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>> Hello dear friends and colleagues! A lot is cooking and being served this month. I’ve just launched my Book Writing Workshops. I’m excited to be finally teaching this material that I’ve been brewing for the past year. >>
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Hello dear friends and colleagues! A lot is cooking and being served this month. I’ve just launched my Book Writing Workshops. I’m excited to be finally teaching this material that I’ve been brewing for the past year. More local workshops coming up and a Book Writing Support Group: You Are the Hero of Your Book Writing Adventure as a tele-class will launch soon. >>
I am planted and am now blooming. Being planted is so important. I am an 'ideas' person. To manifest my ideas, I’ve known for a long time that to get anything done--i.e., write a book--I needed to be planted and let the project grow step by step by putting my attention on it daily. And now I really get that as it relates to my business. Everyday I ground myself, clearing my space of its endless chatter. Thank you Jeri, my fabulous Intuitive Business Coach, for your support, reminders, and kick in the butt to put into action that which I knew but had forgotten. After I’ve cleared my space and found that spot of calm, a lot like being by the sea, I notice and ground each of my projects in my business one by one. Wow! I have already seen the real-world effect of these inner tools, and am so glad I dusted them off. Yes, the results are miracles and the beauty of business growth.
What inner quieting techniques can you use to clear the monkey mind and create an oasis of calm and healing in the midst of your busy day? What miracles are you willing to bring into your life and creativity today?
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Hello dear friends and colleagues! What's new? I'm excited to be launching my Call to Action Book Writing workshops! My next event will be May 3rd in San Francisco here. The spiral of learning continues... >>
Just when I think I have my life and business figured out, wham! New awareness pops and I'm at the beginning again. I thought I would launch my tele-class this month, featuring all kinds of ways to overcome writer's block, but instead, I've decided to focus my energies toward live classes and workshops geared to my Call to Action Book Writing workshops, in-person, experiential, hands-on... you get the picture.
Why this seeming "about face"? To tell the truth, I don't know, except to say that being an artist-entrepreneur is the most difficult thing I have ever undertaken. I persist because I love the challenge of bringing my truth to living form!
Where are you on your spiral of discovery? What does this mean for you, "artist-entrepreneur"? Send me your thoughts!
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>> >>> Hello dear friends and colleagues! What's new? I'm excited to be launching my Book Writing Tele-seminars! See more about that here. For the last month, I've been learning and re-learning about diligence, patience and how the learning never ends... >>
I don't always do things in the right order. In fact, I may do them backwards. Full speed ahead, but backwards. But live and learn, eh? So, this is what I've learned. Create your book marketing plan before you launch your e-book. Instead of doing it in that order, I'm creating the plan now, while simultaneously marketing the book, and still brainstorming new ideas.
Like I said, always learning. I'm getting organized. Ideas keep coming, and there are a multitude of resources at my fingertips and on my shelves, and in my good networking and marketing buddies. Lastly, I'm enjoying myself as I learn. What more could we want on the journey of life!
How are you enjoying the of your life? What are your favorite games to play in this ?
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>> >>> Hello dear friends and colleagues! A New Moon and a New cycle begins. What am I beginning that is new? Well, I'm so glad you asked! I'm excited to be launching my first e-book! A thank you to all who've supported me during this creative process... >>
New and wondrous events are afoot in the creative laboratories of . Yes, I'm thinking bigger than just bethbarany.com and have more information products in the cooker, each at various stages of production. In fact, I am pleased to announce my first information product, my writing guide, Overcome Writer's Block: 10 Writing Sparks to Ignite Your Creativity, available here.
Lots of work went into this writing guide behind the scenes: writing the articles, compiling and editing them, then creating the sales and marketing end of things, not to mention the technical backend work that I like to tinker in. I didn't experience writer's block with this project per se, but more like a fear of showing my words to the world. For every artist there comes a time when we have the option to enter the bigger pool and show our work to a larger audience. That is what I had to work through. And that is scary, definitely. As I've struggled through the layers of resistance and frustration, the more excited I became. So, here I am, announcing. And wow, what an endeavor it has been -- I love !
Thanks to all the generous folks who supported, pushed and nudged me through the process. Many read my writing guide and offered the wonderful, heart-felt testimonials that are on my site. Thanks! Thanks also to Suzanne Storar, Ezra Barany, and Sherry Ma Belle Arrieta-Russ for contributing bonus items. And thank you to my wonderful support team: Heather Smith, who designed my fabulous cover; Peter J. Ferguson, great friend and website support, and to my husband Ezra Barany, for being one of my first e-book students to launch his own e-book and for implementing all my great advice even before I had, and for his everlasting cheerleading and keen editorial comments. Also on my editorial support team, Thank you for Suzanne Storar's great editorial eye, and to Willow Polson, my copy editor, and fun artist and writer. To all the others who supported my journey to completion on the creative and business ends, thank you!
What are your ? What can you say "" for, and to whom can you say "Thank you" for their ?
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>> >>> Happy New Year! Hello dear friends and colleagues! A New Moon and a New cycle begins. What am I beginning that is new? Well, I'm so glad you asked! >>
Welcome. Welcome into the new year! I'm emerging from my cave of contemplation some days of the week to meet and greet and renew ties with clients, friends, and business partners. Some days. Other days I'm going deep into my creative well to write. So satisfying. I write with passion, purpose and joy.
With what do you write? How are you into the New year? What are you bringing into the open, if even for a little peek at the world?
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>> >>> Hello dear friends and colleagues! A New Moon and a New cycle begins. What am I beginning that is new? Well, I'm so glad you asked! >>
Winter Solstice soon. I've prepared by gathering girlfriends to set our intentions for the Winter Solstice and support each other in our beginnings and endings. I'm telling all my clients I'm going on vacation soon on the Solstice. I'll being going dark, silent, into my writing, into my dreamtime, into lots of movie watching, novel reading, doing nothing, walking, whatever I want, including meandering.
How will you the darkest time of the year?
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>> >>> Hello dear friends and colleagues! A New Moon and a New cycle begins. What am I beginning that is new? Well, I'm so glad you asked! >>
This time of year - the colder air, shorter days, smell of winter in the air - for me, time speeds up and slows down simultaneously. As I unwind and focus on what's truly important to me, all I can do is show up to the creative process, and show up again. I feel like I'm snuggling up in my winter cave, looking forward to spiraling inward to the darkest, shortest day of the year, Winter Solstice.
To what are you inward?
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>> >>> Hello dear friends and colleagues! A New Moon and a New cycle begins. What am I beginning that is new? Well, I'm so glad you asked! >>
That which is old is new. This is what I've discovered over the last month. I'm talking about deepening my creative focus into what I do best -- writing. And if that is the same as it was yesterday, then in French, tant pis, too bad. If I sound a little miffed, I am. Not at anyone, but at myself who thinks I must be new and shiny every month, come up with something new to dazzle the masses. In fact, I have. A new class, but that's not the point. The point is I am circling deeper and ever closer to that which I already am. As Fall enters in full force, and winter nears, I find myself going into the cave to face the truth: I am a writer that teaches and coaches. It is through my own experience of writing and book creation that I am of service to others. Plain and simple. The old news that is the real news.
How are you inward for the winter? How is the old really the new? What are you into?
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>> >>> Hello dear friends and colleagues! A New Moon and a New cycle begins. What am I beginning that is new? Well, I'm so glad you asked! >>
I've realized that I am strong in some areas of my life, and not as strong in other areas. But the cool thing is I can transfer my skills from story creation to business building. Story creation is about listening deeply to the dream that wants to manifest, and showing up regularly to write--laying the story from the ground up, laying a spine and then fleshing it out. Yes, I'm playing with a few metaphors here. I now realize that I can apply the same tools to business building, including .
In what area of your life do you feel and ? What unique tools do you wield? Now, how can you apply those tools, that unique understanding, to an area you want to grow in?
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>> >>> Hello dear friends and colleagues! A New Moon and a New cycle begins. What am I beginning that is new? Well, I'm so glad you asked! >>
A coming out, an announcement, a celebration! I am a Transformative Book Coach. I help you transform your relationship to your book project, and am more than a service provider.
I am a spark, an instigator, a catalyst for your transformation, transforming your relationship to your writing, your art, your book project, your body of articles, you writing process.
And so as I dance into the open as a Transformative Book Coach, things around the site will change. Thank you to those who have taken the journey with me thus far, and to all those who will continue as the adventure unfolds.
Creative adventure abounds. What are you embarking on and are you prepared!?
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>> >> Hello dear friends and colleagues! A New Moon and a New cycle begins. What am I beginning that is new? Well, I'm so glad you asked! >>
In the height of summer, I've been in deep planning mode. I have cooking several projects: a training program for writing coaches, a book creation program for busy business professionals, and a nonfiction book of my very own.
Yes! I have been busy. Yet, I still make time for triathlon training. This last weekend I ran in the Bay to Barkers, with my canine friends. What fun!
What have you begun that is ? What projects do you have in the ? Let them cook in the warmth of the summer.
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>> >> Hello dear friends and colleagues! A message well-received is always a joy. On Beth's article, The Creative Process posted on EzineArticles.com, Dennis Green writes: "Good article on the specific patterns of book-writing ... >>
writes: "Good article on the specific patterns of book-writing creativity recognized by and for this author and writing coach (I was impressed enough to look up her website). She wisely provides a broad framework for the new writer to fill in their own process as it evolves.
Using the experienced author's observations as a scaffolding, the new writer is invited to apply part or discard the advice in favor of his/her personal growth process. The overall effect is sincere encouragement rather than the teaching of particular techniques. Well done."
He was commenting on my article, The Creative Process, posted on EzineArticles.com.
>> Hello dear friends and colleagues! Welcome to a world of possibilities, where dreams become reality because of four main ingredients. >>
1. Passion
2. Perseverance
3. Plan
4. Self-Knowledge and Understanding
I could have added "Awareness" to this header, but then it would have been too long! Awareness is really what I'm talking about here. And awareness begins with the breath. All I need to do to check in with myself is take a deep breath and notice what I'm thinking and feeling. Most importantly, I listen. As a friend of mine said, I listen to the space between. To me this means, the silence, the deep reason why, the deep desire behind the fear or anxiety.
What do you hear when you really listen to the space between in your life?
What can you bring to the moment, to your true desires, if you could have the life you really wanted?
Allow that life to be .
A New Journey Unfolds
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>> Hello dear friends and colleagues! Welcome to a world of possibilities, where dreams become reality because of four main ingredients. >>
1. Passion
2. Perseverance
3. Plan
4. Self-Knowledge and Understanding
Planning! Wow. A challenging topic for the self-employed and business owner that I've become; there is no built-in structure except the one I create for myself. And the first thing I'm clear on is my writing time. I plan it in to my day. For the last two weeks, I have been working on my novel first thing in the morning. Well, ok, after breakfast.
I plan to get the first draft of this novel written by the beginning of July. This can only happen because I give daily attention to it, even if it is for 20 minutes. Whew!
How can you plan your day to give daily attention to your art?
for success.
it then act!
Self-Knowledge and Understanding
Perserverance
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>> Hello dear friends and colleagues! Welcome to a world of possibilities, where dreams become reality because of four main ingredients. >>
1. Passion
2. Perseverance
3. Plan
4. Self-Knowledge and Understanding
I learned a very direct lesson in perservance when I did my triathlon last Sunday. Imagine you're swimming in the Sacramento River (ok, not everyone will like this picture, just bear with me), and you're wearing a wetsuit -- good -- and everyone is stretched out in front of you -- good. You're out of the way of the kicking and arms flapping and other swimmers running into you.
Suddenly you look up to sight, and there are NO swimmers around you. And the big round orange buoy looks VERY far away, and how in the world are you going to swim the rest of the way around that buoy, and back to the boat ramp, a good half a mile away?
One arm stroke in front of the other. Paddle. Breathe. Kick. And repeat. And, oh yeah, don't panic, because, guess what? You can do this! And !
What examples do you have in your life where you perservered and completed a very difficult task?
Because you are here to tell the story of how you perservered and triumphed!
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>> Hello dear friends and colleagues! Welcome to a world of possibilities, where dreams become reality because of four main ingredients. >>
1. Passion
2. Perseverance
3. Plan
4. Self-Knowledge and Understanding
I love stories, always have. I love to read fiction, ever since I could read. I love movies and TV too. But not every kind of story. I mostly like stories of adventure, daring, and testing the limits of what is possible.
As child I called them magic stories, so I read fairy tales and folk tales, stories like Jack and the Beanstalk and many of its variants. I also liked mysteries. Now I read fantasy like So You Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane, and science fiction, like Marque and Reprisal by Elizabeth Moon, and enjoy shows like Numbers, Battlestar Gallactica, and Stargate: Atlantis.
What kind of stories have you always liked? Know your passions.
What are you passionate about?
Perseverance
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