What will you INTEND to BE in 2013? 

What will you ENVISION into EXISTENCE in 2013?

What GIFTS will FLOW through you in 2013?

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Doing the right thing

Argo presents the story of the 1979 take over of the American embassy in Iran after the downfall of the Shah. Six state department employees make it out a back door and find refuge in the home of the Canadian ambassor. In this movie the implausable becomes possible due to the remarkable courageous efforts of several people, including the Iranian maid who risks her own safety and ability to stay in her home land in order to protect the Americans.

There are characters who act from lower instincts of protecting face (here nationalistic face) and covering one’s bureacratic butt. These “just the way it is” characters feel anachronistic and weak compared compared to the future-looking characters who put doing the right thing above country and even family. I don’t suspect that I possess this kind of bravery, as much as I would like to think that I might be able to step up under these kinds of circumstances. So when I see it in others, I’m uplifted about the potential inherent in humans.

Here men as well as women show themselves able to step up, to be their bravest selves even when their ego minds are telling them they can’t, that it’s just too dangerous. Everyone loves to cheer for a hero and there are plenty in Argo to cheer for. You even want to hug the comic relief heros of the Hollywood establishment who see the fun in playing with the false “reality” of tinsel town for good and worthy ends.

Doing the bad seed thing

Then there is Looper. In this bleak future time travel is only used for evil, telekinsis is no more than a parlor trick, and humans are in such survival mode that the worst of what they can do to each other takes center stage. Everything about this so-called furturistic movie is old, trite, used-up and tired. I suppose all the shooting is designed to distract you so that you don’t notice this. Provide enough stimuli overload and the audience won’t care that the characters are unsympathic and robotic? Hmmm.

Why do men like these kinds of portrayls?

The males in this movie are selfish, self-absorbed, power-hungry, surface. Usually I love Bruce Willis action characters, but when his character starts killing children to preserve his idea of the “better” life (life with his wife), I know I’ve fallen into a very dark version of reality with little redeemable qualities. The only father type figure is the head gangster who rules his “household” with a hammer, literally. All other male figures are relieved of any need to engage in fatherly responsibilities. How children turn out is of little consequence to them.

Women as Mother or Whore

In tried and true Hollywood fashion the women are whores or mothers or, in this case, both. The future of humanity (and apparently imaginative good story telling) is based on whether they are nurturing good mothers or mothers who would sell their souls (or their children in this case). Ugh!

I suppose women are could feel good about the depiction of women as the stronger, more courageous and grounded characters of this movie. Emily Blunt does do a great job as the hero in this movie who uses love and understanding as her weapon of choice.

The futue deserves more imagination than a video game

So much cleverness went into the plotline, yet there is little real imagination to be embraced here. This vision of the future is constrained by old twentith century gangster-style antics. Taking drugs by drops into the the eye is barely a step into the future, let alone a leap.

Looper is a great example that if you use the past to predict or play in the future, you remain very limited.

So be Argo-like and do what scares you for the right reasons, and let your vision of integrity leap you to the best possible outcome!

Contact: Melissa Wadsworth, melissa@melissawadsworth.com

Melissa Wadsworth Selected As a “Top-Idea Maven” by The Woman’s Advantage

Entrepreneur’s Advice Featured in 2013 Woman’s Advantage Calendar

Melissa Wadsworth

Seattle, WA - Melissa Wadsworth, Author, Speaker and Certified Dream Life Coach of Brilliance Unlimited LLC was selected from over 5,000 submissions to be featured in The 2013 Woman’s Advantage Shared Wisdom Calendar, which will be released on October 15 . The calendar provides advice for women business owners from influential women leaders across the US and around the world.

“Melissa Wadsworth ’s quote was selected because it was powerful yet easy to understand. Her idea is relevant to almost every woman in business today,” says Mary Cantando, Growth Expert of The Woman’s Advantage. “Women business owners and those who dream of starting a business will learn so much from the advice provided by Melissa and the other successful women quoted in the calendar.” This is the second consecutive year that Wadsworth’s pithy advice has been featured.

The Woman’s Advantage 2013 Calendar provides tips and advice on key business issues including: organization, promotion, sales, and human resources.

About Melissa Wadsworth

Melissa Wadsworth is a certified Dream Life Coach, intuitive dream board expert, and inspirational speaker on the topics of authentic vision, achieving success through clarity, and the power of simple awareness. Through her company Brilliance Unlimited, she guides mid-life women through the challenges and opportunities of divorce, career change and redirection, and relocation. She also helps clients achieve their cherished life dreams by connecting to the power of their soul purpose. She offers a complementary 11-day video course, “How to Live the Life of Your Dreams Through Clarity,” at http://www.melissawadsworth.com. Prior to being a dream life coach, Wadsworth was a public relations and marketing professional for 15 years — running her PR company Wadsworth Communications and advising corporations on communications strategies.

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I have many times throughout my life. In fact, being a personal growth life-long student and a life coach I’ve dedicated my life to sorting out my beliefs around issues like the purpose and meaning of life, what can be done to live with fewer limits and more personal brilliance and joy … and what this all might leads to in the end.

If you have been on a similar life path, it perhaps comes as no surprise that physical death is not the end of consciousness. According to medium and author Jeffrey Marks, death is not even the end of our individual consciousness.

What are you dying to know?

In his new book The Afterlife Interviews, Volume I, Marks reports on the interviews he conducted with more than a dozen spirits asking them the kinds of questions you might ask if you had such direct communication with the spirit world.

In this first volume he covers the first 23 questions about the afterlife and what happens when we die. He asked questions about the death experience itself, the first thing the experienced, who met them on the other side, details about the life review process, what was gained and what aspects of self were lost, how they communicate, whether they got instant wisdom, and how they define evil.

Marks believes that The Afterlife Interviews can be a source of solace and hope for those on a path toward the afterlife — that would be all of us folks. He especially hopes that it provides comfort to those who are currently facing illness and imminent passing, as well as to their loved ones who may be able to release them with less anxiety and fear. That possibility alone is reason to read this fascinating book.

Ten Remarkable Reveals about the Afterlife

The Afterlife Interviews are full of informative and fun possibilities to consider. Here a few of the highlights.

1. Your Life Review is about praising your life rather than judging it. Yes, you will have a life review yet apparently we leave judgment behind when we die and wake up with a refreshed consciousness or perspective, and we are supported with love and compassion throughout. (I recommend watching the Albert Brooks movie Defending Your Life as a funny way of seeing what this process would be like with judgment). I’m working on leaving judgment behind now in my life, which my ego mind is fighting, so it’s a relief to know that weighty thinking will dissolve in the ether. As one spirit communicates, “It is the pageantry of your life, to honor it and feel joy for what you’ve contributed and what you’ve done.”
2. You’ll finally loosen up! If you’ve lived most of your life feeling tense, this should be good news. Much of that has to do with realizing the errors of earth-bound perceptions. One spirit reports that he got to keep his identity and got to rid himself “of a whole bunch of other stuff that never needed to be there in the first place.” Marks writes about it this way, “the answers tallied up to be something that not only opened up on’es mind, but also brought encouragement and hope for the future — a sense of self-nurturing each had lacked while alive on earth.”
3. Your new body will be made of light. I often say to clients: you are light and your life is a vehicle for that light. Apparently once we pass over the light that we are at our essence gets freed up, not only from heavy thoughts, but from things like gravity. “It’s like I’m Superman,” one spirit reports. This spirit energy body vibrates very fast. Marks is also given the information that “for both bodies — whether on earth or the Other Side — it’s the mind and the way you think which effects both.” So practice healthy thoughts in this life!
4. Life is your own individual projection. The spirits repeatedly emphasized the individual nature of one’s life path, the individual nature of one’s life lessons and the truth we’re each responsible for our own life movie. One spirit says it like this: “everything that you experience out there in life, starts from within you, it goes out, and then it comes back in for your perception….You’re responsible for this. You’ve got your own life, it’s your projection.”
5. You have all the time in the world. Because we don’t die, but rather live on in an another form of consciousness the stresses we humans feel in regards to time go away. “On earth, you guys really beat yourself up about your inner challenges — like, ‘this is going to kill me if I don’t figure this out.’ But then you realize you cannot die, so you approach inner challenges from a mouch more loving and caring perspective…you just know in your heart that you will make it.” This reminds me of the wonderful line from the movie “The Best Exotic Hotel Marigold,” that goes something like: Everything will be alright in the end. If it’s not alright, then it must not be the end. That’s an invitation to see ourselves as enough, and what we do each day as fully enough.
6. “Personal evolution apparently doesn’t end when we shed our mortal bodies,” according to Marks.The desire to continue to be better, greater, “more full,” remains a part of one’s spirit drive but without the kind of stress we experience on earth. This is a great earth life practice: Intend to expand your potential without stressing out. You will evolve. It’s inevitable so light up in the expression of and expansion of your brilliance.
7. You can meet “the other “Yous” that have existed (and will exist) throughout history. This may be the hardest concept to wrap your brain around. Once your in a “no-time” environment all this is exists at the same time. Marks said that he was most surprised by this insight, and the fact that some spirits communicated with their other simultaneous selves like old friends, while other spirits avoided contact due to the emotional baggage attached or the desire to not to “go back.” One spirit describes these reincarnational selves as “prisms of the Oversoul in the linear environment.” My recommendation from this insight? Start befriending the person, the soul, you see in the mirror each day. That sets a positive “self regard” practice into motion. The effects of this will certainly serve you well now, and who knows how it may positively effect those other “Yous.”
8. You choose which spirits to unite with. As one spirit puts it, “based on certain lessons and pools of energies, some will stay together and hang around together, while others may go off in different directions.” Another communicates to Marks, “There’s always an acknowledgement of the relationship between people…but you don’t have to like everybody.” As I see it, we can reduce our stress by accepting that we aren’t aligned, in the same way, with all people and that this is OK. This enables us to release the relationships that don’t serve us from a place of intention and choice rather than feeling like victims to our relationships and falling into heavy emotions that dim our light.
9. There is indeed a sense of love between everything. Part of this comes from an awareness of the interconnected nature of everything that is, part of this stems from a sense of wanting to be of service to others on their journey. This is the reason we make contracts with others to be in their lives. This reinforces an idea that a friend brought to my awareness. She told the story of how she realized that she had “contracted” with her ex-husband to help him learn about greed, so she knows she wasn’t a victim to his cheating, that she agreed to it! Taking a wider view of challenging situations can open us to empowered “spirit” possibilities that our narrow ego minds find difficult to grasp. As one spirit communicated, “We all coose the family; we all choose the dynamic of the life we live.”
10. You’re already complete! In the “no-time” zone of the afterlife you’ll wrap your awareness around the idea that all your earthly lives are already completed. You can either see this a good reason to do nothing or a good reason to do whatever you feel passionate about doing because your perfection is assured! Simply put by one spirit, “You judge and compare based on economic lifestyle on earth, and that’s no basis for determining a spiritual level or the growth of an entity.” This spirit addionally conveys about trying not to speed through life toward some imagined better end, “It’s all so ‘wow’ that you wouldn’t just want to all of a sudden ‘go to the end.’ There’s so much awesomeness to life.”

My take away from The Afterlife Interviews is this: Life is full whether you are in physical form or spirit form. Live your life with joy and less worry. Appreciate the lessons that come your way and realize that you never die, you only expand more into your potential as a light being.

I’m sure that each person who reads this book, will experience that the information pertinent to their own growth and evolution will stand out. It’s a book full of wisdom that can serve us in living our lives fully engaged right now. For more information and to receive book launch gifts that Jeffrey Marks is offering, go to http://www.afterlifeinterviews.com

Melissa Wadsworth is a Certified Dream Coach®, Intuitive Dream Board expert, Inspirational Speaker and Author. She guides women at a crossroads to more clarity, confidence and joy as they unfold their personal Brilliance Unlimited™. To access her complementary 11-day video course, “How to Live the Life of Your Dreams Through Clarity,” go to www.melissawadsworth.com

During challenging times and in the middle of dramatic changes, it can be difficult to feel in flow with your life journey. Yet, in reality challenges and changes are not meant to waylay you, they are meant as stepping stones for personal growth and expanded consciousness. There is indeed order to the seeming madness and chaos.

From Fearful to Playful

The answer to experiencing a greater sense of success and well-being one your personal path lies in greater awareness and intentionally choosing one’s perception of reality. Life truly is what each of you make of it. Each choice determines your participation in life! You decide how fully you direct your life or whether life directs you. You’ve come to this life to play! To be fearless! To contribute what only you can give!

Inspiring Video Segments to Share with Associates and Friends

To help lead you toward positive intentions, inspired actions and exciting outcomes, I’m happy to announce that I have just completed an inspirational personal growth video series that focuses on how to achieve a greater sense of success and and happiness in life on a daily basis.

Keys to Achieving Success and Well-being with Flow

Keys to Achieving Success and Well-being With Flow” is comprised of four 2-3 minute video segments, Each segment of the f*ree inspirational video series outlines specific keys of F-L-O-W. The information is simple and easy to implement into your daily life. I was inspired to create the video series as a quick and easy way, for clients and anyone at a crossroads, to feel unblocked, unstuck and in more perfect alignment — in thoughts, feelings, actions and spirit — with intentions, dreams and goals.

Enjoy and please provide your thoughts and feedback! Love and radiance. Melissa.

Part 1: The Keys of “F”

Part 2: The Keys of “L”

Part 3: The Keys of “O”

Part 4: The Keys of “W”

“You wander from room to room
Hunting for the diamond necklace
That is already around your neck!”
~ Rumi

Is the only thing standing between you and an easier, happier and more abundant life….YOU?Changes and challenges can make us feel overwhelmed, blocked, and unsure. 

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It’s time to be seen and heard

Good girls aren’t supposed to call a vagina, a vagina?

That’s what is making news these days. It’s 2012 and Republican men in politics still have a 1912 perspective of feminine decorum. And they are trying to use this so-called “decorum” to put, and keep, women behind the scenes where they can be seen (and “represented”) but not heard.

The latest evidence of this is the “vaginagate” that took place at the Michigan House of Representatives. Michigan House Democrat Lisa Brown was banned from speaking on any topic for using a proper anatomical word that was deemed too vulgar for mixed company. It’s OK to legislate it, don’t just say it.

Apparently good girls and nice women don’t mention vasectomy either. The retribution? Sit in the corner and be quiet like a good girl.

Back in 1988 when the Dirty Dancing character played by Patrick Swayze  stated the oft quoted line, “Nobody puts Baby in a corner,” I remember the audience laughing. At the time I assumed it was at the silliness of the “Baby” name and ihow old-fashioned the whole situation felt — so out of step with modern times. Everyone recognized how ridiculous it was to make the good girl who was trying to do all the right things sit down and behave according to 1950 rules. After all, the audience knew that she was the one who was going to make the biggest difference in the world.

There’s nothing to laugh at when this happens in 2012 within our so-called modern political system. When the few women who are doing the right thing and representing women get silenced, the only appropriate reaction is a wave of outraged voices – male and female alike.

Shaming Women into Silence

Let’s be clear, what is being silenced here is dissent.

Women who dare to speak up against the old-boy practice of discussing women’s rights without being invited into the conversation, are being publicly shamed — at least that’s the intention. Strong women with opinions are being dismissed as having had a tantrum.

I really wish this were a movie and we could all nervously laugh and get on with our lives — free to speak up and stand out.

You would think that after the whole “slut” debacle Republican men would be clued in to what direction the wind of public opinion was blowing. Apparently they thought that the whole Sandra Fluke issue was a Washington D.C. problem and had nothing to do with how they ran things in their own state.

Are women noticing this?

How long will it take the community of women to notice that their are those who are focused on silencing them and making them appear silly? How long will women let negative legislation get enacted that erodes their rights, without even saying a word?

Even strong women role models like Oprah don’t utter the word vagina. It becomes a va-jay-jay — something to giggle at and not take seriously. Little did we realize, I’m sure Oprah didn’t, that we needed her to be a role model for saying the word vagina, to make it an acceptable part of conversation. Maybe she can still do this.

20th Century Good Girl Definition
In the meantime I’m proposing that we start redefining what a nice girl and a good woman is.

Old definition and reward system:

• Be a good girl and you’ll be allowed to do the same work as men for less pay.
• Be a good girl and you can become a super shopper.
• Be a good girl and go eat your ice cream.
• Be a good girl and we’ll allow your presence, but not your voice, in the boardroom and in politics.
• Be a good girl and you will get the man of your dreams.
• Be a good girl and be seen but not heard.
• Be a good girl and make your man look good.
• Be a good girl and accept whatever perks come your way. You aren’t in control of what these are. Sorry.

21st Century Good Woman Definition

I’m lucky to be surrounded by and connected to amazing women, doing amazing work and having a significant, positive impact in the world.

Likewise, each of us can override our good girl conditioning and choose to make a bigger difference. We can choose to be our full powerful self and take on leadership roles. We can step out of our comfort zone and begin projects for good that seem impossible. We can connect to supportive men and women around us who get our vision and applaud us for it.

• Good women are passionate. They invite men and women to support their visions and their hopes for a better world.
• Good women refuse to sit down and be quiet. They are here to change the status quo!
• Good women don’t need to be validated by men or other women. Their actions and intentions are based on contributing to their families, the well-being of the planet, and to the well-being and equal treatment of all humanity. This is self-validating.
• Good women recognize what is out of balance in their own bodies, educational systems, political bodies, and bodies of water. They wake up hoping to take small steps that create significant shifts.
• Good woman have stopped caring what others think and are noticing what they are truly capable of accomplishing.
• Good women take responsibility for experiencing their own self-worth. And when they have doubts, they take responsibility for knowing the perfect people, strategies and techniques that will help them to shift back into their light.
• Good women are a force. They believe that collaboration is better than competition.
• Good women instill confidence into girls by modeling how to speak up and how to stand out.

What would you add to the old definition that we need to throw out?

What would you add to the new definition?

Who are the female role models you listen to?

Please contribute your thoughts and share them. We need to create some beautiful noise!

Melissa Wadsworth of Brilliance Unlimited is an author, inspirational speaker, dream life coach and a woman who has found a new voice. She invites you to find yours. The world needs your brilliance and radiance. htttp://www.melissawadsworth.com