play a rather influential part.

Feeling good, having fun, playing and laughing are powerful incentives. Too long have these influential factors been outlawed as contrary to good working models and cast aside in favour of a penal ( reward versus penalty) system. Whilst working with pain as the motivator may require less creativity and seem effective it squashes initiative through the fear of what making a mistake could bring basically short circuiting potential innovation.

The other side of this system is pleasure and it will perhaps generate a better response. Pleasure can work where the safe environment is in place otherwise fear will yet hold many back. Using pleasure as the way to establish a non judgmental space is a superior path to fostering within people a desire to contribute to the well being of the group and a confidence to suggest ways in can be done.

Further along in this series another concept for motivation will be presented that surpasses both pleasure and pain.

To begin to set up the conditions for a fertile masterminding session make use of games, interactive activities and artistic tools such as drawing implements, drama techniques and music. Organise individual, partnered, team and group oriented activities. At this stage these games/activities need to help people feel comfortable and relaxed through being enjoyable. The key component is engaging people though focussing attention on the fun of the activity and interaction rather than on the people themselves, thus minimising self consciousness. When working with others the focus is on being attentive to the whole. This can be achieved in very simple ways through games that involve counting together, singing a well known song chorus or synchronised actions.

This is the magic of CTT.

Studies in Conscious Creation Vol III

Studies In Conscious Creation Vol 3-Keeping Your Focus

This week I thought it might be good to look at the kinds of things that enter our lives in any ordinary day and how to maintain an energy focus that will continue to work to move us toward our desires, and the fruition of the same toward us.

This IS a two way street. A host of paradoxical perspectives are active here, and yet all in perfect harmony with each other-no contradictions.

What To Do With An Ordinary Day.

Now, when I say an ‘ordinary’ day, I am referring specifically to a day that has no specific extremes or intense emotions. Trust me, these are as needed as the others. A lot of the time these days don’t have any intense need for anything either. They just are. They are like the calm in the midst of the storm (not necessarily a bad storm). They are a lull, for breathing more deeply and slowly and not really much else. They are a balancing of energy, so that you don’t go “over the top” with extremes.

They are good days.

As I said, in my video, they are good days for me to be more inclined to “change gears” go left brain, and get some other kinds of work done, that I am usually way too excited to bother with. Site maintenance, or book keeping are good examples. They are “ordering” days for me. Some would say “practical”, but I think all my days are productive and practical! J

When you’ve been flying with intensity, this can feel like a “come down”, and therein lies the danger. In the same way, that some people view rainy days as “bad” weather, these days can be unappreciated for the value they bring.

The important thing to remember, is that feeling good is ALL that matters. If that isn’t exactly “over the moon/on fire”, that’s fine. As long as it isn’t “down in the dumps/nothing is happening”. Do some of the other things you normally put off. Be productive in “practical” ways. Watch cool movies. Relax with a friend. Pamper yourself. Enjoy the NOW.

In this way, all that has already been set in motion by your desires will continue to work toward their fruition. If you shift your mood into a lower vibration, you will send out different information, and begin attracting different outcomes.

Remember your desires whilst attending the day’s requirements. Depending on where you are with your Intentional Creativity, you may feel you have more of these days than the exciting kind, but momentum will grow. AND...what you are wanting to see may be closer than you think! ;-)

When Opportunities Come.

This is another important time to keep your focus-REALLY important.

As I put my focus on my desired end result, opportunities that can bring it to fruition begin to emerge upon my path. Each one will somehow reflect something of what I’ve been wanting. All of them will include elements from every facet of my being in a mixed array of arrangements. As the Universe responds to my vibration, I will be presented with offers I can choose to accept or decline, explore or ignore. Just because they come doesn’t mean I HAVE to follow them, OR that they are exactly what I want. What they will do however, is reveal to me how completely I am sustaining the desired “state of being”. That is, how thoroughly I believe I HAVE what I desire.

In this scenario, as with all, align yourself afresh with what you want. From that place, does this path feel firm and good...or more a “maybe this could work” type deal? TAKE ONLY THE WAYS THAT ARE FIRM. Being firm doesn’t mean you can clearly see the road straight out before you. It simply means you feel certain of the next step. Living this way, that’s the only step you need to be sure off.

Should you face a fork in the road, feel uncertain, yet know you must make a choice now, then whatever choice you make , don’t second guess it! Be committed. It is your whole heartedness that will make either choice RIGHT for you, and work around to the desired outcome anyway. Universal reality is fluid and always changing. You can’t ‘miss out’. You can be sure you will get whatever the lesson is contained in it, and the lesson is there, to steer you into your dreams.

Opportunities to become the person who can create AND sustain that dream will come. They will lead you into it. They are not barriers to it, but gateways!

Opportunities in a Different Direction

This can be tricky. For example, I feel I must get to Nice, France. That is the desired outcome for me. To be honest, I don’t even think it’s necessarily because something amazing is going to happen there. I think it’s because in becoming the person who gets there, I will have accomplished what I need within myself to live the life I desire from that point on. I believe it will mark some kind of milestone in this way.

I have become totally focussed on that as being the gateway into another world for me. However, the path way to Nice may not look as direct, because the way Universal Energy orchestrates events is supremely unexpected, unforeseeable and exquisitely “random”.

Going With the Flow

As happenings unfold, and circumstances evolve, stay intuitively aligned to your predominant personal desire. If you are already in a relationship, this will have a bearing. However, personally, even though a life partnership is a strong desire, I believe it’s better to hone in on that which is uniquely you-YOUR specific part along the time line. You will miss NOTHING of all you desire in following this, but in relinquishing this for ANYthing else, even on an motivational level, will distort the outcome as well. As those other things enter the stage of your reality, they will be aligned to all that is you, enhancing and enriching, rather than supplanting.

When an opportunity presents, surrendering it to the “state of being” for your desires, will give you a sense of effortless flow, and a kind of inner ‘glitch’. Follow the flow. J Along this path are whatever lessons and experiences required to lead you to what you are wanting, whether you immediately understand how, or not. Embrace what comes with an attitude of readiness to grow and a hunger to learn and become the person who can sustain your dream. Be thankful.

Even when occurrences arise that stir emotions and responses that don’t feel incredibly good, peace is still discernible on this path and it is that firmness that allows one to undergo the discomfort of outgrowing old paradigms and fears. It is the patience that will draw you into the wisdom and insight to equip you further. Surrender, and trust the process.

Light in the darkness-oct 08 blog reviewed

This is another significant blod to show my transition...

Hi again!
It's morning, and I have made some interesting progress through the dark stillness. (I call this "charlotte's portal" )

Just after midnight, and I woke up. I must have dozed off for a bit but awoke again shortly after and was unable to sleep, my head intensely bombarded with all the fiery darts of fear and financial anxiety. I could feel myself sinking deeper into the old, and all too familiar spiral, that literally drives the hair right out of my head! Like a floating orb that had crossd the 'event horizon' of a black hole,I was slipping away and I just didn't seem to be able to help myself.

EFT...the QUIET ACHIEVER

I sat up in bed, donned my iPod ear phones and listened to Napoleon Hill and a reading of Orison Swet Marden( both from Success magazine). Then I perfromed EFT on myself, but was so scattered in my thinking I could;t even coin a phrase! Focussing on the feeling is the issue anyway, and that' was NO trouble. I lay back down, feeling no different, but still couldn't sleep.

By this time it's 2 a.m., and I fall back on my faithful writing tool, which aids in the process of focussing my thoughts and intentions. I really AM a compulsive writer. I 'preach ' myelf happy.

Of course, I started out exploring the terrible way I was feeling-hopeless and so tired of being in this place again. I was infuriated with myself, coz I've known and expereinced so much, adn should be passed falling into this place. I could see the 'lack' i had let creep in and it was destroying all my joy.

WHAT I LOVE ABOUT EFT

I looked up and saw a shooting star. Of course, I was immediately transported to thinking about how much I love seeing shooting stars, and how good God is for giving me one right then.
From there, without any thought, I just started to list some of the many things i love: to ponder, to share, to do, be, have and give.

I wrote pages and I let them fill me afresh with the joy of living.
I love EFT and how it goes to work like an anonymous fairy godmother when you've forgotten you've asked for help.
I see EFT as the most humble of God's healing tools. The way it works, you could 'miss it' and never give credit where credit is due, unless you're truly paying attention.

TURNING POINT

That's where things started to change. By the light of a tea light lantern, out on the balcony in the deep purple breeze, I found a better place to view things, and a major burden of the past few weeks lifted.

I wrote for half an hour, and went back to bed...but still not to sleep.
Only now, I was receiving GOOD things. Answers, insights and plans.
I wanted to get up and get started on them!

TRULY AWAKE
I finally dozed off at about 4:30 a.m., but you can bet, I did it as one awakened, no longer in the dark of a dimmed consciousness. i had gotten past it, throught it, over it, round it...it was gone and I knew what to do.

For the same time that I felt this weight, I felt God inside saying "follow Your Bliss...All things are yours". Any time I asked a question, this was my answer.

In each situation, where I felt blocked or challenged or frustrated, I simply chose NOT to focus on those , or complain, but turned my attention to what I DO want. I recognised these as merely distractions and potential excuses, and I'm done with those.

BEING THANKFUL FOR THE LITTLE

Also, I'd read recently to be thankful for ALL money that comes in , whether 5c pieces, or whether you think it's enough. I kept finding 5c pieces after that!! I thought about how when somebody bugs you to call them, then, when you do, they do nothing but complain, and so, you don;t really wanna call them again in a hurry. That's how I saw 'money'. When it came, I would inwardly despair that it wasn't enough, and would list all the reasons why not...and money just got tired of my lack of expressed appreciation in respect ot that whining!! ( works for me!)

I thanked God for the gifts in all the situations that were there for me, and for the faithfulness and consistency of the laws of the Universe, such as LOA, and how perfectly my expectations were carried out and became my reality. I praised the reliability of these wonderful Truths, and rejoiced in them.

And I gave thanks for the truth of 'multiple realities', and that at any moment in time, I could switch from experiencing one reality to another reality of my choosing. I chose to see a different possibility in the Sea of Possibilities, and BE my desires fulfilled...and then, I started to SEE the things that were mine.

I realised that I DO have what i need right now. I DON'T have lack, but had let the belief I did blind me to what was already mine.

INSPIRED ACTION

"follow your bliss". Not sure how, but somehow, the notion of giving myself a birthday present sprung up. As I do have a little immediate cash, and no need to pay an immediate bill, (and I get paid after that) I decided to FREE myself of even thinking about how to get money ( coz that sends the message of not having it...and then, that's what you get) One of the ways, I can easily forget about money, is to lose myself in my art, writing, music an dloved ones....and Follow my Bliss.

So, as it's my birthday, next Friday...a week away, I gave myself the gift of this SEVEN DAYS UP TO MY BIRTHDAY to let go of money concerns and feel the pleasure of true wealth by doing what I love. I felt immediately liberated! KNowing that I've set a boundary like this totally frees me from giving thought to anxious thought weeds, and gives the Universe soemthing better to manifest.

Dollar Notes or Love Notes

This is a blog I wrote about 19months ago, and it shows how my attitude to money changed...

Yesterday was another good day.
As I mentioned, I began it with all of you, and how inspiring that was.

MUSINGS
I have a few different ponderings I'd like to share with you today.
1.Sowing-Growing-Knowing.
When i practice a difficult part of a song, i feel like i get nowhere initially.
I persevere, coz in spite of what seems obvious,I know I will improve.
But there's a kind of time lapse thing, where it feels like you get nowhere for the longest time, then, one day, after not practicing for a week, I go back to the piano, and hey presto! I can do it!
You put the time in, you water(sow), the sun rises and sets, rises and sets(grow), then you find you HAVE BECOME ( know-experientially)

It's the same with the things I speak over and to myself, and now, EFT on. I can feel myself being nurtured by the faith in what I'm saying, but one day...you wake up and you SEE differently, and you can link the changes to the profound truths of what you've been focussing your attention on.

This is what I'm experiencing now-with Money and with being in my own successful business.
After I left my
"P.S." BLOG yesterday, I read this little book by Morgana Rae, that I'd downloaded. I almost fell over! Everything I'd just come through, was what she listed to do , in order to draw abundance into your life.

PERSONIFICATION
Relationship is everything to me...that's why I like to 'hang out with God consciously'

I should have realised it years ago. I personify and ascribe personality traits to everything in my life, out of this love of relationship. It definitely helps to appreciate and love something when you give it a name. And I name everything. My car, Rita, got pampered yesterday. This laptop is called "Peeta Poota". My plants all have names, even my clothesline did, and my piano. I love relationship and develop them with everything!!

SO, I'm a bit surprised to see it took me this long to realise that I'd been treating Money like the Predator in my life. Money has been the scapegoat of all that I'd encountered in men, through abuse and neglect, so I hated the fact that I couldn't live without it/him.He felt like an abusive pimp that took whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted, and sent me to do what I never wanted to do, in return for a meagre, 'never enough', no promises fulfilled guarantee. I had seen that I'd connected Money, the lack of it, as well as the manipulative power of it, to early memories and incidents that left deep welts inside. and I had traced a pattern of working-but-not-getting what I earnt, from that time on ( at 5). I had chronic fears of displeasing Money, but never realised that I had made him this monster.

A NEW FRIEND
In learning to be grateful for every cent, I was inviting Money back into my life, but as my Friend. In 'choosing to feel good about supporting myself through my own multi million dollar business, and committing to it, a new Money Portrait was forming.
Money wouldn't talk to me before, other than echo what I believed about the Tyrant version of him. It reminds me of the "Parable of the Talents and Minas" in the Bible, where Jesus quotes the Owner who had left varying amounts with his workers to make what they will of it. When he returned from his journey,the first two had doubled their investments. The last one, afraid and judgmental, was too scared to do anything, and so buried his to keep it and return it.
The Owner, began with "So YOU KNEW that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? Well, then , you should have..."The worker received the worst of his fears, The Owner had not been this Ogre to the others.It was the beleif and expectation the worker held of the Owner that coloured his picture so black and bleak.

I can so see, that this is how I've seen Money-a cruel, unfair, pschyzophrenic tyrant, who could never be trusted, and would take and exploit, then abandon you, until he felt like using you again. ANd you had to have him, so you do nothing but surrender to his works, and despise yourself for it. These weren't just beliefs ABOUT money-this has been my RELATIONSHIP WITH Money, and that's why I could never get him to hang around very long and any assoication with him led to worse conditions. A chronic, life long resentment of everything bad that I saw in the world, was attributed to Money.

VOICE IN THE NIGHT

But the other night, when I couldn't sleep and in my despair, Money came and spoke to me. Not only that, but I'd noticed when I thought about my business, I felt stirrings of warmth and endearment-something was changing-or had.I felt love toward my business, and all it could be for me, and through me in the world. I started to see it as the sweetest life gift I'd ever received-the place to fulfill all the potential of who I am and want to materialise.
Business and Money were inextricably linked ( I know that seems like stating the obvious-but, think of them as people) and what I thought of one, was being projected against the other as well.

I was terrified to succeed with Business, coz how would I keep my distance from Money?
So, with the fluid rearranging of my perspectives, came a wave of wonder and love and appreciation,and I entered
into a new relationship with Money, and found him to be the tangible, hands-on face of Wisdom, who is my matriarchal mentor and all that I adore and aspire to be. Her hands have been tied to assist me in fulness, due to my hatred of Money, and I must say, I actually experienced true and impacting feelings of remorse for judging Money this way. I had done him an immeasurable disservice, and myself in the process!

This was a genuine repentance-a real turn around and a dramatic milestone.
And that's when i knew, Money and I were gonna be best friends from now on.

DOLLAR NOTES OR LOVE NOTES?

So last night, whenI went to work, i received a $10 tip. When the man left it on my piano, whispering 'thank you', i didn't see the monetary value of this note...i saw the gesture of love from Money. The man was the one who delivered it, and I'm grateful to him for his part, but it was a love note from Money. There was no thought of currency worth, but a wave of self worth in feeling truly adored and cared for.

How's that for a change????

It was Money that has been saying "Follow Your Bliss". To take time off worrying about Money, is to demonstrate the new found trust in Him, and to spend time doing what I love is to BE WEALTHY.

So, to wrap up for now...here's a thought about perspective. What you focus on, GROWS. It will, if you let it, eventually take over your entire range of sight-everything. In Australia, we have this thing about 'BIG FRUIT'. We've got the Big Banana, Big Pineapple, Big Avocado...we even have a BIG MERINO (sheep, pictured above)

You can make anything BIG, BIGGER than anything or anyone, simply by giving it ALL your attention. And only you can determine if this magnification will be good or bad.
Money loves to be where He is appreciated.
HAve a BEAUTIFUL and groovy day! :-)

Thank You-Music Piece

We had a good night together! :-)