A Message from Spiritual Teacher, Lily Finch: The Feminine Keys to Creating Holistic Business Models

As the writer of the New ‘Beauty Way’ Model of Business, Leadership and Illuminated Influence, L.E. Coleman, whom I affectionately call Brother, asked me to join with him and share my opinion about what it will take to build holistic businesses and implement them so that they are not only effective but prosperous.

What I write now will not be easy for most to hear but it is absolutely necessary. Einstein was dead on when he said, ““We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” To approach building new models of holistic business from the same approach that has always been done is to recreate the same current economic and global problems that we have always done. It simply will not work. A good builder knows that the foundation of a home must be square in order to keep the house standing later on. If women approach growing a business in the same way that it has been approached before, we will not grow anything. We will not only constrict life, we will be cooking up the perfect recipe for disaster.

So follow along, you awakening women, to hear the hard but freeing truth about what women have to do in order to not only provide the desires they seek but to change our global situation. And yes, men, you are invited too, as WO+MEN means both men and women whereas ‘MAN’ has left out the ‘WO’ since the beginning of time! To be WO+MEN means you are awakening and integrating the characteristics of both the AUTHENTIC masculine and the AUTHENTIC feminine. So yes, men, you are certainly invited into this discussion if you dare come along. However, I must warn you that it is likely that you will dislike what is being said, even more than women!

Women have typically avoided leadership and business for thousands of years because they believed what they were being told: that they were the ‘weaker sex,’ that business was just too hard, bloody and tyrannical for their ‘gentle’ nature. So women believed that they either had to DO it like men did it or crawl back into their safe little nests and let the guys do the dirty work. After all, business was dirty, right?

The perception when it came to women being in business was that there were only two ways a woman could go. One way was to play the game like it has always been played. That is to say, be a cut throat business-person. The other way was simple: bow out and forget about business altogether . The underlying sentiment a male dominated business world was encapsulated in the stereotypical feeling that you either turn into a cut-throat’ or maintain the sensitivity of caring more about people than things--the old 'either/or fallacy.'

The realization comes (seeing with real eyes) when one sees the truth: that cut throat dog-eat-dog business is simply a business model perpetuated by inauthentic non-leaders. And this non-leader can be a man or woman. The truth of the matter is that both, the business mindset and the model is motivated entirely by FEAR! This kind of business IS--and I repeat--IS the problem! It is the problem because it is founded fear. The fear based beliefs of the majority of people on the planet perpetuates the false notion that there is always scarcity, lack, limitation and loss.

So women won’t be any better than men building new holistic models of business if fear is their motivator. And even worse, due to a woman’s power, she creates even greater negativity in the world! Sorry, that’s just the way it is. There were many women rallying in recent years ‘IT IS TIME FOR A WOMAN PRESIDENT’ without seeing that just ANY woman as president is more dangerous than ever! When you teach a man, you throw a pebble in the water. When you teach a woman, you throw the mountain into the ocean. Women are the first ‘god’ that every human being knows in the world. In just carrying a child alone, she shapes their self image and esteem through the DNA she passes on which holds the memory of all the beliefs and thoughts of those who have come before her! How she loves honors and cares for her child and herself and the subsequent decisions she makes from ‘authentic’ love can change the world without doing another thing! When a man is stuck, he’s a real jerk. And yes, fathers have an enormous effect on their children. But in every book and opinion, every mother is ‘SUPPOSED’ to love her child! Not so strict when it comes to men. So, when a woman is stuck, she’s simply horrendous! And that is why Larry so wisely addressed this book to women! He is one of the few men on the planet who KNOWS!

You see, for thousands of years, people have sought to acquire wealth, power and prestige in order to BE ENOUGH. Of course it doesn’t work. There is never enough- ENOUGH-NESS when you fear NOT being enough. That black hole of emptiness can only be filled with one thing! To seek to build effective holistic business models which we ‘say’ we want in order to shift the planet, that are actually based on the ‘neediness’ of wanting to fill the empty hole of ‘insecurity,’ is to use the same thinking we have for thousands of years! WE have always sought FIRST to resolve on the external level what we ‘perceive’ we lack on the internal level. We will pick up with this in the next blog.
(c)2010 Lily Finch

A word about Lily.

Lily Finch, is a business and spiritual development coach. Her work can be found in the Best Selling Series, Wake Up...Live The Life You Love. In the book, A Search for Purpose, you will find her writings featured with Wayne Dyer, Anthony Robbins, Bill Harris and Brian Tracey. She is the author of ‘Holy and Humorous Hell and ‘Butterfly Medicine:Metamorphosis from Caterpillar to Butterfly, Woman to Goddess' under the pen name, Flowerbird.
She is an Inspirational Speaker and the creator of the ‘AlchemEnergy Method of Energy Transformation and the AlchemEnergy- Alchemist-in-Training Codex E-Course. She is a Business Entrepreneur and even a general Contractor.
Lily consults with women on being whole and integrating the spiritual with the physical on every level. She can be reached at: http://lilyfinch.com/

Don't Get Impatient...Your Help Is On The Way! How to Allow Your Divine Mastermind Connections

Before I go on to step 3 in the matrix for creating million dollar ideas, I wanted to stop here and speak briefly about something that may concern many women who have never worked together with other women and also for the lone woman who wants to find others to mastermind with, but hasn't the slightest clue of how to go about it. My first piece of advice is this: Don't Get Your Panties In a Wad! (I once heard a well known female motivational speaker use this phrase, so I'm not speaking as some kind of neanderthal.) Nevertheless, I mean exactly what I say. Don't worry about how you are going to find others who will work with you. The universe has a way of bringing people together in the most unexpected ways.
One of the best ways to illustrate what I'm talking about is this quote from marketing and business strategy coach, Nancy Matthews, who left this wonderful message on her Facebook page. Here it is:

"Today walk with the awareness that the next person you meet could be "The One" - the one to bring a smile to your face, new business, the exact solution you were looking for, a new relationship and life long friend. Today let's treat those we meet "As If" they are that important - because they are."

She couldn't be more right.

As I stated earlier, Source (God, or Universal Mind, if you prefer) has a way of bringing people together and creating the environmental circumstance for your divine connections to take place. This means that it's not up to you to try to force things to happen. If you try to make things happen, you are going to quickly find out that trying to force what you want to happen will only prolong your desire because strength or force always builds up resistance or counter-force to whatever you want. That's the reason you should settle down and get into a spirit or attitude of gratitude and allowance. This doesn't mean to sit on your butt and do nothing. It simply means to work toward your goal with joy, believing that what you want--your intention--has already set things in motion. Learn to read the omens around you and look for those little signs that let you know that the universe is trying to tell you something. If you are an author, you'll love this story.
As many of you may know, Paulo Coelho's, The Alchemist has been one of the greatest inspirational books of all time. I had never heard of the book until my editor, Magdalene Pagratis, suggested that I read it a couple of years ago. I called Maggie one day when I was feeling down in the dumps. I was having myself a pity party over my lack of book sales. She listened quietly as I grumbled and complained about all the effort I had put into my books with only minimal results to show for it. When I was finished with my belly-aching she asked,” Have you ever read, The Alchemist?” I told her that I had never even heard of the book, and then I asked her for the author’s name because I would see if my local library had a copy for checkout.
The very next night when I got to work, I check my interoffice mailbox to see what kind of work my boss had left me to do. Inside, among memos and handouts, was a book a co-worker had left for me. The post-it note stuck to the book cover said that she knew I like to read books of a spiritual nature and that this particular book was going to be thrown away with all the other ones she never bothered to read.
As you might have guessed, it was a copy of The Alchemist. I knew this was no coincidence. My editor lives in Quebec, my co-worker, Bonnie, and I, live in Indianapolis. What do you think the odds would be that two women who have no knowledge of each other and who live almost a thousand miles apart, would want to get a particular book into my hands--and all within twenty-four hours. Because the timing of the events and the object in question(a single particular book) is so precise--the theory of coincidences has been shattered in the face of certainty. Carl Jung simply called this synchronicity. Needless to say,I dove straight into the book to find out what message the universe had for me.
I read the book first by myself, and then I read it along with my wife. I read it one final time by myself again—this time jotting down some of the key concepts in the book as I understood them. I had no idea that two years later I would deviate from writing non-fiction to release my first work of fiction based upon some of the principle I learned in The Alchemist. Perhaps, this is what the universe had in mind all along. But it's safe to say that none of us at the time had any idea that this was how things were going to work out. These two women didn't know that they were instrumental in helping me take my dream to the next level. And I never fail to try to help them whenever possible.
I have always been surrounded by wonderful women--women like my good friends Lily Finch of Alchemenergy, and Dorothy Lafrinere of womensselfesteem.com. I consider women like these my mentors. I hope that the remaining blogs will help create more relationships that will help us all fulfill our destiny. I will continue with step 3 of the matrix in the next blog.

Synergy, Co-Creation and Unstoppable Women!

Synergy, as a natural, philosophical and spiritual principle can be defined by any of the following;

1. The combined action or operation of several parts working together to enhance the overall good of the whole
2. A mutually advantageous conjunction or compatibility of distinct business participants as resources
3.Women working together to co-create a product that will make the lives of people better

The key here is involvement and reinforcement. As a collective group, each of you in particular, will reinforce the whole (your group) by your active committed involvement to the group process. You will bounce ideas off each other through dialog. This will not be a hard thing to do. Remember, the ideas you come up with have already been thought out by the Source. There is no such thing as a stupid idea. Do you think God is stupid? Of course, not! Ideas are linked to purpose. Purpose has to do with having an aim or goal. That means the Source has an aim or goal for the good of the whole and He wants you to take place in the co-creative process. This brings us to another aspect of why ideas come: The time is right.

Timing is everything. Someone once said, “There’s nothing greater than an idea whose time has come.” Seen from this perspective we can see that the timing of an idea is directly linked to the need for the idea. For example, the car, the airplane, the telephone, and the internet all have one thing in common: All of them are vehicles to bring people together in one way or another as they bridge the gap between space and time with more speed. If we can’t connect with people physically, we can, virtually, as thousands of miles can be traversed in a matter of seconds. I find it strange that although governments attempt to fragment and separate people, drawing lines in the sands to protect their so-called piece of turf, their specific isms, or to infiltrate other cultures with their political ideologies, the universe keeps giving out ideas to bring the whole together. Don’t argue with this fact, just observe it.

Yes, the Source wants you to participate in the co-creation of your world, but he doesn’t wait for you to decide if you’re going to follow through with the idea he gives you, the idea is simply made available for anyone who will move on it. Thus, when it comes to the timing and need of inventions you will find that a single idea has the ability to move across various regions of our planet in no time flat.

For instance, it is said that New Zealand farmer and inventor, Richard William Pearse flew and landed a version of the airplane on March 31, 1903, about nine months before the Wright brothers. If you were to asked the Brazilians they would tell you Santos-Durmont invented the airplane because he rounded the Eiffel Tower in a motorized machine in 1901. The issue is not who did what first, but the fact that the idea did not belong to any one man. There really are no firsts in the realm of ideas. What I want you to pay attention to is the timing of the manifestations of the idea in this instance.

In regard to the idea of a motorized way to travel in the air, the inventors and the timing of their invention are pretty close together, no matter who did what first or who got the first patent. The fact of the matter is no single person invented all the parts of the airplane. Someone invented the wings, the tail, and various other parts. Remember earlier that I told you that ideas and their physical manifestations are a part of the universal continuum. When we bring forth an idea into this physical reality we are simply adding to the continuum. This should eliminate the need for any ego trips as you work within the group. As a side note, an argument could be made that Leonardo Da Vinci first conceptualized the idea for an airplane. Perhaps he was the first, perhaps he wasn't. The fact of the matter is this: man has probably wanted to fly every since he saw the birds do it. If you think about something long enough you will find a way to do it. That's what I want you to do--think!

We're getting ready to get into the meat and potatoes of this series of blogs: How to create wealth by meeting the needs of humanity. It's called,
The Matrix of Ideas

No Desire-- No Money! How to Create Million Dollar Ideas Through Group Synergy

What is this thing we call desire?

Well, what do you think it is? Is it a longing or craving? Is it lust? Is it want, a wish for something? All of these things have been called desire at one time or another. Perhaps, desire is a combination of all of the above or perhaps not.
Since the description of a thing is never the thing itself, we must look outside the word desire to experience it. To truly know what desire is, you must lose every definition of the word in order to experience it. And that’s exactly what desire comes closet to; an experience. Inside the experience is an observable magnetic pull toward purpose, and only the one with the desire feels or senses this pull.

You see, in reality most people seldom come in contact with desire. Without an awareness of who we are apart from what we have been conditioned to be, our desires (or what we think are our desires) are only implanted scripts designed to get us to behave in a certain way. Thus, most people are psychologically shaped and manipulated to act a certain way to benefit other people. That is to say, most of us are like sheep headed to the slaughter, just ripe for the 'pickins' for any new psychological technique, trick or ploy used by advertisers to get us to buy things. Thus, our desires are not really our desires at all but the wants and wishes of the corporations who pay handsomely to have these advertising agencies program the brand into our conscious and subconscious minds. Wants and wishes are not true desires because they can be planted by sources outside of us. Remember, a desire is an observable inward pull to something that can only be witnessed by the observer himself.

But aren’t we going to do the same things…give people a desire for our products?

Again, do away with the word, desire, for now. You can generate or induce a want but you can’t produce or induce a true desire. You can generate a wish or craving for something, but you can’t produce or induce a desire. Shrewd businessmen and women who employ people skilled in the area of psychology do so because they want to know what drives and motivate people to buy and what makes them keep on buying. Just keep in mind that when we are talking about ideas for creating products or services for people, we are talking about tapping into what a person might want or wish he or she had to make their life a little easier. In other words, the desire originates with the individual himself through a thought. The thought is then picked up in the field of consciousness.

For instance, someone had to say to himself,
"Gee, I wish I had something small enough to carry these small items on the plane with me. I don't need a big suitcase." Enter— carry-on luggage.
or

"Boy, I want something to eat but I don’t feel like cooking anything and I can’t afford to eat out. Enter—a hot pocket or any other microwavable frozen dish.


Somewhere along the line, someone was given the idea to make these products and you can bet that someone told them it was a lame idea because the food would spoil, or that no one could use a small bag on an airplane. Of course, I couldn’t get any more basic than this. But we’re talking about the basics, aren’t we? An idea doesn’t have to be overly technical; it only has to be functional. The amazing thing about this is that the person who had the initial thought,the desire, is seldom the one who will create the product or service. Perhaps, a year or so down the line, he'll see some infomercial where some guy has taken over the idea and is now making millions off it. The most important thing to keep in mind is that a true desire originates within the person when he wants something that will make life easier for himself. As for the women reading this blog, your desire is to make your life better, happier, by becoming financially stable. This is your core desire, and no one else gave it to you. Quite to the contrary--everybody else wants your money--the bill collectors, the government, or perhaps your kids. I'm probably the cheapest guy on the block because I'll probably upload the Holistic Business Success for Women ebook to a couple of sites for less than $5.00.

All in all, if you’re reading this blog, keep in mind that desire has drawn you to it. This indicates that there is an inward pull, a knowing, that you’re supposed to bring forth something into this physical reality. You are ripe to receive a million dollar idea when you have desire.

When you have become aware of your desire, it’s time to add intention to it. Intention, purpose, and desire are locked together like a divine trinity.

Ideas; The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of

“Tell me, what exactly is an idea and how do I come up with one?”


I'm glad you asked.

Well, first of all, you—by yourself--are not going to have to come up with anything because it’s not about you, remember? It’s about the whole. You are not alone in this creative process, but will be working right along side other women who will add their intention and power to an idea that Source will give you. That brings us to this very important point: Ideas do not belong to any one individual. If Bill Gates had not received the vision for Microsoft you can bet that someone else would have. Ideas, as non-tangible thought forms, belong to the realm of the transcendent. Let’s take a look at what an idea is so that you’ll get a better picture of what I’m talking about.

An idea can be defined by any of the following:

A transcendent entity that is a real pattern of which existing things are
imperfect representations…
A visible representation of a conception: a replica of a pattern…
An entity (as a thought, concept, sensation, or image) actually or
potentially present to consciousness….

You should have picked up on the words, ‘a transcendent entity.’ When we say that something is transcendent we simply mean that something—whatever that ‘something’ is-- exists apart from the material universe.

For instance, a business entity does not have form per se, but we still treat it as a separate living thing apart from whoever files the corporate papers with their state offices. However, we are not talking about this kind of entity because this kind of entity can be seen in the material world only after the idea has taken form. This is extremely important for you to get because when we are talking about ideas we are talking about much more than the end or the manifestation of the product, we’re talking about the beginnings.

Every idea and every form for the idea already exists within the Field. When we say that someone invented this or that, the truth of the matter is that they did not invent anything—they simply acted as a channel for the idea to come into this physical reality. I know this is a great blow to ego of the inventor. But every inventor knows that his invention is part of a continuum. The inventor does not make something from nothing. Every organic and inorganic substance is indigenous, natural or naturally inherent in this environment. The purpose behind the idea is to manipulate known substances into various forms to enhance life for all creation. Thus your job is simply to receive the idea from the Field and facilitate the merging of the transcendent with the material.

You are part of this Field. Some call the Field God, Source, Goddess and various other names which attempt to capture the meaning of the Divine. In our third definition of the word, idea, you find this language: an entity actually or potentially present to consciousness. Remember this phrase; potentially present to consciousness. This ties in to the fact that the existing pattern for anything is available for download—so to speak—for every being of consciousness.
You may have always thought you were not as smart as other people, but when it comes to creative ideas, it’s not about education (though that may help) or IQ (though that may help too), it’s all about ones ability to see themselves through the eyes of the Divine and to know that God wants the very best for you in the here and now. Yes, creative ideas are not only given to help mankind but they are also given in order that you can create a better life for yourself.

Also, when it comes to ideas, don’t every try to compare yourself with anybody else. Don’t say, I’m not this or that. You are where you are right now because of your thoughts. And you can only get to the next level of financial prosperity by your thought life. Anyway, regarding smart people, there are millions of smart people in the world who don’t have two nickels in their pocket to rub together.

Now, we have determined that ideas and their patterns already exist within the Field, the Mind of God. Since we know that ideas come from the Field, let’s talk briefly about why they come.


Ideas may come at any time when any one of the following has been sent forth by any individual into the Field. We would all like to think that ideas only come to the upright or those with outstanding moral character. However, if you’re living in reality, you know nothing is further from the truth. There’s a Biblical quote that says, God makes his rain to shine on the just and the unjust.” We might also add, “He makes his ideas to fall on the just and the unjust too.” Good ideas come to those want them. That is to say, if there is no desire, there is no idea. And if there is no idea, there is no financial prosperity. Let's take a brief look at this thing called desire. It is the first of the 'big five' and a major reason why money-making ideas come.


Desire
Intention
Purpose
Need
Time

Holistic Business Success for Women

When I first wrote the book Holistic Business Success for Women: How to Create Million Dollar Ideas Through Group Synergy, we were less than two months away from the general elections of 2008. It was mid September, and long standing corporate giant, Merrill Lynch, was forced to sell out to Bank of America and Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy to the tune of $639 billion, by far, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history at that time.

On September 15, 2008, the Dow lost 504 points, the lowest point drop since the stock market reopened after September 11, 2001. It was estimated that about $700 billion was swallowed up in this financial fiasco. That is to say, people lost their money in their investment portfolios, retirement plans, government pension funds, and the like. Perhaps, you are one of the women who lost money in these banking crises. Perhaps you were also among the number of women who lost their house during this mortgage crisis. If you meet any of these criteria, all is not lost—even though it might feel like it.

I was hoping by the time the book came to print things would have changed hopefully for the better. But since they did not, you must learn to forge ahead undaunted by what’s happening all around you.

Security is extremely important to you, perhaps more so than men. Men somehow think they can rebound from anything. They often pack up and leave at the drop of a hat to follow what they believe is a golden opportunity. However, this is not necessarily true for most women. You think about your family first and worry about how things will get done, if you’ll be able to keep medical insurance, a roof over your head, feed your family, keep your kids in school and the like. You have always been a multitasker, juggling family, job and your relationships. The issue for you is not about rebounding from anything, but in maintaining some stability in your life.

However, nothing is ever as stable as you would like it to be, is it? The universe is never static. Everything is always in transition. Change--although you may not like it --is inevitable. Thus, changes in the your personal situation, your relationships, and the economy or inevitable. You may not like it, but it is what it is. To counter catastrophic change, you must learn to change and adapt yourself to whatever the current political or socio-economic climate is at the time. Of course, it’s very difficult to live in the world but not be a part of the world’s system or the worlds’ way of doing things—this includes business and the current way of structuring and doing business. I’m sure that it was just as difficult for business owners 2000 years ago as it is for us today. You may not think that it was but the people of antiquity might say otherwise.

Nevertheless, living in the world but never being caught up by the way the world does thing is exactly what Jesus preached to his disciples. Thus, during this period of economic change women must not respond by panic or worry. A completely different paradigm must take hold of your mind. Believe it or not, just because it seems like things are going down the tube you can ride a wave to the top. Although people suffered greatly during the great depression, there were many people who made more than their fair share during this lean time in American History.

The mind is truly a terrible thing to waste and there are many women who are not only wasting their minds—they’re losing their minds! Some women are losing their mind because they trusted men to have their best interest at heart. Since men continue to be the power brokers, the gatekeepers and lawmakers, their view of how to best implement and lead our social, political, and financial institutions has always been selfishly one-sided and primarily exclusive to anyone who does not have a penis—at least, in the top levels of our major institutions.
The narrow-minded view that competition as oppose to synergy was the way to go has come home to roost. This is not an intellectual, political or social argument. There is no argument. The fact is this: a competitive environment is often a breeding ground for greed, cut throat tactics, hidden alliances and everything else imaginable and unimaginable. It is enough to make anyone lose their respect for the corporate world, and people in general.

However, losing your mind is not an option right now. The only option for you is to do your part in changing the way business is done and in doing so create a product, related product, new media, or service that will benefit humanity and in turn create prosperity for yourself and all those willing to come on your team. In addition, your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to create a new model for doing business and prove to the world the mutual cooperation is better than the competition. Inspirational author and speaker, Wayne Dyer says, “change the way you look at things and the things you look at will change.”

In this blog I want to ignite a deep change in feminine consciousness, the deepest part of every woman who has a desire to start her own business or for women who already have an existing business, so that she can have greater control over her financial future without giving way to men, whose chief objective seems to always be to ‘keep women in their place.’ I want you, the divine woman, to see through to the truth of your own divinity and power to create a better life for tapping into the financial ideas that have been waiting for you since the foundation of the world.

There is no lack in the universe, therefore no lack of money in the United States or elsewhere on this planet and thus, no lack of ideas. Even though financial institutions rise and fall, I believe you can create enough wealth to weather any storm, and in doing so, bring others along with you by working together with women of like mind, like motive, and like passion, to create a sound business entity. I can think of a number of reasons why this is the perfect time for the emergence of more women businesses and the creation of new products and services.

Yes, this is your time. Women have many advantages and some disadvantages when it comes to business. Both can be used to motivate you to take more control over your financial destiny. Here are a few things to think about.


Women have a greater knowledge of products or related products because they
are the primary users of these products.
Women give greater attention to the detail of things.
Women are the largest consumer of all manufactured products.
Women are still under-represented in the business community.
Women wages still lag far behind that of men.


We heard a lot about teamwork over the years but I’m not talking about that kind of teamwork—the kind of teamwork where managers try to sell employees on their value and worth to the company in order to increase productivity and sales. No, I’m not talking about the kind of teamwork preached in boardrooms, auditoriums, or various company in-services where only lip service is paid to the customer as if he or she is a separate entity apart from the company. The truth of the matter is the customer has always been a part of the team but has had little recognition as a contributing member of the business structure. But all of that is about to change with you. You are about to come in contact with experiential synergy through the group dynamic. So gather up about four of your girlfriends—only those friends or associates who truly believe the universe has something more to offer them than doom and gloom.

In the upcoming post I will share some of the basic concepts behind group synergy and my personal matrix for creating million dollar ideas. After that, you decided if an investment of a few dollars to purchase the book is worth it.