Is this YOU today? 

Unemployed, under-employed, laid off, terminated, need a career change, retired, beaten down, beaten up, burned-out, bored or just plain exhausted?  Tired of living a life of reaction and want to live a life of true freedom, then read on…

ARE YOU SEARCHING FOR A WAY OUT OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF YOUR LIFE? 

Hi, I’m Dawna Miller and I’ve found something that has made me passionate about my life again.  I’ve achieved a lifestyle of intellectual, emotional, physical and spiritual balance that I never dreamed possible! 

I’m a former C-level executive with over 20 years of back breaking experience in trading time for money within the Financial Services industry.  But no matter how dedicated an employee or high I was on the food chain, I kept finding myself on my rear end and in the unemployment line.  I bet you can guess what happened next, yep, in my early 40’s I found myself a single mother and unemployed for the third time in my illustrious career!  I was done with the “corporate rat race”; I knew there had to be a better way. 

That’s when I made the most significant decision of my life!  I decided to invest in the most important asset I own – myself.  This decision and the action I’ve taken have literally transformed my life and I know it can for you as well.

Did you know?

The unemployment rate in the United States has taken the biggest jump since 1986?

The USA Today recently reported that the greatest fear in America today is running out of money BEFORE retirement?

Recently, Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki in their New York Times best seller “Why We Want You to Be Rich” said:

“The rich are getting richer but America is getter poorer.  The middle class is shrinking.  America is becoming a two-class society.  Soon you will either be rich or poor.”

I don’t know about you, but this is horrifying to me!  If you want to be on the winning team (TEAM RICH), then you need to take decisive action NOW! 

So what do you do?  Take control of your future and stop the insanity of trading time for money!  Invest in yourself for yourself and your family.  Only through developing yourself can you obtain a lifestyle of balance.

I passionately believe:

MINDSET = POWER

EDUCATION = EMPOWERMENT

LEVERAGE = TIME

ASSOCIATION = WEALTH

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. – Michael Korda

The first step to understanding how to achieve a lifestyle of balance is to harness the power of your greatest asset – YOU!  Let me ask you, when did you stop growing?  Most of us would answer that question based on when we physically stopped growing, but my question is when did you stop growing intellectually?  Most adults stop actively developing their intellect once their formal education ends.  Wow, that’s a bit scary!  But true.

Very few of us actively pursue education past what we see on TV or on the internet.  AND, we don’t even question the information we devour as truth or fiction because we accept that if it’s on TV or posted on the internet then it MUST be true.    This is social conformity at its best.

Now put your thinking caps on here, because I know I had to and consider this…

YOUR MIND is capable of so much more than you can possibly imagine, but most of us are too lazy (excuse #1 if your honest), too busy (excuse #2 and still not valid), or just too “plugged in” to the “norm” (excuse #3 if we admit it) that we don’t recognize the potential to change the direction of our lives lies right between our ears.  Your mindset controls your belief system and your belief system controls your actions. 

So what’s the secret to gaining control of your mindset?  First, you must accept full and total responsibility for your life, you are where you are because of choices that you’ve made either consciously or subconsciously, there are no victim’s of circumstance only those that chose to be victim’s of circumstance, because the world does not owe you a thing!  Second, you must take conscious authority over your life.  This is your life, not someone else’s.  Only by exercising your authority can you move toward…taking control of your life.  You are in the driver’s seat, so get out of the back seat and drive!  You are what you believe, you believe what you think and you control what you think!

If you want to stop the pain of living a life of reaction and experience the pleasure of living a life of unbelievable balance and freedom, I challenge each and everyone to unplug from the mind-numbing conformity of circumstance and empower your life.  Take the first step and harness the power of your mind! 

“Free your mind and the rest will follow.” En Vogue

Find the freedom of being “unplugged” and remember all of YOUR potential comes from within!

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GOT A MURPHY MESS?

Each and every one of us is a mess to one degree of another, no one is perfect.  We all carry around “junk in the trunks of our mind”, but the question is: “Do you want to change to course of your life and be free of Murphy and all the junk?”  If you answered yes, then read on, if you are content with your life of circumstance, don’t waste anymore of your time and surf on.
Are you tired of living a life that seems to be dictated by circumstance?  Does everything seem to be out of control?  Well, I’m here to tell you that the only one responsible for allowing Murphy or circumstance to control your life is YOU.

“Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men.”  – Benjamin Disraeli

Steps to eliminating Murphy’s Law from your life and cleaning up the mess:
•    Recognize – The past is the past and that’s where it belongs!  There is no rewind button on life, so learn from your mistakes, don’t live your mistakes.
•    Responsibility – Understand it’s your mess, you own it.  Stop making excuses and take responsibility for your own life. No matter how your life got this way, you’re the one holding the bag of “junk” and you are the one that must deal with it, so you can either wallow in it or get down to cleaning!
•    Decide – Consciously decide how you are going to live your life from this point forward.  You must raise your standards in order to live the life you deserve.
•    Plan with Passion- Develop an action plan to achieve your goals.  What do you want your life to look like in 30, 60, 90 days, 1 year, 5 years, 10 years?  Write down your plan and post it where it is clearly visible every day.  During the planning process you must allow yourself to dream, because if you can’t imagine it, you can’t do it!
•    Power of the Mind – Harness and use your most powerful asset – your mind!  The mind is programmed to respond to the questions that you ask, so stop asking why and start asking HOW!  If you continuously ask yourself why your life is a mess, your mind will continuously look to the past for references to answer.  If you simply change from asking why, to asking how can I change my life, your mind will open itself to exploration.  Once your mind is programmed to explore the possibilities are endless.  Discipline your mind to discipline your life.
•    Commit – You must raise your life standards this requires commitment and belief in yourself.   Don’t let someone or something else dictate your value.
•    Accountability – Set up a support system.  The process of change can be uncomfortable or even painful.  However, most people will do whatever is necessary to avoid the pain of letting others know they failed due to lack of…
•    Association – Surround yourself with like-minded individuals.  Find individuals that are living the life you desire study their lives and leverage their knowledge and expertise and make it your own.
•    Action – This is where you take complete authority over your life.  Without action you cannot have authority.   At this stage it’s the quantity of your actions not the quality that counts.  By simply taking action you are moving toward the achievement of your goals. If you find yourself incapable of taking the necessary action to propel your life in a different direction, then you truly haven’t made a decision.  You must go back a repeat the first 6 steps until you conquer your fear and have no other option except action.
•    Focus – Review and refine your actions.  Filter out what isn’t working, don’t analyze why just eliminate and master those actions that are working.  Keep trying new things.  This is a never ending education process and failure is one of the greatest educational tools of life.  Without failure, true success cannot be achieved because without failure you can’t learn.
•    NEVER GIVE UP – Remember the world doesn’t owe you a thing and Murphy is waiting just around the corner!

By following the steps above, you can transform your life from Murphy’s Mess to the life you deserve.

Are you ready?  Click HERE: http://unpluggedempowerment.com

WHAT IS UNPLUGGED EMPOWERMENT?

IT’S LIVING A TRANSFORMED LIFE WITH PURPOSE.

What does transformed mean?  According to Merrian-Webster’s Online Dictionary – transformed means “1a: to change in structure or composition b: to change the outward form or appearance of c: to change in character or condition”.   This is the means…

What is purpose?  Again, according to Merrian-Webster’s Online Dictionary – purpose means “1a:  something set up as an object or end to be attained: INTENTION b: RESOLUTION, DETERMINATION”.  This is the ends…

Hi, my name is Dawna Miller and I am a former C-level executive within the financial services industry.  And here’s my story…
I was a cultural norm conformist, although I didn’t recognize that fact until recently, but my entire life was a model for playing by the traditional rules of the society.  By my own definition, I was a victim of circumstance.  So let me tell you how I shattered the antiquated mold of my life, wrote my own rules and found my life’s purpose.

HERE’S MY BACKGROUND:

I was born in Hawaii (it’s not as great as it sounds, we moved when I was 2), the eldest daughter of an enlisted man and a nurse, but have spent most of my life in Florida.  After graduating from high school, I went on to college where I earned a Bachelor’s in Accounting and an MBA.  Then I went on to successfully the CPA exam on my first attempt.  All sounds great, right?

By traditional rules, I was poised for success. What a complete load of crap!  But okay, here we go…

I spent over 20 years in the corporate “rat race” of the financial service industry.  I was living the “American Dream”, rising each day to the deafening and dreaded sound of the alarm clock, racing to get out the door on time, commuting along with the masses to my j-o-b, working endless hours, commuting home, dinner, reviewing homework with my son and falling into bed just to turn around and do the EXACT same thing the next day.  All to earn a paycheck that was based on someone else’s determination of my value.  Does any of this sound familiar?  Oh, I did climb the corporate ladder and finally achieved that big corner office with a view, and the title on my business card included a big “C” in front!  However, no matter how dedicated an employee I was, due to the ever changing economic environment, I kept landing on my rear end and in the unemployment line.  Then in my early 40’s, I found myself a single mother and in the unemployment line for the third time in my illustrious career!  Geez, can’t I catch a break??

THIS WAS MY REALITY:

With the global recession in full swing and my personal portfolio in nothing short of a depression I was on the fast track to losing everything I had worked for.  I became so caught up in just getting by, that I lost track of what was really important in life: my son and my well-being.  And I definitely had no idea what my life purpose was!

HERE’S WHEN I GOT “FED UP”:

On August 23, 2009, I had a defining moment, a wake-up call, a revelation, (or maybe you want to call it a Tony Robbins’ moment!), but I decided I was done!  I decided in a single moment that I was no longer going to be a victim of circumstance.  I was no longer willing to allow someone or something else to determine my value.  I knew I was capable of so much more than I had achieved to date and I was not going to sit around and let life pass me by.

So what happen?  I took responsibility for, authority over and control of MY life.  It was my life and my mess, and I needed to clean it up!  With this simple, yet profound, change in my mindset, I conquered my fear of the unknown and effectively turn off the cultural norm autopilot that I had allowed to control my journey through life in the past.  I was unplugged and empowered!  And I realized that all my “problems” were just challenges in disguise.

Great, now what…I had some big challenges to overcome and I needed to find my purpose.  Simply deciding to transform my life wasn’t enough.  I needed to do something.  So what did I do?

HERE ARE THE LEADING QUESTIONS:

Before I go on, I’d like to ask you a few personal questions, don’t worry only you know the answers:

•    Do you know what your life purpose is?  If you do, great!  Are you fulfilling it?
•    Are you happy with the status quo of your life?
•    Are you overwhelmed or underwhelmed by your current life?
•    Are you disillusioned?
•    Is there excitement in your life?
•    Do you have the time and resources to do the things you want?
•    Do you spend enough time with your loved ones?
•    Has the global recession kicked you in the rear?
•    Are you secure in your J-O-B?
•    Are you unemployed?
•    Are you sick and tired of just getting by?

How would you like to find your life purpose and have the time and resources to actually live your life purpose and do the things you love with the ones you love?

HERE ARE THE STEPS:

I developed Dawna’s Pathway to Purpose (not original, but I made it my own):

Step 1: Developed a Plan – Thought to Consider:  If you can’t imagine it, you can’t do it.  I clearly defined my goals and outlined what I wanted my life to look like of the next 30, 60, and 90 days, the next year, the next 5 years and the next 10 years. I posted my plan where I could see it every day, as a matter of fact, I began posting all kinds of thoughts and ideas throughout my home and my son began to think I was crazy!  I view my plan as the GPS navigation system of my life.  If I make a wrong turn, my plan redirects my actions.

Step 2:  The Power of the Mind  – Thought to Consider:  Don’t ask why the battle was lost, but how the next battle can be won!  Your mind is programmed to respond to the questions you ask, so remember the past is the past, to move forward and change your mindset, you must ask HOW, not why.  The power of the mind is our greatest asset, and sadly, significantly underutilized by most.  I harnessed my mindset and used it by to transform my way of thinking about myself and my life by asking powerful questions and demand nothing less than equally powerful responses.  I would not settle for anything less, if I didn’t like the answer, I asked a different more powerful question.

Step 3:  Commitment – Thought to Consider:  You must commit to do whatever it takes to transform your life and believe in yourself.  Without commitment you cannot overcome fear.  If you find this step difficult, then ask yourself what are you afraid of?  Is fear of the unknown greater than the pleasure of living a transformed life?  Then your dreams aren’t big enough!

WATCH OUT HERE IT COMES…

Step 4: Association – Thought to Consider:  Leverage!  Surround yourself with like-minded individuals.  We all need a support system, find individuals that are living the life you want and leverage their knowledge, experience and expertise.  So how did I accomplish this?  I sat down in front of my computer and went surfing.   And all waves keep leading me to the same place, so I sat and listened repeatedly to this guy telling me how he made over $80,000 in one month!  Yes, I was skeptical to say the least, but I was also ready to make a significant change in my life, I was ready to take a chance and I was committed…so I pulled out my credit card and filled in the application.  My application was accepted because this community recognized my commitment to transforming my life, and from that point forward I set out on an unbelievable journey. If you’d like to meet the guy that convinced me it was time to take some serious action then visit http://www.unpluggedempowerment.com and make your own assessment.  What I can tell you is this guy is unbelievable and for real!  Here are a few things you need to know BEFORE you decide to follow the link:

What it is NOT:

•    It is not for the faint at heart, it’s not easy!  It requires hard work, dedication and above all consistency!
•    It’s not a “get rich scheme”.
•    It is not an MLM (multi-level marketing).
•    It is not an affiliate program.

What it IS:

•    For the serious, independent-minded entrepreneur.
•    A legitimate, legal and ethical business model.
•    An educational and technical resource platform – you do not have to invent the wheel, but you do have to re-create it, so being able to follow instructions is critical to success.
•    A community of industry experts with hundreds of years of collective marketing experience in internet-based business models dedicated to the success of each and every member.  That’s why there is an application process, if you aren’t serious, you aren’t wanted.

In a nutshell, this opportunity IS for you if you are REALLY COMMITTED TO TRANSFORMING YOUR LIFE.  This is NOT for you if you cannot “think outside the box” of your past experiences or if you lack commitment.   Success or failure is ultimately decided by your level of commitment to action, your determination of your own value, dedication and consistency.

Step 5:   Massive Action – Thought to Consider:  Nothing worth having is obtained without first taking a chance.  At this point I didn’t concern myself so much with the quality of my actions so much as the quantity.  I took the approach that “a body in motion tends to stay in motion, while a body at rest tends to stay at rest” and I had to get into the habit of actually doing something productive in my life rather than just reacting to circumstance.

Step 6: Focus – Thought to Consider:  Learn from your mistakes, don’t live them.  This is a continuous education process and failure is one of the greatest educational tools known to man. I reviewed and refined my approach.  I filtered out what wasn’t working, mastered what was and continuously tried new things.

Step 7:  NEVER GIVE UP ON YOURSELF – Thought to Consider: The world doesn’t owe you a damn thing!

HERE’S WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU:

Transforming your life isn’t simply about financial freedom, it’s about finding YOUR own unique purpose.    Only through living a life driven by purpose can one truly achieve success.  My purpose is to live a balanced life, one that allows me to build a mature relationship with God, contribute to my family and friends, and that is built on simplicity.  Because these are the things that I value most, I’m passionate about my purpose.

Life doesn’t have a re-wind button, so you can either chose to live a life driven by circumstance or you can stand up and take responsibility for, authority over and control of your life.  As someone that has gone from being a victim of circumstance to ultimately finding my purpose and living a successful life under my terms, I know what it’s like to question your worth and to fear what tomorrow may have in store for you.  I can tell you that your dreams can become a reality quicker than you can possibly imagine by simply taking control of your mindset, deciding how you want to live from this point forward, taking massive action and refusing to accept anything less than success from yourself.

Are you ready to transform?  Visit http://www.unpluggedempowerment.com.