With December 2009/January 2010 being a time of the blue moon - two full moons occurring in one month (see end of post as to which countries have a blue moon in which month*) I wanted to remind you of the power you have in you right now to make 2010 your best year yet – starting with these 3 tips.

1. Do a writing/clearing ritual to Get Clear on what  needs to GO and then what you want to GROW.

Jennifer McLean (Healing with the Masters) recently shared this lovely New Year Ritual which I have adapted as follows: Take two sheets of paper. Make a list for Go and one for Grow.

Go List is all the stuff you are thoroughly sick and tired of creating in your life – (e.g. excess weight, money challenges, procrastination re writing your book).  Look back on 2009 and write them down.

Grow List is 5 items you want to manifest, attract and create in 2010. Writing them down is key.

Burn both lists separately in a shell or container.  Take the ashes of the Go List and scatter them to the wind with a blessing that you no longer need them and yes, give thanks you learned the lessons they taught you.

Take the ashes of the Grow list and bury them in your garden – or a pot plant – symbolically giving love and thanks for the seeds of manifestation which you are asking the Universe, Divine Spirit, God to bless.

2. USE IMAGERY to create a Vision Board, Intentional Scrapbook or Mind Movie that speaks to your other-than-conscious mind and powers up your subconscious to attract your dreams.

3. CHOOSE ONE BIG GOAL per year and 5 To Do action steps per day.

Yes, as important as it is to have satellite goals under the titles of Personal, Physical, Business, Financial and Spiritual (all of which I recommend you do) I have found that the most powerful way to move successfully forward in my life is to discipline myself to choose one big goal to achieve per year – and after that focus in the now with one day at a time.

So ask yourself the question after reflection and the suggested Go/Grow rituals: “It’s one year from now – January 4, 2011.  What one thing did I achieve in 2010 that made the most difference to my life?” For instance in 2008 I set myself one big goal – to finally write my book “You Can Break-Free Fast”.

In 2009 I aimed to publish it, get it on Amazon and learn more about internet marketing with regard to my writing/speaking/coaching  career.

In 2010 -I am focused on building on that – expanding  my career as a Writer-Speaker giving talks and workshops globally, starting in South Africa where my book is now being distributed and publicized in bookshops nationwide.

As important as my book has been so too has been love and marriage…  living my “babyboomer honeymoon”  in love with Nick my husband of two years.

So it’s great to have satellite goals around your one big push to achieve that Big Goal. But keep them to 5.  That’s my advice.

BACK TO WORK? OR WORK-PLAY?

When I got up this morning, I was tempted to think: “back to work” like so many others – maybe you?

But then I remembered – my “work” is my passion and play. I said to Nick, my husband – “We’re changing pace and focus today after a time of Christmas/New Year/my birthday celebrations. But today is a glorious divine abundant day (thanks Mary Hall for that affirmation). Best of all I get to play with my book, workshops and sharing my insights as to how you and others can “break-free” to attract your deepest desires and dreams.

For myself I’m enjoying a life of endless summer in glorious sunny Cape Town. Yesterday I played tennis, spent 30 minutes in the gym and enjoyed a late afternoon swim in the sea. I woke up today and meditated into my heart and found the BIG DREAMS I want to manifest in 2010 and then WROTE THEM DOWN.

As always, in the now – I have my action list of 5 Things TO DO to keep my day focused.

Writing this blog was not one of them!

But hey, I love my freedom. Plus don’t you just loved Alice Popkorn’s image? It inspired me to share my inspiration.

Happy Work-Play in 2010!

PS *Note that South Africa, America and Europe had the Blue Moon in December 2009
But… if you live on the “other side of the world” re GMT – such as Australia, Japan, India and China – your Blue Moon occurs in January 2010.

Imagine if you made a leap of faith in mid-life to follow a dream – say to write a book – and found yourself horribly stuck! It happened to Megan, a client of mine. Soon after she turned 40 she was retrenched from her job with a catering company.

So she took her savings and moved to a cottage in the country, telling herself: “At last, I’ve got the chance to fulfill my longing to be a freelance travel/cookery writer while I write my book.”

But three months later, when she called me after hearing me speak about “tapping” on a radio show, she said: “I feel DESPERATE. I’ve got eight unfinished articles on deadline and I’m plagued by procrastination and panic. Help!”

SHE NEEDED TO FIND AND RELEASE THE PART OF HERTHAT WAS HOLDING HER BACK, KEEPING HER STUCK

In any situation where you feel trapped or stuck from taking action – it’s like two horses, pulling in opposite directions – tearing you apart. The horses need to be calmed, soothed and set on their way towards their destination, using their energies to go in the right direction so that they can get to their destination, rather than wasting their energy in hopeless struggle.

I DISCOVERED THE WAY TO RELEASE THIS INNERCONFLICT FOR MEGAN IN MINUTES…

It sounds fast – and easy – and it is…when you KNOW HOW. But it took me a lifetime of frustration and failure – and then seven years of apprenticeship and study with many of the world’s most famous and successful healers and self-help experts… to learn this secret – and why and how it works.

Since early childhood when I witnessed my gentle hardworking mother being emotionally abused by my alcoholic father – I was driven, called, impelled, you could say, to find an answer to why people – especially women – stay “stuck” in situations which squelch their dreams and leave them feeling powerless to change.

Guess what? I myself repeated my mother’s situation until I reached rock-bottom at age 50. I was homeless after a fire, divorced after my 25-year marriage crumbled, and totally broke. Driven by deep despair, I got down on my knees and prayed to my Higher Power/ the Divine, to show me a way to “break free” and live the life I loved – happy and healed from within – a magnet for money and love – and on track with my Life Purpose to help others.

AND THEN I DISCOVERED THE KEYS TO BREAKING FREE…starting with…

DID YOU KNOW THAT MEMORIES AND BELIEFS FROMCHILDHOOD CAN BE RUNNING OR RUINING YOUR LIFENOW?

It doesn’t seem fair that your life should be hijacked or controlled by something said – or done – to you as a child. Yet it is now a proven scientific fact that 95% of what we believe and think originates in our unconscious.

And it’s that self-sabotaging unconscious programming in your “emotional brain” that needs cleaning, clearing and replacing. It’s what I write about and am passionate helping you achieve.

There is nothing more freeing that the liberating moment you have a break-free-aha and move through to the next expansive level of your life.

Both “sales champion” Tom Hopkins and the best-selling author of Wishcraft Barbara Sher, who I met in New York at a life-changing workshop years ago, say there is no such thing as “laziness” or “procrastination”. Instead it is about … BEING IN CONFLICT WITH YOURSELF.

“Why don’t you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don’t is that you’re in conflict with yourself,” says Hopkins.

Over the years I have discovered many ways to clean and clear this “stuckness” – and one of the fastest and most effective methods is “tapping” – as in Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) – which I explain more in my book and e-coaching course.

Recently I met Joe Vitale and hearing him talk about “awakening” at the Miracles Weekend in San Diego (2008) led me to experiment more with clearing my inner blocks with the Self I-Dentity Ho’oponopono technique of saying: ‘I ‘m sorry, Please forgive me, I love you, Thank you” – all explained in detail in the book Zero Limits by Joe Vitale and Ihaleakala Hew Len.

The main result is that you move out of the VICTIM mentality, take full responsibility for everything in your life and, best of all, begin to live from inspired action – rather than goal-driven intention setting, which can be great, but sometimes becomes frustrating as you attempt to “row upstream” in pursuit of your dreams.