Invest in Your Transformational Business by Investing in Yourself

Mar 1, 2023 | Shift the Field TV, Tools for Shifting the Field Series

Invest in Your Transformational Business by Investing in Yourself
By Darla LeDoux, Founder of Sourced™ and Author of the books Shift The Field and Retreat and Grow Rich

In this week’s YouTube video, I take you back to early in my business when I had a mindset shift around my revenue and expenses that was a game changer.

I was still determining exactly what I was doing as an entrepreneur and was drawn to the first transformational coaching program I would enroll in.

I learned how to have a sales call, enroll people in my program, and, most importantly, I realized that there was so much I still didn’t know and so much hidden from my view about how I was showing up in my business.

So I enrolled in another one and another one.

What I learned was that there was no program out there that was going to “fix me,” and there was no one program that would be “the answer.”

Instead, I shifted my thinking to – “what would it be like if I was the type of person who was always investing in myself and my growth?”

At that point, a switch inside me flipped, and I started to include a line item in my budget to invest in myself.

When I did that, everything changed. When I added that line item, my revenue went up and stayed.

Ask yourself – what do I desire to invest in? Build that into your money goals.

Do you need support in living and working more aligned with your soul as the highest expression of yourself? Work with a Sourced Coach 1-1, in a group setting, or on retreat!

Crafting Our Company’s Future: Mission and Vision

Mar 1, 2023 | Shift the Field TV, Tools for Shifting the Field Series

Crafting Our Company’s Future: Mission and Vision
By Darla LeDoux, Founder of Sourced™ and Author of the books Shift The Field and Retreat and Grow Rich

How clear are you about where you are leading people? You are here because you have skills and are committed to making a difference, but you may need clarity on your path as a leader and company.

Simply showing up and serving people may work for a while, but if you want your company to grow, it is important to be clear about where you are going, so people will know they want to go too. People will feel when you are clear about what you are about.

Our mission at Sourced is to normalize transformation and get more money into the hands of self-loving and connected people.

Transformation allows us to feel and know the truth in our body so we can consciously discern and choose what is important to us.

When people, circumstances, or patterns hold us back from being our true selves, and we accept them as real, they disconnect us and cause us to be alone.

So when we can normalize transformation, see someone discovering their truth and not judging them, in fact celebrating them, then all of humanity will have access to their inner knowing to discern what is right for them and what is not.

When people have faith in the abundance of the universe, the world will be transformed.

Our leadership will no longer try to get more and stockpile resources but rather move through life knowing that life will support us.

How would that start to change our world?

Our vision at Sourced is to be the premiere graduate school for transformational leaders.

It is a place where people living this way can come to be supported, seen, witnessed, and heard.

Together, we are raising the consciousness of the planet. When I think about this and the mission and vision of Souced, I know exactly who I am and where we (myself, my team, and my company) are going.

Do you have a mission?
Do you have a vision of who you are as a brand and as a company?

If you’re not sure, please reach out to a Sourced coach! We would love to support you in finding clarity around the path you are paving so others can join and so that as opportunities and projects reveal themselves, you can effectively choose the ones aligned with you.

Creating Opportunities to get in the Vibration You Desire in the World

Jan 30, 2023 | Featured, Shift the Field TV, Tools for Shifting the Field Series

Creating Opportunites to get in the Vibration you Desire in the World
By Darla LeDoux, Founder of Sourced™ and Author of the books Shift The Field and Retreat and Grow Rich

At Sourced, we teach six Sourced Magics types, and we help people see which Magic is alive for them, how it works, and how it can work through them as an expression in the world.

Your Magic is a vibration. When you are in your highest expression of Source, you are a particular vibration in soul alignment with who you came here to be in the world. People notice that when you are in that vibration, everything works more effectively and efficiently, and you can work lighter when you are a match for the right people. You do not have to save, fix, or be all things for all people in a way that is not aligned with your soul.

Your Magic is a vibration. When you are in your highest expression of Source, you are a particular vibration in soul alignment with who you came here to be in the world.

When you exist in a high vibration and can hold it, you can invite people into that higher vibration to be a match with you and help them release anything that is not that. That’s how you get to work lighter! They also get what you have – the experience of a higher vibration!

Two questions for you:

How do we know we can hold that higher vibration for others?
What do you do when you have had a glimpse of that higher vibration but aren’t quite embodying it yet?

For a higher vibration to become your truth, you must put yourself in environments where you can be in that higher vibration over and over until it is who you are at a cellular level.

In other words, we need to find environments we can remain in until our ego-driven brain knows we won’t die staying there.

We must keep ourselves in that environment long enough to embody the higher vibration, carry it into our home environment, make lasting changes, and invite others to join.

For a higher vibration to become your truth, you must put yourself in environments where you can be in that higher vibration over and over until it is who you are at a cellular level.

Most people can see the possibility of this higher vibration in their familiar environment, but it’s hard to break free of the lower vibration where they have been living in for so long. There’s nothing wrong with that!

Similarly, there is nothing wrong with wanting to put yourself in the experience of living more aligned with your soul and in that higher vibration.

That’s what we create at Sourced! We certify Sourced Leaders who are transformational coaches in different specializations, such as health and wellness, finance, travel, and education, to name a few.

Our Sourced Leaders can support you and hold you in that higher vibration when you are ready to experience what is possible when you embrace your soul-aligned truth. They can hold that space while you train your muscles to hold it for yourself.

What are you doing to get into that kind of environment?

I invite you to consider the worth of being in an environment crafted for you to be in your fullest expression.

Please explore our offerings to see if anything resonates with you.

Our Sourced Leaders can support you and hold you in that higher vibration when you are ready to experience what is possible when you embrace your soul-aligned truth.

Focused Intention or Split Attention?

Nov 30, 2022 | Featured, Shift the Field TV, Tools for Shifting the Field Series

Focused Intention or Split Attention
By Darla LeDoux, Founder of Sourced™ and Author of the books Shift The Field and Retreat and Grow Rich

I recently returned from hosting my Masterpiece Mastermind retreat in Austin, Texas. It was an incredible time! We were able to get “on the court” about what it is to show up as your Sourced energy, as your Masterpiece.

A few themes came through in the form of “on the court” lessons that I am excited to share over the next few weeks.

We were able to get “on the court” about what it is to show up as your Sourced energy, as your Masterpiece.

The Power of Your Intention and Attention
Think about the power of your intention and attention. Are you moving through your life and business with focused intention, or are you splitting your attention? Are you divided in some way?

At retreat, many participants were clear about what they wanted, but then there was another conversation they were having about how to make that happen. So we broke down what happens energetically when we split our attention.

When you are clear that you want something, it could be a house on the beach (it doesn’t have to be, but it could) or feeling vibrant and alive working in the world, when you are clear in what you desire and hold it as if it is a done deal; then it will be. At retreat, we continued to say, Boom! Done!

There it is. That’s the thing. I said it. I named it. I claimed it. Boom. Done.

When you operate like this, the other conversations of ‘how do I make it happen? How do I figure out what people need me to say to go there with me?’ fade away.

Instead, you say, boom, done.

when you are clear in what you desire and hold it as if it is a done deal; then it will be.

We may think, I set my goal, and I am doing everything I can to reach my goal, but what you’re doing is saying, ‘I want this,’ but acting in a lower vibration.

An example:
You want to make multiple six figures in your business and are currently making fifty thousand. You say you want to make six figures, but all of your attention is on this problem of only making fifty. How do you make sixty? Or seventy? How do you make sure you don’t lose the fifty you already have? Now your attention is split.

As opposed to when that clarity of a Sourced desire comes through, you no longer need to be concerned about the current state of 50K. Instead, say to yourself, what does it look like to earn 200K?

Then start to price accordingly, walk accordingly, invest accordingly, hire team accordingly, dress accordingly, etc.. Whatever that new energy feels like in your field, be that now.

Instead, say to yourself,

what does it look like to earn 200K?

We are taught to be logical and linear. I am a recovering engineer, so I know everything about reverse engineering to get from point A to point B successfully. As soon as we do that, we split our attention.

Splitting your attention is the worst thing you can do for your business.

What is bubbling up for you as you read this?

This is a muscle, by the way. When you see the goal, everything in you that thinks not that will come to the surface. It’s a matter of discipline to say this is it; this is who I am, boom, done, and not entertain the other conversations.

I promise if you can practice this, your life will change quickly.

When I have had moments of clarity of a Sourced desire come through, I started acting “as if I was”. It was more than that; I wasn’t acting; I was BEING. I am willing to do whatever it takes to be in alignment with this.

What is your intention that you can say boom, done, and let it go? That has been the key to every uplevel I have ever experienced.

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It was more than that; I wasn’t acting; I was BEING. I am willing to do whatever it takes to be in alignment with this.

Gestation versus Momentum – Trusting Source to Set the Pace

Aug 17, 2022 | Featured, Tools for Shifting the Field Series

Gestation versus Momentum – Trusting Source to Set the Pace
By Darla LeDoux, Founder of Sourced™ and Author of the books Shift The Field and Retreat and Grow Rich

Momentum vs. Gestation – how do you know where you are and what you need?

We are creating a new website!

I made a YouTube video a while back about developing our new website. The video was about having a transformational container in which the website would be created.

We have been in this container of support to create the new website, and one of the things we do in each meeting is to go around the room to presence what is available to each person at that time.

Not necessarily the details of the project, but what has been bubbling up in their awareness and intuition since we last met. In our latest meeting, we realized that the feeling in the room was that of momentum.

Although we have been doing things for the website, they have been small as we were in a gestation period. We have been thinking, feeling, sensing, etc.!

How amazing is that! To have a team collectively sensing the same energy at the same pace because Source is guiding us!

We collectively feel a shift into the momentum and are ready to execute.

How amazing is that! To have a team collectively sensing the same energy at the same pace because Source is guiding us!

We are now ready to make decisions and be in action. Had we tried to be in the place of momentum before we were ready, it would not work out very well, but again, Source is guiding us.

I have done this before, and it feels like frustration.

I point this out as a team, but we each have this individually as well.

Individually, you have cycles for things you are holding. You are either in a place of Gestation or holding. In Gestation, you are holding space for the project to unfold, for the awareness to kick in, and for Source to deliver different messages to you through humans, conversations, and things happening in the world.

In Gestation, you are holding space for the project to unfold, for the awareness to kick in, and for Source to deliver different messages to you through humans, conversations, and things happening in the world.

Then you hit the place of clarity and readiness for momentum or to birth the new idea and move it forward. Nothing is worse than being in a gestation period and thinking you should be in momentum.

Our culture expects us to be in momentum all the time. Wanting to be in momentum all the time, at least for my team, doesn’t work. We are in collective energy, which is either Gestation or momentum.

The most common thing I see is to discern default energy from Sourced energy.

- Default energy may say, I can’t take that action, I can’t be in momentum because everything isn’t perfect yet, and I’m not ready.
- Sourced energy will say, I’m not taking action because I know I will know when I am ready to take action.

Those are two very different things. A person could be in a place of deep knowing that they are in a gestation period and that the birth will happen and feel good about it.

Or they might be in the gestation period, but because they know how default energy feels (procrastinating, hiding out, trying not to be seen), they might mistake the gestation period for default energy and then beat themselves up for not being in momentum when in reality they are simply still in Gestation!

Nothing is worse than being in a gestation period and thinking you should be in momentum.

Our culture expects us to be in momentum all the time. Wanting to be in momentum all the time, at least for my team, doesn’t work.

This awareness is why the work we do at Sourced is so essential.

We teach others how to be 100% clear when you are in Gestation, knowing you are in a cycle, feeling good about it, not pushing anything, not forcing anything, not producing only to be in momentum.

The other part is knowing when you are ready and taking precise, potent, and fast action.

It is impossible to waste time. When you have an energetic awareness of life, everything that happens and unfolds contributes to your becoming energetically. You have access to all of that forever.

When COVID started, I was leading retreats about how to lead profitable retreats. That was not popular at that moment.

Did I feel at that moment, “oh no, the world took away my livelihood, and all the time I spent developing this program was wasted because I have to start over?

No. I didn’t feel that because who I became when developing that work was accessible to me to create the next stage. It didn’t go away. It is always there.

You can’t waste your time. You are not behind, and you can’t mess it up. Source is with you 100% of the time.

Tell me what your thoughts are on this.

- Does this speak to you?
- Do you know someone beating themselves up over past decisions that need to hear this?

You can’t waste your time. You are not behind, and you can’t mess it up. Source is with you 100% of the time.

What is Your Structure Level?

Jan 12, 2022 | Featured, Shift the Field TV, Tools for Shifting the Field Series

What is Your Structure Level?
By Darla LeDoux, Founder of Sourced™ and Author of the books Shift The Field and Retreat and Grow Rich

What level of structure do you need to feel secure in your business? I love nothing more than supporting transformational leaders and service-based entrepreneurs to bring structure to the way they work in their business.

Having a structure that supports how you hold your work and your clients in that work allows you to relax and sink into the work while showing up more powerfully and potently.

Each of us has a different degree of structure that we need to feel comfortable, confident, and secure in putting our work out there and moving forward. The issue is that we’re often not aware of how much structure we need or don’t need.

Have a structure that supports how you hold your work and your clients in a way that allows you to relax and sink into the work while showing up more powerfully and potently.

I think about my client, Helen, who came to one of my retreats on learning to host retreats because she wanted to have all of her content planned out before even marketing the event. She was feeling nervous about whether it would deliver the transformation she wanted. Would she know what to do and what to say to make this happen?

Helen came to retreat to get the clarity she needed and what she discovered was that the level of structure that she kept trying to create made her feel suffocated, and it didn’t bring out her best self.

Some part of her from the past (hearing other people teach, watching what other people were doing) said, in order for what I’m offering to be real, she needed PowerPoints, workbooks, exercises, and agendas. What she discovered is that’s not how she is built to operate.

Even though we did give her some structure, setting her intentions for each day of her retreat and what the transformation would be for the client from Day One to Day Two, Day Two to Day Three, we didn’t plan everything out in the way that she had thought that she would. In fact, we ceremoniously declared that that was NOT what she was going to do because that does not make her, her best self.

we began talking about structure and how it supports you being in flow within your business, and one of the women started to panic.

How much structure do you need? Most people are confused about the amount of structure that will make them feel secure. They actually set themselves up to stop themselves from moving forward because of whatever their belief is about structure.

On the other side, in a recent small retreat that I hosted, we began talking about structure and how it supports you being in flow within your business, and one of the women started to panic. To her, the idea of structure meant no freedom. It meant she was going to be limited by these structures.

By the end of the retreat, what she discovered was that limiting herself would bring her more freedom. Limiting her market would allow her to charge more, which would bring more abundance into her business, which would allow her more freedom of expression to travel and do all the things she wanted to do. It made it easier for her to be creative within the boundaries.

A study shows that when kids are in a yard with a fence, they will explore the entire yard. When they’re in a yard with no fence, they stay right by the door. The structure creates more freedom to play and explore.

Structure made it easier for her to be creative within the boundaries.

What do we do when we don’t know how much structure we need?

If you are thinking in your head, I need to plan everything. ONCE I get this developed, and that developed, jump over this hurdle, launch my group program, and figure this thing out, and everything keeps moving, chances are you don’t need all that. The choice to move forward with less structure will make you come alive.

On the other hand, if you’re someone who is not wanting any structure, and you keep pushing yourself forward do the thing; no structure, fly by the seat of your pants; I’m in total freedom; I’m going to do a different program every week; I’m going to have a different audience every week and do something different; that’s going to be limiting to you, and you’re probably looking for some solid structure and support.

If either of these are you or you don’t know I have a few recommendations.

Start to question your assumptions about the amount of structure you need.
Understand that knowing how much structure you need will not come from your brain. It’s going to come from Source, or your inner-knowing.
Take our Sourced Magic Quiz.

The Sourced Magic Quiz shares the way your inner-knowing works or what I like to call your magic.

It can help you help to guide you to know what is right for you in terms of the amount of structure or lack of structure that you need to come alive.

A study shows that when kids are in a yard with a fence, they will explore the entire yard. When they’re in a yard with no fence, they stay right by the door. The structure creates more freedom to play and explore.

We are taking this decision out of our head analysis because the head will crucify us either way. It’s going to judge and say, oh, gosh, why do you need all this? You should move forward. Or it’s going to judge and say, you know, stop trying to rush it. Take your time. Your head is always going to be accusatory in some way.

But when you bring it into your magic – what does your vibration say? Where does your vibration feel best? What level of structure makes you feel best vibrationally? What levels of structure make you feel best in your body? What level of structure lights your heart up because you get to be free to love and support your clients without letting in too much junk?

What level of structure allows your channeling to reach the right audience? What level of structure will enable you to ideate and brainstorm for people who will take it and run with it?

By the way, I’m referring to the Sourced magics. Please take the quiz because that will help you understand what I’m talking about. There’s a level of structure that supports you in your magic without causing unnecessary procrastination or without having you leap without a net in a way that paralyzes you.

Please let me know what’s coming up from you as you engage with this conversation. What level of structure feels supportive to you? What level of structure feels confining to you? Then bring that to your soul. Bring that to Source and say how true is this? Is something else available here for me? Let me know what you discover.

There’s a level of structure that supports you in your magic without causing unnecessary procrastination or without having you leap without a net in a way that paralyzes you.

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