Embracing Transformative Times

 This is a time of change for so many.  Whether it be a change in career, relationships, or a deeper desire to contribute to something bigger; many are feeling a need for physical, emotional and/or spiritual movement.

 Have you ever wished that someone would hand you a map and directions on how you can find and fulfill your deeper purpose in your life?  Are you looking for a sense of clarity, more meaning, and alignment with your greater calling?

You are a significant piece of the universal puzzle.

 Perhaps you long to find how you best fit into this puzzle.  You feel you’re in the right vicinity, but have a desire to find that one space where everything neatly and easily clicks in.  You know, in your heart, that once you find that space the whole picture will come together; make sense, you’ll feel empowered and confident again, you will feel . . . complete.  Until then, you move through the big picture, managing all that is on your plate along the way – waiting, hoping and longing for something more.

 Edgar Cayce, the modern-day sleeping prophet, said: Each soul enters the earth to fill a role that no other soul could fill so well.  When an opportunity occurs for a soul to enter the earth (a pregnancy) the ideal soul is selected to come into the specific situation.

 Often we feel lost in the crowd, insignificant in the big scheme of things.  Yet what Cayce is saying is, you are so important.  You are that one piece of the whole puzzle that no one else could fill!  Without you filling your role, the picture is incomplete, the right connections are not made, and there is emptiness where your light is most needed.

 As you move toward your deeper purpose, it’s important not to resist or fear change.  Embrace transformation by attuning your heart and mind with the energies of change so you can advance out of limitation and into the unwavering, expansive, all-knowing being that you are.  Learn to move with the energies of transformation and you will find that all the answers are right before you.  Open up to the currents of change, align with your divine destiny, and experience the balance and harmony of being part of the complete picture.

 Laurie Polinski, is a results-oriented intuitive guide and life purpose coach who helps people see greater possibilities and break through hidden barriers so you can quickly and gracefully reach your highest potentials in your life, relationships and career.

To learn more about Laurie’s methods, visit www.spinninggoldlifecoaching.com or call her at 630-515-1722.

What Is Your Highest Potential? 

  Your highest potential is when there is no limit to what you can have, do or be.  You are fully connected to the center of our soul.  You know your purpose and you feel joy, satisfaction and freedom every day.

  You have within yourself, the potentiality to create whatever you desire.  The problem is that most people are so disconnected from the center of their soul that they don’t even know what they truly desire.

  Who are you when you are still, quiet, and fully connected to the center of your soul?  This is where your truth and your power live.  This is the seed for your highest potential to arise from.  When you peal back all of the “masks” that you have created for yourself, what, or who, lies beneath?

  I spent 40 years of my life creating new masks for myself.  Masks that would allow me to “fit” into each new life’s experience as it came my way.  With each new experience I needed to figure out what would be expected of me, how did I need to show up in order to be accepted and fit in?  Who did they want or need me to be?

  It certainly is no wonder that I felt so disconnected from my own truth and the center of my soul.   And it certainly is no wonder that I had lost my power.  No, wait, I hadn’t lost it ….. I just didn’t know how to access it.

  This is the feeling of being stuck.  You know that there is something more for you to experience, or express, but you just don’t know what that is.  Like me, you may have felt frustrated, dissatisfied for no apparent reason, restless, struggling to find more meaning and satisfaction in your daily life.  

  So, when you are in this stuck place, how can you begin to go deeper beyond the masks that you may not even realize you’ve placed upon yourself?  Use this simple exercise to help you begin to connect with what lies in the center of your soul and lead you to experience your highest potential:

  Begin your day by taking some time to image what your life would look like, and feel like, if you were living it at your highest potential.  You may even ask your higher self for guidance about what you are to do, and allow it to take you there.  Allow yourself enough time to see and sense all of the rich details that lie along your true life’s path. 

  Once you connect with your truth and purpose, your power naturally shows up, like the clouds parting for the bright, strong, warm power of the sun to shine through. It is natural, it feels good, and it is right.  Suddenly, everything is right.  Then the flow happens.  Doors open, opportunities arise and other powerful, helping people appear in your life that you could have never dreamed of for yourself in the past.  It is then that you are in alignment with your highest potential to reveal itself to you over and over again.  And you will be amazed at what begins to quickly and effortlessly show up for you.

~Laurie Polinski

Spinning Gold


  Laurie Polinski is a highly intuitive and gifted “empowerment” coach.  She partners with those who “still don’t know what they want to be when they grow up” and helps them see parts of themselves that have been left behind or buried for years.  Laurie’s clients say she helps make them whole again.  If you are looking for a way to connect with your true inner self that will open your eyes to a new world of potential and possibility, Laurie can help you in her signature  B.A.I.S. Camp (Brilliance, Abundance and Inspired Success) Program. Schedule your free 20 minute consultation now and see if B.A.I.S Camp is right for you.

What Stands In The Way Of The Personal And Business Success That You Want?

   Have you ever felt like you are working so hard, doing everything you know to do, and still feel like you aren’t achieving the level of success you know is possible for you?  Have you felt exhaustion and frustration because you know there is more for you to do, be and have but don’t know what else you can possible do to make it happen for you?

  When I ask my audiences in my public presentations, “How many of you have reached the personal level of success you would like to have?” very few raise their hand.  So, what is it that blocks us from being all that that we can be?

  The women who come to me are on their own journey of self-discovery.  They tell me they wake up in the morning with a yearning, wanting something more for themselves, but don’t know how to tap into it.  They’ve tried fulfilling that yearning by getting yet another credential, moving up on the corporate ladder, reading spiritual and self-help books and attending workshops and yet nothing has filled that quiet, yet intense call deep within their heart.

How Do You Find Your Life’s Passion? 

For years, like most of my clients, I was searching; trying to find what it is that would free me of this yearning for purpose in my own life.  I knew there was more within me to be expressed.  I changed jobs, I attended workshops, I followed gurus, waiting, even begging for someone to be able to evoke that deeper brilliance I knew was within me.  I knew that if someone would just help me identify my passion that I would have no problem stepping into it, I just needed help uncovering it!

  Isn’t that odd?  We live with ourselves from the day we were born, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, every year – and we still don’t know what that one single thing that is so special, unique and purposeful about ourselves is!  So, we begin the search outside of ourselves to learn the answer.  I call it “looking for me in all the wrong places.”

  Here is the secret; your passion is as close as your very own breath.  If that is true, then why are so many of us living day-to-day with this feeling of being disconnected from our true self?  Studies have shown that 84% of us are not living in congruence with our core passion and purpose!  That means that most adults are still searching for their truth.

  Here is another secret; the transformation that can occur between the search, and discovering your true nature, passion and purpose is simply awareness.  The awareness of reconnecting with who you were born to be.  The awareness that comes from unearthing what is so unique and brilliant about you that you are able to deeply touch and begin to fully express your purpose, your passion and your truth.

  Fortunately, I had the blessing of discovering this awareness for myself.  I now know that it is my purpose to help as many others reconnect with their natural-born purpose and passion as possible.  I know the pain and frustration of feeling disconnected from your core self, and I know the joy and freedom that comes from becoming realigned with my truth.  I have been inspired to help others stop the search and live life as fully and passionately as we are meant to live.

To your joyful and inspired success~

Namaste,

~Laurie

 What Is Your Divine Purpose?

  We all have a creative genius within us, and this genius presents itself only when we are living in alignment with our divine purpose.

  Let me ask you this, have you ever felt like there is a part of you that has not yet been tapped into?  Do you feel like you are living a comfortable life, yet still looking for that thing that really makes your heart sing?  Have you found yourself continually searching for that part of you that is special, unique and absolutely brilliant?

  I have a confession, I remember thinking, since I was 9 years old, that something very special was going to happen for me.  And while many wonderful things have happened, I always was searching and waiting for that one really magical thing that would call forth my divine purpose.  What I learned, after 40+ years of waiting for and searching for that magic, was that it was within me all along.  I just needed the right opportunity to discover that. 

  Fortunately, I discovered the CORE MAP process which completely opened up my entire life to new dimensions, opportunities, and levels of effectiveness.  Since then I have been working closely with other women who were also on the verge of breaking through the monotony of life as it was, and unearthing their true divine purpose and live it fully!

  When we are fully aligned with our purpose, and the life we were born to live, we find helpful people and seemingly “magical” or coincidental opportunities coming forward which gently lead the way.  This is the experience of being in the flow, and life becomes much more effortless, joyful and meaningful.

Here 5 simple steps to help you tune in to your own divine purpose:

1.         Brainstorm, and write down everything you really love to do.  Once you have completed the list, go back and number each entry in the order of which appeals to you the most.

            Tip:  Think of the times in the past when you were at your absolute best!  When time just passed, and everything felt as though it were going your way.

2.        Read over your list, and put it away for a day or two.  Make an appointment with yourself when you have some quiet time, and take out your list and begin adding to it.

            Tip:  Make sure you are including only those things that make you feel really joyful.  Sometimes we are extraordinarily good at some things, yet they do not make us joyful.  These are the things that we have learned, or may have been conditioned to do well, but are not part of our life’s purpose.

3.     After you have dug really deep within, and recognize what it is that truly makes your heart sing versus those things you typically spend your day-to-day life doing, go back and re-number the entries.  Make sure what makes you feel most joyful and purposeful is number 1 on your list.  

            Tip:  It may surprise you to discover that the order may differ from the original order you assigned a day or two ago.

4.         Select the top ten entries on your list.  Now, make a list of what each of these top ten has in common.  With this in mind, what occurs to you that may be a clue to uncovering your divine purpose?  

            Tip:  Don’t limit yourself to just one idea.  Play with this over a period of time.

5.         Once you have uncovered some of the clues to what may be most important to you, immediately begin taking steps to bringing more of those joyful, meaningful experiences into your life.  For example, you may have discovered that many of your top ten entries related to travel.  You might begin bringing more of that into your life by subscribing to a travel magazine, or planning your next trip to an exotic destination.

            Tip:  Pay close attention to what energizes you the most.  Again, this may not be the same as what you have been doing most of your life that you are really good         at. But that’s okay, you’ve just added a whole new dimension to your day-to-day life that brings you closer to living the life you were meant to live.

  When you are on the track of your divine purpose, everything you do in pursuit of it will inspire and energize you.  You will begin to call in the people and opportunities that will continue to show you the next steps and open up doors which you hadn’t even known existed for you.  When you are not living in alignment with your divine purpose, you are not in the flow, and life feels like a struggle and drains your energy.  Continue to pay attention to how you feel when you are going through your daily activities.  If it feels joyful and easily flows, you are on the right path.  This is the path of living your divine purpose and when your true creative genius shines through!

To your joyful and inspired success~

Namaste,

~Laurie

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The Importance of Being Unique In Business

In last week’s article “What is the Marketing Hook in your Business?” I talked about the importance of having that attention-grabbing message in your website or sales copy that makes someone stop in their tracks and notice you.

Did you implement that concept in your business?  If so, then congratulations!  You a are obviously a person who takes action.

So what’s next?  You’ve got their attention, now what?

Once you have attracted the attention of your ideal client, you need to keep their interest.  What you don’t want them to say is “Oh, another coach or another web designer, nutrition expert, another……” 

What you do want them to say is, “This person is interesting, different from the others.  I’ll take a closer look!”

Let’s face it, you can look at most crowded fields of expertise and the basics for each business are the same.  So, what makes you and your business different?  In other words, what is unique about you and/or the process of your business that others don’t have?  This may be some past experience, some certifications, some prominent associations you may have that others cannot claim for themselves.

How Do I Find the Unique Business Angle?

There are several ways of doing this and I will cover two of them here:

1)  Ask Your Clients and Customers

An easy way of doing this is by doing a survey.  You must be specific with your questions.  Remember, you want to elicit responses that set you apart, what do they perceive about you that is unique and special?

2)  Ask them directly after you have worked with them or served them.

Laurie Polinski

Spinning Gold Marketing




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  Your unique brilliance is what you are inherently good at, and what you enjoy doing so much that it doesn’t even seem like work to you; it’s what you get so lost in that you completely lose track of time. Determining and harnessing your unique brilliance will allow you to provide your talent to others in a quality that no one else can, and will make you stand out against the competition. Understanding your unique brilliance will help you get paid for doing something that you would do even if you weren’t getting paid!

Uncovering Your Unique Brilliance

  Although everyone is born equipped with a unique brilliance, not everyone is able to recognize theirs immediately. Throughout childhood, years of nurturing often (and often times involuntarily) causes people to lose touch with their natural talent. For example, you might grow up thinking that you want to be an astronaut because a parent or teacher encouraged you to be. Once more cognizant of yourself, however, you realize that you hate math and are terrified of heights and cannot stand the smell of burning rocket fuel, so you pick up the paint brush that you’ve been eyeing since fifth grade and become a world-famous artist, just as you were born to be.

Transforming Your Unique Brilliance Into a Business System

  When you use your unique brilliance with your business, you focus on what you are truly exceptional at, or what comes natural to you. Concentrating at what you are truly great at will allow your business to flourish and the tasks which are not in alignment with your brilliance get delegated or just pushed aside. Identifying your unique brilliance is not always easy, so specialists have developed professional personality assessments to help people better understand themselves. As a marketing and soul coach, I am certified to assess multidimensional awareness profile evaluations that will help you pinpoint your innate talent.

Laurie Polinski

Spinning Gold Marketing

Spiritual RockStar talk radio show host, Dan Hanneman, did an Energy Scan on me, live on his show!  How cool is that?

Dan asked me to be a guest on his show because his work and mine are very complimentary. We both have a deep passon and desire to help Spiritually-Minded Entrepreneurs, who are ready to step into their true power, move forward and take their businesses out into the world in a much bigger way.

While my coaching with brilliant heart-based business owners is based on helping them develop and grow their businesses and define their unique branding message around who they authentically are, Dan works with entrepreneurs who are ready to move forward but may feel somehow stuck or blocked.

Since I was a guest on Dan’s live radio show, he did not do a full “clearing” on me, but he did do the Energy Scan, which took only about 12 minutes! I must admit that I felt vulnerable. Even though the Energy Scan was done over the phone, Dan in his office, and me in mine, I didn’t know what to expect! And I had no idea what Dan might find and report… live on talk radio for all to “see!”

As you know, I am all about helping people awaken to and understand the importance of Transforming Back to Who You Are Born to Be.  I have been helping entrepreneurs transform the way they do business, literally on-the-spot! Once you unearth who you were born to be, your entire persona illuminates ~ radiates ~ It can’t not!

Dan’s unique gift is to “scan” a person’s body, energetically, and identify where they may be experiencing blocks, and “read” what is holding them back from moving into their fullest potential. It is amazing! You really must listen to Dan do a live scan on his radio show to realize the deep benefits of Dan’s work!

Unearth Your Authentic Being

We all have that deeply buried ache within, perhaps it is a tiny voice.  For me, it was a tiny fairy-like personality I named “Gracie.”  When we allow our deepest truth to come fully into the world, everything begins to align beautifully! I encourage you to unearth your “Gracie,” or whomever/whatever is deep in your heart, and allow the real You to shine with glory and radiance!

Imagine a silver dollar buried in the mud for years. It is unearth and someone runs pure water over it, gently takes a cloth and wipes it clean, and…. its true brilliance is allowed to shine! You see, its the same with us; When we unearth the deepest part of ourselves which has been buried under so many years of “shoulds,” “ought to’s,” other people’s definition of what’s good and right, and other people’s expectations of us, our best, brightest internal Being radiates! This truly is the most freeing and joyful experience one can have!

I’d like to thank Dan Hanneman for inviting me on the show and doing his Energy Scan.  He helped unearth some parts of me that have been buried and now need to be looked at.  When we know what our shadows are we can face and overcome the challenges they may present.  Then we are able to more easily and freely move toward the brilliant person we know we can be.

Act 2 Reinvent, founded by visionary, Leah Young, and co-owned by a Dream Team of gifted coaches, is a new on-line reality show committed to helping women over 40 step back into their authentic life  and move forward with power and purpose. 

Act 2 Reinvent is still in the filming stages, and the first episodes will air this fall.  Viewers will be able to watch the Dream Team coach each one-on-one with these women, and will follow the brilliant transformation that occurs.  Viewers will also have an opportunity, through an on-line community, to have access to the tools and techniques these women were given so that viewers can transform their own lives right along with the participants!

Dream Team Coach, Laurie Polinski, walks Leah Young through the Personal Branding Wheel

Get acquainted with the Dream Team Coaches and the fabulous, courageous show participants, by visiting www.act2reinvent.com.  Go there now to learn about the Dream Team coaches, the participants, and how you can become part of the transformation!

We have all had that one single, seemingly simple event, thought or idea transform our lives in an instant.

I remember when I was still working in the corporate sector; you know, Monday through Friday, 8a to 6p, plus commute time!  I had little, or no creative input into my work.  Deep within I had a “knowing,” although it was not a conscious awareness, but that knowing that patiently, yet consistently aches in your soul.  I knew the deeply authentic ”who” of me, the wisdom of my own soul, was aching for more than these less-than inspiring days which I had created for myself.

One day, I came across words spoken ‘many moons’ ago by Chief White Eagle.  I cut out the quote and pinned it to my cubicle wall.  I read that quote every day, many times a day.  But my life literally transformed at the moment I understood the enlightening truth of his message.  It was Chief White Eagle’s inspiration, and vision for all of us, that inspired me to shift my perception and open up to see a never-ending stream of possibility.  

Five months later I left the corporation to create, what turned out to be the 1st of my businesses.   My dream-come-true was not so much in owning my own business, but the freedom, creativity and priceless self-expression that comes from creating my life from the very depth of my own personal wisdom.

If you have felt that aching deep within, and know there is more for you and your purpose here, I hope Chief White Eagle’s wisdom inspires you to awaken to the mysteries of your own soul.  It is my pleasure and honor to share with you, the spirit of this visionary, Chief White Eagle:

“When you are in doubt, be still, and wait. When doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage.  So long as mists envelop you, be still.  Be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists — as it surely will. Then act with courage.”  ~White Eagle (Chief of the Poncas in 1877, also the Medicine Man and Religious Leader to the Tribe).

The self-development / self-improvement aisles at the Barnes & Noble are overflowing with books by new authors and new subjects every day.  Admittedly, many of those books have found a place in my own ever-expanding personal library.  For me, it has been a passion for years, to read as much as I could on these self-improvement subjects. I love attending workshops and having deep discussions with like-minded friends about life’s purpose.

One of my friends recently commented, “Laurie, you should be perfect by now with all of the self-improvement books you have and workshops you’ve attend!” 

My friend was right; I have spent tons of time and money on learning to develop and improve myself.  So why, after years of reading, studying and practicing self-improvement was I not yet perfect?  Why did I feel as far away from perfect as one can possibly be?  Why was I still buying books thinking, “Ah, this is the one that will change everything for me!”?

What I finally discovered is that I already am, and always was perfect!  The only thing I had to do, before I could develop or improve, was to discover and uncover my unique life’s purpose.  And so I did!  Through two deeply insightful tools, CORE MAP®, by Dr. Sherry Buffington, and Branding With Archetypes®, by Kendall SummerHawk, I have discovered the perfect child I was born to be.

Once I “met” myself it was like Disney’s Tinkerbell in Peter Pan being let out of the box that Captain Hook kept her in.  The transformation from who I was trying to be, into who I was born to be, was amazing both personally and professionally!  My light was free to shine and I was free to fly!

Does that mean that I now do everything perfectly?  Absolutely not!  Just ask my husband, children and friends; they’ll assure you that I still have a lot of development and improvement to do.  (It’s a good thing my bookshelves are full of books for this work.)  But it does mean that everything I do, the decisions and choices I make are all in perfect alignment with who I truly am.  Everything is flowing in one direction.  All of my energy goes into fully and joyfully expressing my unique gifts and passions.  My physical and spiritual goals are in line with who I am from the deepest part of my being.

The freedom to be my authentic self, and the joy of sharing my treasury of gifts with the world are like nothing I had ever imagined possible.  Once you “remember” who you are you can create your world with purpose and allow your unique energy to fully express itself.  You are inspired to transcend helplessness and step into the perfectness of You.