Ask for What you Want

I was approached a couple of times while on the West Coast this summer by entrepreneurs requesting my spare change.

I looked one man in the eye and asked him ‘how much he wanted?’

He was quick to say ‘whatever you can spare’.

I made the request again ‘how much?’

Lost for words…he finally said $10.

I need a warm meal - it’s been a while.

That’s exactly what I gave him.

In Vancouver, a woman this time approached me.

I asked her ‘how much she wanted’?

Shocked, she blurted out – 20 dollars!!!

I gave it to her.

She squealed in absolute delight.

She got exactly what she asked for….they both did.

How often do we ask for exactly what we want?

Frequently? Seldom? Rarely? … if at all.

I know in my own life, I often don’t make full requests.

I ask for small change instead of asking for large bills, metaphorically speaking.

Generally that is exactly what I get as a result.

Then I’m disappointed - not with them; at me.

Can you relate?

Imagine what it would be like if we spoke the truth and asked for exactly what we want, every single time?

No grey area, just clear simple requests.

Where in your life do you not ask for what you want?

How many times a day?

Or when do you hold out your hat and hope that people drop whatever they can spare into your life?

What if today you stopped asking for small change and ask for the $20, actually the $50, that you really, really want?

And you get it!

Would that inspire you to make another specific request?

And you got that too!!

Would you squeal in delight? Would you do a happy dance?

I know I would!

How easy our lives would be if there were no games and no guessing.

There would be no disappointments.

Life would be pure and simple, with clarity and much joy.

The way it was intended.

Imagine.....

So... how much do you want?

MATT PALMER, FILMMAKER & PHOTOGRAPHER
http://www.indiegogo.com/Unintended-Consequences

I just spent the last three days in an intensive personal coaching program with the amazing Cathy. 

I first met Cathy 20 years ago working on the movie Unforgiven.

Our paths crossed again because she coached a friend of mine Melanie Jones to true personal greatness. 

Cathy is a special soul with an intuition that gets right to the point, and really crystallized some critical issues for me that transformed my experience at the Clean Energy Congress. 

What a tremendous gift she is in my life, and I'm grateful for her gentle but precise coaching techniques. Highly, highly recommend.

.....now Karen Rowe

Karen Rowe http://www.frontroweseat.com/

Another extraordinary woman!  

Karen shares her experience of her recent coaching intensive.

Life-Shadowing. I’m not sure I’d go back to any other way of personal coaching. 3 days, 24 hours, a year’s worth of work and a lifetime of value all rolled into one kind, conscious, compassionate ass-kicking.

I am a roll-up-my-sleeves kind of gal; I have no time to waste waiting for my next big insight and my next revelation. I need it now. So let’s get this show on the road and spend some concentrated time getting to the bottom of it all. No sense dragging it on.

Enter Cathy.

The experience was fascinating, intense and liberating. I realized for one, that NO ONE IS COMING. No one is coming. It’s just me. So I had better start saving myself. I realized that I have spent my entire life trying to prove myself right about an ideal that doesn’t even serve me, that I have been a Chameleon masking who I really am; that I will do anything to be loved, including sell myself and my ideals down the river for a speck of attention, approval or affection.

Scary, messy, gross? Hell yes. Worth it? Every second. And Cathy was by my side the whole time, at the mouth of the cave, shining a flashlight and calling my name. She gave me the opportunity to see myself clearly, fairly and gently. She helped me to anchor within and reconnect with my personal compass.

In the end, I see. I see that I can trust my intuition, surrender my attachment to outcome, let go of judgement, and still be safe, happy and dy-no-mite.

Yes, please Universe. More of that.  

Thank you, Cathy, you very well may just have saved my life.

...Yvonne's gift to Brenda

I flew to Vancouver last weekend and engaged in a 3-Day intensive with Brenda Doherty.

She shares her experience.....

Thank you, thank you, thank you for helping me get that it is my choice to have passion and joy in my life. The three days that you spent in my home just this past weekend were life changing for me and I thank you for your compassion, your dedication and your skill in what you know is your life’s work.
I complained that I felt “stuck” in all aspects of my life, retold the story of what had happened and the survivor that I was. I just wanted to be happy and find my passion again. You allowed me to work through what I thought I needed to, the responsibility, guilt, loss, sadness, stress and suffering of a story I held on to so desperately, and gratefully you tapped into my dire need to finally let it go. Then with all of your skill and compassion you asked me the saddest, most profound question I ever could have been asked that completely rocked my foundation. “When did you stop playing?” Tragically, I did not know that I had and at that very moment, everything changed.
You have given me the gift of knowing that at this very moment, this very instant, I need nothing and that everything is perfect, including me, exactly the way it is. In this very moment I have the choice to be happy which will spread into all aspects of my life and through play I will find my truth, my strength and my passion again. It is thrilling to know that it is never too late to make every difference and that at any moment I can change the direction of my life through each and every action, never knowing what I might have missed had I not listened to my intuition. You have inspired me to create the realities in my life, to be happy, to look for passion, understanding and forgiveness in everything and everyone. Today I no longer feel lost and lonely inside and I no longer feel the need to hide. And gratefully, I no longer have to ‘hurry up and wait” to live my life.
I love you for what you do and especially for who you choose to be and thank God for bringing you into my life. As you say…”there are no accidents” and because of you and the work we did together I work to release the past, opening my hands to receive the joy and gifts I so deserve.
Here is to paying it forward, and with much love.
Brenda Doherty, August 2011

It begins....

...with Yvonne Woods. Fitness Instructor, Holistic Nutritionist. Calgary.

She is the pioneer and the first to 'pay it forward'.

She chose to take a chance on this unique style of coaching - bold, intense, intimate.

Here's what she had to say....

"I spent 3 days with Cathy in a new spectacular adventure of life coach shadowing and the experience was unbelievable!

Cathy taught me how to change my perspective on life and how to see the path of true happiness.

The biggest thing I learned is to stay present and to be aware.

I was amazed to see how much the universe communicates with us and how beautiful our lives can be if we simply stay aware and observe with curiosity.

Happiness awaits us all, we just have to follow our hearts and the world will guide us to where we need to go.

The bigger the jump you make with both feet the greater the pay off; so go ahead and jump!"

Pay it Forward

Several years ago, I was inspired to LifeShadow my long-time girlfriend Wendi, who had a serious illness. My intuition told me that if we spent 3-5 solid days together we would be able to target old patterns and beliefs, and when she would let go of those limitations, she would be able to heal.

I didn't have the courage to mentioned it.

She passed away shortly after.

That idea of LifeShadowing has haunted me ever since!

Today, I am thrilled to say, in tribute of my dear friend, I officially launch my 3-Day Intensives for transformation and healing.

My new website is www. cathyinc.ca

This is a unique and bold new way of coaching - condensing a year's-worth of coaching into 24 one-on-one hours over 3 days.

The fee structure is also unique with 'Pay it Forward'.

The thread begins with Yvonne Woods, Fitness Instructor, Holistic Nutritionist in Calgary. She was free. She then gifted Brenda Doherty in Vancouver, who was the 2nd person to receive the 3-day gift. Now Brenda's gift is in trust for the 3rd person....and so on!

You will be able to follow the thread of miraculous transformations as they happen.

Here we go.........

Reverse Manifestation

I am playing in 2011 with a new theory that was revealed to me several months ago.

I will call it, for lack of a better term, reverse manifestation.

This really confronts my whole way of being and what I have led to believe with the Law of Attraction - where we can manifest anything, anytime.
This is how I understand it – there is a master plan that has been set out for each one of us...and it is our mission to align ourselves with that master plan, or our grand purpose in life. When we align ourselves with that master plan we get into the flow and the Universe transpires to make things effortless and easy.

Make sense?
It’s a kind of hot and cold game that we played as kids. When you’re getting closer to alignment things get warmer, things click and you’re in the flow! When they don’t you’re getting colder or further away from the master plan. Intuition plays a big part in this game.

What if it was that easy - like a game of hot and cold?

Want to play with me?