A New Year is almost here …

Do you desire to open up to a year that’s beyond your wildest dreams?

I know I do!

What’s the point of being okay with mediocrity, playing small or staying stuck?

You have lives to touch with that gorgeous message of yours.

You have work to do.

People to help.

Adventures to begin.

Love to spread.

A business to grow and evolve.

Get excited, not overwhelmed!

I know it can feel like your list of deadlines and deliverables is never-ending, but when you bring a conscious energy into how you end this year and welcome in the next, you’re golden.

Here’s a list of my top tips + resources for you to co-create the absolute best year EVER.

1. Guided Visualization

I’ve been using guided visualization for years to help me SEE where my spirit is calling me to go next. It’s this tool that allowed me to see the dream house and community I live in now years before I manifested it. This tool also gives me clarity around the structure of my business and guides me to let go of things I’ve outgrown to make space for what I truly desire.

If you are open to making sacred shifts for your highest good, you’ll LOVE guided visualization.

Want to get your hands on a guided visualization audio I created? Click here to grab a free copy now.

2. Leonie Dawson’s Create Your Shining Year Planners + Workbooks

I’ve had the good fortune of knowing Leonie Dawson for the past few years AND using her bestselling workbooks to visualize and map out my year for my business and life.

Once you visualize where your soul is calling you to go, you’ve got to create an action plan, baby, and work it every single day.

This is how successful people create their success.

3. Declutter

It’s time to LET GO of STUFF that’s holding you back and cluttering your world. Go through your closets, drawers, office, cabinets, files (physical and digital). Go through each room of your house (literal and figurative) and PURGE.

When you hold onto stuff that doesn’t serve you anymore, you block fresh experiences from entering.

A great book for walking you through this process is “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” by Marie Kondo.

I read the book this summer and cleaned house! Felt so much lighter. 2015 has been the most successful year of my business. It’s the year I’ve experienced a spiritual awakening.

Coincidence? I think not.

Declutter. Let go.

You’ll be so happy you did!

4. Eliminate Tolerations + Bullshit

“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.” – Tony Blair

“Tolerations and Bullshit” are:

• Things that you’re simply “putting up with”
• Things that bug you and get on your nerves (even if you think there is absolutely nothing you can do about it)
• Subtle energy drains and time suckers
• Relatively minor inconveniences, like the blown light bulb in your bedroom or a cluttered desk or a car that’s always breaking down or a client who is always late or a personality conflict with a coworker or saying yes to things that you simply do not want to do
• Lame! The time and energy you spend tolerating these things builds up, slowly draining you and limiting your effectiveness and overall happiness

I want you to understand that Tolerations and Bullshit are essentially opportunities for you to rise up, take a stand and say,

• “You know what? I deserve better.”
• “My time is valuable.”
• “My space matters to me, and I will not tolerate messiness, and things that I don’t love, and things that I don’t think are beautiful.”
• “I won’t tolerate people disrespecting my time.”
• “I’m not okay with clients not paying me what I’m worth or not paying me on time.”
• “I’m not tolerating spending time with people who don’t inspire me.”

You have got to get gutsy here. You got to get really, really courageous and stand up for yourself and your dream and your life and your mission-driven work. It is the only way to find and live your soul’s calling.

You can’t get complacent even though much of the world is. You will need to go against the grain.

There are so many people who are perfectly okay with just turning a blind eye and saying, “Oh, that’s just the way that it always is. I don’t deserve any better. This is the best it’s going to get even though it’s not that great. Actually, it sucks.”

I’ve got news for you: that’s going to get you nowhere fast. That is a bunch of bullshit, and you’re better than that. I feel with every fiber of my being that you’re better than that.

I dedicate an ENTIRE chapter in my book Get Gutsy on eliminating Tolerations + Bullshit. If you want to truly dive into this, read my book. It will shift you into action and create a 2016 that’s beyond your wildest dreams. Totally!

5. Rituals

“There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.” – Deborah Norville

Rituals are beautiful practices that allow you to tap into what is sacred in this world.

There is so much that is sacred, but these gems are often overlooked in our overscheduled, busy, competitive society.

Know this: the true riches lie in sacred simplicity.

All you have to do is look around, and you will see what is sacred.

Rituals are sacred and powerful, and I invite you now to bring more of them into your world.

Rituals are your opportunities to tap into this Divine energy and this Divine spirit that is all around you. That is the power of a ritual, and there are reasons why rituals have been passed through thousands and thousands of years. Religious and spiritual groups have a number of rituals that they use to allow their members to connect to a Higher Power / Spirit / Source / the Universe / God.

Whatever rituals call out to you, use them. Adopt them for yourself. Don’t neglect the rituals. The rituals are what bring texture and beauty and substance and depth to the everyday seemingly mundane tasks of life.

Maybe it’s ringing a bell every morning to clear out the energy in your body and physical space.

Or it could be just taking a deep breath and filling up all of your lung capacity, then exhaling and touching your heart with your hands.

These simple, sacred rituals can remind you of just how amazing you are, how spectacular you are, what a work of art you are, and that seriously, seriously, seriously, you can be, do, and have anything in this lifetime, anything.

I’d love for you to join me in a New Year ritual to BURN away what you’ve outgrown. You game?

Here’s how it works.

1. Write down what you’re done with, like:
   • Not speaking your mind
   • Carrying extra weight
   • Carrying debt
   • Having little to no support
   • Putting unhealthy things in your body
   • Not exercising enough
   • Underearning in your business
   • Not forgiving yourself
   • Being a doormat
   • Putting your needs last
   • Perfectionism
   • Not having launched your course
2. Take some deep breaths as you LET GO of the past. Thank this situation for what it has taught you and commit to moving on with grace and guts.
3. Toss this piece of paper into the fire. If you’re unable to create a real fire in your space, build a symbolic fire with a circle of stones. Rip up the paper and toss the shreds into the center.
4. Bring your arms up to sky in a V shape and exclaim: “I release myself from the past. I forgive myself. I am love. I am loved. I am more than enough.”
5. Feel free to share a photo and/or a written post of this ritual on social media. It can feel truly redemptive to publicly declare your freedom. I’d love to celebrate you in our Get Gutsy Galaxy Facebook group for spiritual business leaders (join us for free here). You can post your celebration and know that you’ll have a crew of supporters sending you love from around the globe.

6. Listen to Podcasts

If you aren’t listening to podcasts, you are making your life A LOT harder than it needs to be. Podcasts have CHANGED my life + business this year.

Big shout-out to some of my faves:

Glambition Radio with Ali Brown

Entrepreneur on Fire with John Lee Dumas

School of Greatness with Lewis Howes

The Robcast with Rob Bell

Joel Osteen’s Podcast

Each of these shows have inspired my new podcast Get Gutsy. Have you listened to it yet? Come on in, girl.

A cutting-edge show blending business + spirituality, Get Gutsy serves up a potent blend of stories, lessons, and actionable tips to help you make a massive impact in the world through your soul’s work and gutsy life. No more going it alone. No more excuses. The world needs more brave women saying YES to leadership. Join me each week for interviews and messages that will shift you into inspired action. Let’s GET GUTSY now.

Never miss an episode by subscribing to the podcast through one of the links below.

Alright, babe!

You are SET to rocket into 2016.

I’m so excited to see what you conceive, birth + nurture in the coming year. No doubt, you’ll make a HUGE impact simply by being the best version of yourself.

Sending you so much LOVE, LIGHT and FAITH as you GET GUTSY.