Sunday, June 12, 2011

What is sabotaging your success?



Welcome to June 2011!


We are almost half way throughout he year and for some

you are happily achieving your visions, on track, gaining momentum

and enjoying your success as it evolves.


But for others there is still this “stuck-ness” and frustration around trying

to get started, or you have started but lost the momentum and drive to keep going.


Is your vision board still inspiring, exciting and compelling for you?

Or is it now another source of frustration and disappointment?



Recently I was privileged to hear “the original” Rich Dad, Keith Cunningham

say something extremely profound!


"The quality of Your life is a direct reflection of what is not negotiable."


You will find that most people will compromise on may areas of their lives except their values!

Most personal arguments or business disagreements occur because a core value has been ‘violated.’ But which value was violated?

If you are struggling to fulfill your Visions, dreams and goals…

Ask yourself which value(s) is not being fulfilled by wanting this this goal…

And therefore preventing me from achieving it?

When you sit and question yourself and your actions, you will find that

your frustration comes from either living according to your true values

but not achieving a goal because it actually isn’t totally aligned

with your highest vales, or that you are going for a dream

and goal and feeling empty at the end of the day because

you had to put your real values on HOLD.

When you have a disagreement or misunderstanding at home or work,

it may feel like you are walking on an invisible mine field;

Ask yourself this question…

“which value of mine (or theirs) is being dishonored, ignored or downright violated?

If you aren’t clear on what your true values are, or you aren’t aware of what

the other persons values are, we don’t even know that we may

have violated theirs or ours!

People who are not living according to their highest values may feel :

  • The pain of waking up one day and find that you climbed the ladder of success and got to the top of a mountain that you don’t like because the ladder was against the wrong wall.
  • You are fulfilling someone else's goals and dreams.
  • That empty hollow feeling that no matter what you do and how much you have - Its never enough.
  • Exhausted, tired, guilty wondering why it’s so tough just getting by....

Dr. John Demartini says that having a fulfilled life is when you live according to your highest values.

“Nothing of the senses will ever satisfy the soul and values emerge from perceived voids.”


Which of these core values do you relate to most?

Health, wealth, freedom, love, safety, security,

service, power, family, community, honesty,

integrity, joy, happiness, success, abundance,

acceptance, courage, intelligence, reliability,

responsibility, wisdom, vision, vitality, self care

and the list can go on and on…


How many of these values are satisfied by the work you are doing?

Studies have shown that unless you live your life according to your core values and the work you do supports these values there will not be enough success to bring you joy.

Dr. John Demartini says that we have values shifts approximately every 10 years. As our life changes so do our priorities and what’s most important to us tends to shift.


When you can link your daily activities, your business mission and your personal mission to your highest values, you will find that you will:


  • sleep well at night and wake up refreshed, full of passion and ready to “seize the day.”
  • find that you have more core energy - energy from within you, not external stimulants, and an excitement that will achieve rocket booster success
  • your days will feel more harmonious, you will have greater satisfaction and a peaceful warm feeling inside.

What do you do that’s not negotiable?

Behavior always speaks louder than theory.


“Clarity leads to power” spend the time observing your own daily actions [or talk to me as your Visionary Life Coach and Core Energy Master Practitioner, as I am trained to laser focus on these areas] …about what is not or should be “not negotiable” in your life and how that is sabotaging or supporting your dreams and goals.


If there is conflict there is a way to get them aligned so that you can achieve the success you desire and live according to your highest vales!



Barbara Pellegrino is a renowned and leading Visionary Life coach for Women Entrepreneurs and CEO’s. A Vision Board Success Trainer and authority on success and achievement.

She is certified as an NLP (neuro linguistic programming) facilitator

Accelerated learning trainer, a visionary life and career coach,

a Master Practitioner in the Energy Leadership Development System™

and a twice published author.


Visit Barbara at www.visionboards.net and receive your essential tips on

How to Live a Visionary Life, Vision Boards and Achieving Your Dreams.