In This Issue...

• Wealthy Spirit Letter from Chellie
• Article: "Investing in the Invisible"
• The Dolphin Club Bonus Offers
  
• The Dolphin Club Member Spotlight
• Chellie's TV, Radio, Teleclass, and Live Speaking Appearances

Introduction

Chellie Campbell, Professional Speaker and Author of The Wealthy Spirit and Zero to Zillionaire has been teaching Financial Stress Reduction® Workshops since 1990. The Wealthy Spirit was a book-of-the-week on the Doctor Laura Schlessinger radio show and a GlobalNet book-of-the-month selection. She has been quoted in Good Housekeeping, Lifetime, Woman's World, and Essence, and more than 40 popular books.

“I live happily each day in joyful expectation of positive outcomes!” 

Ahhhh. That one feels good, doesn’t it? You know who made up that affirmation? Me. I had forgotten it, but I signed up to receive my own daily inspirational emails from “The Wealthy Spirit” and found it again (For those of you who have the book, it’s on Day #228). If you’d like to receive 30 days to a Wealthy Spirit” click here www.chellie.com/30-day- signup.html.  

I do over 100 affirmations most days. Sometimes I get bored, or stuck, or I read too much bad news that day, or I get more “nos” than “yeses” or some shark attacks me and then somehow the affirmations turn into desperations and yikes! I’ve got to regroup, slap myself, and snap out of it. I look for new truths, new energy, and new positive statements to help create my day the way I want it to go. So it’s pretty funny when the new affirmation I’ve been searching for shows up in my in-box and it’s one I already made up! I posted this one on a yellow sticky on my computer so I can be reminded each day that I’m either operating from fear or faith. Everything is faith though, isn’t it? Fear is just faith in bad things happening. You can find proof of that if you want to, but I’d really rather find happy things to believe in. A Chinese philosopher said it this way: “This season is my best ever, this year is my best year, this moment is the best moment.”  

Cheers,

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We have an amazing team of Financial Stress Reduction® Coaches who can help you survive the storms and take advantage of the new opportunities surrounding you right now. It is so exciting to work with these amazing individuals as we expand the Financial Stress Reduction® Workshops in the world. 

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Investing in the Invisible 

             “They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”—Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman) 

Either way, all the financial advice you’re getting in the media right now is wrong. “Save your money.” “Pay off your debt.” “Don’t buy anything – wait until it’s clear the market has hit bottom.” (Trust me, by then the savvy investors will have bought all the bargains.)  

70% of the economy is consumer spending, and consumers spend when they’re making money and feeling secure. When they keep getting bad news about the economy, they get scared and feel insecure, they put on the brakes. Everyone is doing affirmations about the economy these days – it’s just that they’re all negative ones! So you need to be one of the ones spreading Wealthy Spirit Wisdom – do joyful affirmations like “I am rich and wonderful!” and “I am a successful money manager!” and believe in yourself and your dream. 

Years ago, I listened to a successful business owner talk about how she grew her $3 million a year manufacturing business. At one point, she turned to the audience and said, “To grow a large business, you have to get more and more comfortable with bigger and bigger negative numbers.” Scary, maybe, but true. You have to invest capital in expansion – more space, more equipment, more marketing, more help. And most business owners borrow money to do that. Bill Gates didn’t build MicroSoft on his savings. He got the Bank of America involved. Steve Wynn didn’t build the Mirage, Belagio, and Wynn hotels in Las Vegas without construction loans from banks. 

So when business owners tell me they have cut back on their marketing, or they aren’t willing to borrow money to grow because they don’t want to be in debt, I worry for them. Either you believe in yourself and your business, or you don’t. If you believe in yourself, you know that you have to spend money to make money. You need to do even more marketing in a slowdown than you do in boom times. Who cares if you have some debt right now? Cash flow varies when you’re in business - that’s why you have a credit line. Pulling back isn’t going to get your more customers or more profits. No one coasts uphill. 

If you see a business opportunity you want to invest in, don’t pass it up because you’d have to borrow money to do it. This isn’t consumer spending that the financial advisors are warning against – it’s building your successful business of the future. It may be invisible today, but you must invest in your vision or it will never become visible. Yes, you want to make sure that you have a plan for how to be profitable and pay back the loan eventually, too. But if the business plan is sound, if you’re passionate about the work, if you’re willing to do the work, then go for it! As Douglas Everett said, “There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality, and then there are those who turn one into the other.” 

The banks got billions of bailout dollars from the government, i.e., you, the taxpayer. When you put money in savings, where is it? The bank. When you pay off your credit cards, or credit lines, or your mortgage, where is it? The bank. The banks have all the money, y’all. But when you borrow from them to start or build your business, the banks give the money to you. 

Love and blessings,

Chellie

The Dolphin Club News:

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Our special bonus gift for the Dolphin Community this month:

Alicia Davis and Kate Houlihan of AliKat Consulting, LLC share their MP3 entitled Transforming Anxiety into Peacefulness.

Alicia Davis, LMT is Co-Director of AliKat Consulting, LLC and has been providing consulting, teambuilding and holistic education services in the Corporate, Healthcare and Non-Profit fields for over 20 years. She specializes in working with individuals and teams going through transitions. She has lovingly guided over 2500 people to cultivate their passion, direction and vision along with increasing their resiliency during the everyday stresses of life. She has recorded a meditation CD, “Sound Bytes for Serenity” and is a published author in the book Strategies for Success. She is the Founder and voice of GuruGramsª which brings daily audio inspirational messages to people via email. Visit http://www.gurugrams.com/ member/go.php?r=28&i=l0 for a FREE trial subscription.

Chellie has this to say about the GuruGrams:  “You’ll want to listen to those wonderful GuruGrams! Each one is a wonderful two-minute relaxtion and Alicia has the most calming, melodic voice. You’ll love them!”

Kate Houlihan is a Certified Financial Stress Reduction® Coach and has been providing both consulting services and insurance products to businesses and individuals in Connecticut for over 25 years. In her current role as Co-Director of AliKat Consulting, LLC she has had the pleasure of working side by side with executive directors, board members and business owners to help them increase awareness of their services and products, expand networks of influence and create solid development, marketing and sales strategies.

CHELLIE’S UPCOMING APPEARANCES:

A LITTLE ABOUT CHELLIE . . .

Chellie Campbell is the creator of the popular Financial Stress Reduction® Workshops, and the author of The Wealthy Spirit and Zero to Zillionaire, both published by Sourcebooks, Inc. She is one of Marci Shimoff's “Happy 100” and I of 18 who wrote a story for Marci’s current NYT bestseller Happy for No Reason. Chellie contributed stories to Jack Canfield’s recent books You’ve Got to Read This Book! and Life Lessons from Chicken Soup for the Soul , and is featured in How to Run Your Business Like a Girl by Elizabeth Cogswell Baskin and Money, A Memoir: Women, Emotions, and Cash by Liz Perle. She is prominently quoted as a financial expert in The Los Angeles Times, Pink, Good Housekeeping, Lifetime, Essence, Woman’s World and more than 35 popular books. For more information, visit her web site www.Chellie.com or email her at Chellie@Chellie.com.

CONTACT CHELLIE!
Chellie can be reached at chellie@chellie.com or call 310-476-1622.
Chellie Campbell
Campbell Consulting Company
409 Bonhill Road, Los Angeles, CA 90049

Author, "The Wealthy Spirit" (Sourcebooks, 2002)
and "Zero to Zillionaire" (Sourcebooks, 2006)
Financial Stress Reduction® Workshops
www.chellie.com
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