Recommended Stocking Stuffers

If you're cutting Santa some slack this year and shopping for your own holiday treats, here are a few things I suspect you'll enjoy:

Zoe Routh picked the brains of ten of the best LOA coaches and made the total package available for less than $100. This is one of my favorite LOA products I've ever seen, and not just because I'm in it. Zoe's the real deal. She delivers profoundly, and also packs in oodles of delicious extras that will get your new year off to a nice start.

Check it out for yourself and note that the price goes up next Thursday. So if you're picking it up, do so before December 20th!

If you haven't already caught on to Jen Blackert's Fearless Millionaire teleseries, there are still two free days to take advantage of. She let me check out her new Seven Dragons book and I have to say, it reminded me why I am so drawn to this girl. She knows her stuff, and compiled a unique, insightful fun-to-read personal development book. Good job, Jen!

Other books I enjoyed this past year are:

The Intention Experiment for amping up left-brainers' belief about LOA.

How We Choose to Be Happy for nine steps to a good time.

4 Hour Work Week for blasting through old patterns of "business as usual."

Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer - I'm so in love with Gregg!

Emotional Options - Mandy's on to something here. It's short, sweet & powerful.

The Alchemist - what can I say? I just discovered it!

Eat, Pray, Love - thank you, Iyabo, for making me read this!

Notes from the Universe - Mike is my all time hero. My wish is that everyone has a copy of this for managing funky days.

For you business owners and coaches, I highly recommend Michael's Book Yourself Solid, Milana's Coaching Millions and of course, the business owner's bible for getting clients: Attracting Perfect Customers. (That and a pray rain journal is how I built a full coaching practice in three months.)

And if you just need a cheap laugh right now, check out 2 Hot Girls in the Shower on the Secret. Thanks, David. Who else could have sent me this?

Looking for good music? It doesn't get much more rewarding than Mark Romero's instrumental guitar. It's more than just good music. It is literally (scientifically proven, and I can vouch for it based on personal experience) vibe-raising. Mark's got a gift, no doubt about it.

Maybe custom made jewelry that serves as an LOA reminder is up your alley this season. The bracelet Barb made for me that reminds me to "Relax & Enjoy" is virtually the only jewelry I regularly wear. Still loving it, Barb!

What am I asking for this Christmas? Donations. I asked family and friends to put their money to work (toward a cause they deem worthy) in better ways than just buying more stuff, even if it is stuff for me. I like buying my own stuff, anyway - and ever since I watched Earthlings (purposely I'm not giving you the link to watch it online), I'm thinking if we invest where our passion is with the end result we want in mind, surely that's a step in the right direction.

If anyone has other ideas, I am open to hearing them! Namaste, friends.

PS - this just in: http://www.thenowwatch.com/ Pretty cool gift idea, especially in light of Eckhart's dog interview I posted earlier today!

Outsourcing Worry

This is the most brilliant idea I've come across in a while! When Amy Grant raved about Tim Ferris' "4 Hour Work Week," I decided to check it out. (Once again, Amy did not disappoint!)

One of my favorite stories from this book about how to live more and work less is from AJ Jacobs, relating his experience with an international Virtual Assistant. AJ finds his overseas assistant to be exceedingly effective and quickly has fun outsourcing projects to her. First it's simple research for articles he's writing, then it's sending emails to discourage annoying solicitors, then tracking down gifts for his son, and eventually he asks her to intervene on a marital dispute.

That turns out so well that he attempts to delegate his therapy, which his shrink doesn't go for, BUT he does succeed in turning over his "worry" to his lovely assistant. He tells her he's been tearing his hear out over a business deal that's taking too long to close, and asks if she's interested in tearing her hair out in his stead. She promises, "I will worry about this every day. Do not worry."

Brilliant delegation!! AJ reports that every time he started to ruminate over the deal, he'd remind himself that his VA was already on the case, and he'd relax.

I just read this story last night and have already related it to three clients who wanted help in handling worry and anxiety. The laughter this story inspires is well worth the investment of time in reading it! (Not to mention the alignment this idea creates with my favorite law of attraction theme: "Easy"!)

But honestly, this book is packed full of revolutionary ideas about what life can be, and how to design the luxury lifestyle many want but aren't moving toward. I'm already a huge fan of Tim's "low information diet" and ending time management. His push to be effective instead of efficient, to challenge the status quo, end multi-tasking, use the 80/20 rule to gain freedom from futility - chapter after chapter is filled with new perspectives on creating lives we love.

Tim recommends changing the age-old question "What do I want" to "What would excite me?" in order to get better answers (and explains why). He also says most people choose unhappiness over uncertainty, which was certainly my obstacle for many years.

I've practically made it mandatory reading for every one of my clients, and would encourage you to give it a "look see" as well.

And if you're reading something that's rocking your world, please post it as a comment and share the wealth! Thanks, everyone. : )