If you know me, you know I’m all about Love (see photo of the “Love Notes” I’ve been giving away for a few years).

I define Love as not just romantic Love, but Love as affinity, Love as connection, and truly — Love as the thing that makes the world go ‘round.

As Valentine’s Day approaches, I’d like to talk about Love as a philosophy and infusing it into places we may not think is appropriate. If we come from the perspective that Love is limited to romantic or familial Love, then it may not seem obvious that it can be part of our business or professional relationships as well.

But it can. Love can be found in appreciating someone, understanding another’s perspective, compassion for someone going through a hard time and honoring another’s upset with an apology, regardless of how uncomfortable it is.

Love can be anywhere we allow it to be, and it is there if we look for it. Yet rather than look for it to be present or not present, seeking to find it with “How” questions:

“How is Love showing up today?”
“How am I infusing every relationship with Love?”
“How can I spread more Love throughout my day?”

So here’s to Love, in all the myriad, beautiful expressions and manifestations of it.

What do you think? How is Love present in your life and business?

Happy Holidays, y’all!

I’m here to talk about gratitude after Thanksgiving because last year, I noticed a distinct decline in expressions of gratitude.

While it’s totally understandable that our focus on being grateful would evaporate amidst the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, it got me thinking maybe it didn’t have to be this way.

What if Thanksgiving was merely the start of a whole Season of Gratitude?

So last year that’s how I conducted the entire holiday season from Thanksgiving until New Years, focusing on what I was grateful for in my life.

It was pretty cool. I was calmer, everything was easier and despite the busy-busy, I had a ton of fun.

Given it takes 21 days to create a new habit, it set up the New Year with a solid foundation of a gratitude practice.

If this resonates with you, I invite you to adopt a Season of Gratitude – or adapt it – for yourself and see what happens and how you feel.

Recently, a new articulation of my work has been emerging; or rather it’s coming full circle around to some of my earliest intuitive insights about myself, my gifts and how I can serve most deeply in my business. It’s been this wondrous time of “Oh my goodness, look at that!”

I’ve noticed that in a heart-centered business, where there is no separation between me and it, the articulation of how I am expressed in my business – and comes in layers and levels – and yet, each layer builds upon the last, offers deep insight into what’s next and always, always snaps into place in the overall picture.

Having the patience to allow it to emerge and grow as I’m ready, as I’m more prepared and as it’s time, is what I’ve learned to do. Until I became comfortable with this unfolding, it was disconcerting because, well, “I want it all now!” But that’s not how it works.

I see this desire in my clients all the time, and my encouragement is to stay the course and know more will come to light soon requires faith and persistence, and that can feel really uncomfortable. Before there is enough personal evidence to support trust in this process, it IS a leap of faith and the only thing to do is keep going.

What is demanding your patience these days? Leave a comment below and let me know what’s requiring some faith.

In this brand new year, I am resolved to begin doing some things for my business that until now, I gave myself a permission to ignore. One of the many things I’ve learned this year, is the sheer volume of “things to do” is nuts. Remaining focused on the most important tasks in a given day, and avoiding distraction from bright shiny objects, takes daily discipline.

My solution was to ignore entire aspects of my marketing (and as a marketer, I know all the things I should do), until there was sufficient space to focus on them. At first, I deliberately and compassionately gave myself the freedom to basically ignore social media or article writing.

In September, I began to add in consistent social media marketing and now I am committing to more consistent article writing. Giving myself this permission created an unbelievable amount of freedom as I let go of the “shoulds.”

Have a look at your “To Do” list and identify the tasks are not crucial to what you’d like to accomplish today and this week, and then actively, deliberately give yourself permission to only focus on those things for now.

Next, tell someone to best release your own internal pressure (and maybe some outside pressure, too), so you can truly create the space to focus on your priorities.

What can you give yourself permission NOT to do? Please comment below with what you’ll take off your plate today, this week or this month.

Similar to Van Gogh, we  express our dreams in our life, perhaps not with a paint brush on canvas but all the same, we have the gifts, abilities and experience to create it.

Simply that we have a dream means we are well-equipped, in fact singularly equipped, for that unique dream. It may not seem like that at first, but it’s a matter of unpacking the jumble of thoughts and ideas and making sense of them.

Soon enough they will reveal how they fit into your dream, and with it, why it is YOUR dream and no one else’s.

If you are lost in an abyss of ideas, plans or wishes and need some clarity, making the intangible tangible is what I do best. Take the first steps and email me to schedule your Strategy Session.

* The Queen’s Code *

The long-awaited sequel to the Keys to the Kingdom, by Alison Armstrong, is here as a serial e-book and interactive experience. We’re all just giddy.

The Journey begins October 19th with the 2nd chapter – the first chapter is available now.

Our imagination drives our will.

The potency of our will is determined

by the amount to which we live in love.