Radmacher Focus Phrase - May Session - Led by Caren Albers

Spring is a perfect time to renew our commitment to ourselves and our dreams. Let's start by exploring and then planting the seeds of change we'd like to see in our lives. Do this with me, Caren Albers, author of Happiness Junkie - A 12 Step Program to Find Inner Peace and Change Your Life.

Three Week Online Session
May 5, 2014
$79 (Special Price YAY!)

I wasn't always as intentional as I am today about the dream seeds I plant in my heart garden. Often, I took whatever came along instead of finding and going after what I wanted. Back then, I believed that trying and not getting something was worse than not trying at all. I now know that is so not true. I want to help you discover some seeds of change that you'd like to plant and see blossom in your own life!

The class involves writing but you don't have to be a writer or even want to be a writer to use this tool successfully for your own self-awareness. I'll guide you through every step of the way and offer you encouraging feedback. I don't edit your writing, I encourage your discovery in every way I can.

Email me at caren.albers@gmail.com and I'll save you a spot and forward payment details

COME WRITE WITH ME TO DISCOVER YOU!

Happy Planting

I love planting dream seeds in my heart garden.

In the beginning, my heart garden looked a lot like my three year old granddaughter’s real garden with too many seeds randomly strewn and not enough space for any one in particular to thrive.

She’s four now, and this year her garden has the makings of rows, and a pattern, and way fewer seeds. She’s learning to plant with more intention and focus and I’m learning to plant my heart garden the same way, too. 

In the past, I sort of let volunteers spring up and take over. They’ll do that in your regular garden, too, if you don’t carefully weed them out. I wasn’t always intentional about what I invited into my life. Instead of thinking about what might create more happiness for me, and then proactively working to achieve it, I played it safe and took whatever came along.

I was afraid to want something and go after it, for fear I wouldn’t get it. Back then, I believed that not getting it would be far more devastating than not trying. It took me a long time to bust that myth. It turned out that was the myth that stood between me and the great life I knew I wanted, but didn’t know how to get.

Busting your own myth, the thing that gets in the way of growing your happiness, unfortunately involves doing the thing that scares you the most. Therein lies the rub. For me, it was learning to fail successfully, to put myself out there, to try new things win or lose. It took a very, very, very, long time for that dream seed to grow but when it did, it was well worth every second of the wait.

Spring is here. Let’s think about our heart gardens and the dream seeds we’d like to plant there. Don’t worry about how practical they seem or how long they might take to grow. Plant them anyway. Soon, you’ll see little dream sprouts peeking though at you. Keep your eye on them, love them, believe in them, do things that nurture them, and before you know it, your dreams will be in full bloom, showy flowers and all.

Caren Albers, author of Happiness Junkie - A 12 Step Program to Find Inner Peace and Change Your Life. carenalbersinspirations.com

eBook Happiness Junkie FREE on Amazon 12/30/13 -1/3/14

GOOD NEWS something that's freeeee....my newly published eBook Happiness Junkie is FREE on Amazon 12/30 - 1/3. Free sales count as sales, too! 

So start gathering email addresses of all your friends you'd like to send a copy to as a Happy New Year gift. You get to write a note with it, too! I'm still working on getting more reviews so if you can post a short Amazon review I would LOVE IT and if your friends would too I would double love it! 

Promotion, promotion, promotion, turns out writing the book was the easy part. Who Knew! Thx. for all your support.

Here's the link HAPPINESS JUNKIE. In the BUY Box click GIVE AS A GIFT and it lets you enter the name, email address, and add a short note to the recipient. HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Start the New Year engaging in your own happiness project by focusing and writing with me, Caren Albers, author of Happiness Junkie.  I’ll lead you through a three week Radmacher Focus Phrase™ process of guided writing and encouraging feedback based on the 12 steps I discovered on my own journey to happiness. We start with AWARENESS and end with AWAKENING and take ten illuminating steps together in between.

Participating in an online Radmacher Focus Phrase™ session doesn’t require you to be a writer or even a wannabe writer. If you can think, type, and are interested in knowing yourself better, you’ve got everything you need to succeed.

The process involves receiving a daily phrase to focus on and then writing three short paragraphs about your experience that day.

By focusing on the phrase during the day and then writing, you invite your inner wisdom out to play. Your wise self already knows the answers. It’s just waiting to be asked the right questions.

I offer praise, encouragement, and support in my feedback and sometimes suggest resources to further inspire you.

Three week session (all done through email so you can participate when convenient for you)
Monday – Friday
January 6th – 24th
$129
To reserve your spot email carenalbersinspirations@gmail.com
For more info. carenalbersinspirations.com.

Write With Me in the New Year

Start the New Year engaging in your own happiness project by focusing and writing with me, Caren Albers, author of Happiness Junkie.  

I’ll lead you through a three week Radmacher Focus Phrase™ process of guided writing and encouraging feedback based on the 12 steps I discovered on my own journey to happiness. We start with AWARENESS and end with AWAKENING and take ten illuminating steps together in between.

Participating in an online Radmacher Focus Phrase™ session doesn’t require you to be a writer or even a wannabe writer. If you can think, type, and are interested in knowing yourself better, you’ve got everything you need to succeed.

The process involves receiving a daily phrase to focus on and then writing three short paragraphs about your experience that day.

By focusing on the phrase during the day and then writing, you invite your inner wisdom out to play. Your wise self already knows the answers. It’s just waiting to be asked the right questions.

I offer praise, encouragement, and support in my feedback and sometimes suggest resources to further inspire you.

Three week session (all done through email so you can participate when convenient for you)
Monday – Friday
January 6th – 24th
$129
 
To reserve your spot email carenalbersinspirations@gmail.com
For more info. carenalbersinspirations.com.

Create Your Happy Life One Step at a Time

Start the New Year engaging in your own happiness project by focusing and writing with me, Caren Albers, author of Happiness Junkie.  I’ll lead you through a three week Radmacher Focus Phrase™ process of guided writing and encouraging feedback based on the 12 steps I discovered on my own journey to happiness. We start with AWARENESS and end with AWAKENING and take ten illuminating steps together in between.

Participating in an online Radmacher Focus Phrase™ session doesn’t require you to be a writer or even a wannabe writer. If you can think, type, and are interested in knowing yourself better, you’ve got everything you need to succeed.

The process involves receiving a daily phrase to focus on and then writing three short paragraphs about your experience that day.

By focusing on the phrase during the day and then writing, you invite your inner wisdom out to play. Your wise self already knows the answers. It’s just waiting to be asked the right questions.

I offer praise, encouragement, and support in my feedback and sometimes suggest resources to further inspire you.

Three week session (all done through email so you can participate when convenient for you)
Monday – Friday
January 6th – 24th
$129
To reserve your spot email carenalbersinspirations@gmail.com
For more info. carenalbersinspirations.com.

Start Something Stupid

We are taught to avoid doing anything stupid, to be careful, to think long and hard about things. I got the careful message loud and clear. I even hear myself saying it to my granddarling but mostly as she’s teetering on the arm of the sofa poised to fall. The “think long and hard” part stuck to me like super glue. I took it all to heart often turning my “don’t do anything stupid” into “don’t doing anything at all.”

The idea to “start something stupid” is a big deal for me and not just because my mother forbid us to say the word “stupid” in our house growning up. That’s funny, I meant growing up. It did feel more like growning up sometimes.  I’ll take a baby step and leave it n the interest of “starting something stupid”.

I didn’t come up with the START SOMETHING STUPID idea on my own. It sparked from a guest blog by Richie Norton on Jonathan Fields site http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/how-to-stop-waiting-and-start-living/ called Stop Waiting and Start Living that touched me in my deepest reaches.

His personal, moving, heart-filled, real-life story shares the important message we’ve all heard before and think we already know, that this moment is the only guarantee we have. But this time, I heard it in a new way!

The writing is insightful, chalked full of wisdom and personal truths, one that I couldn’t shake, one that followed me into my day and beyond, his last line START SOMETHING STUPID.

I emailed the blog to my husband Bob who had just pitched me an idea to buy a small property on the main drag here and start some kind of business. Problem was we couldn’t figure out a viable business that made sense for the property.

He immediately shot me an email back “wanna start something stupid?” With all the inspiring ideas in the blog post, we shared the same takeaway, touché Mr. Albers. This particular project probably isn’t our “something stupid,” but now we are on the prowl for what is.

Those three words “start something stupid” changed us. We see the world differently, through eyes open a little bit wider, looking for what purposeful, new adventure might be out there for us.

Heading out this morning, Bob pokes his head into my office and kisses me goodbye.  I say “have fun and don’t forget to start something stupid.” As the door closes, I hear him say “how stupid???” like it’s a challenge. I’m a little scared now!