“In the company of women, it’s easier for each of us to remember our own truth. We remember that our lives depend on our capacity to drop all facades and pretenses. We remember the bliss of just accepting that we are here to be ourselves. And we remember, together, that the most powerful place for us to be, even if it is sometimes terrifying, is fully in our body, so that we can move with the vulnerability and compassion of a broken-open heart.”

~Excerpt from REVEAL: A Sacred Manual for Getting Spiritually Naked by Meggan Watterson

Since my ladylove Meggan was a little girl, she has been compelled by a singular passion to answer this question: “What does spirituality look like for a woman who hasn’t abandoned her own body?” This uncompromising passion led her to earn two theological degrees, to go on two pilgrimages, and to devote two decades of her life unearthing the Divine Feminine.

Ultimately, by finding the voice of the Divine Feminine she also found her own soul-voice, the one buried beneath veils of fear and self-doubt.

What she has desired most is to share her story in a way that might help other women do the same- to find the voice of unfaltering truth and love inside them. It is that desire that has led Meggan to write the book REVEAL: A Sacred Manual For Getting Spiritually Naked and to create REVEAL: The Event, a day-long urban retreat that is a triumvirate of one part fiery soul-voices, one part ritual, and one part dance party!

On Saturday, May 18^th, 2013, join Meggan, Gabrielle Bernstein, Alisa Vitti, Latham Thomas, Dawn Copeland, Joanna Lindenbaum, Jamia Wilson, Donna Freitas, Morley, Rha Goddess, Rochielle Schieck and more as we share our passion for encouraging women to hear and heed the audacity of the soul.

REVEAL: The Event

Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan

121^st Street & Broadway in NYC

10am – 6pm EST

The most illuminated goal of REVEAL is to come together- to lift & light each other up. REVEAL is a communal affair, for us each to expand our soul.

Join us to connect to the wisdom within you, claim your bodies as sacred, and become soulful agents of positive change in the world. For more information about REVEAL The Event- http://megganwatterson.com/reveal-the-event/

Enter Discount Code REVEAL2013 to receive $75 off!!!

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This day will light you up, mind, body, and soul. Speaking at the last Reveal conference in 2011 stands as one of the most transformational experiences of my life. My book was born at that event, as well as friendships and insights that will be with me forever.

Join us. Your soul with thank you.

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I think we can all agree that we want to get the biggest bang for our buck when we’re working on our businesses–when we’re working on anything, for that matter.

If you have even a drop of Puritan blood in you, you’ll probably agree that there is something about productivity that feels divine. And I do believe it is. Our industriousness can absolutely be an expression of God, of our soul, and certainly, of our purpose.

The Value of Making Stuff

“Making stuff” and “making stuff happen” are both high on my priority list. I used to beat myself up for being so obsessed with productivity. Now, I embrace my desire to fill the nooks and crannies of my days with creation because it’s part of my contribution to the world.

But there’s a difference between the doing that’s just doing stuff and the doing that creates results. There are certain times when just doing stuff is incredibly valuable, like showing up on your mat for your yoga practice, taking a walk in nature, playing with your kids, or sitting still and breathing.

(Let’s be honest, though: Do we ever really do anything without desiring some kind of outcome, even if it’s simply peace of mind? I don’t believe we do. And I don’t think that makes us any less spiritual. It’s called being human.)

As someone who enjoys the actual experience of being in action, I have wasted a lot of time doing things that haven’t produced results. I’ve gotten caught up in the excitement of planning events that don’t add to my bottom line, of networking with people who aren’t really great customers or potential business partners, and carrying out marketing plans that don’t put money in the bank.

Can you relate?

The Rule That Changed Everything

I first read Tim Ferris’s book The 4-Hour Work-Week with my friend Raina. We were fresh out of college and the idea of working smarter, not harder, and deliberately designing our lives was salve to our idealistic souls.

Tim’s book was the first place I read about the 80/20 rule in business. Listen up for this one because it is a GAME CHANGER!

The 80/20 rule says that 80% of our actions in business bring in 20% of our results and that, more importantly:

20% of our actions bring in 80% of our results!!!

Following this brilliantly refreshing and freeing paradigm, then:

• 20% of your customers/clients bring in 80% of your revenue
• 20% of your marketing efforts bring in 80% of the new business you attract
• 20% of your daily activities produce 80% of your success (if you measure it in dollars, new customers, new accounts, business growth, and other quantifiable metrics)

Woah, Nelly! This one really excites me because here’s what it really means for you and me:

If we identify the 20% of our activities that are producing 80% of our results, we can free up time, energy, and resources to be hundreds of times more effective.

Are you loving this concept? If so, listen to the replay of the free webinar I did on Tuesday night that over 1,000 people registered for: The Anatomy of Making Money Online: 7 Simple, Doable Strategies for Making a Profit and a Difference. The 80/20 rule is one of these 7 strategies, and we dove deeper into it in the webinar. Listen to the playback now–it’s only available until Monday, March 4th at 3pm EST: Click here for the replay.

Doing Something with This Information

Just being aware of the 80/20 rule won’t make a lick of difference in your business. It’s what you DO with it that counts.

So here are 6 simple steps for you to take to implement this in your business (and life in general) immediately:

1. Start tracking your time.

Set a reminder to go off automatically every hour using your phone alarm. When it goes off, write down what you were doing for the last hour. Do this for a week to get a good snapshot of how you’re spending your time.

2. Add it up.

At the end of the week, go back and look at how you spent your time. Add up the hours spent doing your various activities: writing copy, spending time on the phone with clients, doing presentations, meeting girlfriends for coffee, mindlessly surfing the internet, etc. No judgement here–this is just information.

3. Look at your income from the past month and ask yourself:

• What were the sources of my income? (e.g,. group coaching, individual programs, online product sales, speaking fees, consulting income, etc.)
• What percentage of my total income came from each source?

4.  Look at new business that came in over the past month and ask yourself:

• Where did this new business come from? If it was from your website, use Google Analytics to figure out where the traffic is coming from. This is a free tool that will rock your world.
• How did these new clients/customers find me?
• What activities did I do in order for these new clients/customers to find me? (e.g., in-person networking, joint venture partnerships, guest blogging, speaking, referrals, events, etc.)

5. Quick analysis.

Analyze your income from step 3 combined with your new business from step 4. Without needing to create complicated financial models or even open Excel, you should be able to get a pretty good feel for where the 80% of revenue is coming from and which 20% of your activities created it. It probably won’t be the exact ratio, but you’ll find it’s in the ballpark of 80/20.

6. Putting it all together.

Lastly, look at your time tracking from step 1 and ask yourself:

• How can I more effectively align my actions with the activities that have proven to bring in 80% of my revenue/results/new business?
• What activities will I stop doing because they are not producing results? (This step alone is incredibly freeing.)

Pretty cool, eh?

If we spend our time wisely, we have more of this precious asset to spend on the things that make our hearts go pitter-patter and our souls sing.

This concept is not meant to make you into a human sphincter around your business and your time. No, my dear. Not at all.

Effectively implementing the 80/20 rule gives you the freedom to be more of you more of the time. (Click to Tweet.)

Don’t forget to check out the free webinar replay to dive deeper into this and 6 other simple, doable strategies to help you make a profit and a difference. There’s a $200 present in there for you that’s only good until 12pm EST today, Thursday, February 28th. The webinar will be up until Monday, March 4th at 3pm EST.

Click here for the webinar replay.

And please leave a comment to let me know:

• What was your biggest takeaway from this post?
• What actions are you going to start doing more of to get more bang for your buck?
• What actions are you going to start doing less of or eliminate altogether because you’ve realized they don’t produce results?

Confession: I’ve been beating myself up about it for weeks.

While traveling in Costa Rica with my man and our friends Liz and Dave I found myself waking up in the wee hours worrying about money. I felt my anxiety sucking me away from the tropical adventures at hand. It didn’t feel good.

Recently I was being interviewed about my philosophies about nutrition and health, and I heard this come out of my mouth:

My number one piece of advice to women is to put down the flail when it comes to food and exercise.

As soon as I uttered those words, I knew that they apply to EVERYTHING, not just food and exercise. And yet beating ourselves up is like a national past time.

If you’re an achievement-driven girl like me (and so many women I know) who tends toward self-flagellation when things aren’t going as she’d like, I have a remedy.

1. Remind that little inner drill sergeant of yours that beating yourself up is a waste of time. 

I like being productive nearly as much as I like feeling loved. Seriously. So when I realize that I’m being super hard on myself, especially about something I’ve already done that I can’t do anything about anymore, I remind myself of one simple thing:

There’s nothing productive about beating yourself up. It’s wasted time. (Tweet it.)

Instead, I redirect as quickly as possible to actions that move me closer to the way I’d like things to be or feel. I look for the lesson in the mistake and see where I can implement it in the HERE and NOW. The energy I save when I put down the flail can be used toward producing things that help the world. And that’s where I’d like to be focusing most of the time. Wouldn’t you?

2. Surrender Dorothy.

Two days ago, while in one of my a panty-twisted money tizzys, I decided I needed a little Goddess love. So I pulled out my favorite Doreen Virtue Goddess Guidance Cards. (She also has an app for the iPhone where you can pick Goddesses on the go. Oh my Goddess it’s amazing!)

I thought about my financial angst. I thought about how much of a loser I feel like that I don’t always make perfect money decisions. I thought about what a fraud I feel like when I make mistakes in an area that I teach about. (News flash that likely won’t shock you: I’m not perfect.)

I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and pulled two cards out of the deck. I got:

Mother Mary: Expect a miracle and Kuan Yin: Compassion.

Long. Deep. Loving. Breath.

“Put down the flail,” these Goddesses said together.

I immediately remembered how much better I am with my money than I was ten years ago. I reminded myself that I’m not the only person on the planet who’s not perfect. I assured myself that everything was going to be okay.

I spoke to myself as Mother Mary and Kuan Yin would. It felt damn good.

3. Tap it out. Yep, tap it right out.

One of the most immediate ways I’ve found to feel better is the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), also known as tapping. It’s a brilliant, free, quick method that involves tapping on a series of points on your body to feel better. It works every time I try it.

My friends Jess and Nick Ortner, the dynamic brother/sister duo, have a free Tapping World Summit going on that starts on Monday. They’re bringing together some of the world’s leading experts in emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being to teach you how to release pain and suffering in your life. For free. Cheryl Richardson, Kris Carr, Dr. Mark Hyman, Jack Canfield, and Bob Proctor are all going to be a part of it, to name a few.

Monday’s free sessions are on Tapping and Finances: How to Create an Abundant and Fulfilling Financial Future Through Tapping and Ending the Self-Sabotaging Behaviors That Block Success. I’ll be tuning in for sure.

To join the free Tapping World Summit, click HERE. 

Here’s the thing, no matter how far along our path we get, we’re still going to make mistakes. I teach financial well-being and yet before the holidays I made some spending decisions I wish I hadn’t that made my money life a little uncomfortable for a few months. Weight-loss coaches sometimes binge. Life coaches’ lives sometimes get messy. Spiritual teachers sometimes have complete and total meltdowns.

We’re all human. We all make mistakes. We’re all going to keep making mistakes.

So please, for the love of God and Goddess, and for the love of YOU:

Put down the flail.

Save your energy for feeling good and helping other people feel good. You can’t go wrong with that as your compass.

P.S. If you want to learn how to feel good more often, quickly, and easily, sign up for The World Tapping Summit. It’s free. I’ll see you there.

It’s felt like I’m on a speeding train hurtling towards the end of 2012 and not only am I not in control of it, no one is! Ever felt that way?

It’s moments like this when I remember that the only one in charge of me and my life is me. That’s it. Plain and simple. And as much as I may think that following someone else’s marketing strategies, buying the perfect outfit, or losing 5 pounds are going to suddenly fix everything, this is simply never the case. I find myself thinking that the best way to get what I want is to do more, be more, and produce more. I get my panties all bunched up in the masculine mentality that doingness is Godliness and then I forget who I truly am and what life is all about.

In moments when you’re stressed to the max, when there’s so much heartbreak in the world that you find it hard to breathe (like I have felt since the events at Sandy Brook Elementary last week), or when you find yourself paralyzed by fear, the only sane choice is to go in. And stay there for a bit.

When I forget the direction I’m supposed to turn, I’m so grateful that my amazing community of women is there to remind me.

This week I’m really excited about being on Girl’s Night In, this Tuesday, December 18. I’ll be interviewed by my friend Sara Avant Stover and we’re all going to go in together. Trust me, these last few weeks have been hectic. I need this right now just as much as you do :)

Sara is the author of the bestselling “Way of the Happy Woman”. I know how good the book is because I happen to have written the preface!

Sara’s book shows you how you can connect yourself back to your innate happiness and empowerment through a uniquely feminine path and down-to-earth approach to life. In Girls’ Night In, together we’ll take this a step further by talking about “where the rubber meets the road”, or how to use your femininity to gain wealth, do business, and uncover your deepest passion and gifts.

You can register to give yourself the free gift of Girl’s Night In with Sara and me HERE.

Sara and I will take a deep dive into how you can generate more wealth and freedom in 2013—in every way—as women.

Here are some of the things we’ll be covering:

* What loving yourself has to do with earning more money.
* How to bring your femininity into your work to do business with pleasure instead of dread.
* Baby steps to create passive income so you can focus on what you really love.
* Simple ways to convert a passion into a business.
* How to use personal growth as fuel for business and financial growth.

I’m really excited to talk with Sara, and for all of us to put our heads and hearts together for a more pleasurable and profitable 2013!

Join us on Tuesday night for Girls Night In. Register HERE.