This post is dedicated to the artist SLART, who inspires me in his explorations of his creative process and his promotional process of his art. We have a goal. If we hold it with confidence, we may forget to hold it creatively, so......
Reversals: Joy in Sudden Disappointment In the Tarot, a reversed card has equal significance to an upright card. Not only that: its significance upside-down is often quite different (although related to) what it means right-side-up. In life, especially on your journey to a goal, a......
How I Get So Divinely Much Done I am at the cusp of some new deep change. I have a lot of time I’m trying to figure out how to use. And I’m succeeding in not using it up but sometimes just sitting and......
Instinctually Intact Are you instinctually intact? There are many kinds of intelligence. Instinct is one. Recapture, recultivate, regain your instinctual intelligence–starting with this post. The Importance of Instinct Two events within a week confirmed for me my good instincts and reaffirmed I wanted them to......
Sharing Awareness Sessions: You’re Invited Greetings! This is an invitation to sit with me in awareness for an hour each Thursday at 6pm Eastern. This is something I began doing about a month ago, and plan to keep right on doing for the foreseeable future.......
Exploring Focus in Depth: Mike Lee Wang and Beth Raps Interview Mike Lee Wang helps people learn to develop practical skills and tools to dissolve the inner patterns that are no longer serving them and replace them with updated, more conscious ones that......
Defining Focus Defining focus is simple. The image above defines it: if you can do this with your mind, you’ve already got the very definition of focus. Picking up the needle and putting it where you want it on the record defines focus perfectly. If......
Why we don’t feel we can achieve big goals In this post, I explain why we don’t feel we can achieve big goals and what the real barrier is. I’m inspired to write this explanation because of a wonderful request from a soul-colleague: Can you......
The Law of Attraction The Law of Attraction is like the law of magnetism in three ways: it governs the attraction of one thing for another. It is predictable. It’s invisible. You can’t watch the attraction happening, although you see its effects. But invisibility......
It’s Easter Monday. We are now living in a post-Resurrection world. How do we integrate it? Unlike many people, and even some Christians, I accept the Resurrection as fact. It’s much easier for me to accept than, say, white supremacy or US exceptionalism, or AI.......
“Structure Your Spiritual Life”? Does it sound like a contradiction? Only if you misunderstand your spiritual life. Your spiritual life is where you really live. It powers and keeps you juicy and alive. It’s vital. So is structuring it. I offered an event live and......
How to Structure Abundance A reader asks: Hi Beth! I’d love to know/read/hear more from you on the dance/balance between MINDSET (here I’m thinking abundance mindset, trust, faith, etc) with practicals like planning, budgeting, etc. Like, when do we lean into abundance mindset and when......
Know Which Voice Is Talking: Step One Sort out who’s talking inside your head. We Each Hear Many Voices Inside Us There are a number of voices inside each of us: parents, ancestors, trauma/wounding, childhood experiences—and truth. How do you distinguish among them? Step One:......
Know Which Voice Is Talking: Step Two You can sort out who’s talking inside your head. Your Voices Say Different Things Once you’ve done Step One (noticing you have different voices speaking), it’s also normal to notice that they say different things. This is the......
Know Which Voice Is Talking: Step Four There are a number of voices inside each of us: parents, ancestors, trauma/wounding, childhood experiences—and truth. How do you distinguish among them? Step Four: What, Exactly, Are You Hearing? Step Four is noticing what you are hearing. After......
Know Which Voice Is Talking: Step Three You’ve done Step One and Step Two. Now you’re getting used to tuning in and just giving the voices inside your head some space. Step Three: You Are Not The Voices Inside Your Head Step Three is noticing......
Know Which Voice Is Talking: Step Six Sort out who’s talking inside your head. In Step One, you took notice: you have voices in your head. (So do we all! Let’s learn to use them.) Step Two taught you to address this “inner conflict.” Step......
Know Which Voice Is Talking: Step Five In Step One, you noticed you’re normal and you have voices in your head. Step Two taught you this is what we mean by “inner conflict.” And in Step Three, you realized you’re not any one of the......
Know Which Voice Is Talking: Step Seven Sort out who’s talking inside your head when you try to hear your calling calling! There are a number of voices inside each of us: parents, ancestors, trauma/wounding, childhood experiences—and truth. How do you distinguish among them? Especially......
Fitbits, Smart Watches, and Even Smart Phones What do they all have in common? If you’re of a certain age, it’s obvious. If you’re younger, maybe not so much. The connection is what I call “outsourcing.” They all outsource something we used to do for......
Obstacles to Abundance and Contentment There are three obstacles to abundance and contentment. They are not what you think! They are Lying Ignoring Being too smart. Contentment is Abundance Contentment is abundance. It’s one very immediate, and immediately gratifying form of abundance. (If you need convincing,......
Abundance 101 I write a lot about abundance in this blog. So do many people who specialize in money. Much of what we write feels “grabby” to me. It’s all focused on getting more. Getting more abundance is antithetical to one of the core components......
Focus on Your Calling Guided Meditation RAISING CLARITY helps you claim your calling and reclaim your resources to follow it. I created our all-inclusive Claim Your Calling program for people who know their calling. Where does this leave you if you don’t know your calling?......
Shame Is an Oversimplification You Can’t Afford Shame is an oversimplification you can’t afford. It cuts you off from what you need. What you need wants to come to you. But it can’t, with shame in the way. Go after shame. Pursue it passionately—and you......
Removing What is Really Getting in the Way Norman Withers wanted to apply for a leadership position, a creme de la creme opportunity that would build him a life and put him on a powerful career trajectory. He had the quals. He had the skills.......
Don’t wait to be happy til you like yourself Don’t wait to be happy. Especially don’t wait to be happy until you like yourself. Waiting is pointless. Your life needs you. Your calling needs you. Myth #1: Liking Yourself is a Must We’ve been told......
That Which You Focus On You Become At this time of year, your being wants to focus inwardly. Yet you may be forcing yourself to focus outwardly. Winter in the Northern Hemisphere Most of you live in the northern hemisphere, along with me. Just like......
“Work First” is A Sickness: It’s Not Following Your Calling! “Work First” is a Sickness. It’s NOT Following Your Calling.The relentless drive to put “work first” is a sickness. It has nothing to do with following your calling. Any confusion between them is just part......
Never waste a good mistake It’s impossible to overestimate the value of a good mistake. I am in the throes of having made one. The self-recrimination is avid. The emotions are all over the map. But the spiritual life is kicking in and peaceful distance......
The New Way of Finding Your Calling As you noticed last post, I’m a lot in RAISING CLARITY on your calling. My blog posts and videos now weave you following your calling right into them. (That’s my calling!) The Old Way of Finding Your Calling......
Crystal: And So We Begin Our Journey of Promotion with Integrity This post is the first in a series of posts about promoting your work (PR, marketing, spreading the word) in alignment with your highest self. Promotion that doesn’t make you want to puke. We......
Promotion with Integrity is Grounded Introduction Promotion with Integrity is promotion that doesn’t make you want to puke. Many people actually feel like throwing up when they need to promote something. Promotion is our lifeblood! It’s how other people know to support us. Let’s look......
Promotion with Integrity is Juicy Introduction Promotion with Integrity is promotion that feels good. It feels juicy: lovely, yummy, creative, fun. If that’s hard to imagine, start with our “Grounded Promotion” post. Once you’re grounded…it’s time to generate some enthusiasm for your promotional work. And,......
Promotion with Integrity is Powerful Introduction No matter how you feel about promoting your work, once you are grounded, you can do it. That was step one, that post. You find the ideas inside yourself so that your promotion is juiced with your special brand......
Promotion with Integrity is Self-Expressed Introduction Promotion with integrity is aligned with all our parts. It is grounded juicy powerful loving. It is also self-expressed, the focus of this post. Beyond the Obvious: Self-Expression in Promotion It might sound like the most obvious truth that promoting......
Promotion with Integrity is Loving Introduction The shocking thing about promoting your work is that it’s loving. That’s easy to forget, amid the fear, boredom, and powerlessness we can feel when we approach promoting our work. But we’ve worked through these in the first three posts of......
Promotion with Integrity is Healed Introduction holy heal whole healthy All of these words have the same root. Promotion with Integrity heals us and our promotion of our work. How is It Healing and Healed to do Our Promotion with Integrity? It heals advice we’ve......
Promotion with Integrity is Clear-Sighted Introduction Being clear is easy. We are born clear. Becoming brave enough to be clear in our promotion however may take unlearning fear. Promotion with Integrity is courageously clear-sighted. Consider these questions: How many times have you stood in your truth as......
No, You Can’t Have My Mind, I’m Using It: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Your Mind My subtitle is a nod to the magic being worked in many people’s lives by Marie Kondo’s book. This post, however, is occasioned by my realizing I needed to......
Fascinating Failure I offered a Healing Power of Moving Money Workshop in New York City. I was really scared for some reason about the fact that I was doing it in NYC, even though I’d done it numerous times before. The strange and cool thing was......
