LISA BERKOVITZ ~ Inspired Lifestyle Design

There's something magnificent in the air since we moved into 2012. Can you feel it?

There are some TOTALLY cool things going on in my business since we moved into new year that I'm excited to share. The last quarter of 2011 was a lot about cleaning up loose ends, letting go of what was no longer in alignment, and incubating new ideas. That paved the way for all the new creation that's happening now. 

Here are just a few of the things that are happening right now:

1. I'm in the process of designing a whole new web site that is about to be launched. The site you're on has been good to me, but it was originally built to be temporary, and it's time to evolve to my next level of expression. The new one is going to be hot!

2. I'm officially launching Project Sweet Spot with the new site! If you don't know about it, check out the blog post I wrote about it here: 


http://www.lisaberkovitz.com/1/post/2011/06/project-sweet-spot-is-born.html

I am conducting my first interview for Project Sweet Spot this week, with a role model who's been on my 'wish list' of role models for quite some time already. Things are getting juicy around here - stay tuned!

3. I've just started writing a new column for Upmarket, the new online business magazine founded by Seth Godin and his team at Squidoo. The column is also called "Project Sweet Spot" and will share a key nugget learned from the role models who are interviewed as part of the over project. 

4. I've just put together a very limited-time special offer for my coaching services for a handful of visionary entrepreneurs who are ready to make 2012 the year they bring their vision to life and step into their own sweet spots. Check out the details here and act quickly if you feel pulled (offer expires Friday, January 27th, midnight PST):

http://www.stepintoyoursweetspot.com/

There's no better time time to step up and shine in what you are meant to do on the planet, and I'd love to support you in that. What are YOU going to create in 2012?

I promised to write more about my Eden Unplugged event experience as it integrated, and there's been little chance to do that over the past few weeks. Things have really been accelerating. 

One of the greatest gifts I received from that event was the Tribal Marketplace Game. Each of us who attended had the opportunity to present a workshop to all the other entrepreneurs there based on whatever new product, service or business idea we wanted to offer to the marketplace. 

We each had 1 minute to present our workshop topic for a limited number of workshop slots. Anyone who was not presenting a workshop idea would listen to the initial 1 minute presentations, and after everyone had presented, participants would simply go stand next to the person who was offering the workshop they most wanted to attend. Pretty simple but very powerful to get that immediate and physical feedback from the tribe.

I presented a workshop called "Project Sweet Spot" - an interactive discussion of the shift from the old paradigm of work and business (hard work, struggle, long hours and limited funds) to the new paradigm of work and business, which I am calling the Sweet Spot: greater ease, flow, fun and financial well-being. I had also invited two thriving entrepreneurs who struck me as living examples of working in their Sweet Spots to be on my panel and who I would interview as part of the workshop, Kendra Thornbury (http://www.kendrathornbury.com) and Rebecca Astara (http://www.destinationbliss.com) 

The response was phenomenal, as person after person came to stand next me indicating their desire to come and listen to my workshop! When we actually conducted it, participants listened attentively, asked powerful and relevant questions, and heard the experiences of our panel members and what kinds of lessons they learned along the way of stepping into their own sweet spots. Here are just some of the dozens of lessons that emerged as part of that conversation.

When you are in your Sweet Spot, you will: 
1. Lose track of time
2. Be energized by it no matter how long you are "working"
3. Feel like it comes very naturally to you
4. Feel like you are just being yourself
5. Find challenges are a lot easier to handle than they have been in the past

If you want to move into your Sweet Spot but are not there yet, you can expect you will need to: 
1. Cultivate your faith and trust the process, even you don't have the answers or see the results you want yet
2. Do the necessary inner work and clear the inner blocks to allowing your good to come you
3. Make peace inside yourself that there will be people who do not understand why you are pursuing the path you are on and will tell you you're being unrealistic
4. Give yourself permission to experience joy daily 
5. Be ultra aware of the signs and synchronicities affirming your direction and keep moving forward

What was most amazing about it for me was that I truly felt that I was in my own Sweet Spot as I led this workshop and interviewed Rebecca and Kendra. It was as easy and natural as breathing. And so I intend to be doing a LOT more interviews and events of this type! 

If you are someone who is in your Sweet Spot, or know someone who is, please nominate them to be a person that I interview for Project Sweet Spot. My intent is to gather as many stories as I possibly can of people from all walks of life thriving in their Sweet Spots so we begin to build a critical mass, others can see and feel what it looks like, and they can learn how to move into their own unique Sweet Spots too. Everybody has one! 

You can comment below or I've created a page on Facebook where you can nominate people you think I should interview here: facebook.com/ProjectSweetSpot (and if you feel inspired, please "Like" the page too!)

More fun to follow - stay tuned! :)