Say Goodbye to the Chaos & Craziness of 2012, Bring in the New Rich, Fun, Happy 2013!

Posted on by December 18, 2012

How about we start this next year with a FREEbie teleclass:

Clear Out the Old, Make Room for the New!

How about if you could say bye-bye to all your chaotic, crazy 2012 energy!?! You know, the energy that makes you feel crazy, scattered, worried, frustrated, anxious or unhappy?

You can! We’re doing it today, and you’re invited. We’re not only going tot ap on all the upsetting stuff, but we’re going to tap to continue the good stuff, so you can make more money and have more impact as you make more of a difference in your world.

I’m also going to introduce to you a way you can start to create multiple streams of passive income that you can build up over the next year so you never have to worry about money again.

Join me! WEDNESDAY, from 7 to 8pm NY time (EDT).

We’ll tap on, relieve, and make new choices for:

….. •  what bugs you
….. •  what you wish would end
….. •  what you hate about your life
….. •  what you feel is impossible
….. •  what you hate doing in your biz
….. •  what you don’t have and wish you had

…and more! All the NOTS in your life – we’ll untangle them as much as we can!

And we will also tap on the YESes in your life, so you can get a start on creating a new vision for your future – in your life, business, relationships, time & money.

Why is having a clear vision important? To be simple, without at least knowing where you want to end up, you’ll find yourself in East Otherwhere.

GET A HEAD START RIGHT NOW!

So if you want to feel great about yourself and what you’re going to do during the 12 months of 2013, let’s get a good head start right now!

I invite you to join me in my upcoming FREEbie teleclass:
Clear Out the Old, Make Room for the New!
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 7 to 8 pm NY time.

EFT for Pain

REGISTER HERE:

TELECLASS: NO Audio:
REGISTER HERE.

TELECLASS with Audio Included:
REGISTER HERE.

BONUSES!

All participants get a FREE copy of my ebook, “Using EFT for Pain“!

MORE BONUSES!

Everyone who gets the teleclass and the audio also get my complete course: How to Do Teleclasses! Read more about it HERE – specializes in how to do all the back-end systems set ups, planning, scheduling, etc. Value $179

PLUS…

I’m also going to show you how to create multiple channels of month-after-month income that you can set and forget, and watch the money come rolling in all by itself.

Don’t get me wrong – it’ll involve work! But it will be easy, fast and fun work you’ll love to do.

Make sure you register today!

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It’s Not About the Guns!

Posted on by December 18, 2012

I’m hearing people say, “stop allowing people to have access to guns.” But I wonder….

President Obama ended his speech today with this: “Heal the broken hearted and bind up their wounds.”

Is there any deeper call to action to those of us with such powerful tools as EFT, EMDR, NLP, etc., that are so very effective helping people reclaim emotional and mental stability?

We can help people who were like the victims of this shooting in CT. Of course they need counseling and consoling. But the shooter, too, as well as the people in his family!

IMAGINE WITH ME….

Just imagine that you feel volcanically angry, hurt and enraged at people because you’ve felt so alone, rejected, victimized or shunned by everyone your entire life.

You feel so terrible that life is no longer worth living, and you can’t hold in the powerful rage one more second. You’ve wanted to hurt just any body, because maybe it would get you a little revenge, maybe stop your pain a little.

I’m not saying that YOU would do that, but can you SEE that, if you felt that terrible and wanted to hurt someone, even if you didn’t have guns, you might use whatever is at hand? You might have a string of big, powerful fireworks, or grenades, or a crossbow, or a set of throwing knives.

You’d use whatever you could when you try to get back at the ones who you perceived had hurt you or who had enabled that hurt to happen.

And what’s even worse for you is that after you do the unthinkable deed, you’re going to be reviled even worse than any other time in his entire life! So much for vengeance.

Can you see that it’s not about the guns? That it’s about the lack of mental and emotional stability that caused this to occur?

I can’t say that I know even a sliver of the grand plan of the universe. But I can say that I do believe that if the shooter had had mental and emotional support early on in his life there is probably a good chance that he would never have contemplated perpetrating such a horror.

Our work is before us: I repeat President Obama’s words, “Heal the broken hearted and bind up their wounds.”

So I say to you EFT / energy practitioners: if you continually wonder, “why would anyone hire me? What worth do I have to deliver for people?” Stop that destructive internal dialog nonsense right this second.

Because you know as well as I do that your work is critical for people who suffer from unresolved emotional and mental pressures.

That when you help people using your amazing energy tools, you help transform lives.

You help people climb out from under depression, suicide, hatred, rage. From long-standing physical illness and pain. From unresolved relationship issues.

That and that alone is what today’s shooting was about – unresolved emotional and mental pressure. Not guns.

Please stop self-obsessing with debilitating questions that keep you from functioning and doing your work. Start helping more people.

When people ask you what you do, don’t tell them, “I’m an EFT practitioner.”

  • Tell them you help people erase emotional pain!
  • Tell them you help people get over fear, anger, depression!
  • Tell people you help them find new ways to resolve old problems, get to the next level in business, or stop worrying about money!
  • Tell them you help people get over test anxiety, rent worries, fear of getting onstage, even fear of being famous, or not being able to perform as expected!

Because that’s what you do, right?

Then ask them what their lives would be like if they could get over their inner devils. BE with them until they see that it’s not only possible, but crucial so they can feel better, do better, live better!

You DO have value, silly bean! Even if you only helped one person, you’ve helped many more people who’d have been affected by that person. It ripples out.

I say to you once, more – our work is before us: we have the tools, we can help people heal their broken hearts and bind up their wounds. Have at it.

Today.

FOCUS ON THE HEART’S DEEPEST DESIRE!

Yes, you really do help people. But remember, it’s not just to ‘get rid of’ broken, unresolved and miserable feelings. It’s about helping people find their deepest heart’s desire and bring it to the world.

Because THAT’s what we’re all really here for…to find, create, and live our deepest heart’s desire!

Can you tell I totally believe in the power of love?

A Shocking Reading

Posted on by November 13, 2012

Yesterday, I was given an astrology reading by a well-meaning, very dear-to-me, much-loving old friend.

I’m think astrology is a good thing – even studied it for a bit – but I don’t normally go out of my way to get readings.

But since it was a gift, and offered with such good intention, I thought, how nice! Thank you! And I showed up on the phone.

Then the astrologer proceeded to tell me that my chart showed that my houses of recognition and family were “in ruins,” and that even though Leo in the 5th house (and more) showed I was “a creative genius,” because of other aspects, my artwork would “never support” me.

And he said that he considered it a “cruel cosmic joke to be such a creative genius,” and yet be so restricted by the other aspects of my chart.

He said I had to do some “major internal shifting” and that I should “focus on writing, teaching and communication,” which would, indeed, support me.

Wow. Did I go away stunned? Yep.
And later, sad. And mad. And MAD.
You can assume correctly that yes, I tapped. A LOT.

Not necessarily on a supposedly impossible art career,

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Half the Sky

Posted on by November 4, 2012

I watched a documentary last night called Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.

Ever hear of it? It’s also the name of a book written by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, a NY Times reporter and his wife, also a writer for the Times.

In each of the two 2-hour segments, they carefully explore several very tough, very volatile areas of women’s suffering and abuse, and show great examples of what people are doing about it.

From sex trafficking to prostitution to female genital mutilation to women finally learning how to start their own businesses after years of degradation, beatings and even being tortured and killed by their own men.

Women whose kids literally sleep under the bed as their mothers ‘entertain’ their customers, assume they’ll grow up into the life of prostitution, and who never get an inch of education.

Not nice subjects, I know. I’d heard of and even seen footage of some of the things they showed, I was horrified anew.

But inspired, as well, by people like John Wood, who used to sell Windows for Microsoft, who started up and runs Room to Read (http://www.roomtoread.org), helping literally tens of thousands of kids in Viet Nam and other areas learn to read, and helping them go to school.

One of the amazing women who was interviewed was an older black woman in Somalia. She’d had a very high, very prestigious position at the UN. Her father was a well-known, highly respected doctor. She decided to take her own experience as a doctor and midwife home. So when she retired, she decided that she wanted to do something about the high rate of women dying in child-birth in her country.

After starting out meeting and beginning to treat pregnant women under a TREE because she had no office, that Somalian doctor has by now built her own magnificent hospital, trained local women in midwifery, and has lowered the mortality rate in her area to one-quarter of the country’s average.

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CardsbyLyon.com is Up!!!

Posted on by November 2, 2012

 

I’m so pleased to tell you that my new Greeting Cards site is UP!

CardsbyLyon.com is done, fully functional and ready to rock and roll!

Now you can get greeting cards with my unique designs on them for the holidays!

Be the first to get some – no one else has even seen them yet!

Can you tell I’m really stoked to have them ready?!?

And I invite you to send the link from this page to your friends and buddies!

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One More Week! Woohoo!

Posted on by November 2, 2012

Malinda Zarate of EmboldenedHeart.com has been kind enough to leave my interview with her up for another week because of the hurricane.

Woohoo! Thanks!

If you have struggled with overwhelming feelings of anger, sadness, fear, etc. you’ll want to hear this.

And nope, I did NOT use EFT to show Malinda how to turn her anger into an ally, and it did NOT take forever with a lot of processing – it took under 7 minutes!

I think that this is one of the best interviews I’ve ever done!
http://InstantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=34314240

WHAT PEOPLE SAY:
Thank you for your wisdom, your important sharing to the world. I like the part that people at your age find a fascinating world, and that you are opening a different path to women . That’s a very healing way of thinking. it is a way of life.
~ L.M.H.

Love the Barbara Streisand story and the flat tire….
~ N.B.

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Raise Your Vibes Despite Election Chaos and Mean, Nasty, Gossipy BS

Posted on by November 2, 2012

I’m supposing that 99.9% of those who send out newsletters to their self-growth lists wouldn’t mention the upcoming US elections. Well. I will, and I am.

Here’s why: every last thing we do and think effects our vibratory rate. The higher frequency we vibrate at, the higher the energetic message we send out. So it’s within our own interest to keep our vibes high, right?

And – if we get caught up in the hate, the lies, the I’m better than you or he’s a jerk stuff, we are deliberately descending through vibratory levels, and cannot help but end up feeling really cruddy. Do we need this? No.

So I’m sharing with you the note I sent out on FB last night, because I’m up to here with the rhetoric and shocking images and the gossip…I’m done with it. I’ve even deleted everyone who is a blaster. Ahhhh, nice calm news feed today!

So here it is: I hope you enjoy it and get some ideas from it.

CALLING FOR SOBRIETY in the 2012 ELECTIONS:
How to create a sober election aura for 2012

The hate, the lies, the fear and the rampant emotions around this election are such a waste of energy.

People say it’s worse than it’s ever been, but I think it’s just that we have such instant, wide-spread communication that we can hear more of it faster and easier.

I SAY stop it.
I SAY get sober.

I don’t mean stop drinking or whatever it is you do … I mean stop allowing your resentments and fears and gossip and your tendency to rant and rave about the Other Guy to control you.

I SAY quit using the F word and other de-energizing words. Yes, you do have the right to use them, but you forget the consequences OF using them. Your use of those words turn off many of the people you would love to bring over to your side. Is that what you really want?

You might feel like you have a nice cozy fellowship of F-word users, but are there enough to win the election? I don’t think so.

So I invite you to consider using words that intend to elevate rather than shock or surprise or stun someone. You might shock someone, but you won’t convince them of your message.

I’d really like to take my sh*t shield down so I can be present enough to really hear what you have to say, without having to worry about getting splattered with ughy stuff.

AND I SAY, stop a minute and see if you can think of at least one good thing about the Other Guy.

Maybe even 10 things.

Make a list, so you can compare. Because the list that adds up to have the most appreciated things on your list will be the one you vote for, right?

First, though, maybe you could put your radical emotions on the back burner – believe me, they will be there for you anytime you want to call them back! Tap a little to calm down, if you have to.

Now make your list:

What are 10 things you appreciate, within the context of your beliefs, ideas, wishes and agendas for our country and yourself and your family…

ABOUT OBAMA:
• what does he stand for?
• what has he accomplished that you approve of?
• what has he said that rings true for you?
• what does he promise he will do within the next 4 years that you appreciate if he really did them and if those things should actually come about?
1. ________________________
2. ________________________
3. ________________________
4. ________________________
5. ________________________
6. ________________________
7. ________________________
8. ________________________
9. ________________________
10. _______________________

What are 10 things you appreciate, within the context of your beliefs, ideas, wishes and agendas for our country and yourself and your family…

ABOUT ROMNEY:
• what does he stand for?
• what has he accomplished that you approve of?
• what has he said that rings true for you?
• what does he promise he will do within the next 4 years that you appreciate if he really did them and if those things should actually come about?
1. ________________________
2. ________________________
3. ________________________
4. ________________________
5. ________________________
6. ________________________
7. ________________________
8. ________________________
9. ________________________
10. _______________________

Whose list do you like the most? He’s your Guy.

Now talk about those things in your rants and social media and to your friends, NOT what you hate about the Other Guy.

You’ll win more people over. And maybe your guy will
win the election.

© Angela Treat Lyon 2012

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“How DARE You Call Me A Dead Weight?”

Posted on by November 2, 2012

I sent out an email to my list yesterday, asking people for feedback and input on issues they wanted to solve.

At the end, I wrote this: “…if you’re not willing to put yourself out and do something for yourself, to invest in yourself, to take a risk, to learn something new, to get some hand-holding from an experienced tapper and mentor, maybe it’s time for you to find someone else’s list to be on, because you’re just being dead weight in your own life, and that isn’t who I serve.”

Check out what happened next!

I got two really wonderful notes from someone who called me crazy (and a lot more!), and was infuriated that I called her ‘dead weight.’

Because they were so illuminating, I asked her for her permission to share her notes (which I tweaked a little because english is not her mother tongue, and reformatted a bit for easier reading). She was happy to share them with you.

I think you’ll enjoy them. Note #1:

“You are the craziest, meanest, cruelest  person and a complete monster. I’m unsubscribing right now. I want to tear your eyes out! I can’t believe you say you market from the heart and then call people dead weight if they don’t do what you think they should do! How DARE you?”

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Come See Me on Spiritus, the Spiritual Marketing Directory!

Posted on by October 29, 2012

AND…as if good things don’t happen alone…how cool is this?

I was featured today on Spiritus, the spiritual marketing directory – a nice shorty article on my thoughts about spirituality integrated with biz.

GET TO IT HERE.

Are you a member of Spiritus?

If you like the idea of embedding your ideas and values in your work and marketing, that’s spiritual marketing. I suggest you check it out and find and possibly work with all kinds of other like-minded business owners.

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Interviewed Today by Malinda Zarate at EmboldenedHeart.com!

Posted on by October 29, 2012

I was so pleased to have been interviewed today by Malinda Zarate of EmboldenedHeart.com.

She invites guests every month who she feels contributes to the invisible, energetic growth of our planet – what an honor to have been invited!

We had great fun, and I got to talk about how I finally conquered my 35-year-long suicidal thoughts in 6 weeks and how I did that….PLUS why anger and fear are two of your biggest allies if you’ll let them be!

Register now for the interview so you don’t miss it!

It’s tomorrow –
DATE: TUESDAY, October 30th
TIME:  2 pm ET  
ABOUT: “DEFEAT YOUR DEVILS”
(And making Anger and Fear your allies!)
HERE: EmboldenedHeart.com.

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How Do You Feel When It’s Time to Ask for Your Fees?

Posted on by October 23, 2012

When it’s time to ask your potential client or your customer for the money, what happens to you?

How do you feel?
•   Squeamish?
•   Guilty?
•   Ashamed?
•   Like your services ‘should’ be free?
•   Does a little voice in your head insist that you’re a fraud? (Many energy pratitioners tell me this – how can I ask for money for such a lala thing?)

I used to feel like I was dying a thousand deaths each and every time I had to tell someone my fees.

I don’t now, though – and there’s a very good reason for that.

Tomorrow on my Money Tapping Group Part 3 call, we’ll be going over the first part of why you freak out when you ask for money from a client – or for higher fees than they have been paying – and what to do about it.

This is one of the most important abilities you must have in order to succeed in your biz – how can you earn the money you need to run and maintain and expand if you can’t ask for it???

Join us, AND get last week’s audio, plus the next 2 calls and audios in The Money Tapping Group Part 3.

READ about The Money Tapping Group Parts 1 and 2:
http://www.eftbooks.com/money-tapping/

READ about The Money Tapping Group Part 3:
http://www.eftbooks.com/money-tapping/money-tapping-group-iii/

JUST GET The Money Tapping Group PART 3 NOW:
http://tinyurl.com/money-tapping-group-part-3

Think about it. I used to freak out asking for $30 for a full hour session when I first started charging for EFT sessions. My hourly rate now is $595.

Speaking of which, can you see what a great savings you’re getting by only $57.97 for FOUR weeks of coaching? PLUS being able to benefit from the energy of the other passionate entrepreneurs on the call with you?

There’s a way to ask for more money and stay in integrity with your values. Once you find out and use it, too, no matter what rates you charge, you can feel good about it.

I look forward to working with you when you join us!

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Want to Publish Your Ebook? Heard About Kobo Book Publishing?

Posted on by October 23, 2012

Kobo, a new place to publish your ebooks, like Amazon Kindle.

You can get 45 to 70% royalties on your books, and you get paid once a month. Kobo seems to be a very good deal.

http://www.publishyourownebooks.com/publishing-with-kobo-writing-life/

I Need Your Input!

Posted on by October 23, 2012

Times are changing. Your needs are changing. And I want to keep up to date.

So, if you would write me a quick comment on this page with very brief phrases about what you’d like help with from me, I’d so appreciate it.

I’ve done surveys, but they seem so cold and distance-making. I want to keep close touch with you, so I’m just asking you to hit the reply button and write a couple of words or phrases.

For instance:
•  I want help tapping on how I feel about marketing, specifically about my website (or copywriting, or social media….)
•  I am broke and want to be prosperous and I don’t know what to tap on or what to do to take positive action
•  I am so depressed I can’t see straight and can’t fix it
•  I can’t make money as an artist
•  I don’t know what to say at networking meetings so I can attract new clients
•  I want to be a speaker but I’m shy
•  add your own: ___________

See what I mean? PLEASE no long stories – I just can’t read them all! Just a phrase or two for a couple of needs you have. You can always ask for more later!

Click HERE or on the title of this article, which will take you to a page where you can make a comment. Many thanks for your help – I appreciate it so much!

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Money Tapping Group, Part III!

Posted on by October 15, 2012

THE MONEY TAPPING GROUP Part III: Uncover and Clear Out the Limiting Vows in your Heart Chakra…so you can have more freedom, fun and prosperity, and delight in sending out more just-plain-flat-out beautiful Heart Radiance!

Maybe you can you relate to this:

“Sometimes I do something, think it’s great…and then later look at it and wonder what I was thinking! I end up either throwing it out, redoing it, or giving it away because I can’t bear to look at it.”

Or how about this:
“I look back on my life and wonder why I’m not where I thought I’d be at my age. I feel sad and disappointed in myself and my life.”

One more:
“I fell in love with this guy who turned out to be such a jerk, and I decided I’d just be better off not having a close relationship with anyone.”

If you can see yourself in any of those, you’ll love what we’re going to do in the next 4 weeks…because…

The Money Tapping Group, Part III, starts on Thursday of this week!

In this advanced level, consolidating and launching off from the work you’ve done with Chakras 1 through 3, we’re going to dive into and clear out your crucial center-point: Chakra 4, the Heart Chakra, so you can imbue everything you do with more of the radiance of your Deepest Heart than you ever have before.

Without clearing, activating and energizing your Heart Chakra in your activities, you leave so much of your love behind!

And you end up disappointing your own heart, which ends up making you lose confidence and feeling alone, criticized and less-than.

If you have ever felt:  
•   disappointed in yourself or something you’ve done
•   that on some level, maybe you or part of you are not lovable, valuable or worthy
•   like you ‘should’ be more perfect or do things more perfectly
•   sad or heart-broken because you suddenly realize how harshly you’ve treated yourself in your life…

Well…get ready to change all of that!

I’m really excited, because within the next set of 4 Money Tapping Group segments, I’m going to show you how to:

•   Find and eliminate the secret Heart Chakra vows that keep your Heart Chakra from functioning at its full beautiful radiance

•   Stop criticizing yourself so you can begin to bless every inch of yourself: what you’ve done in your life, and what you are, do and have right this moment!

•   Get the Key to finally SEE and resolve the up-to-now invisible blind spots that undermine you

•   Use my 3-Rings ID Map to get to each major level of any issue or project, so you can create clarity and precise results

•   Reset 2 specific set-points you may not have heard about yet that limit your ability to create or even  receive success

What would it be like to stop feeling stuck?
What would it be like to stop beating yourself up with criticisms and sharp  mental or verbal barbs that cut your confidence down?
What would it be like to know what to do next without any doubt?

Starting on our next call, we’re going to:
1.  Open the locks on your heart chakra
2.  Undo the vows you created to keep yourself safe that are now outdated and keeping you from the movement and freedom you desire and deserve
3.   Reset a couple of set-points you may not have heard about yet that limit your ability to create and receive success

I can hardly believe some of the people who have been through the first 2 sets are the same people who started out – they have made such incredible progress! I want that for you, too!

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“I’m blown away by the power of the group – again – and your expert guidance and navigation through potentially treacherous waters. Thanks so much for this amazing class…it’s been a great group–actually life changing…thanks for all your support and help. You really are a powerful healer and transformer – I’m so glad you’re still doing this coaching thing…I’m getting new opportunities, so things are shifting for me.”
~ private caller
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So I invite you to join me on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18th from 5 to 6:30 pm NY time for the first of this next, 4-segment set in the Money Tapping Group Series.

CLICK HERE to get The Money Tapping Group Part II!

Remember, no matter where you live in the world, even if you can’t make it to the calls in person, you can listen at your leisure to the audios.

You can also check out Parts 1 and 2 here –
http://EFTBooks.com/money-tapping

I look forward to having you on the calls and in our Secret, Secure Group FB Page!

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Have You Cleared and Reset Your Money Set Points?

Posted on by October 10, 2012

You’ve probably heard a lot of coaches talk about your money set points.

Your money set points are those amounts that:
•  you never seem to earn more than
•  you always get down to a certain level before money comes in again
•  if you earned more, you’d feel bad that you earned more than, say, your dad….
•  or that you can’t even imagine – like, creating millions – without also thinking how much work it will be, how could I ever do that, etc. –

You may have even gone through a money set point process, and you may have even shifted one of yours.

BUT WHAT THEN?
Did you find out what to do next?

Did you find out how to keep open the doors for the universe to bring you your new levels of income or prosperity?

Did you find out how to use your money shadow to  increase your personal power and your money flow?

Or did you eagerly shift your set point…and then wait for the money to come…and it didn’t…and you ended up disappointed and angry that yet aNOTHer process didn’t work?

See, it takes shifting the set point, PLUS some very specific actions. Clear. Focused. Directed.

If you just sit and wait for the dough to walk through your door – well, it’s possible – but it’s magnified if you bolster the entire process by taking action in a specific way. Most people don’t teach you what to do or how to do it or even why.

I AM going to be showing you how to do that on my Money Tapping Group call tomorrow, after we shift your money set points.

Want to shift your set point AND get clear on what to do next to get the flow moving faster? Join us! Tomorrow,  THURSDAY, October 11th at 4pm NY time.

I invite you to join us!
http://EFTBooks.com/money-tapping

YOU GET:
•   Tomorrow’s live call, plus
•   The 3 previous calls in this group:
…including finding out about the hidden power in Chakras 2 and 3 (relationship & money flow; and personal power) and
…how they affect your income and your life, plus
…tapping for clearing of the Chakra 2 and 3 Vows that hold you back.

(You may want to get Money tapping Group Part 1, as well: the 4 audios include the First Chakra info and tapping for clearing your First Chakra Vows that keep you chained and cemented to your family’s habits and beliefs.) [laughing…I typed Cows at first….]

I look forward to having you on the call tomorrow! Do join us on the live call, OK?
http://EFTBooks.com/money-tapping
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Art Success Update!

Posted on by October 10, 2012

As you may know, I’ve been revving up my painting and carving for a few months now, as I simultaneously wind down to working with all but the bare-bones minimum coaching – occasional teleclasses, a couple of groups, and some Elite Level clients, and that’s it.

It was darn scary at first, because I honestly didn’t know if I could trust that I could make the switch from more coaching/less art to more art/less coaching and still have the income I’m used to.

And I’ll admit – at first it was pretty tight. But – it served me in that I got to see how I needed to amp up some of my passive income streams so I can do well until the art income increases.

At the same time, I’ve had the great support of many of the people this newsletter goes out to and on facebook – your ‘likes’ and comments have all really helped me keep going. I thank all of you who have emailed me with your support and love – it’s been wonderful – thank you!

It’s helped so much, in fact, that I took the plunge and ordered 5 of my greeting card designs printed up. That’s a big move, because I could get stuck with hundreds of cards if they don’t sell!

Why? Because I don’t take anything for granted anymore, not since almost dying a couple of years ago.

Life has become very precious, indeed. And when I saw how terrific these cards looked, a wave of gratitude just swept over me.

When they came in the mail, I cried – they looked SO good!!! Here’s what they look like! Awesome, yes? (if I do say so myself!) Which ones do you like the most? Feel free to say so in the comment box below! i really welcome your feedback!

AND – yesterday, after weeks of looking, I finally found the right coach. I wanted someone familiar with the wholesale business – someone who’s been there and done that. Many of today’s coaches focus pretty much on people with online coaching businesses.

This gal has been there and done that, and is going to help me create a biz structure, a website that works for wholesale buyers, and I’ll learn how to sell the cards and get the right clients – woohoo – I’m stoked!

I’ll keep you up on what we do, because I know there are a bunch of artists receiving this newsletter – if that’s you, you may be able to do well with making merchandise out of your art. Think of your images on cards, bags, journals, coasters, tiles, mousie-pads, prints…you name it, your art would look great, and could make you a fantastic passive and/or residual income.

I wanted to share how the switch is going for me, because you might be switching, yourself, from one thing to the next – so, know that not only is it possible, it is awesome!

Keep focused and persevere.

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Shifting Gears into New Levels of Success and Fun

Posted on by October 6, 2012

What a week! Once you make a commitment to change your life, watch out! Because change it will! Whew!

When I decided to focus on doing and marketing my art more, things suddenly changed from feeling like a little trickling stream to a roaring waterfall and huge river!

(And yes, I’m still coaching! I had scaled down to almost zero, and discovered I missed coaching! So I ramped it back up a bit to a modest amount that still gives me time for my artwork.)

NO PAIN….
Some people say no pain, no gain. I say no pain, hooray! When you’re in the Zone time flies, fun expands, things seem Right and your heart sings – that’s how I like it to be, how about you?

I was asked to do some new greeting card designs, so I’ve been doing a ton of them and having an absolute ball at it! Isn’t that how it’s supposed to be?

Not only was I asked to do the card images, but I was invited to put my stone sculpture in a new local Fine Arts Gallery. And, I got to enter a new painting in a local art show today – cross your fingers it gets in. (This is the painting – Birdy I – it’s 20″ x 20″ acrylics and wax, painted on archival board)

ARE YOU SHIFTING to SOMETHING NEW?
I tell you this because you may be one of the many people who are aching to shift from your same-old same-old boring job and afraid to make the decision and take that first step and walk through the door.

The truth? Yes, it will take some time to make the transition! And yes, it can be painful.

But if you plan it right so you have your main ducks in a row (notice I did not say ‘all’ of them!), and do the requisite energy cleaning, you can walk out the door and into your new love-to-be-there job or new level of practice without too much hassle.

Maybe you’re a health or energy coach and you want more income and more people as you put in less hours! Possible? Yes! Totally!

Maybe you’ve felt, on a deep level somewhere, like you’ve had little value to offer people, and you’re finally seeing that that isn’t at all true, and you want to offer more to more people.

You may be shifting from feeling completely invisible to being out there in a more visible, maybe bigger or louder way.

You might think that getting more publicly visible can be ‘scary’ as all get-out.

GETTING OUT THERE
I have a very different hit on the word ‘scary’ that, if you knew what that was, would help you get through your transition time – that time when your heart is fit to burst with fear and excitement, your hands are sweaty, you’re worried people will either fall away or just not like you, that your stuff isn’t enough or good enough…etc. –

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HINT for THE DAY:
Remember that fear and ‘scary’ and nervous and anxiety are all just names for energy running through your system! What if you called them excitement and enthusiasm and power and creativity?
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THIS is why I created the Money Tapping Group! So I can hold your hand and help you tap through the old fears and anxieties that rear up right in your face as you strive toward the places you’re looking to go!

ACCELERATE YOUR PROGRESS
After we accelerate your progress with the super-easy, super-powerful tapping and energy tactics I show you, one day in the near future you’ll look at your life and your biz and you’ll exclaim – “Oh my! All that stuff I worried about is gone!”

That’s when you really get it that all the fears and doubts and self-flagellation and worries about fame and sales and money were a total, grand illusion you carried around with you in your mind!

Now you know how to harvest all the creative power and energy underneath those fears and doubts, and you’re ready to rock and roll in a big way and create any new thing you want.

THIS is personal power in the best possible light.

Listen to what 2 people who were on the Personal Power Money Tapping Group call this week said:

I just want to thank you so much. Yesterday when we spoke I was hating on myself big-time. I was expecting a check that did not come and fearing that it might even be lost. Since then I have had a flood of ideas of what to do to generate the income needed to handle the expenses.

Thank you, Angela, for giving me a way of reclaiming my power and for changing the way that I will envision my choice to take care of my elderly mom. Yay! I just spoke with the bill collectors and took my power back. Wow! Feels amazing. Now onto putting my energy into generating the income to keep my agreement.
– private caller

Hi Angela – I’m blown away by the power of the group – again – and your expert guidance and navigation through potentially treacherous waters. Thanks so much for this amazing class. It’s a huge game changer!
– private caller

MY FAVES
You know what my favorite calls are? The ones where I have a maximum of 3 to 7 people on the line. Where each person gets tapped for and questions answered in person.

If you like that kind of supportive atmosphere, where there aren’t hundreds of callers and noisy lines and a million questions that don’t apply to you…and where you can communicate with me all week long on our secret FB page…then you’ll like the Money Tapping Group calls.

I INVITE YOU…
… to either join us live, or take advantage of the audios all ready to be downloaded onto your computer for you to access at your convenience.

There’s 1 more call in the Money Tapping Group Part 2. So when you sign up for Part 2, you get
•   access to all 3 previous Part 2 90-minute comprehensive tapping and tactics audios, and
•   you get to come live on Thursday at our newly changed time, 4 to 5:30 pm NY time!

Then in late October and early November we’ll go to Part 3….

Here’s where you can either join us and/or get the audios:
http://EFTBooks.com/money-tapping

Remember I love you!!!

aloha –
Angela

p.s. Whether or not my painting gets into the show today (where, if it does, it will show at a beautiful location – the spectacular Ho’omaluhia Botanical Gardens in Kaneohe – for a month!), I can still show it online and in the new gallery! I win all the way around.

How are YOU winning? I’d love to hear – comments are open below!
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Malinda Zarate, Emboldened Heart

Posted on by October 6, 2012

DARING DREAMERS RADIO presents:
Malinda Zarate: from financial planner to Inspiration with an emboldened heart!

I spoke with Malinda a couple of weeks ago and was impressed with her spark – you know how you just kind of Like someone without too much reason why going on in your head? That’s how I liked her.

So we decided to put together a new show in Daring Dreamers Radio.

I was pretty relentless! I grilled her to find out how she went from burned out in her financial planning world and scary-nary, heart-stopping high blood pressure, to expanded and delighted with her successful endeavor, her monthly summits of emboldened=hearted women coaches and experts.

I invite you to listen in: GO HERE! 

Dreaming My Newsletters?

Posted on by September 28, 2012

I’ve never told anyone this, but almost every one of my newsletters you’ve read has come from a dream.

I literally write them in a dream state, and when I get up, all the words pour out onto the screen through my fingers in a big tumble.

It’s quite an experience.

Imagine having someone in your mind who has an idea, and is explaining it and talking with you with you about it, in a very lucid, 2-way conversation! That’s what it’s like. I hear it over and over again until all the pieces fit just right.

In actuality, there are a lot more of these dreams than I publish. I just choose the ones that seem the juiciest. Like this one that came through this morning:

As I’ve been walking people through the first chakras in my Money Tapping Groups, I have shared my own experiences as a younger person with each class to illustrate some of the tendencies and vows innate to each chakra.

Yesterday in the class when I was speaking about my teenage self, I noticed that – although I didn’t say so – my attitude towards my younger self was quite harsh, and I even felt a little embarrassed about it, because I found myself projecting the very rigid judgements of my family onto myself.

Subsequently I discovered that I was worried about “what they would think if they knew” I had done those things. This is a chakra 1 thing – “what will they think of me, I’ll get punished, the tribe will shun me,” and so on.

As I contemplated this, I saw that instead of judging my actions so harshly, I could take another view and just congratulate myself for having done some pretty courageous stepping out of the bounds of my family’s invisible, unspoken agreements into new exploratory space.

And that I could be very grateful for the opportunity to have been able to do that; as well as for the safety my family provided me at the time, even amidst their protestations that I was acting so badly!

Over the years as I have been a coach, I have met so many people from all over the world and gotten to hear so many stories that ranged from slightly distressed to virtually horrific. I used to think of my own growing up times as hard, but compared to some, I lived in a goose-down pillow!

What’s important about that is that

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What Are 2nd Chakra Vows?

Posted on by September 28, 2012

Think of the 2nd Chakra as a level of consciousness.

Whereas the 1st Chakra is all about your environment (everything you can physically feel) and your tribe, the 2nd Chakra, right in the groin area, is more fluid; the energy of it should be flowing naturally in and out of it easily.

The 2nd Chakra is all about money, sex and control.

The energy of the 2nd Chakra is about connection, flow, sensations…how aware people are of you…self-image.

Example: Some people control others by being needy (ever known anyone like that?) Know what the 2nd Chakra Vow is for that one? “I am my pain.” The identity is so closely woven in with the pain that if the pain were to go away, they literally think they don’t know who they are.

You can also think of people whose personalities are solidly wrapped up in their biz, and if you get them all alone in a non-biz setting they have no clue how to act or what to do….

The beliefs:
“I hide who I really am because it isn’t safe to be me.” Ever hear of anyone saying “it’s scary to market my work”? This is why – it’s too unsafe!

“You can’t get what you want, so you get the attention and goodies you want by being needy.” Squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Another 2nd Chakra Vow is “I’ll never let anyone take advantage of me again.” So everyone looks and feels like a possible predator. Think that might limit you a bit by shutting out the people who are truly not predators?

A few weeks ago I told you I was studying Wealth Maven Margaret Lynch’s wonderful 7 Levels of wealth Program. (I highly recommend her course: http://snipurl.com/wealth-tapping)

Well, in over 40 years of extensive energy, psychological and metaphysical training, I’ve never come across information like what she’s bringing to the table. I’ve learned so much I’m astounded.

When you go through traditional chakra training, you don’t hear that each chakra IS a level of consciousness, that you make vows that reside in your chakras, that those vows affect every chakra above it until the vows are cleared!

MORE EXAMPLES:

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ATTACKED!

Posted on by September 18, 2012

I made a comment on a post on facebook the other day to which someone took HUGE exception. She replied calling me names, making accusations, etc.

What I know about accusation is this: it tells me more about what a person is afraid of than it says anything at all about me.

The person who attacked me said I ‘created chaos,’ and that I didn’t ‘come from my heart,’ and that she was ‘out there doing the work’ while I was sabotaging it. Huh! Interesting!

I had to laugh, actually, because if she thought her attacking me was a good example of coming from her heart, she has lots to learn! And spiritual pride (I’m better than you because I’m doing the work….) will trip up her well-meant intentions every time.

I tried hard to find the chaos she spoke about, and finally realized it wasn’t really there – it was just how she perceived what was said in the replies to her post.

It seemed to me that if things weren’t all soft and gooey and lala, then it felt chaotic and hurtful to her. Sorry, not going to walk on eggs!

I had zero inclination to defend myself – it would have been like trying to sing a song in the center of a cyclone – a total waste of energy, because she would not be able to receive anything I said.

ATTACK! AND WHAT TO DO….

•  What do you DO when you’re attacked like that?
•  How do you keep grounded, level-headed and heart-centered,
…despite the intense energy?
•  How can you not be attacked in the first place?
•  How can you glide through…and actually even create and harvest…beautiful, clean energy from a sticky situation like that?

I’ll be going over exactly that in this week’s Money Tapping Group, because one of the biggest fears people have about being more publicly prominent is that of being attacked.

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Here’s where you can sign up for Part II if you’d like.
Four weekly 90-minute sessions (just $57.97).
We meet on THURSDAYS from 6-7:30 p.m.
We start SEPT 20th.
CLICK HERE to get Part 2 NOW
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Know what my biggest fear used to be?

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Have You Been Asked, “Why Are You Not Playing A Bigger Game?” Maybe You Don’t Really Want to!

Posted on by September 18, 2012

Ponder this: How many times have you seen an email or video or website that tells you you ‘need to play bigger,’ or have a bigger business?

I’ve said it myself. But it’s getting old. What if I don’t want to ‘play bigger’?

I believe that you and I should be able to live the full, creative, productive, impactful lives we dream of living.

Whether that means little ole you hibernating in the back woods writing poetry or surfing the big ones, being a big well-known coach, speaker or entertainer, or an artist who does well at selling her art, or a small biz owner just being and feeling really successful selling widgets or educating people with wonderful health stuff.

I see a lot of mentor-clones nowadays – they say the same words, do the same types of videos, the same programs, charge the same rates, and write the same emails as their mentors.

I don’t want to be a mentor-clone. And I don’t want you to be anyone’s clone, either. I want you to be the unique, amazing individual you are, with your wonderful array of tools, gifts, talents, skills and expertise.

I want you to be able to take all of that out into the world and contribute to your heart’s content if that’s what you truly want. That’s what I’m here to support you in doing.

Many people have not one inch of desire to ‘live big, ‘play a bigger game,’ have a ‘bigger business.’ They just want to do what they do, be appreciated and get paid well, without having a big flashy off- or online presence.

You can do that. And it’s OK…and, you can even live big doing that! It just takes clarity, intention, focused action, determination and perseverance. I know you can do it – and are doing it, to your best ability!

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Artists! Do You Know How to Tap Your Way to Showing and Selling More of Your Art?

Posted on by August 31, 2012

As you might know, I am re-journeying into my art world after a 10-year hiatus. It’s taken some pretty massive tapping, because I’m bumping into all the old beliefs and ideas that limited me before.

The HUGE difference being that now I know what to do when I’m assailed by doubt and fear, and I can take immediate action to change my reality.

This is a VERY big deal for me, because I used to cry myself to sleep every single night – for years – feeling helpless, alone, desperate and dead broke.

IT’S WORKING!
Recently I was introduced to a woman who is putting together a new gallery in my town. In the past, I’d have said hello and been friendly, but not said a whole heck of a lot about my work.

I had this belief that “my work speaks for itself, why should I say anything about it? Anyone who doesn’t get it doesn’t deserve to hear it from me!”

Whew – talk about a negative, arrogant attitude!

This time, though, I was able to be friendly AND not only answer her questions, but do it in such a way that really perked her ears up – to the point that she came to my studio (not me lugging my work to her!) and spent 2 whole hours with me going through my paintings, drawings and sculpture.

A gallery owner spending 2 whole hours at my studio? This just doesn’t happen – there’s so much to do get a gallery up and running. But she was entranced and having fun…and the upshot was that she loved my work, wants to show it, and was enthusiastic and excited about it. What more could you want!

I used to be very miserable, very grumpy and perpetually very depressed. Not anymore!

And I can tell you right now that if it hadn’t been for tapping:

  1.  I wouldn’t be here right now, because I’d have done myself in back in the early 2000s. Really.
  2.  I wouldn’t even consider going back into the gallery game or showing or selling my work again
  3.  I wouldn’t be able to feel so happy to talk about my work, market it, share it online and on FB.
  4.  I wouldn’t feel so free. Period. This is big.

So I ask of you: please please free yourself up if you
experience crippling self-doubt.

You know – those nasty phrases you hear in the back of your head as you attempt to create and produce the beauty you see in your mind. Thoughts (usually in a parent’s voice) like:

  •   Who do you think you are?
  •   Artists never make any money – get a real job!
  •   How can I buy paint (materials) when I’m so broke?
  •   Your work isn’t that good! (Especially compared to _____ [fill in with admired artist])
  •   No one will like/understand/buy what you do
  •   You’ll never be good enough
  •   Who would buy your work anyway?

Maybe you have endless, simmering anger about why people won’t buy or appreciate your work, or sadness, grief or fear – all of it unnecessary emotional turmoil.

Isn’t it time to let that suffering go so you can use your energy for what it was intended – creating?

If you don’t know how to use tapping – or, EFT, the Emotional Freedom Techniques, I invite you to read my Basics EFT book (HERE).

It’s a lively read, not a boring, dry instructional. You get lots and lots of tapping with case stories – tap along and get through your major issues right as you read the book. If I could get through my own 35-years of suicidal thoughts in a mere 6 weeks (!), what could YOU do?

The more I look around at the people I love, the deeper I feel about wanting them to resolve their suffering and trials and tribulations, the more I want them to get free. This includes you. Why?

Because I imagine a world where, on a daily basis, people create what they Dream. That world is magical, fun, free, amazing and miraculous, and it’s literally right at the tips of our fingertips. I want that for you.

Why Would an ‘EXPERT’ Take More Classes?

Posted on by August 31, 2012

Yesterday, after I attended an excellent teleclass with the amazing Rebecca Marina.

Not soon after it was over, I got an email from someone who knew of me and had heard my voice on the call.

She said she was shocked to hear me on the call, and wondered why I was “still taking classes when you’re obviously an expert at what you do.”

This is such a great question! And I’m sure it’s on the minds of others who don’t ask.

I take more classes because I want:

  •  to find out what others are sharing that I might not know – despite years of experience, I don’t know everything!
  •  to find out what innovations others are making that I could add to my bag of tools so I can serve my people better
  •  to improve my own life, because really, no one is ever ‘done’!
  •  And simply because I’m curious!

Just because I’m an expert at something it does NOT mean I know EVerything! How arrogant would I be to claim that!

I believe in being vulnerable, open and curious, and that includes taking others’ classes to expand myself. There will always be someone who can see my blind spots, and I want to know about them so I can fill them in!

EFT/Business Expert Pamela Bruner partnered up with Jack Canfield on her Tapping into Ultimate Success series this last winter. He said quite candidly in one of the videos that Pamela had helped him with a money issue he’d had.The man’s a millionaire – you might think he had no more money issues at all!

But guess what, no matter what level you’re at, you’re still going to find stuff that bothers you, that you don’t know or about which you’re simply curious.

There’s always more to learn, and it’s exciting as all get out – heck, I found out a key bit of info yesterday that will affect the entire rest of my life.

So I suggest that you not be shy – take the courses that call to you, whether you are a ‘regular’ person or the Crowned Queen or King of the Universe!

Money Tapping Group!

Posted on by August 15, 2012

As I said in a pervious post, I have decided to focus more this year on my painting and carving work*, and reduce my coaching hours.

It was really, really – REALLY! – scary to do that.

Why? Well, because as soon as I made the decision, all my old starving-artist fears popped right up in my face.

I was convinced that I would never, ever make a living at my artwork…that no one would want my work…no one would buy it…and I’d end up under a bridge an old pathetic crone. I have practically worn my tapping points out dealing with those old fears and doubts – and it’s worked!

I guess from your point of view it might sound pretty silly that I still had all those doubts, because as an EFT practitioner / trainer and business and marketing mindset coach, I’ve worked on scarcity and marketing fears and doubts about value and all that for the last 11 years – shouldn’t I be done with all that?

But…I had never applied it to the art part of my own life. And there came, like a huge avalanche, all these 50-year old doubts and fears and voices of nay-saying and massive criticism!

THIS TIME HAS BEEN REALLY DIFFERENT!
I was prepared this time – no longer a defenseless emotionally overwhelmed and totally depressed artist!

Read more HERE!

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Thanks for Helping Me Choose Images for This Year’s Holiday, Joy and Love Cards

Posted on by August 10, 2012

A couple of weeks ago, I asked you to please help me decide which images were your top five to use over the holidays.

I literally have hundreds of images to choose from, so it’s sometimes hard for me to choose, and as the artist, I tend to have my favorites – which, as I have found out, are not always what everyone else likes.

I have posted below the top five you all chose and some runners-up.

And, I also created cards out of the other 55-plus images you also mentioned. Here’s where to see the galleries of card images on Facebook, so you can see all 60-odd images. If you’d like to order any of the cards, instructions are on each of those pages, as well as below under the images on this page.

THE WINNERS:
Here are the five top choices (in order):
Next to My Heart
Fly Free
Golden Mama
I Deeply and Completely Love and Accept Myself
You Are My Only One



RUNNERS- UP (Here’s where to see the galleries of card images on Facebook):
And Then….
Freedom in Broad Daylight
You Are My Only One
Mama, Mama, O How I miss How You Used to Hold Me!
Made of Day

 

ABOUT THE CARDS & ORDERING
The greeting cards are 4.25″ x 5.5″
Printed in brilliant color on heavy white stock
Blank inside for your personal message
Set of 12: $35

HOW TO GET YOUR CARDS:
EMAIL: Lyon at AngelaTreatLyon.com
NOTE in your email:
how many sets of 12 you want
the names of the cards you want
your name, address, phone number

HOW TO PAY: You can use paypal or credit card once we connect.

TIME: It takes about 2 weeks from order to delivery, so if you want your cards by a certain time, order now so you have plenty of time to get them and send them out yourself.

Coming Back to My Deepest Heart’s Passion: Painting and Carving Stone Sculpture!

Posted on by August 10, 2012

Recently, I decided to return to the passions of my life: painting and stone sculpture.

I had stopped carving and painting at the end of my time in New Zealand as Artist-in-Residence, in 2002.

Over the last ten years, I had been focusing on my practice as an energy practitioner, helping people resolve fear, pain, resistance to success, and other feelings that left them in emotional turmoil.

I became an EFT practioner and, eventually, an energy practices trainer and teleclass leader – facilitating teleclasses for people who wanted help consciously creating more health, wealth, success and more money for themselves. (EFT: Emotional Freedom Techniques*)

I wanted to help inspire people to live their dreams, so I created the Daring Dreamers Radio Show and became a radio show host, focusing on people like me – creators, speakers, coaches, artists and energy practitioners – all small biz owners and entrepreneurs – at IDareYouRadio.com.

And I worked hard as a business and marketing mindset coach helping entrepreneurs become successful.

Very rewarding, exciting and fulfilling, and all of it gave me an opportunity to really develop social skills I really needed to improve, and it helped me build up my confidence and self-regard.

As soon as I made the decision to start focusing on my artwork again, though, it was just as if I hadn’t even left it a day – all the old beliefs that used to make me cry myself to sleep at night – like, I couldn’t make it as an artist, no one wants my work, no one will buy it, etc. – screamed up to the surface of my mind!

I did a lot of EFT tapping (a LOT!) on those beliefs because they were totally stopping me from believing in myself, in my work and my contribution in the world.

I also tapped on intending for people to find me out of the blue. I worked hard to transform my thoughts and feelings about marketing my artwork, and about finding and connecting with, and marketing to the people out there who would indeed want it!

Not even an hour after the last round of intentional tapping, Lane Tompkins, the co-editor of the NorthWest Sculptors Association Quarterly Magazine calls, and wants to feature my work in his prestigious magazine – and…

Woohoo! Only one month later, and…I’m a cover girl! My sculpture was featured on the cover this week! Cool! They did a grand job of making the article inside beautiful, too – awesome!!! Think I might be stoked?? Hah! (more art at  Lyon-Art.com)

It was printed in black and white on really nice quality, heavy paper, and the whole magazine beautifully designed and thought out. See below for the inner pages.

If you would like to subscribe, the NorthWest Sculptors Association website is NWSSA.org –

I posted the entire article page span here on Facebook if you’d like to see the cover and the other images, and read the article.

* Don’t know what tapping / EFT is? Go here: EFTinEveryHome.com and get a free online demo –

How to Write A Great Newsletter that People Love to Read and so They Eagerly Buy From You

Posted on by August 1, 2012

Some of you have asked me why I don’t write every week. Because, you know, the marketing geniuses say, “you should keep yourself in front of your market, write every week….”

Well, I’m very calmly and happily done with “I should.”

When I have something to say, I’ll say it! If a rule works for me, I’ll use it. If it doesn’t, I’ll break it.

Being true to my deepest self is way more important to me than some marketing rule.

WHAT IF I SAY SOMETHING too PERSONAL….
I was working with a couple of people last week who

  •  felt nervous
  •  were afraid they were going to be judged
  •  worried about disclosing things their family or friends would think were “too close to home”
  •  worried that they might displease their readers
  •  were afraid they wouldn’t attract any new clients

Listen, your newsletter is for people who love you, love what you do for and with them, and who refer you to others. If you “lose” someone off your mailing list, it’s because they weren’t aligned with you in the first place, and didn’t belong there.

They are not your preferred group* of fans, peers, students and clients. They won’t have bought from you ever, anyway. No big loss!

If they do love you and what you do and still don’t buy, it’s because they either didn’t need it, or they didn’t ‘get’ the value of what you’re offering. Try again!

( * Notice I did NOT say ‘target market’ – isn’t it a little weird to think of your people as targets? We’re not shooting arrows here, we’re serving, right?)

3 BIGGIES TO REMEMBER:
HUGE: your newsletter is for three things:
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Help Me Choose Images for Holiday and New Year’s Cards!

Posted on by July 24, 2012

This year, I’m having five images of my artwork printed for holiday cards.

(The image you see at the left is one image I pre-ordered to see how it looks – it’s awesome!)

It sounds early to think of that, but it takes time to:
1. get them printed
2. have them sent to me in time to market
3. mail them out to you in time for you to send them.

So, I have to decide right now which ones to use.

Would you please do me a big favor and pick five images you’d want to use as holiday cards?

Which ones, in your opinion, would send the biggest message of inspiration, joy, renewed life, happiness and love to the people you send cards to over the holidays?

If you don’t send Christmas or any of the other religion-based cards, which ones would you send to celebrate and bring in a happy new year (that’s what I do!)?

Here’s where to find them: PrintsbyLyon.com

Your feedback is really important to me, so I hope you’ll do it right now while you’re thinking about it. Just choose five, take note of the image names, and email me at Lyon at AngelaTreatLyon.com.

Whoever chooses the image most picked gets a FREEbie thank you – a downloadable, high-res poster!

NOTE: I decided that this year I’d use a different printing company, because the cost is lower, so I can offer the cards for less than what you see on my site.

I just pre-ordered some cards to see what the quality is like, and I’m really thrilled with them. The paper is nice and heavy, the colors are brilliant and the printing is crisp and clear.

They’re 5.5″ x 4.25″ – a little smaller than the usual greeting cards – and come with blank insides and white envelopes. They will be $3.59 each, and $35 for a dozen, plus S&H.

Thanks so much for helping me out! Wait till you see how gorgeous they are – you’re going to love sending cards this year!

Here’s where to CHOOSE: PrintsbyLyon.com

Remember I love you!!!

aloha –
Angela

p.s. PRE-ORDERING!

If you really love any of them right now and want to pre-order, just let me know which ones you want. Thanks again! Order your choices here: email Lyon at AngelaTreatLyon.com with the names of the images you want. (Preorders: Sets of 12 only.)

Here’s where to find them: PrintsbyLyon.com

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