by Ann Evanston | Aug 31, 2017 | Mental Mind Shifts, Relationship
My husband and I have a huge garden. We have converted our entire yard to grow food. Harvest, typically twice a year, because we grow year round, is an extremely abundant time!
The abundance is everywhere! More tomatoes, more cucumbers, more basil…more. But you don’t care about those details….what’s your point, Ann! Sometimes when abundance feels like it’s too much we can get overwhelmed and shut down that flow energetically.
With so much to do in the garden, it’s easy to just turn into a “doer” and get to getting it done!
When abundance is flowing like the dam that’s been let loose, you must energetically connect with it. You cannot just do. That’s how you spread greater abundance in all areas of your life. So think about those time when abundance is overwhelming:
🏼When your spouse is just full of tons of good loving, even when you’re exhausted!
🏼When the meal arrives at dinner and the plate has so much food.
🏼When the clients are banging down your door to work with you.
🏼When your friends want to spend live time with you with your crazy busy schedule.
[Tweet “Energetically connect when abundance arrives, and watch more flow to you!”]
These are the times to open the floodgates of abundance, absorb all of it! Because then there will be more in your life, and will be easier to handle as it comes.
by Ann Evanston | Aug 25, 2017 | Business Strategy, Relationship
Do you create connection when engaging others? Are you open to connections? Do you follow up? I will bet your answer is yes. I believe that you know that our ability to have greater success depends on connections.
Or have you gotten comfortable with the connections you already have? Maybe you are running in the same circle? If your answer is yes the question is different. Does your circle empower you, provide resources and solutions? And do you for it?
Where are you reaching out to make new connections? Or better yet, how do you make sure you introduce people to others they should meet?
Influence begins with building and nurturing connections.
by Ann Evanston | Aug 22, 2017 | Relationship
Integrity is the value I hold highest. I believe that having a strong value means knowing how you BEHAVE day after day, and in every situation. For me, being in integrity means:
🏼 I am the same in every situation.
🏼 I never speak about people in a way I wouldn’t directly to their face.
🏼 I am open and honest with agenda and approaches.
🏼 I hold confidences, even when someone pushes for what I know.
🏼 I honor differences in styles and approaches.
When someone questions my integrity, I am first deeply hurt. I try to understand their point of view. (That’s my integrity too) often in asking I learn that it wasn’t really my integrity they were questioning, it is a belief they have differently that was triggered.
I am OK with that.
by Ann Evanston | Aug 12, 2017 | Relationship
I am an alpha female without a doubt! I’m independent thinking, do things my way, don’t mind being in charge and have no problem speaking my mind! I am married to an alpha male. Which means he’s pretty much the same way, LOL!
As an independent alpha female, I have always believed that love is about two whole healthy individuals coming together because they’re the best selves they can be in a relationship. And the other person wants them to be their best self. I absolutely have that. I’ve realized though that the truest form of love does have a form of interdependence.
I realize being with my true love, we have a deep soul connection. When I am apart from him I feel differently than when I am close to him. Yes, I still feel the heartstring that connects us even when apart. I am a better me when he is close. Our energies are intertwined.
Dammit!
As an alpha female I do not want to feel that! And as somebody who loves being deeply loved, I love feeling it.
[Tweet “Alpha females can experience deep soul connection.”]
by Ann Evanston | Jul 31, 2017 | Business Strategy, Relationship
Last month I shared with you that I have started “Champion Salons.” A Champion Salon is an amazing way for you to expose your business to the power of giving to others. In networking and relationship building, we often forget that it’s more about how you give rather than what you get. The Law of Reciprocity is the practice of give first, and within giving, reciprocation happens for you. Champion Salons practice that model, and also allows you to gain exposure for your business in new ways.
[Tweet “As entrepreneurs, practice yes and watch the opportunities increase!”]
One of the most important things to participating in a Champion Salon is coming without any judgement. This means you will have greater exposure if you:
🏼 share without worrying if it’s a “right fit” or not
🏼 let go of perceptions that your list or connections care or not
🏼 don’t worry if your network can afford it or not
🏼 remove mindsets that you don’t have a strong enough network
🏼 end thinking there isn’t enough to go around
🏼 resist thinking you don’t have time
🏼 honor that you want support and can ask for what you need
I find for many entrepreneurs this isn’t easy. In my Champion Salons we work to break though and achieve that together. We inspire yes. We motivation visibility. We increase potential for everyone involved. Ready to play?
by Ann Evanston | Jul 30, 2017 | Relationship
I never eat barbecue potato chips. I never buy barbecue potato chips, if I’m at a get together or somebody else’s house and there’s a bowl of barbecue potato chips out I never eat them.
I pretty much have convinced myself that I don’t really like barbecue potato chips. Why put something in my mouth that I don’t like? I like barbecue, I make great barbecued spareribs, it just must be the barbecue potato chip that’s the problem.
For a new recipe I wanted to try, I had to buy some barbecue potato chips. Of course, I didn’t need the whole bag for the recipe. For some damn reason I put one chip in my mouth. Now I know why never eat barbecue potato chips! I LOVE them. OMG. I. Can’t. Eat. Just. One.
Now I know, I don’t hate them. They just have too much power over me!
That’s when a relationship is unhealthy.
