Only eight days left for my back-to-school special! It’s a great deal, one that I probably won’t ever offer again.

I’m offering one month of coaching for $99. That’s three 60-minute sessions. The offer is risk-free, because you’re free to enjoy a complimentary session before you decide whether or not to invest in the coaching.

You just need to book your first session (whether it’s a complimentary session or the first of your three paid sessions) by September 30, 2011.

Please note – you don’t need to have the session by September 30, you just need to contact me and set it up by then.

To book your session, just contact me. You may want to do it now, before September slips away!

Namaste,

Janet

Our kids are back to school and we have more time. Much as I love having my son around, I can’t wait to do more coaching!

If you can’t wait to spend more time on yourself and your business, you’re in luck! I’m offering a special so good I probably won’t do it again.

But I only have a couple of openings, so this is a first-come, first-serve offer.

For a little while, I’m offering your first month of coaching for just $99. You’ll receive three 60-minute sessions.

If you love coaching (you probably will), you can continue at the regular rate of $297 per month. If not, no problem. You’ll certainly benefit from a month of coaching, but there’s no need to continue.

That said, you will benefit the most from a commitment of at least three months. That’s about how long it generally takes to make lasting changes in your life.

So if you decide to continue on, I will request a two-month commitment. If you continue beyond that, I book in three-month segments.

What if you’re intrigued by this offer but still not sure you want coaching?

I offer a complimentary session so you can find out more about whether coaching is right for you and whether or not we would be a good match. Although $99 is an exceptionally good rate for one month of coaching, I respect your right to experience coaching before parting with $99 of your hard-earned money. So feel free to request a complimentary session before committing to this month of coaching.

The Rules

• This offer ends on September 30, 2011, or when I have booked all available openings, whichever comes first.
• To take advantage of this offer, contact me to set up the first session. This session can be a complimentary session.
• Payment is due before the first session (excluding the complimentary session, of course).
• This offer is only valid for new clients.

A request

This is a great deal, and it’s intended for people who are serious about coaching. It’s not intended for people who want a month of coaching at a very low fee, but who have no intention of developing a longer-term coaching relationship.

So I do ask that you only take advantage of this offer if you have at least some interest in continuing the coaching relationship for longer than one month.

That said, I fully understand that you may not know whether or not you want more than a month until you’ve experienced coaching. As I said, there’s no obligation to continue.

I’m very excited to make this offer and I hope this will inspire you to give coaching a try and find out how much this exciting process can benefit you!

Namaste,

Janet

After my weekend with Mike Dooley, followed two days later by a powerful shamanic session with a coaching colleague, I was feeling fantastic and ready to manifest. And manifest I did! The day after the shamanic session, a friend told me about a high-paying opportunity as a home health aide one day a week, possibly leading to two days.

One day on this job would have paid over a third of my expenses, leaving me plenty of time to build my coaching business!

I called and it seemed that the job was mine. I made plans to visit the home later this week.

Meanwhile, a couple of other smaller opportunities came in. A woman took me up on a forgotten offer to review home pages for $79. A company requested a link to the home page of my website building website for $20 a month.

This manifesting stuff was really working!

So the other day, my ex-husband expressed some misgivings he had about the job. He insisted I’d have to lift the man I’d be working for, although that wasn’t listed as a job responsibility.

I went home, got onto the internet and looked up the job responsibilities of home health aides. I noticed that they require home health aide training, which I don’t have. I started worrying about that.

The next day, I called the woman offering the job to get some needed details. She was quite apologetic as she told me that the home health aide working there five days a week insisted that the new aide be trained as a home health aide.

It’s hard to say what would have been the best outcome. But in terms of manifesting abundance, what a lesson!

Mike Dooley insists that “thoughts become things” and now I’ve got my proof.

The funny thing is, I’m not worried. I just learned how to manifest – and how to unmanifest.

I think I’ll start manifesting bigger and better things.

Ain’t the Universe grand?

Namaste,

Janet

I promised to offer my take on why we attract “bad” things or circumstances in my next to last post.

I gave three examples, but for the sake of brevity, I’ll just look at one. If you want me to offer my take on the others, let me know.

Let’s go with the tailgating car. Did you attract that to you? Well, if you’re driving well below the speed limit, yeah. Nothing too spiritual about that.

But what if you’re driving at a normal speed? It seems there are plenty of drivers these days who won’t be satisfied with that.

I was always afraid of tailgaters. I would panic when they were behind me. And it seemed they were always there. Big trucks on Route 128! Yikes! Very often my son was in his infant chair or his booster seat, in the back seat of the car. That’s when my fear was the worst.

And that’s probably when I got the most tailgaters.

I have to be honest, it could be that I was driving more slowly than other drivers and that’s why. Or it could have been that energy of fear (which I will probably feel again when I have grandchildren in their booster seats in the back of my car).

Either way, I can take some responsibility for attracting so many tailgaters.

As I pointed out in my other post, that doesn’t mean I’m to blame. When those grandchildren-to-be are in my car, and I’m feeling that fear, I will feel no guilt. Or maybe I’ll overcome the fear, I don’t know.

But the good news is, when I take responsibility for what I’m attracting I can no longer consider myself a victim.

Now, I get fewer tailgaters, and when I do, I very gradually slow down to a speed at which I feel more in control and less vulnerable. (It’s difficult to switch lanes when a tailgater is blocking your view of the traffic in the other lanes.) That usually gets the tailgaters out of my way, as they finally switch to the fast lane.

Every so-called problem you have is an opportunity to notice how you react, inwardly and outwardly. So when a car is tailgating you, or a cashier is rude to you, try noticing how you feel, physically and emotionally. Notice how you react outwardly. See what you can learn about yourself.

If you have any experiences in which a “problem” has turned into a growth opportunity, please leave a comment and share!

Namaste,

Janet

It’s Tuesday and I’m still high off the excitement of a weekend at the Kripalu Center in Lenox, MA, to see Mike Dooley.

I’ve been a huge fan of Mr. Dooley for years now, ever since I started getting his uplifting, whimsical Notes from the Universe.

The topic was “Playing the Matrix,” which is also what he teaches in his book Manifesting Change.

It’s basically Mike’s take on the Law of Attraction. He’s come up with his own set of rules and they rock!

We learned that it is okay to attach to what we desire, as long as it’s general. For instance, if what you want is a relationship, wealth, a fulfilling career, go ahead and attach. Just don’t attach to the details.

So do we avoid the details? Nope. We use those to get playful and visualize every little bit of what life will be like when we have what we want. And yet, the Universe may not give us exactly that car or exactly that job. That’s okay, because whatever it gives us will be perfect.

If “Playing the Matrix” is playing in your neck of the woods, I highly recommend you go! You can find out where Mike is appearing here:

World Tour III: Playing the Matrix

Looks like you’ll have the most luck if you’re outside the US at this point.

You can also learn to play the matrix from Mike’s book Manifesting Change. (link)

By the way, if you get the Notes, you won’t be surprised to hear that Mike is kind, warm, funny, playful, and just plain delightful.

Here’s a photo of us together from this weekend:

Namaste,

Janet

P.S. I didn’t forget about Part 2 of my last post. I just couldn’t wait to tell you about my visit to Kripalu. I’m still excited about it!

I’ve been learning more and more how true it is what they say: we attract our circumstances to us.

It’s a truth that I used to resist. I think most of us do.

How am I to blame, after all, when the tailgater behind my car rear-ends me, when that cashier was rude to me, or when my boyfriend tries to tell me how to raise my son?

Simple. I’m not to blame. This isn’t about blame. There’s a big difference between attracting circumstances to yourself and holding yourself at fault. Most of us attract these circumstances unconsciously. In fact, it can be a huge challenge to even recognize how we’re doing this, let alone learn how control it.

Okay, fine, semantics. So how did I attract the circumstance of being rear-ended by the tailgater, or having the cashier be rude to me, or having the boyfriend tell me how to raise my son?

I’ll tell you in my next blog post. Here’s a hint, one I learned from iPEC, my coach training school: There are no problems, only opportunities.

Stay tuned….

Namaste,

Janet

This is purely for fun – which is totally coachy! Because fun and laughter help us to feel good, and feeling good helps us perform at our best.

You probably don’t know that I’m an amateur songwriter/singer/guitarist. This is one of my oldest songs, inspired by the root beer slush I discovered at a candy store near my first apartment.

If you can’t see the video, click on the title of this blog post and it should show up.

If you’re as hot as we are here in Massachusetts, I hope it cools you off – and makes you smile.

Namaste, Janet

I’m pretty slow with this, sorry. This is an opportunity for WAHMs that I like and respect, and that I have taken advantage of.

Site Build It! (aka SBI!) is a website building program, but it’s more than that. SBI takes you step-by-step through a process that allows you to build a business that will gradually increase your income.

This is great for someone who isn’t in a big rush to make money, but who, while she is home with the kids, would like an opportunity to create something that will allow you to build up income over time. That’s why I think it’s perfect for some work-at-home moms.

If you need money NOW, it’s not the best option. But if you’d like to build income gradually, over a period years – like an investment – this is a good opportunity.

To see the details of the special, they have a page just for WAHMs at SBI! – Work-at-Home Moms.

Basically, you can get two SBI! websites for $399 until July 4 at midnight. The usual cost is $299.

You can visit my own Site Build It! website at www.website-building-4-newbies.com.

I have a review of SBI! there at www.website-building-4-newbies.com/site-build-it.html.

If this opportunity appeals to you at all, I highly recommend that you read the review I wrote. It includes a lot of details about what SBI! is and what it does and does not offer.

When I started my own site, I took things slowly, and I think I built a pretty good site. I took the instructions to heart.

After a while, though, I needed to concentrate on other things. I have not been working on the site much at all for a couple of years.

Meanwhile, I’m making just about enough money to break even, without really trying. Of course, I want more than that. And I’m thinking that this could be a good time to work on the site again.

But here’s what impressed me: I now get between 60 to 100 unique visitors a day! The number of unique visitors has increased since I started the website, and even when it was new, I was getting more visitors than I had with my other websites.

If this appeals to you, I encourage you to take a look at the special. Again, it’s at SBI! – Work-at-Home Moms.

You can contact me with any questions. I’m away this weekend, but I’ll do my best to answer your questions. You can use the contact form here or email me at janet @ heartbeat-coaching.com.

Namaste,

Janet

If you’ve been following this blog, you might have noticed that I close my posts not with the typical “Yours truly” or “Best wishes,” but instead with the less-known Hindi word “Namaste.”

Now that I’ve changed the focus of my blog, it seems like a good time to explain just why – even if you already know the meaning of the word.

If you don’t know its meaning, it has a few interpretations. Basically, “namas” means “to bow” and “te” means “you.”

So Namaste means “I bow to you.”

Other interpretations include:

“I honor the light within you.”

“The divine with me bows to the divine within you.”

Now, I’ve been using this closing since before I changed the focus of this blog to your worth (quick reminder: it’s high, very high!). But all along, I’ve found it deeply important to honor and respect the deep intrinsic worth of every human being, including you. And me.

What I find beautiful about the word “namaste” is its honoring of that spark within all of us. And even more beautiful, it is an exchange. In the Indian Subcontinent it’s a typical greeting, so that, like the word “hello,” when you say it someone, he or she will say it back to you.

And so, whenever I write this word, whether on this blog post or elsewhere, I try to remember to put my hands together, give my head a little bow, and remember to truly honor the divine in the other or others to whom I am saying this.

And when I do, I get a little feeling in my heart. It’s beautiful. Because when you honor the divine in others, you start to remember that each one of us has this spark of divine within – including you. It’s a beautifully humble way of honoring your own worth, along with the worth of others. I hope you will try it so that you can experience that small, beautiful feeling.

And with that, whomever you are reading this now, I say to you:

Namaste,

Janet

For the past month or so, this blog has been focused on a series of marketing articles. And I’m realizing that this is not what I really want to share with you.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s important that you learn about marketing basics if you’re a work-at-home mom. But it doesn’t get to the heart of what I want to offer you.

What I really care about is how wonderful you are. And whether or not you realize how wonderful you are.

Because if you don’t recognize your deep intrinsic worth, if you’re not aware of it, if you don’t believe in it deeply, you’re shortchanging yourself. And you’re shortchanging the others around you, including your children.

Now, I don’t want you to take that last sentence to mean you should feel guilty about not recognizing your self-worth. I just want you to realize that, despite what some might say, knowing your worth is a good thing.

For one thing, if you believe you have deep intrinsic worth just because you’re a human being, you believe that every person has deep intrinsic worth. Just because every person is a human being.

Now you treat yourself with love and respect, and you take care of yourself. And that’s a good thing. And you also treat all others with love and respect.

What would the world be like if everyone believed in the deep intrinsic worth of themselves and everyone else? Would there be war? Or any violence at all? Would corporations put profits above the well being of their customers? Or the well-being of anyone, for that matter?

And of course, there’s that other little benefit- it feels good. In a wonderfully healthy way.

So from now on, the main focus of this blog will be your self-worth, along with themes of self-esteem and self-love.

That doesn’t mean there won’t be posts on marketing or other topics of interest to work-at-home moms. It just won’t be the main focus.

Feel free to comment and let me know what you think of this new direction.

Namaste,

Janet