Some things just make me happy. Watching dolphins play is one of them…

With Love & Light… :)CC

Christine N. Cibula, M.S.

The Manifestation Mentor

www.LiveIntoIt.com

I love when I’m led to a beautiful moment in my day. Today I was led to this video where Oprah is sharing with Larry King how she became aware of “The Secret” before she ever knew it was called “The Secret” when she landed her role for THE COLOR PURPLE. I welled up with tears as I heard her sing, “I SURRENDER ALL… I SURRENDER ALL…” And at that moment I knew I needed to share this with you.

Oprah’s story reminded me of how I manifested an internship in Hawaii working with four bottle nosed dolphins from the middle of Tulsa, OK when I was in college at the University of Tulsa studying Psychology.I began using dolphins in every psychology presentation I could. In my Cognitive Psychology class, I compared and contrasted the human brain with the primate brain with the cetacean (dolphin) brain. In my Environmental Psychology class I gave a presentation on the Ocean Environmental Preservation, featuring endangered cetaceans (dolphins and whales).

I read Ocean Realm Magazine at every sitting when at home. I would be the first to get the magazine from the mailbox. I gathered up every National Geographic Magazine I could find with stories of dolphins and whales. I listened to a CD with beautiful Orca songs mixed with music non-stop. Family and friends started giving me dolphin gifts at every turn. A dolphin ring. A dolphin medallion. A dolphin pendant. Dolphin statues or figurines. I talked about dolphins and whales all the time. It was my healthy obsession. I slid dolphin art in the front of my clear page binder. I had books filled with dolphin stories and photographs.

One day out of the clear blue, my advisor asked me to come meet with him. He shared a call from the University of Hawaii at Manoa for a very selective internship doing Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology research with a Marine Mammal program. The program involved working with four bottlenosed dolphins at the Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory in Honolulu, Hawaii.

I applied and put everything I had into my application. I waited for months with no acceptance. I was growing impatient.

I cried and got so upset thinking I was not being chosen for this internship, but I knew I needed to be there. I felt that deep burning desire. I wanted to be making our flights, finding the place I would live, pack up my things and move over for the semester, and yet there I was waiting… Waiting… Waiting… And nothing was happening. Why didn’t they just accept me into the program already? I was READY!!!

One day I was swimming laps in our beautiful pool. I could see the light refractions in the water and as I swam back and forth, I got into a really relaxed state. I saw a whale’s eye come closer to me and as I looked in her eye (I’m not sure how I knew she was a female whale, but she was) I could “see” how much love there was for me. For a moment I could see my future and my past and how I was so loved I could barely fathom that much love. The sensation filled me up to overflowing so intensely that I wondered if I could take any more love. That is how intense the love was. At that moment the vision vanished and I stood straight up in the pool and began sobbing. I came inside and told my mom all about it and how I knew that everything was going to be okay.

I released everything in full faith that it was coming to me. I surrendered all…

Very soon thereafter, I received the confirmation that I had been accepted into the program and that I was ONE of TWO INTERNS who had been accepted NATIONWIDE and WORLDWIDE for that particular semester.

So when you want something so bad you can feel it, see, it, sense it, taste it, smell it, and know in your heart of hearts that it is your destiny, it comes to you ONLY when you SURRENDER ALL in FULL FAITH…

Live Into It With Love & Light… :)CC

Christine N. Cibula, M.S.

“Wow! I just finished my first ‘Coaching Job’ …and I did not even know that I was doing it!” - Video Blog Success Story from Special Guest Author Thomas Gorgas, Ph.D.

A few months ago I moved from San Diego, CA to Tulsa, OK. Since I was totally new in this town, I went out and found myself a “job” — I became part of the management team of a large retail store. Very different experience from anything else I have done career-wise in the past (”Ph.D. in Ocean Geology & Geophysics” and “CEO of Amakua Video, my own video production company in Hawaii”)!

My position commanded to mentor and coach up to 20 associates (age 16 to 55) to improve their performance level for a specific type of sales ‘upsell’ in addition to their primary purchase. At first I had NO clue what to do and how, but I was lucky that - around the same time - I embarked on learning more about “Business” in general and the basic principles of “$ales” in particular through a novel coaching program called “Live Into It…” designed by business coach and CEO Christine Cibula, M.S. (www.LiveIntoIt.com).

So, what happened was that I kept on studying myself and my own “business conduct” and at the same time, I applied those principles as I mentored my associates. To be honest with you, it took me time to identify my “diamond in the rough”….

But eventually I found a “gem” to work with, and like a coach of a star athlete, I was able to continuously & consistently improve the performance levels of that particular associate. I decided the best thing to do is to concentrate on this one “business builder” and allow others to participate as long as they wanted to do it. She doubled, then tripled, then quadrupled her sales!

In the end this particular associate became $ales Person No.1 for the entire REGION (reaching beyond the State of OK) and boosting her overall sales by over 400%.

I was elated to see that what I started to learn and adopt as a coach and “business builder” was duplicatable and that I could teach those new traits to others.

“Heartfelt Mindset & Self-Improvement Strategies”, “Goal Setting”, “Navigating Challenging Terrain”, “Success Building and Momentum Strategies”, and other great “tools” to develop & maintain a great business are all part of this coaching program. I was encouraged by the measurable results after only a few months of business development coaching sessions - a small investment of my time and money for the exponential results and success that I am seeing - I am now looking already how I can continue on that path to further foster my own business, including coaching others.

I recently accepted a highly desired position as the Chief Sales Officer with a company that combines my love of the ocean, video production, team mentorship, and sales promotion in my beloved state of Hawaii, which has allowed me to move back to the islands! In a very short period of time, I have been able to turn it all around and live into the life I’ve imagined! I highly recommend the Live Into It! Business Development Coaching programs.With this success story I want to say THANK YOU to “Live Into It!” CEO & business coach Christine Cibula, especially since she helped me to catapult my own career path from simply “Science” and “Video Production” to a much more diverse and broadened audience of potential clients, and by doing so also supported my desire to return to Hawaii - my true home!

THANK YOU!

Thomas Gorgas
President and CEO of AMAKUA VIDEO LLC (Hawaii)
Chief $ales Officer for OCEAN NETWORKING TV (Honolulu)

PS: You can watch a 5-min. video about my personal and professional success story using the Live Into It! System, including a “descriptive testimonial” with “7 Keys to Sales Success” from my #1 Top Sales Associate in the region, Amarjit Jakhar, in Tulsa,OK!

PSS: To sign up for CC’s FREE Live Into It! Goal Setting ECourse:

http://www.liveintoit.com/goal_setting.html

PSSS: To sign up for CC’s FREE Get Acquainted Coaching Session:

http://www.liveintoit.com/appointment.html

Do you love the unknown? If you want to live into the life you’ve imagined, it requires embracing the unknown and stepping outside of your comfort zone.You can do it! I can show you how…

With a business background from Notre Dame University, a Master’s of Science in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, a solid Internet Marketing based training as well as years of Counseling, Clinical, and Health Psychology mixed with formal Corporate Experience working with CEO’s & Multi-Millionaire Entrepreneurs, you will learn the best of the best as I fast track you to your success. Together we MASTERMIND and tailor your personal strategy, map your plan, and then I work with you every step of the way as you manifest your dream!

As one client recently shared, “CC, every time I work with you, my batteries are recharged and I’m ready to go back out and accomplish my BIG VISION… My cup isn’t half empty or half full when I’m done working with you. It is filled to overflowing!” Wow! Thank you so much…

So if you are like me, and love the unknown, sign up for a FREE Get Acquainted Session ASAP, and let’s see what we can do for you and your vision…

http://www.LiveIntoIt.com/appointment.html

With Love & Light… :)CC

Christine N. Cibula, M.S.
Online Entrepreneur & Business Development Consultant

What is the one thing we all have in common that brings everyone who does it joy?

Wouldn’t it be great if we danced our way to world peace and love???

Live Into It… :)CC

Christine Cibula, M.S.
Business Development Consultant
“Live Into The Life You’ve Imagined…”

You never know what will happen when you are living into the life of your dreams!

Live Into It… :)CC

Christine N. Cibula, M.S.
Business Development Consultant
www.LiveIntoIt.com
“Live Into The Life You’ve Imagined…”

Do you have a dream inside of you just waiting for you to live into it? Do you know that your soul has a life purpose that is waiting for complete expression in your daily life? Christine Cibula, Online Entrepreneur and Business Development Consultant of www.LiveIntoIt.com is offering you an opportunity to participate in her groundbreaking Live Into It!™ eCourse including Workbook & Bonus LIVE Group Coaching Q&A Call (A Value of $247). Take action NOW. Don’t delay. Visit www.LiveIntoIt.com/bonus.html to register to receive your FREE BONUS GIFT IN THE MAIL.

Never stop learning…

At any given time I’m reading a handful of books, studying from carefully chosen mentors, and doing my own research on the topic of the day that seems to rock my world.

Today I tuned into a teleseminar from one of my online marketing mentors, Howie Schwartz. The guy is BRILLIANT. Plus, he’s a total sweetheart…

As I was on the call, he mentioned someone typed in NAMASTE to him. He got a kick out of it and encouraged everyone listening to look it up for themselves for a more personal experience of the true meaning. He mentioned how he’d been doing Yoga and had changed his eating patterns to green tea and live foods. Funny thing, because I’ve done the same in just the last month…

It is Saturday, Fourth of July weekend, and I’m chilling so I found myself GOOGLING NAMASTE. I found the Wikipedia definition and noticed the hand symbol in the photos. Namaste is a term from India, which made me think a lot about Siddha Yoga, a form of yoga that I’ve done with great success in quieting the mind and getting centered. Whenever I think of what I have learned through Siddha Yoga, I am filled with love and gratitude.

One more thing. My sweetheart, life partner, and fiance Thomas Gorgas, Ph.D., has always told me that I need to be a teacher at the “School For Love“. He keeps asking me what I’m waiting for, and well, I don’t have a great answer. When I watched this video today, I felt it through and through. I needed to share it with you…

So on this Fourth of July weekend, I wish you love and light as you live into the life you’ve imagined… :)CC

Christine N. Cibula, M.S.
Business Development Consultant
www.LiveIntoIt.com
“Live Into The Life You’ve Imagined…”

P.S. Just in case you are wondering, nothing is more irresistible to MANIFESTING THE LIFE OF YOUR DREAMS THAN LOVE, no matter what you are in the process of manifesting. Love… Health… Wealth… At the core in all of it and each other is LOVE… NAMASTE…

Do you ever wonder how the amazing internet marketers make boatloads on their product launches? You know how it goes, your inbox is suddenly stuffed with MEGA-LAUNCHES and co-promotions all pointing to the same amazing new product or seminar. And these guys are good - really good - at getting their marketing message out there. A bunch of the big WEB 2.0 internet gurus made at least a million with their launches.

But the thing I keep wondering is what happens to the little guy? Can just plain regular folks win with those kinds of launches?

Well I just saw a short video that gives the FINAL answer on that question. And I have to admit, I found it really shocking.

I mean a guy with a crazy obscure niche going from the food stamps line to a six figure income? His case study is for real. I mean, you can see how he started out with this herbal medicinal board game he produced for a pretty penny and a home overflowing floor to ceiling with all these boxes. Talk about a super specialized niche, right?

And this husband and father of two basically put them out there and guess what? He sold 12… And then he found Jeff Walker’s Product Launch Formula (the one I have in my library that I just pulled back out to look at in depth again). Jeff pulled the version I have and is no longer selling it, because he’s getting ready to release his Product Launch Formula 2.0.

I’m actually in line to get his version 2.0 because he’s added a bunch of great new content for Web 2.0 users. Even if you don’t buy the product, the case study rocks and it is worthwhile to see how Jeff Walker does his own product launches. After all, he’s the guy behind the success of John Reese’s and Frank Kern’s million dollar product launches… I won’t say he taught them everything they know, but he did teach them how to do record-breaking product launches that skyrocketed their product launches into SEVEN FIGURES!

I’ve met Jeff Walker in person at the Dan Kennedy & Bill Glazer Info Summit in Atlanta where he presented. He’s a great guy - real… down to earth… unassuming… trustworthy… kind… gracious… humble… we’re talking a guitar playing guy who loves his family and hangs out in sweats at home… he even does product launches in his bathrobe… I’m sharing this to say it is worth your time to check out how he launches a product around an event. This stuff is GOLD…

Go watch the video now:

http://tinyurl.com/2emuhs

But before you go… one more thing: you don’t need to
enter your email address to see the video - it’s
completely free. But MAKE SURE that you do enter your
email address anyway… the follow up “case study” is
going to be even better than this first video.

http://tinyurl.com/2emuhs

Live Into It… :)CC

P.S. Food stamps to six figures is cool… but that’sjust one of the amazing non-guru case studies in the video. How about a list to 312 people that generatesway more than five figures?

Go watch it now:

http://tinyurl.com/2emuhs

This morning my fiance shared a beautiful story with me about a documentary he saw about 10 years ago about MOVING THE MOUNTAIN. Michael Apted’s 1989 documentary was about the pro-democracy movement in China that later escalated into Tianamen Square and the courage of one man captured in a photograph before he met his death standing up for what he believed in…

In the end, Thomas shared that we can move a mountain ONE SHOVELFUL AT A TIME.  He then said that it is like he’s heard me say before, “Focus on base hits instead of home runs…”

We don’t usually win at the game of life in one full swoop.  Sure, some people win the lottery and then proceed to lose everything they gained, because they don’t know how to manage it.

Most of us build wealth steadily with some rather nice growth spurts at times, what Dan Kennedy and Bill Glazer refer to as THE PHENOMENON.

We’re creating our EXTRAORDINARY lives, so we talk like this most mornings, noons and nights. We’ve got our vision boards. We have our daily goal cards and action steps.  We’ve mapped our plan.  We make a point to only watch, listen to, and participate in INSPIRATIONAL activities.

So back to my story… He said,”You know, it is just like Jack Canfield says in THE SECRET that you have to have faith as you move forward only being able to see 200 feet in front of you because you will eventually reach your destination. Of course, you need to know where you’re going…”

Which triggered this thought I’ve literally run back into my office to share with you this moment!

Last weekend we were celebrating my Dad’s 65th birthday AND my fiance’s birthday, because they BOTH SHARE THE SAME BIRTHDAY!

All joking aside about how we eventually marry our fathers (or mothers), we were on our way to a really amazing restaurant called the Canebrake. It happens to be in the MIDDLE of the countryside in the middle of a small town in the middle of somewhere that for a minute felt like it might as well have been #%&*! Egypt…

TWO important points. One is that since I run an internet-based business, I can do it from HAWAII like I did last summer and I can do it from OKLAHOMA where we are now to enjoy some time with family. So when you read this, understand we’re in Oklahoma right now. The second is that I have an older ML-430 SUV Mercedes WITHOUT a GPS tracker and I was using a Google MapQuest map.

We knew our starting point (Tulsa, OK). We knew our destination (Canebrake in Wagoner, OK). We made it, but not without some challenges…

We got LOST… LOST… LOST…

LOST #1: I had the map in front of me, but did not follow it. I was supposed to get off at the first exit on the turnpike but I got off earlier when we were just merging with the turnpike and got on Highway 51. I asked Dad if that was the right exit by phone and he thought based on what I was sharing that it was, but it turned out to be wrong.  Even so, I was looking for a street intersection, found it, and ended up in a neighborhood with no restaurant to be seen anywhere. We discovered we had gotten off the turnpike earlier than anticipated and had taken a smaller highway so we went forward, reconnected with the turnpike, and followed the map.

LOST #2:  We followed the map, but the map was WRONG.  At one point, the map said highway 51 merged into a street called CHEROKEE, and that we’d take our next right after Spencer.  Highway 51 did merge into Cherokee if you proceed forward and ironically at a point where Highway 51 makes a SHARP RIGHT that the map did not mention.

A short distance down CHEROKEE, we did find SPENCER, the street that was supposedly right before our next right onto the street where the restaurant is supposed to be.

But we never found the next turn to the right which was supposed to be our destination.  Instead we ended up going WAY farther forward and dead ending at a street that ironically had the same intersection signs as the first time we got lost (on both signs).  But clearly, the restaurant was not there.

(I had a mini-breakdown on the cell phone realizing we were stuck at night in the middle of the countryside in the middle of nowhere not knowing where to go.  I was panicked.  My fiance made the honest observation that I was being a,  “FRICKIN’ NIGHTMARE” to which I promptly replied, “HAPPY FRICKIN’ BIRTHDAY!!!) We laughed about this publicly at the dinner once we arrived and had a little champagne!

LOST #3:  Not trusting the final set of directions.  We got the right directions but since we had chased our tails so feverishly twice before, I was starting to lose it.  We gassed up and the attendant had no idea where the restaurant was that I was talking about. I was seriously consider going back home.

I turned around two or three times (much to the dismay of my fiance) before proceeding forward cautiously and finally making it to the correct destination.

Jack Canfield calls this phenomenon “CORRECTING COURSE…”   He shares that most of the time a flight has the correct destination locked in on its computer, but the majority of the time, the flight is correcting course to reach its destination.

So we arrived at this beautiful spa, resort, fine dining location and enjoyed a beautiful birthday celebration and had a perfectly wonderful night.  Never mind that it took our friends one hour to get there and it took us two and a half hours to get there.

We reached our destination…  Actually, everyone marveled:

1. We STUCK IT OUT until we arrived.  STAYING POWER PAYS OFF EVENTUALLY!
2. We were able to figure it out despite a WRONG map and without a GPS SYSTEM (…Guess what I’m getting for my birthday from Dad this year?…).

3.  We were able to enjoy and celebrate a ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY.

So the moral to the story is…

1.  KNOW WHERE YOU EVENTUALLY WANT TO END UP…  This is a critical key to your success and it is worth the time to get a clear solid and exact picture of where you are going. It saves a lot of time, headache, and heartache along the way.  Others in the group found it by actually going to the Canebrake’s website (better directions from the source) and relying on a real road map (yeah, the old fashioned kind that you keep in the car with you) instead of a Google or MapQuest map.

2.  STAY THE COURSE…  Despite being tested along the way, stay the course.  Correct course when you get off track.  Staying the course helps when you have a clear picture (not a foggy one, but a definite and clear focus) of where you are going.  It may take two to three times what you anticipate it is going to take before you get there, but you must stay the course in order to actually arrive.

3.  GO THE DISTANCE…  Remember that one of the Universal Laws is the LAW OF GROWTH.  If you retreat just before the seed sprouts, you’ll never see the flower.  In our case, we decided that even if we made it for dessert and coffee, we were going.  Turned out they had enjoyed appetizers and champagne and we were able to enjoy the remainder of the meal with them.  If we had given up, we would have missed a very special once in a lifetime night.

Live Into It…  :)CC

Christine N. Cibula, M.S.

The Manifestation Mentor

www.LiveIntoIt.com  

P.S.  And when in doubt, remember that one man can move a mountain one shovelful at a time…  This may not be ideal for fast business growth, but remember that base hits win the game steadily in lieu of home runs, and often times with a much better overall standing when it is all said and done…

Have you ever just met someone and had that instant connection where suddenly you’re talking about your families, your businesses and just about everything under the sun and you know you can trust this person implicitly?

For me that was how I felt when I met Fabienne Fredrickson. She felt like a sister. It was so cool. We chatted up a storm and I knew right then and there I wanted to work with her. That’s me, CC, on the left, Fabienne Fredrickson “The Client Attraction Breakthrough Mentor” in the middle, and my other awesome friend, Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero of “Red Hot Copy” on the right (check out previous blog entries to read all about Lorrie).

We were all together at Alexandria Brown’s “Online Success Blueprint Workshop” last November when we took that picture. But I met Fabienne the year prior in Atlanta, Georgia at the Bill Glazer and Dan Kennedy Info Summit. Come to think of it Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero and Alexandria K. Brown were there, too! I was actually assisting Ali when she had a mad rush of six figure sales the last day when she gave her onstage presentation. Isn’t it fun how that works?

Here’s ONE BIG HINT… Successful people all hang out in the same places. This is especially true in the Entrepreneurial and Infopreneurial world… Turns out Fabienne and Ali go all the way back to their early days living in the city of New York… Turns out Lorrie and Ali met at a speaking engagement where they were both scheduled to talk in LA in the leaner years.

Now here’s the REALLY COOL PART OF IT… We all learn from each other’s products, seminars, and services and send each other clients. Sure it is a great way to reconnect and have a great time with friends and write the trip off because its business, but you can be sure we wouldn’t spend our time there if the payoff wasn’t huge. Every entrepreneur is always looking at the bottom line when making these kinds of decisions.

After meeting Fabienne, I picked up her Client Attraction Home Study System. I was completely WOWed! To this day I still regularly open the system and work with it. If you don’t get Fabienne’s Ezine, sign up for it ASAP. It ROCKS!

I was so impressed with Fabienne, I began coaching with her. She is such a wonderful coach. I was able to fill my coaching practice effortlessly and easily implementing the systems she teaches. Now I’m moving my business to the next level…

This year, I’m attending her Client Attraction Workshop, because I want to totally immerse myself for three solid days in her system and fine tune myself. I am a big believer in repetition, because I find it helps me to fine tune myself year after year. Plus, I believe you get a heck of a lot more out of LIVE IMMERSION in an event rather than simply doing the home study version. Both have their place in my world, but live events are my favorite.

Fabienne’s giving away a ton of free information on a series of calls, the first of which starts TONIGHT! Here’s how to sign up and get your link, but be quick about it, because these calls are filling up super fast. The last call I heard Fabienne give I took PAGES of notes… Now that’s saying something! So here are the details… Be sure to let me know if you decide to join me in at Fabienne Fredrickson’s Client Attraction Workshop in April 2008! I’ll be in the front row (I signed up as soon as the landing page was put up on her site!) and I’LL SEE YOU THERE…

In the meantime, you can get a tremendous amount of information from Fabienne on these calls. I know I’ll be there, and I want to hear you on the line, too. You simply CANNOT miss all this great FREE CONTENT!!!!!

So, won’t you join me? The first call is on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 and you can sign up and get the details here now by simply clicking on the link below or type this adorable tiny URL into your browser (http://tinyurl.com/2k6lbv):

Fabienne Fredrickson’s Client Attraction Workshop FREE PREVIEW CALLS

I’ll see you on the calls!

Live Into It… :)CC