Saturday, May 17, 2008

Craft your GRAND vision... write it down!

Our assignment for our final Ladies Who Launch incubator meeting was to write a vision for ourself. There's SO MUCH power in writing down your intentions. I chose to do the vision exercise by writing a news-style article about myself.

When I have clients write down intentions they want to manifest, I always suggest that they write as if everything they want is happening now.

So instead of saying...

"I will create a worldwide giving movement with over 1,000,000 members."

I'd say...

"I'm so thankful that today my worldwide giving movement brings over 1,000,000 people together in the spirit of generosity."

Since I wrote this as an article that is running in Entrepreneur Magazine I took a slightly different approach than usual. It was fun. I put a printed copy on my altar! I've already written myself a check for my $550,000 book advance. It's actually been hanging on my desk for about a year. I look at it every day and visualize what it feels like to cash that check.

If you've never done a written vision for yourself, do it today. And then spend a little time each day sitting quietly and reflect on how it FEELS to live that vision. As Abraham tells us in the Law of Attraction:

"AS I AM FEELING, I AM ATTRACTING."


MY VISION:
From one-woman show to fempire in five short years
Excerpt from an article running in Entrepreneur Magazine

Who says a fempire can't be built in record time? Cami Walker has proven it's possible to turn a solopreneur operation to a thriving global enterprise in short order. Today she is widely recognized as the world’s leading fempreneur expert. One thing Walker realized early in her ventures is that woman entrepreneurs want more than just profitable businesses—they want to give their gifts to the world and inspire positive change.

Breaking Ground Through Giving
Walker’s worldwide movement, the 29-Day Giving Challenge, brought more than 1,000,000 women and men together in just seven short months through the power of online social networking. People who commit to the challenge give away 29 gifts in 29 days and share inspiring stories and artwork about their experience. The online project was parlayed into a New York Times Best-Selling three-book series called, 29 Gifts for which Walker was given a $550,000 advance from Chronicle Books. The top-rated documentary-style reality show, 29 Gifts, has run on Bravo for four seasons and was just picked up for another three.

Transforming Pain into Growth
The 29 Gifts project were originally inspired by Walker’s triumph over Multiple Sclerosis, which is believed to be a chronic neurological disease with no cure. But Walker doesn’t believe that. She has been free of the often devastating disease for many years now and lives an active, vital life.

Thriving Through Service to Others

Today, Walker is sought out by launching fempreneurs for her unique gifts as a business intuitive. Walker’s combination of marketing expertise and clairvoyant abilities make her a potent partner as she helps clients plot their personal path to business bounty.

Clients flock to Creative Urge, Walker’s consulting business. She works with a select few women one-on-one, raking in fees of $1,200 per hour, and is one of the most popular inspirational speakers on the national circuit. Through her exclusive Creative Urge Partnership Program, Walker is now a 15% shareholder in over 50 women-run businesses. She provides ground-floor visionary expertise and start-up capital to help these businesses take flight and grow in exchange for minority ownership.

The Creative Urges Never Stop

Walker’s latest non-fiction book, Energetics of Commerce: How to turn up the frequency of your vision, was released earlier this year. Next for Walker is a novel entitled, Ghost Stories, which is a coming-of-age story about a San Francisco stripper named Deja, set during the dot-com boom of the 1990s. The story follows Deja’s personal quest to face the demons of her past and reinvent herself as a successful painter and loving single mother. Walker’s agent tells us the movie rights are already being shopped to studios, even before the final manuscript is complete.

A Settled Spirit
Walker says she finds most of her inspiration through her close connection with family and friends and through her spiritual practices. Walker currently lives in a sprawling beach-side estate in Santa Cruz, California with her husband and two children. The couple adopted their children, who are biological brother and sister, through the LA County foster care system in 2010. Walker’s husband, Mark Atherlay, is a voice acting star who does lead character voices for several top-rated children’s television shows and movies.

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YOUR CHALLENGE: I encourage you to give this visioning exercise a try! You'll feel completely inspired by what you write. Feel free to send a copy of your vision to me... or email me a link to it. I'm happy to read it and help you hold your intention. Your vision can focus on any area of your life where you want to see big change.

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