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ELEVATION
I have.
And it's perfectly okay. The truth is sometimes we get to a
place in life where we've reached our limit. There's nowhere else
to go, nothing else to do, nothing else to explore, nothing else to
inspire or motivate us.
To say it plainly, we're just bored.
So many people live a life so boring, they're living a real-life
funeral. They force themselves to smile through it.
On the other hand, there are plenty of people living a
passionate and juicy life from sunup to sundown, experiencing
more of the joys of life in a single day than most people enjoy in
a single year.
Why is that? Why is it that some people rise higher and
higher in their finances, success, achievement, relationships
and happiness, while others sleep their way through life?
This is a question I've been asked over and over. And I finally
have an answer that I believe is as true to me as it is to you.
This short book explains my answer, described by the word
ELEVATION.
Elevation is a new movement of empowerment and selfdevelopment. Elevation isn't change; it's raising the areas of
your life to a new and higher level. If you wear Payless today,
youll wear Aldo tomorrow.
Over the years, Ive helped many women dream, empower and
improve their lives in many ways -- from beauty to spirituality
--- but in this specific moment, I find an ever increasing NEED
to create a higher standard of living, from finances to intimacy,
from friends to associates, from food to transportation. Im at a
place where Im focusing on increasing my expectation in every
area of my life.
For so long, people have asked me how I stay so blessed and
continue to receive more and more and more. It's not because I'm
smarter, prettier or more skilled. It's because I fearlessly elevate.
For example, once my book Stilettos in the Kitchen went
viral, it impacted thousands of women all over the world, and I
experienced a life I never knew existed.
Since then, I've enjoyed a blissful life of satisfaction,
fulfillment, thrill and fabulosity that never would have happened
if I didn't take the steps that I'll outline in this short book.
This journey hasnt been all sunshine and roses. But Ive
learned to take the rain and the thorns with the same stride as
I take that sunshine and the roses. Its because Im constantly
elevating. Ive mastered this art of elevation over the years. I
didnt have a choice! I had to keep moving upwards.
After all Ive experienced as a woman striving for excellence,
Ive learned to not only maneuver through life, but to raise
myself higher and higher. Now you may be asking, what does
this mean for you?
In a minute, Im going to explain exactly what it means and
how you can use this elevation process to improve the quality
of your life and begin living on a whole new level of happiness
and even if you don't know what it is, there's a YEARNING for
more of something. Imagine something like this:
A child wins the spelling bee. She works really hard to win
the spelling be in 4th grade, in 8th grade, in 9th grade, in 10th
grade. Finally, shes a senior in high school and wins the spelling
bee again! Shes known as the spelling champ - shes respected
by all her friends and family. They tell her, Youre so great. She
has confidence, she has self-esteem. Over the near year, she
moves on to college and wins more spelling bees.
No one on the face of the earth can take away from her
accomplishments, but theres one possibility that could spark
her need for elevation.
She might look around and say This is too easy. She might
lose her motivation to continue to study. She might feel like her
life has lost its meaning. She may even look to other things for
happiness.
Her true passion grows dimmer and dimmer as the days go
by. Her friends may think shes going through a phase. Theyll
continue to pour into her and let her know that shes come a long
way. Theyll do everything possible to uplift her spirits. But she
knows in her heart, that theres something MISSING.
What could it be? Well, first you have to look at this situation
with a fresh pair of eyes.
First, shes been a local spelling bee champion. She may
increase her aspirations to be a tri-state champion, or a champion
in a city like Los Angeles where theres much more competition.
She may elevate to be a national champion. Then, she may
elevate to be a world champion. But until she elevates and
accepts her desire to elevate, the rest of her life will be spent
in silent frustration.
The years will pass. The days will pass. She will continue to
live in the old memories of what shes already achieved. She will
continue to live the life shes already built.
But without elevating to a new level, shes trapped in a life
that doesnt give her the satisfaction, thrill, excitement and
fulfillment she truly desires. She may not even recognize that
the reason she is feeling disconnected is because its time for her
to elevate. And worst of all
She could mask these feelings, and spend the rest of her life
COVERING UP and MINIMIZING the FUTURE thats calling
her. Maybe you know what Im talking about.
Have you ever felt this way?
wrong with working at a bank, but can she truly expect more for
her life while imprisoning herself to live below her full potential?
She COULD increase her territory to start learning new words
(just like you could start using your gifts and talents to increase
your income). She could make some travel arrangements to
see how she can balance being in multiple cities (just like you
COULD find better ways to improve your fitness even though
you have a busy schedule). She could do these things but its
her choice.
If theres one thing thats been pressing on me lately, its the
realization that. . . .
different results, but thats as FAR as theyll go. They wont fully
make the choice to press the button, get in the elevator and ride
to the top.
Even if a woman knows she needs to lose 30 pounds, shell
do just enough to lose 30 pounds, but she wont alter her lifestyle
enough to keep the weight off permanently. She wont even
elevate enough to be around people who are committed to
keeping their weight off.
How does an alcoholic stop drinking if shes always making
stops at happy hour after work? How does an alcoholic stop
drinking if all her friends drink? Even if she does stop drinking,
shell have to work twice as hard to maintain that commitment
if all her friends are drinkers and drink around her.
But elevating means elevating her friendships, elevating
those people around her, elevating herself to be comfortable,
confident, sexy and powerful enough to be okay getting new
friends or letting go of the old friends.
figures, women who are earning seven figures, but who realize
part that when they look in the mirror theres something
MORE about themselves and their life, but they cant quite get
it out of themselves and live at the level of life they aspire to live
at.
Well, thats what this short report is about. I wanted to take
some time to talk about a concept thats been boiling in my mind
for the past few months. And its called ELEVATION. Over
the next few minutes, I want to explain and somewhat show
you behind the curtain, of what I believe - is the next wave of
empowerment for women.
It isnt going to be simply feeling good or just feeling better to
get through the day. I think, by now, youve probably exhausted
all your resources with standing in the mirror and telling
yourself how great youll be someday (even though that day
never comes.). But I think this next movement will be about
results-oriented lifestyle transformation.
And what I want to help you realize is that when you make
the choice to elevate, you can go further than you now imagine.
You will put yourself in a place to operate from a position of
power instead of weakness. What would be a struggle for you will
become a challenge, but with heightened levels of confidence and
self-esteem, those challenges will be successfully conquered
with ease, faster than ever.
Can you honestly say that you're at that place in your life
right now?
woman. All the other self-help experts can teach you how to be
empowered. But thats so boring.
I want to elevate to a new level of thinking where my life is
a mirror of all that I stand for. Classy, Empowered, Unmessable With, Magnetic, Assured, Confident. Instead of being an
emotional mess like many women in today's society, I want to be
able to empower myself.
Women need this.
We have to be able to elevate at all times.
A woman who is elevated can live out of two suitcases, deal
with a jobless man, deal with a crazy boss or crazy work partner,
go through a miscarriage, go through a divorce, pick herself up
after everything falls apart --- even after shes lost her home, her
job fires her and everything vanishes into thin air because her
bank accounts are negative --- and she can not only maneuver
through it, but she can rise above it and use it as a stepping stone
to get to a higher level in life.
A woman who is elevated can demand a higher salary, attract
a higher caliber relationship with an amazing man, she can
be free to express herself, she can make six figures a year, she
can still be "down to earth," she can have a rewarding life with
friends, family, associates and live a fabulous life.
She can dress to kill! She can influence you because she
speaks with conviction, she walks with power, she's sexy, she's
focused, she's attractive, she's living life the way it's meant to be
lived. She's on top of the world.
That's what I want for you.
I want you to look good, feel good, be happy, grateful, sexy and
ready for what God has for you.
And I want you to do it with the confidence of knowing that
no matter what happens you can STILL get whatever you truly
want from life.
Once you take responsibility for every ounce of your life
thats not how you want it to be thats when your dreams and
desires can come true for you, faster and easier than ever before.
And, you realize that youve been in this same space in your
life for a long time. Not only that, you've been in it for such a long
time youre just now starting to really feel the pain. And thats
one reason to elevate.
The first step is to recognize when youre really feeling
uncomfortable with where you are in your life, in your
relationships and in your finances. You may be covering up your
true self; you may be denying your full self-worth, denying your
possibilities.
I honestly believe we go through life in levels.
And in each level that you go through, there are stages within
that level. You enter into a new level within our life and thats
where the new-ness happens. Oh, I got into a new this or a
new that.
Then you grow and grow, and after you learn within that
level and accumulate things within that level, make mistakes
within that level, you sort of hit the highest stage that you can
get to within that level. And when you get to that stage within
that level, you get uncomfortable.
And its almost like youre in a box. And youre growing and
growing, but the box isnt growing with you so youre stuck in a
situation of bondage.
FEEL YOURSELF BREAKING OUT OF THE BOX
You feel yourself just right at the surface of having a business
closed.
Were open as children, open and learning from our parents,
our environment, our school, from teachers and friends. But
then, we have this mindset - Im speaking specifically about
American women of this culture and generation of Im a
grown woman.
There's this mindset that, "Once I reach a certain age, Im
an adult." But I know plenty of adults who aren't adult enough
to leave unhappy relationships. Aren't adult enough to go to the
gym everyday. Aren't adult enough to change their financial
situation, and complain about it every day.
But, the only thing you can do is what you know. So if you
dont know how to make a million dollars and keep it and grow
it, you wont.
If you dont know how to effectively communicate in a
relationship, you wont. If you dont know what to eat, you won't
maintain a healthy body.
If you dont know how to meditate, then you wont meditate.
If you don't know how to be a better woman, you won't. If you
don't know how to improve yourself, you won't.
It's important to be totally open and willing to say, I dont
know everything, but Im open to knowing it. In the next
section, I'm going to show you and help you discover what really
stops most people from taking themselves to the next level.
WHAT EVERY
WOMAN NEEDS TO
ELEVATE HER LIFE
owerful Relationships.
Spiritual Elevation
Heightening your consciousness. Consciousness means
your awareness or level of awake-ness. A lot of people are not
awake. They are going through their lives and are so stuck in
their heads and inside of themselves, they do not know whats
truly going on outside of them.
Theyre not paying attention, dont know what the other
person is feeling or thinking, not paying attention to the car
thats driving past them or the conversation thats happening or