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Personal and Progressional

There’s lots of information out there today about what, why and how important it is to have a vibrant personal and professional brand?

But what does that really mean?

Well, Lets start here… I’ve changed the title of what I do from ‘personal and professional branding’ to ‘personal and progressional branding’. Because, I believe to be successful in life, we need to know how we can add value in the world and we need to be creative and progressive. It’s been my experiences that people who want to live a larger story place more value on being a “Creative Progressive” rather than a “Qualified Professional”.

So, as a dedicated Entrepreneur, Cultivator, Artist and Change Agent… I’m going to share with you my take, on what really matters when it comes to personal and progressional branding.

Here’s how I see it…

1. Know Yourself

Truth is you first need to know yourself and what your gifts are, which requires identifying your archetypical patterning. Because it’s through the process of recognizing your archetypes and values that you learn who you are, which then leads to what you have to offer.

2. Trust Yourself

The next step is clarifying your shadow attributes and in doing so, you begin to trust yourself more, by highlighting some of these attributes you start to see where you’ve been operating out of alignment. In a nutshell, you get to see in your life what does work and what doesn’t work, which gives you the clarity and courage to correct and transform persistent and unproductive behaviours. This new practice accelerates your trust in yourself and builds lasting confidence around the benefits of your new awareness and actions.

3. Discover Your Purpose

Get specific about what, why, who and how you are going to add value and by the way this is everyone’s purpose is in life; to add value. I know that sounds too simple, but its been my experience over and over again that people who have a desire to be on purpose, also want to add value to the world, they go hand in hand. Developing a personal and progressional brand is all about the quality, drive and consistency you apply to defining and refining your personal development, this is what reveals your true value.

Please note – Your Brand has to be “born out of you” not a textbook, webinar or a copy of someone else’s brand. Great brands are built from the inside out and it is your values that form your ever-lasting context in which your content can grow. Truth is any one who has ever made a real difference in the world has done exactly this; they had to find out what their true value was and then use it to create change and add value to other people’s lives.

4. Live A Larger Story

Making the decision to live a larger story requires that you have dreams, desires and a healthy dose of direction. It also requires that you step up and say yes to the call. Once you’ve established where you can add value in the world and why you are the best person for that role, the rest follows naturally. Now I’m not saying it’s always smooth sailing or you won’t come face to face with a few emotional challenges. Because you will – that’s the nature of our human experience and we all know that a really good story requires plenty of colour, emotion and texture to make it truly interesting.

So, if you’re keen to develop your brand and instinctively know there’s a larger story just wanting to burst forth from the core of your being, check out what Living Attributes and Reel Deal Productions has on offer.

I would love to assist you in uncovering your larger story.

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Creating A Sacred Garden

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As it is the month of the HEALER in the Living Attributes Typology, I thought it fitting to share some information on how you can work with the healing forces that are ready willing and available in your garden. And how gardening can also have a spiritual effect on your own nature.

Gardening, as a spiritual discipline, forces us to live wholly in the present, to acknowledge each moment’s special beauty and its brevity. When we observe a bee alight upon a perfectly formed sunflower, we can choose to ignore it and keep weeding or pause to attend to its passing glory. There is a part of each gardener pushing forward, calling us to plan, to labor, to produce. But there is another part that stops planning, laboring, producing—stops and holds still within an endless moment. If part of each gardener seeks to alter the landscape, another part simply loves this sensuous world while acknowledging its mortality.

Spiritual gardeners do not seek to freeze this world into static perfection. Rather, they recognize where true gold is found. The Greeks called the goddess Aphrodite “the golden one” because of the way in which love transforms the beloved with radiant beauty. A similar radiance illuminates the garden when it is tended with love and deep care.

Just as love among people is based on intimate knowledge, so too for the gardener. While it is easy to be infatuated with the colors and fragrances of a plant whose name you do not know, real relationship is built upon knowledge: of a plant’s preferred conditions for growth, its season of bloom, its history and lore. So the final part of magical gardening is understanding the plants that compose the garden as well as the design principles that join them into a complementary whole.

The Marigold for instance: it is a sun-loving annual of the genus Tagetes, named for the god Tages, who taught the Etruscans how to find gold through divining. It has a long history of connection with the metal sharing its flower’s hue; its common name derives from an early Christian practice of offering it in place of coins at Marian altars, hence “Mary’s gold.” Valued for its healing properties, marigold has been used in many ways: as a garnish on broth to strengthen the heart, as an ointment for toothache, as a wart remover when mixed with wine. A favorite companion plant for many vegetables, it is thought to repel the parasitic worms called nematodes; its pungency is also said to repel four-legged pests like rabbits from devouring the lettuce. Planting marigolds, the spiritual gardener is reminded of their “Story of Glory” and where we can grow true prosperity in our own life.

Psychic Enthusiasm – Petunia

Encourage Strength  – Cocks Combs

Marigolds, Petunias and Cocks Combs are what I planted in my Sacred Garden this summer – I have loved tending to them and watching them grow.

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Creativity and Laughter

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Sometimes we think being creative requires us to be disciplined and methodical, but studies have shown that being more childlike with our approach to being creative is how we get our best results. It is said that being relaxed and adopting a playful nature is what works best, its all about staying in “the realm of the imagination”

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. Steve Jobs

Creativity itself doesn’t care at all about results – the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless. Elizabeth Gilbert

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity. Maya Angelou

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Our August Temple de Lumiere is the month of the Divine Child archetype and also when we celebrate our creativity by having an Adorning Ceremony – here are a few very playful and creative moments. 

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