If you have been patiently awaiting a newsletter in your mailbox, I offer my sincere apologies. A white dove holding an olive branch in its beak should be arriving at your windowsill any moment now.

While on vacation last May, I had every intention of writing my next newsletter, even the perfect place to create – Kauai, but nothing came. I had more than a case of writer’s block. I had severe constipation……

Looking back now, I see why nothing came. It was a nine year. For those of you unfamiliar with numerology a nine personal year is the time of endings and completions. Something needs to finish to make way for a new cycle. This last year has been a year of tremendous changes in my business. Those of you who have had recent appointments know that I moved (I now have my office in my former home, and I love it.).

With this move, other things shifted as well. Each year I mentor under various people. Jack Canfield, Marcia Weider, Loral Langemier, Michael Charest…depending upon what my focus is. This year I’m mentoring under world renowned family therapist Cloe Madanes. Last year I joined Suzanne Falter-Barnes and Jefferey Van Dyke which allowed me to examine my business from the perspective of my soul. What an auspicious time – a nine year – to ask my soul what was on the horizon for the next cycle. It was even more auspicious than I had recognized. Those of you who read my occassional blog musings know that my friend, Lissa Bowles, also known as the Soul Mapper, had done my astrolgocial chart and my twelth house of spirit and surrender was hosting a planetary party!

It is fair to state that I was in the personal equivalent of the Perfect Storm. As with any storm, there is no place water does not reach. Through the gentle support and guidance of Suzanne and Jefferey I looked at my business and my life, because they are so intertwined, through the eyes of my soul. I saw the parts of life I had cast to my shadow; I looked at how those parts of my self that I put into the shadow were here to help me deliver my blessing to the world – if only I let them. By stuffing them into my shadow, not only was I not able to harness their talents, I was losing a tremendous amount of enegy to keeping them there.

Mind you, this all happens whether you like it or not when you are hosting a cosmic party in the twelth house. It is divine providence that I was working with Suzanne and Jeffrey, under whose guidance I examined all of this through the lens of a spiritual quest. And for those of you who want to take a similar journey, I did create the pathway as I was experiencing it: Your Divine Blueprint. I’ve created a dynamic coaching and hypnosis package designed to give you the insight to live into your bigger life.

This has been a rather lengthly explanation of the long haitus for the newsletter. I know the question many of you are asking is “So what changed”. I will answer that in my next few posts. I’m still figuring out if I am going to pay someone to continue to send the newsletters or if I’m going to keep in touch in other ways.

I’m entering into a new cycle – a one year – with lots of groundwork to be laid. It’s a time for leadership, advancement and to pursue new goals. Right now, the cosmic party is in my sun house, promoting lots of opportunity for sewing seeds of new possibility, and with that I’ve lots of projects going – new branding, new websites on the horizon, new program offerings in both hypnosis and coaching. Really, the only thing of which I am certain right now is CHANGE.

It’s a new year, and I know I was a tad bit quiet at the end of the year, but big things are brewing. Just how momentous, I’m not quite sure, but after listening to The Soul Mapper, Lissa Bowles, I know the movement in the cosmos is unfolding the equivalent of the red carpet for my career in 2011.

OK, I have to admit… at first I was shakin’ in my boots, but now…I’m just trembling with a mix of excitement and anticipation. Actually, it isn’t a new revelation, this thing that is on the horizon. Last year my coaches pulled it out of me, and then urged me to step up to playing a bigger game.

It’s interesting. When you are ready to move fully into your purpose you can look back and see how everything you have done until now has been perfect training for the unique way in which you are to deliver your service. Even though I know that I couldn’t see it for myself. Working with a coach really challenged me to explore both the light and the dark places to see how everything, even those turbulent times in my life, was the Divine preparing me for this next unfolding of my soul expression through my work in the world.

Now, I’m busy doing the marketing preparation, working with a branding specialist whose job it is to create a graphic representation of this next iteration of me, and help me pull all the parts together as I make the transition.

In the meantime, I’ve been working with a colleague of mine, Kim Boyden, who lives in Bellevue, WA to memorialize this experience into a program we can present to others. We are excited to be unveiling “Your Divine Purpose Blue Print Process”.

Since this is my birthday month, I am offering a special 45 minute Unveiling Your Divine Path for 2011 hypnosis session. Consider it an appetizer to introduce you to the power of this process. 

What is special about it?

It’s my PRESENT to YOU! To schedule yours go to meetwith.me/karenrothstein and schedule a session today.

People who have already received this gift left with teary-eyes, jubilantly looking forward to a year in which they spend their time engaging in activities that are an expression of their soul infused with passion.

Doesn’t that sound like something you would like to experience this year?

A week or so ago I had coffee with the Blog Whisperer, Jerry Kennedy.  Sweating bullets he confessed to me, “I’m scared. I went out on a limb and posted a major attack on the “fake-it-till-you-make-it” crowd, and I’m afraid I might piss some people off.”   I felt for him. His more endearing qualities, transparency and authenticity, might work against him.

In the worst way I wanted to just take the napkin from underneath my blueberry scone and wipe the beads of sweat from his forehead, and in doing so, wipe away his angst. Instead, I took another sip of my Sumatra.

“And at the same time, I don’t really care.” he looked at me expecting a response.

Gasp.  Gulp.  Guilt?  Note to self, “Read the post.” I smiled politely to hide my rising concern.

What if, in my work with hypnosis and coaching, I’m asking people to “fake-it”?

People who work with me know I am a HUGE advocate of acting “as if” what you  want is already coming your way. Do you want a booming business? Act like a successful business person. Do you want a loving relationship? Act loving, even if the boot marks are still fresh from the swift kick to the curb your received in your last relationship.

If you want something claim it through your actions.

This economy presented the perfect opportunity for many of my clients to examine how they want to spend the next stage of their life.  In other words, they’ve been fired from their job.  They leased their soul to an employer for the past 20 years and the company defaulted. They feel mislead, cheated, robbed, blindsided. This is not the mindset set to be in when you are looking for “what’s next”.

To think I might be unwittingly asking some of them to “fake it” sent me into some serious soul searching.

Many don’t feel confident going forward.  Here is what I know. You recapture confidence and claim success by doing the inner work, traversing into the muck and mire of your mind and letting go of crap. And you shortchange yourself if you stop before doing the work it takes to reveal, deep in the secret chambers of your heart, the golden seed that yields your life purpose.

For the people brave enough to do the work, stepping into their newly unveiled purpose feels a little foreign. The first few times they remove the old mask to express their divine purpose, it appears haltingly awkward as they blindly feel their way into creating the experience they envision.

The distinction between the person who is boldly stepping into a new role and the person “faking-it-‘till-they make it” is one of faith and intention. Completing the inner work with intent allows your soul purpose to become remarkably clear. Claiming this purpose feels a little akin to the first few times riding a bicycle without training wheels. Your birthright is to express this purpose, gifting to others the blessings you are here to give.

If you lack faith that you can be who you profess to be, then you are indeed faking it. No amount of declaration of who you are, what you can produce, guarantee or accomplish will create a cognitive resonance attracting your target audience to you if you lack faith.

No matter how you say it, play it, pose it, pretend it to be, if success is not rooted deep in your consciousness and your heart center it can not become your experience.  Proclaiming otherwise lacks the resonance of Truth.

Truth sells and markets itself. No faking needed.

There are many ways to become entranced. This weekend I experienced one way in the presence of Suzanne Falter-Barns, Get Known Now branding expert, and her new business partner, Jeffrey Van Dyk , as they soulfully blended their respective niches into one sweet outcome for the entrepreneurs attending the launch of their new program “The Perfect Platform Revival”.

I have to admit, as a solopreneur enrolled in one of Suzanne’s year-long courses, and as an early coachee of Jeffrey’s mentor, Tim Kelley, curator of Know Your Purpose, I was a little hesitant in spending precious resources for what could be another workshop promising the big shift but sorrowfully under delivering. Was this cross-niche hybridization a way for two coaches to simply repurpose program material that was close to the dreaded product expiration entrepreneurs face as followers jump on the brand wagon of a competitor? Or was it as promised an intersection of business and spirit?

The line between business and spirit thinned as soon as I crossed through the doors of the conference room and immediately Suzanne and Jeffrey began a sweet, subtle orchestration of purpose and the pedagogy of building an attention getting-brand and ultimately a high performing purpose-driven business. In what only can be recognized as a series of divinely orchestrated events, Spirit brought these two together to deliver to heart-centered entrepreneurs the foundation for growing a highly successful service-based business, and inspiration continued to infuse the two as they co-created the event.

Reminiscent of the leadership style of the Coaches Training Institute, the duo ushered in level four learning intentionally, artfully and palpably. Practicing that down-to-earth, authentic and transparent “tell it like it is” style Suzanne is best-known for, participants were not hyped with false promises that they would walk away with their purpose brand and platform, nor underhandedly slipped a hard up-sell into a big-ticket program to get the “rest of the story”.

Those who were called in their heart and felt they are here to play a bigger transformational role in ushering in the Third Great Awakening by developing a spirit infused business in the New Economy were  invited to explore working further with this divinely-paired duo in a manner that would make Lisa Sasevich, Queen of the Invisible Close, proud and crumble the pedestals of those still standing in the hard up-sell camp.

Those who chose to forgo the offer left brimming with possibility in the after-glow of a series of well-crafted exercises and coaching hot seats that skillfully blend and build the leader’s respective niches together, and gave the participant more than enough content to apply to the next unfolding of who they are here to BE  and the blessing they are here to provide the world.

Without giving away the finale for “The Perfect Platform Revival” when you attend the next offering, bring your Sunday’s best for the final day, when in true revival spirit, Jeffrey and Suzanne combine all their talents to create a magical experience that left me wondering if I even needed to board an airplane to fly home.

The spirit of revival has previously profoundly altered America’s values in areas such as temperance, prison reform, and abolitionism. Jeffrey Van Dyk and Suzanne Falter-Barns prove in this joint venture launch that they are the transformational pioneers birthing us into this Awakening where future studies of world transformation will show that the life and fabric of purpose-driven American entrepreneurism became the model of the New Economy.